Daytona 500 final results: Austin Cindric wins in a thrilling finish, topping Bubba Wallace and Ryan Blaney


Daytona 500 final results: Austin Cindric wins in a thrilling finish, topping Bubba Wallace and Ryan Blaney

2022 Daytona 500

Big wrecks, double-file racing, long lines of single-file racing at mid-race, teammates and manufacturer partners drafting together, red flag Sundays “The Great American Race” had everything and all that was toped out by the win of Penske Racing rookie Austin Cindric in only his 8th cup series start after pole-sitter and defending NASCAR Cup series champion Kyle Larson crashed out.

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Austin Cindric secured the 2022 season beginner in Daytona 500 win after he was able to hold off Bubba Wallace and teammate Ryan Blaney in the last lap of the race before the caution was put out. Defending Daytona 500 champion was only able to secure Michael McDowell p7 whereas 3 times Daytona 500 champion Denny Hamlin crashed out on the first stage.

Daytona 500 full final results

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Kyle Larson, Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano, Kurt Busch, Kevin Harvick, Alex Bowman, and Austin Dillon the list of big guns who had to sit out and watch the race from the sideline was huge. Pole sitter Kyle Larson crashed out and finished at P32 whereas Denny Hamlin finished P37. Alex Bowmen soon joined his teammate as the pole sitters of team Hendriks was only able to lead a combined 3 laps finishing at P24.

P2 finisher Bubba Wallace and P5 finisher Aric Almirola were able to score big as they were able to successfully climb from the starting position of p17 and P38 respectively to the top 5. Former F1 champion Jacques Villeneuve secured a p22 finish in his debut Daytona 500 and Veterans Kyle Busch and  Brad Keselowski finished at P6 and P9 respectively.

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positionDriver, Car and (starting position)TimePoints
1Austin Cindric    Ford • #2             (5)3:31:52.43345
2Bubba Wallace  Toyota • #23      (16)3:31:52.46843
3Chase Briscoe     Ford • #14           (9)3:31:52.52434
4Ryan Blaney        Ford • #12          (7)3:31:52.56333
5Aric Almirola       Ford • #10          (38)3:31:52.57332
6Kyle Busch          Toyota • #18       (10)3:31:52.60231
7Michael McDowell    Ford • #34    (6)3:31:52.68930
8David Ragan      Ford • #15            (34)3:31:52.70929
9Brad Keselowski   Ford • #6           (3)3:31:52.72344
10Chase Elliott      Chevrolet • #9   (11)3:31:52.82428
11Ty Dillon          Chevrolet • #42    (26)3:31:52.84826
12Daniel Hemric   Chevrolet • #16   (33)3:31:52.9680
13Martin Truex    Toyota • #19       (14)3:31:53.03744
14Corey Lajoie   Chevrolet • #7      (24)3:31:53.45923
15Landon Cassill   Chevrolet • #77  (27)3:31:58.5650
16Chris Buescher       Ford • #17      (4)3:31:59.62025
17Cody Ware       Ford • #51         (32)3:31:59.62220
18Daniel Suarez   Chevrolet • #99    (21)3:31:53.47019
19Kurt Busch    Toyota • #45        (17)3:31:54.01722
20Cole Custer  Ford • #41           (31)3:31:54.07517
21Joey Logano   Ford • #22          (20)3:31:57.31631
22Jacques Villeneuve   Ford • #27   (40)3:31:57.59615
23Justin Haley      Chevrolet • #31   (25)3:32:12.44014
24Alex Bowman    Chevrolet • #48    (2)3:32:09.99413
25Austin Dillon      Chevrolet • #3    (36)3:32:18.49517
26Kaz Grala         Chevrolet • #50     (35)3:31:57.8510
27BJ McLeod        Ford • #78            (37)3:32:03.26010
28Ricky Stenhouse    Chevrolet • #47   (18)3:20:49.24322
29Erik Jones       Chevrolet • #43          (13)3:12:43.07511
30Kevin Harvick     Ford • #4                (22)3:12:50.40710
31Noah Gragson    Chevrolet • #62    (39)3:11:00.1780
32Kyle Larson        Chevrolet • #5        (1)3:11:00.2679
33Todd Gilliland     Ford • #38          (29)3:11:00.45313
34Christopher Bell  Toyota • #20    (12)3:21:58.2583
35Tyler Reddick    Chevrolet • #8    (15)2:30:34.0572
36Greg Biffle        Chevrolet • #44   (28)3:32:04.3780
37Denny Hamlin   Toyota • #11     (30)1:02:38.9451
38William Byron    Chevrolet • #24  (23)1:00:40.1411
39Harrison Burton  Ford • #21        (8)1:00:40.3151
40Ross Chastain    Chevrolet • #1  (19)1:00:40.5601
DNFTimmy Hill   Ford • #66
DNFJJ Yeley  Ford • #55
credits : NASCAR

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