{"id":6650,"date":"2025-03-14T20:41:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T20:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/?p=6650"},"modified":"2025-03-14T20:41:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T20:41:28","slug":"nascar-information-sunday-february-23-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/nascar-information-sunday-february-23-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Information Sunday, February 23, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n


2025 Daytona 500<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

William Byron<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025 Daytona 500 winner \u2013 Started 5th, finished 10th in Stage 1 & 15th in Stage 2, 10 laps led, 9th entering final lap<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winner pit stops: William Byron \u2013 7 Stops 11, 16, 67, 74, 84, 133, 163 (All caution)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stage 1 winner: Joey Logano 35th<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stage 2 winner: Ryan Blaney 7th<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top 5 Stage 1 & 2: Ryan Blaney 3rd & 1st<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most points scored: 48 Ryan Blaney<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Passed for final lead change: Austin Cindric 8th<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winner final laps led: William Byron 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lead changes: 55<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leaders: 15<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cautions: 8<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Failed to finish: 13<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Longest green run: 45 Laps (87-131)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best free pass finisher: Ty Dillon 14th<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best finisher with pit road speeding penalty: None<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best starting rear of field finisher: Alex Bowman 6th<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best 23XI: Tyler Reddick 2nd<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Hendrick: William Byron 1st<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Gibbs: Chase Briscoe 4th<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Penske: Ryan Blaney 7th<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Longest green run: 34:40<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4 Crashes involving 9 or more each crash<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Team Penske: 124 Laps led \u2013 310 Miles (62%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Atlanta 2\/25<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christopher Bell<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Atlanta Feb. winner \u2013 Started 32nd, finished 24th in Stage 1 & 26th in Stage 2, avg. running pos.: 16th, only final lap led<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winner pit stops: Christopher Bell \u2013 5 Stops 64, 85, 137, 154, 189 (All caution)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stage 1 winner: Josh Berry 25th<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stage 2 winner: Kyle Larson 3rd<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top 5 Stage 1 & 2: William Byron 3rd & 4th, Bubba Wallace 4th & 2nd<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most points scored: 44 Kyle Larson & Bubba Wallace<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Passed for final lead change: Kyle Larson 3rd<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winner final laps led: Christopher Bell 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lead changes: 50 (Record)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cautions: 11<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Failed to finish: 10<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Longest green run: 61 Laps (Lap 1-61)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Longest green run time: 30 Minutes & 33 Seconds<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best free pass finisher: Michael McDowell 13th (6 Free passes)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best finisher with pit road speeding penalty: Todd Gilliland 15th<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best starting rear of field finisher: None<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Hendrick: Kyle Larson 3rd (Other HMS drivers finished 20th or worse)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Gibbs: Christopher Bell 1st<\/p>\n\n\n\n

23XI Racing: Bubba Wallace 9th<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RFK Racing: Ryan Preece 18th<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Penske: Ryan Blaney 4th<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laps Led \u2013 Ford 195, Chevrolet 65, Toyota 6    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laps led this season – Ford 337 (72%), Chevrolet 96, Toyota 34<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both races this season settled by last lap pass<\/p>\n\n\n\n

105 Lead changes total in 2 races this season<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winners led 11 laps total this season – William Byron 10 (Daytona) & Christopher Bell 1 (Atlanta)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both races finished in Overtime this season – Leader at scheduled distance failed to win each race<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2025 Daytona 500 William Byron 2025 Daytona 500 winner \u2013 Started 5th, finished 10th in Stage 1 & 15th in Stage 2, 10 laps led, 9th entering final lap Winner pit stops: William Byron \u2013 7 Stops 11, 16, 67, 74, 84, 133, 163 (All caution) Stage 1 winner: Joey Logano 35th Stage 2 winner:…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17,18,6,7,8,9,19],"class_list":["post-6650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nascar","tag-17","tag-broadcasting","tag-chris-myers","tag-chris-myers-sports","tag-fox-sports","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}