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Previously, the weekend before the Daytona 500 featured only minor support events, and the Winston Cup competitors ordinarily would not have taken to the track until Wednesday. The Busch Clash allowed the Winston Cup regulars to kick off the week live on CBS. The 1987 race, won by Bill Elliott, was completed at an average speed of 197.802 mph ...
The race was Bayne's second Sprint Cup Series start, and became the Wood Brothers Racing team's fifth Daytona 500 win. [44] He also became the second driver to win the race in his first attempt, with the other being Lee Petty who won the 1959 Daytona 500 , which was the inaugural race.
Contested over 200 laps on the 2-mile (3.2 km) asphalt D-shaped oval, it was the fifth race of the 2013 Sprint Cup Series championship. Kyle Busch of Joe Gibbs Racing won the race, his first of the season, and the first Sprint Cup win at Auto Club for Joe Gibbs, completing a weekend sweep, while Dale Earnhardt Jr. finished second.
The 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series was the 63rd season of professional stock car racing in the United States and the 40th modern-era Cup series season. The season included 36 races and two exhibition races, beginning with the Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway and ending with the Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway .
The 2014 AAA Texas 500 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on November 2, 2014, at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas.Contested over 341 laps (extended from the scheduled distance of 334 laps due to two green-white-checkered attempts), it was the 34th race of the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season and eighth race of the Chase for the Sprint Cup.
The 25-year-old rookie driving for Chip Ganassi Racing was 6th on the speed chart over the first hour-plus of Thursday's practice at 225.621 mph before sliding through Turn 2 and hitting the ...
1 p.m.: Indy 500 practice. ∎ Josef Newgarden takes the top lap at 226.238 as of 2:20 p.m. Pole-sitter Scott McLaughlin and NASCAR star Kyle Larson practice in close quarters.
After Kurt Busch topped the speed chart at 202.671 mph in opening Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series practice at Talladega Superspeedway on Friday, and 21 drivers exceeded the 200-mph mark, NASCAR ...