Joey Logano and Aric Almirola won the Daytona Duel races to start on the second row of Sunday's Daytona 500.
Logano won a tame first Duel race over Christopher Bell. That race went caution free as Zane Smith qualified his way into the Daytona 500. Smith finished ninth and was the highest-finishing non-charter car in his Duel. Smith beat out Chandler Smith for the spot in the Daytona 500 after Chandler Smith found himself a lap down thanks to a pit-road speeding penalty.
Almirola beat Austin Cindric to the line in the second race after Todd Gillliand's near-spin at the front of the field shuffled the pack on the final lap. Gilliland got loose from a Kyle Larson push in Turns 1 and 2 while he was racing side-by-side for the lead with Almirola. The second Duel had more cautions. The first came for a window that flew out of Justin Haley’s car and the second happened when race leader Kyle Busch went crashing into the backstretch wall off the bumper of Daniel Suarez. That crash collected both Austin Hill and Travis Pastrana and allowed Conor Daly to make the Daytona 500 despite being a lap down at the time of the crash.
Daly’s car had an apparent mechanical issue at the beginning of the race and was slow the entire race. But since Hill and Pastrana were unable to continue after the crash, Daly secured the final Daytona 500 starting spot. Pastrana qualified for the 500 on Wednesday night as he was the second-fastest of the six non-charter cars in front row qualifying. Jimmie Johnson was the fastest, so he and Pastrana will start 39th and 40th on Sunday.
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