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Race Results

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
Cars in Race : 40
Finished On Lead Lap: 17 (43%)

Ricky Stenhouse Jr celebrates with his crew — Daytona Beach, Florida - February 19th, 2023: Ricky Stenhouse Jr., driver of the #47 Kroger/Cottonelle Chevrolet, celebrates with his crew after winning the NASCAR Cup Series 65th Annual Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway. Photo by Mike Ehrmann | Getty Images

FIN	ST	Car #	Driver	Make	TOT PTS	F PTS	B PTS	PO PTS	Laps	Led	x Led	S1	S2	STUS
1	31	47	Ricky Stenhouse Jr	Chevrolet	48	40	8	5	212	10	1	0	3	Running
2	3	22	Joey Logano	Ford	42	35	7	0	212	12	6	0	4	Running
3	5	20	Christopher Bell	Toyota	35	34	1	0	212	20	3	0	10	Running
4	9	17	Chris Buescher	Ford	43	33	10	0	212	32	5	3	9	Running
5	1	48	Alex Bowman	Chevrolet	41	32	9	0	212	12	3	0	2	Running
6	29	16	AJ Allmendinger	Chevrolet	34	31	3	0	212	1	1	0	8	Running
7	24	99	Daniel Suarez	Chevrolet	30	30	0	0	212	3	1	0	0	Running
8	7	12	Ryan Blaney	Ford	29	29	0	0	212	1	1	0	0	Running
9	23	1	Ross Chastain	Chevrolet	38	28	10	1	212	6	2	0	1	Running
10	38	15	Riley Herbst	Ford	0	0	0	0	212	0	0	0	0	Running
11	40	67	Travis Pastrana	Toyota	26	26	0	0	212	2	1	0	0	Running
12	13	4	Kevin Harvick	Ford	32	25	7	0	212	1	1	4	0	Running
13	17	36	Zane Smith	Ford	0	0	0	0	212	0	0	0	0	Running
14	35	51	Cody Ware	Ford	23	23	0	0	212	0	0	0	0	Running
15	16	19	Martin Truex Jr	Toyota	29	22	7	0	212	13	1	9	6	Running
16	12	7	Corey Lajoie	Chevrolet	21	21	0	0	212	0	0	0	0	Running
17	18	11	Denny Hamlin	Toyota	20	20	0	0	212	6	2	0	0	Running
18	2	5	Kyle Larson	Chevrolet	19	19	0	0	211	6	3	0	0	Accident
19	36	8	Kyle Busch	Chevrolet	18	18	0	0	211	6	1	0	0	Accident
20	15	23	Bubba Wallace	Toyota	17	17	0	0	211	5	2	0	0	Accident
21	4	10	Aric Almirola	Ford	19	16	3	0	211	16	8	8	0	Accident
22	10	6	Brad Keselowski	Ford	25	15	10	1	211	42	6	1	0	Accident
23	6	2	Austin Cindric	Ford	20	14	6	0	210	0	0	0	5	Accident
24	22	42	Noah Gragson	Chevrolet	13	13	0	0	210	0	0	0	0	Running
25	33	54	Ty Gibbs	Toyota	17	12	5	0	210	0	0	6	0	Running
26	19	21	Harrison Burton	Ford	11	11	0	0	210	9	1	0	0	Running
27	14	38	Todd Gilliland	Ford	11	10	1	0	208	0	0	10	0	Accident
28	11	34	Michael McDowell	Ford	15	9	6	0	208	0	0	5	0	Running
29	34	50	Conor Daly	Chevrolet	0	0	0	0	206	0	0	0	0	Running
30	32	78	BJ McLeod	Chevrolet	7	7	0	0	204	0	0	0	0	Running
31	39	84	Jimmie Johnson	Chevrolet	10	6	4	0	203	0	0	7	0	Accident
32	28	31	Justin Haley	Chevrolet	5	5	0	0	203	0	0	0	0	Accident
33	27	3	Austin Dillon	Chevrolet	4	4	0	0	202	0	0	0	0	Accident
34	21	24	William Byron	Chevrolet	7	3	4	0	202	0	0	0	7	Accident
35	30	14	Chase Briscoe	Ford	2	2	0	0	182	5	2	0	0	Accident
36	20	41	Ryan Preece	Ford	10	1	9	0	181	4	1	2	0	Accident
37	25	43	Erik Jones	Chevrolet	1	1	0	0	118	0	0	0	0	Accident
38	8	9	Chase Elliott	Chevrolet	1	1	0	0	118	0	0	0	0	Accident
39	26	45	Tyler Reddick	Toyota	1	1	0	0	117	0	0	0	0	Accident
40	37	77	Ty Dillon	Chevrolet	1	1	0	0	26	0	0	0	0	Engine

Race Infractions

Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway

Driver	Infraction	Penalty	Lap	Lap Assessed	Flag
Kyle Busch	Pre-Race to the Rear Backup Car	Tail End	0	0	White
Riley Herbst	Commitment Line Violation	Pass Thru	39	40	Green
Riley Herbst	Speeding on pit road	Pass Thru	39	40	Green
Travis Pastrana	Driving through more than 3 pit boxes On Exit	Pass Thru	40	42	Green
Noah Gragson	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	70	71	Yellow
Riley Herbst	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	70	71	Yellow
Riley Herbst	Removing equipment from assigned pit area	Tail End	70	71	Yellow
Conor Daly	Crewmember(s) over the wall too soon	Pass Thru	105	107	Green
Kyle Busch	Speeding on pit road	Pass Thru	107	109	Green
Ryan Blaney	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	118	124	Yellow
Chase Elliott	Pitting before pit road is open Garage	Tail End	118	0	Yellow
Erik Jones	Pitting before pit road is open Garage	Tail End	118	0	Yellow
BJ McLeod	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	118	124	Yellow
Jimmie Johnson	Speeding on pit road	Tail End	122	124	Yellow
BJ McLeod	Speeding on pit road	Tail End	122	124	Yellow
Travis Pastrana	Crewmember(s) over the wall too soon	Tail End	122	124	Yellow
Ryan Blaney	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	131	137	Yellow
Ross Chastain	Speeding on pit road	Tail End	133	137	Yellow
Christopher Bell	Running over/under equipment	Tail End	133	137	Yellow
Noah Gragson	Tire violation	Tail End	133	137	Yellow
Martin Truex Jr	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	136	137	Yellow
Alex Bowman	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	136	137	Yellow
Ross Chastain	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	136	137	Yellow
Christopher Bell	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	136	137	Yellow
Noah Gragson	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	136	137	Yellow
Todd Gilliland	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	136	137	Yellow
Ryan Blaney	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	139	143	Yellow
Alex Bowman	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	142	143	Yellow
BJ McLeod	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	142	143	Yellow
Travis Pastrana	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	142	143	Yellow
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	Speeding on pit road	Pass Thru	179	181	Green
Kevin Harvick	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	182	187	Yellow
Michael McDowell	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	182	187	Yellow
Kevin Harvick	Tire violation	Tail End	183	187	Yellow
Martin Truex Jr	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	183	187	Yellow
Ryan Preece	Pitting before pit road is open Garage	Tail End	183	0	Yellow
Chase Briscoe	Pitting before pit road is open Garage	Tail End	183	0	Yellow
Daniel Suarez	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	198	202	Yellow
Daniel Suarez	Commitment Line Violation	Tail End	198	202	Yellow
Ross Chastain	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	203	210	Yellow
Justin Haley	Pitting before pit road is open Garage	Tail End	203	0	Yellow
Austin Cindric	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	203	210	Yellow
Harrison Burton	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	203	210	Yellow
Noah Gragson	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	203	210	Yellow
Todd Gilliland	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	203	210	Yellow
Zane Smith	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	204	210	Yellow
Riley Herbst	Crewmember(s) over the wall too soon	Tail End	207	210	Yellow

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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."