400 miles once again proved to not be quite enough at Daytona International Speedway as Saturday night’s Coke Zero Sugar 400 went into NASCAR Overtime. Ryan Newman made the most of the extra laps and powered to a fourth-place run.
Matt DiBenedetto and the No. 21 Menards/Dutch Boy team put themselves in position to win Saturday night’s Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway, but their involvement in a late-race, multi-car crash knocked them out of contention for a win and the Playoff berth that would have come with it.
Kevin Harvick started 11th and finished 27th. Harvick qualified for the playoffs by virtue of his ninth-place finish in the regular-season standings.
Chase Briscoe started 16th and finished 22nd. Briscoe was the highest finishing NASCAR Cup Series rookie for the 22nd time this season.
Aric Almirola, driver of the No. 10 Smithfield Ford Mustang for Stewart-Haas Racing:
Landon Cassill, driver of the No. 96 Carnomaly Toyota Camry: “We had a pretty decent race going, and it was shaping up at the end."
Kyle Busch started fourth and finished third, earning eight bonus points.
Cole Custer, driver of the No. 41 Autodesk Fusion 360/HaasTooling.com Ford Mustang for Stewart-Haas Racing:
The battle for the NCS Regular Season Championship all came down to the 400-mile, 160-lap race at the famed Daytona International Speedway, where the 29-year-old Hendrick Motorsports driver captured his first-career NCS Regular Season Championship title.
TYLER REDDICK, NO. 8 CHEDDAR’S SCRATCH KITCHEN CAMARO ZL1 1LE – Finished 6th WERE YOU NERVOUS AT ANY POINT IN THE RACE GIVEN WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU?
Erik Jones and the No. 43 Columbia PFG Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE team finished in the 12th-place in the NASCAR Cup Series (NCS) Coke Zero Sugar 400 at the Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway on Saturday, August 28.
Bubba Wallace (third) finished in the top-five to lead Toyota in the Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona International Speedway on Saturday evening. Christopher Bell, Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin and Martin Truex Jr. will officially be a part of the 16-driver Playoff field that was set at the conclusion of this race.
RYAN BLANEY, No. 12 BodyArmor Ford Mustang -- VICTORY LANE INTERVIEW: DESCRIBE THE LAST FEW LAPS?
The Coke Zero Sugar 400 NASCAR Cup Series’ regular season finale at Daytona International Speedway unfolded as billed with dramatic action all Saturday night that included 45 lead changes, a 14-minute Red Flag period and a wild final lap of overtime to decide the championship Playoff picture.
Louis-Philippe Dumoulin and the #47 WeatherTech Canada | Groupe Bellemare team started from 5th position on the ICAR road course for the "La Fernandière 75" race.
The #17 Castrol Edge Dodge with DJ Kennington at the wheel put together another team set out to continue their formidable season during round number four of the 2021 NASCAR Pinty’s Series season at Circuit ICAR in Mirabel, Quebec this past weekend.
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Kyle Larson won the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series Regular Season Championship Presented by Coca-Cola at Daytona International Speedway Saturday night. The trophy was awarded at the conclusion of the Coke Zero 400, the final race before the post-season Playoffs.
The High Point, North Carolina, native claimed his third victory of the season and his second consecutive in recent weeks at the world center of racing.
Joe Gibbs Racing drivers Denny Hamlin, Kyle Busch, Martin Truex Jr. and Christopher Bell were made available to media prior to the Daytona race today: