Event
Daytona 500
Date
Sun 21st February 2016 (UTC)
Sun 21st February 2016 (Local)
Timestamp
2016-02-21T00:00:00
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Daytona 500
Date
Sun 21st February 2016 (UTC)
Sun 21st February 2016 (Local)
Timestamp
2016-02-21T00:00:00
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League
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Season
2016
Round
1
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Daytona International Speedway
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The 2016 Daytona 500, the 58th running of the event, was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race held on February 21, 2016, at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. Contested over 200 laps on the 2.5-mile (4.0 km) asphalt superspeedway, it was the first race of the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season. Denny Hamlin won the race, the 27th victory of his career, in a photo finish over Martin Truex, Jr. The top-five was rounded out by Kyle Busch, Kevin Harvick and Carl Edwards.
Chase Elliott won the pole for the race and led three laps before crashing out early in the race and finished 37th. Dale Earnhardt, Jr., and Kyle Busch won the Duel races. Unlike Busch, Earnhardt crashed out with 29 laps to go and finished 36th.
Hamlin led a race high of 95 laps on his way to winning the race. There were six caution flag periods for 31 laps and 20 lead changes among 15 different drivers.
This was the 27th career victory for Hamlin, first of the season, first at Daytona International Speedway and fifth win at the track for Joe Gibbs Racing. He left Daytona Beach with a five-point lead over Truex. Toyota left with an eight-point lead over Chevrolet in the manufacturer standings.
The Daytona 500 was carried by Fox Sports on the broadcast Fox network for the American television audience. The radio broadcast for the race was carried by the Motor Racing Network and Sirius XM NASCAR Radio.
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Result Description
Pos Grid No. Driver Team Manufacturer Laps Points
1 11 11 Denny Hamlin Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 200 45
2 28 78 Martin Truex, Jr. Furniture Row Racing Toyota 200 40
3 4 18 Kyle Busch Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 200 39
4 9 4 Kevin Harvick Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet 200 37
5 10 19 Carl Edwards Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 200 36
6 5 22 Joey Logano Team Penske Ford 200 35
7 14 42 Kyle Larson Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet 200 34
8 27 7 Regan Smith Tommy Baldwin Racing Chevrolet 200 33
9 21 3 Austin Dillon Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 200 33
10 8 41 Kurt Busch Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet 200 31
11 38 31 Ryan Newman Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 200 31
12 34 43 Aric Almirola Richard Petty Motorsports Ford 200 29
13 13 5 Kasey Kahne Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 200 28
14 2 20 Matt Kenseth Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 200 28
15 39 59 Michael McDowell Circle Sport – Leavine Family Racing Chevrolet 200 26
16 26 48 Jimmie Johnson Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 200 26
17 6 1 Jamie McMurray Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet 200 24
18 37 27 Paul Menard Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 200 23
19 7 21 Ryan Blaney (R) Wood Brothers Racing Ford 200 22
20 25 2 Brad Keselowski Team Penske Ford 200 22
21 30 47 A. J. Allmendinger JTG Daugherty Racing Chevrolet 200 20
22 19 17 Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. Roush Fenway Racing Ford 200 19
23 24 38 Landon Cassill Front Row Motorsports Ford 200 18
24 35 44 Brian Scott (R) Richard Petty Motorsports Ford 200 18
25 12 95 Ty Dillon (i) Circle Sport – Leavine Family Racing Chevrolet 200 0
26 18 14 Brian Vickers Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet 200 15
27 22 46 Michael Annett HScott Motorsports Chevrolet 200 15
28 23 6 Trevor Bayne Roush Fenway Racing Ford 200 13
29 29 23 David Ragan BK Racing Toyota 200 13
30 36 83 Michael Waltrip BK Racing Toyota 200 12
31 33 32 Bobby Labonte Go FAS Racing Ford 200 11
32 32 13 Casey Mears Germain Racing Chevrolet 199 9
33 31 15 Clint Bowyer HScott Motorsports Chevrolet 199 8
34 15 16 Greg Biffle Roush Fenway Racing Ford 198 7
35 16 10 Danica Patrick Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet 184 6
36 3 88 Dale Earnhardt, Jr. Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 169 6
37 1 24 Chase Elliott (R) Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 160 5
38 40 26 Robert Richardson, Jr. BK Racing Toyota 135 3
39 17 34 Chris Buescher (R) Front Row Motorsports Ford 91 2
40 20 93 Matt DiBenedetto BK Racing Toyota 91 1
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