Daytona - Daytona 500

Daytona 500

Daytona - Daytona 500

New Sponsor - Monster Energy

Winner: Kurt Busch

First Race - New Points - Kevin Harvick and Brad Keslowski ended up in the top sixteen, even though they finished 22nd and 27th respectfully. With the new 5 minute repair rule on pit road 15 cars were out of the race because of an accident.

Chase Elliot came this close to winning his first race, but ran out of gas with 3 laps left.

Should be an interesting year.  

Finishing Order:

POS	#	DRIVER	START	FINAL STATUS	POINTS
1	41	Kurt Busch	8	Running	48
2	21	Ryan Blaney	36	Running	44
3	47	AJ Allmendinger	38	Running	39
4	43	Aric Almirola	13	Running	33
5	27	Paul Menard	33	Running	32
6	22	Joey Logano	15	Running	40
7	5	Kasey Kahne	26	Running	30
8	15	Michael Waltrip	30	Running	29
9	32	Matt DiBenedetto	25	Running	28
10	6	Trevor Bayne	11	Running	27
11	75	Brendan Gaughan	39	Running	0
12	42	Kyle Larson	16	Running	33
13	78	Martin Truex Jr	35	Running	24
14	24	Chase Elliott	1	Running	23
15	95	Michael McDowell	22	Running	22
16	34	Landon Cassill	27	Running	21
17	11	Denny Hamlin	4	Running	23
18	72	Cole Whitt	17	Running	19
19	3	Austin Dillon	10	Running	18
20	7	Elliott Sadler	40	Running	0
21	31	Ryan Newman	14	Running	18
22	4	Kevin Harvick	5	Running	34
23	23	Joey Gase	29	Running	0
24	83	Corey Lajoie	31	Running	13
25	38	David Ragan	20	Running	12
26	33	Jeffrey Earnhardt	32	Accident	11
27	2	Brad Keselowski	7	Accident	24
28	1	Jamie McMurray	3	Accident	13
29	19	Daniel Suarez	19	Accident	8
30	13	Ty Dillon	18	Accident	7
31	17	Ricky Stenhouse Jr	23	Accident	6
32	14	Clint Bowyer	6	Accident	9
33	10	Danica Patrick	12	Accident	11
34	48	Jimmie Johnson	24	Accident	5
35	37	Chris Buescher	37	Accident	2
36	96	D.J. Kennington	28	Accident	1
37	88	Dale Earnhardt Jr	2	Accident	7
38	18	Kyle Busch	21	Accident	11
39	77	Erik Jones	34	Accident	1
40	20	Matt Kenseth	9	Accident	1