NASCAR Cup Series: Daytona 500 (2021) | EXTENDED HIGHLIGHTS | 2/14/21 | Motorsports on NBC

The Corvette pace car turns onto pit road and here comes the green flag. The 63rd Daytona 500 is underway. I agree with you. You're clearly not too wide right behind you. One lane back here. A back lane. The second lanes ran a little. Bottom rail. coming back to you back to the bottom back to the bottom and he's with the other inside boards with you before you had a big show of the 10 you're okay here you have the 418 fight with you still inside you're clear low they're tight with you at the end of the turn number three, away from the Washington derrick, the winner here in 1990 and who beat Dale Earnhardt in the final round, the 62-year-old is against the wall here in the third round in number. 15. looks like maybe a tower of tires fell off, it just happened very slowly as he entered turn three, yeah you can see him moving the three wide and trying to navigate around it, kevin harvick out, eric almarola, christopher bell, ryan newman, alex bowman, joey logano and We're back in Green Tight will push him to be the only leader right now oh no oh no bowman oh the 24 on his side remember what I said, Clint about 21 cars, no I know if we got there, but man, that got a lot of race cars and a lot of cool race cars out there.

I know Eric Amarillo was one of the ones at the front, so every time that happens at the front, you're going to take out a lot of them. There's Jamie Mcmurray, all of these. cars caught at that time heavy rain here overnight that's a dozen destruction when we talk about being aggressive changing lanes here early in just 14 laps of this 200 lap race oh eric almarola who won his dual race thought he had a great shot for the 500 all destroyed, you can see the outside 48 of Alex Bowman making a small lateral movement towards the right side of Eric Almarola and I see a space between Eric and 20 cars and I look at the push that comes from Kyle Busch to his teammate of equipment.

Christopher Bell, now that's going to take you to the big fish on the rear bumper that just went over that right side. I could tell you another part of that equation, Jeff, these cars have twisted rear ends, that's obviously so the speed makes the cars go. fast, make them approach other cars, in my experience it also makes them uneasy when that car hits it, it pushes that car towards the direction of the back and it can turn you around in the blink of an eye, it reminds us a lot of when eric almarola lost the lead in the last few yards of this race in 2018, Dave is along for the ride as soon as that contact hit him, he just turned his car to the right, took the words out of my mouth, an incredible crushing blow for so many teams , so many efforts that it goes away. on having fast cars and being in this Daytona 500, which was a lot of heavyweights in this one, so we are under the red flag, the drivers have gotten out of their cars and under the red flag rules, the teams They cannot work on cars that have the red flag.

They have been lifted and now the work begins in earnest here they go to get these cars back on the track to at least do a lap or two and have a chance to get back to that minimum speed of 170 miles per hour and they have had everything this time to Plan your strategy exactly how you are going to fix this car in a timely manner. This is impressive. I love some of the tools these guys use to cut those sheets of metal and you have to do it in a hurry, the six minutes go by quickly and plus they have to get to the end on pit road, here we go, you have a better person, here comes a pretty good push, especially now, oh, it's going to go three for nicole custer talking about the middle boy, how about that move that pushes Cole Custer?

It's right on his rear bumper and you can drive right by him on the inside and that's what I love about Daytona. This man fell backwards. An accident. Change of events. racing to lead this race, hamlin at point quinn half and chases briscoe and the yellow flag comes out for the third time on lap 38. hamlin chooses the outside which is the leader's choice in which lane to restart and we return to green bubba wallace le gives brad keselowski a big push and he's very much in front without fear of pushing baba wallace gave him that ah he's going to pass three wides down the middle going to the front baby here we go he's going to reconnect with this boss who's there at the front front, denny hamlin and look at those three toyotas right in front of the field house want to go up there with him there goes dylan in the back here goes larson here is priests and below come the bathrooms kyle bush was looking for that move is going to work for larson and austin dillon oh he got to the outside the priests got to the outside of the 18 got a great run uh hamlin will stop him there and a lot of pushing when sendrick got in behind kyle larson there hamlin won a league leading 11 stages in 2020 and here they come to the line to complete stage one, firing wallace hamlin over priests and dylan, sorry i got excited today and thought those two guys had legano and bubba wallace jr.

We'll join rookie Austin Cendrick in the 33rd with Penske teammates behind him in the 22-2, a rookie trying to lead the Daytona 500 here, oh then he might get in trouble here, oh he just gets He squeezed in front of Austin Dillon's three, there could have been an opportunity right there that he was trying. to work both lanes, if he hadn't gotten into those three cars, he might have been taken three times, dragged back. jamie kevin harvick has a really good car among those four, but he got bumped out of the top ten, as crew chief rodney childers said. you need to run the 20, the 23 and the 11.

I know it's not what we want but those are the best cars right now and he found himself running next to the 11 right now, here's the lead change just before from the yellow flag comes out for the fifth time tonight annie hamlin in the middle kevin harvick inside that's kyle larson on the outside so strong when you're in front you have so many cars coming with much more speed don't get in trouble Look at the leftover tire, now you can see it right there. He is starting to get a little soft slow leak on the left rear and now you can really see him hit the side wall and deflate.

There's just incidental contact with Stenhouse and then he comes in. Kyle Larson did, and I think Stenhouse may have had a little contact with Kyle Larson's five. He just said I don't have breaks and Casgrolla. He is a rookie for the second time in the Cup. He is very calm. They are telling you. to keep it on fire while we go back to the green and they are going to restart without him 83 to go denny hamlin joey logano kevin harvick up front all these veterans up front with cendrick wallace and priests in the top eight with them michael mcdowell went down and kozlowski went with him that was a lot sooner than i thought they were going to do i thought they were going to wait for them what do you mean i didn't think they were going to wait one more turn bubba wallace goes down to block that move he's going to get to the inside of denny hamlin .

I also thought I'd be the next one to go and make two big pushes right here, I'll stack them up nice, that was a great move from Bubba Wallace. I did it. I don't think he would, I really thought he'd stick with Denny Hamlin, that outside line isn't finished, Kevin Harvick, this line, a bunch of cars, they're going to race right here, big push coming, yeah, but look what organized. oh, sideways, that was close, I'll stack that ball that will get the top lane going, but not close enough, it actually left them three open. You'll see some momentum now, Kyle Bush, right behind Legano, as the middle moves forward and Hamlin comes down to cover, my goodness. these guys are driving like it's the last lap of the 500, not the stage wallace down hamlin up here they come for the green and white ladies to finish stage two three behind them hamlin again good race and if Harvard could have maybe I got there to the side panel a little bit before turn four, I think I would have had it.

You can really see it when you open three. What did that do? Those cars were there alone. They were too far away, but there were only two of them. cars, those guys have three wide open, everything is good, ready for the restart, stage three austin dillon denny hamlin here we go, big jump for all three, it's so impressive how he can go out at will and go straight to the front every time which was orchestrated in the sense that all the Toyotas that stopped together took two tires so they should all pull out together, yeah that's the plan I mean you just have this line of cars that settle down with a lot of momentum using the multi-car draft, so those Toyotas have to do everything perfectly and you can already see some separation between the three.

They're going to lose a lot right here. Yeah, I thought maybe Kyle Bush could slow him down a little bit, but not at all, I just want to say. They have to be carrying you three four five miles an hour more than these other guys, he's going to move up right here, force them to the bottom and now all you could do if you didn't hit just try to stop them, fail. too far back he might be able to get in front of austin dylan actually both that was a good move by denny hamlin when he moved up right there that was a heads up move it would be interesting if he made that call for his spot or he did on the roof because he separated from Kyle Busch at the bottom, separated him and really stalled him and Hamlin stopped all the Chevrolets except Ross Chastain, who's 42, he's up there with that front group, there he goes in a big way. run here joey will move down block that right to his teammates bumper look what's happening now behind all these guys now that's going to shake everything here comes austin dillon out oh man kevin harvick in trouble gets flagged white in a turn go sponsored by credit a bank okay, now these guys your job if you're austin dillon kevin harvick has at the bottom another five on the outside everyone is trying to build that career that keslowski made here goes the three cards that will dillon help no, they go down to block logano comes back up keselowski with him mcdowell in tow dylan in the background the races on the best teammates around they go in a strong crash kyle bush larson caution is out bubba wallace is in this austin downtown hard hit by kyle busch mcdowell is the first to reach the finish line but we will have to go back to the caution moment that ends the race brad keselowski is coming out okay joey logano we see him taking off his gloves and the steering wheel i think mcdowell is the winner of this guys from the race, he was the first to cross the line,

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A big win if that's the case, but Bob Jenkins' blue-chip

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team is celebrating on pit road. Isn't it amazing, you'll see some excitement in this guy if this becomes official again, lots of upgrades on the tour, all the chevys smashed, saw a priest with damage, chasing Elliot with damage, this was a very hard blow for Kyle Busch when He entered, yes, and the AMR security team arrived very quickly on the scene, with the damage being directed to the wall. There's a bumper cover up there and there's Kyle Busch coming out, which is a big sign and that means everyone's out of their cars after a big fight. accumulate in the last lap of the Daytona 500.

Nascar is still reviewing the video because when they turned on the caution light, that timestamp marks all the videos to determine the finishing order, the caution moment was a big race, Joey obviously had to block the question. Where did that caution come from? Chase Elliott overtakes Michael Mcdowell. Oh, look at the run he made right there, although Dowell ran on the outside with a little help from Hamlin. Well, we know the caution was there. We saw some caution lights. where michael mcdown the three of austin dillon moved ahead of chase elliot and michael mcdowell of glendale arizona for bob jenkins front row

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How about that man? That's a big win for Michael Mcdowell and that team doesn't get one. Bigger than this and a big accident for everyone else. Mcdowell is the 40th driver to win the great American race and the eighth driver in history to achieve his first career Cup victory in the Daytona 500 and yes, Clint, he led only the last lap, the only one. need to win Hello motorsports fans, thanks for watching, be sure to subscribe before you receive the latest motorsports news and

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