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'One of the dumbest things I've ever seen.' Daytona 500 last lap draws ire.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — In Daytona International Speedway’s Victory Lane, with his trademarked smile beaming, global sports icon and 23XI Racing owner Michael Jordan took time out of his celebration to mention someone.
His first mention wasn’t Tyler Reddick, the winner of the 2026 Daytona 500.
It was someone who you don’t often hear ...Read more
Tyler Reddick stuns Chase Elliott, wins Daytona 500 for Michael Jordan's team
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Tyler Reddick needed a game-winner at the buzzer to win the Daytona 500 Sunday and deliver team owner Michael Jordan another championship.
Reddick led a single lap on Sunday at Daytona International Speedway, and it wasn’t for long.
With leader Chase Elliott seemingly in command coming off Turn 4, Reddick made a move ...Read more
NASCAR announces new Daytona 500 race time due to threat of bad weather
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The Great American Race’s start time has been moved up an hour.
NASCAR has announced that the 2026 Daytona 500 will now begin at 1:30 p.m. ET Sunday — an hour earlier than its previously scheduled 2:30 p.m. green flag — due to the threat of inclement weather in the Daytona Beach area late Sunday.
The sanctioning ...Read more
Dale Earnhardt Sr.'s legacy looms large 25 years after Daytona 500 tragedy
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — On a table at Ricky Stenhouse Jr.’s home sits a photo of Dale Earnhardt Sr. and Stenhouse — when he was just 3 or 4 years old and long before he raced for a living.
“I’ve got pictures sitting on the table of him signing autographs,” Stenhouse told the Orlando Sentinel. “It’s awesome.”
Earnhardt inspired ...Read more
Denny Hamlin chases historic 4th Daytona 500 win on the heels of heartbreak
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Denny Hamlin has driven without fear, doubt or hesitation for more than two decades, especially at Daytona International Speedway.
But the cocksure NASCAR star arrived at the storied track still shaken, a bit unsure and curious how he would respond to the emotions of recent months.
Hamlin will seek his fourth Daytona ...Read more
Jimmie Johnson seeks Daytona 500 glory as a last link to bygone era
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — NASCAR legend Jimmie Johnson’s contemporaries from his sport’s heyday are all but gone.
Pictures in a frame. Names on a trophy. Plaques in the Hall of Fame.
All remain faces of the sport, most just sans helmet and fire suit.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kevin Harvick are on TV. Jeff Gordon is a big wig at Hendricks ...Read more
Austin Hill prevails again, continues Daytona domination in thrilling O'Reilly race
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — It was always going to be Austin Hill, wasn’t it?
The driver of the No. 21 O’Reilly Auto Parts Series car notched his fourth win at Daytona International Speedway on Saturday evening — doing so by leading a field-most 78 laps, sweeping the stages and earning 75 season points for good measure.
That marks 11 ...Read more
NASCAR announces new Daytona 500 race time due to threat of bad weather
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The Great American Race’s start time has been moved up an hour.
NASCAR has announced that the 2026 Daytona 500 will now begin at 1:30 p.m. ET Sunday — an hour earlier than its previously scheduled 2:30 p.m. green flag — due to the threat of inclement weather in the Daytona Beach area late Sunday.
The sanctioning ...Read more
Dale Earnhardt Sr.'s legacy looms large 25 years after Daytona 500 tragedy
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — On a table at Ricky Stenhouse Jr.’s home sits a photo of Dale Earnhardt Sr. and Stenhouse — when he was just 3 or 4 years old and long before he raced for a living.
“I’ve got pictures sitting on the table of him signing autographs,” Stenhouse told the Orlando Sentinel. “It’s awesome.”
Earnhardt inspired ...Read more
'Wrong end of the stick.' Tony Stewart's return to NASCAR racing ends early.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Tony Stewart’s return to NASCAR racing concluded with an early exit, and it sounds like the all-time great driver doesn’t have it in his plans to redeem his unlucky run.
Stewart, after getting knocked out of the season-opening NASCAR Truck Series race on Friday night, reiterated to reporters what he said Thursday ...Read more
Jimmie Johnson seeks Daytona 500 glory as a last link to bygone era
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — NASCAR legend Jimmie Johnson’s contemporaries from his sport’s heyday are all but gone.
Pictures in a frame. Names on a trophy. Plaques in the Hall of Fame.
All remain faces of the sport, most just sans helmet and fire suit.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kevin Harvick are on TV. Jeff Gordon is a big wig at Hendricks ...Read more
He's compared to Jeff Gordon, helped change NASCAR's postseason. Oh, and he's 19.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Survey the drivers ahead of the Daytona 500, and they’ll all have something new to say:
Ask Christopher Bell, and he’ll admit it would be “tough to relate” to the position Connor Zilisch finds himself in.
Ask Ross Chastain, and he’ll say that “it’s not fair” how mature Zilisch is.
Ask Jimmie Johnson, ...Read more
Smoke returns: Tony Stewart set for Daytona Trucks Series debut
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Tony Stewart built a Hall of Fame career — and a fiercely loyal following — by racing anything, anytime, anywhere.
From midgets to Indy cars, from sprint cars to stock cars, Stewart was at home behind the wheel. But at 54, with three NASCAR Cup Series championships and 49 wins, he still had something on his racing ...Read more
Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s car makes Daytona 500 again; Kyle Busch is on the pole
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Dale Earnhardt Jr. admits that it’s stressful.
Then again: The stress is the best part about it.
Earnhardt expressed all this after he learned that the car he owns — JR Motorsports’ 40 car, driven by Justin Allgaier — qualified for the Daytona 500 “on speed” at the conclusion of the festivities at Daytona ...Read more
The Earnhardt name never left NASCAR. Dale Jr.'s Daytona 500 quest proves it.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Justin Allgaier remembers last year’s catharsis.
Everyone does.
It was the Thursday before the 2025 Daytona 500. Allgaier, the driver of the No. 40 car, had just steered his car successfully through the Duels and had qualified for the Great American Race. There was figurative pandemonium. There were literal fireworks....Read more
Denny Hamlin to race Daytona with pain that Michael Jordan, Joe Gibbs know well
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Toward the end of last season, as he inched closer and closer to the NASCAR Cup Series championship that still eludes him, Denny Hamlin noticed something a bit strange.
Fewer boos.
As the now-45-year-old driver was announced at each racetrack in 2025, Hamlin, after years of embracing the role of villain in a sport in ...Read more
From Daytona's grandstands to starting grid, teen phenom Connor Zilisch set for 500 debut
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — NASCAR Cup Series rookie Connor Zilisch had never raced on an oval track when he first made his way to Daytona International Speedway in 2022.
A go-karts specialist already at 15, Zilisch was coaching a kid in Orlando when his parents offered a deal.
“ ‘Hey, you want to go to the Daytona 500?’ I thought, ‘Man, ...Read more
NASCAR's Ryan Preece rises from Connecticut short tracks to enjoy Cup Series success
ORLANDO, Fla. — NASCAR driver Ryan Preece plans to one day settle down in his native Connecticut, where he fell in love with working on cars, racing, and chasing speed and championships.
As the 2024 Cup Series season wound down, Preece faced an early retirement — a driver without a ride.
Now at home with Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing, ...Read more
As 'wacky' Clash ends and Daytona prep begins, NASCAR can start anew. It needs to.
WINSON-SALEM, N.C. — Ryan Blaney called it “wacky.”
William Byron considered it “a marathon.”
And Ryan Preece — the winner of the Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem that saw drivers, pit crews and fans endure sleet delays and slick asphalt and a Clash-record 17 cautions — struggled to find the right words.
“It’s ...Read more
At home at Daytona, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. eyes another 500 win
ORLANDO, Fla. — Ricky Stenhouse Jr. will emerge from the infield tunnel this week at Daytona International Speedway at home, confident and one of the drivers to beat.
These emotions can be fleeting during a 36-race season behind the wheel for a one-car team with little margin for error and everything riding on Stenhouse’s No. 47 Chevrolet. ...Read more
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