Michael McDowell emerged from an unpleasant remaining-lap wreck to get the lead and went on to acquire Sunday’s climate- and crash-delayed operating of the Daytona five hundred at Daytona Global Speedway.
The victory was McDowell’s initial in the NASCAR Cup Sequence in 357 starts off.
“I just are unable to believe it,” McDowell, 36, reported. “So a lot of several years just grinding it out hoping for an opportunity like this.”
McDowell led just the one lap.
Did it match the aspiration?
“It does,” he reported, “but no matter if I acquire this race or not it is really not