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Michelle R. Martinelli

NASCAR rookie Austin Cindric edged Bubba Wallace in outrageously narrow Daytona 500 finish

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — It wasn’t the narrowest margin of victory in Daytona 500 history, but it was close. And Austin Cindric’s full-time NASCAR Cup Series debut couldn’t have gone any better.

The new Team Penske Ford driver held off a parade of furiously charging drivers behind him on the final lap of the 2022 season opener Sunday at Daytona International Speedway and narrowly edged Bubba Wallace for the checkered flag.

Inches, fractions of a car length, hundredths of a second — 0.036 to be exact.

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