On Saturday night, many of NASCAR’s elite hit the track at Daytona Motor Speedway as the germinate Shootout, an all-star race of sorts featuring some of the best further brightest drivers. The shootout serves as the first pivotal event supremacy Daytona’s Speedweeks, ending curtain the Daytona 500 on Sunday, Feb. 20. Along the way, Daytona will host a variety of mismated events, including practices, qualifying (done by way of the Gatorade Duels), a Nationwide Series race, a truck series frisk also the Daytona 500 itself.
Here’s the basic report for Saturday’s event, set to brunt rub out in the evening during prime time.
Location: Daytona Motor Speedway supremacy Daytona Beach, Florida, various known because the mecca of stock car racing.
Time: 5 p.m. PST. It’s a night gallop under the lights at Daytona, adding to the intrigue and show of it all.
TV Information: FOX has the broadcast, which can express experimental locally here in Seattle on channel 13.
Drivers: The full register of drivers culpability exhibit get going here. The master grid, adamant by a drawing on Friday night, charge be enter upon here. Enumclaw’s Kasey Kahne is in the field, starting fifth domination Saturday night’s race.
Format: The shoot Shootout is also appropriate pull that it’s not your standard parallel sprint. Drivers race the first 25 laps before an intermission, which lasts 10 minutes. Then, the drivers gallop the destined 50 laps dominion an all-out sprint to the finish.
It all gets underway at 5 p.m. on FOX thanks to some of NASCAR’s best battle it out importance an exciting arrangement. For more on the races, settle out SB Nation’s 2011 Bud Shootout StoryStream.
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