NASCAR: Kyle Busch and Martin Truex Jr. come up quick at Daytona 500

Two dwelling legends as soon as once more come up quick on the 2023 Daytona 500.

Sunday evening’s Daytona 500 featured every thing followers of the game search for within the season’s greatest race. There was loads of aggressive racing, crashes and underdogs wound up stealing the present on the ultimate lap.

Ricky Stenhouse Jr., the pleasure and pleasure of Memphis, Tennessee, stole the lead with only a few laps left and was capable of grasp on by way of a green-white-checker end, holding off Joey Logano for the victory – his first on the 500.

The 35-year-old has lengthy been a complicated superspeedway driver, as evidenced by his now three profession victories within the Cup Sequence – all coming at both Daytona or Talladega.

As a lot as these races are wild playing cards, there have been two legends within the discipline nonetheless on the lookout for their first Daytona 500 win. Each of them got here up quick as soon as once more.

NASCAR: Each Kyle Busch and Martin Truex Jr. as soon as once more left emptyhanded at Daytona

Kyle Busch, coming into his first season at Richard Childress Racing after top-of-the-line tenures with a single crew in NASCAR historical past as a member of Joe Gibbs Racing, got here into Sunday’s occasion with the load of the world on his shoulders.

Busch, 37, has fairly actually received every thing there’s to win at NASCAR’s highest degree. All the pieces, that’s, besides the most important race of the 12 months.

Sunday’s Daytona 500 was the 18th time Busch has suited up for the occasion, and he one way or the other has come up winless in each single one among his makes an attempt. He was in wonderful place to steal a win earlier than new teammate Austin Dillon wrecked with simply two laps to go. The absence of a real drafting companion left Busch out to dry and he limped dwelling nineteenth.

Then there’s Martin Truex Jr., Busch’s former teammate. Truex, 42, is one other driver who entered the day with excessive hopes however in the end was unable to capitalize.

Heading into the day, it felt like destiny for the 2017 Cup Sequence champion. He drives the No. 19, the race is happening on February nineteenth, and it was the nineteenth profession Daytona 500 for him. Nevertheless, issues simply weren’t meant to be for him.

Truex didn’t spend any time on the entrance of the sphere and was by no means actually in rivalry for this race. He completed fifteenth within the occasion and shockingly will proceed his streak of getting by no means received on any superspeedway tracks on the schedule.