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NASCAR Cup Series

Daytona 500

Daytona International Speedway

February 19th, 2023

Race #1 of the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 200
- Extended to 212 laps
Miles Raced : 530.0
Time of Race : 03 Hours 38 minutes 53 seconds
Average Speed: 145.283 mph
Cautions: 8
Caution Laps: 38
Lead Changes: 52

Alex Bowman and Kyle Larson lead the field — Daytona Beach, Florida - February 19th, 2023: Alex Bowman, driver of the #48 Ally Chevrolet, and Kyle Larson, driver of the #5 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet, lead the field to start the NASCAR Cup Series 65th Annual Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway. Photo by Adam Glanzman | Getty Images

Driver	ST	50%	10%	FIN	HI	LW	AVG	PC D	Pass	Passed	PS D	Q PASS	Fast	%T15	TOT Led	Laps	Rating	TOT PTS
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	31	9	11	1	1	40	20.2	+30	334	302	+32	90	8	32.1%	10	212	90.3	48
Joey Logano	3	16	14	2	1	37	11.3	+1	410	403	+7	258	3	68.9%	12	212	102.7	42
Christopher Bell	5	30	10	3	1	32	15.3	+2	340	361	-21	162	3	50.0%	20	212	86.6	35
Chris Buescher	9	14	2	4	1	33	9.2	+5	330	307	+23	232	3	84.9%	32	212	109.7	43
Alex Bowman	1	17	13	5	1	33	16.5	-4	367	373	-6	156	4	42.9%	12	212	83.7	41
AJ Allmendinger	29	22	3	6	1	35	22.5	+23	338	314	+24	61	8	26.4%	1	212	59.8	34
Daniel Suarez	24	32	7	7	1	33	21.4	+17	304	287	+17	106	4	31.1%	3	212	70.1	30
Ryan Blaney	7	18	31	8	1	34	20.9	-1	245	249	-4	143	0	37.3%	1	212	77.9	29
Ross Chastain	23	24	26	9	1	40	21.9	+14	282	271	+11	94	5	23.1%	6	212	63.7	38
Riley Herbst	38	37	20	10	10	39	32.1	+28	169	159	+10	1	6	0.9%	0	212	51.6	0
Travis Pastrana	40	35	21	11	1	40	31.1	+29	216	205	+11	10	7	5.7%	2	212	48.9	26
Kevin Harvick	13	3	27	12	1	38	13.7	+1	326	335	-9	155	0	54.3%	1	212	76.4	32
Zane Smith	17	36	25	13	12	38	30.4	+4	185	202	-17	0	6	0.5%	0	212	52.1	0
Cody Ware	35	33	24	14	4	40	27.9	+21	271	267	+4	6	9	4.7%	0	212	55.1	23
Martin Truex Jr	16	10	29	15	1	30	13.1	+1	311	300	+11	198	3	67.5%	13	212	82.0	29
Corey Lajoie	12	29	28	16	1	33	20.2	-4	275	323	-48	148	4	34.9%	0	212	61.8	21
Denny Hamlin	18	23	15	17	1	27	11.5	+1	359	364	-5	257	6	76.9%	6	212	93.8	20
Kyle Larson	2	7	4	18	1	27	11.0	-16	347	351	-4	250	4	68.9%	6	211	91.4	19
Kyle Busch	36	11	5	19	1	40	17.7	+17	337	322	+15	181	5	53.8%	6	211	63.0	18
Bubba Wallace	15	34	19	20	1	36	22.6	-5	235	266	-31	94	4	23.6%	5	211	65.1	17
Aric Almirola	4	13	22	21	1	34	8.5	-17	358	380	-22	287	0	84.4%	16	211	99.7	19
Brad Keselowski	10	1	1	22	1	35	8.6	-12	284	289	-5	203	6	81.1%	42	211	105.2	25
Austin Cindric	6	20	17	23	1	36	9.5	-17	374	410	-36	299	1	85.9%	0	210	97.4	20
Noah Gragson	22	25	18	24	2	37	23.4	-2	325	321	+4	25	5	12.7%	0	210	47.4	13
Ty Gibbs	33	28	30	25	2	38	19.7	+8	376	357	+19	133	4	34.0%	0	210	63.1	17
Harrison Burton	19	26	16	26	1	33	19.5	-7	292	313	-21	99	2	32.6%	9	210	51.6	11
Todd Gilliland	14	21	12	27	6	36	20.4	-13	361	368	-7	121	6	29.3%	0	208	60.1	11
Michael McDowell	11	4	32	28	2	35	15.0	-17	295	314	-19	203	4	63.2%	0	208	80.4	15
Conor Daly	34	39	33	29	29	40	36.5	+5	47	53	-6	0	1	0.0%	0	206	30.8	0
BJ McLeod	32	38	35	30	17	39	35.4	+2	93	91	+2	0	3	0.0%	0	204	31.8	7
Jimmie Johnson	39	6	9	31	4	40	18.8	+8	356	328	+28	163	5	45.8%	0	203	67.5	10
Justin Haley	28	12	23	32	3	33	20.4	-4	388	394	-6	102	6	23.1%	0	203	61.3	5
Austin Dillon	27	31	6	33	2	38	24.0	-6	283	275	+8	75	6	22.2%	0	202	51.6	4
William Byron	21	15	8	34	1	31	14.7	-13	380	371	+9	173	6	51.9%	0	202	74.8	7
Chase Briscoe	30	27	34	35	1	33	24.3	-5	313	309	+4	54	4	11.3%	5	182	52.8	2
Ryan Preece	20	2	36	36	1	38	15.6	-16	263	271	-8	117	7	52.8%	4	181	82.6	10
Erik Jones	25	5	37	37	5	31	25.6	-12	246	234	+12	111	3	26.9%	0	118	66.6	1
Chase Elliott	8	19	38	38	2	31	24.9	-30	250	261	-11	126	4	27.8%	0	118	64.3	1
Tyler Reddick	26	8	39	39	2	26	25.2	-13	229	212	+17	97	0	26.9%	0	117	63.0	1
Ty Dillon	37	40	40	40	31	40	39.7	-3	44	46	-2	0	2	0.0%	0	26	24.5	1

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Race Fast Facts

Daytona International Speedway
DAYTONA 500
Race Winner: Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
Age: 35
Team : No. 47 - Kroger/Cottonelle Chevrolet
Owner: JTG Daugherty Racing
Crew Chief: Mike Kelley
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. won the DAYTONA 500, his third victory in 365 NASCAR Cup Series races.
This is his first victory and first top-10 finish in 2023.
This is his second victory and fourth top-10 finish in 22 races at Daytona International Speedway.
Joey Logano (second) posted his 10th top-10 finish in 29 races at Daytona International Speedway. It is his first top-10 finish in 2023.
Christopher Bell (third) posted his first top-10 finish in seven races at Daytona International Speedway.
Noah Gragson (24th) was the highest finishing rookie.
Today's DAYTONA 500 produced 21 different leaders in the race - tied with 2010 for the second-most all-time in the DAYTONA 500; behind only the 2011 race with 22.
Today's DAYTONA 500 produced 52 lead changes, the fourth-most in the history of the Great American Race; behind 2011 (74 lead changes), 1974 (60) and 1983 (58).
Today's DAYTONA 500 produced 204 Green Flag Passes For The Lead - which is the most all-time at Daytona International Speedway surpassing the previous record of 177 GFPL set in the 2014 DAYTONA 500.

Race Recap

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. wins longest DAYTONA 500 in two overtimes

February 19th, 2023

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

In the longest DAYTONA 500 in NASCAR history, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. got help from an unexpected source and won the sport's most prestigious race when a wild wreck froze the field in the second overtime.

Stenhouse and reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion Joey Logano were battling for the lead on Lap 212 when contact from Aric Almirola's Ford started Travis Pastrana's Toyota spinning in Turn 2. Pastrana's Camry clipped the Chevrolet of Kyle Larson and set it rocketing into the outside wall.

Tires screamed, sparks flew and smoke billowed as the cars of defending race winner Austin Cindric, Brad Keselowski, Kyle Busch, AJ Allmendinger, Denny Hamlin, Bubba Wallace and Ryan Blaney all were collected in the chaotic wreck.

But when NASCAR hit the button to illuminate the caution lights, Stenhouse's No. 47 JTG-Daugherty Chevrolet had edged ahead of Logano's Ford, thanks to a timely shove from the third-place finishing Toyota of Christopher Bell, who, like Stenhouse, arrived at the pinnacle of pavement racing from a dirt-track background.

NASCAR declared Stenhouse the winner of the 65th running of the event, a perfect christening of the renewed relationship between the driver and crew chief Mike Kelley, with whom Stenhouse won his two NASCAR Xfinity Series championships more than a decade earlier.

"Yeah, I think this whole off-season Mike just preached how much we all believed in each other," Stenhouse said after climbing from his car. "They left me a note in the car that said they believe in me and to go get the job done tonight. I made a few mistakes. We were able to battle back.

"This Kroger Continental team worked really, really hard in off-season, great pit stops, Hendrick engines. Glad a Chevy won.

"Man, this is unbelievable. This was the site of my last win back in 2017. We've worked really hard. We had a couple shots last year to get a win and fell short. It was a tough season, but, man, we got it done. DAYTONA 500!"

It was a remarkable victory and a perfect highlight for the 75th anniversary of NASCAR racing. Stenhouse is the first driver from a single-car team to win the Great American Race since Trevor Bayne shocked the racing world with the Wood Brothers Racing in 2011.

The win was Stenhouse's third in the Cup Series and first since he took the checkered flag in the Daytona summer race in 2017, snapping a streak of 199 races without a victory. JTG-Daugherty hadn't found Victory Lane since Allmendinger triumphed at Watkins Glen in 2014, a drought of 266 races.

With a push from Kyle Larson after the second overtime restart, Logano held the lead with one lap left.

"Second is the worst, man," Logano lamented. "You're so close. Leading the white flag lap there, I was up front. Kyle gave me a good push and, yeah, you're watching in the mirror and you're three-wide across there. I felt like the three-wide was going a hurt a lane; looked like Kyle was getting pushed ahead, and then Ricky started getting pushed ahead.

"I knew if I went to the bottom my car didn't handle good enough. I already got pushed off the bottom once and I thought, if I go down there, I'm probably going to get wrecked, and I don't know if I can get down there in time to throw the block (on Stenhouse) and so I didn't want to wreck my car either."

At 212 laps (530 miles), this DAYTONA 500 was three laps and 7.5 miles longer than the 2020 race, which held the previous record.

Chris Buescher finished fourth after leading 32 laps, second most to Keselowski's 42. Pole winner Alex Bowman was fifth, followed by Allmendinger, Daniel Suarez, Ryan Blaney, Ross Chastain and race rookie Riley Herbst.

Blaney made a remarkable recovery after sustaining serious damage in the first wreck of the afternoon.

Until then, the calm of the first 295 miles of racing gave no indication of the chaos to come.

The race ran without incident until Lap 118, when contact from Kevin Harvick's Ford turned Tyler Reddick's Toyota sideways in Turn 4. After bouncing off the outside wall, Reddick's crippled No. 45 Camry came to rest at the entrance to pit road and was towed to the garage.

The No. 43 Chevrolet of Erik Jones and the No. 9 Camaro of 2020 series champion Chase Elliott also sustained terminal damage in what became a nine-car incident.

Blaney lost a lap on pit road under repair, while others involved—Kyle Larson, Kyle Busch, Daniel Suarez and Martin Truex Jr.—remained on the lead lap.

"It looked like some guys got tangled up, up front," Elliott said. "Those of us in the back were just scattering to kind of miss it. It looked like the No. 5 (Larson) and the No. 43 (Jones) kind of went to the apron.

"By the time we got slowed up, they were coming back across the track, and I was the lucky winner to get there first. It's a bummer—long ways to go. Hate to end the day, but it is what it is."