Aside from a couple of surprises, it was a relatively tame night of racing in Thursday’s duels at Daytona – at least until Joey Logano spun around the hood of Chris Buescher’s car on the last lap of the second race.
Buescher and his teammate Brad Keselowski won the duels and will fill up the second row of Sunday’s Daytona 500.
It’s not surprising that the 60-lap qualifying races in a year where teams are short on cars didn’t produce a massive amount of heart-stopping moments.
It did however make the race for Kaz Grala, who used the draft to pass J.J. Yeley on the final lap of the first race. It got Grala, and his Floyd Mayweather-owned team, to qualify for Sunday’s 64th running of the Great American Race.
Sunday’s Daytona 500 will begin at 1:30 p.m. CT on FOX. The starting lineup can be seen below:
64th Daytona 500 Starting Lineup
1. Kyle Larson
2. Alex Bowman
3. Brad Keselowski
4. Chris Buescher
5. Austin Cindric
6. Michael McDowell
7. Ryan Blaney
8. Harrison Burton
9. Chase Briscoe
10. Kyle Busch
11. Chase Elliott
12. Christopher Bell
13. Erik Jones
14. Martin Truex Jr.
15. Tyler Reddick
16. Bubba Wallace
17. Kurt Busch
18. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
19. Ross Chastain
20. Kevin Harvick
21. Daniel Suarez
22. Corey LaJoie
23. William Byron
24. Ty Dillon
25. Justin Haley
26. Greg Biffle
27. Landon Cassill
28. Alex Bowman
29. Todd Gilliland
30. Denny Hamlin
31. Cole Custer
32. Cody Ware
33. Daniel Hemric
34. David Ragan
35. Kaz Grala
36. Austin Dillon
37. BJ McLeod
38. Aric Almirola
39. Noah Gragson
40. Jacques Villeneuve
