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400 at Daytona International Speedway Dale Earnhardt jr. I just mentioned a very special place: today's starting grid, the Kota Zero Sugar rock bike will roll across the bottom of your screen and salute NASCAR and is proud to be America's most patriotic sport and its fans are there with them standing and saluting our armed forces, the service men and women who sacrifice so that we can on a Sunday afternoon enjoy our passion, enjoy our emotions, Air Force Army Marine Corps National Guard and the navy, everyone waved here at Daytona International Speedway, the cars, two by two, coming down the homestretch, now this.

It is a very special place and 60 years of tradition will come to an end this weekend this is the last weekend of the 4th of July at Daytona International Speedway the schedule will change next year Indianapolis will be the

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track for the end of week of the 4th of July next year but it's the place where the young people you mentioned have made so many memories and so many special moments are right here in this place absolutely this

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used to be run during the day starting at 10 o'clock, you know It's going to be hot today We were postponed until this afternoon, with a blister and a 125 degree surface inside those race cars for over three hours.

Handling will be so critical today that it is the first time this package has been run on this track, so there are so many unknowns and with so many unknowns manipulated. times we have that unlikely winner I wouldn't be surprised to see that today the field set by rule book qualifying was canceled due to weather, meaning owner points has Kyle and Joey Logano on the front row for the big race flag at Daytona, but I could have planned for a manufacturing teammate to rumble throughout the manufacturing garage. We're going to work together in this race, which means Chevrolet runs with Chevrolet, Ford with Ford, and just six Toyotas, but they're also supposed to work together.

Definitely outnumbered today look right there Denny Hamlin tried to push Kyle Busch has that car sent to the right side that's exactly the right way to do it he's pushing why right here on the roof can the

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roos camp Denny Hamlin car, they are pushing quite a few minutes here the temperatures haven't peaked yet in these cars they still will after another lap or so. I think the only way he could be pushing like that is if Kyle has to be dragging something to break the cancer that lands him. stay tuned so you see movement coming off the line Ryan Blaney in the 12th looked like he was going to go to the inside lane he's driving like a fool so now he's following two Toyotas looking for an opening on that back line where there are three Fords lined up in the bottom Danny's handling so far is really tame.

I draw here when he longs to be able to keep up with his car before needing to be a little clearer, he will tell you how Caleb raises the bumper towards the extravagant car that they are. trying to take this lead drivers race as long as he's seen two people connected and always here we saw a tandem draft in the past rules Amanda where he couldn't do it. I haven't seen people and I can't do it. it's that effective, but I'm pretty sure Kyle, your luggage is thrown in front of the group. Kyle has to be checking to see if Freight can say what's going on, now they've broken up and we're talking about this manufacturer alliance.

This will be the case today, you see those two four trying to push each other to the front, it has come so far that Ford even plans to crash together and a lot of what they are going to do at each stop of the day, so it will be introduction, see how much time they can stay together, but junior, it's hot and it's slippery, and these manufacturer alliances stay together on a hot, slippery race track when handling is going to matter, but we have a green track, there is no competition, caution, this goes to be a difficult ball. tires in this first race, it will be difficult for these guys to be able to stay in this group, especially the dirty air is going to be treacherous in the race, these drivers, a team says they really don't know what to expect here with this package.

It's the first time it's been here, it's great, like you said, everyone is learning right now trying to figure out how that car drives. How nice while you ride with Kevin Hart, we're going to use Jimmy John's camera, you can see well. now the 22 has moved away from it a bit, look at the 18 on the outside, as long as they have it slippery, it's hot and they're doing all these moves at 200+ miles an hour, killing all of Toyota's strengths well this year . Car count isn't one of them, Rick, as you said, just six Toyotas in this field may not be enough to work together really effectively.

I asked Hamlin and Martin Truex Jr how they got over the fact that they both agreed that they have to wait for the pack. to lose some weight in that car, count two, to even out and then they'll look for those Ford and Chevy drivers to break loyalty and work with them. Marty tells you about the last Super Speedway race. There is a lot of talk about how Chevrolet finally. got their alliance working well, planning for July's Daytona race began last week before Chicago and an exclusive crew chief meeting affected the drivers. They were told they were Jim Campbell, who heads up Chevrolet racing, and then called each owner and driver individually to say hello. here's the plan, keep going, don't stray from Nevada, one day your line of cars at the top is Ryan Blaney in 12, his spotter Josh Williams just told him, stay there for now.

I'll take you when I can. Well, there's no room right now guys, yeah, he wants to join, you may have to find a way to make an opening because right now it's Ford being pushed by Chevrolet on that final aspect, you heard him and Chevy, the executive, calls all drivers. tell them what the plan was. I won't be honest with you. I find it difficult to follow that plan and stick to it. I won't blame any pilot for deviating from that plan. To test the RIT, try to win this race. The latter, who has been in front for five of the six laps that have been run, only one lap was led by Kyle Busch and the racing fans enjoyed Coca-Cola and made this one of the most memorable NASCAR drives of history.

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mobile app today we are riding right now on kyle larson's aboard credit bank and we mention a lot about manufacturers and How will they work together, it's time for the new version of today's subway. Will the launch strategy be carried out at the manufacturer level? Steve Letarte, thanks Rick, yes, down here in the peacock pit, right on pit road, and you mentioned selection strategy. I expected him to be a little creative here in the next four or five laps.

I think one of these manufacturers is going to take off, run the stage backwards and get to the pits as soon as he knows he can make it to the finish line with fuel. My concern though Rick, listen, "We've all done this we try to schedule a dinner with 15 of your friends but everyone wants to go back to the restaurant everyone wants to go at a different time it's almost impossible if you want to go with four or five friends it's a lot easier of planning I've seen these strategies work with four or five cars, but now when you start talking about 14 15 16 cars, I'm not sure I've ever heard of good planning, but if they could somehow achieve this on the track , I would be surprised and Look, up to that point in Talladega, really Chevrolet's plan was for only eight cars to make it to the Hendrick team, the RCR group and Ganassi now Chevrolet's plan is every Chevrolet, so they have to organize everyone to being on the scene and the Ford plant has dug in like this.

So far, they're not just planning what lap to do in the pits, but exactly what each team is going to do on the lap because they found the Talladega when they did all the different things, maybe. this car took fuel only this car took two tires that had to be corded. so they are very committed to staying together Steve, those plans are great to make, but how difficult are they to execute throughout the day? Dale Jr. Jeff Burton Bhagavan at the top of the show under the lights last night. I think the plan was a little easier to execute if the cars drove better here in the heat.

Come on, configure these cars or they will drive badly and they are. I'm going to drive different priority for Joey Logano maybe four tires Joey's priority for Kevin Harvick could be two tires now as crew chief my hands are tied guys I need to do what's best for my driver this is going to be It's frustrating for some of the team leaders. It's interesting to see how many can follow the game all day long watching that outside line start to build a little momentum here. Kyle Busch jumped ahead of Ryan Blaney in his secondary drafts and is going down from the JC draft.

Right now, but Denny Hamlin to the outside, he's going to interrupt this momentum, this outside line is back, look at that inside line going by Denny Hamlin jumping a little sure it's going to work for Danny, you could say they run hot or something , man, come back. here, please, or he thought someone was going to go with him, you thought maybe the other car behind him, Blaney was going to go with him when he made that move, but again in the line here, clearly he did and now, that's why you don't get the tail on a long slide outside again I was surprised damn because that outside line actually took off 37 cars that's a rat that's a sticker rat that came and lost with that call that the car temperatures, but he said he wasn't happy with how the guys around him were recruiting so maybe that's why he stepped out of that line right there he said car eight doesn't know how to drive we saw the rap a lot of people might be seeing parts of the hood flapping or actually parts on the The top of the cars went up to the fins of the cars, if they are put sideways or backwards, it is to keep the car on the ground because at over 200 miles per hour, These cars, if they go sideways or backwards, can definitely fly quickly, so we were talking. about the driving so hot about two laps ago we got these Americans he's behind three wide vantage points that car is a great moment look at the gap he created this is what he's going to market in this race all these races get longer right there He was doing a great job.

I sent. It seems like you have it very tight. Always six cars have trouble driving on the coast. In the most critical parts, they are either outside turn two or outside turn four, depending on which direction the wind is blowing, so we are. on lap 16 fifteen to leave some of the manufacturers Dave is that, no change in the report on that at this time Rick, but for the 22 liter Joey Logano you can't see that outside line and Kyle Busch leading, so that his spotter TJ Majors is constantly painting a picture of him. What Kyle is doing in the green and white car outside, who's with him, and what progress they're making so Joey knows if he needs to send Marty and Dave to answer Rick's question, I'm not sure about that now. any of us will know when they are coming down pit road.

Yeah, this is right in the window when we thought they might come like Steve. You see some cars fitting in early here and then to get to the end of the stage, but they won. Don't communicate that on the radio, all these teams choose not to say it on the radio, instead of doing it via chat, a Chevy chat, a Toyota chat, so they all do it through the computer, you see this car 21 , Paul Menard, the air is. It's crazy, he's bending over so much that he actually ripped that cow off the hood. Look, there you see it hanging, it finally comes off.

Steve-o believes that, well, you talk about the turbulence that everyone has driven behind a tractor trailer. the interstate and you feel like your car is moving at 10 or 20 of 200 miles per hour and basically the violence and the air have blown this panel off the hood and now the RPG space that you can run without that panel just can't block that hole, so I don't actually think that will hurt, the way they care will pour into it. In fact, I think air is coming out of the flow under the hood area, so we won't have to see if they are the reason for that flap.

Is it there if the car ever sputters backwards? It is made to open, let the afro air need the car to try to keep it on the ground so it doesn't slip. It has become chaotic and some of the cars leading the lap are celebrating this fourth. of the July weekend watching the Monster Energy Cup Series Coke Zero

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400 from the world racing center Daytona International Speedway Ford continues to dominate up front with Joey Logano Kevin Harvick and Brad Keselowski but Kyle Busch has almost been a gnat within that group ,let's listen in it was just like mine in a tree, yes, we happen to be looking, would that happen?

Look here you really know they're all stacked together he gets behind the 12 he loses the Eleven right behind the diamond you can see how much he had to do alive to avoid destroying that race car it's very close very well especially during this first day the green track there is no yellow competition these tires are taking tremendous care more than ever on this track because those big blades on the front today I just talked to Trent Owens' crew chief about that orange 37 on the inside line they are in the top ten First up, that's Chris Buescher and we've been showing how that rap expands in the back of his car.

There you see it again, Trent. They told me NASCAR has retired them, they have to address it when I come down to the pits, so part of that is that you will lose time in the pits when they say you can, they just cut it, yeah, 37 from pusher Logano Harvick Keselowski. Blaney, the racing dress, we keep talking about manufacturers working together, this back here jumped out. Hanlon goes with him in a Toyota Truex goes with him in a Toyota Hamlin says you know what I don't like this nineteen and the woman those two cars are good for you now I don't think you have the right to have to go with Kelly Kyle Busch in the 18th I'm too tight to work on the bottom we have to go up and the barriers have a blockage at the front of the Kelly course for who ovals 1 to 4 right now and in June you talked about getting these to turn the wheel .

There's a lot more to this package and pilots are used to doing it twice. Brad Keselowski, who is third in this group, has asked if we can move our group to the top line. Why do you want to do that? That would help it spin a little more. Well, because of the big blade, you have to turn the steering wheel more to keep the car low. You see those cars fanning out off the track. There Denny Hamlin chases Elliott. They are dry. Their cars want to hit the track if necessary. Turn the wheel a lot harder than normal because the big spoilers those guys that run on the bottom don't want to run on the bottom because if they get to the high side, look here at the right front tire, Joey no.

He doesn't have that problem, he has all the air, he wants to be down. Behati works on his car, his tires. A really frustrating desire to reach the top. He won't get the top line moving. Joy Legatos. Her teammate, Brad Keselowski, currently races for it. Third position: Listening to his radio, you know what the problem is with the Lane boys. If you're in the outside lane, it's a lot harder to get to the end when they call you and we keep talking about how quiet the teams are. We're not going to get that information early, so if you're a driver, you know that soon you could stub your feet and be out there and be stuck there and not be able to make it to pit road when they want you to be partying and Jeff.

I think that's what's happening here on pit road. I'm awake, you have sexually transmitted diseases. Take care of this. I think the change from a night race last night to a day race today. I guess the crew chiefs and Conn drivers said, "Hey, let me race." a little more on that Curt thing, let me get an idea about the TV in my car, I think why they stay out so late here, well a couple of things Marty, I think they want to get a little information if you're down , I'm here. in card tricks to hear this Bass Pro Shop on board and the field passes by me, you can hear the noise, you know they want to feel their car but they also want to have good tires towards the end of the stage so it can be a stop fuel only that would be a gamble or maybe they just didn't want to put the tires on too early and have 35 laps or so when the points are paid in the lab fifty guys up remember we're still talking about the playoff picture.

Speaking of manufacturers, put the simple fact that there are 16 seats at the table and they are the big names that are not in the playoffs, those points are going to matter, yes, the points are going to matter, you know, it will be huge when Shrek is dry, check the accelerator it has. It doesn't handle well enough to stay wide open look, it's not even half throttle in the middle the cornering handling is a backup and I also saw over 205 miles per hour for Farmtruck June blocks epic summer experiences with this wristband sugar free

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It's not a luxury for anyone to do rubble and bottom and bottom everyone is so tight right now plowing over injuries plowing come on you have to get out you really can't get the momentum going let's get on board with pig our Kevin Harvick to show what you are speaking of which, right there it's right under the 22, it just misses the front and then when it comes out and takes that weight check here, it's the little Stein, now it comes out and the air ducts in the nose and I'll send them loose. Now, within the United States, trying to save the back of the car will not be as tense because what jr.

Let's say you just want to turn the wheel that much, you're not asking that much of your car, yeah, if you could look around and look at the top 10 cars and look at their acceleration characteristics, they're all accelerating a lot more, right? now that they wear out at the bottom and you hear that yesterday there were separate Ford meetings, one just for the team leaders where they talked about strategy and one just for the drivers and honestly I have one for the drivers, tell me nothing good will come of it from there. Because we can't get everyone together in a group, I have to give them credit right now for doing an excellent job at nine of the first, probably around two or three laps.

You say that so the track broke that High Line and everyone's high in the bottle to block that run and when I say the word block you gotta watch out for Brad Keselowski's 2 because Brad Keselowski said no one should go in there , they are blocking but they are also going down. to get to pit road, right, that's right, they're coming, you know, it was the rush to get to the bottom, the decision was made now mistakes can easily be made when trying to get to pit road, see if Someone makes a mistake here tomorrow and here they come Brad Keselowski has the first stop on pit road.

You see Joey Logano, the leader, coming down to pit row, but his teammate Brad Keselowski hits too early for these guys, it will be fuel only for Brad Keselowski. Same plan for Kevin Harvick a bit. a little further up pit road they were running one, two, three, hey, Joey Logano, Dave, so it has to be the right platform, Marty, otherwise I won't be able to keep it together when they lead down pit road and get back on the track. Fuel is plugged in. You add Sunoco fuel and you pull out the can and lo and behold, Harvick may have the lead on pit road in that group.

All the Fords on pit road will be the next Chevys. Now that pit road is clear, you have some Toyotas and Chevys. Looks like they're all coming, every single one of them, we're hitting pit road now, Toyota and Chevy are leading the way, look at the group coming at you, Kelly and his goals of turning alongside Denny Hamlin right here, are they? Did you put on the brakes? hard, three Toyota teammates right there for Joe Gibbs Racing coming down to the pits, you know what I mean, Martin Truex Jr is 90 percent, it's just Aero tight, you see the chassis setup without tires and Denny Hamlin's 11s too much too tight to work on the bottom and Kyle Busch and there is a record of cars leaving pit road, no tires were removed ten with a problem with Aric Almirola on pit road, he is almost aiming for his pit wall in this moment as they come out of pit road, okay, here they come.

Here come all the Toyotas in the Chevrolets they're leaving and the four of them remember that they pitted earlier. Well, look who's coming. Here comes the sporty Ford on pit road first. Ford advantage led his way to success, so surprised to see that there are no tires. They're so bad how these cars handle, you know, in traffic, for those guys to not make it, could that be stressing the Goodyear tires? They have 13 laps to go. Could people be worried about reaching the end of the stage? sure rings and looks at Denny Hamlin arriving on pit road.

He will jump with the rear tires locking the rear brakes trying to slow down and slow down pit road. Hey guys, it's not just an entry into pit road that was a problem for the 11th. This was a great save, but he's just one pin to my left and when he passed here, the left front tire completely locked up, so a member of the team looked again in Durham. No, he doesn't realize it, do you have a concern? That left front on 11 may be flat. We have seen that the tires can't hold up because we previously guarded the Olympic Park here, so here is the problem.

Everyone enters the pits at the same time. You see what happened. Aric Amirola couldn't get it. in your pit, if someone appears to be alone on pit road at the same time and is far behind, they are 33rd, lost the draft, it's negative for everyone, someone will be left out, everyone had been on pit road and now they go back. to accelerate is the fourth, once again led by Harvick let's go NASCAR non-stop Kevin Harvick at the head of the Monster Energy Cup Series competing from the Daytona International Speedway the best golfers in the world are ready Devine for the Claret Jug US Open returning to his old Ireland for the first time in more than sixty-eight years the coverage will be on July 18 or 21 on the NBC networks and now the Chevrolets have decided to go to the back of the track to see if they can eat into that advantage that the Fords have built Kevin Harvick Logano Suarez Keselowski Stenhouse Jr.

Blaney's employer, all lined up on this top side, coming up to six to get near the end of the stage, he's got the left tires, oh I don't know where this is going to work, really, put together some good runs, good side, drastic, these guys in that background. groove I think top has the momentum and the speed, you knew the brake would come somewhere when we get to that stage in the stage, the points will be paid, someone had to make that move, chase Elliott, this final result started, it He got very aggressive he went to the back he picked up an entire place and drugged Jimmie Johnson and all those guys with me, but you travel along with a Fifth Third Bank camera was sent jr. but no guy who likes to change things in the draft is Denny Hamlin, he has a partner behind him in another Tokyo to score jr tricks.

Keep an eye on those two guys if they get a chance to make any kind of move here and listen now, jr. We were traveling with him, that's the guy we always see pushing the issue. He's also a guy who really needs some point, so if he wants to make the move, he should do it now, he tries to get you in front of that 9 car, Marty, hey. Jeff a moment ago jr. He asked me why no one brought tires there. I think it made sense for the Ford camp to have all 13 enter the stage when they did without tires, but I really feel like the poor camp may have missed an opportunity there to differentiate themselves. of the four camps and maybe put on tires, this is the problem Marty, when you have a plan that says place before the race starts, you are trying to organize 16 drivers, that doesn't work, we can't change the plan as boss of equipment.

I'm upset Junior, I know you would have voted to retire, give yourself four tires, now open our options in five laps at the end of the stage, but when you work with this bigger group it becomes complicated and you simply don't know these plans are for help, but there will be times during the race when these plans will really hurt some of these competitors. All that said, I'm still really surprised at how well the Chevrolets are doing in that regard. some progress at least keeping it up but Junior why isn't the shortest distance around the track the fastest right now when they have a line of cars going a shorter distance but can't catch up to the guys against Wall? right in second third fourth fifth and that inside line is tight and they don't have two tires those cars don't handle well they are eating the tithe having to let off the accelerator they can't really give chase thepushes they need giving him a very good job on these straights, kept him right behind Blandy, get next to Blade II from time to time, much more on the accelerator, consistently, with the accelerator up, in the top three, four cars In that exterior they do not get up.

All right, we're getting ready to find out how committed they are to this board line because listen to everyone here, think of Ricky Stenhouse Jr. They are nocturnal teeth and points. He is desperate, he needs a stage point and they are trying to finish fifth. I don't think a guy like that can afford to do that in the same boat. I just think they'll have to do it right on the inside. The line gets closer and closer to the front as we see Chase Elliott arrive right next to Ryan Newman's 12. Chase Elliott's night is followed by Jimmie Johnson's 48th.

Actually, he's moving up almost to fourth place. Breck has a louse key. don't do it he's choosing not to side draft here and the reason is I think it's because those cars are now sold out and they're close together if he goes off drafting he's literally going off drafting by the car behind him you have to be careful with what you did. Do that, you saw the 17 peek out a little, that blue 17 behind Keselowski's red, white and blue 2. Think about this Kevin Harvick, just four playoff points in 2019, so he's sitting there, he's leading this, he's in it, he's looking in his mirror at everything. the moment he has to be protected, he needs this playoff point, they look a lot, he turned the wheel, look at that red mark on the wheel, he's turning it, other guys in the group and fourth, fifth and OH back, they're turning to scare It will be double because the dirty air makes the right front tire work very hard once again for the first stage, it has been a poorly dominated stage in Logano, less than 34 laps.

Kevin Harvick has led 12 laps and now they dive to the bottom and allow the men down below some strength when down below some of them couldn't go to the bottom bracket Lasky got stuck in the middle here yeah so Kevin Harvick did what he had What to do, he couldn't worry about all that sports Doug Stenhouse in 17 is going to push the 22Logano fights for this stage victory as he positions himself in front of the track and will now start walking with Logano in front of 17 coming out of turn four behind, that's the stage and all offers were canceled in the backstretch between manufacturers and teammates. it's just a question for all of us let's at least go with the striker absolutely Joey Logano gets off the line he has a little help from Ricky Stenhouse jr's 17. and passes Kevin Harvick in the 4th to take a stage one win, which means playoff points and one more step towards the championship for the pit stops that are about to begin, as the field now heads to pit road.

Marty, nine much-needed stage points for Ricky Stenhouse jr. We mentioned that he is outside the playoff cut line. Quebec is the call here on this pit stop, it will be some Goodyear tires and fixing the free entry is a problem he has and he can hear his crew chief Brian Pattie on the radio. A problem that Dave Ryan Blaney will come in his car was treacherous before, that last change they made helped him a little. He'll get more Goodyear tires and Sunoco fuel, as well as late stage winner Joey Logano out front to start the day. wins the stage gets that valuable point and will lead down pit road with no fuel and four tires and everything shakes again race off pit road presented by Kroger chases Elliott three places it's time for this year's first installment of the Toyota hashtag hey rod I got a tweet from a new friend named Kelly.

She said we are here camping for the first time. You have to go down and say hello. What she did know is that she was going to meet a veteran, a hero, here this Fourth of July weekend. This is Michael Fling was in the Navy for 17 years and now helps on the support side of the same group, but the first time at Daytona, you guys have a good time. This will be a regular occurrence for you Daytonas at the races. huge I know you guys might also know that he has a son, Michael and Kelly, his son Colton's friend.

Here we have two Toyota flags and a Harvick flag in the background. Good news, just like on the track, these guys will work together to have fun. but it's great to see a hero like this here Rick on the 4th of July weekend thank you for being here thank you for your service we definitely salute all the service men and women who have come out to enjoy this 4th of July weekend with us NASCAR on NBC comes to you by coca-cola joy coca-cola make this summer the most memorable progessive ever stay on the track with great rates at progressive.com sonic this is how you saw and by Toyota we are going places where they lose something this action comes at the end of that look from the stage at Brad Keselowski, he is on his side.

Oh 18, the car gets very tight in the middle, towards the side of a tuberose. Great saves by these two guys. I think that illustrates exactly how tough these cars are. The drought. Look at it, a horrible push. A strange red with a Good time, oh man. Wow, they let a guard in II with no hands sit without pits, really jumping, you can hear that noise. He will have to not have access to the pits the first time and he will sit in the pits and then watch this mess. the beginning of pit road on 34 just got a position where no one could get in there what you have Steve down here in the guest pit I'm going to talk about the Daytona race and I'm bringing Hall of Famer Dale Jarrett three five hundred a July race little surprise no tires on green I thought the handling would be better yes I thought so too and not knowing what this green track could hold for this tire but the drivers did a great job making all that work would work, I think if I went back In the package, I put tires on and maybe opted for just fuel under the brake this stage, but it's interesting to see.

I was happy to see some guys, especially Ricky Stenhouse and others, jump up and not listen to the orders of the tooth makers, so to speak, and show what. pilots can do it I want this in my hands as a pilot, okay, I don't blame them. I'm more or less the same as a team leader. I'm ready to call some races for my own car, guys, finish the stage in an exciting way. As I'll be down here watching closely to see how the race continues, it will be interesting to see how fast the Fords move to chase Elliott because right now Chase Elliott is in a group of seven Fords around him coming into the restart zone.

Geico. As we prepare for stage two and all the ladies are just outside the top ten, Jase is like he's behind enemy lines, here he wants to stay up there, not ruffle feathers, not do anything that will lead to him being dragged into the medium, which means he'll just have to walk, he'll have to look in the rearview mirror like he's the last one, you laugh, some lightning for girlfriends to stay with him, he makes that good friend and Blaney goes off the track , any really good excuse, they are not I have no choice but to push him, but they don't want to push him, so Blaney got out of line and is now chasing Elliott.

He is looking for friends, but he doesn't have any who are very close to him. You saw that red and black car. 41, then Suárez behind Elliott went very high up the court Wow 48 made a great move Jimmy Johnson made a great move right there, gun under Truex, but you saw Torres get there trying to sign that outside line, shoot three to prevail, so Kurt Busch's 1 is working on the High Line who is following his close brother right in front of him in a Toyota, but he had the opportunity to jump out and get in front of the Chevy on the baseline.

Look at the two cars Brad Keselowski pushing Kevin Harvick. no lift I'm going to lift look at them and look at Harvick's hands like they're not here don't push me here and now Brad Keselowski is still right in the back bumper at Kevin Harvick's party hey Rick remember what happened earlier in the week at practice Brad Keselowski William Leaning across a very small block, he put the bumper on it and spun William Byron. He said he wanted to send a message to the entire camp. I asked him about it earlier this week and he said, "You know, it wasn't anything personal." William, but sometimes you have to draw a line in the sand and send a message.

Keselowski sent the message on the left side and we saw on the right side that Junior was going through it backwards and really helped save the front end of that car that was wet. since it's raining as much as we've had if it couldn't stay here, you can see the damage on the hood, but it's nice to go back by the same car from the scene at the top trying to block the one here Kurt Busch, he has a great race to come. around the race track and then it gets a little tense right there. Kurt says not today, I'm not going to lift, he didn't, he's going on Stenhouse Jr.'s 17th. and the yellow flag comes out with just a hundred laps to go with Monster Energy Cup Series coke

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Bush between them fuel only for the new Austin Dillon and that break number three getting a second to a second and a half Some old times put Boyer in the same things, just fuel. forbidden. break break sit-ins spin that's God NBC is presented by Monster Energy unleash the beast Geico 15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance credit the official bank credit card app requested It's perfect for racing fans and at Pizza Hut no one gets pizzas out of the hunt, we only saw the contact between Kurt Busch and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. but Steve, that's not the first time we've seen that not Rick, if you go back to February. , we had another altercation almost the same, just roll it backwards, you'll see the Kurt Busch one right here, basically, this is a simple package. two-car contact Ricky Stenhouse sends the one around Evelyn's face finishing his Daytona 500 in just 50 laps reminds me a lot of this guy's Stenhouse with a Kurt Busch lock tied up and determined to make this move sending the 17 last Pilots, did you remember that?

So now, up front, it's Clint Boyer who has chosen the outside line. Austin Dillon will be in the inland water to accelerate with 38 laps left in each stage. One of the things that could come into play is the interior trying to work together. They haven't really been able to form this plan that they've had, they worked so well with Talladega because it's been for us how it works this time for Chevrolet working together Austin Dillon now for another competing for a position behind them Ryan Blaney Anna, to watch the clip, boy, you are exhausted in the last two weeks he has had, he has been dropping in points urgently, he needs a good finish here, remember he is one of those drivers who needs to win, he can lock himself in the playoffs here. he finished fifth at Talladega you are driving a Chevy to find other Chevys on the track while you are there at 200 miles per hour he can't be easy he is in front controlling his race he just has to get help from his spotter the spotters will be key to helping them to understand where the benefactors ran to, so it is perfect to be surpassed.

Austin Dillon, who is now leading the field, was told to save as much fuel as possible, but now that he's out, we'll see and interesting with Austin Dillon Austin Dillon is a family team Richard Childress Racing Richard Childress Austin Dillon Brandon's father , Austin has grown as a part of this team now he is the Cup Series driver. The one thing about Cooke about Austin Dillon is that he loves hanging out with his pit crew. She loves hanging out with guys who walk over the wall and I asked her if it's hard if you have to maybe get rid of a guy.

He said we're not getting rid of the kids, that's all we want to do. We are confident that they will remain on our team, so we make sure this is the best place for them to be. Austin Dillon is very charismatic with the rest of his teammates, as well as with the guys on the other side of the wall. Austin is great at Daytona, especially in July for the top 10 in the last five starts here and they had the Chevrolets lining up together, there are five of them in line down there, not all of their moments have been good here with blade, they have been really difficult times, our first race was scary.

I'm dying to see this accident, will it bother you? The race track just gets there. The craziest route. The craziest accidents I've ever seen. Did you see that beer, honey? That's very scary to see every time you see a car enter the stands. at the fence location very scary situation I remember listening to your radio after that happened you immediately said okay well right now it's up front Austin Dillon leading here in Daytona once again won the Daytona 500 before listen to your usual if not We won't get any content until the end of the stage, we can make it go back there,We ran if we were late in a short time, I probably won't be able to do it, we feel like a few here, yeah.

From where everyone stopped a moment ago, Steve, it was going to be close, so if you run at the front you'll use more fuel, but if you're at the back of the group with this new package, you can save some fuel, so that's where Kevin Harvick is riding, so Rodney Childers is essentially telling him: hey, stay a while, don't try to go to the leech. I wonder how jr. reacted if you ever told Stevie not to go for the lead right there for a moment, well, you'll see those green dots there that are your lifeblood when it comes to fuel management. wide open throttle time, the more green dots, the fewer birds, so Jeff, tell me how easy it is for Kevin Harvick to run what looks like a five-part stratum on the package, so this year, Steve, I think it's easier with this package.

I think you get a toad from the car in front. It's much easier for you to save fuel right there, you lost the bottom line. I don't think he intended to go there. I think the balance of your car there jumped out of proportion because now you can't save fuel now that you're faced with that. pack look the throttle too now it's wide open before you saw it was half throttled while all these dream thoughts were unlit now they have to turn on the only way you can stay there now is behind the smell house now you can save fuel and Austin Dillon has to worry about saving fuel by leading here at Daytona Austin Dillon continues to lead the Monster Energy Cup Series races from Daytona International Speedway.

He can enter the headset with access to the NASCAR scanner all weekend. 99 visit NASCAR calm / scanner Richard Dillon up front, it's Chase Elliott, William Byron has moved up to the top three. Bowman Kyle Larson David Ragan and Matt Tifft, the two wires running closest to the front line, sixth and seventh right now, last time we saw him, he was running backwards. The grass hit him and he put tires on and he started in 35th place and has moved up to 10th place. Look at the start, here he has momentum and the green flag is Roger, he is reaching the back of the field, he gets up a little, it's true, right? change lanes before that start/finish line and now you have that momentum, you have some right here and then a few laps later, look at it, cut space, who feels, but remember, that has tires, these others didn't use tires, this reward for him, later, him. it's just cutting it out there Marty Jeff I asked Brian Pattie a moment ago I said is this the difference tires make he said I'm not so sure it certainly doesn't hurt, but I think it does and that's what we're showing and Then he said : "The driver made a stupid move while we were in the lead, so Jeff, you know this, sometimes when you make a mistake as a driver, you're a little more motivated to get that track position back for your team because you feel like you let him down." that he went around again for Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

That man with 36 cars, 36 cars, I thought then that tip was going to go around, but yeah, I think yesterday I think it's bad, he wants to make it up to him. But his car is on him. allowing to do it and I only believe in my heart, but these conditions and days and new tires are going to help. I think the tires will help you, but they also give the driver confidence. The tires are not giving a good result difference the driver might think. which are the drivers who are going to do things take races take risks take passes make passes their tires are old worn out it was an update some of the cars in the group will start with Kelly and her first winner Alex Bowman he is fourth in line at the bottom , as he said he got the first win of his career a week ago, well, he was also second the last time NASCAR was in a superspeedway race at Talladega, his crew chief, Greg Ives, got lost, so he said patiently, but he said that almost patients she was bald and he gave credit to Dale Jr. for helping him be more aggressive and now I had a spin and Kurt Busch's cue can tell that the damage to the left front of that car and the yellow flag came out once again, yeah, there had to have been some contact here, that is. stuff from someone else's car so there's a car over here with more damage look here in this replay for a chance to see it looks like it happened turns three and four I wanted to turn the guy down there just tied to the fence on the wall he's having problems and turns three spit it out, it's going well, saved by Kurt Busch, they'll bring it in, try putting tires on that car, get back in action, unlock epic summer experiences with this sugar-free coke bracelet, grab a coke and check You're watching Coke Zero sugar 400 on NBC and the guys will talk about this race tomorrow on NASCAR America at five on NBC like sin and Jeff Steve will explain what we're watching right now.

Dale Jarrett. on Wednesday, make sure you tune into Motormouth because Eric Apple Rowland will be a part of that show and that's five o'clock on Wednesday NASCAR America Motormouth and Ruts, you'll get some calls from fans on that show, you know, Rick, that's one. One of my favorite moments is a lot like being down here and in the first corner, you meet new friends, you go up on their roof, you look at it, but we could see Kurt Busch hit the wall right here, we saw the tire scrape that happened to Everybody here. because we had a really good view, but then we're wondering how soon before that shows up, junior, are you seeing how much some of these cars bounce if they qualify on that middle line?

It's like watching pinball from here and spinning one, it's amazing. What the air is doing to these cars, you know, he talks about it over and over again. That rear wing is so big that it makes it so turbulent for the group. We've seen all these cars move. Here's a better view of the car turning. around and come into contact with Brendan Gaughan, there is extensive damage to the right rear panel of Brandon's car. I think the curd will actually come out of this well, but mr. Branton was pretty big there, so some made it to pit road under this latest warning.

It started with Matt Tifft and Dillon Landon Cassill, all those guys on pit road, one of the more recent caution parties, hey, Rick, if you look at the top five. We were all Chevrolets, so there's a lot of communication between the Chevy drivers, including Kyle Larson, who you're on board with right now. His plan is to let the 88 in, so these five Chevys will try to connect and see if they can. Leave those Fords, we'll see if it works. Is it possible to get a group of five? Leave the group just a few drafts. Those Strong are much further back than they were in February, so I think it would be difficult to separate like us.

I've seen cars here and when an opening is created, will they be able to get into that opening to see Ricky Stenhouse jr. David Ragan, those two guys are the first Fords as the field exits turn four and now they turn their attention to the Geico restart zone as we prepare to get back into action with just 22 laps to go, in the stage two lost it. Dylan, he gets the advantage, if he chases Elliott, he starts on the Chevrolet line, it looks like the chase is to get in front of him, an intentional restart, you know, to drag him back and make that team get both.

Shirley has the opportunity to get ahead. I have to do that, there are a lot of forwards out there, all lined up, look at them coming in the open three at the top, Brad Keselowski, look why I hate having to do that because it creates a chain reaction. We saw Ricky Stenhouse in the back. olan Larson miss Larson loose Kevin Harvick still has his hands

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he got loose again right there when they were gaining speed it's an outside line getting a big show from Logano and he's not comfortable let me ask you what Brad Keselowski is doing right now with the middle line and the outside line is that block because he said he doesn't like to block debug an email right now yeah he moved the ball he just jumped in front but now they're going to be out there like you said I'm just not saying the bull car is driving well.

I think he feels very uncomfortable. He wants to push down the straight but he doesn't want you in the corners to go back here to get third. Well, the 38 car is very uncomfortable right there, squeezing in and having to get a lot of speed that's going to cost Kozlowski listen, get up there and push, get it back, put it right back and with these cars with three wides, you're not driving well, they They don't want to be three wide there's nowhere to go right now you can't get out of there keep your eyes on the ends in the middle on the line there with Brad Keselowski they're in the worst position aerodynamically and we're losing Harvard the wall flattens out and now Harvick on that outside line has helped from the 22 mark Joey Logano wants to get out of this middle nice direction ours is not the 11 car right there there is a sad eraser that slows down Danny's car, it is not able to take advantage of it while we see the other cow hatch on 38 about to get out of that car, let's get to a quick reminder of the rules, the end of the states is official, if we can make time, this is Florida, it's July, emerging thunderstorms throughout the weekend. long, I think it tends to be, turns out the radar started to clog, we saw Denny Hamlin increase the intensity, turn right and take that outside lane to put Brad Keselowski behind you pushing, he knows his mark is fast , what is so fast?

The car behind him Marty and Brad Keselowski have had to work to get back into the field and here's the problem with not communicating what you're going to do on a stock rack. Kapowski came in and they called a code word to stop Brad Keselowski. and others are sliding behind a bear goes to david berger's 38 making contact man they also enter the infield grass Fran looked like he had a handful of car raids in turn four looked like he was loosening up a little outside of turn four and having difficulties with that race car Daniel Henrik there you see the eight of him Erick making a left to return to the pit row the 41 of Suárez also involved a lot of damage to the 2 of Keselowski receives a big push from the four and that simply turned, hit the four-headed guy pretty hard and Brandes lost control, the car threw Brad into the outside wall with a lot of force, there's a direct shot with Kevin Harvick, these cars are out of control and out of the driver's hands without just try it. to push him to take him for that to the middle lane and right when he hit him he just made Brad shine, then it all builds up and guess what when everyone is running in a line together trying to help each other and something happens, guess what?

What's wrong with all of you? Everyone gets a little damaged. Harvick is on the fence. I think he'll be fine. Really impressive of Joey Logano and a lot of those guys behind them to get off the gas and not create more spinning cars. and twisting and crashing and obstacles to go through and over that could have collected many more race cars than it did. Harvick smartly put his car up against the fence like, hey, I'm going to go up here and hope nothing hits me, no one comes on this platform. I'm going to go all out over here because there's a big shot right there TJ Majors Party and you see Brad.

Keselowski on pit road, said the scorching will is at 11 o'clock and this is it The manufacturer's worst nightmare is that you see four Fords on that graph that were involved in this accident and I could add four very fast Fords and that is what you don't want to have to lose some of your writing colleagues, Daniel Suárez, who comes to the pits because Laos The key to his car must be that the steering is at 11 o'clock. Paul Wolf reminded the team that we are on the damaged clock right now, so they have limited time to be able to stop and fix this and now Paul Wolf with the call, take it. to the truck, they were done, the day was done, you'll talk to him in a moment, you think you're going to damage Harold Kevin Harvick's car, he said, it looks like the right front fender is going to need something to hold it up for Kevin Harvick's car. car, it looks like they'll be able to continue fine, but again Brad Keselowski is done for today, yeah, so Marty, you talked about the Fords and you're having trouble guessing what there are four cars on pit road right now and they're all Fords, all formal. shows off Daniel Harris in the Chevrolet, he just pulled into pit road and that's what we talked about: you can work together all you want, but if something goes wrong, then you all go to something else together, jr. you know, like you said, Harvick leaned over there and hit it and we've seen a lot of those before that didn't look any worse than a lot of the ones we've seen.

I just think some of that is because I'm bad with cars. They're driving and you have to go back and think about the tires, think about the 17 tires he put on. I just think tires are going to matter in this race, Dave, and that's why the 22 is coming down pit road, they said put it down, we'll put your tires on it and fill it up with Sunoco fuel and we'll go out and see who will. hasnext year at Daytona. Remember that Joey Logano won the first stage because of this good coordination with the Fords, now it doesn't work so well. before entering the rear of the two, the two collided with only 14 laps left in stage 2 Monster Energy Cup Series Coke Zero sugar 400 I want to take a look at the ramp trucks built to serve well, you look into the distance, the dark multitudes do it.

It doesn't have to be rain, lightning, if lightning strikes in the area it could shorten this race, only 15 laps of the stage, can you keep up this alliance making? I say no, I say you're going to have to go Finn on your own and with the intensity. Getting better with the weather can you avoid the big one? Can you avoid any type of accident? stay ahead in this race and win it seems like not if that's getting more challenging right now the top five is Chevrolet Kostas Dillon Alex chases Elliott Do you want to shoot Kyle Larson?

They all have the top five positions, but again they are not aligned in six positions, this Ricky Stenhouse jr. ty Dillon is seventh and Denny Hamlin in a Toyota is eighth Jimmie Johnson and Martin Truex Jr are in the top ten and do not accelerate quickly Alex Bowman another restart intentionally planned to allow the Chevrolet chain to sell the Chevrolet plant is strict: Jelly did not leave for a guy to think of an amulet - Gods boo in front of you I'll tell you what makes it even harder, you mentioned the weather, it's been raining all weekend here, there's some weather in area 14 ahead, this could be the late in the race, so that's not going to happen, but the 17 gets a big boost from the 11 of Denny Hamlin Gabe and Ricky Stenhouse jr. big push now try to make a side trap to keep moving forward trying to pull back Alexandra Chevrolet's 88 down there lemon sunlight that outside line is not organized organized bruised bottle broke broke that bottom look right now and broke They get up and leave Ricky Stenhouse Jr. after being pushed around by Paul Menard's 21, that fluorescent yellow number 21, the other thing that said House has to do his job, the car drives great is the tires on it, everyone else does, so their Eastside recruited cars are in the middle of the quarter.

It really hurts the way they drive, so he has to be careful not to suck the air out of them and take them out and take it with him, so right now I'm sitting in that blue car with a 17 and he's looking at his Mary's. one that went up to 21 gave it a little chance right here and gave it some momentum moving forward, that's a perfect scenario to weld after 13, 21, though it doesn't go down and gets a side draft of 48 that will help them get a little ride here, but now that the outside lane is organized, now it's all grouped together, it looks a lot better than it did a few laps ago, now we'll see if he can move to the front and he has the right car, leaving that Stenhouse, your car is fast Jimmy Fenton and his team return to the Midway front, working very hard on this plate program.

I think they are good cars if you lead this clean group. Clingerman jumps out of the line, they're out, those guys didn't go. with him, that's going to drag him back, that outside line is not forming, we have a middle out there. I said I've been bragging about sending the juniors driving the car, well, he almost lost it because of how organized the Chevrolet will stay when we arrive. Until the last lap of this stage, will you break away from the team's orders? It will be interesing. We saw what the other manufacturers did at the end of the first stage.

I've been waiting to see Shirley in this. I am committed to them. It's going to be okay, you just saw him there, chasing Elliott around the track, he opens that door, at some point the guys behind him are going to have to fill that hole, if not they're going to get Rick Marty, well Jeff, you mention it, the weather. It certainly closes the team. I know that, but look who is sitting in Byron's third million, which is a backup car for that team after the accident with Brad Keselowski on Thursday, they had to stay two hours after the area was closed from the garage on Thursday night to prepare the backup car and then they came.

There are two hours left early Friday morning to finish preparations for today's race and the young man is doing very well right now and I believe Hall of Famer Dale Jarrett said William Firewood would win this race on Monday with a score. The American superstar could be in a good situation. position here and how much this would change the playoff seeding. Austin Dillon could get a win. Look at it right now. Out of the top ten, only two drivers have won. Chase Elliott. Alex Bowman in the top ten at the moment and hopes to get things going.

I'm desperate, there are 10 laps left to finish this stage and the three teams have just told Austin Dillon that we have lightning moving towards the area, this could be for the victory, so he is not going to have a great moment in the corner to calm down , is the satellite now? The problem with going is the guys in second, third and fourth, but their cars don't drive well, they can't get up, they get pushed in, look how far back 21 is to sit, take a look here to edit the great moments they are happening. that all these drivers lap after lap oh man look he gets tense and has to pick it up.

Busch always turns around, wait, he doesn't know he's coming off the gas, all these guys are pushing hard, get going, they're having it. It's a tough time doing it because of how poorly these cars handle. Shelby starts to pull away from that inside line and that group of about six cars right now seven cars are pulling away from the group. Can they pull away from the pack with just eight laps to go? this is the second beat you just saw here, click order, he can just sit with you now, he should be able to stop for that, he won't say, don't order, he actually covers it from behind, everyone is happy and comfortable, right ? now not having to defend now sent to was able to get behind Boyer now that the back line is starting to come together Marty Chevy the 70 best cars Jeff I want to go back to what we talked about at the beginning of the program Jim Campbell the The head of Chevrolet Motorsports called each owner individually and each driver individually and reminded them: hey, we're here as the biggest sponsor right now, Jimmie Johnson, back there, you're a seven-time champion, you're sitting at 70, you have a chance to win this race, but how do you Do you stick to that plan?

The young guys in the Chevy camp before, when the big boss calls, do you stick to this plan even with a lot of hungry young drivers up front and even a seven-time champion in the back of this group telling you? I wouldn't want to be, I want to be locked into any plan except my plan, whatever gives me a win and I have a team that wants me to win. I got guys and I built this car, brought to this track to win. I know all those drivers feel the same way when it comes to that, but when given an opportunity, they will try to do what they have to do to win this race.

Ty Dillon at #13 rose a little high, didn't he? able to get back in front of Jimmie Johnson's 48 will move up one spot and that moved him right there, he saw Clint Boyer, he just took him out the way he thought he was slowing down that lineup, you know. had a good fall was starting to gain some momentum slowed down when Ty lost his car and had to get up there that's one more Chevrolet of this mix and even some numbers just a little all four teams took a reddish turn House will keep the dedicated Clint Boyer at 14 Ricky Stenhouse jr.

Again, that's the same car, same guy from the week spinning around the frame a moment ago, he's here pushing, look at Piggy, he's got the 14 up front. Dave and Rick only think about their position, no wins in the 2019 season, 16th and the right points. now on the fumble and a horrible weekend last weekend at Chicagoland Speedway a good day at Daytona would be great for Clinton to have laps to go and stage two the weather in the area keeps Austin Dillon needs to win to make the playoffs 22 Logano's kidney if they push that 14 big push down the backstretch really really good push here this is huge look how many batteries go like 50 miles an hour faster to second place here comes Clint Boyer and they hold him up behind He Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

Joey Logano Paul Menard, all manufacturers of the same brand and they are working on the High Line trying to take the lead here at Daytona Austin Dillon, what is he doing? He doesn't block the 14 that will give him help, let's listen. to radio 14 I'll be a second to help you Austin Dillon on the inside at number three abandoned Boyer on the outside of 14 with less than three laps to go these guys know it, they continue side by side with Chevy on the inside dash in the outside big push in that inside lane I never sent Clint doesn't quite clear Austin going around the turn he couldn't do it now I guess it's hard again to buy two for that inside line to keep those cars keeping the momentum up they're getting tight they're getting tying up heading down deep bruised by that outside line all those guys trying to push but tightening looking forward now he starts a block will he dictate which line they go up? side with two laps left, can they get sick?

These guys behind them in the fifth and sixth row think about how bad those cars drive right now with all that air out of them another rod covers the fire right here another surge out of the 17th to give the 14th a boost, but the 14 manages to run. The pirate has to stop in front of him and still tries to take advantage of an opportunity here with a white flag on stage once again for leg 2. Austin Dillon Alex chases Elliott up top and they are starting to pull away from that outside line. Giordano had to raise it to be a huge Blokland.

Denny Hamlin, that's going to hurt that outside lane search. Dillon a little draft. I'll send a car of mine, stay awake for a bit and keep these guys from racing, they're pulling away, does anyone step out of line and try to take Austin Dillon's win from these poor three and four for the last time on stage two Dillon, then Bowman and Myron Dylan will win the stage. I didn't see any Chevrolet behind-Dylan-Velma ran that she would have been worth a try. Those guys were ordered to stay in the lab, but I didn't really see anything materialize. really use any kind of boost Austin Dillon will take stage 2 and now they will head to the pits race fans will enjoy the coke and make this summer the most memorable effort.

Many memories are being made today and this 4th of July weekend as a field about to hit pit road in the morning Chad Knaus praising his young driver William Byron saying you're doing a great job. At the top of the screen you'll see them using four Goodyear tires here and Sunoco Fuel finished third on that stage and said "I've been on three meshes, I've never been on the slide Kelly, his teammate Alex Bowman said his race car races, that number 88, was a little free. It will be four Goodyear tires for the 88. Austin Dillon, who won the second stage, said that this balance is really good in front an air pressure adjustment for Goodyear tires and Sunoco fuel. for all three and stops there and finds some spots created by teams just switching to tires 37 stayed at the track Chris Buescher maybe trying a little strategy there back back to NASCAR on NBC is presented by Credit One Bank, There is a NASCAR credit card perfect for Metro racing fans, do it your way and buy Coca-Cola, enjoy Coca-Cola and make this the most memorable summer we have ever seen.

It's going to break a The team car is trying to get into your pit, listen, blocking those rear tires, I can't slow the car down, it has to back up. I have to spend a lot of time here, a lot of positions on the track, we've seen this before in racing with Jeff, that car that's 11 cars, all exactly the same, he doesn't look like much either, jr. but if you give up a second, you know, try to take care of something that may be four or five spots on pit road, remember on pit road they're coming at 55 miles an hour, well, a driver who's obviously had a bad day, Brad.

Keselowski, good morning, well, not the way Brad Keselowski wanted to end his day, the worst of all is what happened when he watched the replay. Looks like the sky gave me a pretty good push, but I just didn't have the grip and I lost it, so it's a shame for later, we're going to win with that Independence Day scheme that looks more like a Mustang. , but Marty is a little unlucky. I'm not really sure why he took off like that, but that's how it was and that's how it is. a step on how many cars are there today, period for everyone, yes it's attractive and stylish, it's like that for everyone and you know, I thought we had decent speed and good handling, but obviously it was enough to take the push.

Thanks man, I've been showing you theweather behind the grandstands, that's been a big issue with all the crew chiefs and teams having a sense of urgency knowing that at any moment, if there's lightning within eight miles of the race track, they're going to have to clear the cars. off the track let's go with DJ and Steve, yeah thanks Rick, okay DJ, two stages in the books, about a hundred laps, assuming the weather stays clear, we have 60 left, do you have any favorites when I look at this, I think Joey Logano is the man to beat, he has some good Ford teammates even though some of them are gone, he still has enough help.

Stenhouse has to be one of those underdogs, but a lot can happen here, the Chevrolets are lined up, but where do you have to go? a decision as a driver I'm alone here I need to win this race it sounds good my next question I like Joey Logano I think he looks very strong he's a guy I think you'll have to go and win but you're a driver, you've won here several times, you know that you will have to answer on Monday if you do something different in a moment, the white flag went to the laboratory when you say no, no, I need the checkered flag, yes, I imagine that yes I have that trophy that has pretty good bargaining power to talk to whoever I have to talk to, so I'll try to make it happen probably in the last lap as we overcome the problems.

I like it. Rick DJ claims to win. at all costs, that's what we're about to see and again the intensity increases because who knows when the weather could be an issue, the crew members pull these guys out of these positions Logano and Newman one behind them Erik Jones Austin Dillon come back through the gears they were going they knew they could get in there between behind the 22 they couldn't get there Austin pushed Newman is in the wind for the meetings and gets him in the playoffs there right now, all out of the picture of the playoffs, they saw the three pushes from the six and the reason he couldn't keep doing that is the side draft 22 and he took him out of the six look at this run Austin Dillon had a great run for the 3 of Austin Dillon had a bush of the 24th who is in front and controlling this race again there is no way for the pneumococcus six to move a veteran yes for God's sake and he knows it's a waste of time trying to block that's a good way to turn around so now the Chevy in front of a Ford in front of a Toyota manufacturer with these three, it's hard not to think that he's going to hell eventually, but William is getting a big boost by shooting Ryan Newman in the back of that 22.

Carla Joey Logano Logano just went up to face another. Ford look here, look how fast Austin Dillon's comment with the big push and Newman does it in Newton 9 to block everything causing a big accident, so now it's Austin Dillon in front, here Jones in 20 and trying to deflect Joey Logano's 22. leading that second line on that outside line right there with Matt DiBenedetto but... he can get the big push, he led the most laps here in February, he led the most laps of any driver in everything the Daytona super speedway at Talladega. All year we had a great Ford line in the middle, contact between Logano's 22 and Elliott's pursuit 9.

This is not the same drafting we have seen in past races where everyone is under control pushing each other. This pushes each other when they don't have enough control this is a new game it's not what we normally see at places like Daytona and Talladega this is much harder to see right there than 14 behind the 22 just lost his car boyer left just got a little tight in that situation and we just went green, they're not old tires, they're arrows, all arrows, that big spoiler you see on the back of that car 14. Clint Boyer, there's no air in the nose of that white 24.

You need to be careful. It's a big surprise for these drivers, sometimes when their front end just runs across the track, they're not ready for it. These drivers can see it on their windshields, too, that weather right coming out of turn four here at the Newman six-card racetrack. he's almost on the fence he can hit the wall just a little there he's very loose that's the day when the air back where he is doesn't exist, I'm referring to the guys back there in the middle of the control cars, the track chasing the front chasing the rear, look at this car here, the only thing keeping it straight, the wall, we've never seen that before here, so early in the race, someone so unusual, we haven't said anything about that Erik Jones 20, the Last year's winner, won this race. where he is, he's back in position we saw him on pit road at the beginning of the race making adjustments to that car they put him up front to see what he can do with it look at the 22nd that Joey Logano is doing now with the help of the 17th Ricky Stenhouse Jr. has moved up to challenge for the lead, Ricky is a wild man here at Daytona but he is definitely a big pusher, the guys behind him get nervous.

I can't bear to mention the wild man because you are referencing Ricky Stenhouse Jr. That wild man attitude has sent him to Victory Lane several times on these tracks. It's good to be hungry. That's how it is for every pilot. I like it. I like the style he has when he comes to these tracks. He is aggressive. You have to be. aggressive and we see him in front here comes Logano, he has cleared the three he starts to block, he is not going to go down the lane, the lane goes to 21. Paul Menard saves him before getting into the wall control and then Bubba Wallace in that 43. own car 11 almost on the fence there these things are flying wild boar today look at it and it's getting important here well God I'll be able to clear the three and then start managing this organized race himself from the two lines something's gotta give Oh something's gotta give here three wides behind him Logano no help behind the three now here come our Giants he was 2 cards back he made the move well Bubba Wallace was on the right back quarter panel Blaney smart was in the back of the Jenny Hamlin who was captivated makes the move remove the spot now in front of Austin Dillon this is how it happened turn left there are tons of speed so the platform back take a look at today's Toyota handling Here is my vice-leader appointment.

Did you handle it? Sorry this Toyota Ford Chevrolet Bank went out the window now it's a race. These guys will do what they have to do. That's what we're seeing, we're seeing this aggressive driving, everyone trying to win the race. They themselves remember that Denny drove the year off took his second Daytona 500 in February, you have a Toyota, a Chevrolet, a Toyota Chevrolet, hey, go, hey, you're going to work only for your manufacturers in this situation, Blaney, right here in the part back of the, he's like guys. did a good job saving he's still catching his breath, you won't miss it as we go NASCAR non-stop Denny Hamlin out front here at Daytona, just forty-three laps left in the Monster Energy Cup Series Coke Zero sugar 400 and slow on The track is Kevin Harvick's 4, can he make it to the platform?

Can he stay off the line while the race continues? Austin Dillon, the 11th, with damage, the 22nd, as well as smoke coming out of the cars that were even cleared. In this incident, they shuffled Denny Hamlin's 11 and then while trying to regroup, Austin Dillon's 3 avoid Ricky Stenhouse Jr. the 17 good cars with major damage in this accident Chris Buescher in 37 also Kyle Busch's 18 every time you see a guy spin coming into a corner, cross the track, it's going to take a lot of guys, that's just one of the worst places is not the worst place to be turned and we're blocking the blocking that we talked about all weekend and I think a lot of guys could have Brad Keselowski's mental attitude about it.

I wont allow it. I won't tolerate it. We already saw him with him today with Kurt Busch Ricky Stenhouse we just saw Clint Boyer get out of his car Ryan Blaney got out of his car The race was a little intense but it all started here the Chevy the 3 of Austin Dillon changed lanes he tries to stop do I think he's panicking what is he doing go back to the back where he blocked 14 14 vote for three blocks you said it over and over again blocking causing accidents this is an accident the front of the field seems to Plante Moyers pushing the three, but it moves and goes in and bothers the three of them a little bit, it loosened the tree a little bit, but the three of them headed towards the track to try to block anyway, try to get there, protect that line, take that. leader, let's look, let's go back and look at that first view because I think look at this first view, so right here he makes the move like he said, here comes a 14, a boy, a good side draft on the 11, here comes a 14, a warrior now.

We have a great shot. The lawyer gets behind him, turns a little to the left and what he did was he drug the three of us with him, the three of us at the back of the court, you know, I don't know if that was a block that we got there, he didn't mean to get there it's just a little bit of contact when you click notes on the rear bumper that three turned the three sideways he's in the back of those three cars and then at that moment Austin You're trying to catch your car, you're driving the race car, you're trying to turn the back of the race car, you start driving like a forklift at that point and then you're on the track trying to get to turn one.

Kurt Busch squirts out of this with no problem. William Byron Jimmie Johnson and ty Dillon are able to negotiate and get through so they are in the top four right now after this melee happens behind them look at 13 there is ty Dillon and he is able to negotiate through from all this practically unscathed and now he is in fourth place watch this from a team car right in the middle of this easy easy disaster okay, let's play like a half half half half half half half feeling of helplessness when you see smoke in front of me but no you want to stay flat, yeah out of range again, I see that contact right there when he turned left, that's what moved to three down like rolling over there, we took damage.

You know, three cars come back across the track, no need to worry about that before the four. The Joe Gibbs Racing cars involved in this incident, you can see the damage to the leading eleven, they took him out. Austin Dillon went to his outside, which dropped the 11 back and then found himself in the way when the 3 and 14 made contact. so let's listen to the observer's communication before, during and after this Austin Dillon accident, hinting at the fact that there was no one under him. You listen, you trust that observer and that's a very important relationship in this track, but you also know. you have three cars and all these other guys have that side fear and you can see there's one car down there, all three were out of control, although I think Austin Dillon didn't care what the spotter was saying at the time.

I was on the trip my opinion there's a storm outside the race track and there's a storm at the race track we just saw it's a party good 138 to go Rick, it looks like a lot of the front cars are going to go down the street pits, you see those cloud buildings So, this could be a pit race that could decide the winner of this race or your decision of whether or not you're going to pit. In all the chat channels, I said to William Byron just now on the radio, we're coming. and there's been so much debris on the track that I want to run four tires, but I'm thinking about some Mako fuel, just there's going to be a lot of interesting decisions right here, Rick, I want to take another look at what we just saw, I know that a lot.

Many people wonder: Did someone come down? Did anyone come up? Let's look again, well, here we go, right here, we've seen this several times. We both think it starts right here. The three of them get out of control and right now they continue. Tonight number of hours Sorry, it's easy for all of us to sit in slow motion to say this guy did that and that guy did that, but Jun, you and I know that at that speed you're just along for the ride, you're not. . like you can be calculated and what you're doing when these things happen Clint makes the move to the left that flipped the back of those three cars and spun them sideways the three of them had to go down to the race track to take control of his car and Clint and Clint go to the right, you can see, you see Clint's cars turn right, but again, everything is in slow motion.

I don't think Playboy just got hung up trying to destroy it. He knows he will ruin himself. It's 495 hours. You're not on the Caloocan truck, stay high, keep digging here, say hello you bigot or are we so helpless, 38 to go and we'll see quite a few cars hit pit road in the morning, well we talked about that decision you see . Right there, Matt McCall leaves Kurt Busch on the track, he is the leader of the race at the moment. William Byron and Jimmie Johnson are coming down pit road and in fact William Byron is only using fuel this time, as is Jimmie Johnson, so the strategy plays with the storms near the fuel. just the callfor the Hendrick cars a track position so important to them that they want to be close to the front if there is a weather issue that shortens this race Kurt Busch is in front right now the

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Now, let's take a look at the cars that were involved and crashed on lap 119. It's a two-page spread, so this isn't the end of this list, it gets even longer, but the big names that have been eliminated, some are completely out of the race, but others. that will take so much damage he probably won't be in contention anymore well you see Austin Dillon's 3 he's out Rick Speedway and fantasy racing are hard to line up and we know there will be a wild car well the big ones happened . you make the right decisions you go to your garage before the end of the second stage we will have to see when this one ends but another thinks that this big accident has given Kurt Busch a great opportunity let's listen to the debate between him and his team leader, my favorite debates when the driver agrees with the crew chief and here's why folks, he has the lead for about 20 laps on this fuel, but that dark cloud is the difference we've made it past the end. stage two, if it rains, if there is lightning that causes this race to stop, they can't restart, but one of Kurt Busch would be the winner of the race with a few other names, Marty behind him, it would be race days, well , Clint Bowyer today is not what I wanted. out of the race and that big crash, so did you feel like Austin Dillon was blocking when you were down there or did you feel like your car came loose?

We have to be behind someone to have a block, you have to have a car behind you no, it was clearly clear on the side that was that, he was a pretty bad man, yeah, I mean, and then he kept going down to hell. I don't know what you do, what you say, just nature is the beast for this type of amino racing. I had a great race and he tried to block me and then I got off of him and then he kept getting off of him to try to block him, it's pretty unfortunate for us , we had a very fast mobile Mustang, you know, a front one, you know?

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y, when it was sitting in a pile with the mess in the three created, you know, I mean, the Hale guy I was doing everything I was trying to do. to do to stay ahead was pretty dumb, we had communicators up on the roof and pretty early in the race there were a lot of races left to block aggressively or whatever, but we'll put Hell, let's go to the next Kentucky field. I've been here for 58 days, Kentucky, next week, waiting for that, I just hope this monkey gets out of here sooner or later and when we get this 14 car marching back to where it belongs.

I chatted with Austin about it in the spotlight and I, Clem Boyer, not very happy with what happened there, clearly felt like I was a block away from Austin Dillon, very easy to see that in his opinion he mentioned the monkey that had on his back and finished 37th at Chicagoland last week, now he's out of this one, obviously the end won't come for Clint Boyer, who was in playoff contention and is now falling out of contention for the playoffs. But around the corner, he has lost so many points and now he is close to that bubble.

We have a lot of guys in this race that still have a chance to win which will make challenging him even more challenging if we get someone outside of the top 16 to win today we will push them into that playoff race there is one clean spot right now, besides. I know, but again he can't continue and he's also out of the race, the other one involved, at least the way this started, got lost and Dylan is waiting with Kelly and Rick, obviously we've had the benefit of seeing that accident through multiple angles and slow motion it was hard to tell if they had made it clear to you what exactly happened Austin, well originally in turn four I thought that the 9 and I could pass by the 11 but the 9 was not clear, I really thought it was a bit urgent because the lightning rain was coming, so I jumped in there, I had a good push from 14 and my plane, as soon as I passed 11, turned left and went down again to arrive with my chevy teammates, it's really unfortunately in a very fast ethanol American chevy, it was cool to win the stage just trying to win a race, that's all.

I turned left a little when he turned left and knocked me down there. I kept going up to the left, I mean. I don't know, it's part of this type of racing. He was being aggressive and trying to maintain the lead and that's what you get, you know that's part of it and there's a lightning bolt right there so he started trying to maintain it. up front and we had a fast car, really proud of the guys, we hated it ending that way and wish we could work with Chevy to finish what we started. Thanks Austin Marty, we saw Elliott chase in the middle of that Kelly, what? was your opinion on what happened there, yeah, I was like in the back pushing there and I saw Austin turn around and you know, I just hope you can leave it long enough to... and slow down enough to lose it, So it was unfortunate, I thought.

Our Napa Camaro was one of the best we've had here, so it's unfortunate and I hate what happened. I felt like we were doing a good job. Really good job as a group just needed to keep it going, get Elliott out of this early here and since you mentioned Chevy is doing a good job staying together, we'll see if that plan stays in place. Rick, well, we heard that Dillon's loss made the reference to Lightning and right now we're seeing some cars heading down pit road that reference Lightning, you know? He talked about how intensely he felt like a sin was coming and then in the spotlight of the frame he saw a lightning bolt it's like oh that's why he was doing that because he thought the race might be coming to an end.

Kurt Busch was one of those guys that was on the track leading the race hoping that we had the weather and he can be declared the winner, but he has decided to come to the pits with a good service, so Justin Haley on our scoring monitor and we're seeing a little bit of lightning off the track still and of course the dark weather, but Justin Haley showed himself to be the race leader and was runner-up in the Xfinity Series race on Friday night and the year last in the They have nothing to lose, they were coming to a close, but now the caution lights are back on the safety car.

How about this? A non-Cup regular could win this race. guys who are trying to come here like McDowell, who is in second place, get a win and lock themselves in the playoffs, they don't have that opportunity, so Haley at 77 and McDowell at 34 are taking row one, but again we went. Let's go back to caution, they're not going to go green here, so listen to a car and know that with those guys they made a great decision. Kurt Busch Matt McCall made a decision. They will stay on the track, but NASCAR gave him one. Come on, they said we're going to get to one to go, that means they think the race is going to restart, so a car comes down pit road.

NASCAR goes, one to go and then down the backstretch. Conditions change, a light goes on and they hit, grab, knock. it's off, so now Matt McCall is like he's in the right position, you're getting one to go see, you're getting one to go, no, he's upset with that call to trade him and then he's like, hey, let's go back, caution, and now the safety truck will take the field back to pit road and we'll go with Marty and Kurt Busch. Rick is furious on the radio. He listens to what he had to say. It's him processing the information you just left.

Jeff. After they pitted, they canceled the restart and made that decision based on the call you mentioned, so Kurt Busch isn't too happy with NASCAR's decision here. Kurt dropped out of the lead and is now in 18th position, raising frustrating red flags. and you drivers, don't forget anything, you just heard it, it took Kurt a few seconds to remember a moment when he felt like he had one taken away from him and we saw it earlier today, he hadn't forgotten that Stenhouse is February number and the 500 sending me the first draft, definitely infers it. I mean, you always remember the races you lost, you always remember the ones you should have won, I think you should have won, so I mentioned Justin Haley in '77, it's Lant's 24th. or excuse me, William Byron's 24, which is second right now in this race, so our scoring monitor doesn't show us the exact numbers that were running in front, but Justin Haley in 77 is correct and now they are told to the teams. cover the cars due to the storm in the area lightning in the area will cover the cars a red flag has been displayed in the field with only 33 laps left crushing Kurt Busch to make that move potentially could have had a win today as well I went down to the Nascar tower to have a conversation about what was going on, so what happened was they didn't have a beam within the parameter, they were clear, so he gave the go and then they went down the back immediately. they got a lightning strike that was confirmed to be seven point four miles away, so they had to go to caution, so NASCAR didn't have one in the area, they cleared it and then they got one in the back immediately, they had to call, it's a timing issue it wasn't obviously NASCAR isn't looking at who's leading a race or who's on pit road when they make these calls that's exactly when something happens the yellow flag had to come out or they had to go back to the yellow flag and in this one situation when lightning strikes within eight miles if it's eight miles inside the venue, they have to go to caution and red flag, it's a safety issue for everyone in the grandstands for everyone on the racetrack anywhere around this venue , they have to do that because of a safety issue and That won't make Kurt Busch feel better, will it?

I mean, Kurt Busch is, you know, you heard it, even pretty convinced that you know they didn't want to, you know, this was they didn't make a call not to help him, right? He's not happy about this and you can understand that, but the way NASCAR uses the radar and the beam technology that they have, once they got it, they had to make the decision, so Justin Halley is now leading this race the end. of July 4th week. At Daytona a year ago, Justin Halley thought he had won the Xfinity race. Take a look at this.

He is on the 24th making the move on the inside and goes under the double yellow line to get through what he thought was the impermissible wind. By going under that yellow line, NASCAR felt like he had advanced his position there and I think a lot of people were upset by that decision because they felt like this young man had made an incredible move at the end of that race to steal a win. for a team at the front, a team, a team trying to build, you're trying to grow into a driver, a very young driver trying to make a name for himself in this one sport and that yellow line is the center of the controversy, it's time to Let's get to Daytona Talladega.

It was implemented because we started running into three and four cars drifting around the turns on the racetrack apron, causing a big accident, so NASCAR put that yellow line rule in place to try to help the drivers a little. pilots to prevent us from getting trapped. In those situations speaking of curtain, you know that Kurt Busch remembers some race from 2014, you know that he has an unfinished business with NASCAR, well, you know that Haley has not forgotten about it last year, he mentioned it this weekend feeling that it was taken away from him . In a race that I still feel I want today, I won that race and I didn't get the trophy or the money, but in my mind I wanted it, we knew the intensity was increasing, everyone saw that the weather could be an issue.

The big thing happens because everyone fighting for every position Austin Dillon Clint Boyer knew something big was going to happen after a red flag condition in the Monster Energy Cup Series Coke Zero sugar 400 at Daytona International Speedway. Today's lap leaders presented by single courses and sights in Austin Dillon Joey Logano, the guys who led the most laps Denny Hamlin Clint Boyer 5 and 3 respectively and the four involved in the accident on lap 119, let'sexplain how we got to this point and how the fees started. With a lot of guys talking about manufacturers working together, you see the four come to the pits first, Chevrolet would come later, these teams all have their plants running well and then we saw Hanley starting to come into play.

Kyle Busch lost control of his car in front of him because Laska lost control of his car and from there everything started to go crazy, honey, Oh, he makes a great race here, Kevin Harvick would help from the witness race, We can sit how soon you are making the movement of getting dressed. kurt busch under him they make contact they stand out back across the grass and the card gets a kevin harvick show things innocence will push his turn the two cars against the wall what will it be that many more guys were not picked up in this accident this It would be a sign of more things, since today he is carving very hard to drive.

Brad said it was a heartbreak, but today I lost it bigger than yours. Austin Dillon trying to rain was getting very aggressive in the second stage, being aggressive, here we heard him say. Look man, I'm just tryna hold on to that leader, flint, Boyer, the real big red, coming into turn one, the three cards turn back to the front of traffic, there's nowhere for anyone to go, y'all they're piling up Sebastian, I've been in the back of the grass to turn one and a bunch of cars before, it's a lot of fun and then Kurt Busch, those guys, him and Matt McCall stayed outside waiting until one left thinking lightning or rain or something that was going to come and they got the One was missing, so they got to pit road, but right here they turned off the lights.

They seem to find the one who was behind on the backstretch. They made it. They said they were struck by lightning. They put Justin Halley in the lead and put out the yellow flag again. As far as I know, it's not raining, the track is still dry, so if we can get the weather going, we should be able to get back to running pretty quickly, radar, radar and again the inner circle, which is the eight miles, and if at any time lightning strikes. the strike happens within that inner circle, they have to have what's happening right now, a red flag condition to get the cars to pit road, so like you mentioned Junior, no precipitation anywhere yet of the track, which is great, we don't have to dry the To get them back out we just have to make sure that we are free of any type of safety issues.

Lightning possibly in the area. Nothing against Justin Halley, but I'd like to see a little more racing today. This has been so. an exciting race and we know these guys are going to get more intense and we have some guys like Justin Halley with a chance to win that you don't normally get that chance at the racetracks Todd Billin Ryan Newman Corey Lajoie DiBenedetto McDowell TIFF I mean all of these guys really had a chance, they really do, some of them outside the top 16 in points could punch their ticket today just like Jones Erik Jones did last year, locking themselves into the playoffs, it takes so much pressure off their team and for some of these smaller teams it's very important to be able to just get a win let alone be able to be in the playoffs and celebrate doing all the things you can do to get that extra media exposure that it does for that driver on that team, you mentioned smaller teams. small, a driver from one of those smaller teams waiting with Kelly and that's JJ Yeley and Cow among the guys who probably thought he had a chance to win this, he was p4, but like Kurt Busch fell when he was supposed to I was going to go to Pitt, what was your opinion?

He was a little worried. I mean, honestly, you could see the storm coming. He could see the lightning. I just didn't see how there was a chance that we could even turn green so you know the bag was for us to stay outside in the smart warranty car and you know we went to that accident with a ton of debris so I was just worried about cut the tire, so when they said "We're one to go. I thought maybe they'd just give us a five-lap penalty shootout before the storm hit. We'd better pit and unfortunately they only got one lap before the third yellow flag again, so it's totally about Moreno, I mean, us." We're still going to end up with a card that's going to be nice and straightforward, but we'll probably finish 15th to 17th if we get the chance to compete again; otherwise we'd be sitting in a p2 grid behind Justin Haley and them. "It's been a great race for your sponsor.

Give us an idea of ​​what it's like for a team like yours to be in a position at Daytona to have a good finish or win a top five for this group. You know, we brought three cars. this week to require to say that I have a new sponsor on the car like you said with proof of smart guarantees and you know, I don't even know what to feel, it was at a time that I expected it to rain because it's just very hot in the race car and You know, I hope it doesn't swing, come back out JJ, thank you, thank you, think about the hopes, I mean, you're on a team that, like he mentioned, Rick, we're bringing three cars here, three opportunities to have big ones. results, a new sponsor and he's running second at Daytona with the possibility of timing just perfect, it doesn't work under a red flag condition while we're sitting here in the booth We have a great vantage point, obviously we can see the whole track, but. we can mainly see out the window from the entrance of turn one to the exit of turn four and we saw that first front come in in the rain and everything and We're starting to see another wave of rain coming our way again, so not only It's raining now, but it looks like another wave of heavy rain is coming.

Series. There's your winner. They are telling you right now. Justin Halley won his first time. Monster Energy Cup Series race thanks for what a family moment taught wrong, we mentioned it a moment ago, he's the one who really pushed all this in the Xfinity Series cars for nine years, but you young man, like you just said a moment ago, I'm just a dirt racer from Indiana, you're a Monster Energy Cup Series winner, can you believe it? It's absolutely a blessing, it's pretty incredible that I have so many wonderful people around me that have given me the opportunity to reach this level and on Obviously the stage that we were performing on Todd and my family have done a great job, but the Fraternal Order of Eagles, all of us who support the OE, have given me this opportunity.

Spartan Motorsports is truly a blessing. I never saw myself running a Cup race, so I got a call a few months ago to do Talladega and it's just unreal. I don't know how, hey. Rick was talking about your cousin's quarter. I mentioned a moment ago that you took the plunge and then bought what you say was the worst neighborhood in the world, you painted that neighborhood all by yourself, did you ever dream that you would even race at this level, as you just mentioned, let alone be a winner, no, Not at all, the stars are aligned and I'm not.

I never thought I was going to get the redemption from a few years ago at Daytona last year at Daytona and when I got the expense when it was taken away from me, to come back and get Redemption and the Cup Series is great and makes that second place with a buddy last year , last Friday, much better, how stressful it was to sit here talking to journalists while waiting for news, well, you just don't know. I keep asking you, do you know how you feel? Well, I can't do anything about it. I mean, if we go for a run and we go for a run, if you know it's not raining anymore, we're out of it, I can't do anything about it, so at the end of the day, I was just. waiting, well, Todd, who has an Xfinity Series owner, have you ever won a race in the rain?

No, I never won a race. I think we might have lost a couple, but I only remember James Finch winning a Cup race with Mike Bliss once. Charlotte and I were like man, how lucky was he, you know, and you've never won one this way. I feel like we lost them in so many ways. Probably yes, in many ways, but we never win one this way for the family. how special this moment is, it can't be, I mean, it can't be more special, I mean, you know my sister Melissa and who is Justin's mom, my brother drew, I mean, we support this too and the whole family is great support and you.

I know how to run at this level like he said, I mean, he's been with me because I think he was thinking about it today. I think 2005 was the first deal I made with fo E and they've been with me ever since, every year. go to your convention and we will be there Tuesday night, in fact, with all the fo E people and every year that I have been to the convention, they have been very supportive of me, they are very supportive of us and there is nothing more than may have done. I wanted today to put on that 77 spire motorsports that it might have a little bit to do with, I guess, here and there, but that's why our 77 motorsports at Victory Lane with JJ driving it is not is not a is not a pinnacle of my life but it's pretty close there you go Justin Halley what a win for this family Uncle Todd Braun is I think mom Melissa is hanging out here somewhere here's someone crying here she comes she's coming to the scene right now and those are actually Mom Melissa tears over to give Justin a big hug, what an emotional win for the 20 year old, so this Sunoco powered win fuels the best he can, word is getting out that he just won at the highest level. high of stock car racing. 11 years ago he came to a room at a birthday party and 11 years later he's a Cup winner and mom came to congratulate him and of course it was mom you asked, Can I get a car?

I can run? Can I be a racing driver? and now we see it. wins at the highest level at Daytona and if mom says no you're not doing it mom said yes, yeah, very exciting day for him, what a great race. I mean you know unfortunately we had to postpone the race for another day, but we saw an amazing race that I thought we would do it was hot and slippery those drivers had their hands full it came down to a little rain, lightning that changed the strategy so that Justin Haley could have this opportunity and win this race, there are a lot of people who have won rain-shortened races, fuel mileage races, it doesn't matter, he goes home with the trophy and he will never forget this day and I think it was a start we had in our midseason broadcast.

Alex Bowman had a breakthrough last week. The weather challenged us every weekend, but then we come back here with a great Ross Chastain story and then the cherry on top of a young man who has very little Cup Series experience doing a wonderful job. You mentioned the race was hectic. He had to keep his car in one piece. There was a lot of chaos out there. The team had to make all the right decisions about the wind coming into the pits, when not to stop, with the weather and lightning, and listening. I've been lucky enough to win one of these rain-shortened ones, you hire them too, Jeff, guess what, when that trophy goes up at your house, it doesn't matter the story, you're the winner, you've won that race, everyone in there.

Would have taken this trophy today was Justin Haines for more post-race coverage go to NBC sports.com we're going to Monster Jam getting back to regular programming congratulations to Justin Haley's winner here at Daytona