Justin Allgaier, the 38-year-old driver who gave JR Motorsports the 2024 NASCAR Xfinity Series championship, raced his way into Sunday’s Daytona 500. Bubba Wallace won the first Daytona Duels qualifying race,

Dale Earnhardt Jr. blinked back tears as the moment socked him at Daytona International Speedway — a track bursting with triumph and tragedy for his family — that he was, with a country star and a NASCAR champ in tow,

"Where else do you go and barely make the field and cry tears of joy? Nowhere," Earnhardt said of the fabled speedway and race.