NASCAR Sprint Cup Coke Zero 400 Powered by Coca-Cola Daytona International Speedway

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Next Race: Coke Zero 400 Powered by Coca-Cola
Daytona International Speedway Distance: 400 miles (160 laps)
Saturday, July 5 7:30 p.m. (ET) TV: TNT, 6:30 p.m. (ET)
Radio: MRN, Sirius XM Ch. 90

NASCAR Nationwide Series Subway Firecracker 250 Powered by Coca-Cola
Daytona International Speedway Distance: 250 miles (100 laps)
Friday, July 4 7:30 p.m. (ET) TV: ESPN2, 7 p.m. (ET)
Radio: MRN, Sirius XM Ch. 90

NASCAR Camping World Truck Series American Ethanol 200
Iowa Speedway Friday, July 11 Distance: 200 miles (175 laps)
Friday, July 11 8:30 p.m. (ET) TV: FOX Sports 1, 8 p.m. (ET)
Radio: MRN, Sirius XM Ch. 90

Wild Card Spot still open – who’s it going to be?

With NASCAR’s “win-and-in” format for the Chase, some tracks are potential wild cards Sonoma, Talladega, Watkins Glen, and this one coming up, Daytona International Speedway. Surprise Daytona winners: David Ragan, Trevor Bayne and Ward Burton

Tony Stewart: Stewart has four wins at Daytona, all coming in the July night race. He is due for a win in 2014 & on Saturday night might hold the most meaning. 16th Place in points, he is currently outside the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup bubble (Denny Hamlin and Kurt Busch are lower in points, but their respective wins would push him out of the Chase Grid). Stewart’s last two finishes in the night race 1st and 2nd

Matt Kenseth: Have won multiple Daytona 500s, Kenseth finished 6th place in the 2014 daytona 500. 5th in points and the current highest positioned winless driver.

Jamie McMurray: 7 of his career wins, 4 have come at restrictor plate tracks. Two have come at Daytona – once in the Daytona 500 (2010), another in the night race (2007).

Paul Menard: He’s 11th in points & has Top 10s in 4 of the last six races, and top fives to two of the last four. He has nine top 10s this season; only four drivers have more. And he’s done it without much hoopla.

Ryan Newman: Newman just had his best race of the season, scoring a 3rd place finish and a driver rating of 116.7 at Kentucky. A 2008 Daytona 500 winner, Newman has finished in the top 10 in three of the last four Daytona races.

Danica Patrick: Patrick has done well at Daytona International Speedway except for the 40th place finish in this year’s Daytona 500. In 2013 Daytona 500, she became the first female to win a Coors Light Pole, and followed it up with an eighth place finish. Daytona may be her best chance to make more history, as the first female to win a NASCAR national series race.

Kyle Larson: 12th in points, Larson is the leading Sunoco Rookie of the Year candidate if he was to win he the first Sunoco Rookie of the Year candidate since Joey Logano in 2009 to win a NSCS race. It would also likely make him the first rookie since Denny Hamlin in 2006 to make the Chase.

Greg Biffle: Biffle seems to have righted his season over the last two races. After finishing outside the top 15 in five consecutive races, he has chipped in runs of ninth at Sonoma and 14th at Kentucky. Not earth shattering – but it did move him to 13th in points, and inside the Chase Grid bubble.

The list of potential drivers who winless in 2014 who could win at Daytona:
1. Car 20 Matt Kenseth Dollar General Toyota, highest in points without a win
2. Car 14 Tony Stewart Rush Truck Centers Chevrolet, improved & Hendricks Engine
3. Car 5 Kasey Kahne Great Clips Chevrolet, has done well lately & Team Hendricks
4. Car 16 Greg Biffle ACE Ford, high in points without a win
5. Car 31 Ryan Newman Caterpillar Chevrolet, has done well lately
6. Car 15 Clint Bowyer 5-hour Energy Toyota, has done well lately
7. Car 1 Jamie McMurray Lexar Chevrolet, has done well lately
8. Car 34 David Ragan Taco Bell Ford, has done well lately
9. Car 3 Austin Dillon Cheerios Protein Chevrolet won pole for Daytona 500
10. Car 42 Kyle Larson Target Chevrolet, high in points without a win due for 1st win
11. Car 9 Marcos Ambrose Black & Decker Ford, high in points without a win
12. Car 27 Paul Menard Quaker State/Menards Chevrolet, has done well lately
13. Car 10 Danica Patrick GoDaddy Chevrolet, improved & Hendricks Engine

The list of potential drivers who won in 2014 who could win at Daytona:
1. Car 24 Jeff Gordon Drive to End Hunger Chevrolet – 1 win team is doing well
2. Car 4 Kevin Harvick Budweiser Chevrolet – 2 major contender in 2014
3. Car 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. National Guard Chevrolet – 2 wins won 2014 Daytona 500
4. Car 48 Jimmie Johnson Lowe’s Chevrolet – 3 wins team is clicking
5. Car 18 Kyle Busch M&M’s Toyota – 1 win hungry for another win
6. Car 41 Kurt Busch Haas Automation Chevrolet – 1 win getting better
7. Car 2 Brad Keselowski Miller Lite Ford – 2 wins Penske Qualifying & Momentum
8. Car 22 Joey Logano Shell Pennzoil Ford – 2 wins Team Penske Qualifying
9. Car 99 Carl Edwards UPS Ford – 2 wins Momentum
10. Car 11 Denny Hamlin FedEx Office Toyota – 1 win if healthy could win

NASCAR Nationwide Series
Elliott Sadler the NASCAR Nationwide Series standings lead. JR Motorsports teammates of Chase Elliott is in 2nd place & Regan Smith is in 3rd place in the points. Sadler has a win at a restrictor plate track this year Talladega & could do it again. Smith won at Talladega last season, won at Daytona this.

Daytona Kicks-Off Qualifying For Round One Of Nationwide’s Dash 4 Cash
Friday night under the lights at Daytona International Speedway marks the return of Nationwide Insurance’s Dash 4 Cash (#Dash4Cash). The top-four finishing NASCAR Nationwide championship contenders in the Subway Firecracker 250 will qualify to run the first leg of the popular program at New Hampshire Motor Speedway with an opportunity to win $100,000. The highest finisher of the four eligible drivers at New Hampshire will win the money and automatically qualify for the Dash 4 Cash at Chicagoland the following weekend. The three highest finishing NNS regulars at New Hampshire not already qualified will also get to compete for the $100,000 bonus at Chicagoland. The final two events at Indianapolis and Iowa will carry the same qualifying requirements. If one driver wins the first three legs of the Dash 4 Cash and the Iowa race outright, Nationwide Insurance will award that driver an extra $600,000.

NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Etc.
Only three drivers in the American Ethanol 200 field have visited Victory Lane at Iowa Speedway: Crafton, Peters and Ryan Blaney. NASCAR Next member Cole Custer, 16, is set to make his fourth career start as he runs a limited schedule on tracks 1.25 miles or shorter.

NASCAR Whelen Euro Series championship
Not only has Tours Speedway become a permanent structure, it is a pivotal piece to the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series championship. The track outside of Paris, France, debuted as a temporary .4-mile oval in 2012 – with the U.S.’s Ben Kennedy earning the inaugural win. The first purpose-built oval for NASCAR stock-car racing in Europe, which will host races both Saturday and Sunday, has been such a popular attraction that it is now a permanent track with 10.5 degrees of banking in turns 1 and 2 and longer straightaways to bring it to nearly a half-mile track.

NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour
The NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour will head to a familiar place to return to action Friday following the annual spring break period. The Daggett Shuler Attorneys at Law 150 is an Independence Day special at Caraway Speedway in Sophia, North Carolina. George Brunnhoelzl III has 10 wins on the .445-mile oval, including wins on July 4 weekend three times (2008, 2012-13).

NASCAR Canadian Tire
Andrew Ranger will look to get his championship hopes back on track Sunday as the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series presented by Mobil 1 heads to Circuit ICAR for the Jiffy Lube 100 presented by La Petite. Bretonne. Ranger, from Roxton Pond, Quebec, has been wins in each of the two previous seasons at the 2.113-mile, 14-turn road course in Mirabel.

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