SEATTLE - The Daytona 500 race will be run on a Monday for the third time in history. This time it's due to bad weather around the Daytona Beach area. Since the first race in 1959, only four other times did the iconic race suffer a change in its 200-lap tradition, all of them shortened due to bad weather (1965, 1966, 2003, 2009).
When the race gets underway on Monday, two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Joey Logano will lead the race after winning the pole position in the qualifying rounds. Twelve places behind him will be Mexican pilot Daniel Suárez, who will compete in his 7th Daytona 500 race and try to improve on his 7th place achieved last year, his best finish at the famous circuit so far.
