The DAYTONA 500 is fast approaching, and the racing experience has taken off at Daytona Beach International Airport (DAB). Race fans and other airport visitors flying into Daytona Beach will have plenty of selfie opportunities including the No. 43 Daniel Dye race truck, a NEW Daytona International Speedway race car in baggage claim, and bright LED welcome signs.
Noah Gragson comes to Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway with a new team in Stewart-Haas Racing, but with familiar colors. His No. 10 Ford Mustang carries a similar paint scheme to the one he ran for the majority of his NASCAR Xfinity Series career where Gragson was a 13-time race winner and perennial championship contender.
Guess Who’s Back: For just the second time since 2007, Interstate Batteries will return as a primary sponsor for the Daytona 500, sharing space with DeWalt. Interstate Batteries’ primary sponsorship at the Daytona 500 started in 1992 with the inception of Joe Gibbs Racing, its first of 16 primary sponsorships at The Great American Race from 1992 through 2007 with drivers Dale Jarrett, Bobby Labonte, and J.J. Yeley. (more…)
NASCAR enthusiasts have considered the Brickyard 400 a crown jewel race since it joined the Cup Series schedule in 1994. Unfortunately, as the 2020 season wrapped up, the race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway was taken off of NASCAR’s roster. Although NASCAR has hosted races at the IMS, all of them were on its road course and not the oval. But that was the story until this year. (more…)
SECOND SEASON: Ty Gibbs is competing in his second full NASCAR Cup Series season driving the No. 54 Monster Energy Toyota Camry XSE for Joe Gibbs Racing. He finished 18th in 2023 Cup points, with four top-five and 10 top-10 finishes. He led 112 laps. (more…)
The 2024 NASCAR season officially kicks off this week at ‘The World Center of Racing’ for the 66th running of ‘The Great American Race.’
NEMECHEK AT DAYTONA: In five career NASCAR Xfinity Series starts at Daytona International Speedway, John Hunter Nemechek owns one top-five finish and two top-10s. Last February, Nemechek finished second at the 2.5-mile superspeedway after narrowly missing out on the victory when he was side-by-side with the eventual winner as a caution ended the race.
20 Years: This marks the 20th consecutive season that FedEx has been featured as the primary sponsor of Joe Gibbs Racing’s No. 11 entry for the Great American Race. After the program’s initial launch with Jason Leffler in 2005, Hamlin has driven the FedEx car ever since, including his trio of Daytona 500 victories in 2016, 2019, and 2020. (more…)
The Daytona 500 is where NASCAR careers are born and, for Josh Berry, Sunday’s 66th running of the Great American Race will mark his first official points-paying Cup Series outing at the 2.5-mile superspeedway. The 33-year-old driver will strap into the No. 4 SUNNYD Ford Mustang for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) for the first time in the Cup Series at “The World Center of Racing” Wednesday to lay down a qualifying lap in a session that will determine the pole position and outside-front-row starting for the Daytona 500.
