It might be worth the try.”ĭenny Hamlin, who ran in the first heat, noted that how the wet weather tires performed Saturday can be taken for other races in dry conditions. “Hey, if the (All-Star) Race sucks in the first half, we should put on the wet weathers for the second half and see what happens. It almost had a better feel than our normal tire does, so that was interesting. “Like it was actually going to fall-off and stuff. It had surprisingly more grip than I thought it was going to have.”Ĭhase Elliott, who also ran in the first heat, said the wet weather tires worked well. “If there was ever an opportune time to do it, it was now,” he said. Ryan Blaney, who ran in the first heat, was encouraged by how the tire performed. Only the second half of the second heat was run on wet weather tires after rain returned. MORE: All-Star Race starting lineup results of heat racesĪll 60 laps of Saturday’s first heat race at North Wilkesboro were run with wet weather tires. The night wasn’t perfect, but without running in those conditions, the race would not have been official when it was eventually stopped. Racing on wet weather tires was first tried during the Truck race at Martinsville in April. The second heat finished before 8:50 p.m. Engines for the first heat were fired at 7:26 p.m. Saturday night’s efforts - the first time Cup cars had been on wet weather tires on a short oval - allowed the night to continue as planned and maintain the electric atmosphere with NASCAR’s return to North Wilkesboro for the first time since 1996. Instead of a drawn-out evening, fans at North Wilkesboro Speedway saw two heat races completed in less than 90 minutes Saturday night despite a wet track and rain. Tyler Reddick - Reddick was involved in the same accident as Elliott, finishing 39th.Ĭonor Daly - The Ind圜ar visitor had a tough race week. MORE: What drivers said about the Daytona 500 MORE: Daytona race results, point standings LOSERSĬhase Elliott - An early-race accident forced Elliott to park, and he finished 38th. He raced at the front and ran well in the draft. Kyle Busch - Although a late-race accident left him with a 19th-place finish, Busch’s points-race debut with Richard Childress Racing was a success. Travis Pastrana - Simply starting the race was a win for Pastrana, an action sports star who had dreamed of competing in the 500 for years. Stenhouse has had troubles at the Cup level, but Sunday’s win put him in rare air as winner of a race that many of NASCAR’s best haven’t won.īrad Keselowski and Chris Buescher - The RFK Racing drivers put together a two-car draft that might have won the race. The sunshine finally broke through for Stenhouse and Mike Kelley, his crew chief, in stock car racing’s biggest event. A look at the winners and losers from Sunday’s Daytona 500: WINNERS
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