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Eric Estepp’s Daytona 500 Preview and Predictions In this week’s episode of Out of the Groove, host and creator Eric Estepp gives us the complete rundown on all three series racing this weekend, including of course, the Daytona 500.

Eric has analysis on the new and familiar faces, new paint schemes, new crews and more. Eric also has his takes on the drivers on the field, his predictions for who might do well, and who might be struggling this weekend.

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ratings from this past weekend’s Busch Clash.

With ratings higher than they’ve been since as far back as 2014, Eric takes a look at where this bump in attention might be coming from.

But of course the main focus of the show is on the Great American Race itself. Eric takes us from the pole position all the way through the field with his take on how this weekend will look from the stands. Who’s got what it takes to make it through this year? You’ll have to watch the episode and find out!

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things to watch at Daytona Starting with Style The Daytona 500 will kick off another intriguing NASCAR season The wait is finally over. Welcome to the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series season, which kicks off in grandiose fashion on Sunday afternoon with the 62nd annual Daytona 500 at world-famous Daytona International Speedway where 40 drivers will battle it out and lay it all on the line as they chase NASCAR’s most prestigious and coveted trophy. Who will go to Victory Lane? Who will end up disappointed? Who will surprise? Following are five things to keep a close eye on as a new season gets underway at The World Center of Racing.

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A First-Time Daytona 500 Winner

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inning the Daytona 500 isn’t easy. Just ask the drivers who’ve never done it. Among the elite names still in pursuit of their first Harley J. Earl Trophy are reigning and two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Busch, 2017 champion Martin Truex Jr., 2012 champion Brad Keselowski and NASCAR’s most popular driver, Chase Elliott. Busch, whose struggles to capture The Great American Race have been well-documented, makes no bones about just how much he covets a Daytona 500 breakthrough. “I’ve been close a couple of times and have had some solid finishes, but all the rest of the years have been mounds of frustration,” he said. “The Daytona 500 has been challenging, to say the least. Certainly would love to get the opportunity to win the Daytona 500.

It’s the last big trophy that I’m looking to put in my trophy case. To be able to have every trophy I wanted to get would mean the world to me.”

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A Wreckfest

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veryone knows that Daytona International Speedway — like sister track Talladega Superspeedway — is prone to produce big and sometimes downright frightening multi-car wrecks that are little more than a product of the close-quarters, no-holds-barred style of racing that inevitably rears its head every time NASCAR visits the fast, high-banked 2.5-mile facility.

Everyone was reminded of just how wild and crazy the racing at Daytona can be with this past weekend’s Busch Clash, an 88-lap exhibition that bore a greater resemblance to a demolition derby than a NASCAR Cup Series race featuring 18 of the world’s greatest drivers. Of those 18 drivers who started the Clash, only five finished on the lead lap, while 12 were officially eliminated in crashes — of which there were four, all involving multiple cars. Will we see another wreckfest in the Daytona 500? It’s highly likely if there’s a continuation of the blocking and overall aggression that marred the Busch Clash.

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A Cinderella Story

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peedweeks 2020 has already generated its share of surprises, the most notable being Ricky Stenhouse Jr. winning the pole for the Daytona 500 in his first ride as a driver for JTG Daugherty Racing and Erik Jones winning the Busch Clash in a badly damaged car that looked as if it had just been through a meat grinder. Will Sunday’s main event produce another Cinderella story, in the form of a winner no one is expecting? “It’s a race that 40 people have a chance to go out there and win,” Joe Gibbs Racing driver and reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Busch said. “I wouldn’t say the same for a race like Vegas the next week. You go to Vegas and obviously that’s a race where probably 10, 12 guys are going to have a chance to win, but when you show up to Daytona, all 40 people will believe they have a chance to win.”

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ith so many drivers wrecking out of last weekend’s Busch Clash, it’s not surprising that some of those drivers were less than happy with each other. Arguably the most outwardly frustrated of the bunch was Brad Keselowski, who was eliminated in a crash on lap 67. “I just got wrecked for no reason,” Keselowski said. “Dumb, dumb racing. Dumb moves being thrown out there. Guys that don’t know what they are doing so they throw crazy blocks. It is just ridiculous.”

Keselowski took particular umbrage with Team Penske teammate Joey Logano. “You would think these guys would be smarter than that,” Keselowski said. “I get in wrecks all the time and I cause them, but the same one over and over again? It is the same thing. Somebody throws a stupid block that is never going to work and wrecks half the field.” Will Keselowski and others perhaps be looking to settle a score in the Daytona 500? Stay tuned.

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Hamlin’s Pursuit of Rare Air

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o find the driver who most recently scored back-to-back Daytona 500 victories, one must go all the way back to the 1994 and 1995 seasons with Sterling Marlin. Now a quarter of a century later, Denny Hamlin will look to join Marlin and the two others — NASCAR Hall of Famers Richard Petty (1973-74) and Cale Yarborough (1983-84) — who have managed to pull off the rare Daytona 500 repeat. While such a feat won’t be easy for Hamlin to accomplish, it is within the realm of possibility. After all, Hamlin enters the 2020 season as one of the favorites to win the championship and he already owns a pair of Daytona 500 wins, the first one coming in 2016. With a little or perhaps a whole lot of luck, Hamlin will enter rarefied air on Sunday afternoon as just the fourth back-to-back winner in what will be the 62-year history of NASCAR’s Super Bowl.

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Fearless Predictions

FEARLESS predictions Our panel of content creators from around the NASCAR industry and online community give their picks for this week’s race.

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▶▶ The dearth of a Daytona 500 victory is the only blight on Kyle Busch’s otherwise stellar resume

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▶▶ After a heartbreaking finish at Talladega last fall, Newman looks poised for speedway redemption

▶▶ Larson will use the momentum from his dirt track success to capture his first Daytona 500

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■■ Jimmie Johnson collected his first career win in 2002 at Auto Club Speedway.

A Hometown Hero Jimmie Johnson’s first win came at Auto Club Speedway

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or most NASCAR drivers, there’s nothing quite like racing at their home track. Winning at their home track? Well, it simply doesn’t get any better.

Just ask seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson, who on April 28, 2002, at the young age of 26, notched the first of his now 83 career NASCAR Cup Series victories.

Fittingly, that win came at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California — the two-mile Southern California track less than two hours from Johnson’s hometown of El Cajon.

As Johnson reflects on his amazing career almost 18 years later, the Hendrick Motorsports driver views his maiden win as the one that he cherishes the most.

“For me, I go to the first,” said Johnson, whose impressive resume now includes multiple victories in the Daytona 500, the Coca-Cola 600, the Brickyard 400 and the Bojangles’ Southern 500.

“My dream was to be a Cup driver and to win a race. So that first

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win was the top for me. To be able to do that in my 13th start and at my home track, that was a very special moment.”

Johnson, who will retire from full-time competition at season’s end, has since collected five more wins at Fontana. However, no win will ever compare to the first, which came on a day when Johnson led 62 of 250 laps and took the checkered flag .620 seconds ahead of runner-up Kurt Busch.

Today, Johnson owns more top-five finishes (13) and more top-10 finishes (17) than any other driver at Fontana.

“I think it’s a bit of luck in the sense that there are some tracks that just fit drivers and teams and crew chiefs, and that racetrack has been one for me,” Johnson said. “Thankfully, it is my home track, and I have been able to enjoy the extreme highs that come with that.”

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Each week during the NASCAR season, Rob Tiongson will share an interview with a driver. This week, he interviews NASCAR XFINITY Series driver Chase Briscoe.

■■ Chase Briscoe celebrates with a burnout after winning the U.S. Cellular 250 at Iowa.

▶▶ How important is it to connect with fans on social media?

“You kind of hear those horror stories of guys getting ridiculed on social media or whatever. Truthfully, I would say 99.9 percent of mine is all good. I don’t know if I just don’t have haters, or I haven’t made anybody mad, or what, but mine’s really encouraging. I’ve never really got on there and been like, ‘Man, guys are just mean on here.”

“Reddit’s been awesome. I lurked on there for probably a year, and would always get on there and read stuff, but never post it.

And a little over a year ago, I decided to start posting on there and it’s been great.

“It’s amazing how many people, really every weekend, come up to me and talk about Reddit, it’s easily eight to 10 people a weekend I get to meet because of it. So, it’s pretty cool that because of Reddit I’ve met so many cool people. ▶▶ For your dream team, which drivers would you recruit for pranks, a solid teammate, and an outgoing racer?

“Yeah, I would say I would do Tony Stewart for the prank. Um, I’d do Kyle Larson to be my teammate. And I would say I’d have Jeff Gordon probably be my retiree.” ▶▶ What song, if you had a 10-second lead, would you play as you’re closing in on a win?

“I’d have to go with ‘I’ve Got a Feeling’ by Black Eyed Peas.

That’d probably be the one if I’m in the lead by that much.”

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ndrew Lackey, fuel man for Team Penske and driver Brad Keselowski, was introduced to NASCAR as a child. For 10 months each year, Sunday afternoons cheering on their favorites was a ritual at the Lackey home.

“My whole family watched races,” Lackey said. “I didn’t see my first actual race until October of 2000 when we came to Charlotte Motor Speedway to what was then a Busch Series race. I remember Matt Kenseth won his first of many races at Charlotte.”

Lackey was an intern at Davidson (N.C.) College when an unexpected opportunity came that proved to be a dream come true.

His athletic background and 6-foot-5 stature provided the perfect prerequisite for handling 90-pound fuel cans.

“I decided to transfer to UNC Charlotte and graduated from there in 2014,” Lackey said. “Penske was looking to bring in some former college football players, and he asked if I would like to come for a tryout. I’m now in my eighth year with Penske and haven’t worked for any other team.”

Fueling race cars and maintaining the equipment has been his calling from the day he came into NASCAR. “The first day I walked in to work for Penske they gave me a gas can, and I’ve been a gas man ever since,” Lackey said. “I love the actual pit stop. It’s a real adrenaline rush. When you see the front end of the car coming at you, you’re just focused on the job at that point. The nerves come with some of the bigger races and with stops where its fuel only at the end of races. But once the race starts, that’s all gone.”

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ost fans recognize 43 as the most iconic car number in NASCAR Cup Series racing, but No. 11 is actually the series’ most successful number.

The No. 11 has appeared in more than 2,020 races since Skimp Hersey carried the number on his 1947 Ford during the inaugural Cup Series race at the Charlotte Speedway dirt track on June 19, 1949.

Today, the No. 11 is associated with Denny Hamlin, a 37-time NASCAR Cup Series race winner who has driven the No. 11 car for Joe Gibbs Racing since making his series debut at

■■ Cale Yarborough added 55 victories to the No. 11’s record

Kansas Speedway in 2005.

Statistics show that cars carrying the No. 11 have been to Victory Lane 217 times and have logged 1,028 top-10 finishes.

Long associated with Junior Johnson’s team, Cale Yarborough won 55 races and three championships in Johnson’s No. 11 while Darrell Waltrip added 43 victories and three titles as Yarborough’s replacement. Johnson himself went to Victory Lane 11 times in a car sporting the No. 11.

Open-wheel ace Parnelli Jones was the first to win in car No. 11 when he drove Oscar Maples’ Ford to victory on Aug. 4, 1957, on a temporary road course at the Kitsap County Airport in Bremerton, Washington.

Two-time champion Ned Jarett, Mario Andretti, A.J. Foyt, Bobby Allison, Terry Labonte and Bill Elliott are also among those who won races in car No. 11.

■■ Denny Hamlin almost took No. 11 to a championship in 2019

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As Brandon Jones enters his fifth full-time season in the XFINITY Series and third with Joe Gibbs Racing, he is now the leader within the JGR camp. The Georgia native earned his first win last year, and he believes he can compete for the title in 2020.

▶▶ Is 2020 the opportunity you’ve been looking for to compete for a championship?

“I’ve already talked to multiple people at Joe Gibbs Racing, and we discussed goals for next year. That’s one of them. We have the team to do it. I’ve been in the series long enough. I know what it takes to get a win and what it takes to get to the end of the season. I look at the series and I think we’re going to be fighting for this thing. We’ve proved ourselves and taking away a few of those guys makes us a big force.” ▶▶ How does becoming the elder statesman at Joe Gibbs Racing help you on and off the track?

“It will. It’s going to be a different role for me next year. I’m going to be the senior driver of the group. I’m going to help the other two [Harrison Burton and Riley Herbst] get going. That’s going to be somewhat of a role of mine. I want to offer as much as I can to them.”

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If sports fans may find his name familiar, it’s because of his incredible success in the National Football League before coming to NASCAR. He won Super Bowl championships as head football coach with the Washington Redskins in 1982, 1987 and 1991.

Gibbs began his football career as offensive line coach at San Diego State under coach Don Coryell (1964–1966). He also coached at Florida State (1967–1968) before moving to the University of Southern California (1969–1970) and the University of Arkansas (1971–1972).

Gibbs then advanced to the National Football League after being hired as the offensive backfield coach for the St. Louis Cardinals (1973–1977)

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Gibbs became the head coach of the Washington Redskins in 1981 and remained there until 1992 and again from 2004 through 2007. It’s where his greatest NFL success came with three victories in the NFL’s premier Super Bowl events.

He was enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1996 with 198 wins and 115 losses.

Gibbs then followed a second passion that began as a child while living in California. Gibbs’ first foray with cars was a 1949 Mercury he and his Dad, Jackson Gibbs, bought out of a junkyard. Gibbs painted it blue and called it “Blue

■■ Joe Gibbs Racing has competed in NASCAR’s Cup Series since the 1992 season.

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Heaven.” Auto racing didn’t come ■■ Joe Gibbs Racing has captured 5 Cup Series championships and amassed 176 into Gibbs’ view until he started wins at NASCAR’s highest level. With 341 Joe Gibbs Racing in 1992 with total wins throughout NASCAR’s various series, JGR is the winningest team in driver Dale Jarrett behind the NASCAR history. wheel of the team’s Cup Series No. 18 Chevrolets.

“Don Meredith, a close friend of mine, started the race team with (then crew chief) Jimmy Makar,” Gibbs said. “My son, J.D. and his two friends, Todd Meredith and Dave Alpern, were the three amigos that came in there just coming out of college. “Nobody even knew what they’d do. They wound up playing huge roles for us. We didn’t win a race the first year and we questioned if we should be here at all. We were thinking maybe it was too big for us. But we did win the 1993 Daytona 500 with Dale and that got things moving.”

Gibbs has more than 160 Cup series team owner wins including three Daytona 500 and five Brickyard 400 victories. His premier series titles have come with three different drivers: Bobby Labonte (2000), Tony Stewart (2002, 2005) and Kyle Busch (2015, 2019). Terry Labonte, Matt Kenseth, Denny Hamlin, Carl Edwards, Ricky Craven and Joey Logano have also wheeled Gibbs’ cars. In addition, JGR has five NASCAR Xfinity Series championships to their credit.

“Really, when I reflect on it, it’s all the people that put you there,” Gibbs said. “It was the same thing on the football side, so many people to make it go.”(1979–1980).

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APA AUTO PARTS has extended its relationship with 12-time NASCAR Cup Series champions Hendrick Motorsports with a new agreement that will continue its 26-race majority sponsorship of Chase Elliott and the No. 9 team through 2022.

On Sunday, Elliott will drive his No. 9 NAPA AUTO PARTS Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE in the 62nd running of the DAYTONA 500 to kick off the 2020 NASCAR season.

Atlanta-based NAPA AUTO PARTS began its relationship with Elliott as primary sponsor during the driver’s historic 2014 Xfinity Series season when he became NASCAR’s youngest-ever national series champion while earning rookie of the year and most popular driver honors. The company’s support of Elliott

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continued through another full Xfinity Series schedule (2015), the driver’s five-race Cup Series debut (2015) and as majority sponsor of his first four years at the Cup level (2016-2019). NAPA expanded its number of primary races from 24 to 26 in 2018.

Elliott, 24, earned 2016 Cup Series rookie of the year honors and is coming off his fourth playoff appearance in as many full seasons at NASCAR’s top level. The Dawsonville, Georgia, native has posted six Cup-level race victories under crew chief Alan Gustafson and has been voted by fans as the series’ most popular driver for two consecutive years.

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xalta, a leading global supplier of liquid and powder coatings, and 12-time NASCAR Cup Series champions Hendrick Motorsports have agreed to a five-year contract extension that will take one of the most enduring sponsorships in auto racing through 2027.

As part of the new agreement, Axalta will be a primary sponsor of the No. 24 team with driver William Byron for 14 Cup Series races each year beginning in 2021. Byron is coming off a sophomore season that saw him produce personal bests in nearly every statistical category and earn his first Cup playoff berth.

Driving the No. 24 Axalta Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE, Byron will make his third career start in the DAYTONA 500 on Sunday (2:30 p.m. ET on FOX). His paint scheme will feature Axalta’s 2020 Global Automotive Color of the Year, Axalta Sea Glass.

The new pact extends a multi-faceted partnership – now in its 28th full season – that began in November 1992 when Axalta first sponsored the No. 24 Chevrolet of driver Jeff Gordon, who went on to win four Cup Series titles and 93 points-paying races. Axalta also operates a 36,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art Customer

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Experience Center on the Hendrick Motorsports campus outside Charlotte, North Carolina, to enable customers to train and be part of a full racing experience.

“It’s difficult to put into words what Axalta has meant to our company,” said Rick Hendrick, owner of Hendrick Motorsports. “They took a chance on us nearly three decades ago, and it’s been an incredible relationship ever since.”

■■ Byron will look to continue his growth in the Cup Series for 2020 and beyond.

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From Jordan Anderson Racing’s perspective, the team gains an invaluable partner on the biggest race weekend of the year. For K-Seal, the company gains exposure from the millions of NASCAR fans watching the broadcast at home and online from the social media reach provided by Jordan Anderson himself.

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“Our products are critical for keeping guys like Jordan out there on the road every day,” says Patrick O’Brien, CEO of K-Seal. “When investing in NASCAR, we knew we had to have the right guy helping us tell our story. It was Jordan all the way.”

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Race fans can tune in to see the No. 3 K-Seal / Bommarito. com truck in action live Feb. 14 at 7:30 p.m. EST on FS1, MRN, and SiriusXM. Find more information on K-Seal, including expert advice on everything from head gasket failure to a leaking radiator, on their website: https://www.kseal.com/

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