The NASCAR Cup Series begins with the Daytona 500, which begins with qualifying. Follow our live updates from Daytona International Speedway.
A new NASCAR rules reserves a starting spot for a "world-class driver" such as four-time Indy 500 champ Helio Castroneves, who's in the Daytona 500.
It’s been 14 weeks since Joey Logano won his third NASCAR Cup Series championship in Phoenix and now it’s finally time to start the 2025 campaign with the Daytona 500.
Bubba Wallace said he “couldn't care less” if Donald Trump attends the Daytona 500 on Sunday, nearly five years after the president accused the NASCAR Cup Series’ only Black full-time driver of perpetrating “ a hoax ” when a crew member found a noose in the team garage stall. Trump suggested in July 2020 that Wallace should apologize after the sport rallied around him following the discovery of the noose in his assigned stall at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama. NASCAR and the FBI have referred exclusively to the rope — which was used to pull the garage door closed — as a noose.
