After rain postponed the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway until Sunday, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. had worked his way into the top-five before a multi-car accident on lap 19 which sent the Cargill/Winn-Dixie Ford to the garage. After the crew worked feverishly to get the machine back on track, rain soaked the superspeedway ending the 160-lap race early forcing Stenhouse to settle for a 41st-place finish.
Team Chevy’s Kurt Busch was looking for his second win of the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and first restrictor plate win at the rain delayed Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway on Sunday when the skies opened up again and dashed his hopes.
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.
