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The 2026 Daytona 500 was relatively smooth-sailing through the first 123 laps, with the yellow caution flag only making three appearances in that span. But on Lap 124, “The Big One” arrived. A major 20-car wreck occurred at the front of the race on Lap 124 of Sunday’s race. The crash occurred after Denny Hamlin made an aggressive attempt to try and pass leader Justin Allgaier on Turn 4. Allgaier, who was in the No. 40 JR Motorsports Chevrolet, was way out front of Hamlin, with Ryan Blaney on the outside and Bubba Wallace on the inside. The outside lane appeared to have momentum, and Blaney in the No. 12 Team Penske Ford gave Hamlin in the No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota a bump. Hamlin had a path to take the lead, but Allgaier threw what FOX Sports’ Clint Bowyer called a “lazy” block. Hamlin hit Allgaier, and both cars turned toward the inside of the track and collected a huge chunk of the field. [FULL RACE COVERAGE: Daytona 500 Live Updates, Leaderboard] The wreck allowed Wallace to sneak ahead and take the lead as he somehow went unscathed through the wreck. The caution continued through the end of Stage 2, giving Wallace the stage victory. The green flag emerged again on Lap 136. Allgaier, Alex Bowman and Todd Gilliland’s days came to an end as a result of the crash. They were tended to in the infield care center and were quickly released. Hamlin had no exterior damage, but his car was having radio issues following the wreck. Here’s a look at all 20 cars involved during Sunday’s “The Big One” at the Daytona 500: And here are some other angles of how “The Big One” went down at Sunday’s race:​Latest Sports News from FOX Sports

It’s a star-studded full house at Daytona International Speedway in Florida for the Daytona 500, and we’re keeping track of the biggest and most notable names in attendance for Sunday’s race on FOX! A few big-name celebrities at today’s event include comedian Nate Bargatze serving as the Grand Marshal, actor Kurt Russell driving the honorary pace car and country singer Miranda Lambert performing at the pre-race concert. [NASCAR: 2026 Daytona 500: Everything To Know About The Great American Race] Follow along to see the other celebrities in attendance at the Daytona 500. Watch live race updates here. [Daytona 500: Honorary Starter Bart Simpson Will Wave NASCAR’s Green Flag]​Latest Sports News from FOX Sports

Just over two months after Michael Jordan’s 23XI Racing settled a major lawsuit against NASCAR, the sports icon is happy with what came out of the 15-month-long process. He’ll be even happier with the result of Sunday’s Daytona 500. Jordan’s team got its first win at Daytona with the No. 45 car, as Tyler Reddick won the race after an action-packed final lap. In an interview with FOX Sports’ Jamie Little ahead of Sunday’s race, Jordan shared that he thinks the settlement will be a boon for both 23XI Racing and NASCAR moving forward. “Communication — the thing is, both sides have been somewhat at a stalemate and we both needed to have conversations about change, how we can grow this sport,” Jordan said. “Unfortunately, we had to go through what we had to go through last summer. But I think coming out of that, you have a much better appreciation for each other and I think it opens up conversations amongst each other to continue to grow the game. “Don’t forget about the fans. The fans make this game so much enjoyable to watch. As much as we can listen, change, please the fans, please the teams and continue to grow the sport, I think everybody’s going to be OK.” [FULL RACE COVERAGE: Daytona 500 Live Updates, Leaderboard] The settlement awarded 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports charters after both relinquished their charters when they didn’t sign the 2025-31 agreement to pursue the lawsuit. It also included an amendment with an agreement for all teams to have a form of “evergreen charters.” While the two sides were able to reach an agreement, that came after an eight-day trial process in court. The lawsuit also led to a pretty stark change in NASCAR, with charters for all teams becoming permanent and a return of the “Three-Strike Rule.” Teams will also receive revenue from NASCAR’s international media rights deal. With the lawsuit behind 23XI Racing, the focus for Jordan’s team is now getting positive results after a down year in 2025. The team only won one race, with Bubba Wallace capturing a victory at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Tyler Reddick took a hit in the standings, and he’s about to become a free agent at the end of the 2026 season. As there’s some pressure on 23XI Racing, Jordan is hoping his team can set the tone for the new season at Sunday’s Daytona 500. “We got a couple of young kids that are learning. We’ve got a couple of veterans that are going to be up front. I think we’ve got a good team, good leaders and hopefully one of the four — I’ll take any one of the four — wins,” Jordan said. “I want to see us at the end, all four cars, which is very difficult, especially at a race like this. You just need to avoid the big one. But if we can put ourselves in a good position, that’s all I’ll ever ask for.”​Latest Sports News from FOX Sports

Daytona International Speedway (Daytona Beach, Fla.) — Most NASCAR drivers grew up dreaming of winning the Daytona 500. What’s it like for a driver to live out those dreams? Ahead of the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series season, we talked to all the current full-time drivers who have won the Daytona 500 to find out. And we asked several of those who haven’t won the Daytona 500 to see what they would expect it to be like. We’re talking about what makes the Daytona 500 win emotional? Here is what drivers who have won it told me in interviews in the last month: Austin Cindric (2022): “It’s the biggest race of the year, but also so much was going into my rookie season, as far as the car, and working with a new group of people taking over the [No.] 2 car and the [No.] 2 car having never won the race. I feel like there’s a long list of reasons that make that special, but it’s definitely been the best day of my life so far.” Austin Dillon (2018): “I think a lot of things at Daytona, from my family standpoint, probably would be the biggest. It was 20 years between the time that Dale [Earnhardt] won his 500 [and] the night before having dinner with my grandfather. And we came back [to] the track and he said, ‘Hey, if you win tomorrow, you got to slide through the grass.’ And then, lo and behold, it happens. Just being there with my family and Victory Lane was special. Denny Hamlin (2016, 2019, 2020): “The prestige of it. What’s made it special to me is how we won it. Just having the two closest finishes in that race’s history. Also, 10 years ago, when we won it, the racing was so different. You could really make a lot of moves and whatnot. So just the art and the chess of it back then and how you made your moves, and it’s just different now, not better or worse, but just different. And so I really took a lot of pride in what it took to win those races and the moves that we made to make it happen. … The 2016 [win] was more of a shock, and, obviously, the 2019 one certainly was special for the [J.D. Gibbs] family reasons.” Joey Logano (2015): “It’s the Daytona 500. I don’t think you have to put words behind what it means. Everybody knows — if you know, you know. If you’re a NASCAR fan, you grew up watching it, you know that Daytona 500. Even if you’re not a fan, you know that Daytona 500. It’s a race that everybody wants to win so bad that, yeah, it’s an emotional victory. Because it’s The Great American Race. There’s no other race like it. And I don’t think we have to explain that to anyone. I think it’s just known at this point.” William Byron (2024, 2025): “I think it’s just the magnitude of what everyone feels like the race is. It just seems like it has that meaning to it, the magnitude to it. And you just have more of a high from winning it.” Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (2023): “I think winning the Daytona 500, it’s a feeling like no other win you can have, I guess, except maybe, winning the championship in a single race like Phoenix in the old system. You put a lot of effort into it. There’s a lot of people that have gone their whole career trying to win that race 20-plus times and never got it done. And for us, it was a single-car team. And there’s just a lot of things that go into it. And I definitely want to win it again so that I can enjoy it a little bit more. It was such a blur at the moment. I definitely enjoyed it, but I would like to enjoy it just a little bit more.” Michael McDowell (2021): “I think what made it significant and emotional, besides it being the biggest race of your life, is how long it took me to get there and how much grinding and just up and down and different teams and just trying to stay in the sport. It made it super special to get my first win and have it be the Daytona 500. It was just an amazing feeling.” [NASCAR: Daytona 500 Winners by Year] Now it’s time to hear from some of those who haven’t won the Daytona 500 and why they think it would be emotional. Kyle Busch (0-for-20): I don’t know. I remember winning at Las Vegas, my home track, in 2009, and it just being such a big moment for me, being my home track — wanting to win there so hard, and it felt really, really cool to do that. And so I can’t imagine what a Daytona 500 would feel like. So maybe being older nowadays and having a family, you might see a tear. Who knows? Brad Keselowski (0-for-17): When I think of the Daytona 500, the first thing I think of is it’s the last crown jewel for me. And to win all the jewels is just, to me, it’s the NASCAR accomplishment level. Over the years, the championship format has changed, and you win on — It takes a lot to do that, don’t get me wrong — it’s just different now than what it used to be. Winning all the crown jewels is like, ‘Hey, I won the biggest races with the biggest crowds and the biggest purses. That’s pretty cool.’” Kyle Larson (0-for-12): “Well, I think for me, if I was to win the Daytona 500, it would [be emotional] because I’ve not really had much success on superspeedways until here lately. I feel like we can taste a win. So I always feel like that adds excitement once you finally do win. I believe this is like my 13th attempt at the Daytona 500, so it’d be awesome. It’s the final kind of crown jewel left for us and our team to win. So that would also be great. Hopefully we can do it.” AJ Allmendinger (0-for-12): “The fact that I’d probably retire that night, right there. I’m done. Can’t get any better than that. That would be a drop-mic moment? Yeah, probably it’d have to be. Just peace out.” Ryan Blaney (0-for-11): “Obviously the significance of that race. Everyone knows how important it is. But I think for my if I try to dive deeper into the personal side, I remember going down there a lot as a kid to watch my dad compete in it. That was back when they were there for two weeks. We’d have a lot of family time. And I got to see that atmosphere as a young kid, and got to watch my dad go through the competition side of it, and how emotional that is, the ups and downs of that race. My parents always come to the 500, so if we could do it, and my dad and my mom’s there, and my sisters — we grew up going to that race a lot. I think that’d be a pretty neat full-circle moment for me personally. And obviously the team stuff, that’s amazing too. But from a personal side, that’d be really special.” Chase Elliott (0-for-10): “I think just crossing that off the list. It’s a huge thing, I think, for anybody’s career. And there’s been great drivers that have never won it. So I can’t say that it is going to define your career in totality, but I do think it’s a race that everyone, when you look back on this deal, you’re going to want to look back and be able to hang your hat on that event. There’s that aspect of it. For me, Dad [Bill Elliott] having won a 500 or two and it being one of the crown-jewel races — to join him would also be special for me personally. Great event. Would love to have my name on it one day Daniel Suarez (0-for-8): “Every time that you get to February and you go through the tunnel in Daytona, you know that you are going to have a shot to win probably one of the most important races of your life. And for me, coming from Mexico, it will be extremely special, adding my name to the list of drivers, that very short list that have come from a different country, to win this amazing race, it would be like a dream. And I know that I have as good a shot as anyone else out there.” Bubba Wallace (0-for-8): “I think just winning it, having your family there, having your team there, winning the first points race of the year after trying for so long. This will be my ninth Daytona 500. I’ve come close a couple times. So to finally pull through, I think that’s just enough to make a grown man cry right there.”​Latest Sports News from FOX Sports

It’s mid-February, which means the NASCAR field is back in action and, this year, it means the return of Ram to the Craftsman Truck Series. During Friday night’s broadcast of the 2026 Fresh From Florida 250 on FS1, UFC CEO Dana White joined Jamie Little, Kevin Harvick and Joey Logano to discuss how he helped Ram return to the Craftsman Truck Series. “Ram, the CEO, Tim [Kuniskis] reached out to me and came out to Las Vegas and talked to me about helping them bring Ram back to NASCAR,” White said about helping bring Ram back to the Truck Series. “He liked a lot of the stuff that we’ve done in building our business. I love challenges, so I decided to do it and here I am at my first Daytona, and I actually have some skin in the game and care who wins the race.” Ram first appeared in the Truck Series at the sport’s 1995 inception, with Bobby Hamilton later winning the 2004 Truck Series championship, the first title for Ram in the Truck Series. Ram left the Truck Series after the brand closed up shop in 2013 but has returned for the 2026 season with five trucks in the series after partnering with Kaulig Racing. White was also the executive producer and provided commentary — along with the aforementioned Kuniskis and Kaulig Racing Team principals Matt Kaulig and Chris Rice — for the show “Race for the Seat,” which was an eight-part show that aired on FOX networks, among other outlets. The series was based on racers battling to be a full-time driver for Kaulig-Ram in the 2026 Truck Series season. That driver turned out to be Timothy “Mini” Tyrrell, who finished the Fresh From Florida 250 in 19th place. Brenden Queen, Justin Haley and Daniel Dye are the other drivers racing for Kaulig-Ram this season, with rotating drivers taking up a fifth car. Friday night was a sensational start to the 2026 Craftsman Truck Series season, as the lead changed hands multiple times on the final lap, highlighted by Chandler Smith rocketing his way to first place and a win in the final seconds after an inside lane opened up. Giovanni Ruggiero finished in second place, followed by Christian Eckes in third. On Saturday, the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series season commences with the United Rentals 300. On Sunday, it’s the Daytona 500 (1:30 p.m. ET on FOX and the FOX Sports app) with “NASCAR RaceDay” going live at 11:30 a.m. ET.​Latest Sports News from FOX Sports

Daytona International Speedway (Daytona Beach, Fla.) — Seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson says his last Cup race will be the 2027 Daytona 500. The NASCAR Hall of Famer has 83 career Cup wins in 700 starts. After retiring from full-time Cup racing following the 2020 season and embarking on a two-year INDYCAR career, 50-year-old Johnson has competed in the Daytona 500 every year since 2023 and is a two-time winner (2006, 2013). Johnson became the majority owner of Legacy Motor Club a couple of years ago, and he said his focus continues to be on the business side of the sport. “I’ve been very fortunate to accomplish more than I ever imagined in this sport,” Johnson said in a news release. “The last six years have given me the freedom to choose where I compete and more importantly, the clarity to understand where I’m needed most. It’s time to focus my energy on building a world class and unrivaled organization.” Johnson has only two Cup starts scheduled for this year — the Daytona 500 and the Cup street race on Naval Base Coronado in San Diego in June, a race near his hometown of El Cajon, California. Last year, Johnson finished third in the Daytona 500. “As a driver that moonlights, the restrictor-plate style of tracks is where you can be the most competitive,” Johnson said in a news conference Saturday morning. “This car is so different than any generation of car I’ve driven before. To show up at Kansas [Speedway] and think that you’re going to have a shot to win, even when I ran a nine-race schedule, it’s just not a truth that can really be seen or realized. … I want to show up and be competitive. To have my last race in an event where I can truly win could be that cool walk-off home run.” Johnson left open competing in other NASCAR divisions and other motorsports events. But he won’t compete in the Cup Series after the 2027 Daytona 500. He also said his INDYCAR career is over, so there is no chance of another Indianapolis 500 run. [JIMMIE JOHNSON: California Racer on Living Abroad] “The commitment it takes to be where I want to be in the field, I just I don’t have that in me anymore, and my focus and interest is truly building this race team,” Johnson said during his news conference. “And when I reflect on who I was as a 25-year-old kid jumping in that [No.] 48 [Hendrick] car, I was up to go to 0-hour 30 with this passion and energy to chase the day and do the best that I could. “I don’t have that passion for that part of life anymore, and that’s been a tough thing to kind of accept. And if I’m honest with myself, maybe the last year or two of driving, I was in that phase, but I had the best seat in the house driving for the best team. I was almost in denial of maybe what was going on. And it’s taken time. It took the two years in INDYCAR and the journey that I’ve been on now to really reflect on that and see it.” [DAYTONA 500: Starting lineup for NASCAR opener] Just how much has Johnson’s life changed? “I had four hours of sleep last night because we were at a sponsor event, and I was up all night doing e-mails. And then I was over at Home Depot this morning buying plants and furniture for our hospitality area in the driver-owner lot,” Johnson said. Legacy will expand from fielding two chartered cars to three next year. Johnson said he would run a fourth car, and the team indicated he will request the Daytona 500 open exemption provisional, which guarantees him a spot in the field as it did for the race Sunday. “As a team owner, I need to be on the sidelines on race day supporting our drivers and crews on the competition side and cultivating relationships that are crucial to the long-term growth of [Legacy],” Johnson said in the news release. “I also want to take the time to celebrate with fans throughout the season to show how grateful I am for their support throughout my career.”​Latest Sports News from FOX Sports

Daytona International Speedway (Daytona Beach, Fla.) — Tony Stewart signed up to compete in one NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series race in 2026: The season-opening Fresh From Florida 250 on Friday. Could he sign up for more? Hey, who would have thought six months ago that 54-year-old Stewart would ever race in NASCAR again? Well, on little practice, Stewart jumped behind the wheel of the No. 25 Kaulig Racing Ram this week to give it a go. The three-time NASCAR Cup Series champion — whose last NASCAR race was in 2016 and last truck race was in 2005 — and current NHRA racer had his NASCAR return end with a wreck 39 laps into the 100-lap truck season opener on Daytona’s iconic 2.5-mile track. “I didn’t think I was going to be here 10 years after I retired, so I think we have to learn to never say never,” Stewart told FOX Sports broadcaster Amanda Busick after being released from the infield care center. “It’s a great opportunity. … Just finally getting in a spot where I felt like I could start hustling and being in the mix there a little bit. “Early on, it was just like kind of hang on. [I] knew we needed to take care of it until we got a shot to make pit stops. So probably needed one more good swing at it to really get to where we could go, but we’re gaining on it. So at least they’re building a notebook now. The rest of the guys are out there still digging, so they’ll build a good notebook for when we come back next time.” [DAYTONA 500: Ranking the 41-Driver Field, From Casey Mears to Chase Elliott] We come back next time? He told me and other reporters that he signed up for one race and that’s currently the plan. But he also sounded like a guy who enjoyed his race until Jake Garcia got loose and slid into him. “I don’t get a chance to mix it up wheel to wheel with anybody anymore on the drag race side,” Stewart said. “You don’t want to be around anybody running 300 miles an hour. “But it was fun to come back here. It’s fun to watch the style these kids run. You could tell the guys that their trucks felt good right out of the gate, and they were aggressive. And I was like, ‘Man, I wish I had the confidence to do that.’” [NASCAR: 2026 Daytona 500 Paint Schemes] Stewart said he never got comfortable being in any spot on the track. “I knew [the truck] wasn’t going to be able to do the middle of the three-wide deal,” Stewart said. “I wasn’t comfortable enough with that, and we weren’t tight enough to do that. But the swings we were making — that was getting the balance a lot closer to where we could do that.” It almost sounded like Stewart has unfinished business. The day before the race, he indicated he will have to do some convincing — he has a 15-month-old son with wife and fellow drag racer Leah Pruett — if he wanted to do more races in the gaps of his full-time NHRA schedule. “I have a wife and a son who also like those gaps as well and would prefer I not keep booking those gaps,” Stewart said.​Latest Sports News from FOX Sports

A familiar face isn’t included in Alexi Lalas’ current top-five power rankings of U.S. men’s national team players. But there is a good reason for that. Christian Pulisic, who is expected to be a key player for the USA at this summer’s World Cup, has recently been hobbled by injuries after a strong first half of the club campaign with AC Milan. So for the moment, Pulisic doesn’t make the cut. But as Lalas clarifies in the latest episode of “Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union,” the criteria for this latest ranking is that the player needs to be seeing action on the pitch. “If you’re hurt, it doesn’t mean you’re not a great player. It doesn’t mean you possibly couldn’t be at the top of my power rankings, but you got to be playing and doing well.” So, who makes Lalas’ list right now of the best (in-form) USA players at the moment? The 21-year-old defender recently made his LaLiga debut for Villarreal following a move from MLS club Orlando City in January. The son of former NFL star Antonio Freeman, he has earned 11 caps with the USA and was part of the squad that reached the Gold Cup final in 2025. One of the biggest transfers to the German club last summer, Tillman is rounding back into form following a quiet few months with Bayer Leverkusen. He’s impressed enough for the USA during last summer’s World Cup that he should be in the mix to make the USA team in the summer. Leeds are floating right above the relegation zone in the Premier League, sitting at 16th place. But Aaronson has done his part to keep the side afloat this season. He has four goals and has vastly improved this season, and that could bode well for his chances of making the USA’s World Cup squad. “I think he’s just been consistent now for weeks and months,” Lalas said. “I don’t think that there’s anybody that’s maybe changed the perception of him relative to making the World Cup team, or even being on the field, and doing well more so than Brenden Aaronson.” Tessmann’s career season continues in France and has gone this distance in Lyon’s last three Ligue 1 games. The Alabama native has logged almost 2,000 minutes across all competitions for the French side. “It’s a wonderful moment right now playing consistently and being on the field when they are doing well. I don’t know if it’s enough yet to get him on the World Cup team this summer, but he’s doing everything in his power right now. There’s a lot of people whose heads he’s turning,” Lalas said. McKennie’s resurgence has been one of Juventus’ key storylines this season. He has scored seven goals and provided four assists across all competitions, showcasing his versatility and influence in midfield. A no-brainer to once again make the World Cup squad. “It should come as no surprise given everything that we have said about Weston McKinnie and where he is and the level that he is playing right now, his consistency, his value, he’s at No. 1,” Lalas said. As for Pulisic? What can he do to get back into the next edition of Alexi Lalas’ power rankings? “Certainly the second half of his season right now has been anything but what the first half was. He’s hurt. So who knows, he could come back with flying colors and do wonderful things. And because of who Christian Pulisic is, I think it’s easy for him to skyrocket back into my power rankings.”​Latest Sports News from FOX Sports

As Kansas climbs to a projected No. 2 seed in Mike DeCourcy’s latest NCAA Tournament projections, the loudest conversation around the program has centered on freshman guard Darryn Peterson’s availability, a narrative coach Bill Self called “not remotely true.” The noise followed Peterson’s absence Monday night, when he missed his 11th game of the season, this one due to illness. In the days since, criticism from the national media and fans has grown around Peterson. Lost in that discussion is the bigger picture: the Jayhawks have won eight in a row and just notched arguably the best victory in the country without their freshman star — an 82-78 win over No. 1 Arizona. Peterson’s availability remains a storyline, but Kansas’ move up the seed line says far more about where this team stands entering the final stretch of conference play. As the 2025-26 regular season quickly winds down, DeCourcy shares his latest NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament projections. EAST REGION SOUTH REGION MIDWEST REGION WEST REGION And it’s never too early to check in on the bubble. According to DeCourcy’s projections, Texas, Santa Clara, Virginia Tech and Missouri are the last four teams in the tournament, while San Diego State, Oklahoma State, Ohio State and New Mexico are the first four out. As for conference representation, the SEC leads the way with 11 teams, while the Big Ten has ten teams in DeCourcy’s latest tournament projections. The ACC has nine teams represented, the Big 12 has seven teams in the mix and the Big East and West Coast have three teams each. Selection Sunday is just over one month away, and these projections will inevitably evolve. For now, DeCourcy’s latest bracket forecast offers a clear snapshot of who’s rising, who’s falling and which programs are already building the résumés they’ll need when March arrives.​Latest Sports News from FOX Sports

Noah Gragson was caught red-handed by NASCAR. Gragson was the first driver busted during Daytona 500 qualifying for violating the new rule that specifies drivers are banned for sticking their hands out the opening of the window during the qualifying run. Gragson’s time in the No. 4 Ford for Front Row Motorsports was thrown out Wednesday because he used his left hand in an attempt to deflect air and gain an advantage on the track. “I completely forgot about that rule so that one’s on me,” Gragson said. “Yeah, I feel like an idiot for that.” The 27-year-old Gragson did not advance to the second round of qualifying and lost his chance to race for the pole. The starting order for Sunday’s Daytona 500 will be determined by a pair of Thursday night qualifying races. “I feel like the Daytona 500 is such a long race, you can kind of start wherever,” Gragson said. “It is what it is. I feel like an idiot for that. I’m dumb for that.” On the other hand, most in NASCAR found it hilarious. “This is the most Noah thing ever,” NASCAR Hall of Fame driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. wrote on social media. “Don’t touch that stove, it’s hot. Touches stove. Gets burnt. Says yes, it is hot.” Kyle Busch won the pole for the Daytona 500. Chase Briscoe, last year’s pole-sitter, qualified second and got a good chuckle out of Gragson getting busted. “He’s my buddy, but I’m not surprised it was the guy that had it happen to him,” Briscoe said. “I told my guys as soon as it happened, of all the people, I bet he didn’t even remember it was a rule.” Good call. Teams believed that drivers could earn an aerodynamic advantage on superspeedways with the gesture before NASCAR made the call in the offseason to ban it. “Sometimes you have a car that drives very easily, and you can do it easily and other times you have got your hands full and you can’t do it,” Hendrick Motorsports driver Alex Bowman said. “You always have an engineer telling you that you need to do it, exactly what position to put your hand in and all that. But I am glad that I can just keep two hands on the steering wheel for this one.” NASCAR suspended Gragson in 2023 and he parted ways with Legacy Motor Club liking an insensitive meme with a photo of George Floyd’s face. Gragson is winless in 111 career Cup races and will make his fifth Daytona 500 start. “I don’t care if I start last for this race,” Gragson said. “I know that’s probably not what people want to hear, but my best finish in Cup is third at Talladega and we qualified second-to-last. It’s kind of crazy, but it is what it is here.” Reporting by The Associated Press.​Latest Sports News from FOX Sports