STOCK CAR RACING 2019 Daytona 500 results: Denny Hamlin holds off Kyle Busch
2019 Daytona 500 results: Denny Hamlin holds off Kyle Busch, avoids crashes to win NASCAR's biggest race Hamlin won The Great American Race for the second time
Hamlin tweeted this after J.D.'s death. This is the second straight year where the Daytona 500 had a connection to someone that passed. Last year, Austin Dillon took the checkered flag in the No. 3, made famous by Dale Earnhardt Sr., 20 years after Earnhardt won his first and only career Great American Race. As Hamlin led the race, behind him Paul Menard and Matt DiBenedetto made contact, initiating a pile-up that involved more than half the field with less than 10 laps to go. Notables involved included Ryan Blaney and Aric Almirola, who both had a shot to win the race last year. The carnage was so massive that NASCAR was forced to throw the red flag for track clean-up and to address the running order. It took nearly 30 minutes before transitioning back to yellow. It didn't take nearly as long to get back to yellow once we went green. Just as the field approached five to go, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. got loose and collected six cars including Chase Elliott, Kevin Harvick, Brad Keselowski and Alex Bowman. The field then lined up for a green, white checkered finish but before we could get the white flag -- just as Kyle Busch and Denny Hamlin were racing side-by-side -- Clint Bowyer made an aggressive move from the sixth position and caused another big wreck. William Byron and Elliott took the brunt of it. This one sent the race to overtime, but not before another red flag. Hamlin would go on to restart, take the lead and never give it back in overtime, winning the race at 10-to-1 odds. Luckily for the folks out in Las Vegas, Michael McDowell (fifth place) and Ty Dillon (sixth place) didn't win the race. SuperBookUSA had Dillon at 100-to-1 and McDowell at 80-to-1. If Dillon had won, bookmakers would have had to pay out $10,000 on a $100 bet. 2019 Daytona 500 results
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Watch Denny Hamlin celebrate his Daytona 500 victory 2019 DAYTONA 500288 views Save Published on Feb 17, 2019 Check out Denny Hamlin celebrating his Daytona 500 victory followed by an interview. |
Denny Hamlin wins 2019 Daytona 500 in emotional tribute to the late J.D. Gibbs 2019 DAYTONA 5002,030 views Save Published on Feb 17, 2019 On the same day the Daytona 500 honored the late J.D. Gibbs, who passed away at age 49 from a degenerative neurological disorder, Joe Gibbs Racing's Denny Hamlin held on in overtime to win the 2019 Daytona 500. After the race, Joe Gibbs, J.D.'s father, reflected on how special the moment was and how J.D. was with the team in spirit, and Hamlin said that he was racing in tribute to J.D. |
Massive Daytona 500 crash takes out 21 cars in 'The Big One' 2019 DAYTONA 5004,530 views Save Published on Feb 17, 2019 You knew it was coming eventually. The Big One struck late at the 2019 Daytona 500, taking out 21 cars in a shower of sparks and carnage after a mistake by Paul Menard. Everyone walked away okay. |
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Recap Hamlin’s triumph, all the Daytona 500 action553 views Save Published on Feb 17, 2019 Recap all of the thrills, spills and chills of the riveting 2019 Daytona 500 including the frantic NASCAR Overtime finish. |
NASCAR Cup Series: Daytona 500 2019 EXTENDED HIGHLIGHTS Motorsports on NBC598 views Save Published on Feb 17, 2019 Denny Hamlin fought to keep his lead in the last lap of the NASCAR season opener to win his second Daytona 500. |
CRANDALL: Daytona 500 was no dud https://racerdigital.files.wordpress...0&h=600&crop=1 Image by Kinrade/LAT 73 sharessharetweetemail By: Kelly Crandall 11 hours ago A dud of a Speedweeks was saved on its final day in its biggest race.Frustration had been bubbling over after the repeated scene of drivers running single-file along the outside wall. In the Clash, the one guy who tried to make it a race ended up wrecking the field. The final 45 laps of the Xfinity Series cannot be forgotten quickly enough. Don’t remember what happened? That’s because nothing did as the field followed Michael Annett across the finish line. Daytona had been a disaster going into the 61st annual Daytona 500.More NASCAR!Daytona 500 overnight rating up over 2018 DiBenedetto's breakthrough Daytona drive ends in heartbreak Hamlin repeats unique feat with new crew chief Gabehart There may be no telling why things were different. Did it have something to do with Jim France standing up in the driver/crew chief meeting Sunday morning expressing his hope to see other drivers join Denny Hamlin and Chase Elliott in the bottom lane putting “on a show?” Was it because the weather was different than it had been all week? Or maybe it was the drivers finally deciding to get up on the wheel and race.“This is the Daytona 500,” said winning crew chief Chris Gabehart. “It’s the sport’s best 36 drivers out there, and the racetrack is heated up 50 degrees. It’s time to get after it. This one counts, and not only does it count, but it’s the biggest one of the year and anybody who thought they were going to line up and ride around the top for the Daytona 500 for 490 miles doesn’t know the competitive nature of these guys.“I chuckled with my guys on the intercom five laps into the race when they were two-wide, and you can see the cars sliding around and getting runs. I’m like, oh, yeah, anybody who thought this thing was going to line up and be boring has got another thing coming. Needless to say, that was the case. It’s just a whole ‘nother thing. The Daytona 500 with everybody out there trying to get after it, it’s not going to be boring.”Yes, there were wrecks: quite a few in the final 10 laps. But those had only been a matter of time. Open comes the pay window, away goes the give and take that drivers had earlier in the day, and any room for mistakes gets smaller. Second-place finisher Kyle Busch said, “brains come unglued.”Daytona had a little bit of everything to make it a successful day. From the drop of the green flag, the race resembled that of a restrictor-plate event with the field two and three wide, drivers looking for the best lane and hoping their drafting help was stronger than those around them. Drivers who wanted to be at the front could make the moves to do so.At many times throughout the day, there was also a nice mix of fresh faces making their presence felt. Polesitter William Byron did an impressive job leading the race a few months after being criticized at the same track by Brad Keselowski for throwing a bad block. David Ragan, Daniel Suarez, Ty Dillon, and Ryan Preece also ran up front.How about the guy who led the most laps? Matt DiBenedetto, the personable and energetic Californian, drew the praise of others by leading 49 laps and running strongly until his race ended on lap 192.“I thought the racing today was pretty good,” said Busch. “I think having a full field of cars obviously just allowed the bottom to materialize, and have enough strength down there to be able to keep some momentum rolling and not everybody just being able to be so strong around the top. I thought the two wide, sometimes the wide three action, sometimes the mixing it up guys would get loose and get shuffled out… was pretty intense there a few times.” Better late than never. From dud to dramatic. |
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