Ricky Stenhouse Jr. outruns Joey Logano to win the Daytona 500 under caution on the final lap

A wreck on the final lap of the Daytona 500 gave 35-year-old Ricky Stenhouse Jr. his first victory since 2017 after 199 begins. 

With one lap to go in NASCAR’s second ‘additional time’, Aric Almirola acquired rookie driver Travis Pastrana free, inflicting him to hit Kyle Larson and trigger a wreck.

Stenhouse pulled forward of Joey Logano simply earlier than the caution flags dropped – giving him the victory in Daytona.

Incidentally, Stenhouse’s final win additionally got here at the Daytona International Speedway in the 2017 operating of the observe’s July race – then often known as the Coke Zero 400.

It’s the third victory of Stenhouse’s profession – having additionally beforehand gained again in 2017 at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama. 

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. claimed his first Daytona 500 win and his first NASCAR victory since 2017

The two overtimes pushed the sixty fifth operating of the race to a report 212 laps – a dozen laps past the scheduled distance and a whopping 530 miles.

Stenhouse’s win in a Chevrolet for JTG Daugherty Racing – a single-car staff partly owned by former NBA participant Brad Daugherty – was the third of his profession. 

JTG is the first single-car staff to win the Daytona 500 since The Wood Brothers Racing did it with Trevor Bayne in 2011.

Stenhouse’s solely different victories got here in 2017 – at Talladega and the summer time race at Daytona.

Now the 35-year-old from Olive Branch, Mississippi, has a repeat win at Daytona in NASCAR’s largest race of the season. 

And it got here in his first race reunited with crew chief Mike Kelly, who guided Stenhouse to a pair of Xfinity Series championships earlier in his profession.

‘I believe this entire offseason Mike simply preached how a lot all of us believed in one another,’ Stenhouse stated. ‘They left me a observe in the automotive that stated they consider in me and to go get the job finished.

‘Man, that is unbelievable. This was the web site of my final win again in 2017. We’ve labored actually onerous. We had a pair photographs final yr to get a win and fell quick. It was a tricky season, however man, we acquired it finished, Daytona 500.’

Aric Almirola (10) loosened Travis Pastrana (67), who clipped Kyle Larson (5) inflicting the wreck

Stenhouse acquired simply forward of Logano to declare victory for the first time in 199 race begins

Reigning Cup champion Joey Logano completed second in a Ford for Team Penske, which gained the race final yr with Austin Cindric.

‘Second is the worst, man,’ Logano stated. ‘Congratulations to Ricky. There´s nothing like profitable the Daytona 500. That´s why it stings a lot ending second.’

Christopher Bell was third in a Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing and adopted by Chris Buescher in a Ford for RFK Racing and pole-sitter Alex Bowman of Hendrick Motorsports in a Chevrolet. It marked the first time the pole-sitter has completed in the prime 5 since Bill Elliott in 2001.

AJ Allmendinger was sixth for Kaulig Racing, Daniel Suarez seventh for Trackhouse Racing, and Ryan Blaney eighth for Team Penske. Ross Chastain of Trackhouse and Riley Herbst of Rick Ware Racing rounded out the prime 10.

Action sports activities star Travis Pastrana completed eleventh in his Daytona 500 debut, and Kevin Harvick was twelfth in his final Daytona 500. Harvick is retiring at the finish of the yr.

Reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion Joey Logano completed the Daytona 500 in second

Kyle Busch dropped to 0 for 18 in the Daytona 500, however contended for his new Richard Childress Racing staff. 

He was the chief forward of teammate Austin Dillon with three laps remaining in regulation when a spin by Daniel Suarez introduced out the caution and despatched the race to additional time.

‘Back in 1998, that will be the win, boys,’ Busch radioed his staff in deliberate reference to how the late Dale Earnhardt gained his solely Daytona 500. There was no additional time then and Earnhardt gained under caution.

Busch wound up nineteenth after the race-ending crash in second additional time.

‘I believe that is the first time I led lap 200, so I want it was 1998 guidelines. But, no, it is simply par for the course, simply used to it and are available down right here yearly to simply discover out when and the place I’m going to crash and what lap I come out of the care middle,’ Busch stated. ‘Who gained? I do not even know who lucked into it.’

Kyle Busch (8) led on lap 200, however wrecked with two laps to go in the first additional time session

Busch was informed Stenhouse was the victor. ‘There you might have it,’ he replied.

Seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson made his return to the sequence and ran inside the prime 15 for many of the race. He was collected in certainly one of the crashes in additional time and completed thirty first. 

Johnson has returned from two years racing in the IndyCar Series as half proprietor of Legacy Motor Club and he plans to enter a handful of races.

Brad Keselowski led a race-high 42 laps, however completed twenty second to drop to 0 for 14 in the race he desperately needs to win. He declined to converse to reporters after the race.