The 2024 NASCAR Cup Series season now begins in earnest Monday with its biggest race of the year, the Daytona 500.
The grandstand at Daytona International Speedway is seen after the NASCAR Daytona 500 auto race was postponed Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024, in Daytona Beach, Fla. The race is rescheduled for Monday afternoon. Xfinity Series race was pushed to MondayAfter a lackluster showing during single-car front row qualifying Wednesday night, the new-for-2024 Toyota package has recovered well over the past couple days. Tyler Reddick and Christopher Bellwith a lap of 45.
BJ McLeod — who had been running well early on — was caught up in the lap 47 incident and had briefly overtaken Kaz Grala lost his spot in the Daytona 500 when Grala pipped him on the final lap.The biggest race of the year also features a unique qualifying format not used anywhere else on the NASCAR calendar. On Wednesday night all 42 entered cars will turn one lap at top speed, the order of which is determined by a Tuesday night draw of numbers.
The 36 entries that own a NASCAR charter are guaranteed to make the race, so two of the six non-chartered entries will be left out. That group is headlined by Hall of Famer and seven-time series champion Jimmie Johnson, who is running an abbreviated nine-race schedule this season for his own Legacy Motor Club team.Wednesday night. Team Penske's Joey Logano earned his first pole position for the Daytona 500 with a second-round time of 49.465, which was just 0.
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