The year of Byron begins with Daytona 500 victory

The SuperSpeedway Podcast

Discussion Topics:

• Daytona 500

• Race postponed early Sunday

• Year of William Byron begins with Byron winning the 500

• James wants to know: William Byron has passed reigning Cup champion Ryan Blaney in career wins in 90 less starts. Who's career you got the next 10 years?

• Ross Chastain makes risky move, causing final wreck

• Another race ends based on when the caution is triggered — Is this how the winner of the biggest race of the year should be determined?

• How NASCAR determined the finishing order: https://www.jayski.com/2024/02/20/nascar-explains-ending-of-daytona-500/

• Fox had some new (and returning) toys for this year’s Daytona 500

• https://www.sportsvideo.org/2024/02/16/2024-daytona-500-fox-sports-resurrects-gyrocam-rolls-out-live-drone-new-3d-telestrator-4k-extraction/

• Xfinity Race

• Austin Hill wins again

• Third Feb. Daytona win in a row for Hill

• Is he the Xfinity king of super speedways?

• NASCAR lets this race play out to the finish

• Truck Race/ARCA race

• Nick Sanchez wins first truck race but is overshadowed by the entire cluster-f

• ARCA race was moved to Friday night due to impending weather

• Toni Breidinger has harsh words for her teammate after lap-4 wreck

• Bubba Wallace says drivers in the lower series have less respect because there aren’t Cup guys in the field anymore. Thoughts?

• https://twitter.com/BubbaWallace/status/1759294833653387282?s=20

• NASCAR owners have hired “top antitrust lawyer” as negotiations over charter agreement continue to be rocky

• Stern says the RTA invited NASCAR to a meeting this weekend and NASCAR said no, it prefers to negotiate individually with teams.

• Per AP via Stern: "The negotiating team said there has been no discussion of creating a breakaway league not sanctioned by NASCAR, and there is no current consideration of staging races at non-NASCAR facilities without NASCAR governance."

• https://twitter.com/A_S12/status/1759345671054803127

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Preview: Atlanta

• NASCAR Cup Series: Ambetter Health 400 — Sunday 3 p.m.

• NASCAR Xfinity Series: Raptor King of Tough 250 — Saturday 5 p.m.

• NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series: Fr8 208 — Saturday 2 p.m.

• Cup Picks

• James: Chris Bell

• Eric: Corey LaJoie

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