After skating through the ‘Big One’ on lap 118, Kurt Busch had the lead in Sunday’s Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona International Speedway.
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Monthly Archives: July 2019
Justin Haley Wins First Career Race in Rain-Shortened Coke Zero Sugar 400
The NASCAR Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series returned to Daytona International Speedway for their final July race. Next year’s summer Daytona race will be held as the season cut-off before the playoffs begin. After a rain delay on Saturday night, the raced was moved to continue on Sunday afternoon.
Continue readingJustin Haley Gets First Cup Win at Daytona
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – As the dark clouds and lightning descended upon Daytona International Speedway Sunday afternoon, Justin Haley climbed out of his No. 77 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet feeling like it was perhaps divine intervention. He was first on the scoreboard at the time Sunday’s Coke Zero Sugar 400 was red-flagged for lightning 33 laps short of the intended 160-lap distance.
Continue readingRoss Chastain Leads Podium Sweep at Daytona for Kaulig Racing
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Kaulig Racing found the key to victory in Saturday night’s Circle K Firecracker 250 at Daytona International Speedway, and the team did so in triplicate.
NASCAR President Steve Phelps Lauds Heightened Competition Under 2019 Cup Rules
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Perhaps the most visible hallmark of the first half of the 2019 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season has been the quality of racing at 1.5-mile intermediate speedways, an assertion bore out by statistics and emphasized by NASCAR president Steve Phelps during a meeting with reporters at the sanctioning body’s headquarters on Friday.
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