Kyle Larson riding high on MIS win heading into 2017 NASCAR season
There were 36 drivers guaranteed a spot because of the charter system.
Elliott also made it three straight years for the No. 24 on the pole.
Of course, two drivers, Chase Elliott and Dale Earnhardt Jr already know their positions will – Pole and outside front row – thanks to finishing first and second respectively in Sunday’s initial qualifying event. The top Open finisher in each of Thursday’s Duels will advance to Sunday’s race. But it certainly is the biggest single race win missing. It’s the third straight year that the No. 24 vehicle starts on the pole: the now-retired Jeff Gordon also won it in 2015. Earnhardt crashed into the same wall as Johnson did on Sunday, while Elliott’s auto went through the frontstretch infield where the front end dug into the grass ripping the nose off. His father did it four times. Johnson’s other title-winning years were a record five consecutive crowns from 2006-10 and another in ’13. Edwards retired at the end of past year without ever winning it. He is +1400 to win. You can’t take your eye off the big picture and that is the Daytona 500.
“We have skin in the game with kids and grandkids”, he said referring to his son, Michael, a highly successful Indy-car owner, and grandson Marco, Michael’s oldest child, as well as John and Adam, sons of Mario’s twin brother Aldo, and John’s son Jarett. But Michael is a two-time victor of the 500 – in 2001 and 2003 – and has two Duel victories to his name in 2002 and 2005.
Logano is a 17-time victor in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series and has 14 wins in the last three years, which is tied with Jimmy Johnson among active drivers in that span. Do they kind of die off or not come to the races as much once they get past 16, 17 because it’s not cool? But I look forward to the challenge every year and I feel like we’ve got a great shot, as good as ever to make it happen again this year. Hamlin crossed the finish line ahead of Martin Truex Jr.by one-hundredth of a second (0.010) in the closest finish in the race’s history. Last month, Edwards shockingly retired. Under the new format, races will consist of three stages. Brad Keselowski. 2. Joey Logano. 3.
Jimmie Johnson, who won his seventh NASCAR points title a year ago, is at +1200. “The Daytona 500, the Coke 600 and the All-Star Race and also being able to check off all the race tracks on my list, so Pocono would be added to that”. Jones (Trucks, 2015) and Suarez (Xfinity, 2016) have won NASCAR championships before and will be in top-notch equipment. At that time, the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company’s Winston brand sponsored the series from 1971-2003 and it was renamed from the NASCAR Grand National Series (which it had been since NASCAR’s inception in 1948) to the NASCAR Winston Cup Series. Points will also be awarded for each of the first two segments in the same manner as that for the Duels. Yet when it came time to drop the green flag, handling issues plagued the team. The Final Stage will determine the race victor. Despite having won a pair of Indy-car national championships in 1965 and 1966, he was not considered a major threat at Daytona, where Fred Lorenzen was the star of the Ford stable at the time.
“My boss man is happy”, Earnhardt said.
See the Daytona 500 live! He has a series-leading three wins in the last ten plate races, and that doesn’t include his win in the Clash last weekend.