The Latest Breaking News from Daytona

13 races down, 13 races to go in the regular season for the NASCAR Cup Series. At the halfway point, there have been eight different winners with Hendrick Motorsports and Joe Gibbs Racing [JGR] taking the lion's share of victories.

Over the past decade, B.J. McLeod has started 146 NASCAR Cup races, driving underfunded equipment, but doing as one of the most respected field-fillers in the sport. His best finish was seventh, which came in the summer race at Daytona in 2022.

Garrett Mitchell, better known as the YouTuber Cleetus McFarland, took Daytona by storm earlier this year, even after wrecking out of the ARCA season-opener when he joined the broadcast booth. With over four million subscribers on YouTube, the colorful internet personality returned for more superspeedway action at Talladega in April.

When Ryan Preece pulled a wheelie and flipped at the Daytona 500 earlier this year, he called for NASCAR to take action to help keep the Next Gen (Gen-7) cars from taking flight. There have been eight occasions where Cup cars have gone completely upside down in the last three…