3.) Because you know what happens? @DaleJr retweets it and the next thing you know your esophagus has a gaping hole in it and you make faces like that kid in the viral video from years back who was still hallucinating after a visit to the dentist because his father thought it would be fun to share his innocent child’s anguish with the world (NOTE: It was.)
5.) Know how if you’re driving down the highway and you see another car with a dog in it, you won’t pass the car but rather spend hours just riding alongside the car and look at the dog? THAT is how Dale Jr. will win this race. Dale will take the white flag in the lead and no one will pass him because they’ll be behind him, making funny faces and saying “AWWWW WHO’S A GOOD BOY?”
6.) It’s nice of a future NASCAR Hall-of-Famer to call a current Hall-of-Famer. And kudos to Jimmie for actually calling him, because no one calls each other anymore. We figure a younger driver would get Cale’s number, and then just text him. Poor Cale would be trying to figure out what a Bitmoji with the text “WE GUCCI” means.
I tracked down Cale’s number and just got of the phone with him. Now that was awesome.
7.) Gotta give it up to the Penske Games — a recurring series of wacky contests that pit them against each other. Here, Joey Logano hula-hoops much longer than any of his teammates. And interestingly, he hula-hoops counterclockwise. It’s like a Polish hula-hoop victory lap. Regardless, fine work by Joey. His hips don’t lie.
LONG POND, Pa. – Ty Dillon was still smiling as he walked into the Pocono Raceway media center early Friday morning.
The good vibes come after a near-miss winning in the Dover, Delaware, race last Sunday. Dillon led 27 laps – his previous best this season was three laps out front at Talladega (Alabama). And he held the point with 40 laps remaining before pit stop strategy mixed up the lineup and a massive pileup in overtime sealed his fate – a 14th-place finish.
“We come down pit road and my pit crew brings us out first,” Dillon, 25, recalled. “That was pretty cool. That was a really big win for them to beat a team that has won seven championships with a driver [Jimmie Johnson] who is the best there is here in NASCAR. To come off pit road first for a team like ours at Germain Racing was huge. That was just big enough.
“I just watched my brother (Ausin Dillon) win one (at Charlotte) on fuel mileage. So, I was thinking, ‘Let’s back-to-back this thing, it could happen.’”
And while things are going well for the Sunoco Rookie of the Year candidate Dillon in the present, there remain questions about his Cup future – primarily, will he join his brother Austin at his grandfather, Richard Childress’ team in 2018?
“You know that is not anything I’m prepared to talk about right now,” Dillon said. “My main focus is on Germain Racing. That is where I’m at and you know they have done a lot for me. … It’s definitely not my focus right now. I feel like now, I’ve gotten to where I want to be in the Cup Series and wherever my career goes from here it will go, but right now I’m focused on racing the No. 13 car for Germain Racing.”
Dillon specifically reiterated his loyalty and gratitude to team owner Bob Germain.
“Bob took a big chance on me,” Dillon said. “So, he is somebody that means a lot to me and this opportunity means a lot to me. So, that is special to me. When somebody puts their neck out on the chopping board for you, you always respect him.”
Dillon looked confident and sounded optimistic on stage discussing his recent good fortune. He remains hopeful to be a part of the Sunoco Rookie of the Year championship mix and is ranked third among the five rookie candidates.
Joe Gibbs Racing driver Daniel Suarez leads Furniture Row Racing’s Erik Jones, 147-130 in the rookie standings. Dillon is on Jones’ heels with 126 points. Corey LaJoie (98) and Gray Gaulding (94) round out the class.
“I think we just had to prove it to ourselves and prove it to other people that we were a strong team,” Dillon said. “We did that for sure. We got out front, led quite a few laps, probably more than anybody imagined we would.”
Kyle Larson soared atop the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series leaderboard in Friday’s opening practice at Pocono Raceway.
Larson, the hard-luck runner-up last weekend at Dover, clocked a lap of 177.312 mph in the Chip Ganassi Racing No. 42 Chevrolet around the 2.5-mile track. The 85-minute session was the opening tune-up for Sunday’s Axalta presents the Pocono 400 (3 p.m. ET, FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
Kyle Busch was second-fastest at 177.235 mph in the Joe Gibbs Racing No. 18 Toyota. Sunday’s 400 will mark the first race of the season for interim crew chief Ben Beshore, who will stand in for Adam Stevens, serving a four-race suspension for a violation last weekend at Dover.
Matt Kenseth, Kevin Harvick and Joey Logano completed the top five on the speed chart.
Darrell Wallace Jr., scheduled to make his premier-series debut in the Richard Petty Motorsports No. 43 Ford, was 19th-fastest. Wallace was named earlier in the week as the interim replacement for Aric Almirola, who is recovering from a broken back suffered in a May 13 crash at Kansas Speedway.
“I’m trying to figure these cars out. It’s a lot of fun and a very cool opportunity,” said Wallace, who will pull double-duty at Pocono with participation in Saturday’s XFINITY Series race. “At the same time, we’re hoping Aric gets back very quick and heals up 100 percent, but in the meantime, I’m going to try to do the best I can for you, bud. This is a lot of fun, a very cool experience. I’m driving a Cup car — it’s awesome.”
Dale Earnhardt Jr. ran into early trouble in opening practice, over-revving his engine after just eight laps. His Hendrick Motorsports No. 88 Chevrolet — 29th-fastest in the opening session — will start at the rear of the 39-car field in Sunday’s 400-miler after his team made an engine change.
Series points leader Martin Truex Jr. was 12th-fastest, making only limited participation in opening practice. His Furniture Row Racing No. 78 Toyota spent extra time in the garage as the team dealt with a steering issue.
Jimmie Johnson, last week’s victor at Dover and a three-time winner this season, posted the 10th-fastest lap (175.271 mph) in the Hendrick Motorsports No. 48 Chevrolet. Kurt Busch, a winner in this race last season, was 15th-fastest in the Stewart-Haas Racing No. 41 Ford.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. will start at the rear of the field in Sunday’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Pocono Raceway due to an engine change in opening practice.
Earnhardt’s Hendrick Motorsports No. 88 Chevrolet lost power and coasted to pit road after eight practice laps in the early stages of the 85-minute session. TV replays from his on-board camera showed his car over-revving when shifting, shortly after exiting the 2.5-mile track’s third turn.
Update on practice: I blew the motor up. Went into 2nd gear (was aiming for 4th) and grenaded it. Will have to start last Sunday.
Earnhardt’s crew rushed to swap out the engine. The unapproved adjustment will relegate his No. 88 to the rear of the 39-car field for Sunday’s Axalta presents the Pocono 400 (3 p.m. ET, FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). Earnhardt has two career wins at Pocono, both coming in a 2014 sweep.
Coors Light Pole Qualifying is scheduled Friday at 4:15 p.m. ET (FS1). Earnhardt tweeted that though his starting spot is predetermined by the unapproved adjustment, competition officials prefer the team make a qualifying attempt. Earnhardt indicated he would make one lap using the race setup to gather information for Sunday’s event.
LONG POND, Pa. — Kyle Busch collected his second consecutive pole position of the season Friday at Pocono Raceway. And he said although his Joe Gibbs Racing team will miss having his full-time crew chief Adam Stevens at track for the next four weeks (Stevens is serving NASCAR suspension), he still has high expectations for his No. 18 M&Ms Toyota.
Race engineer Ben Beshore will serve as crew chief during Stevens’ absence, and he certainly delivered an encouraging start.
“Ben’s done a great job,” Busch said, noting the team has already worked without Stevens before because of a one-race suspension last year.
“We kinda rehearsed this last year at the Dover race and it’s nearly 365 days later. We’re strong and we’re a good group and we focus on what we need to.”
It’s the first time Busch has ever earned pole positions in back-to-back Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series races and he certainly seemed optimistic about also earning his first career win at the unique Pocono 2.5-miler on Sunday.
“I think it just shows the way Adam Stevens is able to prepare his team, prepare his cars and the work that goes on back at the shop with all the guys and the way this whole team is lined up,” Busch said.
So far, so good.
“It’s hard to say that our guys focus any more when our leader’s not here, but I think they already have enough attention to detail. I wouldn’t say we could miss Adam every weekend and be right where we need to be, he puts in a good game plan. We learned that from coach and how to go about a weekend without him.
Busch said if it were up to him, he would have appealed his team’s personnel suspensions — which, in addition to Stevens, also include tire changer Jacob Seminara and tire carrier Kenneth Barber, all serving a four-race suspension from NASCAR after a tire came off the No. 18 Toyota last week in the AAA 400 Drive for Autism at Dover International Speedway.
But, the 2015 Cup champion allowed, it all works out fine because none of the upcoming tracks — Pocono, Michigan, Sonoma or Daytona — appear again during NASCAR’s 10-race season-ending playoffs.
“Four weeks will be hard but the biggest thing is we looked at these four races and none of them are (playoffs) races,” Busch said. “I would have appealed it, because I think there was a reason to, but there was also a reason not to as well. We’ll live without them and do what we need to do.”
Rankings below are based on a mixture of expected output and DraftKings’ NASCAR salaries for that day. The ordering is not based on highest projected fantasy totals, but rather by value of each driver.
(fppk = average fantasy points per $1,000 of salary. The typical median fppk for a 2016 race was in the 3s. Plate tracks tend to be lower and short tracks tend to run higher due to the amount of laps.)
1. Martin Truex Jr. ($10,300) – The 78 team has unloaded some fast cars at Pocono, but they have nothing to show for it due to factors they couldn’t control. In 2015, Truex put the Furniture Row team on the map with a win at Pocono. (7.0 fppk)
2. Kyle Larson ($9,900) – Is it too early for the Dale Earnhardt Jr. fans to switch their loyalty to Larson? The young veteran has grown at each track in his first four seasons, but he’s been good at Pocono since day one. (6.4 fppk)
3. Brad Keselowski ($10,100) – Two weeks in a row, Brad Keselowski was in the wrong place at the wrong time. It can’t happen three weeks in a row, right? BK has finished third or better in each of the last three Pocono races. (4.7 fppk)
4. Kevin Harvick ($9,600) – It’s not 2015 anymore. Harvick is just a smidge slower than the elite tier, but if you give Larson and Truex a smidge, then they’re going to run away from you. Harvick has three top-fives, a ninth-place finish and a mechanical failure in the last five Pocono Races. (4.4 fppk)
5. Dale Earnhardt Jr. ($8,500) – There are several tracks throughout the circuit where Dale Earnhardt, Jr. shines. Pocono is one of those tracks. In 2014, he swept the Pocono races. He has a top-five finish in six of his last seven Pocono races. (2.4 fppk)
6. Chase Elliott ($9,300) – Just like his fellow young gun drivers, Elliott has been great at the two-mile or longer tracks. Last year, Elliott let a win slip away in the Pocono spring race. He may not finally break into the win column this weekend, but a top-10 seems likely. (3.8 fppk)
7. Joey Logano ($9,100) – The 22 car has been lacking speed ever since it was busted for cheating at Richmond. This is a legitimate concern moving forward, but not so much this weekend. At Pocono, a good enough car can get it done if it makes the right moves. (4.0 fppk)
8. Jimmie Johnson ($10,000) – If you’re waiting for the week where Johnson’s numbers at a track aren’t the best, then keep waiting. He’s led the most laps and has the most top-10s, but he’s second in wins (three). (5.2 fppk)
9. Denny Hamlin ($8,900) – At the intermediate and short tracks, there are plenty of drivers that just don’t have a shot. That’s not the case at Pocono. If you have a good enough car, then you’re in play. It’s been seven years since Hamlin won at Pocono, but he does have four wins at the Tricky Triangle. (3.4 fppk)
10. Matt Kenseth ($9,000) – It hasn’t been a bad season, but, so far, 2017 has been rather unremarkable for Kenseth. He won a fuel mileage race at Pocono in 2015. This could be a week that Kenseth goes overlooked and ends up in Victory Lane. (3.0 fppk)
11. Kyle Busch ($9,700) – There isn’t a statistical column in the box score for karma, but if there was, Busch would have the most negative points. Maybe the Dover tire incident was just bad luck. If it was karma, then he should be good to go this week. (5.1 fppk)
12. Ryan Newman ($7,600) – The RCR cars have enough speed to hang around. Pocono is not a race where one cars leads the field all day. The winner either catches a break or creates their own results with strategy. Newman could sneak away with his second win this season. (3.5 fppk)
13. Clint Bowyer ($8,600) – After two seasons of bad cars and bad luck, one unfortunate race shouldn’t faze Bowyer. The 14 car hasn’t had top-five speed in a couple years, but it has top-10 speed and that’s all that is necessary for a win at Pocono. (4.0 fppk)
14. Jamie McMurray ($8,100) – The rules are simple. If McMurray qualifies near 10th, then he’s not in play. If he qualifies around 20th, then the combination of finishing position points and place differential points make him an elite play. He was in the winning GPP lineup last week. (4.1 fppk)
15. Kasey Kahne ($7,700) – Rumors are swirling that Kahne’s days at Hendrick are over. Top-15 finishes will not land Kahne a sponsor or a premier ride. Kahne is going to have to start taking chances, and Pocono is a great race track to do so with pit strategy. (4.0 fppk)
16. Ryan Blaney ($8,400) – The sophomore driver has been noticeably better at tracks that require speed and power. Last year at Pocono, Blaney finished 11th and 10th. (3.1 fppk)
17. Kurt Busch ($8,200) – Last week was just another all-too-common Kurt Busch DNF. Based on current form, he shouldn’t be in the top-20. However, Kurt won the spring Pocono race, and nothing has changed since then except for a spell of tough breaks. (2.6 fppk)
18. Austin Dillon ($7,500) – In six Pocono races, Dillon has five top-20 finishes. If he qualifies upfront, he’s an easy fade, but if he qualifies in the teens, where he started both races last year, he can steal a few spots at the end by hanging around. (3.7 fppk)
19. AJ Allmendinger ($6,900) – Value drivers that score big at Pocono will hang around for most of the race. Either through pit strategy or a good restart, these drivers sneak away with a top-10 finish. In the last six Pocono races, Allmendinger’s average running position is 19th. (3.9 fppk)
20. David Ragan ($5,100) – The top-25 streak ended last week, but Ragan was fine until he wrecked on lap 398 of 400. Front Row Motorsports has always been competitive at Pocono – they won here last fall. In Ragan’s last two races at Pocono with Front Row, he earned two top-20s. (4.5 fppk)
It’s music festival season! That means beautiful weather, unforgettable musical performances, and light beer consumption that would make even Brad Keselowski’s 2012 championship celebration look tame. When you hit the road this summer, instead of lying about which up-and-coming bands you saw play at whichever music festival is cool these days, try dropping the name of a NASCAR-themed band. Even the most musically inclined haven’t heard of “Buescher and the Texas Boys” or “D.E.B.R.I.S”.
Finally, you can get your own totally made-up, randomly generated NASCAR band name to impress your friends.
All her life, Macy Causey has heard the old family tales, the ones that shed some light on where her love for racing might have been born. Usually, they start with stories about Diane Teel, Macy’s grandmother, who was the first woman to win a NASCAR-sanctioned event at Langley Speedway.
Macy’s father, Rette, grew up watching Teel drive at their mutual home track of Langley Speedway in Virginia before he ever knew her or married her daughter, and he remembers the reaction of the crowd every time Teel did well in a race car.
“Oh, they’d boo,” Rette Causey said. “They’d boo big-time. They’d hope for her to get taken out and when she’d get taken out, everyone — including my dad, I’m sure — they would cheer. It was just a culture. Nobody wants the woman to be out there, so when they spin her out, they cheer.”
Rette Causey was just a child then and didn’t know he was watching the woman who would pave the way for his own daughter in racing, who would absorb the worst while she waited for the world to change.
Because when 16-year-old Macy Causey became the first woman to win a NASCAR Whelen All-American Series late-model race at South Boston (Virginia) Speedway on May 17, the reaction was unlike anything Teel experienced or imagined.
“If it’s a thousand fans up there, 999 love Macy,” Teel gushed. “They go crazy over Macy. I bet you that out of everybody in the stands Saturday night, there weren’t 10 people who didn’t hoop and holler and scream.”
That was true for the crowd at Langley Speedway, too, where they announced that the homegrown Causey had won for the first time, and fans erupted in raucous applause.
“It’s just great that the sport has changed that much,” Teel said. “But as a driver, whether you’re a female or male, you have to earn the respect of the other drivers. And Macy has earned that.”
After all, Macy has been driving since she was a child, a passion fueled from being a third-generation driver. She started hanging out with her father in the garage when she was 5 while he worked on the Legend cars he raced, and she hasn’t wanted to be far from cars since.
Macy Causey poses with her family in Victory Lane at South Boston (Virginia) Speedway.
“Like the Mannings grew up around football, for us, we grew up around racing,” Rette Causey said.
Teel’s daughter, Dee, started racing go-karts when she was 19 after a lifetime spent trying to avoid the inevitable. When she was 21, she met Rette Causey at a go-kart race. They hated each other at first, clashing on the track and confronting each other off of it.
Then Rette asked Dee on a date, and they were engaged a month and a half later.
Their eldest daughter, Brooke took up cheerleading. But Macy asked for a Bandolero for her eighth birthday, and began racing competitively from the start.
“We about burned each other out,” Rette Causey said. “We scaled it way back the next year.”
Macy started racing on dirt. That was the year, Rette said, when he knew his daughter was hooked on the sport.
“You could see her really smiling about what she was doing,” he said. “She was old enough to understand what it was that she was accomplishing. From there, it’s just escalated.”
Rette Causey quit his own racing career to begin supporting his daughter’s endeavors full time. This year, Macy Causey is part of NASCAR’s Drive for Diversity program. She moved to Charlotte in February and began competing with Rev Racing. She lives with family friends, works in the shop five days a week, competes on weekends, and squeezes in homeschooling in her down time. She’s on track to graduate from high school next year, and plans to study engineering in college.
“It was tough at first, but I’ve always been independent,” Macy said. “I definitely miss them (my parents) a lot, but I also come home a lot and I see them every weekend at my races.”
Her father and grandmother have not missed a single race in Macy’s career, and both Macy’s parents and her grandparents were on hand at South Boston Speedway two weekends ago when she made history. All of them were on pins and needles in the final four laps when Macy was running third and the two drivers ahead of her wrecked and took each other out.
Restarts have been a weakness for Macy at times, and Teel said she had one thought during the red flag before the final laps of the 75-lap race.
“I was praying for rain,” she said with a laugh. “I just wanted it so bad for her. I know that she was capable of doing it, but my heart was in my throat and I was worried about her.”
Macy actually fell behind Brandon Pierce on the restart, but surged ahead on the final lap to nab the victory by 0.286 seconds.
Once in Victory Lane, the announcer asked Macy what this victory meant to her. She looked down, looked to the side, and when she looked up, she began bawling and rushed to hug her mom.
“How do you put into words everything that she’s worked for all her life to get here?” Rette Causey said. “We didn’t expect it to come this quickly and it did. We were caught off-guard, I guess, is the best way to put it.”
Added Teel: “It was the greatest feeling in the world to see my baby win.”
When asked what the win meant to her, Macy Causey shared a heartfelt, emotional response.
Two days later, Macy was back at the home of Kyle and Leah Beattie, the Charlotte family she lives with, when she said she didn’t feel well. She had a temperature of 104 degrees, and was about to go to a medical clinic when she passed out.
An ambulance ride and short stay at Carolinas HealthCare System University later, Macy Causey learned she had strep throat, a sinus infection and was dehydrated. The symptoms began to appear while she raced Saturday.
“We had no clue,” Rette Causey said. “Macy’s really good about holding in when she’s in pain or something’s wrong. She just doesn’t complain.”
That’s something else she has in common with her trailblazing grandmother, Teel, who never grumbled about the treatment she received when she did well on the track. Teel was the first woman to compete in what is now the XFINITY Series in 1982, and she’s sure Macy has the ability to compete at the highest levels, too.
“I paved the way a little bit for her but she has her own ability,” Teel said. “I know what she wants. She wants what I wanted — but I had a family and I couldn’t pursue it.
“I can see my dream come true in my grandchild. It’s a dream I always had. It was always my dream to run Daytona. If I can see Macy do that then I’ll be happy. Macy will make it, I’m sure.”
All her life, Macy Causey has heard all the tales of her racing pedigree, and now she’s adding her own chapter to the family storybook.
The significance of Darrell “Bubba” Wallace Jr.’s new job driving the iconic No. 43 Ford for Richard Petty this summer has not been lost on the young driver … or his closest friends.
After five determined years climbing NASCAR’s national series ladder, the 23-year-old makes his Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series debut this weekend at Pocono Raceway (Sunday at 3 p.m. ET on FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) – the ultimate opportunity on NASCAR’s biggest stage.
One of his best friends – 23-year-old Ryan Blaney – drives another of the sport’s most historic cars, the Wood Brothers’ No. 21 Ford. Like most other 20-somethings, that mutual, happy circumstance is something the pair plan to savor and remember by capturing and sharing the moment on social media.
This isn’t just historic. It’s really cool.
“Yeah, that’s huge,” Wallace said Tuesday. “It’s funny, Blaney texted me this morning, actually woke me up this morning, he wants a picture this weekend.
“I was like, OK. He was like, ‘We’re driving the two most iconic cars in the sport this weekend. We definitely have to capitalize on that.’ ”
And so Wallace will be steering a car number used by the sport’s “King,” the 79-year-old Petty, responsible for seven Cup championships and a historic 200-win total. He’ll line up with Blaney, whose number has been campaigned by 105-race winner David Pearson, Cale Yarborough, Dale Jarrett and Junior Johnson – like Petty, all NASCAR Hall of Famers.
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Undoubtedly the best way for the friends to capitalize on their history-rich rides would be for either Blaney’s No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford or Wallace’s No. 43 Smithfield Ford to wind up in Victory Lane after 400 tough miles at Pocono on Sunday afternoon.
But Wallace knows he doesn’t necessarily have to win this weekend to benefit both his career and the team, in the interim. In fact, he doesn’t “have to win” at all.
This is widely considered to be Wallace’s big-league audition, giving him the chance to show he also belongs with the drivers in their talented 20s crowding the Cup grid.
When he lines up to race Sunday, he will join Blaney, Kyle Larson, Chase Elliott, Daniel Suarez, Erik Jones, Ty Dillon, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Austin Dillon and Chris Buescher (the most recent Pocono winner) in that group of 20-year-olds already providing transitional optimism.
Wallace, clearly thrilled to join this young, elite group, beamed with enthusiasm in a tweet earlier this week: “Couldn’t be any more excited to jump in the iconic 43 car for @RPMotorsports while Aric recovers. Thank you all for the support since day 1! ”
Often that’s the emotional range in big-time auto racing. The happy ending – the chance to compete at the Cup level for Richard Petty Motorsports – begins now.
“That’s huge,” Wallace said. “That’s awesome for me to get my first start driving the No. 43 for Richard Petty and everybody at RPM. Then the other side of it is [being] the first African-American since 2006. That’s a lot of history behind it.
“I’ve always said dealing with that, I like to let the results speak for itself, let the results come in, let the history fall in behind that, not focus on the big spotlight, the African-American side, the iconic number.
“Let all that funnel in after we have our good runs, get out there on the racetrack and show everybody we can do it.
After spending much of Tuesday announcing the big news in media interviews – a national teleconference, satellite feeds and television sit-downs – Wallace tweeted out one final, emotional summation, “Today was a down right kick-ass day… ”
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (June 8, 2017) – Tickets for the 60th annual DAYTONA 500 will officially go on sale Monday, June 12 at 9 a.m. ET. For the past two years, the season-opening race for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season has sold out.
This milestone running of “The Great American Race” is also notable for a date shift that moves the event back to its previous longstanding (1968-2011) placement on Presidents Day weekend, on Sunday, Feb. 18. The DAYTONA 500 will be preceded by another return to tradition on Sunday, Feb. 11 – a doubleheader featuring the Advance Auto Parts Clash and DAYTONA 500 Qualifying Presented By Kroger.
Race fans will have the opportunity to experience the 2018 DAYTONA 500 in the world’s only motorsports stadium with unprecedented amenities that include 101,500 new, wider seats, thousands of premium club seats, 40 escalators and 17 elevators, 60 luxury suites, social “neighborhoods” and three concourse levels that span the nearly mile-long frontstretch.
Those wishing to attend “The Great American Race” in person should make their plans early
— Tickets can be purchased by calling 1-800-PITSHOP or visiting DAYTONA500.com.
— Hospitality and premium seat packages, including the Rolex 24 Lounge, Harley J’s, Trioval Club, DAYTONA 500 Club and President’s Row are available, as well as UNOH Fanzone/Pre-race wristbands.
— For all other Speedweeks events, children 12 and under are $10 in reserved stadium seating and free in general admission areas and in the UNOH Fanzone.
— Fans can also visit PrimeSport.com, the official ticket exchange and travel package provider of Daytona International Speedway, where they can find multiple options for tickets, lodging and hospitality.
In addition to tickets for the DAYTONA 500, fans can also purchase tickets and multi-day ticket packages for other events during Speedweeks, which kicks off on Jan. 27-28 with the 56th Rolex 24 At Daytona, the season-opener for the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.
Fans can stay connected with Daytona International Speedway on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube and Snapchat, and by downloading Daytona International Speedway’s mobile app, for the latest Speedway news throughout the season.
