William Byron’s Qualifying run:
Hendrick Motorsports prides itself in incomes the entrance two spots for the Daytona 500. Since 2015, A Hendrick-powered Chevrolet has began on the entrance row, a reign of dominance, however solely as soon as received. There’s a transparent trade-off between successful the pole and successful the race. Should you win the pole, it appears you don’t have a great shot at successful the race.
Hendrick’s reign of dominance ended final week, with a Ford front-row lockout out with Joey Logano and Michael McDowell beginning first and second. Hendrick Motorsports’ highest qualifier can be Kyle Larson in third. Chase Elliott would qualify fifth, Byron in sixth, and three-time pole winner Alex Bowman beginning in seventeenth.
With Daytona’s duel races setting the lineup, Hendrick engines would rocket the 4 vehicles in direction of the entrance of the beginning grid. In Duel 1, Elliott and Bowman would end second and third, as Tyler Reddick’s last-lap cost to the lead was an excessive amount of to counter. Larson can be the bottom finisher from Hendrick, in ninth.
In Duel 2, Byron would trigger some bother, with an enormous push from Brad Keselowski would ship Ryan Blaney and several other others spinning and wrecking. Byron would keep away from a wreck and end eighth. The beginning order for Hendrick within the Daytona 500 can be Elliott in fifth, Bowman in seventh, and Larson and Byron in seventeenth and 18th.
Race Day:
After rain delayed the Daytona 500 to Monday, a weekend of rain opened up for blue skies and a phenomenal Florida day. The Fords led the sphere to the inexperienced, and calamity struck on lap six. Nemechek would make contact with the #21 Ford of Harrison Burton, and acquire 5 different vehicles. This early warning would start some gas saving amongst the drivers, attempting to pit the newest to inherit the lead of the race in a while.
Stage one would finish with Chase Elliott and the three different Hendrick vehicles solidly inside the highest ten. Stage two can be uneventful with the whole lot of it staying inexperienced.
In direction of the tip of the race can be when chaos struck. The #24 would tag the best rear of Keselowski’s Ford. The contact would create a twenty-three-car wreck with 9 to go. Byron and the Hendrick vehicles would make it by with little to no injury. Byron would take the lead from Ross Chastain with 4 laps to go. Austin Cindric would wreck with Chastain on the start-finish line on the white flag lap, ending the race.
