1:16 PM ET Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Dale Earnhardt Jr. spent decades taking risks on the track and in the air. He’s trying to minimize both these days. Earnhardt said Sunday before the Daytona 500 that he has changed his approach to flying after a harrowing crash landing near Bristol Motor Speedway this
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8:32 AM ET DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — It is race day at Daytona! Perhaps you are a hard-core NASCAR fan who watches every race from Valentine’s Day to Thanksgiving. But chances are higher that your Daytona 500 viewing habits are much more of a Kentucky Derby/Olympics figure skating kind of approach. You watch because it’s
10:51 PM ET Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — After Joe Gibbs Racing swept last year’s Daytona 500 with a trio of Toyota drivers, Joey Logano angrily marched to the car of fellow Ford driver Michael McDowell and pointed at the blue oval. Logano’s message was clear to McDowell: If he couldn’t win the race,
Feb 15, 2020 ESPN News Services DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Noah Gragson won his first career Xfinity Series race when Saturday’s opener was stopped on the final lap by a crash well behind the winning JR Motorsports Chevrolet. It was the third consecutive victory at Daytona for a car fielded by Dale Earnhardt Jr., his
Feb 15, 2020 Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The last chance to appreciate Jimmie Johnson leading the field at the Daytona 500 may come during the pace laps. Shortly after President Donald Trump gives drivers the command to start their engines, Johnson will zip ahead of the other 39 cars and take a ceremonial
10:05 AM ET DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — When Jimmie Johnson is asked a question that requires some deep thought, a topic that requires him to pull from a memory, he does this thing with his eyes, head and brain. He will clamp his eyelids shut, tilt his head to the side, or even tilt it
2:41 PM ET The tight quarters and big wrecks we see in racing at Daytona seem to indicate that winners are impossible to predict in the Daytona 500. But taking a look at the recent winners of the “Great American Race” shows some of the most accomplished drivers in recent memory. Since we got away
11:25 PM ET Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — NASCAR opened the Truck Series season with one fiery crash, a truck stuck on its roof and Grant Enfinger in Victory Lane following overtime and a door-to-door race to the finish line. Enfinger beat Jordan Anderson in a frantic push to the finish that drew sparks
11:58 AM ET Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — NASCAR will dole out a record $23.6 million to the 40 drivers racing in the Daytona 500. The sanctioning body released the total purse Friday, an about-face for an organization that hadn’t released payouts since the 2015 season. NASCAR’s charter system with teams had previously prohibited
9:14 AM ET DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — As the sun rises over Daytona and a new NASCAR season, there is still a hint of the golden hues from last week’s Academy Awards in the atmosphere. Perhaps that is why, as Kyle Busch blew into the World Center of Racing for Thursday night’s 150-mile Daytona 500