Behold the longest Daytona 500 in NASCAR history and other things you should know about a wild Sunday to start the season.
“I think this whole off-season, Mike just preached how much we all believed in each other,” Stenhouse added. “They left me a note in the car that said they believe in me and to go get the job done tonight. I made a few mistakes. We were able to battle back.”
Those three cars broke away down the backstretch as Kyle Larson, hooked by Travis Pastrana, slammed headfirst into the outside wall. The bump from Bell was just enough to get Stenhouse by and in the nick of time.Here are five takeaways from Stenhouse’s thrilling win at Daytona.For every breakthrough, there’s several heartbreaks and that was certainly the case for the reigning Cup Series champion.
“I knew if I went to the bottom my car didn't handle good enough. I already got pushed off the bottom once and I thought, if I go down there I'm probably going to get wrecked, and I don't know if I can get down there in time to throw the block and so, I didn't want to wreck my car either. Then you don't expect them to wreck either.
“We had a really fast Ally Camaro,” Bowman said. “Speedway racing ... and the race was interesting. We were kind of all locked side-by-side and nobody could really go anywhere.”
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