Though Martin Truex Jr. escaped two major wrecks, he had to contend with a vibration in his car plus a battery change in Sunday’s rain-delayed and rain-shortened Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway.
TONY STEWART, NO. 14 BASS PRO SHOPS/DUCKS UNLIMITED CHEVROLET SS – Involved in multi-car crash on lap 20: WHAT HAPPENED FROM YOUR PERSPECTIVE? “The No. 17 car (Ricky Stenhouse Jr.) got sideways on the lap that we’re all getting a competition caution. I don’t know. I guess Ricky thought it paid something to get to lap 20. I don’t know. It didn’t make much sense to me, but I’m not that smart either; so I don’t know. I don’t know that I’m the right person to ask."
Brian Vickers (second) was the first Toyota driver to the finish line in Sunday’s rain-shortened NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race at Daytona International Speedway.
Aric Almirola’s win today was the first of his career and the first of the season for Richard Petty Motorsports
The win is Ford’s third straight. The last time Ford won three-straight Cup races was 2005 when Greg Biffle won Dover (June 5) and Michigan (June 19) bookending a Carl Edwards Pocono (June 12) victory.
JAMIE MCMURRAY, NO. 1 CESSNA CHEVROLET SS – Involved in multi-car crash on lap 98 - AT TIMES TODAY, YOU HAD THE BEST CAR. WHAT CAUSED ALL THAT? “I don’t know. I knew I was going to walk out here and you guys were going to ask me what happened, but from my seat I didn’t see anything. Kasey (Kahne) came over and said that maybe Greg (Biffle) bumped him a couple times and got him squirrelly and he said he couldn’t catch it."
Juan Pablo Montoya was a standout in the late-afternoon qualifying session as driver after driver took turns at shattering Marco Andretti's year-old Pocono Raceway speed records.
A total of 21 Team Chevy drivers will start the Coke Zero 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race at Daytona International Speedway. The 160-lap event is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m., ET and will air live on TNT, PRN Radio, Sirius/XM Radio Channel 90 and www.nascar.com.
Chris Buescher hit the track at Daytona International Speedway (DIS) for his first NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) race at the two-and-a-half mile track. The Roush Fenway Racing driver had a fast No.60 Roush Performance Parts Mustang and was able to hold his ground within the lead pack, running inside the top ten for much of the evening.
Kyle Larson and the NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) put on an exciting Fourth of July show in their return to Daytona International Speedway on Friday night during the Subway Firecracker 250, and although Larson barely missed claiming the victory in the No. 42 Target Ticket Chevrolet, he and his Turner Scott Motorsports (TSM) team scored their eighth top-five finish of the 2014 season.
Trevor Bayne, driver of the No.6 AdvoCare Ford Mustang passed 10 cars on the final lap of Friday evening’s NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) event at Daytona International Speedway to earn a ninth-place finish, his third-consecutive top-10 finish at the 2.5-mile oval.
