William Byron won his second straight Daytona 500 after a last-lap wreck took out ... from Austin Cindric on the backstretch on the final lap of a green-white-checker restart.

As the crash scuttled Preece’s chances of winning, Byron used a clean ride on his final lap to escape the chaos and race to his second straight Daytona 500 victory. “It’s not all luck to win ...

NASCAR veteran Denny Hamlin, who was leading before the restart, found himself in the challenging position to take the lead back during the final lap of the 2025 Daytona 500 on Sunday (February 16 ...

William Byron became the first back-to-back Daytona 500 winner in five years after sneaking by a huge crash on the final lap of the race. Byron was in seventh place with a half-lap to go ...

It took overtime and a crash on the white-flag lap for William Byron to win his second straight Daytona 500 on Sunday. Byron was ninth going into the final lap in overtime when Cole Custer and ...

Advertisement This perpetual debate added another chapter following Sunday’s Daytona 500 that saw William Byron go from seventh on the final lap to victory ... was in 2001 (and then he won ...

William Byron won his second straight Daytona 500 after a last-lap wreck took out ... from Austin Cindric on the backstretch on the final lap of a green-white-checker restart.

William Byron survived final lap chaos, driving through a crash that claimed the top three and others then outlasting Tyler Reddick to the start-finish line to repeat as Daytona 500 champion on ...

a safety-conscious sanctioning body that hasn’t had a fatal crash in any of its top three divisions since Dale Earnhardt’s death on the final lap of the 2001 Daytona 500. “When the car took ...

as that final-lap powder keg ignited. It was a typical Daytona finish following a fragmented Sunday where the Daytona 500 show-biz wasn’t just symbolically separated from the racing ...