The NASCAR XFINITY Series now heads to Atlanta Motor Speedway next Saturday afternoon.
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“I was just trying to protect my spot and Joey was tough to keep behind me but this is just a great feeling to be in Victory Lane here at Daytona”.
Elliott took the lead from Logano on a final restart with 13 laps to go and then blocked his fellow Sprint Cup regular on the last lap.
“We can’t have this in-between because you’re just making this more unsafe the way we got it right now”, he said. “Lot of work to do here”.
Kyle Busch was stuck in a hospital bed, the Daytona 500 just a race on TV.
He can only hope to have as smooth a run.
According to oddsmakers at BetDSI, Joey Logano is a 4/1 favorite to win this year’s race while Kyle Larson and Austin Dillon have each been given 7/1 odds to win.
“I thought we were wrecked, which fortunately we didn’t”, said Elliott, who finished 0.043 of a second ahead, about half a vehicle length. It was his third second-place finish in three races during Speedweeks. He was also runner-up in the Sprint Unlimited and in the first Duel qualifying race Thursday.
“Hopefully tomorrow I can get in front of it by the start/finish line; that would be really cool”, Logano said. His new JR Motorsports teammate Elliott Sadler was able to hook bumpers with the No. 88 vehicle a lap later and continued to push Elliott as the laps wound down.
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Bubba Wallace, Brandon Jones, Daniel Suarez, Blake Koch and Brendan Gaughan completed the first10 finishers.
