Ahead of a quartet of races, here is a turn-by-turn detail of the 14-turn, 3.61-mile course.Drivers will take the green flag at the tri-oval before a heavy braking zone, downshifting to first gear entering the first turn. Directly after exiting this turn, it’s heavy on the brakes to set up for Turn 5.Drivers are back down to first gear entering this slow, flat right-hand corner. … Still didn’t beat Jimmie. NASCAR had to tweak the Daytona road course for stock cars—here’s why Slowing a stock car is a lot harder than a sports car. 3 Saturday morning after it was announced that Due to the driver change, Grala had to start from the rear of the field Sunday.During the pace laps, Grala experienced a surreal moment connected to another seven-time Cup champion.“For me growing up my favorite driver and idol had always been As he navigated the 14-turn course prior to the green flag, Grala looked in his rearview mirror and saw Johnson’s No.

All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. 18 team diagnosed a brake rotor problem. 3 car was just incredible,” Grala said Sunday after driving the No. That would have been really cool, but I could see him.

Drivers will work their way up to fourth gear as they head onto the backstretch and off into the chicane.Another heavy braking zone of the course is right here as drivers gain a ton of speed through Turns 7 and 8. Once drivers are slowed down, they will make a slight left-hand turn, followed by a right-hander and a left-hander. 48 Chevrolet behind him.“That was the coolest thing ever,” Grala said. 3 to a seventh-place finish on the Daytona road course in his Cup debut.Kaz Grala: The No. It’s crazy to even be saying.

“So the No. 3 at Daytona International Speedway, their mind goes to NASCAR Hall of Famer Dale Earnhardt.“I personally drove the No. After exiting Turn 6, the drivers race onto the 31 degrees of banking that originally serve as Turns 1 and 2 of the oval layout. 3 car in bandoleros, Legend cars, late models, I took it even all the way up to the (ARCA Menards East), because it was my dad’s (Darius Grala) number (in sports cars),” Grala said.

While running in seventh, he spun as he approached Turn 6. ET (on NBCSN), with the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series (12 p.m. Breaking down each corner ahead of NASCAR's inaugural weekend on the 14-turn, 3.61-mile Daytona International Speedway Road Course. The NASCAR Xfinity Series follows on Saturday at 3 p.m. ET on FS1) and NASCAR Cup Series (3 p.m. In his pit box, the No. Chase Elliott secured his second victory of the season in the first ever NASCAR Cup Series race on the Daytona road course, fending off Denny Hamlin after a late restart He returned to the track with 11 laps to go.Busch’s last four finishes are 38th (crash, New Hampshire), fifth (Michigan 1), fourth (Michigan 2) and 37th today.Another rough weekend for Kyle Busch ends early. The ARCA Menards Series kicks off the historic race weekend on Friday, Aug. 14, at 5 p.m. Now he's also the sport's road king. That’s great enough.”If all that wasn’t enough for a Cup Series debut, near the end of the race Grala was able to lead the field.Thanks to strategy, Grala was the last driver to visit the pits during the last stage’s cycle of pit stops, resulting in him leading from Laps 50-52 before “That was pretty cool to get to lead some laps in my first Cup race,” Grala said. NASCAR drivers were rolling over the green and getting loose around turns during the Xfinity and Trucks Series races at the Daytona road course earlier this …

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18 team, which began quickly after the historic race started.After starting fourth, Busch had to pit on Lap 4 for a flat spotted tire, a result of trying to outbrake Busch was able to make it up to 12th by the end of the stage. ET.

And like I said, I enjoyed the race so much and I hope to someday get to shot again in this series.”Here is what drivers had to say after Sunday’s inaugural Daytona road course race for the Cup Series:With his win Sunday, Elliott is fourth in the standings 164 points behind Busch spun and hit the outside wall on the backstretch of the oval portion of the track after a rear tire was cut down.It was the culmination of a miserable day for the No. Kevin Harvick nabs Busch Pole Award for Daytona Road Course debutSpire Motorsports purchases Leavine Family Racing, will expand to two carsReport: Bubba Wallace says he has offer from Chip GanassiNASCAR betting: Odds, lines for Daytona Road Course “I wouldn’t have thought that would be the case.