See where your favorite driver will pit Sunday (1 p.m. ET, FOX)
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Jeff Gordon won the Coors Light Pole Award for Sunday’s Daytona 500 (1 p.m. ET, FOX) and as a result, he got his pick of the pit stalls for the 57th running of the Great American Race.
Gordon, a four-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion who is entering his final full-time season, chose to have the pit stall closest to the pit road exit. That stall gives Gordon a opening in front of him as he exits pit road.
Jimmie Johnson, Gordon’s Hendrick Motorsports teammate, will join him on the front row for the race. The six-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion will have the pit stall at the entrance of pit road. That spot will allow Johnson a clear entrance into his pit stall as no one will be behind him.
Gordon is not the only driver with an opening in front of him on pit road. Clint Bowyer (starting ninth) and Dale Earnhardt Jr. (starting third) will also enjoy the same advantage. Earnhardt Jr. is a two-time Daytona 500 winner as well as the defending race winner.
The Daytona 500 is the season-opening race for the Sprint Cup Series and is the first of 36 points-paying races in the circuit.