NASCAR: Austin Cindric wins his first Daytona 500

Austin Cindric has gained the 2022 Daytona 500.  

Workforce Penske driver scored his first win in NASCAR’s marquee race in simply his eighth begin within the Cup Collection.

Cindric led the sphere throughout the beginning/end line for a two-lap additional time shootout that got here after two yellow-flag crashes within the closing 10 laps of The Nice American Race.

The 2020 Xfinity Collection champion is racing in his first full season within the high tier collection. The win coincided with the eighty fifth birthday of staff proprietor Roger Penske, to whom Cindric despatched his finest needs to throughout a post-race interview.

Bubba Wallace adopted Cindric throughout the road in his 23XI Racing Chevrolet Camaro, which was lacking a entrance fender from certainly one of earlier accidents. The 2 got here into contact as Cindric made a last-second transfer to dam Wallace and safe the victory by simply .036 seconds. It was Wallace’s second runner-up end within the occasion.

Wallace scored his runner-up end was the second of his profession.
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Chase Briscoe, Ryan Blaney and Aric Almirola rounded out the highest 5. Almirola was competing in his closing Daytona 500, as he has introduced plans to retire from full-time racing on the finish of the season.

Pole-sitter and pre-race favourite Kyle Larson crashed out of the race with 10 laps to go when he bumped into the again of Kevin Harvick, ending Harvick’s day together with him.

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The sixty fourth working of the Daytona 500 solely had seven warning intervals, which included just one critical accident on lap 63, when Harrison Burton was flipped and a number of other vehicles, together with Denny Hamlin, have been wrecked out of the race.

Burton escaped the dramatic incident with none important accidents.