Daytona International Speedway has created yet another magical moment.
Harrison Burton won his first career NASCAR Cup Series race in overtime after getting by Kyle Busch on the final restart and rocketing in front of the field via a backstretch push from Parker Retzlaff to earn a spot in the playoffs.
Burton scored Wood Brothers Racing’s 100th win and earned his first victory in 98 starts.
Busch finished second behind the No. 21. He gave a big push to Burton coming to the line, but the son of Jeff Burton held on to his Ford Mustang, beating the Richard Childress Racing No. 8 Chevrolet by .047 seconds.
Christopher Bell recovered from wrecks to finish third, and Cody Ware earned his first top five, finishing fourth. Ty Gibbs completed the top five.
Bubba Wallace, Retzlaff, Brad Keselowski, Daniel Hemric and Chris Buescher rounded out the top 10.
The end of the race had two major wrecks that changed the running order and contenders significantly.
Josh Berry and Austin Cindric battled hard side-by side for the lead with two to go, but after a push by Busch, Cindric turned into Berry and both spun in the newly paved infield. Berry flipped and went straight to the inside wall as others in the field were collected behind.
Berry wasn’t the only one to take flight. The second Big One of the day shaped a final showdown as the leader and polesitter Michael McDowell got lose after a push from Cindric and went airborne in front of the pack, nearly flipping.
The airborne McDowell collected multiple contenders, including Wallace, Joey Logano, Kyle Larson, Justin Haley, Ryan Blaney and multiple others — 14 in total.
McDowell took the lead to start the final stage, but Haley made a key move to join Cindric on the bottom and fly by the polesitter. He controlled the lead for a majority of the longest green-flag run of the day.
However, as green flag pit stops approached, John Hunter Nemechek and Busch battled three wide with Haley for the lead. With 21 laps to go, the No. 42 Legacy Motor Club Toyota spun on the backstretch to bring out the caution, setting up final pit stops.
The first Big One happened in stage two, featuring Ross Chastain, who lost some momentum, checking up Noah Gragson and causing Corey LaJoie to to end up spinning the No. 10, collecting almost half the field, including Chastain.
Others notables involved whose days essentially ended were Denny Hamlin, Chase Elliott and Ryan Preece.
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