Justin Allgaier, the 38-year-old driver who gave JR Motorsports the 2024 NASCAR Xfinity Series championship, raced his way into Sunday’s Daytona 500. Bubba Wallace won the first Daytona Duels qualifying race,

"Where else do you go and barely make the field and cry tears of joy? Nowhere," Earnhardt said of the fabled speedway and race.

Where else do you go and barely make the field and cry tears of joy?” The answer is Daytona, the place that means so much to the Earnhardt family.