Dale Jr brought it with the command. Great job Jr! Everybody should do it like that.
Charlize Theron will wave the green flag.
Rascal Flatts performed a song earlier.
Peyton Manning is driving the pace car.
Alex Bowman leads the field to the green flag.
Due to wrecks during the Duels several notable drivers will be starting at the back of the field including Jimmie Johnson, Kyle Larson, Aric Almirola, William Byron and Brad Keselowski.
The wind is blowing at 13 mph on a 72 degree day.
FOX has the most gorgeous shots of the field racing around that high banked track at Daytona.
And just as I say that we’re stuck inside the car.
Luckily they didn’t stay too long, and went back out so we can actually see the racing. Booo, back in a car again. I wish they would really only use those helmet cam shots rarely or not at all. They’re rarely enlightening.
The fist stage will be sixty laps.
Caution is out on lap 8 for a smoking car. We’re unfortunately on commercial break so it’s too small for me to see. It’s Corey LeJoie’s car.
Denny Hamlin overshot his pit box, then they started fueling the car before he got completely back into his box resulting in a one lap penalty for pitting outside the box.
Restarting on lap 13 with Kurt Busch leading the field to the green flag.
Kyle Busch has a flat on lap 29, but gets it down to the pits without incident.
Caution is out with 10 to go for a spin by KyBu. Jamie McMurray also seems to have been involved and has some damage as well as the 96 of DJ Kennington who clipped KyBu as he spun. It appears to have been another flat that caused KyBu’s spin.
Restarting with 5 to go.
Logano is coming in for a pit stop with three to go.
Wreck on the final lap of the stage. Stenhouse and Blaney were battling for second. Stinkhouse got loose – sideways loose – but collected it back up. That Jones Kid spun out behind him and collected Suarez, Ty Dillon (13), Jimmie, That Jones Kid, William Byron, Trevor Bayne, Kyle Larson, Martin Truex Jr.
Kurt Busch won the stage.
The 48 is out with his third wrecked car of Speedweeks.
Restarting on lap 67 of 200.
Alex Bowman and Ryan Blaney lead the field to the green flag.
Daniel Suarez and Ty Dillon are also out of the race.
William Byron scraped the wall with 28 to go. Looks like he lost a right front tire.
Caution is out with 27 laps to go.
Restarting on lap 97 of 200 with Truex and Blaney leading them to the green.
Wreck with 19 to go collects Chase Elliott, Kevin ‘Happy’ Harvick, Danica Patrick, Brad ‘It’ Keselowski, Kasey Kahne, David ‘Thrilla’ Ragan,
Alex Bowman made it through the melee.
Chase took a few hard shots into the wall on that one, but got out of his himself.
Clint Bowyer believes his car is down a cylinder.
Danica is done for the day, as well as Chase, ‘It’, Kevin Harvick.
Restarting on lap 108 of 200 with Blaney and Truex at the front of the field.
Stenhouse is blowing water out of the 17 big time. He’s dropped out of the draft and lost the draft with 7 to go in the stage.
Stinkhouse finally came in with six (114 of 200) to go in the stage.
Single file racing underway as the stage winds down.
They did not add water to Ricky Stenhouse’s 17 car during the pit stop. He’s lost a lap so far.
On the final lap of the stage they break out of single file. Blaney wins the stage.
Restarting on lap 126 of 200 with Ryan ‘Son’ Blaney and Ryan ‘Squinty-Douchey’ Logano at the front of the field.
Going mostly single file pretty quickly in this third stage.
10 cars in the garage at this point. (Kevin ‘KHarv’ Harvick, Kasey Kahne, Jimmie Johnson, Erik Jones, David Ragan, Danica Patrick, Chase Elliott, Brad Keselowski, Corey LaJoie, Daniel Suarez)
KyBu got popped for speeding on his green flag pit stop around lap 157.
Green flag pit stops on lap 170 for the leaders.
Speeding penalty on entering pit road for Joey Logano.
Caution with 10 to go as William Byron goes for a spin in the 24 after losing the right rear.
Restarting with 7 laps to go and Blaney and Truex Jr up front.
Wreck at the front of the field as kubu spun across in front of the field Stinkhouse, Bowman, KuBu, diBenedetto, Truex, Jeffrey Earnhardt, Brendan Gaughan, Newman, Dinger, Blaney, and more involved in that one.
Denny Hamlin, Chris Buescher, Paul Menard, Darrell ‘Bubba’ Wallace, Aric ‘Afterburner’ Almirola and Austin ‘Frankenstein’ Dillon got through that unscathed.
Overtime for the restart with Denny and Afterburner at the front of the field.
David ‘Gilligan’ Gilliland says this will be his last Cup race according to MRN.
Dillon crosses the line first after turning Almirola in turn three.
Congrats to Bubba on a second place finish in his rookie season in the 43 car.
He apparently wrecked the car at the end of the race. King apparently went into the infield care center yelling at Bubba about wrecking the car which Bubba says King said was rule number one.