Report 2014 Budweiser Duels

1 report

1.1 background
1.2 practice , qualifying
1.3 races

1.3.1 race 1
1.3.2 race 2

report
background

daytona international speedway, races held.

daytona international speedway 1 of 6 superspeedways hold nascar races, others being michigan international speedway, auto club speedway, indianapolis motor speedway, pocono raceway , talladega superspeedway. standard track @ daytona international speedway four-turn superspeedway 2.5 miles (4.0 km) long. track s turns banked @ 31 degrees, while front stretch, location of finish line, banked @ 18 degrees.

practice , qualifying

a. j. allmendinger fastest in first of 2 practice sessions duel races time of 45.096 , speed of 199.574 mph (321.183 km/h). matt kenseth, joey logano, paul menard, dave blaney, ryan truex, trevor bayne , parker kligerman involved in crash on frontstretch of daytona during practice on february 19, resulted in heavy damage logano, menard, blaney, truex, , kligerman. forced teams set backup cars duel races following evening. workers had repair 2 sections of catch fencing, ending practice early. brian vickers , cole whitt involved in crash earlier during practice, forcing vickers backup car while whitt s team forced repair primary, swan racing s backup given kligerman. blaney withdrew race after team not secure backup car. kligerman stated first flip of career, , assumed rougher. pretty soft. in fence floating along. slid on softly . logano stated kenseth had started making move go down , making run, , going fill hole. started come , there . denny hamlin fastest in second of 2 practice sessions duel races time of 45.096 , speed of 199.574 mph (321.183 km/h).

races
race 1

austin dillon led field green flag @ 7:16 p.m., , after leading first 14 laps, dillon lost lead dale earnhardt, jr. on lap 15. matt kenseth took lead on lap 29, , held lead until lap 36, when pitted , lead passed earnhardt, jr. once again. earnhardt, jr. , kasey kahne each held lead lap before kenseth cycled lead 21 laps go. on last lap, kevin harvick pulled alongside matt kenseth, while kahne got inside, creating three-wide photo finish in kenseth prevailed. michael mcdowell , joe nemechek failed make daytona 500. kenseth stated kind of embarrassed walk in garage felt race performance builds confidence in of us, makes feel can go out , job done if jobs , right . harvick s car failed post-race inspection because car exceeded maximum split on track bar. disqualified, speed in qualifying enough him daytona 500. greg zipadelli, competitions director @ harvick s team – stewart-haas racing – referred infraction adjustment during race , more should have been .

race 2

martin truex, jr. led field green flag @ 8:40 p.m., , brad keselowski took lead on lap 3. keselowski held race lead next portion of race, holding until pit stop on lap 35, handed lead casey mears. on pit stop, keselowski deemed have been speeding while exiting, , had serve pass-through penalty. denny hamlin took lead 22 laps go, , maintained race lead until end of race, winning under caution.

coming through turn 4 on final lap, jimmie johnson ran out of gas, got loose after being tapped in left corner panel, overcorrected , hit wall collecting jamie mcmurray in process. truex, jr. had no way avoid wreck , rear-ended mcmurray. while slowing avoid wreck, clint bowyer got rear-ended ryan truex, slid runoff area taking david ragan him. bowyer flipped on in air , landed on 4 wheels damage being destroyed drive-train. ragan , michael waltrip caught in wreck , both hit inside wall head-on. carl edwards caught mcmurray, sustained minimal damage. mcmurray made contact johnson again continued on grass, destroying front ends of cars. bobby labonte , terry labonte, both 30 seconds behind leader on final lap, raced way daytona 500, @ expense of eric mcclure, morgan shepherd , ryan truex. hamlin s team owner, joe gibbs, stated hamlin had worked extremely hard result, , thought team hungry when year started .