Round 1 – Daytona – Winner

Who is closest to win our Prediction Game?

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. wins Daytona 500 to begin NASCAR’s 75th season.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — In the longest Daytona 500 in NASCAR history, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. got help from an unexpected source and won the sport‘s most prestigious race when a wild wreck froze the field in the second overtime.

Stenhouse and reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion Joey Logano were battling for the lead on Lap 212 when contact from Aric Almirola‘s Ford started Travis Pastrana‘s Toyota spinning in Turn 2. Pastrana‘s Camry clipped the Chevrolet of Kyle Larson and set it rocketing into the outside wall.

Tires screamed, sparks flew and smoke billowed as the cars of defending race winner Austin Cindric, Brad Keselowski, Kyle Busch, AJ Allmendinger, Denny Hamlin, Bubba Wallace and Ryan Blaney were all collected in the chaotic wreck.

But when NASCAR hit the button to illuminate the caution lights, Stenhouse‘s No. 47 JTG Daugherty Chevrolet edged ahead of Logano‘s Ford, thanks to a timely shove from the third-place finishing Toyota of Christopher Bell, who, like Stenhouse, arrived at the pinnacle of pavement racing from a dirt-track background.

NASCAR declared Stenhouse the winner of the 65th running of the event, a perfect christening of the renewed relationship between the driver and crew chief Mike Kelley, with whom Stenhouse won his two NASCAR Xfinity Series championships more than a decade earlier. It also gave manufacturer Chevrolet its 25th win in the Great American Race.

Our Prediction Game won FreeMatt, Threewide_Nina and Gaby Mustang with 8 points each.

So we have 3 players in the lead in the overall results:

FreeMatt60, Threewide_Nina and Gaby Mustang with 8 points on 1st position

Here comes the overall results: