2023 – Motor Sports Racing

Editorial credit: Grindstone Media Group / Shutterstock.com Well the 2023 season is off with a bang and the 65th Running of the Great American Race is over and the teams are already packing up and heading off on the long drive from Florida to California for next week's Auto club 400 at the Auto Club Speedway and the championship is well and truly underway. However as long as the Daytona 500 is and this one as the longest Daytona 500 race ever at 212 laps, the hectic NASCAR schedule doesn't give the winner much time to celebrate their win. So we have listed the final results here for the Daytona 500 2023 to celebrate just a little while longer. Table 1: Table of Results and Finishing positions in the Daytona 500 2023. Finishing positionDriver and numberTeamNotes (if needed) 1st (winner)Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (47)JTG Daugherty Racing1st Daytona, and 3rd career win. 2ndJoey Logano (22)Team Penske3rdChristopher Bell (20)Joe Gibbs Racing4thChris Buescher (17)RFK Racing5thAlex Bowman (48)Hendrick Motorsports6thA. J. Allmendinger (16)Kaulig Racing7thDaniel Suarez (99)Trackhouse Racing8thRyan Blaney (12)Team PenskeSpun Early on lap 409thRoss Chastain (1)Trackhouse Racing Team10thRiley Herbst (15)Rick Ware Racing11thTravis Pastrana (67)23XI Racing12thKevin Harvick (4)Stewart-Haas Racing13thZane Smith (36)Front Row Motorsports14thCody Ware (51)Rick Ware Racing15thMartin Truex Jr (19)Joe Gibbs Racing16thCorey LaJoie (7)Spire Motorsports17thDenny Hamlin (11)Joe Gibbs Racing18thKyle Larson (5)Hendrick MotorsportsLast Lap Crash19thKyle Busch (8)Richard Childress RacingCrash20thBubba Wallace (23)23XI RacingCrash21stAric Almirola (10)Stewart-Haas RacingCrash22ndBrad Keselowski (6)RFK RacingCrash23thAustin Cindric (2)Team PenskeCrash24thNoah Gragson (42)Legacy Motor Club25thTy Gibbs (54)Joe Gibbs Racing26thHarrison Burton (21)Wood Brothers Racing27thTodd Gilliland (38)Front Row MotorsportsCrash28thMichael McDowell (34)Front Row Motorsports29thConor Daly (50)The Money Team Racing30thB. J. McLeod (78)Live Fast Motorsports31stJimmie Johnson (84)Legacy Motor ClubCrash32ndJustin Haley (31)Kaulig RacingCrash33rdAustin Dillon (3)Richard Childress RacingCrash34thWilliam Byron (24)Hendrick MotorsportsCrash35thChase Briscoe (14)Stewart-Haas RacingCrash36thRyan Preece (41)Stewart-Haas RacingCrash on lap 18137thErik Jones (43)Legacy Motor ClubCrash lap 11738thChase Elliott (9)Hendrick MotorsportsCrash 11739thTyler Reddick (45)23XI RacingCrash lap 11740thTy Dillon (77)Spire MotorsportsEngine Issues lap 26 Race statistics So far There were 21 different leaders of the race The leas changed 52 times in the race the top 7 finishers all represented different teams in NASCAR. There were 38 laps of caution and 8 yellow flag cautions The race took 4 hours 2, mins and 9 seconds The average speed was 163 miles an hour. So congratulations to Ricky Stenhouse Jr for his third career win (and first since 2017) and his first Daytona 500 win and to JTG Daugherty Racing for starting the season with a bang! Logano came in second with Christopher bell coming in third, both continuing their great form from the end of last season. Although these are unofficial results (we will mark them when they are official results), it was a good race and a great start to the season and we roll onto the Auto Club Speedway Next week.