DAYTONA BEACH, FLORIDA – AUGUST 15: Austin Cindric, driver of the No. 22 MoneyLion Ford, celebrates in Victory Lane after winning the NASCAR Xfinity Series UNOH 188 at Daytona International Speedway on August 15, 2020, in Daytona Beach, Florida. Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images
Austin Cindric makes history in the NASCAR Xfinity Series UNOH 188 on Saturday afternoon on the Daytona Road Course.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Austin Cindric’s summer of dominance continued Saturday afternoon in the inaugural UNOH 188 NASCAR Xfinity Series race at the Daytona International Speedway Road Course.
Michael Self, driver of the No. 25 Sinclair Lubricants Toyota celebrates after winning the General Tire 100 at the Daytona Road Course for the ARCA Menards Series in Daytona Beach, Florida on August 14, 2020. Photo by James Gilbert/ARCA Racing
Michael Self sweeps Daytona road course in the ARCA Menards Series, General Tire 100 on Friday evening for Venturini Motorsports.
Michael Self has already proven he can conquer the superspeedway at Daytona International Speedway. Back in February, he won the season openerat ‘The World Center of Racing’ for the second time.
Friday night, he added an historic first to his racing resume.
BROOKLYN, MICHIGAN – AUGUST 09: Kevin Harvick, driver of the No. 4 Busch Light Apple Ford, crosses the finish line over Denny Hamlin, driver of the No. 11 FedEx Ground Toyota, to win the NASCAR Cup Series Consumers Energy 400 at Michigan International Speedway on August 09, 2020, in Brooklyn, Michigan. Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images
Post-Michigan Power Ranking for the NASCAR Cup Series gives a perspective of drivers and how they are doing as the 2020 regular season winds down.
At this point in 2020, there isn’t anything too peculiar about running back-to-back races at the same track in one weekend. There also isn’t anything unusual about Kevin Harvick finding himself in victory lane. Despite that, it was a bit unfamiliar to watch the same Harvick car win two straight races, both for points, on the same track, on two straight days. Harvick picked up his fifth and sixth wins at Michigan, dominating two races on the two-mile track. The Cup Series playoffs are now just three weeks (four races) away, and the field is beginning to take shape.
Daytona Road Course NASCAR Weekend Preview is presented by host Sharon Burton and co-host Jay Husmann. Join us as rev up NASCAR fans for the upcoming weekend of racing. Then stick around for Hot Topics Sound Off with co-host Andy Laskey and the Fan4Racing crew!
This episode centers around Daytona International Speedway Road Course for the NASCAR Cup, Xfinity, Gander RV & Outdoors, and ARCA Menards Series. We’ll also give a few updates from the ARCA East and West along with pre-race audio from drivers as time permits.
The Agenda
First, we preview the ARCA Menards Series at Daytona.
Next, we preview the Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series and Xfinity Series at Daytona
Next, our preview continues with the NASCAR Cup Series at Daytona
Then, Hot Topics Sound Off with co-host Andy Laskey and the Fan4Racing Crew.
Big” Bill France, Sr. (second from left) stands with drivers (L to R) Smokey Purser, Roy Hall and Sammy Packard before a stock car race on the Daytona beach-road course in 1940. Hall won the race with Big Bill finishing fourth, Purser fifth and Packard 19th. Big Bill would eventually give up driving and focus on promoting road course events at Daytona Beach as well as the creation of today’s NASCAR’s Cup Series. Photo by ISC Images & Archives via Getty Images
NASCAR is making a historic return to road course racing in Daytona. NASCAR founder, Bill France Sr raced the sandy Daytona road course.
As NASCAR’s three national series get ready to make their historic first attempts at the DAYTONA Road Course inside the Daytona International Speedway on Aug. 14-16, let’s take a look back at how road course racing began in Daytona Beach, “The Birthplace of Speed.”