The 2025 Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona International Speedway

Welcome back to the World Center of Racing, the bearer of the heat, and the home of the Super Bowl of NASCAR, Daytona. A superspeedway so narrow you could imagine it as a country road. That is, a 200 mph country road. Notorious for creating mind blowing, unforgiving action, you'll be shocked from head to toe. But it's not going to be mind blowing, unforgiving, and shocking until we end this intro.

The first caution was on lap 11 when Casey Mears had a tire go down and spun on the backstretch. Fortunately, everyone was able to avoid the spinning 66 car.

There was a caution a bit later when Todd Gilliand came down on Tyler Reddick-who was trying to make it into the playoffs-and hit the wall, which basically destroyed his playoff hopes-or did it?

The big one was caused very early during this 400 mile race, when Bubba Wallace made contact with Joey Logano, causing him and Kyle Busch to collide, then everything fell apart. It looked like Wallace was just going to slide through the grass, until he made head-on contact with Austin Cindric, ending in a red flag. This also took out Alex Bowman, so Reddick was in the playoffs.

Leader Joey Logano spun on the frontstretch and made contact with Chris Buescher, which didn't cause the caution, but he got stuck in the ballfield, so the yellow was out.

When the white flag flew, nobody could tell what was going on. At first it was Cole Custer and Justin Haley battling, and then it was one of those 'where did he come from' moments, because Ryan Blaney won the Coke Zero Sugar 400.

That was...Daytona. Which is basically code for very entertaining and awesome. Anyways, lets start the playoffs.