Austin Cindric awarded a second victory of Duel

Austin Cindric emerged as the winner of the second two duels in Daytona International Speedway on Thursday, February 13, in the middle of a photo with Erik Jones that was initially awarded to the latter, but then the first one was granted to the first Caution moment in the last round in the middle of a shipwreck of several cars.

The 2022 Daytona 500 champion of Mooresville, North Carolina, led six of 60 laps scheduled after starting in the post. He led the first round before spending the rest of the second grieving event mixing forward with his companions competitors. Having the opportunity to compete for a grieving victory instead of preserving his car for the great American race on Sunday, Cindric restarted in the front row during the final period of restart with seven remaining laps

The action

After exchanging leadership with Chris Buescher during the final period of restart, Cindric was advanced from the field with the help of the writing of teammate Joey Logano before the last round. Starting in the recoil in the last round, then it hurts with Erik Jones approaching the finish line when there was an accident of six cars for several cars. Since Jones had initially defeated Cindric to the line, the latter was governed as the official winner due to being ahead of Jones when Nascar chose to show the caution for the butcher shop.

Before the event, Austin Cindric, who achieved a starting first row for 2025 Daytona 500, began in the pole position and shared the first row with his teammate Joey Logano, the latter of which he recorded the fourth return of faster classification during Wednesday’s single. -To car qualification session.

Green flag

Christopher Bell, the current winner of Duel 2, fell on the back of the field before the event due to the unmpeared adjustments made at his entrance No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota Camry XSE.

When the green flag began and the second grieve event, Cindric launched its discount tire No. 2 Ford Mustang Dark Horse from the outer lane before it was released quickly inside and in front of the Team Team Team Shell Ford Shell/Pennzoil Mustang dark horse input through frontingschetch.

Through the first two shifts and the RETH, Cindric kept Logano recruiting him when both made the interior transition to the outer lane. However, this allowed Denny Hamlin to win a race from the inner lane while challenging Cindric for the advantage through curves 3 and 4. In spite of Hamlin’s strong race from the inner lane, Cindric barely led the first round Through the reth.

During the next four laps, Hamlin and Cindric hurt each other in front of the two stacked lanes, with Hamlin receiving help from Kyle Larson in the inner lane, while Cindric continued to receive the assistance of his teammate Logano in the outer lane.

Both Hamlin and Cindric would continue to duel for leadership during the next three laps until Hamlin muscular his national entrance to Toyota Camry XSE national debt ahead from the inner lane. While Hamlin directed the event, where he would proceed to lead the brand 10, Larson challenged Cindric for the second place while Logano, Chris Buescher, Alex Bowman, Noah Gragson, Todd Gilliland, the Rookie Riley Herbst and Brad Kesowski were fighting inside. The 10 best ahead of the rookie Shane Van Gisbergen, Ryan Blaney, Corey Lajoie, Daniel Suárez, Cody Ware, Jimmie Johnson, John Hunter Nemechek, Cole Custer, Christopher Bell and Erik Jones.

Through the first 15 scheduled laps, Hamlin maintained the advantage before the field of 22 cars, with Cindric, Logano, Larson and Bowman behind the first five. Then, when the field was coming to three lanes, Erik Jones fired his entry No. 43 Adventhealth Toyota Camry XSE in leadership.

When Jones led the round 16, he was followed by the owner of his team, Jimmie Johnson. With more wuffs in La Herpad, Ryan Blaney challenged Jones for leadership in Tour 17 with the writing help of Daniel Suárez and Bell. The field would continue to advance three lanes while Jones shot and maintained the advantage over Johnson and Blaney in Tour 20.

Half of the brand

In the middle of the return in Tour 30, Jones, who had maintained leadership in the last 10 laps, duel with Suárez. Both pilots were ahead of the two lanes that included Johnson, Hamlin, Blaney, Larson, Bell, Bowman, Gilliland and John Hunter Nemechek, Eacing in the Top 10.

Meanwhile, Johnson was the highest competitor not characterized on the track, while Corey Lajoie and Anthony Alfredo, who were fighting Johnson for the transfer points in Daytona 500, were plunged into 11 and 14, respectively.

Towards Tour 35, Johnson, who was running forward, faced his entrance No. 84 Carvana Toyota Camry XSE. By then, his pilot Erik Jones was dragged into the Top 10 brand, while both Suárez and Blaney hurt for the advantage against Cindric, Hamlin and the rest of the field. In addition, Johnson’s movement to Pit allowed Alfredo to move on to a place of transfer about Lajoie.

The final turns

Until the last 20 laps of the event, Suarez was the main competitor in the inner lane. He was followed by Hamlin, Larson, Blaney, Alfredo, Cindric, Bowman, Logano, Jones and Gragson. By then, Johnson was launched by the field. During the next three laps, Blaney had its two teammates Penske of the team, Cindric and Logano, recruiting it from the outer lane. They were persecuted by their Ford Gragson teammate, while Suárez kept Hamlin, Larson and Alfredo recruiting him to leadership from the inner lane.

Then, with 16 remaining turns, there was a late cycle of green flag stops. Suarez led all the competitors of Toyota and Chevrolet running in the inner lane to Pit Road by fuel. During the stops in boxes, Hamlin, along with Kyle Larson and John Hunter Nemechek, was penalized for speeding in Pit Road.

Half of Ford’s competitors, led by Blaney, face fuel a lap later. The remaining half of the Ford drivers, led by Keselowski, Keselowski, Chris Buescher, Cole Custer and Cody Ware, Pit Bajo Green with 14 remaining turns.

After the stops in Boxes, Buescher left Pit Road with the leadership, since he was followed by Keselowski and Custer. Custer, however, would be surpassed by a group of competitors who faced themselves before and was directed by Cindric through the setback with 14 remaining turns. Cindric would then leave Keselowski during the next lap before Buescher was entering the setback.

Then, when Buescher made a strong left turn to prevent Cindric from surpassing him in the middle of the draft, a posterior stack resulted in Bowman, Suárez and Keselowski hitting, crashing and twisting in the backstretch while the caution flew. Before the incident, Keselowski was penalized to eliminate the team from his boxes.

Until the last seven laps of the second grieve event, the field restarted under Green. At first, Buescher and Cindric hurt for the advantage that entered the first two shifts until Cindric was advanced from the inner lane with the writing help of his Logano teammate. Buescher, however, would defend himself from the outer lane, since he had the help of Lajoie and Blaney through the setback before Cindric re -entered curves 3 and 4, since it would take the next round through the first round .

With five remaining turns, Cindric and Buescher continued in duel for leadership in front of the two stacked lanes while Logano and Lajoie did the same in the second row. By then, Gragson and Blaney also followed their example while Logano continued to draw their teammate Cindric in front from the inner lane. In addition, Lajoie was in the first position of claiming a place of transfer to Daytona 500 on Anthony Alfredo, the last of which was mired within the Top 10 brand.

The winner

When the white flag stirred and began the last round, Cindric remained in the lead. About his teammate Logano and Erik Jones when the field began to advance three lanes. Through the first two shifts, Cindric remained ahead of Logano when Jones lit a race from the outer lane with the help of Buescher Buescher. This allowed Jones to draw even with Cindric leaving the setback while both continued to fight even through curves 3 and 4.

Then, entering the Frontstretch, there was a shipwreck of several cars that involved Larson, Shane Van Gisbergen, Riley Herbst, Alfredo, Cole Custer and Cody Ware. In the middle of the Carnage, Jones and Cindric remained in duel for victory until Jones achieved Cindric edge on the finish line to initially claim victory. However, after a review of the images and the battle for victory, Nascar determined that the caution was shown before the field crossed the finish line to complete the event. At the time of caution, Cindric barely scored ahead of Jones and the official winner was governed.

The conclusion

With La Victoria, Cindric, who ended in second place in a grieving event in the last three seasons, achieved his first victory in the Duel race of Daytona, the eighth in general for the Penske team and 10 championship points. Having qualified in the front row for the 67th Daytona 500 race this year, Cindric became days after he won the post. Position for the main event.

As the 2025 season of the Nascar Cup of the Nascar Cup marks the general consecutive of Austin Cindric in general as a full -time competitor in the series, it will also mark a season in which the North Carolinians will try to become the 13th competitor in general To win the great American race several times this next weekend.

Quotes

“Great, I feel bad for Erik (for) having to go to the end (the Fontetretch),” said Cindric in Pit Road in FS1. “Obviously, they made a great movement in the last lap. Joey (Logano) and I were sitting ducks with the central lane that faded there. We had really fast Ford Mustang discount. Super proud of my team and everyone to get out here and execute. Thanks to (Crew Chief) Brian (Wilson) for letting me run.

“It was very difficult to persuade that, but it was his birthday, so this is a good birthday gift for him. It’s great, but it’s still a lot to go for (Daytona 500). “

Erik Jones led 16 laps in the race. Initially he led Frontstretch to celebrate, but received second place. Jones will start in fourth place for Daytona 500 this year. Chris Buescher, Denny Hamlin and Joey Logano ended up among the top five in the second grief event, while Corey Lajoie, Todd Gilliland, Ran Blaney, John Hunter Nemechek and Christopher Bell completed the 10 best 10 top 10 top 10 top 10 in the final execution order.

Corey Lajoie says Daytona 500 Barth

Meanwhile, Corey Lajoie was also victorious as the highest competitor not characterized in the second grieving event, as a result, he muscular his dark horse from Ford Mustang No. 01 Rick Ware Racing Ford Mustang in the Daytona 500 Lajoie, a corridor Third generation of Charlotte, North Carolina, will make his ninth consecutive beginning in the great American race this weekend.

Ensuring a position of 2025 Daytona 500 was a redeeming moment for Lajoie, who could not secure a full -time cup trip for this season after Rick Ware Rick from Spire Motorsports was changed in the mid -20th season.