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The 67th Daytona 500 will have a 41st driver as four-time Indy 500 winner Helio Castroneves will use a controversial new NASCAR provisional to make his Cup debut Sunday in The Great American Race.
Castroneves crashed on Lap 14 in the first Duel qualifying race. Caught in a multicar wreck triggered by Chandler Smith, Castroneves’ No. 91 Chevrolet slammed the outside wall with its right rear and broke a toe link.
While limping back toward the pits, Castroneves accidentally steered his left front on the apron. His car shot up the banking into the outside wall in a heavy right-front impact.
Qualifying for the 2025 Daytona 500 is over and Chase Briscoe will be on the pole in his first season with Toyota and Joe Gibbs Racing. He’ll be joined on the front row by a Ford, as 2022 Daytona 500 winner Austin Cindric of Team Penske qualified second. However, the rest of the 2025 Daytona 500 field will be determined by a pair of 150-mile races, and the 2025 Daytona Duels will be held on Thursday at Daytona International Speedway. The Duel at Daytona is a tradition that dates back to 1959 and each race will go 60 laps around the 2.5-mile oval at Daytona. The latest Daytona Beach weather for Thursday’s Duels is calling for a 5% chance of rain after higher percentages leading up to race-time. Winds out of the south could help dry the track after rain earlier in the day.
The green flag drops on the first race to determine the inside row at 7 p.m. ET, with the second race immediately to follow determining the outside row. Kyle Busch is the +600 favorite in the first duel according to the latest 2025 Daytona Duels odds, while Ryan Blaney is the +600 favorite in the second of the Twin 150s at Daytona.
