{"id":26349,"date":"2020-02-15T06:17:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T11:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/?p=26349"},"modified":"2020-02-15T06:17:54","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T11:17:54","slug":"grant-enfinger-wins-21st-annual-nextera-energy-250-in-nascar-overtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/2020\/02\/grant-enfinger-wins-21st-annual-nextera-energy-250-in-nascar-overtime\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant Enfinger Wins 21st Annual NextEra Energy 250 in \u2018NASCAR Overtime\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

William Byron Tops Friday\u2019s DAYTONA 500 Practice With 204-MPH Lap<\/strong>
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Twenty-Three Drivers Exceed 200 mph in DAYTONA 500 Practice<\/em><\/strong>
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Noah Gragson Fastest in Practice for Saturday\u2019s NASCAR Racing Experience 300<\/em><\/strong>
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a062nd Annual NASCAR Racing Experience 300 Opens NASCAR Xfinity Series Season<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Feb. 14, 2020) \u2013<\/strong> In a dramatic three-wide, fender-banging finish to open the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series season, Grant Enfinger won Friday night\u2019s 21st annual NextEra Energy 250 at Daytona International Speedway in \u201cNASCAR Overtime.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A multi-car incident on Lap 98 of the scheduled 100-lap\/250-mile race caused an extended caution period that forced the race beyond the scheduled distance. The restart came on Lap 105 to start a two-lap overtime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

On the final lap, it came down to Enfinger, Jordan Anderson and Codie Rohrbaugh. Approaching the finish, Enfinger\u2019s No. 98 Champion\/Curb Records Ford was in the middle, sandwiched between Anderson (No. 3 K-Seal\/Bommarito.com Chevrolet) and Rohrbaugh (No. 9 GCM\/CR7 Motorsports Chevrolet), with Enfinger and Anderson doing as much rubbing as racing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was close \u2013 Enfinger edged Anderson by only 0.010 seconds, giving Ford their 100th victory in NASCAR Gander Trucks competition. Third-place Rohrbaugh finished 0.070 back. Derek Kraus and Natalie Decker rounded out the top five. With the fifth-place finish, Decker becomes the highest-finishing woman in series history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an unbelievable feeling,\u201d Enfinger said. \u201cThe biggest thing is we had a really good Ford F-150 to do it with. God has blessed us with a great opportunity to come out here and we were able to pull it off tonight. \u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overtime was not a surprise. The popular NASCAR Gander Trucks are typically raucous at Daytona. A reminder of that appeared quickly on Lap 16, when nine trucks were involved in a Turn 1 incident that sent rookie Ty Majeski\u2019s No. 45 Plan B Sales Chevrolet flipping and landing on its roof. Majeski\u2019s machine skidded down the track before coming to a halt. During the ensuing red-flag period, safety workers got the truck right-side up and Majeski emerged unscathed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c[Being upside down] is obviously not a very good feeling,\u201d Majeski said. \u201cBut I\u2019m not hurt \u2026 just my pride.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was one practice Friday for the 62nd annual DAYTONA 500, set for Sunday at 2:30 p.m. (TV\u2013FOX; Radio\u2013MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.) William Byron (No. 24 Axalta Chevrolet) led the session with a lap of 204.587 mph; he was one of 23 drivers to exceed 200 mph. The fourth and final DAYTONA 500 practice is set for 12:30 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The DAYTONA 500 opens the season for the NASCAR Cup Series, America\u2019s premier form of motorsports. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (No. 47 Kroger Chevrolet) will start on the pole. On Thursday night, Byron and 2015 DAYTONA 500 champion Joey Logano won the two Bluegreen Vacations Duel At DAYTONA qualifying races that established the starting grid for \u201cThe Great American Race.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


The NASCAR Xfinity Series opens its season on Saturday (2:30 p.m.) with the NASCAR Racing Experience 300. Two practices for that race were held Friday. Noah Gragson (No. 9 Bass Pro Shops\/BRCC Chevrolet) led the first practice with a best lap of 190.621. Caesar Bacarella (No. 90 Maxim\/Alpha Prime Regimen Chevrolet) topped the second session at 186.293. Qualifying for the NASCAR Racing Experience 300 will be Saturday at 11 a.m.
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William Byron Tops Friday\u2019s DAYTONA 500 Practice With 204-MPH Lap\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Twenty-Three Drivers Exceed 200 mph in DAYTONA 500 Practice\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Noah Gragson Fastest in Practice for Saturday\u2019s NASCAR Racing Experience 300\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a062nd Annual NASCAR Racing Experience 300 Opens NASCAR Xfinity Series Season DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Feb. 14, 2020) \u2013 In a dramatic three-wide, fender-banging finish to open the NASCAR Gander […]<\/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":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26349","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\/26349","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=26349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26350,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26349\/revisions\/26350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}