![]() Kyle Larson was collected in the race-ending crash after he jumped out of line too early in an attempt to win. “It was a tough season, but man, we got it done, Daytona 500.” ![]() We had a couple shots last year to get a win and fell short. This was the site of my last win back in 2017. They left me a note in the car that said they believe in me and to go get the job done,” Stenhouse said. “I think this whole offseason Mike just preached how much we all believed in each other. Now, the 35-year-old from Olive Branch, Mississippi, has a repeat win at Daytona in NASCAR’s biggest race of the season. Stenhouse’s only other victories came in 2017, at Talladega and the summer race at Daytona. “We’re trying to get people to believe in Ricky Stenhouse Jr. It was on top of the roll bar in front of him, and it just said, ‘We believe.’ That’s been our motto the whole offseason - that we believe. “I just wrote him a note that only he would see. “When I woke up today I told myself that I was going to do something that I used to do for Ricky when we had tough days,” Kelly said. The message? The team believes in the driver. So ahead of the Daytona 500, he taped a note inside the Chevrolet. Mike Kelly’s biggest task was convincing Stenhouse that he can indeed win races. To get to victory lane Sunday, JTG stuck with Stenhouse and even reunited him this season with the crew chief who led him to a pair of Xfinity Series titles years ago. when Michael Waltrip and Dale Earnhardt Jr. The team is owned by Tad and Jodi Geschickter along with former NBA player Brad Daugherty.ĭaugherty, who left the track earlier Sunday with an eye irritation, is the first Black car owner to win the race, and Jodi Geschickter joined Teresa Earnhardt as female car owners to win the Daytona 500. JTG is the first single-car team to win the Daytona 500 since The Wood Brothers Racing did it with Trevor Bayne in 2011. Stenhouse’s win for JTG Daugherty Racing was the third of his career. ![]() It provided anxious moments before a landmark celebration: the first Daytona 500-winning team co-owned by a Black man and a woman. Stenhouse won the Daytona 500 in double overtime and under caution Sunday night in the longest running of “The Great American Race.” The two overtimes pushed the 65th running of the race to a record 212 laps - a dozen laps beyond the scheduled distance and a whopping 530 miles (850 km). To say this Daytona 500 was a milestone race was an understatement - for Stenhouse and for NASCAR. has had a roller coaster career in which he had to fight to keep a job, lost his seat at a NASCAR powerhouse team and opened his 14th season mired in a five-year losing streak. It also added new cars to select, each with their own stats.DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. The two new tracks were Desert City, and National Park Speedway. That said, new tracks were added, and the existing tracks finally received names-The Three Seven (777) Speedway, Dinosaur Canyon, and the Seaside Street Galaxy. This, again, was not a popular decision amongst fans, as now a whole new control scheme and new physics had to be adhered to, some of which didn't really work well with Daytona's track design. Instead of doing the sensible thing and developing a more arcade accurate engine for the port, they simply re-used the aforementioned SEGA Rally Championship engine, resulting in a Daytona game that controlled like a SEGA Rally game. AM3 were responsible for the nearly arcade perfect port of SEGA Rally Championship, but the sad truth of the matter is they had no idea how to go about programming a Daytona game. Why? Because some daft git at SEGA thought it was a good idea to dump the original developers, AM2, off the project, and just hand it to AM3 instead. ![]() Speaking of which, that could be said for the entire game-it felt nothing like the previous games. ![]()
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