#WHO WON DAYTONA 500 LAST YEAR DRIVERS#
#WHO WON DAYTONA 500 LAST YEAR SERIES#

Earl Trophy, but ended up sliding to ninth at the finish after leading a race-high 67 laps. LOSERSīrad Keselowski: The new co-owner of Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing nearly put his name on the Harley J. It’s his second top-10 finish in his last three Daytona 500s, both coming as a part-time driver. Michael McDowell: Last year’s winner finished seventh Sunday, earning his fourth top-10 result in his last five Daytona 500s.ĭavid Ragan: Finished eighth for Rick Ware Racing. When asked if teammate Cindric was right to block him coming to the checkered flag, Blaney said he didn’t know, but added “you’ve got to throw a block in that situation.” Ryan Blaney: Blaney threatened, but had to settle for fourth – fittingly, his fourth top-10 finish in his last six Daytona 500s. Still, the Stewart-Haas Racing driver’s third-place finish is his best in the Cup Series. And maybe the race just hasn’t yet extended that invitation to Brad Keselowski.Chase Briscoe: Briscoe couldn’t quite pull himself to the front (or push Brad Keselowski there) in overtime. Maybe that’s true of the Daytona 500, too. He said he once heard that a racer doesn’t just win the Indianapolis 500, rather the Indianapolis 500 chooses who gets to win the race. It’s too early for Keselowski to even entertain that notion. So will that career be incomplete without a Daytona 500 victory?

#WHO WON DAYTONA 500 LAST YEAR SERIES#

Keselowski has now won races in 11 consecutive seasons, is in the top 25 on the all-time list with 35 victories and has finished in the top 10 of the season series nine times, including the 2012 championship. At the time, he was 28 and had four career victories and a couples of poles on his resume. He’s come a long way from his first brush with fame at Daytona in 2012, when he famously began tweeting pictures and answering questions from fans while inside his car during a race delay following a fiery crash.

#WHO WON DAYTONA 500 LAST YEAR DRIVERS#

Among the other drivers are Joey Logano (22), Brad Keselowski (2) and Kyle Busch (18). Michael McDowell, left, went on to win the race. Racers crash during the last lap in the Daytona 500 last February at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach. If I can just keep the thing with four wheels on the ground pointed the right way for a whole race, I think I can have a pretty good shot at it.” “I feel like we were really close last year and trying to make the pass for the lead on the last lap and the last corner. “I imagine it evens itself out somehow - it just hasn’t evened itself out in the way I would like it here. “I have probably won some races at Talladega I didn’t deserve to win, and probably lost some here I deserved to win,” Keselowski said. He finished third and fourth in consecutive years earlier in his career, but has since crashed in four of the last five Daytona 500s. It is only the 500 that has eluded him, and often in frustrating fashion. The irony is that, between the summer race in Daytona and Talladega, Keselowski has seven career victories on NASCAR’s super speedways. “That’s part of what stung so bad, losing it the way I did last year,” Keselowski said this week. Joey Logano (22) was leading before the wreck Brad Keselowski (2) was in second.

Racers crash during the last lap of the Daytona 500 last February at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach. Keselowski climbed out, took a few steps away from his car while removing his helmet, and then turned around and hurled the helmet at the side of his battered, smoking vehicle. Keselowski’s move triggered a massive crash that knocked both drivers out of the race and allowed McDowell to sail to victory under a caution flag. Whether Logano blocked him late or Keselowski was too aggressive going after his Penske teammate is open for debate. He was right on the bumper of leader Joey Logano on the final lap when Michael McDowell gave Keselowski a push from behind. It was his 12th shot at the Daytona 500 and his best chance at victory.

The last one was clearly the most painful for Keselowski, who turned 38 last week. “Heartbreak,” Keselowski wrote on Twitter following his last-lap crash while trying to take the lead at the Daytona 500. Brad Keselowski gets ready for the start of the NASCAR Cup Series road-course auto race last February at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach.

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