Xtreme Racing News

You heard it here first, yesterday was the craziest and best Daytona 500 I've ever seen, a race that started calm and finished in chaos. In fact, I think we had more cars still running at the end than we did in the Truck and Xfinity races COMBINED. We know what happened with the Trucks, 1/3 of the field was taken out on lap 2 including Stewart Friesen and Noah Gragson. JGR/KBM aren't too happy since they are going home with 3 destroyed Trucks (though Bell's survived being airborne TWICE  and a last lap wreck that had Matt Crafton flip) . All 3 Xfinity cars are totaled after Daniel and Erik were in the same crash and someone took Matt out coming to the line. In the Cup series, Kyle Busch won stage 1 while Kevin Harvick won stage 2, Kyle's brother Kurt won the stage that mattered. Kyl was involved in a wreck on lap 103 after blowing a tire drafting with his Toyota teammates, so again, the Toyota's working together backfired. Erik Jones was in the wreck along with some other teammates, who were in the draft, it also took Dale Earnhardt Jr out as he failed to make the new 5 minute rule for damage. Chase Elliott and Kyle Larson both ran dry on fuel on the last few laps allowing Kurt to pass, but I'm telling you, one more lap and Ryan Blaney would've won, he was on a mission. It is his best career finish in Cup. AJ Allmendinger finished 3rd. 

2017 Daytona 500 Rundown:

1. Kurt Busch
2. Ryan Blaney
3. AJ Allmendinger
4. Aric Almirola
5. Paul Menard
6. Joey Logano
7. Kasey Kahne
8. Michael Waltrip
9. Matt DiBenedetto
10. Trevor Bayne
11. Brendan Gaughan
12. Kyle Larson
13. Martin Truex Jr
14. Chase Elliott
15. Michael McDowell
16. Landon Cassill
17. Denny Hamlin
18. Cole Whitt
19. Austin Dillon
20. Elliott Sadler
21. Ryan Newman
22. Kevin Harvick
23. Joey Gase
24. Corey LaJoie
25. David Ragan
26. Jeffrey Earnhardt
27. Brad Keselowski
28. Jamie McMurray
29. Daniel Suarez
30. Ty Dillon
31. Ricky Stenhouse Jr
32. Clint Bowyer
33. Danica Patrick
34. Jimmie Johnson
35. Chris Buescher
36. D.J. Kennington
37. Dale Earnhardt Jr
38. Kyle Busch
39. Erik Jones
40. Matt Kenseth