Threats of climate have been top-of-mind for NASCAR officers coming into Sunday’s Daytona 500. Sufficient that Friday, they introduced an hour earlier begin time for the race. Whereas that allowed them to see the inexperienced flag wave at Daytona Worldwide Speedway, the storms additionally did not need to miss the motion, arriving shortly after. Showers, mixed with a excessive wind warning all through the day have red-flagged the race till issues dry up.
Main the sphere to the inexperienced flag was Chase Briscoe, for Toyota’s first pole ever within the NASCAR’s season-opener. From there, the sphere rapidly unfold out three broad with the Penske drivers forming the surface line. Carson Hocevar misplaced the draft as a result of a reported gas strain challenge, however in any other case, the race was underway with out incident.
Pole sitter Chase Briscoe, Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota with the crew
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Raindrops started falling, first detected in Flip 2, as a northern band of storms dropped down in direction of Daytona Seashore, forcing NASCAR to halt the race after solely 11 of 200 laps, round 2:20 pm EST. On account of a 2023 summer time race at Daytona the place many of the area wrecked as a sudden bathe appeared, the sanctioning physique has been very cautious and reacts swiftly to any rain when competing at these quick superspeedways.
In 2024, the Daytona 500 was postponed to Monday as a result of rain showers. Fortunately, in response to the radar, Sunday’s climate might transfer via in time for the 67th working of the Daytona 500 to finish underneath the lights later tonight.
On the time of the pink flag, defending 500 winner William Byron was main the best way. The remainder of the working top-five is as follows: Austin Cindric in second, Ty Dillon third, Chase Briscoe fourth, and Joey Logano fifth.
Within the meantime, Motorsport.com has loads of rain delay studying for you:
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