{"id":22772,"date":"2018-02-18T09:59:59","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T14:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/?p=22772"},"modified":"2018-02-20T10:00:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T15:00:32","slug":"after-five-nascar-overtimes-tyler-reddick-takes-powershares-qqq-300-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/2018\/02\/after-five-nascar-overtimes-tyler-reddick-takes-powershares-qqq-300-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"After Five \u2018NASCAR Overtimes,\u2019 Tyler Reddick Takes PowerShares QQQ 300 Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

After Five \u2018NASCAR Overtimes,\u2019 Tyler Reddick Takes PowerShares QQQ 300 Victory<\/strong>
\n\u00b7 Richard Petty Motorsports\u2019 Darrell Wallace Jr. Fastest in Final Practice for 60th Annual DAYTONA 500<\/p>\n

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Feb. 17, 2018) \u2013 Tyler Reddick endured a flurry of late-race incidents and five \u201cNASCAR Overtimes\u201d to win the PowerShares QQQ 300 on Saturday at Daytona International Speedway.<\/p>\n

The season-opening race for the NASCAR Xfinity Series was scheduled for 120 laps (300 miles). By the time things wrapped up, a total of 143 laps had been run on the 2.5-mile tri-oval. Reddick, a rookie driver in the No 9 BurgerFi Chevrolet partially owned by Dale Earnhardt Jr., edged his JR Motorsports teammate Elliott Sadler (No. 1 OneMain Financial Chevrolet) in a door-rubbing photo finish. Officially, the margin of victory was listed as 0.000 seconds, the closest finish in NASCAR national series history. Two-time race winner Ryan Reed (No. 16 Drive Down A1C Lilly Diabetes Ford) finished third.
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If the case of a late-race caution period using up the scheduled race distance, a NASCAR Overtime extends the race by two laps, via a \u201cgreen-white-checkered\u201d finish. But if a caution flag then comes out prior to the race leader crossing the line to begin the last lap \u2013 the white-flag lap \u2013 another OT is required. That happened four times Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis feels amazing,\u201d Reddick said. \u201cHelluva way to start the year off with JR Motorsports \u2026 and get my first win for JR Motorsports.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an amazing opportunity. Me and [crew chief] Dave [Elenz] are going to get along great. It\u2019s going to take a little bit of time to really get honed in, but I guess we\u2019re getting along pretty good, right off the bat.\u201d<\/p>\n

The PowerShares QQQ 300 has its own rich history that runs parallel to the race it always precedes, the DAYTONA 500. Through the years, many of NASCAR\u2019s top drivers have run both events. That was the case again this year, with seven Monster Energy Series regulars who are in the DAYTONA 500 also racing Saturday, giving the PowerShares QQQ 300 an \u201call-star\u201d flavor. There were also five former NASCAR Xfinity Series champions in the field: Daniel Suarez (2016), Chase Elliott (2014), Austin Dillon (2013), Jeff Green (2000) and Joe Nemechek (1992).<\/p>\n

Two Monster Energy Series drivers, Kyle Larson and Chase Elliott, led the first two of the race\u2019s three stages, each 30 laps. Those first 60 laps were relatively uneventful with only one incident, that coming on Lap 10 with eight cars tangling in the frontstretch. That provided no indication of what to come, however, with 10 caution periods jammed into the final stage of 60 laps.<\/p>\n

Prior to the PowerShares QQQ 300, a final practice session was held for Sunday\u2019s 60th annual DAYTONA 500, set for 3 p.m. ET. (TV \u2013 FOX; Radio \u2013 MRN, Sirius XM NASCAR Radio.) Darrell \u201cBubba\u201d Wallace Jr., a heralded rookie driving for Richard Petty Motorsports, topped the session with a speed of 198.954 in the No. 43 Click \u2018n Close Chevrolet. Wallace will start seventh Sunday, the first time a Petty car has had a top-10 DAYTONA 500 start since 2006.<\/p>\n

Pole winner Alex Bowman (No. 88 Nationwide Chevrolet) and 2016 DAYTONA 500 champion Denny Hamlin (No. 11 FedEx Express Toyota) will lead the 40-car DAYTONA 500 field to the green from the front row on Sunday, to open the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season.<\/p>\n

Other notable DAYTONA 500 starting positions:<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Starting fifth, 2015 DAYTONA 500 champion Joey Logano (NO. 22 Shell\/Pennzoil Ford);<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Starting sixth alongside Logano, 2007 DAYTONA 500 champion and former Monster Energy Series champion Kevin Harvick (No. 4 Jimmy John\u2019s Ford).<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Starting 11th, defending DAYTONA 500 champion and former Monster Energy Series champion Kurt Busch (No. 41 Haas Automation\/Monster Energy Ford);<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Starting 12th, former Monster Energy Series champion Kyle Busch (No. 18 M&M\u2019s Toyota), next to his his older brother;<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Starting 24th, reigning Monster Energy Series champion Martin Truex Jr. (No 78 Bass Pro Shops\/5-Hour Energy Toyota);<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Starting 28th, Danica Patrick (No. 7 GoDaddy Chevrolet), racing in the DAYTONA 500 for the last time;<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Starting 35th, two-time DAYTONA 500 champion \u2013 and seven-time Monster Energy Series champion \u2013 Jimmie Johnson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After Five \u2018NASCAR Overtimes,\u2019 Tyler Reddick Takes PowerShares QQQ 300 Victory \u00b7 Richard Petty Motorsports\u2019 Darrell Wallace Jr. Fastest in Final Practice for 60th Annual DAYTONA 500 DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Feb. 17, 2018) \u2013 Tyler Reddick endured a flurry of late-race incidents and five \u201cNASCAR Overtimes\u201d to win the PowerShares QQQ 300 on Saturday at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nascar","category-touring-series-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22773,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22772\/revisions\/22773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}