FEBRUARY 22, 2023

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Ricky Stenhouse Jr., driver of the No. 47 Kroger/Cottonelle Chevrolet, celebrates with his crew after winning the NASCAR Cup Series Daytona 500. Cautions, wrecks, track position and a battle between two racing lanes defined the 65th running of the Daytona 500 on Sunday. And although a collection of cautions sent the field into two overtimes, it was Stenhouse Jr. who found enough position to win the series' biggest race to open NASCAR’s 75th season. The win is Stenhouse Jr.’s third of his career and his first since July 1, 2017 (at Daytona). In 11 previous Daytona 500 races, Stenhouse Jr.’s best finish was seventh (2014). It was also Chevrolet’s 25th win in the Daytona 500. Although Fords — spearheaded by the RFK Racing tandem in Brad Keselowski and Chris Buescher — dominated through the late going, multiple wrecks initiated NASCAR Overtime, where Stenhouse Jr.'s Chevrolet eventually prevailed in what amounted to the longest-ever Daytona 500 in terms of laps. Joey Logano (No. 22 Team Penske Ford) was second and Christopher Bell (No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota) finished third. Watch the race highlights here. (Thank you to NASCAR Wire Service)

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The AE Motorsports Quote of the Week comes from Mat Oxley, writing for MotorSport: "How to compare the performance of the different motorcycles on the MotoGP grid? Easy. There’s only one way, by comparing race times, because race times are all that matter. Everything else is noise. One MotoGP engineer described his job to me in five words – 'to minimise the race time' – and it’s literally no more than that. This, by the way, is the beauty of being in pitlane: ace engineers cut through the crap like no one else, because they know they have nowhere to hide. You cannot baffle with bullshit in racing. Sunday’s result is the truth, undiluted, which is why some engineers call result sheets, 'truth sheets'."

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