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Daytona 500

Daytona International Speedway

February 18th, 2024

Race #1 of the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 200
Miles Raced : 500.0
Time of Race : 03 Hours 10 minutes 52 seconds
Average Speed: 157.178 mph
Cautions: 5
Caution Laps: 20
Lead Changes: 41

Joey Logano and Michael McDowell lead the field — Daytona Beach, Florida - February 19th, 2024: Joey Logano, driver of the #22 Shell Pennzoil Ford, and Michael McDowell, driver of the #34 Love's Travel Stops Ford, lead the field during the NASCAR Cup Series Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway. Photo by Sean Gardner | 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
William Byron	18	30	7	1	1	34	17.4	+17	388	337	+51	178	5	45.5%	4	200	86.9	51
Alex Bowman	7	32	14	2	1	32	14.4	+5	387	394	-7	265	3	66.0%	0	200	88.0	42
Christopher Bell	4	17	26	3	1	33	13.8	+1	344	372	-28	211	5	53.5%	22	200	96.8	34
Corey Lajoie	29	27	29	4	1	38	18.5	+25	322	329	-7	134	3	37.5%	1	200	73.0	33
Bubba Wallace	24	6	21	5	1	29	14.1	+19	387	389	-2	221	5	57.5%	3	200	93.9	39
AJ Allmendinger	28	33	27	6	1	39	25.1	+22	252	270	-18	100	12	24.0%	9	200	61.2	0
John Hunter Nemechek	10	22	24	7	4	34	24.6	+3	279	257	+22	26	11	12.5%	0	200	59.4	30
Erik Jones	11	23	20	8	3	31	18.1	+3	409	398	+11	139	7	36.0%	0	200	77.3	29
Noah Gragson	38	13	9	9	1	38	19.6	+29	390	382	+8	154	9	36.5%	5	200	72.8	28
Chase Briscoe	20	15	5	10	1	29	17.9	+10	410	424	-14	154	5	31.0%	0	200	70.6	27
Kyle Larson	17	19	10	11	1	29	14.4	+6	385	378	+7	210	2	48.0%	7	200	89.8	35
Kyle Busch	34	10	18	12	1	39	10.6	+22	399	363	+36	278	7	73.0%	12	200	101.5	37
Zane Smith	14	18	30	13	4	30	21.0	+1	266	285	-19	99	2	26.5%	0	200	57.4	24
Chase Elliott	5	25	12	14	1	30	12.4	-9	384	391	-7	221	6	63.0%	13	200	93.7	33
Martin Truex Jr	27	3	22	15	1	30	14.0	+12	453	438	+15	261	3	59.0%	0	200	90.5	24
Daniel Hemric	37	16	28	16	2	40	17.3	+21	341	359	-18	200	3	48.5%	0	200	81.6	21
Ty Gibbs	15	20	25	17	6	33	23.3	-2	305	323	-18	26	4	4.5%	0	200	52.1	20
Chris Buescher	19	8	15	18	1	30	15.6	+1	411	418	-7	205	0	48.5%	0	200	77.5	20
Denny Hamlin	8	28	19	19	1	34	15.1	-11	376	379	-3	217	9	56.5%	10	200	88.3	22
David Ragan	40	24	2	20	1	40	19.7	+20	316	313	+3	110	3	34.5%	2	200	53.8	17
Ross Chastain	21	26	4	21	1	33	16.3	+0	369	357	+12	168	9	49.5%	14	199	68.1	24
Austin Cindric	6	7	13	22	1	30	12.3	-16	412	422	-10	272	1	69.0%	13	199	79.2	24
Ryan Preece	25	12	31	23	1	35	24.6	+2	199	201	-2	78	5	26.0%	0	199	50.3	14
Riley Herbst	36	34	34	24	8	36	26.7	+12	178	178	+0	54	2	15.5%	0	199	41.7	0
Josh Berry	30	11	32	25	1	34	22.5	+5	239	275	-36	147	4	35.0%	1	199	60.7	12
Justin Haley	22	4	33	26	2	34	21.8	-4	202	223	-21	68	3	23.0%	0	199	70.8	11
Anthony Alfredo	39	21	16	27	3	40	23.6	+12	380	391	-11	77	10	15.0%	0	198	52.6	0
Jimmie Johnson	23	35	35	28	21	36	34.9	-5	10	20	-10	0	4	0.0%	0	196	37.2	9
Tyler Reddick	3	5	23	29	1	32	11.8	-26	406	396	+10	296	1	75.0%	0	192	94.1	14
Ryan Blaney	32	14	11	30	1	38	15.0	+2	331	330	+1	231	7	62.5%	12	192	83.4	17
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	35	29	6	31	1	39	20.8	+4	387	367	+20	134	4	30.5%	0	192	61.2	9
Joey Logano	1	2	1	32	1	29	9.7	-31	309	318	-9	240	5	73.5%	45	191	98.0	5
Brad Keselowski	16	9	3	33	1	34	16.2	-17	348	315	+33	218	5	59.0%	3	191	71.5	4
Daniel Suarez	13	31	8	34	1	32	18.6	-21	381	360	+21	144	5	33.0%	2	191	67.4	12
Todd Gilliland	31	1	17	35	1	34	17.0	-4	441	450	-9	220	3	46.0%	16	191	76.2	2
Michael McDowell	2	36	36	36	1	36	28.8	-34	77	106	-29	72	0	21.5%	6	176	76.9	1
Austin Dillon	33	37	37	37	31	38	36.9	-4	15	16	-1	0	3	0.0%	0	146	29.9	1
Kaz Grala	26	38	38	38	26	37	37.9	-12	12	12	+0	0	0	0.0%	0	5	26.3	1
Harrison Burton	12	39	39	39	10	33	38.4	-27	11	11	+0	11	0	2.0%	0	5	26.7	1
Carson Hocevar	9	40	40	40	9	35	39.4	-31	11	13	-2	11	0	2.0%	0	5	23.8	1

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Race Fast Facts

Daytona International Speedway
DAYTONA 500
Race Winner: William Byron
Age: 26
Team : No. 24 - Axalta Chevrolet
Owner: Hendrick Motorsports
Crew Chief: Rudy Fugle
William Byron won the DAYTONA 500, his 11th victory in 217 NASCAR Cup Series races.
This is his first victory and first top-10 finish in 2024.
This is his second victory and fourth top-10 finish in 13 races at Daytona International Speedway.
Alex Bowman (second) posted his sixth top-10 finish in 16 races at Daytona International Speedway. It is his first top-10 finish in 2024.
Christopher Bell (third) posted his second top-10 finish in nine races at Daytona International Speedway.
Zane Smith (13th) was the highest finishing rookie.
William Byron is the 43rd different driver to win the DAYTONA 500 in the NASCAR Cup Series, and the eighth active driver to win the DAYTONA 500.
Hendrick Motorsports (2024, '14, '13, '06, '05, '99, '97, '89, '86) has tied Petty Enterprises (1981, '79, '74, '73, '71, '70, '66, '64, '59) for the most DAYTONA 500 wins by an organization in the NASCAR Cup Series with nine each.
William Byron is the sixth Hendrick Motorsports driver to win the Great American Race ? Geoff Bodine (1986), Darrell Waltrip (1989), Jeff Gordon (1997, ?99, ?05), Jimmie Johnson (2006, ?13), Dale Earnhardt Jr. (2014) and William Byron (2024).
This is the fourth time the No. 24 car has won the DAYTONA 500 - three with NASCAR Hall of Famer Jeff Gordon (2005, '99, '97) and one with William Byron (2024).
This is the second straight season the DAYTONA 500 has produced 40 or more lead changes (2023 - 52 lead changes, 2024 - 41 lead changes) and 20 or more leaders (2023 - 21 different leaders, 2024 - 20 different leaders).

Race Recap

William Byron wins DAYTONA 500 under caution after frenetic next-to-last lap

February 19th, 2024

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

William Byron gave team owner Rick Hendrick something extra to celebrate in the 40th anniversary year of Hendrick Motorsports.

In a frantic scramble after a restart on Lap 197 of 200 in the DAYTONA 500, Byron reached the finish line and took the white flag moments before NASCAR called the fifth caution of the evening as Ross Chastain slid wildly through the infield grass off the bumper of Austin Cindric’s Ford.

Alex Bowman was a close second to his teammate at the moment of caution, giving Hendrick a 1-2 finish and the organization’s first victory in the Great American Race since Jimmie Johnson beat teammate Dale Earnhardt Jr. to the stripe in 2014.

The victory was Hendrick’s ninth in the DAYTONA 500, tying the company with Petty Enterprises for most in the history of the NASCAR Cup Series most prestigious event. The race was postponed from Sunday to Monday because of heavy rains during the weekend.

“I’m just a kid from racing on computers and winning the Daytona 500,” said the 26-year-old Byron, who picked up the 11th victory of his career and his second at Daytona, the first coming in the 2020 summer race at the 2.5-mile superspeedway.

“I can’t believe it. I wish my dad was here. He’s sick, but this is for him, man. We’ve been through so much, and we sat up in the grandstands together and watched the race (when Byron was younger). This is so freaking cool.”

Hendrick could barely contain his elation in Victory Lane.

“I’m telling you, you couldn’t write the script any better,” he said. “When we thought about coming down here the first time, we didn’t think we should be here, felt so out of place.

“We win this on our 40th to the day, it’s just… and tied a record now, so that’s awesome.”

Before the final restart, Chastain was racing at the front of the field on Lap 192 when a bump from Alex Bowman got Hendrick Motorsports teammate William Byron out of shape and knocked Byron into the right rear of Brad Keselowski’s Ford.

Keselowski turned up the track into the Ford of Joey Logano, who had led a race-high 45 laps to that point. Reigning series champion Ryan Blaney’s Ford was among the 23 cars involved in the accident that left string of mangled vehicles strewn along the backstretch.

The wreck knocked Blaney, Keselowski and Logano out of the race, along with Tyler Reddick, defending race winner Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Daniel Suarez and Todd Gilliland. NASCAR red-flagged the race for 15 minutes 27 seconds for track clean-up.

“Speedway racing again,” Logano said ruefully. “It’s a lot of fun until this happens. It was pretty interesting with a lot of pushing and shoving there at the end. Our car was able to take it. Our Mustang was so fast. It could lead a line really well. I kind of thought I had the cars I wanted around me. I had at least one I wanted around me, but just couldn’t make it work.”

“Obviously, hate what happened on that backstretch,” Byron said of the accident. “I just got pushed and got sideways. But so proud of this team, whole AXALTA team, 40th anniversary to the day, on Monday.

“Just extremely blessed and thankful for all the opportunities, and we just want to keep it going. We have a lot to prove this year, and this is a good start, obviously.”

How much Byron has yet to prove is debatable. He won a series-best six races last year, qualified for the Championship 4 and finished third in the final standings.

The race was not quite five laps old when an eight-car accident off Turn 4 started the inevitable attrition. Contact from Keselowski’s Ford in a tightly bunched line of the outside knocked the Toyota of John Hunter Nemechek into the center lane and into the side of Harrison Burton’s Ford.

Burton slid toward the infield, collecting the Chevrolet of Sunoco rookie Carson Hocevar. Burton’s No. 21 Mustang shot up the track and slammed into the Ford of Kaz Grala and the Chevrolet of Austin Dillon. Behind Dillon, Hocevar careened into the path of seven-time series champion Jimmie Johnson, who couldn’t avoid the collision.

The wreck eliminated the cars of Burton, Hocevar and Grala. Dillon took his No. 3 Chevy to the garage for extensive repairs, and Johnson lost two laps on pit road as his Legacy Motor Club crew worked frantically to repair his Camry.

“I don’t remember exactly who it was on my outside,” Burton said after a trip to the infield care center. “It just looked like they either got a bad push or got loose and just hit me in the right side and sent me across.

“The grass was so wet that once I got in the grass, I thought I’d be OK, but the car just kept going and going… so really sad that our day is over as quick as it was. We had a really fast Ford. It’s just a bummer. There’s nothing we can do but just move on and try to win next week.”

It took 187 more laps of racing before the colossal wreck that dwarfed the earlier incident thinned the field and set up the fight to the finish among the cars that survived.

In a race that featured 41 lead changes among 20 drivers, Christopher Bell ran third, followed by Corey LaJoie, Bubba Wallace and AJ Allmendinger. Chastain, who didn’t have quite enough room when he dived to the inside of Cindric on the penultimate lap, finished 21st, one spot ahead of Cindric.