After Saturday evening’s thrilling end within the Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona Worldwide Speedway, just one race stays within the NASCAR Cup Sequence common season.
Harrison Burton, in his last season with Wooden Brothers Racing, blew by Kyle Busch after a restart in additional time to say his first NASCAR Cup victory and earn a playoff berth, with solely the Sept. 1 Cook dinner Out Southern 500 at Darlington left within the common season.
Burton, within the No. 21 Ford, turned the thirteenth race winner of the 2024 season.
Listed here are the winners and losers within the Coke Zero Sugar 400 NASCAR Cup Sequence race at Daytona.
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Winners
Christopher Bell
Bell was concerned within the first of two massive crashes. The motive force of the Joe Gibbs No. 20 Toyota acquired caught up within the crash that got here on Lap 61 when Corey LaJoie gave Noah Gragson a nasty push. Bell was amongst 17 drivers concerned within the crash, which took out seven vehicles. Of all these drivers, Bell was in a position to get better and completed the race the best in third place. It was his eighth top-five end in 2024.
Harrison Burton
Burton, 23, who has been with Wooden Brothers Racing since 2022, came upon in early July he would get replaced by Josh Berry in 2025. No different NASCAR Cup staff has picked up Burton, however that would change after the style during which he received the Coke Zero Sugar 400, swiping the checkered flag from Busch on the finish. It was the one centesimal all-time victory for Wooden Brothers.
Parker Retzlaff
It is a fairly secure guess Burton would not have been in a position to overtake Busch if not for the massive push he acquired from Retzlaff. After shoving Burton into the lead, Retzlaff moved into second earlier than dropping again and ending seventh within the No. 62 Chevy. Retzlaff, 21, is an Xfinity Sequence driver who made his second total Cup Sequence begin within the Coke Zero Sugar 400. It was his first begin with Beard Motorsports.
Losers
Josh Berry
Berry was in competition earlier than hitting the wall and flipping his Stewart-Haas Ford down the backstretch with two laps to go in regulation. The native of Hendersonville, Tennessee, was in second place behind Austin Cindric when his automobile acquired airborne, landed on the roof and skidded into the infield retaining wall. Berry, who had taken the lead on Lap 103, mentioned after the race that the crash was not as dangerous because it probably appeared.
Kyle Busch
Busch was on the point of snapping his 45-race winless streak when he took the lead in additional time. He had managed to keep away from each massive wrecks to stay in competition all through the race. Busch allowed Burton, with the push from Retzlaff, to take the lead however nonetheless had an opportunity to maneuver again in entrance down the stretch. Burton, nonetheless, dropped to the within and blocked Busch as they approached the end line. Busch additionally got here near snapping his streak final week when he completed fourth at Michigan.
Corey LaJoie
It by no means comes as a shock when an enormous crash, or the “massive one,” as it’s generally recognized, comes at Daytona Worldwide Speedway. However the first of two on Saturday evening did not must occur. LaJoie, who ran nicely early and was in sixteenth place on the time, gave Gragson an ungainly push on the left rear halfway by means of the second stage. It pressured Gragson to hit the wall and slide throughout the sphere, inflicting a 17-car pileup. LaJoie and Gragson have been knocked out of the race, together with Chase Elliott, Denny Hamlin, Ross Chastain, Austin Dillon and Kyle Larson.
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