Daytona 500 Practice Results: February 8, 2020 (NASCAR Cup Series)

NASCAR practice results from Daytona International Speedway

Next up, Daytona International Speedway puts the entire field on the track for the first time in 2020. It’s the opening round of Daytona 500 practice for the NASCAR Cup Series.

View full 2020 Daytona 500 practice results below.

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This is a qualifying practice session. It’s one of two sessions scheduled ahead of tomorrow’s Daytona 500 qualifying session.

However, there are no practice session between qualifying and the duels. So, some teams will be working on race trim.

Cole Custer, Christopher Bell and Tyler Reddick will all be making their debut as full-time drivers in the NASCAR Cup Series. Bell will be making his first Cup start at Daytona.

42 cars have unloaded in the garage area.

Daytona 500
Practice – Report

Duration: 50 minutes

The green is out on the session.

5 minutes in, Erik Jones sits at the top of the board. He led Clash practice earlier.

30 minutes remain, Joe Gibbs Racing and a few others have hit the track and lined up nose to tail. All 7 of these cars are about to jump to the top of the board.

In fact they do, Denny Hamlin to the top.

Ross Chastain has an issue during his run. Light smoke flies out of the rear deck lid. He heads to the garage.

Halfway in Daytona practice

Halfway in Daytona Practice: 1. Denny Hamlin (202.65 mph); 2. Erik Jones (202.52 mph); 3. Ty Dillon (202.38 mph); 4. Martin Truex Jr (202.38 mph); 5. Kyle Busch (202.19 mph); 6. Daniel Suarez (202.12 mph); 7. Christopher Bell (202.05 mph); 8. Ricky Stenhouse Jr (201.97 mph); 9. Jimmie Johnson (194.19 mph); 10. Aric Almirola (193.89 mph);

Ty Dillon is at the tail of the Toyota line. He jumps to the top of the board. All of these cars are in race trim.

Kyle Busch makes an aggressive move on his teammate Denny Hamlin. Busch pulled out of line, dumped air on the left side rear spoiler on Hamlin car and he drove by. Busch pulled out of line in the corner to make it happen. He completed the pass without help.

16 minutes remain, Denny Hamlin is all over the bumper of Suarez off turn four. Suarez is all over the steering wheel and the hand is out the window in no time.

“If I didn’t put my hand out the window, he was going to spin me out. If that’s going to be the way we’re going to race…,” Suarez radio.

“That’s Hamlin for ya,” the Suarez crew responds.

10 minutes remain, a large group have formed on the track. 11 cars run two by two. As they begin to dice and run three wide, Dillon remains at the top of the board.

Ty Dillon wins the opening round of Daytona 500 race. But, it’s still more than a week before the green flag drops on the race.

View full 2020 Daytona practice results below.


Daytona 500
Practice Results
February 8, 2020

Session Start: 1:30pm

Pos | Driver | Best Time

1. Ty Dillon
44.206

2. Ricky Stenhouse Jr
33.293

3. Denny Hamlin
44.404

4. Erik Jones
44.439

5. Martin Truex Jr
44.471

6. Christopher Bell
44.490

7. Kyle Busch
44.513

8. Daniel Suarez
44.521

9. David Ragan
44.533

10. Matt DiBenedetto
44.576

11. Chris Buescher
44.739

12. Aric Almirola
44.806

13. Cole Custer
44.878

14. Clint Bowyer
45.030

15. Michael McDowell
45.158

16. John Hunter Nemechek
45.160

17. Ryan Newman
45.277

18. Bubba Wallace
45.290

19. Brennan Poole
45.364

20. Corey LaJoie
45.380

21. Brad Keselowski
45.628

22. JJ Yeley
45.786

23. Chase Elliott
45.868

24. Jimmie Johnson
46.056

25. Alex Bowman
46.155

26. Quin Houff
46.190

27. Tyler Reddick
46.428

28. Ryan Preece
46.449

29. Kevin Harvick
46.585

30. William Byron
46.649

31. Joey Logano
46.657

32. Kyle Larson
46.674

33. Brendan Gaughan
46.814

34. Kurt Busch
46.829

35. Ryan Blaney
46.958

36. Austin Dillon
47.190

37. Ross Chastain
47.215

38. BJ McLeod
47.324

39. Joey Gase
47.475

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