After thrice tallying one win in a season (2017, 2018, 2020), Ben Rhodes has come out of the chute on fire this season in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series – sweeping the opening two races of the year on the pair of Daytona International Speedway configurations.
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NASCAR Wins the Weekend in Sports Television Viewership – Road Course Racings Go Up
Over the weekend, NASCAR visited Daytona International Speedway for the second week in a row. However, this time, the triple-header weekend took place on the 3.61-mile road course. View the Daytona tv ratings below.
Read MoreJoey Logano ‘Happy’ for All the Wrong Reasons Leaving Daytona
Joey Logano of Middletown, CT is probably tired of being happy for his competitors. Through two races in the 2021 NASCAR Cup season, the Daytona 500 and Sunday’s (Feb. 21) event on the Daytona International Speedway road course, Logano has been seen leading the field with two laps to go.
Read More5 Flags Speedway Provides Another Dose Of Short Track Action
ARCA Menards Series East racing on a Floridian half-mile paved oval provided an epic finish in the 2021 season-opener at New Smyrna Speedway on Feb. 8. Your move, Pensacola’s 5 Flags Speedway. The Pensacola 200 Presented by Inspectra Thermal Solutions is here.
Read MoreSurprise Peformances Shake Up Early NASCAR Cup Standings
It’s just two races but it’s never too early to start counting championship points towards the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs. The season has opened with back-to-back first-time winners in Michael McDowell and Christopher Bell, meaning there are just 14 positions remaining in the Field of 16, with two teams that didn’t qualify last year already punching their ticket.
Read MoreWe’ve partnered with a real-life NASCAR team and it races this weekend
Oh yeh, check us out, patting ourselves on the back. But, looking past the hubris of writing an article about our own name appearing on a NASCAR, we’re supporting new talent. This weekend, we’ll be partnering with the latest team in NASCAR on only its third race. Live Fast Motorsports will be using a Traxion livery during the Dixie Vodka 400 Cup Series round at Homestead-Miami Speedway this Sunday.
Read MoreAnother Daytona Near-Miss for Joey Logano
At least Joey Logano of Middletown, CT finished this time. One week after he was wrecked out of the lead on the final lap of the Daytona 500, Logano had another win at Daytona International Speedway slip through his fingers Sunday, this time on the road course.
Read MoreNASCAR Joey Logano Is Admittedly Jealous of Kyle Larson’s Driving Skills: ‘I Don’t Know if I’ll Get There’
NASCAR star Joey Logano might look to Kyle Larson as his next tutor. Logano, the 2018 Cup Series champion, is trying to bounce back from a disappointing end to last week’s Daytona 500. If he intends to get back on the right track — pun fully intended — and win his second title in four years, applying a lesson from Larson, the controversial veteran driver, might work in his favor.
Read MoreChristopher Bell joins Michael McDowell as First Time Cup Winner at Daytona
For the second straight week we saw a first time winner at Daytona. Christopher Bell joined the ranks of being a first time Cup winner with his hard fought win at the Daytona Road Course. Bell stayed in the hunt and chased down Joey Logano to secure his first Cup win after Michael McDowell got his first Cup win last week.
Read MoreChristopher Bell gets First NASCAR Cup Triumph at the DAYTONA Road Course
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Feb. 21, 2021) – For the second consecutive week, Daytona International Speedway crowned a first time NASCAR Cup Series race winner. Joe Gibbs Racing driver, Christopher Bell, earned the honor Sunday on the track’s road course, taking the lead from Joey Logano with two laps to go and pulling away to a comfortable 2.119-second victory over the former series champion in the O’Reilly Auto Parts 253.
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