As a brit living in aus i lost interest in f1 for many reasons but the races being on in the middle of sunday night was always frustrating i came to nascar from the netflix series this was my first ever race and i gotta say im liking what i see looking forward to the rest of the season!
I cried real tears after Byron won because I wanted bowman to hoist the Harley J Earl trophy up! It’s always reeces puffs getting the checkered, everything good gets rigged!
Apparently he has done a ton of testing for Ford over the past few years at various tracks. Someone said hes done enough laps to have the equivalent of a full season of experience in the next gen car.
Honestly what surprised me this race was Justin Haley running 2nd during some parts of the race. Now I'm certain he can get Rick Ware Racing a good finish this season
@@davids5006 Haley was also very competitive two weeks ago, running in the mid pack at the Clash until the tech issues happened. Ik the Colesium is a weird track that Haley is unusually fast at, but still the 51 has never looked this fast, ever.
@@EricEstepp or Todd Gilliland usually running really well in these pack races , and sadly not usually always getting the result he deserves hes really good at Martinsville, and pack racing and some road courses. But something always ends his night, he also dont get credit, by not 90% of the time wreck his car, but he never gets any mention, he really good at it, just shame someone always takes him out. What about John Hunter Nemenchek my other fav in cup 7th.
As a Keselowski fan, “you reap what you sow.” I can’t be to mad with the finish as the wreck that took him out was very similar to the lap 6 wreck. Sucks but it is what it is
Great in-car cameras this race. Looks like most picks for race winners did not happen this week. That's racin. Jeff Gordon is starting to like like RH. Right on for Corey Lajoie 👏
Yeah no one is to blame it's hard bump and pushing superspeedway racing you know they can't keep pushing this hard without making one slip up and it's the big one, can't blame BK for going for it in 10 laps or less.
That's why he was so calm during the enterview Said it was just racing hard at Daytona he was like I was racing the same way so why get mad at them he handled it way better than cry 😢 baby Logano that's what I like about Bad Brad he's got RFK on the right track RFK is the only Ford team I pull for
It was a disappointing finish for Chastain, but I can't help but feel like he found something out there. He reminded me of Junior in his Pied Piper days. If he can learn from this and avoid the dumb mistakes, he might be back to form this year.
Looking at the crash on the final lap, they should have had overtime Edit: I was looking at when the crash happened, the two cars were pushing into the infield before they got to the line.
Not sure how you arrive at that. Once they take the white the next flag ends it. The timing of them happening almost at the same time sucks but that’s been the rule for a while.
Provide proof that they didn't cross the start/finish line on the last lap then that would be the case. Otherwise if they did cross the line on the last lap, next flag regardless on checkered or yellow ends it. Regardless of opinion NASCAR like it or not, has the last word and it's final.
Byron drives for Hendrick... ALOT of people (me included) despise HMS. So much so, that I even refuse to pull for Chase Elliott and I am a HUGE fan of his Dad... so BOOS really don't surprise me.
Kevin Harvick, despite his persistent stammerings, seems to have brought a stabilizing element to that booth that has raised the collective tides. Clint was more controlled, Mike was less annoyed, and Kevin brought good analysis. Hopefully the stammering improves, I'm sure it will with time
I thought he did well and his insight is better than anyone's at NBC. Watched the whole race and only once did I notice he stammered. Love the pic, more of a Snyder of Berlin gal though, even though UTZ owns them now.
Bowman blocked Elliot on the last restart and used it to almost when the 500 so happy for bowman to sticking foot in it. And he almost beat Bryon to the line he did lift a few times.
we’ve seen nascar throw the caution the moment a car starts to spin before. why did they wait as long as they did to throw the yellow at the end? they know no one wants to see a race end under caution
Hard to say who actually had the fastest car during that race, so many drivers willing to just ride in the pack to save gas. The 175 mph laps were just ridiculous.
Other than the few things Eric mentioned about the Fox broadcast that were mildly irritating, my only major gripe with the broadcast was sorting out the info for the last lap crash. There was much unneeded controversy at the end because they didn’t really show why Byron was the winner. They incorrectly showed it as happening at the s/f line, the clip they showed at the moment of caution seemed to show Bowman ahead, but other images surfaced with Byron ahead and nascar had to clarify with a direct post why Byron was the winner. Would have been nice if they covered that but overall was a great Daytona 500.
As the broadcasters have said in the past, they don't always know what's happening either when certain penalties and decisions are made, nor does NASCAR inform them of everything.
@@Glitchunlocked While I do agree with that where sometimes nascar doesn’t necessarily give the info they need for it, there’s been plenty of instances in the past where they show the moment of caution, see Talladega 2015 with Joey Logano, 2021 with Michael McDowell where they used the old Raceview style cars judging from the gps tracking, and I believe even last year they showed Stenhouse ahead at the moment of caution and Mike Joy went over it. This year they just showed Byron crossing the s/f line when the green was still out and said this is the race, then cut to Rudy Fugle. They also went on board with Bowman briefly and that’s what led to the confusion, because they didn’t say anything about the moment of caution or slow down the replay, leading to the outrage that Bowman got the win stolen from him. I just figure they could have done a better job showing it or at least explaining it since they have in the past
they most difently did not have the cars to win until they took out half the field there was lots of good cars that got took out that could have won but the damn 22 was clas of the field for sure he was bad fast and the 8 as well
Love Hendrick ending the decade long drought of winning the Daytona 500. Felt good for Byron winning but devastated that Bowman missed by 6 1 thousandths of a second. Would've preferred Bowman over Byron.
That was the first full length race that I’ve watched since I went to MIS in person for the 2021 Firekeepers Casino 400. It was also my first time seeing what kinds of racing that the next gen cars could produce. I look forward to watching the rest of the season
@@extragoogleaccount6061 this might be a stupid question, but have they decided on going back to the oval for Indy or are they still sticking with the road course?
After what may of been an anticlimactic finish William Byron finally gets that elusive 500 win and as an Elliott fan I’m happy for him congratulations Byron
@irvingboy1122 What has Byron done that we are now talking about "elusive" 500? You can use that word for Kyle Bush cuz he has won pretty much everything.
It's really more annoying that they end it under caution when the wreck very clearly happens before the finish line. Ross is sideways and in the grass before Byron crosses. I wish they would have ran it back.
@johnhaas2523 I understand why NASCAR waited, rather, I heard what they said. It doesn't change my opinion on the matter. Nobody watches 3 hours of a race to see it end under caution. A lot of people don't like it
I got a video of it, and it's kinda going viral on Twitter. Chase's in car camera from that one wreck where he missed like 6 guys spinning in front of him is absolutely insane! I knew something was going to happen because of the way they were pushing, so I got my phone out
When Gordon was a Rookie I chose him and when Byron got the 24 I decided to make Him my guy. In 2021, I knew He had the potential for greatness. Sometimes he's good, sometimes he's lucky... but ANYONE who got their begining experience playing video games and then jumped in a Ledgeons car knows its no easy feat to win the title. There was a press reporter that recalled Byrons 3 rd race ever where Byron Sr. told the reporter in 2012 that That Kid Is Going to be A Cup driver.. He then has taken the title at every level. I predict he will amass 66 wins, 2 championships, 3 Daytona 500's, and retire @ the age of 36!
McDowell leading lap 45 and Fox goes to a commercial. They come back and McDowell is at the back of the pack and they never really explained what happened to him. That really ticked me off as a McDowell fan. Turned out he had electric problems. Found this out on a Facebook group but not Fox broadcast.
Exactly. I didn't know what happened either.....was it a flat? Did he get too big a push and get out of line? Mechanical issues? No clue. Great coverage guys. 🙄
Has anyone figured out what happened to Chastain's car after the race ending caution? On the fox broadcast, they looked at how close he was from hitting the inside wall, but his car was fine. Some time around the announcement of Byron winning, there was a short cut to Chastain spinning through the grass chucking dirt with the right front ripped apart on the backstretch.
Now that I've looked at it some more I think he destroyed his car with a flat tire. Before the short clip, Byron and several others cruising on the back stretch ran over scattered debris. There was a chunk of fender that blew up into the fence and another chunk that got stuck in front of Byron's car. In the short clip, Chastain's car no longer had a right front fender and the rf tyre looked like it was ripped to shreds.
His tire blew out. When they first showed his car he had all his fenders, when they went back to him while he spun you could see one of his fenders had blown apart from the tire hitting it.
The Bowman/Byron incident was definitely just an unfortunate racing incident. But, if you squint your eyes just right, it does make a pretty darn good "Dinoco is all mine" impression... "Ha, get through that one Logano!" 😅
Yeah, the real issue with that wreck was that Bowman was giving Byron the push of a lifetime, but also couldn’t see past Bowman’s car to realize that the maneuvering of Logano and Keselowski on each other wadded up the field a bit at the same time.
I loved the 500! I am a huge William Byron fan, so seeing him win the race made my night. He really is a fierce competitor, as shown by last year's season, and I hope he continues to get that winning streak for HMS
This was such an amazing Daytona 500! Best 500 since 2022 and best 500 with the Gen 7’s! This is what the Daytona 500 should be. Nothing but clean green professional and intense racing with no silly BS crapshoots and no dumb GWCs! Confusing ending, but what a beautiful race :)
I rather enjoyed this strategy racing myself for the first 2 stages and up until lap 190. I really didn't want a crash but I enjoy the 3 wide racing and all the moves near the end. And with green pit stops fun watching team stragize to maintain packs and not go laps down
When I saw scheme and sponsor on Kyle’s car for The 500. Had this feeling he might not win it but I still picked him anyway. Like his teammate Austin he’s gonna have to win that race in a black car on the 8. 3CHI or BetMGM. Has to have black on the car for him to win it. Outside of Harvick’s Pennzoil in 2007. RCR trademark is black.
I like Byron. He never really pulls any dirty moves and is clearly a very good driver. He's in my top 10. But if I think about it way too hard, the only reason I'm mildly upset that Byron won is because this is the second time in the weekend that a massive crash was caused by him not being able to keep his car straight from a push. Granted, I don't reasonably know what kind of force we're talking about (calm down Byron fans hahaha) - but we are always talking about bad pushes, but how about when a car _should have_ gone around and didn't due to driver talent? The "Superspeedway Death Wobble" happened a few times tonight even (I think KB was one of them). It is probably my favorite thing to happen in a superspeedway race hahaha. First example off the top of my head would be Blaney's save at Talladega in 2020. Even Gordon was like "I thought he was dead" hahaha. And there's drivers who can pull it off and drivers who don't. I love Byron, but at the moment I have to think he's in that second category.... And he won the damn race hahaha
Byron has two wins at Daytona and two wins at reconfigured Atlanta. I also think he has the best average finish in the 13 superspeedway races in this generation car. He knows how to get around the track.
I was watching the commericial free stream on the Dubai sports page. When that Wendy's skit with Clint Bowyer came on, there was no video. Just the audio from that awkward skit over the racing. One of the funniest things I've seen in NASCAR in sometime.
If that was someone like Joey Logano or Ross Chastain did the push Alex Bowman made causing the wreck, everyone would be calling for their heads, since it's a Hendrick car it's just "a mistake, it happens" (I'm a very irritated fan right now, this race was amazing until all that happened at the end)
I enjoyed watching the race on satellite . No commercials breaks, and during commercial breaks full screen race with no commentary (best part honestly)
Hi all, I’m new to the channel and I have been liking what I see. I’ve been a NASCAR fan since 2007 & have so many memories of the sport. What a wild race small deciding factors with big consequences and an amazing historical day for Hendrick & William Byron. Keep up the awesome content Eric.
Anyone who says this was a bad race didn’t watch the same race I did! Phenomenal race! I would say hands down the best Daytona 500 of the Gen 7 era. It was actually refreshing to see a race end at the 500 mile mark with no multiple GWC overtime attempts just my opinion
I watched it it was terrible. NASCAR needs to take off these Restrictor plates and let them race. Bunched up all race sucks…. Go watch some older races a lot more fun. All those cars owners are pissed that there cars got tore up. There all in the Red at the start of the season now$ wise
all the way up until the final 2 wrecks, it was a HELL of a race and was very very entertaining. but then again the finish just throws almost all of that out the window because it gives a not so deserving car the win while everyone else wrecks out, but that's superspeedways for ya
@@sammyweed4771 how was it terrible? the first stage was kinda boring after the caution cause everyone was saving fuel, but after that it was at least 2/3 wide for a good portion and soooo much better than we've seen the last few years. people were able to go from back to front easily and we had a ton of lower tier teams running high up in the order which was awesome to see, i think the finish just puts a damper on the entire race and makes it more like a middle of the road superspeedway race
@@sammyweed4771 based off your first comment, you'd rather have what is essentially a damn train with stock cars? i agree the old racing did use to be better than this, but that's not to say the new package hasn't raced great at superspeedways, pretty much everybody has a shot at winning and a shot at being wrecked out and that's the risk/reward people go to the race to watch. either way, if this is what nascar wants to see then this is what we get, personally i think the new superspeedway races would be fantastic if the drivers could just calm down a tiny bit and not push people sideways in the closing laps every year😂 it'd be nice to actually watch a race to the line again
That was a hectic race. Hayley, LaJoie, Cindric, Smith, Hocevar, Preece, Berry, Buescher, and Ragan, were definitely ones to watch out for in this race. I was a little livid at the fact Nascar placed Chastain 21st despite the scoring loop showing Chastain was still in the top 10 while spinning out when the caution came out, so I don't understand how Nascar screwed that up. But other than that, this nex-gen car showed anyone can make a comeback out of nowhere.
There was a momentary clip on the fox broadcast of Chastain spinning through the grass with a destroyed right front, so I don't think he completed the white flag lap.
@@L-W-7 I thought that rule is only meant for the leader. Because I remember the rules being for white flag cautions is "As is where is." Meaning where you place is where you place, whether your car is obliterated or not.
@@danspriggs But that's the problem. I remember Nascar still placing people according to where they're stamped even if they're crashing. Like for example, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. blew an engine and Carl Edwards rammed him and Ricky won the race despite crashing on the final lap. This case shouldn't be any different. The scoring loop places Ross Chastain as 7th - 9th when the caution came out, technically by rules, all those guys who passed him have to fall behind him due to the scoring loop.
@@lunamelody2025 he didn’t maintain minimum speed under caution though. I don’t remember the Stenhouse incident but if he didn’t maintain speed back then he probably shouldn’t have won.
The 100 yard markers green screened on the race track we're stupid and on the white flag lap were double stupid, as long as they don't bring that up for all the Fox races this year it should be good.
JH Nemechek was a wrecking ball in both races!!! He caused several of the accidents and should be in trouble for it but won't be. He has taken over for Ty Gibbs in the aggressive/chaos category for sure!!! Don't like it when one guys causes so much carnage!! Also Eric, I didn't see Danica in the Xfinity race?! LOL
Look again at Nemechek. His car never gets turned. It is always pointed straight ahead. He just wallows side-to-side until he contacts the red car in the inside lane. It does not look as if Keselowski ever bumped him. Wallow is an engineering term for a linear motion side-to-side. The other two linear degrees of freedom are surge and heave. The three rotational degrees of freedom are roll, pitch and yaw. His car wallowed. If Brad had hit him on the left rear bumper, he would have caused him to yaw toward the wall. He did not touch the wall. The problem seems to be that he just lacked experience in anticipating the aero influence the Safer barrier would have on his car as he went by in a pack.
All my drivers got screwed over hard, Burton screwed by keselowski, again, buescher stuck in traffic the whole race, and chastain got, uhhh, idk whatever the hell that was, in short, i'm in shambles :(((((. Next week is burton time I swear (i'm not coping I swear)
I’m not sure if it’s because the race was on Monday and there was a Xfinity race afterwards, but my one big complaint of the FOX broadcast was post race and still going back to the Charlotte studio instead of being on site. Just felt like pulling the plug early on the great environment the Daytona 500 creates
That’s just so stupid though. Other drivers did the same thing in the past and won races because of it. Byron gets a bad bump from Bowman and triggers the Big One, and is now the Villain.
@@CJODell12 He has 7 wins in the last 37 races. Its not like he has 50 wins he has 11 in think. It was a breakout season last year MAYBE a championship this year
This was my first time going to the 500 and it was grate chase wining a stage and a hendrick car wining beside the delay was definitely a great first time Daytona 500 experience
because the bigger storyline is the debate about when the caution came out then how close they were. because it was pretty clear who was ahead at each of the debated sides and it was different drivers both times.
Weather included, this has to be one of the greatest speedweek(s) I've ever watched in my 20 plus years. The duels were both intense and stressful, especially for us lifelong Jimmay fans, and like you said, 95 percent of the racing today was either interesting or intense, usually both. We usually can't have it all in a plate races, as shown by the last 10 laps, but ignoring those and the rain, this was one of the greatest 500 weekend's I've ever had the pleasure of watching. Bowman and Ross were so close!!!!!!!
Very good analysis, as always. You called it when the 48 bumped the 24 (which I get) repeatedly to cause the big one, then went on to finish P1 and 2. ugh! I too would have loved to see the best cars still running at the end but then again, it's Daytona (like you said).
Logano, Keselowski, and Blaney clearly the 3 best cars in the race (especially logano by far) get taken out by byron and bowman. Ironically the top 2 finishers were byron and bowman. I feel bad for logano. He had the best car. It wasn't just one of those hendrick poles that was a no show in the race. It was the best car in the field.
"Gee why would anyone boo William Byron" Well maybe it's because - "... ironically the two that started the incident made it through scott free and one of them went on to win the race"
Get you some rest Eric. Sorry you couldn’t be at the race. You do a great job as always on your channel. I watched no other RUclips channel on racing except yours, you have the most up-to-date information. so many people are talking about who actually won the race tonight. Give your thoughts on this tomorrow maybe
I feel like Joey never gets enough credit on channels like this. The best car over all was the 22. Not just on the track but also the best on pit road. There were multiple multiple times where Joey got on pit road and came out multiple positions ahead.
On top of that leading 140 laps at Atlanta Spring last year, led 48 laps at Talladega Fall last year, and led 45 laps tonight for this Daytona 500, clearly incredible at SuperSpeedway racing, should've won this race or at least top 3. Just Like last year's 500, he got screwed.
@@alecsmalygo other than Hamlin he is the best when it comes to the 500. In the last decade the only times he hasn’t been in the top 10 is due to a wreck ( one time he wrecked and still finished 12 th)
Honestly I agree, had a whole room of non nascar friends that watched with me and they all felt as I did that when the two cars that reck the field ended up winning it doesn’t seem fair
Easily the best. Better storylines from it too.....Decker leading a few laps, Jordan Anderson finishing in the top 5, the two former teammates with no love lost between them finishing 1 & 2......easily the better race.
6:26 I get the feeling they were booing the outcome of the race because of the late caution and not really William Byron. I'm glad someone else noticed how strange it was for everyone to sandbag and save gas but it was pretty cool compared to the Daytona races me and my dad saw in 2000, where after like 20 laps of just straight line "choo-choo train" as I've heard it called driving no passing, forty three cars and one long line and many of us started staring at each other saying what's going on? And the only time there was a shuffle of position was pitting. But this Daytona 500 as well as the other races with the truck series and the xfinity series were pretty good! Lots of action as well as pretty intense crashes and I'm very glad no one got hurt.
If you want to win a super speedway race, all you have to do is wreck all the top contenders out of the race first, then it is so much easier to win the race. Which is exactly what Byron did.
Should have let them actually finish the race, the caution can’t be called on the last lap that’s ridiculous. I get it but it also only makes the race 199 laps not 200. So much for the Daytona 500, more like the Daytona 497.5
@@PaintStripeGuythe race was 200 laps, they came to the checkered flag under caution. Sometimes races end under caution. It just happens. Not every football game ends with a winning TD. Not every basketball game ends with a buzzer beater. You can't turn the end of the biggest race into a circus, there has to be a line drawn. Sometimes it just has to end.
I was at the race. Allmendinger was a half a lap behind from the pack all my himself due to a choose cone violation and he was gaining on the pack by himself while Blaney and Bell were throttling the pack back. It was wild.
The Biggest big one ever in history of Daytona 500. 23 cars tied with the original big one from 1990. Now here's a fun fact for you Eric between 1997-2005 we had 9 20 or more car Pile-ups in NASCAR's top three series. Since 2010 11 times between NASCAR's top 3 three series had a crash with 20 or more cars wrecked and 7 times since 2014 the last decade we had 20 or more crashed across all three series in the same accident it wasn't the largest Daytona wreck ever in the Modern Era, but it still was huge. again biggest for the 500 and largest with the next gen car too. I mean I feel like a kid again and seeing all those old wrecks. I mean that was nuts. I mean in 3 of the 4 races 17 or more involved in the same wreck.
NASCAR just needs to make the races guaranteed to finish under green. Fans deserve it and it is annoying seeing a finish like this deflate the entire weekend.
yeah, i just don’t think nascar will ever let them race back to the line when a wreck happens on the last lap, but they let them race back in the xfinity race so who knows. nascar is so inconsistent with their calls
That is how racing works sometimes. I hate it ended like that but keep in mind, they also had an XFINITY Series race to run too. It may have been anticlimactic but for safety I was glad it ended the way it did. Overtime just becomes how many cars can we wad up. If they would race right, I like overtime but it becomes too much of a slugfest on these type of tracks.
Alanis Morissette thinks it's ironic that the only real complaint is too many commercials, and then the groovy gauge is sponsored. 😂. Love the content, keep it up. 👍
My first race and was it awesome! I Listened to Kyle Busch and his spotter who is a smooth operator. So cool to hear about proximity to other cars and random comments like this one from Kyle-" I don't trust the 7." 🤣 Kyle got some points, lead laps, and him put himself in a position to win after pit issues. Had a blast!
I do feel this Daytona 500 Fox and the crew really tried to not do dumb cuts, and from start to finish, I only counted a small handful of stupid camera cuts or other small bloopers, but OVERALL, a very good race and TV presentation this year. Gives me hope maybe Fox has heard our displeasure and instead of trying to hard, they have taken a deep breathe. Only one race in so it'll take a little time to truly find out
Commercial count: First caution lap 6 Lap 19-23 30-34 43-47 52-56 (side by side) End of stage Stage 2 Start:67 76-80 86-89 went to 90 about 5 seconds later 96-99 105-109 118-121 Stage 3 Start: 132 3 side by side couple lap commercials 147-149 156-158 side by side 171-174 Red flag with 8 to go to Not as bad as last year
As a brit living in aus i lost interest in f1 for many reasons but the races being on in the middle of sunday night was always frustrating i came to nascar from the netflix series this was my first ever race and i gotta say im liking what i see looking forward to the rest of the season!
That's great to hear! You'll be hooked in no time, trust me
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So true
Bro he’s got Gianna at home he’s still winning one way or another
I feel like Blaney should just skip the 2 Daytona dates
I cried real tears after Byron won because I wanted bowman to hoist the Harley J Earl trophy up! It’s always reeces puffs getting the checkered, everything good gets rigged!
he can soak his tears in that big cup series title he has
Much respect to the Rock for hanging around to give the command.
And didn't steal anything he didn't deserve this time. #wewantcody
Yep he’s staying far away from Hawaii
He lives in Florida lol
it was mid for what I expected out of the rock. like he had a cold or didn't expect to hear himself as loud so he backed off
He's a b***
The groovy Gauge is now 5 years old, got introduced in 2019, best invention ever
Leading science above and beyond
@@EricEstepptruly cutting edge technology
@@EricEstepp hopefully u expand ur channel to cover xfinity and trucks and put on groovy guage
The announcers need to immediately update the audience after each commercial. It’s their job to keep us engaged.
Nascar races are becoming almost unbearable with all of the commercials, I hope they adopt more of the F1 format
@@sf8334less ads on MRN i will tell ya that
@sf8334 All American sports are filled with commercials. It's not just nascar.
Clown the commercials pay for the broadcast use your brain before crying@@sf8334
@@hotwheelzvette959 and balls sports are better paced around their commercials
David ragan had a sneaky good race too for starting last and being out of the sport for a while
Apparently he has done a ton of testing for Ford over the past few years at various tracks. Someone said hes done enough laps to have the equivalent of a full season of experience in the next gen car.
@@barrettcarpenter1745 that’s badass, I’m glad he’s running a little with roush. Always liked the guy as a driver
Richard Childress came across the 8 radio during that 175mph parade, “I could run around like this”
Honestly what surprised me this race was Justin Haley running 2nd during some parts of the race. Now I'm certain he can get Rick Ware Racing a good finish this season
Hopefully they get the technical issues figured out
It's a plate race, don't get hopes up to much
@@davids5006 Haley was also very competitive two weeks ago, running in the mid pack at the Clash until the tech issues happened.
Ik the Colesium is a weird track that Haley is unusually fast at, but still the 51 has never looked this fast, ever.
yeah it was pretty cool seeing him run up front, gilliland too
@@EricEstepp or Todd Gilliland usually running really well in these pack races , and sadly not usually always getting the result he deserves hes really good at Martinsville, and pack racing and some road courses. But something always ends his night, he also dont get credit, by not 90% of the time wreck his car, but he never gets any mention, he really good at it, just shame someone always takes him out. What about John Hunter Nemenchek my other fav in cup 7th.
This one hurt as a Ross Chastain fan, but so glad to see he’s got good speed going into this year.
yeah i’m so hurt. i knew he stood no chance against all those hendricks cars at the end
Ross almost spun across the line in first, what would have been another mess for NASCAR to make a judgement call. Ross ran a great race.
@@zirc_it's Hendrick not Hendricks
@@Loner2012ATtil he turned left into cindric. crashtain back at it again
@@TubbzyXBL Yes, Ross was trying to win the Daytona 500.
As a Keselowski fan, “you reap what you sow.” I can’t be to mad with the finish as the wreck that took him out was very similar to the lap 6 wreck. Sucks but it is what it is
Great in-car cameras this race. Looks like most picks for race winners did not happen this week. That's racin. Jeff Gordon is starting to like like RH. Right on for Corey Lajoie 👏
I like him because he’s aggressive but the past few go arounds at the superspeedways he’s been way too aggressive, it’s biting him in the ass
@@stonecoldracing6I couldn’t agree more. love BK, but he’s a menace at Super Speedways
Yeah no one is to blame it's hard bump and pushing superspeedway racing you know they can't keep pushing this hard without making one slip up and it's the big one, can't blame BK for going for it in 10 laps or less.
That's why he was so calm during the enterview Said it was just racing hard at Daytona he was like I was racing the same way so why get mad at them he handled it way better than cry 😢 baby Logano that's what I like about Bad Brad he's got RFK on the right track RFK is the only Ford team I pull for
Shoutout to Austin Dillon for being a good teammate while being dozens of laps down
dozens is an understatement lol
I feel like it’s easier to be a good teammate when you don’t have to factor your own success 😂
Dude isn’t worth a nascar spot . He’s terrible
@@zirc_4 dozen
The only useful thing he’s done since swapping pit crews with Busch at Texas last year 😂😂😂😂
It was a disappointing finish for Chastain, but I can't help but feel like he found something out there. He reminded me of Junior in his Pied Piper days. If he can learn from this and avoid the dumb mistakes, he might be back to form this year.
Looking at the crash on the final lap, they should have had overtime
Edit: I was looking at when the crash happened, the two cars were pushing into the infield before they got to the line.
Agreed, but it was getting shockingly cold out there and I for one wasn't ready to quibble. 🥶
Not sure how you arrive at that. Once they take the white the next flag ends it. The timing of them happening almost at the same time sucks but that’s been the rule for a while.
@@darthhull85it’s not supposed to finish under caution. Should of done Green,white , checkered
Provide proof that they didn't cross the start/finish line on the last lap then that would be the case. Otherwise if they did cross the line on the last lap, next flag regardless on checkered or yellow ends it. Regardless of opinion NASCAR like it or not, has the last word and it's final.
I really think that Daytona is the one race that should always end with the checkered flag and not white/yellow
Byron drives for Hendrick... ALOT of people (me included) despise HMS. So much so, that I even refuse to pull for Chase Elliott and I am a HUGE fan of his Dad...
so BOOS really don't surprise me.
Kevin Harvick, despite his persistent stammerings, seems to have brought a stabilizing element to that booth that has raised the collective tides. Clint was more controlled, Mike was less annoyed, and Kevin brought good analysis. Hopefully the stammering improves, I'm sure it will with time
I thought he did well and his insight is better than anyone's at NBC. Watched the whole race and only once did I notice he stammered. Love the pic, more of a Snyder of Berlin gal though, even though UTZ owns them now.
I missed these Eric, it's good to be back 🙌🏻
McDowell deserved better, that car had top 5 speed if he survived till the end, but electrical problems always win
Ya a lot drivers in this field deserved better
Blaney has not had a good speed week 💀
I think he will be happy to put this one behind him.
He bitches too much
Kyle only finished 12th because Chase Elliot blocked him close to the end. They lost all momentum and fell to the back, kind of a bummer 😢
yeah it was weird they had a run on that 3rd lane and then they all dissapeared
I was wondering what happened. Doesn’t surprise me
Bowman blocked Elliot on the last restart and used it to almost when the 500 so happy for bowman to sticking foot in it. And he almost beat Bryon to the line he did lift a few times.
we’ve seen nascar throw the caution the moment a car starts to spin before. why did they wait as long as they did to throw the yellow at the end? they know no one wants to see a race end under caution
shoulda waited longer to throw it.... cause if those spinning kept going after it might of stayed green.....
Hard to say who actually had the fastest car during that race, so many drivers willing to just ride in the pack to save gas. The 175 mph laps were just ridiculous.
All while Burton is crashing out of the race
The fact that AJ by himself was lapping faster than the pack was wild. I had never seen that before.
Good race, just sucks the two guys that caused the big one finished 1-2
Byron was pushed into them by Bowman so the " leader " didn't cause the wreck
Other than the few things Eric mentioned about the Fox broadcast that were mildly irritating, my only major gripe with the broadcast was sorting out the info for the last lap crash. There was much unneeded controversy at the end because they didn’t really show why Byron was the winner. They incorrectly showed it as happening at the s/f line, the clip they showed at the moment of caution seemed to show Bowman ahead, but other images surfaced with Byron ahead and nascar had to clarify with a direct post why Byron was the winner. Would have been nice if they covered that but overall was a great Daytona 500.
As the broadcasters have said in the past, they don't always know what's happening either when certain penalties and decisions are made, nor does NASCAR inform them of everything.
@@Glitchunlocked While I do agree with that where sometimes nascar doesn’t necessarily give the info they need for it, there’s been plenty of instances in the past where they show the moment of caution, see Talladega 2015 with Joey Logano, 2021 with Michael McDowell where they used the old Raceview style cars judging from the gps tracking, and I believe even last year they showed Stenhouse ahead at the moment of caution and Mike Joy went over it. This year they just showed Byron crossing the s/f line when the green was still out and said this is the race, then cut to Rudy Fugle. They also went on board with Bowman briefly and that’s what led to the confusion, because they didn’t say anything about the moment of caution or slow down the replay, leading to the outrage that Bowman got the win stolen from him. I just figure they could have done a better job showing it or at least explaining it since they have in the past
“Work smarter not harder if you’re Hendrick” they wrecked half the field sir
they most difently did not have the cars to win until they took out half the field there was lots of good cars that got took out that could have won but the damn 22 was clas of the field for sure he was bad fast and the 8 as well
Cope harder next time!
@@tonycornett5140cry harder!
@@tonycornett5140They had 3 top 10 cars when that wreck happened.
Stfu they didn’t wreck the field Byron was ran into behind from bowman-he isn’t at
Love Hendrick ending the decade long drought of winning the Daytona 500. Felt good for Byron winning but devastated that Bowman missed by 6 1 thousandths of a second. Would've preferred Bowman over Byron.
it makes up for the missing ring that is the 2023 title. At least partially.
I wish the drought had continued after the two wimpy ass dudes crashed all the cars that were faster than them.
That was the first full length race that I’ve watched since I went to MIS in person for the 2021 Firekeepers Casino 400. It was also my first time seeing what kinds of racing that the next gen cars could produce. I look forward to watching the rest of the season
Its awesome at intermediate and road courses. Hopefully its better at short tracks this year since thats short of NASCAR's bread and butter.
@@extragoogleaccount6061 this might be a stupid question, but have they decided on going back to the oval for Indy or are they still sticking with the road course?
@@KCRX3They are returning to the oval this summer
After what may of been an anticlimactic finish William Byron finally gets that elusive 500 win and as an Elliott fan I’m happy for him congratulations Byron
I was not happy when Chase made that move that cost him a bunch of spots, but he had damage for sure and was lucky to be 14th probably.
@irvingboy1122 What has Byron done that we are now talking about "elusive" 500? You can use that word for Kyle Bush cuz he has won pretty much everything.
It's really more annoying that they end it under caution when the wreck very clearly happens before the finish line. Ross is sideways and in the grass before Byron crosses. I wish they would have ran it back.
@johnhaas2523 I understand why NASCAR waited, rather, I heard what they said. It doesn't change my opinion on the matter. Nobody watches 3 hours of a race to see it end under caution. A lot of people don't like it
I got a video of it, and it's kinda going viral on Twitter. Chase's in car camera from that one wreck where he missed like 6 guys spinning in front of him is absolutely insane! I knew something was going to happen because of the way they were pushing, so I got my phone out
When Gordon was a Rookie I chose him and when Byron got the 24 I decided to make Him my guy. In 2021, I knew He had the potential for greatness. Sometimes he's good, sometimes he's lucky... but ANYONE who got their begining experience playing video games and then jumped in a Ledgeons car knows its no easy feat to win the title. There was a press reporter that recalled Byrons 3 rd race ever where Byron Sr. told the reporter in 2012 that That Kid Is Going to be A Cup driver..
He then has taken the title at every level. I predict he will amass 66 wins, 2 championships, 3 Daytona 500's, and retire @ the age of 36!
Why are people crapping on Byron? It’s not his fault, Bowman was pushing the hell out of him. You try saving a car going 190 mph
Wasnt the first wreck that Bowman caused!
I always go into the season with an open mind on who I dislike. Bowman’s trying to get on that list already 😂
@PaintStripeGuy 😂
neither did anything wrong in that wreck tbh, bowman was doing his job and pushing his teammate, it just was a racing deal
@@calicopeach4880true. It was an amazing save by Byron not to wreck himself tbh
McDowell leading lap 45 and Fox goes to a commercial. They come back and McDowell is at the back of the pack and they never really explained what happened to him.
That really ticked me off as a McDowell fan. Turned out he had electric problems. Found this out on a Facebook group but not Fox broadcast.
Exactly. I didn't know what happened either.....was it a flat? Did he get too big a push and get out of line? Mechanical issues? No clue. Great coverage guys. 🙄
Has anyone figured out what happened to Chastain's car after the race ending caution? On the fox broadcast, they looked at how close he was from hitting the inside wall, but his car was fine. Some time around the announcement of Byron winning, there was a short cut to Chastain spinning through the grass chucking dirt with the right front ripped apart on the backstretch.
Ive been looking for this comment yea it was weird but funny they cut like 3 seconds on his car and he was spinning and the broadcast was like oh!
It was like Ty Gibbs crash at Kansas last year 🤣
Now that I've looked at it some more I think he destroyed his car with a flat tire. Before the short clip, Byron and several others cruising on the back stretch ran over scattered debris. There was a chunk of fender that blew up into the fence and another chunk that got stuck in front of Byron's car. In the short clip, Chastain's car no longer had a right front fender and the rf tyre looked like it was ripped to shreds.
@@DtaSmooveThat cracked me up. How do you not go back to that and show what happened
His tire blew out. When they first showed his car he had all his fenders, when they went back to him while he spun you could see one of his fenders had blown apart from the tire hitting it.
I loved the fox broadcast, outside the wendys thing, it was like a early 00's broadcast.
It’s still like a C- program compared to NBC. Camerawork is disastrous at times
they did a good job taking breaks during green flag pit stops in stage 1
Man I just wanted Busch to be in contention at the end
Yea I was rooting for Kyle too
2025 is the year 🎱🏁
man drove through the field like 3 times lol
@@zirc_ the 22 and 8 were very fast
I did too.
Daytona really needs to finsh in the night light it really gives it the big game feel
The Bowman/Byron incident was definitely just an unfortunate racing incident. But, if you squint your eyes just right, it does make a pretty darn good "Dinoco is all mine" impression...
"Ha, get through that one Logano!" 😅
The “it’s just play racing” reminds me of Denny’s “short track racing” line lol. Chick hicks won that race
Yeah, the real issue with that wreck was that Bowman was giving Byron the push of a lifetime, but also couldn’t see past Bowman’s car to realize that the maneuvering of Logano and Keselowski on each other wadded up the field a bit at the same time.
Haven’t watched yet but im so happy we’re back!!!!! Love these episodes
Enjoyed watching this race today except for that wreck at the end.
I loved the 500! I am a huge William Byron fan, so seeing him win the race made my night. He really is a fierce competitor, as shown by last year's season, and I hope he continues to get that winning streak for HMS
This was such an amazing Daytona 500! Best 500 since 2022 and best 500 with the Gen 7’s!
This is what the Daytona 500 should be. Nothing but clean green professional and intense racing with no silly BS crapshoots and no dumb GWCs!
Confusing ending, but what a beautiful race :)
I rather enjoyed this strategy racing myself for the first 2 stages and up until lap 190. I really didn't want a crash but I enjoy the 3 wide racing and all the moves near the end. And with green pit stops fun watching team stragize to maintain packs and not go laps down
When I saw scheme and sponsor on Kyle’s car for The 500.
Had this feeling he might not win it but I still picked him anyway.
Like his teammate Austin he’s gonna have to win that race in a black car on the 8.
3CHI or BetMGM.
Has to have black on the car for him to win it.
Outside of Harvick’s Pennzoil in 2007.
RCR trademark is black.
I like Byron. He never really pulls any dirty moves and is clearly a very good driver. He's in my top 10.
But if I think about it way too hard, the only reason I'm mildly upset that Byron won is because this is the second time in the weekend that a massive crash was caused by him not being able to keep his car straight from a push.
Granted, I don't reasonably know what kind of force we're talking about (calm down Byron fans hahaha) - but we are always talking about bad pushes, but how about when a car _should have_ gone around and didn't due to driver talent? The "Superspeedway Death Wobble" happened a few times tonight even (I think KB was one of them). It is probably my favorite thing to happen in a superspeedway race hahaha. First example off the top of my head would be Blaney's save at Talladega in 2020. Even Gordon was like "I thought he was dead" hahaha. And there's drivers who can pull it off and drivers who don't. I love Byron, but at the moment I have to think he's in that second category.... And he won the damn race hahaha
Byron has two wins at Daytona and two wins at reconfigured Atlanta. I also think he has the best average finish in the 13 superspeedway races in this generation car. He knows how to get around the track.
I was watching the commericial free stream on the Dubai sports page. When that Wendy's skit with Clint Bowyer came on, there was no video. Just the audio from that awkward skit over the racing. One of the funniest things I've seen in NASCAR in sometime.
If that was someone like Joey Logano or Ross Chastain did the push Alex Bowman made causing the wreck, everyone would be calling for their heads, since it's a Hendrick car it's just "a mistake, it happens" (I'm a very irritated fan right now, this race was amazing until all that happened at the end)
Totally agree!
I enjoyed watching the race on satellite . No commercials breaks, and during commercial breaks full screen race with no commentary (best part honestly)
Is this the rise of the Bowdozer?
Yes 😂😂😂
Although funny… dude was being run over by Suarez
I think they where booing at the race ending under caution, not Willy B 😂
yeah maybe they would be booing willy b if it was chase elliott he beat instead if alex bowman
That better be the reason
Hi all, I’m new to the channel and I have been liking what I see. I’ve been a NASCAR fan since 2007 & have so many memories of the sport. What a wild race small deciding factors with big consequences and an amazing historical day for Hendrick & William Byron. Keep up the awesome content Eric.
Anyone who says this was a bad race didn’t watch the same race I did! Phenomenal race! I would say hands down the best Daytona 500 of the Gen 7 era. It was actually refreshing to see a race end at the 500 mile mark with no multiple GWC overtime attempts just my opinion
I watched it it was terrible. NASCAR needs to take off these Restrictor plates and let them race. Bunched up all race sucks…. Go watch some older races a lot more fun. All those cars owners are pissed that there cars got tore up. There all in the Red at the start of the season now$ wise
all the way up until the final 2 wrecks, it was a HELL of a race and was very very entertaining. but then again the finish just throws almost all of that out the window because it gives a not so deserving car the win while everyone else wrecks out, but that's superspeedways for ya
@@mateojohns05 you must be new to racing ? Cause it was terrible
@@sammyweed4771 how was it terrible? the first stage was kinda boring after the caution cause everyone was saving fuel, but after that it was at least 2/3 wide for a good portion and soooo much better than we've seen the last few years. people were able to go from back to front easily and we had a ton of lower tier teams running high up in the order which was awesome to see, i think the finish just puts a damper on the entire race and makes it more like a middle of the road superspeedway race
@@sammyweed4771 based off your first comment, you'd rather have what is essentially a damn train with stock cars? i agree the old racing did use to be better than this, but that's not to say the new package hasn't raced great at superspeedways, pretty much everybody has a shot at winning and a shot at being wrecked out and that's the risk/reward people go to the race to watch. either way, if this is what nascar wants to see then this is what we get, personally i think the new superspeedway races would be fantastic if the drivers could just calm down a tiny bit and not push people sideways in the closing laps every year😂 it'd be nice to actually watch a race to the line again
That was a hectic race. Hayley, LaJoie, Cindric, Smith, Hocevar, Preece, Berry, Buescher, and Ragan, were definitely ones to watch out for in this race. I was a little livid at the fact Nascar placed Chastain 21st despite the scoring loop showing Chastain was still in the top 10 while spinning out when the caution came out, so I don't understand how Nascar screwed that up. But other than that, this nex-gen car showed anyone can make a comeback out of nowhere.
There was a momentary clip on the fox broadcast of Chastain spinning through the grass with a destroyed right front, so I don't think he completed the white flag lap.
@@L-W-7 I thought that rule is only meant for the leader. Because I remember the rules being for white flag cautions is "As is where is." Meaning where you place is where you place, whether your car is obliterated or not.
He was apart of the wreck and he stopped and was passed by everybody.
@@danspriggs But that's the problem. I remember Nascar still placing people according to where they're stamped even if they're crashing. Like for example, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. blew an engine and Carl Edwards rammed him and Ricky won the race despite crashing on the final lap. This case shouldn't be any different. The scoring loop places Ross Chastain as 7th - 9th when the caution came out, technically by rules, all those guys who passed him have to fall behind him due to the scoring loop.
@@lunamelody2025 he didn’t maintain minimum speed under caution though. I don’t remember the Stenhouse incident but if he didn’t maintain speed back then he probably shouldn’t have won.
Announcers on fox I can’t even stand it anymore. I just turn volume down and play a speaker with MRN 😂😂😂
The 100 yard markers green screened on the race track we're stupid and on the white flag lap were double stupid, as long as they don't bring that up for all the Fox races this year it should be good.
I didn't watch the race, but you can be disturbed knowing that Fox will probably do it for all of the races on their portion of the schedule.
Another fantastically well done podcast.i have nothing further to add
Can we show some love 4 Corey LaJoie up there?
Gotta like seeing a race team that doesn't have more money than god get up there.
Ryan preece really showed them why he is Ford's #1 driver as well as SHR #1 driver 🤸♀️
Go get em Ryan 🏁🏆☝️💪👊✊️
We all miss Dale Earnhardt
If Dale was here in tight pack racing, there would be a wreck on every lap until the 3 stopped running.
Most new fans where not even born when Dale passed
@@WALTRIPFLAIR Incorrect. It would have been like the '91 Busch Clash all over again.
JH Nemechek was a wrecking ball in both races!!! He caused several of the accidents and should be in trouble for it but won't be. He has taken over for Ty Gibbs in the aggressive/chaos category for sure!!! Don't like it when one guys causes so much carnage!! Also Eric, I didn't see Danica in the Xfinity race?! LOL
We didn't have a final lap because nascar was trying to have a better Finish and threw the caution to late
Look again at Nemechek. His car never gets turned. It is always pointed straight ahead. He just wallows side-to-side until he contacts the red car in the inside lane. It does not look as if Keselowski ever bumped him.
Wallow is an engineering term for a linear motion side-to-side. The other two linear degrees of freedom are surge and heave.
The three rotational degrees of freedom are roll, pitch and yaw. His car wallowed. If Brad had hit him on the left rear bumper, he would have caused him to yaw toward the wall. He did not touch the wall.
The problem seems to be that he just lacked experience in anticipating the aero influence the Safer barrier would have on his car as he went by in a pack.
Cant wait to hear about how this is Hendrick’s 40th year anniversary…… every week.
🤮
Happy to see you getting recognition and sponsorship.
All my drivers got screwed over hard, Burton screwed by keselowski, again, buescher stuck in traffic the whole race, and chastain got, uhhh, idk whatever the hell that was, in short, i'm in shambles :(((((. Next week is burton time I swear (i'm not coping I swear)
Man to think Chastain could have won the 500 had he hanged on
@@xavierjuno4572 if he had then i'd've been healed from the burton stuff
@@t-bird_guy Ya I was heartbroken when Byron passed him
I’m not sure if it’s because the race was on Monday and there was a Xfinity race afterwards, but my one big complaint of the FOX broadcast was post race and still going back to the Charlotte studio instead of being on site. Just felt like pulling the plug early on the great environment the Daytona 500 creates
People are hating on this race mostly because Byron won.
That’s just so stupid though. Other drivers did the same thing in the past and won races because of it. Byron gets a bad bump from Bowman and triggers the Big One, and is now the Villain.
@@Jake_LA08 This is mid to late 90s Jeff Gordon all over again. People got tired of him winning too.
@@CJODell12 He has 7 wins in the last 37 races. Its not like he has 50 wins he has 11 in think. It was a breakout season last year MAYBE a championship this year
This was my first time going to the 500 and it was grate chase wining a stage and a hendrick car wining beside the delay was definitely a great first time Daytona 500 experience
This was one of the closest finishes in Daytona history how is that not a bigger storyline?
because the bigger storyline is the debate about when the caution came out then how close they were. because it was pretty clear who was ahead at each of the debated sides and it was different drivers both times.
Weather included, this has to be one of the greatest speedweek(s) I've ever watched in my 20 plus years. The duels were both intense and stressful, especially for us lifelong Jimmay fans, and like you said, 95 percent of the racing today was either interesting or intense, usually both. We usually can't have it all in a plate races, as shown by the last 10 laps, but ignoring those and the rain, this was one of the greatest 500 weekend's I've ever had the pleasure of watching. Bowman and Ross were so close!!!!!!!
William Byron is the new Jeff Gordon with that 500 win
You mean the new chick hicks?
You seriously can't go one fucking week without riding his meat.
Hardly
Very good analysis, as always. You called it when the 48 bumped the 24 (which I get) repeatedly to cause the big one, then went on to finish P1 and 2. ugh! I too would have loved to see the best cars still running at the end but then again, it's Daytona (like you said).
Logano, Keselowski, and Blaney clearly the 3 best cars in the race (especially logano by far) get taken out by byron and bowman. Ironically the top 2 finishers were byron and bowman. I feel bad for logano. He had the best car. It wasn't just one of those hendrick poles that was a no show in the race. It was the best car in the field.
all of your thoughts hit the nail on the head, fantastic breakdown
"Gee why would anyone boo William Byron" Well maybe it's because - "... ironically the two that started the incident made it through scott free and one of them went on to win the race"
Get you some rest Eric. Sorry you couldn’t be at the race. You do a great job as always on your channel. I watched no other RUclips channel on racing except yours, you have the most up-to-date information. so many people are talking about who actually won the race tonight. Give your thoughts on this tomorrow maybe
Is Bowman the new BK for causing wrecks on the big tracks?
one notable driver you may missed was Mcdowell who had a horrible night at daytona
I feel like Joey never gets enough credit on channels like this. The best car over all was the 22. Not just on the track but also the best on pit road. There were multiple multiple times where Joey got on pit road and came out multiple positions ahead.
He really isn't a fan of the 22. But like DBC, if he screws up, he'll be quick to talk about it.
On top of that leading 140 laps at Atlanta Spring last year, led 48 laps at Talladega Fall last year, and led 45 laps tonight for this Daytona 500, clearly incredible at SuperSpeedway racing, should've won this race or at least top 3. Just Like last year's 500, he got screwed.
@@alecsmalygo other than Hamlin he is the best when it comes to the 500. In the last decade the only times he hasn’t been in the top 10 is due to a wreck ( one time he wrecked and still finished 12 th)
The crazy thing is Byron is my fav driver
Great race to kick off the season, a Hendrick 1-2 finish made me so happy, two of my favorite drivers, go team Chevrolet
Best recap show to watch...great job!
Controversial opinion, Xfinity race was the best of the week
Honestly I agree, had a whole room of non nascar friends that watched with me and they all felt as I did that when the two cars that reck the field ended up winning it doesn’t seem fair
Easily the best. Better storylines from it too.....Decker leading a few laps, Jordan Anderson finishing in the top 5, the two former teammates with no love lost between them finishing 1 & 2......easily the better race.
6:26 I get the feeling they were booing the outcome of the race because of the late caution and not really William Byron. I'm glad someone else noticed how strange it was for everyone to sandbag and save gas but it was pretty cool compared to the Daytona races me and my dad saw in 2000, where after like 20 laps of just straight line "choo-choo train" as I've heard it called driving no passing, forty three cars and one long line and many of us started staring at each other saying what's going on? And the only time there was a shuffle of position was pitting. But this Daytona 500 as well as the other races with the truck series and the xfinity series were pretty good! Lots of action as well as pretty intense crashes and I'm very glad no one got hurt.
Sucks that the guy that wins, caused the two cautions that gave him the victory
Brad caused the first on lap 6
Byron got loose off a bump of Bowman so technically Bowman caused that one
And LaJoie and Cindric caused the last crash
If you want to win a super speedway race, all you have to do is wreck all the top contenders out of the race first, then it is so much easier to win the race. Which is exactly what Byron did.
#24 🏁
I liked on Busch’s radio how they pointed out that Allmendinger all by himself was catching the pack because of how slow it was going to save fuel.
This finish just makes me wonder why I keep watching NASCAR.
Should have let them actually finish the race, the caution can’t be called on the last lap that’s ridiculous. I get it but it also only makes the race 199 laps not 200. So much for the Daytona 500, more like the Daytona 497.5
@@PaintStripeGuyReminder that Earnhardt won his Daytona 500 under caution
@@PaintStripeGuythe race was 200 laps, they came to the checkered flag under caution. Sometimes races end under caution. It just happens. Not every football game ends with a winning TD. Not every basketball game ends with a buzzer beater. You can't turn the end of the biggest race into a circus, there has to be a line drawn. Sometimes it just has to end.
@@DepravedCoTApologistcrap finish
Yeah, finish was a letdown. I think they just wanted to get out of there asap.
I “boo” because we felt like we were owed a GWC restart as the wreck was generated before the white flag. It all happened way too fast.
I love it when the two winners are the two cars that wrecked the field 🙄
I was at the race. Allmendinger was a half a lap behind from the pack all my himself due to a choose cone violation and he was gaining on the pack by himself while Blaney and Bell were throttling the pack back. It was wild.
Byron is that guy
Tonight confirmed it
Watkins Glen confirmed it for me last year. He can win at all types of tracks
The Biggest big one ever in history of Daytona 500. 23 cars tied with the original big one from 1990. Now here's a fun fact for you Eric between 1997-2005 we had 9 20 or more car Pile-ups in NASCAR's top three series. Since 2010 11 times between NASCAR's top 3 three series had a crash with 20 or more cars wrecked and 7 times since 2014 the last decade we had 20 or more crashed across all three series in the same accident it wasn't the largest Daytona wreck ever in the Modern Era, but it still was huge. again biggest for the 500 and largest with the next gen car too. I mean I feel like a kid again and seeing all those old wrecks. I mean that was nuts. I mean in 3 of the 4 races 17 or more involved in the same wreck.
NASCAR just needs to make the races guaranteed to finish under green. Fans deserve it and it is annoying seeing a finish like this deflate the entire weekend.
yeah, i just don’t think nascar will ever let them race back to the line when a wreck happens on the last lap, but they let them race back in the xfinity race so who knows. nascar is so inconsistent with their calls
Yeah like in the words of Kyle Busch if this was the 1998 Winston rules William would be the winner.
I like how everyone was saying last year that this shouldn't happen and now they want it to 😂
That is how racing works sometimes. I hate it ended like that but keep in mind, they also had an XFINITY Series race to run too. It may have been anticlimactic but for safety I was glad it ended the way it did. Overtime just becomes how many cars can we wad up. If they would race right, I like overtime but it becomes too much of a slugfest on these type of tracks.
@@zirc_its the final lap
Alanis Morissette thinks it's ironic that the only real complaint is too many commercials, and then the groovy gauge is sponsored. 😂. Love the content, keep it up. 👍
The Daytona 500 was wild they crashed at the beginning and it messed up Jimmays day
My first race and was it awesome! I Listened to Kyle Busch and his spotter who is a smooth operator. So cool to hear about proximity to other cars and random comments like this one from Kyle-" I don't trust the 7." 🤣
Kyle got some points, lead laps, and him put himself in a position to win after pit issues. Had a blast!
This race made me hate HMS even more .
You can multiply that by 100x 😡😡. Oh man I also hate HMS.
I do feel this Daytona 500 Fox and the crew really tried to not do dumb cuts, and from start to finish, I only counted a small handful of stupid camera cuts or other small bloopers, but OVERALL, a very good race and TV presentation this year. Gives me hope maybe Fox has heard our displeasure and instead of trying to hard, they have taken a deep breathe. Only one race in so it'll take a little time to truly find out
Busch should've won. Bullshit race.
😂
pic checks out but i agree fuck byron
Commercial count:
First caution lap 6
Lap 19-23
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43-47
52-56 (side by side)
End of stage
Stage 2
Start:67
76-80
86-89 went to 90 about 5 seconds later
96-99
105-109
118-121
Stage 3
Start: 132
3 side by side couple lap commercials
147-149
156-158 side by side
171-174
Red flag with 8 to go to
Not as bad as last year