Because the race reached its crunch level, Daniel Suarez went off on lap 198 and ended up within the infield grass to carry out a warning and ship the race into a primary interval of two-lap extra time.
Stenhouse grabbed the lead for the primary time within the race with a shove from Kyle Larson within the first extra time, however a conflict involving Austin Dillon and William Byron despatched the race right into a second two-lap extra time.
As second extra time started, Logano nipped in entrance of Stenhouse however an enormous push from Christopher Bell despatched Stenhouse again forward of Logano, simply as Travis Pastrana and Aric Almirola wrecked to carry out one other warning.
However since Stenhouse had already taken the white flag, the race was over and he was declared the winner.
“When [Kyle Busch] went to the underside there I used to be capable of push [Logano] and [Larson],” Stenhouse stated of the primary extra time. “We had an enormous run. I hoped we have been going to get to the white [flag] there, and we didn’t, so I knew I used to be going to take the highest.
“I hoped [Logano] was going to comply with, and he did. He was capable of push us out. I went to the underside, [Busch] and [Logano] acquired an enormous run. Larson break up me within the center, however one other fellow dust racer with Bell gave me a very good shot down the little brief chute into [Turn] 1, and we have been out entrance when the warning got here out.
“We have been out of gas so the gas gentle was going loopy. I hope y’all had enjoyable. That was a heck of a race.”
It’s Stenhouse’s first NASCAR Cup win since 2017, additionally taken at Daytona within the mid-season race, and the third of his profession. All three of his wins have come on superspeedways.
It’s additionally the primary win for the JTG Daugherty Racing squad since 2014, when A.J. Allmendinger triumphed at Watkins Glen.
The race additionally set a report for size, going 212 laps or 530 miles as a result of extra time durations.
With Logano having to accept second behind Stenhouse, Bell took third having pushed Stenhouse into the victory.
Chris Buescher took fourth place with polesitter Alex Bowman surviving the late carnage to spherical out the highest 5. Allmendinger claimed sixth place forward of Daniel Suarez, with Ryan Blaney, Ross Chastain and Riley Herbst finishing the highest 10.
Having been concerned within the closing crash in extra time, Pastrana dropped to 11th – whereas solely 17 of the 40 starters ended on the lead lap resulting from quite a few wrecks.
NASCAR Cup Collection Daytona 500 – race outcomes
