O’Reilly Auto Parts 253 at the Daytona Road Course

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Stage 2 top 10:
1. Denny Hamlin
2. Kurt Busch
3. Joey Logano
4. Christopher Bell
5. Martin Truex Jr.
6. Chase Elliott
7. William Byron
8. Cole Custer
9. AJ Allmendinger
10. Kyle Busch.

 

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Kurt Busch doing some lawn mowing in the kink.

 

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23 pass through for speeding on pit road

 

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Race Control is asking all the corner stations about possible moisture. Rainbow is visible on the back stretch and the trees are blowing like an impending Florida rainstorm

 

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Caution lap 55 for precipitation. This is the one chance for teams to decide to put on wets or not. Track is only wet in some corners.

 

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Caution lap 58, 8 car had an engine let go after going offroad. Probably knocked out the oil cooler.

 

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16 has a cut tire under caution.

 

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Caution lap 60, free pass to the 78

 

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14 car has the hood over the windshield.

 

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Unofficial top 10:

1. Christopher Bell
2. Joey Logano
3. Denny Hamlin
4. Kurt Busch
5. Brad Keselowski
6. Kevin Harvick
7. AJ Allmendinger
8. Michael McDowell
9. Ryan Preece
10. Alex Bowman

 

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Unofficial top 10:

1. Christopher Bell
2. Joey Logano
3. Denny Hamlin
4. Kurt Busch
5. Brad Keselowski
6. Kevin Harvick
7. AJ Allmendinger
8. Michael McDowell
9. Ryan Preece
10. Alex Bowman

Ever been first time winners back to back ?
If there has I can’t remember it

 

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Ever been first time winners back to back ?
If there has I can’t remember it

First that I can think of. Bell is also the first winner from Oklahoma.

 

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Possibly unpopular opinion: I think Daytona needs to take out all the grass and replace it with concrete or asphalt.

 

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Possibly unpopular opinion: I think Daytona needs to take out all the grass and replace it with concrete or asphalt.

Personally

I say leave the road course races to the road course tracks. I like Watkins Glen, Sonoma but Daytona Naw ! Doesn’t do much for me

 

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Personally

I say leave the road course races to the road course tracks. I like Watkins Glen, Sonoma but Daytona Naw ! Doesn’t do much for me

One nice thing about the roval type tracks is you can usually see the whole track from the grandstands.

 

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