The Daytona 500 first phase ended with a lot of surprises. While it was a win for Ricky Stenhouse Jr, it was Kyle Busch who had hard luck again in his 18th Daytona 500 race. And his teammate Austin Dillon had a particular rival to blame for it to some extent.
“We had a strategy there and it just didn’t play out. We weren’t as good as some of the Fords being able to tandem and get hooked up. The #6 car just drove through the #24 and it’s kind of what he does.”
“His car is good enough, he can just drive through whoever he needs to and push them out of the way or wreck them. That’s the desperation they’re in right now. So yeah I hate it because I was really wanting to get Kyle Busch to the Victory Lane here at the Daytona 500.”
Busch was just two laps from winning his first Daytona race. But the chaos on track meant that the opportunity to win the first Daytona 500 in 18 attempts got snatched from Rowdy. What made it even more poignant was the fact that he was leading the 200th lap.