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Sunday, February 19, 2023

LIVE ! ONLINE Baja Racing News DAYTONA 500 Reporting 2023 75 Years

Riley Herbst Daytona 500 Entry Finished 10th in the 65th Running today


 





 

FINISH Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Wins

- Green White-Checkers Flag

- OVERTIME RULES APPLY

- 3:55PM WEST

- SECOND OVERTIME

-FIRST OVERTIME

Larson and Pastrana crash into the fence on the last lap crash.

- Final Results

- 10th - Travis Pastrana/TOYOTA

Pastrana is re-starting on the bottom/left side, five cars back from the front. Possibly, the closest Travis will ever get to any win in an organized, legit sport.  

- 11th  - Riley Herbst/FORD


- On the last lap...

- 'Choose Rule' In Play, Single File must meet the Yellow Cone.

- Turn 2 Even Bigger Crash under first overtime.

- Turn 4 Big Crash Number 2 today, in front of our Baja racers, taking out three cars, all Stewart-Haas.

- Another group hits the pits at lap 179, 'fuel only' - Last pits began at lap 176 

- Stage 2 Underway

- 42 Lead Changes! UnREAL

- Pit/Fuel Strategies Over The Top/ Next Pit is the Money-Stop

- Herbst passes Pastrana, back and forth!

- In that last crash, Pastrana got around Herbst.

- 2:56PM Riley retakes the lead

- 2:49PM Travis retakes the lead

- 2:45PM Riley Herbst takes lead in front of Pastrana

- Lap 139 - Debris brings out the caution, Riley Herbst free pass.

- 34 Cars on the lead lap.

- 64 laps remain in this race event.

- Ross Chastain leads at the End of Stage 2

- Lap 119 - Wallace beats Pastrana for the free pass. Pastrana still one lap down.

- Many teams pitting...

- 8 Laps from the end of Stage 2

- 80 Laps to Go>>>32 Official lead changes in the race event!

- 1:50PM The first Big Crash of the race event, off turn 4 - Currently on Yellow Flag

- Big Crash occurs right in front of our featured Baja racers, Herbst and Pastrana.

- 1:45PM Half-way point in the 75th DAYTONA 500

- Green in Stage 2 

- Pastrana one lap down, racing Bubba Wallace for the free pass.  

- 1PM WEST - END OF STAGE 1

- Riley Herbst/FORD. the kid gets a pass through penalty for locking up his brakes, just before pitting. No mention of the 'Terrible Herbst Team'.

Riley Herbst spins coming to pit road and has a commitment line violation.

- Travis Pastrana/TOYOTA, actually led one lap. Of course, that's when everyone was jockeying to pit

At Lap 40, Travis Pastrana pits after leading the Daytona 500 in his first start but has a driving through too many boxes penalty on exit.

 

 

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