Daytona 500 2025: Starting grid, storylines, how to watch and more

The Nice American Race is right here.

The 67th working of the Daytona 500 is later right now, as NASCAR’s 2025 marketing campaign roars into full gear at Daytona Worldwide Speedway. The headline for right now? Climate. With rain within the forecast for later within the day the beginning time for the Daytona 500 has been pushed up one hour, to 1:30 p.m. Japanese.

Past the climate, this 12 months’s installment of the Nice American Race has no scarcity of storylines, from veteran drivers nonetheless seeing their first win within the Daytona 500 to one in all motorsport’s dwelling legends — and the only member of this 12 months’s Indianapolis Motor Speedway Corridor of Fame Class of 2025 — racing in his first Nice American Race.

Right here is all the things you’ll want to know for the 2025 Daytona 500.

How you can watch the 2025 Daytona 500

Right here is how one can watch the 2025 Daytona 500.

When: Sunday, Feb. 16, 1:30 p.m. EasternWhere: Daytona Worldwide Speedway — Daytona Seaside, FloridaTV: FOXStreaming: fubo

FOX has protection of the 2025 Daytona 500, as NASCAR enters the primary 12 months of a brand new broadcast period. As with earlier seasons, FOX and NBC share nearly all of protection, with each networks airing 14 occasions every. FOX’s share of the schedule begins the 12 months, whereas NBC airs the ultimate stretch of the season together with the NASCAR Playoffs and Championship race.

This season NASCAR welcomes two extra broadcast companions that may break up the center portion of the season schedule. Prime Video and TNT Sports activities will evenly break up ten races in the course of the season, and each have obtained rights to observe classes and qualifying classes.

In response to the announcement from NASCAR in 2023:

Each have additionally obtained unique rights to observe and qualifying classes for your entire Cup Sequence schedule by way of 2031. NASCAR’s first totally direct-to-consumer accomplice, Prime Video will stream observe and qualifying stay for the primary half of the season by way of their final race of the midseason collection with the exceptions of the Busch Gentle Conflict, DAYTONA 500 and NASCAR All-Star Race, which is able to stay with FOX Sports activities. TNT Sports activities will provoke its protection with the subsequent 5 midseason races concurrently broadcast stay on TNT and streaming on the B/R Sports activities Add-On on Max. Follow and qualifying for the rest of the season will stream on Max and air on truTV.

2025 Daytona 500 beginning grid

Right here is the beginning grid for the 2025 Daytona 500. Chase Briscoe captured pole place for the Nice American Race with an amazing run in qualifying on Wednesday, taking pole on this occasion for the primary time in his profession. It is usually the primary time within the historical past of the Daytona 500 {that a} Toyota sits in pole place.

In all three Toyotas will begin within the prime 4 of the 2025 Daytona 500.

Austin Cindric will begin alongside Briscoe after successful the second Duel at Daytona, whereas Bubba Wallace begins third after successful the primary Duel. Erik Jones rounds out the highest 4 as he’ll begin alongside Wallace on the second row.

Storylines for the 2025 Daytona 500

As with many earlier installments of the Nice American Race, the storylines start with the drivers nonetheless looking for a win within the Daytona 500. Kyle Larson, Chase Elliott, and Ryan Blaney have all received a Cup Sequence title, however have but to style victory within the Daytona 500. Kyle Busch has over 200 wins mixed from his days within the Cup Sequence, the Xfinity Sequence, and the Craftsman Truck Sequence, has a pair of Cup Sequence titles, and was even a quick WWE 24/7 Champion.

However he has by no means received the Daytona 500, and right now marks his twentieth try. Busch and Blaney are among the many favorites for this season’s installment.

Brad Keselowski and Martin Truex Jr. are additionally a pair of Cup Sequence winners — Keselowski in 2012 and Treux in 2017 — who’ve by no means received the Nice American Race. Truex got here up on the dropping finish of the closest race in Daytona historical past, as he misplaced the 2016 Daytona 500 by simply 0.010 seconds. Truex introduced his retirement from full-time racing on the finish of final season, however is again looking for his first 500 win.

He’s additionally racing with a heavy coronary heart, as his father Martin Truex Sr. handed away final month.

Truex shouldn’t be the one part-time racer within the area, as Jimmie Johnson is again for an additional Daytona 500.

Then there may be Hélio Castroneves. The four-time Indianapolis 500 winner did not qualify for the Daytona 500, however due to a brand new rule is within the area as a particular forty first entrant that permits for a “world-class driver” to obtain a provisional spot.

With Castroneves the forty first driver within the area, meaning right now’s Daytona 500 is the biggest area since 43 vehicles have been the usual in 2015. Below the provisional entrant rule Trackhouse Racing, the staff Castroneves is driving for, won’t obtain any factors or purse payout for Castroneves’ efforts Sunday, and each driver who finishes beneath him will transfer up within the order.

Nonetheless, ought to Castroneves pull off a surprising win he would grow to be simply the third driver to win each the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 500, together with A.J. Foyt and Mario Andretti. Foyt, who received in Indianapolis 4 occasions, added the Daytona 500 to his in depth resume with a win within the 1972 working of the Nice American Race.

As for Andretti the 1967 Daytona 500 was his first huge win in motorsport. He adopted that with a win in Indianapolis two years later.