NASCAR Xfinity Series
Next Race: Wawa 250 Powered by Coca-Cola
The Place: Daytona International Speedway
Track Length: 2.5 Mile Asphalt Oval
The Date: Friday, August 22
The Time: 7:30 p.m. ET
The Purse: $1,651,939
TV: CW, 7 p.m. ET
Radio: MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR (Channel 90)
Distance: 250 miles (100 Laps); Stage 1 (Ends on Lap 30),
Stage 2 (Ends on Lap 60), Final Stage (Ends on Lap 100)
Daytona International Speedway Storylines and Insights:
- This weekend marks the 68th running of a NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Daytona International Speedway.
- The Xfinity Series has run at Daytona every year since the inaugural 1982 season.
- The Xfinity Series has run two races at Daytona every year since 2002.
- Connor Zilisch won his series-leading sixth race of the season at Watkins Glen, but then broke his collarbone in a fall in Victory Lane following the victory.
- Connor Zilisch won four of the last five race this season.
- Connor Zilisch’s 11 straight top fives since returning from back injury is the longest top-five finish streak of the season; Zilisch is the youngest driver with more than five straight top-five finishes.
- Sam Mayer finished Top-2 in the last three races.
- Connor Zilisch, Justin Allgaier and Sam Mayer are separated by 24 points in regular season standings with Zilisch leading the standings by seven.
- There are three races left in the regular season: Daytona, Portland and Gateway.
- Four Playoff spots remain open.
- Harrison Burton gained 13 points to the Playoff cut line with a 10th-place finish at Watkins Glen and now sits +30.
- Jeb Burton lost 11 points to the Playoff cut line at Watkins Glen and now sits -30.
- The 30 points of separation between the last driver in the Playoffs on points and the first out is the largest gap of the season.
- Carson Kvapil is the highest in standings without a win.
- JR Motorsports had at least one car finish top-five in a record 25 straight races.
- JR Motorsports won 13 races this season with a series-record six different drivers, all six drivers won in the last 14 races.
- JR Motorsports won eight of the last 10 races this season with four different drivers.
- Daytona is the fifth of six drafting track races this season.
- Austin Hill is the all-time drafting track leader with 9 wins, 754 laps led and 14 stage wins.
- Austin Hill won nine of the last 21 drafting track races.
- Jesse Love won pole in six of the last 10 drafting track races.
- Nine active drivers won on drafting tracks: Austin Hill (9), Justin Haley (4), Aric Almirola (2), Jeb Burton (20, Jesse Love (2), Justin Allgaier (1), Jeremy Clements (1), Nick Sanchez (1), Sammy Smith (1).
- Richard Childress Racing won three of four drafting track races this season.
- Richard Childress Racing won 11 of 21 drafting track races since Austin Hill joined the team full-time in 2022.
- Richard Childress Racing won pole in 12 of the last 19 drafting track races.
- Since 2021, 13 of 25 drafting track races went to overtime.
- The last 26 drafting track races featured double digit lead changes.
- Sheldon Creed finished in the top-10 in the last four races at Daytona, including two runner-up finishes.
- Six active drivers won at Daytona: Austin Hill (3), Justin Haley (2), Jeremy Clements (1), Justin Allgaier (1), Aric Almirola (1), Jesse Love (1).
- Nine drivers earned their first Xfinity Series win at Daytona.
- Richard Childress Racing won four of the last seven Daytona races but all four wins came in February, the last time they won the Daytona summer race was in 2015 with Austin Dillon.
- Since 2005, 22 of 40 Daytona races went to overtime.
- Five of the last nine Daytona races featured double digit leaders.
- The last nine Daytona races featured 16 or more lead changes.
- Chevrolet won 14 of the last 16 Daytona races.
- Justin Haley will drive the Kaulig Racing #11; all four of Haley’s Xfinity Series wins came on drafting track while driving Kaulig’s #11 including two at Daytona.
- Connor Zilisch leads the series with six wins, 12 top fives, a 9.5 average finish and five poles this season.
- Justin Allgaier leads the series with 689 laps led this season.
- Jesse Love leads the series with 15 top 10s this season.
- Justin Allgaier’s 28 career wins are ninth on the all-time wins list and one away from tying Matt Kenseth.
- Justin Allgaier is four top 10s away from becoming the first driver to reach 300 NXS top-10 finishes.
- Jeremy Clements will make 521st career Xfinity Series start at Daytona, breaking a tie with Jason Keller for third all-time.
- Chevrolet led 2,802 of 3,659 laps this season (77%).
- Chevrolet won 20 of 23 races, the most all time by a manufacturer through 23 races in series history.
- Toyota is winless in the last 15 races, their longest winless streak since the first NXS win in 2007.
- Richard Childress Racing and JR Motorsports are tied at 101 career wins and rank third-most in series history, both teams reached 100 this season.
- Five crew chiefs got their first NXS win in 2025: Chad Haney at Atlanta, Sam McAulay at Darlington, Adam Wall at Bristol, Cory Shea at Mexico City & Dale Earnhardt Jr. at Pocono.
- There hasn’t been an overtime finish in the last 10 races, the longest streak without an OT since Aug-Oct 2020.
- Five races this year ended with a last lap pass.
NXS Clinch Scenarios Following Watkins Glen International:
Already Clinched
- The following eight drivers have clinched a spot in the 12-driver postseason field: Connor Zilisch, Justin Allgaier, Sam Mayer, Jesse Love, Austin Hill, Brandon Jones, Sammy Smith, Nicholas Sanchez.
Can Clinch Via Win
- The following drivers would clinch on their win alone: Carson Kvapil, Sheldon Creed, Taylor Gray, Harrison Burton, Jeb Burton, Ryan Sieg, Christian Eckes, Dean Thompson, Daniel Dye, Brennan Poole, Jeremy Clements, William Sawalich, Anthony Alfredo, Matt DiBenedetto, Parker Retzlaff, Kyle Sieg, Blaine Perkins, Ryan Ellis.
— NASCAR —