In lower than 24 hours, the 2024 NASCAR season will lastly be in full swing.
After a Friday night time unaffected by climate, almost all on-track exercise was washed out on Saturday and Sunday, with the exception being qualifying for the NASCAR Xfinity Collection race, which noticed rookie Jesse Love take the pole on Saturday morning.
After NASCAR ran two races Friday night time – operating each the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Collection and ARCA Menards Collection again to again – they are going to double up once more on Monday. NASCAR introduced the postponement of the Xfinity Collection race on Saturday night and made an early name on the Daytona 500 Sunday morning, saying round 9 AM ET that the 66th Nice American Race can be postponed to Monday, solely the third time – together with 2012 and 2020 – that the race received’t be run on a Sunday.
The 2012 version of the race was some of the chaotic in its historical past, with Matt Kenseth taking residence his second Daytona 500 in an occasion extra notorious for Juan Pablo Montoya obliterating a jet dryer in flip three. The race confronted quite a few delays earlier than lastly concluding early on Tuesday morning. The 2020 version additionally featured an notorious wreck, with Ryan Newman flipping violently via the air as the sector flew underneath the checkered flag. Newman, identified for dangerous luck and quite a few flips at superspeedways, finally walked away largely unhurt whereas bringing collectively a NASCAR group nonetheless reeling in shock from the scary crash that had dominated the information cycle a couple of days prior. Denny Hamlin received the 2020 Daytona 500, beating Newman and holding off Ryan Blaney by inches to take his third Nice American Race and second consecutive after his win in 2019.
