{"id":178496,"date":"2021-02-15T08:49:08","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T05:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/michael-mcdowell-wins-rain-delayed-daytona-500-after-wreck\/"},"modified":"2021-02-15T08:49:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T05:49:08","slug":"michael-mcdowell-wins-rain-delayed-daytona-500-after-wreck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/michael-mcdowell-wins-rain-delayed-daytona-500-after-wreck\/","title":{"rendered":"#Michael McDowell wins rain-delayed Daytona 500 after wreck"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Michael McDowell wins rain-delayed Daytona 500 after wreck<\/strong>”
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. \u2014 Michael McDowell stormed through a crash scene to win the Daytona 500, snapp<\/a>ing an 0-for-357 streak with a fiery pileup in his rearview mirror.<\/p>\n

McDowell led just the final lap \u2014 maybe half of it, really \u2014 when Brad Keselowski turned teammate Joey Logano as the Team Penske drivers jockeyed for the victory.<\/p>\n

McDowell stayed flat in the gas and plowed past the two spinning cars to the lead, then won a three-wide drag race until NASCAR threw a race-ending caution.<\/p>\n

It was mayhem behind McDowell as a huge pack of cars could not avoid Keselowski and Logano. The collisions were one on top of another, flames erupting all over Daytona International Speedway as the race came to a close early Monday morning, nearly nine hours after it began.<\/p>\n

McDowell, a 36-year-old journeyman from Arizona, was a 100-1 underdog at the start of the race and seemed in disbelief after taking his first checkered flag.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo many years just grinding it out hoping for an opportunity like this,\u201d McDowell said. \u201cWe\u2019re the Daytona 500 champions. I cannot believe this. Luckily was able to make it through.\u201d<\/p>\n

A rain delay of almost six hours pushed the race into the night and under the lights, albeit without almost half the field. A 16-car accident just 15 laps into the race \u2014 moments before the rain \u2014 thinned the contenders and set up a showdown between Kevin Harvick and Denny Hamlin.<\/p>\n

Hamlin and Harvick had the two best cars but pit strategy ended Hamlin\u2019s shot at winning a record third-consecutive Daytona 500.<\/p>\n

Reigning Cup Series<\/a> champion Chase Elliott finished second and 2018 Daytona 500 winner Austin Dillon was third. Harvick finished fourth, and Hamlin was fifth after leading a race-high 98 laps.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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