Reviewing a #SrigleyStats-Packed Weekend from Daytona!
From Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. to Nick Sanchez, Speedweeks was filled with #SrigleyStats!
PHOTO CREDIT: Tom Copeland, HHP, Courtesy of Team Chevy
This past weekend, NASCAR’s National Series took to Daytona International Speedway for the first points-paying events of the season, and the racing didn’t disappoint - for the most part.
Best of all, an interesting weekend of racing from “The World Center of Racing” provided some interesting #SrigleyStats, so let’s quickly review the notable things that happened this weekend at Daytona!
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TWO DRIVERS. ONE NAME. SAME EVENT.
As a follow-up from Monday’s #SrigleyStats post, Jason White (USA) and Jason White (CAN) both qualified for Friday’s NASCAR Truck Series event, making them the first pair with the same name to compete in the same NASCAR National Series event.
Jason White (USA) finished 15th driving for TRICON Garage, while Jason White (CAN) finished 21st driving for Reaume Brothers Racing.
THE ROOKIES ARE RUNNING THE SHOW
Nick Sanchez, driving for Rev Racing, secured the pole for Friday’s NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series event at Daytona, in his series debut. By doing so, Sanchez became the sixth driver in series history to win a pole on debut.
YELLOW, YELLOW, YELLOW
Friday’s NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series event was called after just 79 laps, due to the onset of rain/mist. The poor conditions on track forced NASCAR to throw several cautions, accumulating 41 caution flag laps - compared to only 38 green-flag laps.
It was the first time in the 28-year history of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series that an event ran more laps under caution than it did under green.
‘IT’S NOT WHERE YOU START, IT’S WHERE YOU FINISH’
Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. and JTG Daugherty Racing captured the victory in Sunday’s Daytona 500 from the 31st starting spot, as the result of a poor finish in Thursday’s Bluegreen Vacations Duel.
In doing so, Stenhouse became the sixth driver in the race’s 65-year history to win “The Great American Race” from starting worse than 30th, and the first to do it since Trevor Bayne in 2011.