The 40-car field is set for the Daytona500:
The No. 50 Chevrolet raced its way into the Daytona 500 last year and ultimately entered four total Cup races, including Daly’s Cup debut on The Roval at Charlotte Motor Speedway last October. Four-time Indianapolis 500 winner Helio Castroneves had the first talks with Mayweather’s team about entering Sunday’s Daytona 500 but passed because he didn’t think the entry had time to be properly prepared.
Daly jumped at the opportunity, as did his sponsor, which wants him to run a handful of NASCAR races this year to market the company and motorsports as a whole.An electrical issue burned a hole in the oil line and prevented him from making a qualifying attempt in Wednesday time trials. It meant the Indiana native had to race his way into the Daytona 500 in one of Thursday night’s qualifying races.
Even that seemed as if Daly couldn’t go the distance: TMT was thrashing just to get his car ready to start the race, his radio wasn’t working, and Daly complained in the garage that “it’s not supposed to be this hard.” When he pulled off pit road, the vibration was so bad on his Chevy that he was adamant something was wrong with the car.In the end, it was Daniel Suarez spinning Kyle Busch from the lead that got Daly into the race. Busch’s crash collected Austin Hill, the other driver Daly was racing for a spot in the field, and with Hill out of the qualifying race, Daly was in despite essentially racing a jalopy.
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