The Great American Race is here.
The 67th day of the Daytona 500 runs is the second half of today as NASCAR's 2025 campaign roars into full gear on the Daytona International Speedway. Today's headline? weather. With forecast rains later that day, the Daytona 500's start time rose for an hour, pushing it up to 1:30pm in the eastern part.
Beyond the weather, this year's Great American Race installments will be from veteran drivers to seeing their first victory in the Daytona 500, one of the living legends of motorsport, and this year's Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall There's no shortage of storylines to the only member of the Offame. Class of 2025 – Racing in his first Great American race.
There's everything you need to know about the 2025 Daytona 500.
How to watch 2025 Daytona 500
Here's how to watch the 2025 Daytona 500:
when: Sunday, February 16th, 1:30pm Eastern
where: Daytona International Speedway – Daytona Beach, Florida
tv set: Fox
Streaming: fubo
FOX is reporting on the 2025 Daytona 500 as NASCAR enters its first year of its new airing era. As in the previous season, Fox and NBC share most of their coverage, with both networks airing 14 events each. Fox's schedule share begins this year, but NBC will air the final stretch of the season, including the NASCAR playoffs and championship races.
This season, NASCAR welcomes two more broadcast partners that split the central portion of the season schedule. Prime Video and TNT Sports have evenly divided 10 races mid-season, both earning the right to practice sessions and qualifying sessions.
According to the announcement From 2023 NASCAR:
Both have acquired exclusive rights to practice and qualifying for the entire Cup Series schedule until 2031. NASCAR's first full consumer partner, Prime Video streams first half of the season practice and qualifying through the final race, with the exception of Qualifying Bushlight Crush, Daytona 500 and NASCAR All-Star Race, the midseason series is the Fox It will remain in sports. TNT Sports will be broadcast live on TNT at the same time in the next five midseason races and will be streamed on Max with the B/R Sports add-on. The rest of the practice and qualifying for the rest of the season will be streamed on Max and Air on TRUTV.
2025 Daytona 500 Starting Grid
Here is the starting grid for the 2025 Daytona 500: Chase Briscoe took pole position in a ridiculous American race in qualifying Wednesday, earning the pole for the first time in his career at the event. It is also the first time in the history of the Daytona 500 where Toyota sits in pole position.
All three Toyotas will start with the top four of the 2025 Daytona 500.
Austin Cindrick will start with Briscoe after winning his second duel at Daytona, but Baba Wallace will be third in the first duel. Eric Jones will finish off the top four as he will start with Wallace in the second row.
2025 Daytona 500 Starting Grid
| position | driver | car |
|---|---|---|
| position | driver | car |
| 1 | Chase Brisco | No. 19 Toyota |
| 2 | Austin Sindrick | No. 2 Ford |
| 3 | Baba Wallace | No. 23 Toyota |
| 4 | Eric Jones | No. 43 Toyota |
| 5 | William Byron | No. 24 Chevorlet |
| 6 | Chris Busher | No. 17 Ford |
| 7 | Ty Dillon | No. 10 Chevorlet |
| 8 | Denny Hamlin | No. 11 Toyota |
| 9 | Rothshastain | No. 1 Chevorlet |
| 10 | Joey Rogano | No. 22 Ford |
| 11 | Tyler Reddick | No. 45 Toyota |
| 12 | Cory Rajoy | No. 01 Ford |
| 13 | AJ AllMendinger | No. 16 Chevorlet |
| 14 | Todd Gilliland | No. 34 Ford |
| 15 | Austin Dillon | No. 3 Chevrolet |
| 16 | Ryan Branny | No. 12 Ford |
| 17 | Chase Elliott | No. 9 Chevrolet |
| 18 | John Hunter Nemeschek | No. 42 Toyota |
| 19 | Justin Allgeir | No. 40 Chevrolet |
| 20 | Christopher Bell | No. 20 Toyota |
| twenty one | Kyle Bush | No. 8 Chevrolet |
| twenty two | Kyle Larson | Chevrolet No. 5 |
| twenty three | Ty Gibbs | No. 54 Toyota |
| twenty four | Riley Herbst | No. 35 Toyota |
| twenty five | Michael McDowell | No. 71 Chevrolet |
| 26 | Shane van Gisbergen | No. 88 Chevrolet |
| 27 | Ryan Place | No. 60 Ford |
| 28 | Coordination wear | No. 51 Ford |
| 29 | Josh Berry | No. 21 Ford |
| 30 | ColeCaster | No. 41 Ford |
| 31 | Ricky Stenhouse Junior | No. 47 Chevrolet |
| 32 | Noah Grugson | No. 4 Ford |
| 33 | Carson Joséval | No. 77 Chevrolet |
| 34 | Brad Keserowski | No. 6 Ford |
| 35 | Justin Haley | No. 7 Chevrolet |
| 36 | Daniel Suarez | No. 99 Chevrolet |
| 37 | Zane Smith | No. 38 Ford |
| 38 | Alex Bowman | No. 48 Chevrolet |
| 39 | Martin Truex Jr. | No. 56 Toyota |
| 40 | Jimmy Johnson | No. 84 Toyota |
| 41 | Helio Castroneves | No. 91 Chevrolet |
2025 Daytona 500 Storyline
Like many previous articles in Great American Race, the storyline starts with drivers still seeking victory in the Daytona 500. Kyle Larson, Chase Elliott and Ryan Branny have all won Cup Series titles, but have yet to taste the victory. Daytona500. KyleBusch has won over 200 wins since his days in the Xfinity and Craftsman Truck series in the Cup Series, has the Cup Series title and was also the WWE 24/7 champion.
However, he has never won the Daytona 500 and is now marking his 20th attempt. Bush and Branny are one of our favourites of articles this season.
Brad Keselowski and Martin Truex Jr. are also pairs of Keselowski in 2012 and Treux in 2017, the winners of the Cup Series, who have never won the Great American Race. Truex appeared at the end of the nearest race loss in Daytona's history. Truex announced his retirement from full-time racing at the end of last season, but has returned in search of his first 500 wins.
He also races with a heavy heart as his father, Martin Trueks Sr. passed away last month.
Truex is not the only part-time racer on the field as Jimmie Johnson returns to another Daytona 500.
Next is Heliokastronev. The four-time Indianapolis 500 winners were unable to qualify for the Daytona 500, but as the special 41st participant where “world-class drivers” can receive provisional locations, the new rules It's on the field thanks to it.
With Castroneves being the 41st driver on the field, 43 cars are standard in 2015, meaning that today's Daytona 500 is the biggest field. Castroneves' Sunday effort, and all the drivers that end under him move up in order.
Still, if Castroneves draws out an astonishing victory, he will be the third driver to win both the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 500, along with AJ Foyt and Mario Andretti. Four-time Indianapolis winner Voyt added the Daytona 500 to his massive resume with his 1972 Great American Race victory.
As for Andretti, the 1967 Daytona 500 was his first major victory in motorsports. He followed that with a victory at Indianapolis two years later.
