Kurt Busch Last Lap Daytona 500 victor

His spotter, Tony Raines did an awesome job. Nothing he could do to stop that incredible run that Busch had.

“It was an interesting race, ” Hamlin added.

During his 26-year-career as a NASCAR driver, Earnhardt won 76 Winston Cup races, the 1998 Daytona 500, and seven NASCAR Winston Cup championships, tying Richard Petty for the most all-time wins.

Chase Elliott, who led for a long time and didn’t really have a chance to save anything, ran out of fuel with three to go, and the chaos began.

The St. Thomas, Ontario native started 28 and was running on the lead lap when he was collected in a 16-car accident that also took out the defending Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson on Lap 127.

Rounding out the top five in the second Duel were Clint Bowyer, Kurt Busch, A.J. Allmendinger and Austin Dillon. He’s capable of doing some exciting things in better equipment, but patience will be key when dealing with him in the early going.

“I said, ‘Oh, perfect”. Luckily we had the 22 with us.

While Busch was never charged, NASCAR’s sanctioning body required him to complete a rehabilitation program before being reinstated. “I got some great experience being able to stay out front in those final laps”. We’ve got your way to watch all of the dramatic action via live stream! It was a solid race. “The auto is completely trashed – there’s not a straight panel on it”, Busch stated. With teams running different strategies, Jones found himself a lap down on Lap 90 but running with the leaders, including the Toyotas of Busch and Kenseth. Busch held off a hard-charging Ryan Blaney on the backstretch (video below) to win a race in which he’s finished second three times. He drove the Kroger Quick List Chevrolet. Kahne crossed the line in seventh.

Waltrip, a two-time 500 victor, drove in his 30th and final race. Elliott has been one of the fastest cars throughout the pre-500 festivities. “It’ll be a work in progress, but all in all, if you look at the number of caution laps in comparison with the other races here, were felt that was a fairly normal in terms of the number of cautions we had”. What Earnhardt needed was a caution.

While the wins are what everyone remembers, Busch’s overall record at Atlanta is certainly noteworthy, featuring six top-five finishes and 11 top-10s in 25 starts. The oft-renamed exhibition race that traditionally opens the weekend went to 2015 Daytona 500 victor Joey Logano and, though Danica Patrick and one-race fill-in Alex Bowman were surprise entries into the top five, every vehicle in the top eight was a direct entrant of one of the four teams that, along with their satellite entries, won 34 combined races last season.

Regardless of the reason, when Kyle Busch blew his right rear tire going into Turn 3 with 97 laps to go, it marked the beginning of what was to come.

Fellow driver Martin Truex Jr. has a close relationship with Earnhardt – the two were teammates from 2004-07 at Dale Earnhardt Inc. and spend time away from the track each fall on hunting trips. But the new rule regarding damaged race cars only gave his crew five minutes to fix damage, and that wasn’t almost enough time to get the wheels straight and pull out a radiator that was pushed into his oil pump.