What Did We Learn From the 2024 Daytona 500?
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- While it took an extra day to get it in but the 2024 Daytona 500 has finally been put in the books! Now we have the NASCAR season officially under way and we have learned a couple of things both about the competition and everyone around it as well as the Next Gen’s continued improvement at Daytona and other superspeedway. So what did we learn from the 2024 Daytona 500?
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What did you think of the 2024 Daytona 500?
ass
Great racing
Meh ending
Byron held his ground what was he supposed to do?
I thought it was great!
The finish sucked, but that doesn’t take away how incredible the race was. It was one of the best 500s I have ever watched.
The Wendy's Go Biggue 5 minute segment wirh 30 to 35 to go was totally ridiculous. Good to see Hendrick end the decade long drought of winning the Daytona 500.
1. If we’re going to have all these commercials, we need GOOD commercials, not the Super Bowl’s hand-me-down commercials.
2. The broadcast can be solid with the right people in the booth. (I swear it doesn’t matter if it’s RCR, SHR, or now the FOX booth, Harvick is always CARRYING something!)
3. Mother Nature is rotten to the core!
This ain't 2004 anymore with unique driver commercials. We're still stuck in a recession for the past 26 years
and honestly I felt like there were to many commercials for my liking
It’s literally nicknamed “the superbowl of Motorsports” so yes we need good commercials
@@S.K.R.E.Inc.even before the recession of 2009 we had driver commercials it's not the early 2010's anymore where nascar is marketable to sponsors.
@@runrafarunthebestintheworldnext year
Let's also not forget that Dale Sr's only 500 win came under caution. ✌️
That was also back when they raced back to the line. Not that they could or would do that now as it's frankly unsafe to do so.
This was my 6th Daytona 500 to attend and from the stands, with the exception of the fuel saving stint, the racing was about as good as any previous 500 I can remember. You could feel the tension in the air as the laps ticked down and you just knew that the Big One was going to happen at any moment. As a Byron fan, obviously I was happy with the result, but even had he not won, the racing we saw was compelling and exciting for the majority of the race. I get that a lot of people are probably upset with the fuel saving strategy, but that's just part of it. Strategy is not a new concept in this race. I for one, am glad that we had over 30 cars all running with less than 10 laps to go for the Daytona 500. My wife went with me for the first time this year, and she is already preparing for next year and has talked about how crazy the racing was. Great way to start the season!
I’ve been a fan of the 24 since I was born essentially. It was awesome seeing the 24 win the 500 for the first time since 2005! I also really enjoyed the racing and I think they’re getting the superspeedway package close to perfect for next gen. I’m rooting for NASCAR, it’s my favorite Motorsport.
My first 500 on my day off i was at 7 am Australia time and my favourite driver won how lucky!
I enjoyed the race.
This'll be the first year in a long time I intend to watch the full season, and this plus the duels made me excited again.
During commercials, I switched to MRN radio, and I swear the commentary is night and day.
I don't know exactly what's the difference, but if I had a guess, it's the energy in the commentators voices.
MRN felt like they could yell at any moment, while I swear that Harvick doesn't have an outside voice.
He keeps to him self for 23 years what u expect exactly?
NASCAR really said "hey so you guys remember how bad the 2004 Aaron's 499 ended up being? Yeah let's recreate that"
We still needed the fans throwing beer bottles at Byron to be complete
24 cars seem to be involved in instances like those. Remember the 05 500 gordon got the lead right before the caution
Yes, because that was 100% the intention; just like the 2023 Craftsman Truck Series finale was a clean race driven by very polite tea-sipping Brits. 🤣🤣🤣
I wanna know why we had a side-by-side for post stage 2 pace laps. Like thats the exact spot where you put the long commercial break so that we can save the side-by-side for the important parts.
I enjoyed this Daytona a lot more than some of the previous ones, Harvick and Bowyer are really good together.
My one big gripe is that here on the west coast, or at least my local Fox switched over to the news with 5 laps to go, luckily they came back quickly right before 3 laps to go, but still gave my heart quite a jump scare.
It's unsurprising given Harvick and Bowyer were teammates on two different teams during their careers.
Firsy 500 I've ever been too, and boy did i love it. Probably biased since I've been a 24 fan my entire life, but the racing was awesome. No wrecks to slow down the pace. I enjoyed the differing fuel strategies.
We’ve learned a couple things.
1. The superspeedway package is improving year after year. Runs are big, but not unblockable.
2. The Cup field continues to show that you can run most of a plate track race clean. Looking at you, ARCA Plus- I mean, Truck Series.
3. FOX still sucks.
4. Mother Nature is out to get us.
5. Even with the wet fart that was the end of this race, I’d still take that over 4 overtime attempts. It went the scheduled distance and didn’t require a single overtime attempt.
You should apply to work for fox then
Improving? Where’s the improvement. They killed superspeedways with this car.
I love the 8-bit Hail to the King as the background music
2004 Talladega vibes, 2002 Pepsi vibes, and a twist of 2007 crammed into it
It was weird seeing multiple packs 😂
@parkerwalsh3340 I had the same feeling for some laps it even started to seem like a tandem draft race haha, for other almost a michigan race hahah
8bit Hail To The King in the background is killer😂
I learned that NASCAR drivers nowadays CAN actually run a professional clean and great race without disrespecting others and green-white-checkereds. Too bad stage cautions are still a thing.
I learned that right after the 2023 Daytona 400, this 500 was going to be the best between 2022-2023 in the Gen 7s ;)
I think Hendrick will continue to be strong in their 40th anniversary as well!
This race was awful what are you on. Byron and bowman fucking killed the race and the vibe at the end
Hendrick was strong from 1984-2017. They bribe and rig races from 2018 onwards
@@S.K.R.E.Inc.lies
I learned how much i am bothered by them going around Daytona and not even getting close to 200mph.
They were close to 200. I saw at least 197 from someone
The fox broadcast was still well below NBC! Still great racing.
At 6:43 love the transition into hells greatest dad btw lol
This was my first Daytona 500 in a decade (I was hanging on by a thread in 2013 and the playoff format was my last straw). And I was amazed and delighted to see 2 and 3 wide, reminding me of the Gen 4 era. Yeah, the double train schtick was there but at least one line would give momentum away after a while.
Hope you give it more of a chance this year! I hated the playoff format originally but honestly I've warmed up to it.
Probably one of the better Daytona 500 races I've seen in a long time up until the end. I think the finish ruined this otherwise awesome race for me not because William Byron won but because the big one on lap 191 took out some heavy hitters that it was their race to win especially Joey Logano who had the best car all day and it was a monster and Ryan Blaney's car was a monster too just didn't like how this race ended. On a side note: I've never seen so many Wendy's ads in my life especially during a race 😬
I get the whole fuel mileage thing, but it’s gotten weird on superspeedways. I get wanting to run 4-20th to save fuel, but I’ve never seen a gentleman’s agreement for the leader of the field to slow the pack by 3 seconds to the point where a lone car was running faster lap times than the pack.
Yeah that was wild lol
Hendrick Motorsports did a great 1-2 finish. Good to see the 24 taking another Daytona 500 win again.
I was at the 500 and thought I was loosing my mind when I saw AJ CATCHING the pack.
They showed him a little on tv trying to but did he ever fully catch the pack ?
@@tiggygz8016 no they went back to racing and the stage ended before he caught up
Thanks for letting me know of 8 bit hazbin hotel songs!
Another Daytona 500 decided by a push of a button. Dale Jr. touched on it in his podcast with Amy today. You can tell it irks the man the way these 500s are finishing and for good reason.
Funny considering his dad’s caution win.
@@darthhull85right I’ve had to explain this to many people that this has happened before and no one cared then
It doesn't matter if the race ends under caution. The overtime rule creates a demolition derby in almost every RP race, so I guess it's better the oldschool rule. If drivers know the race will end with the next caution, they try to overtake, not to wreck the opponents. With the overtime rule, drivers in the middle of the pack wreck anyone just to get a new opportunity to improve their position at the next restart.
The race format is boring because everyone knows that there would be a caution at the end of the 65th and 130th lap, so it doesn't matter if you loose time in the pits. Yellows shoundn't be thrown at the end of stages, in order to give meaning to a 500 mile race. With this format, the race could be just three 30 lap stages with mandatory 4-wheels pit stops between the 11th and 20th lap of each segment. An just another thing: the double file restart rule makes too easy to overcome one or two laps down.
Hamlin said it best 170 mph Pace lap. Everyone saving fuel 70% of the race was absolutely boring
at least we got Rajah
@@kingturd757 Who the Hell is Rajah
Really great race and overall good job by Fox on the coverage. But that Wendy’s commercial made me feel like I was being force fed mandatory education in some dystopian society…
The fact that we only had 3 crashes was very surprising.
Could of had less if Hendrick clowns knew how to race
@@FrequencyOfThoughtlmao everybody was pushing. It was unfortunate
@@FrequencyOfThought
What did HMS do to you?
@@DannyRicBobby triggered.. Let's be honest without a presidential pardon, that criminal rick hendrick wouldn't even be a thing
@@FrequencyOfThought Bingo -
This race proved that not every Daytona 500 has to be a straight up Demo Derby (I'm looking at you Trucks Opener) to be a good race.
This 500 was one of the best in recent years
Something I really liked about what fox did, they always make sure everyone is okay before they show replays out of respect for the drivers
Imagine how much better this rave would've been without stages...
They were saving gas running half throttle... slower than single car runs. It wasn't really racing for 80 plus laps. I still think this package needs more work in developing better runs instead of having to bump draft super aggresively to avoid a few of these wrecks
Jared is that 8 bit hail to the king I hear in the background? 🤣
The package is great I think. It was very well received in person
Willy B is going to be a long lasting HOFer unless he gets hurt (which is hard to imagine given the car safety and his free time being a dad and lego builder) or something crazy happens like getting dropped from HMS. It is not hard to see him winning it all one of these years. I am not sure 50-60 wins is as possible with these young drivers coming into this new car considering how hard it is to dominate a season these days. But I can see him getting close to 50... He is doing the 24 proud. More than we can say of the 48. Which is sad because I like Bowman.
I was kinda hoping for something like a Big One near the end because it couldn’t only have the one wreck at lap 6
I feel like the fuel and pit strategy kept the big one from happening in the middle of the race. It was a great 500, just wish it finished under green.
Biggest hangup im having is just how direct bowman and byron were at the last two cautions in punting the competition out of the way. Like i wont say the win wasnt deserved but wow they provided the force needed to instigate the last two wrecks.
Do feel for chastain. How long do you gotta be sideways before they throw a caution? 2nd to 21st is a long way to fall
If I'm even going to think at all about this race in the future which I doubt I will I will remember one strategy hook up with your teammate to the front and wreck the field out so you're the only car left to go across to finish line that's all this 500 days it's a crash fast at the ending happens all the time it's just a matter of who wrecks who that was pretty obvious 24 hooked number six with the help of 48 pushing him all the way great strategy it's what is often done at this race what most drivers don't figure out is who will do it and who will never do that completely a joke now we'll get down to racing when the season starts they had the wreck fest and let's look at Atlanta.
So I'm not really a fan of Byron or Bowman, but I agree Byron did get that win. I wasn't a good ending, but there wasn't any other way to end it, and NASCAR made the right call. Another gripe I have is Bowman. Can you tell me how many he has caused the big one due to making crappy moves or rookie mistakes. I would give him a break if it was just once, but I can't because he's involved in wreck every Sunday. I think we may need to implement a rule that if you are the cause of a wreck and didn't wreck yourself, then you should be put down a lap. That might be extreme, so another thing they could try is sending the driver to the back of the longest line on the next restart or maybe have the driver do a pit pass through after the restart or during a green flag.
I learned that it was a "coincidence" that the 40 year win thing happened.
I learned that I was the only one that seen Eric's "mickey win" tweet on Monday. Where is it Eric?
Is that Hail To The King in the back ground?
I like the 8-bit hail to the king
We’ve gotta fix the fuel mileage issue. While a clean race is nice, 180 laps of freight training at 60-70% throttle is…less than appealing.
Hamlin said it on his podcast and I noticed it as well. The announcers were simply out of stuff to announce outside fuel strategy. Through no fault of their own, there’s only so long you can stretch talking about what groups pit at what times.
It was clean, but overall underwhelming. No slicing and dicing until the last 50 laps. The Daytona 500 felt more like the Daytona 75ish.
This was the first Daytona 500 and Nascar race I have watched in years. There should be no ads in the last 50 laps that's just obnoxious. I'm in my mid 30's and my generation was the early 2000s. I really enjoyed this race and Im hoping for a good season.
No long ads, just normal ads.
If the shot of Byron being in front of Bowman is correct then explain how Ross finishes in 21st?
I was there so I loved it!
I just think the cars need a little less drag so we don’t have that weird fuel saving problem where the pack is slower than a car by itself and also so the 3rd lane can start. When the top lane is going it’s going, but it’s hard to start.
Ngl, totally thought there was gonna be a Khaled cameo on this video.
My favorite part was Alex Bowman blowing everybody away. I know Byron won, but Bowman got 2nd after a mid 2023 season. Way to open the season after 2 injuries.
they really paused it like it was gonna be a close call if they crossed the finish line or not. Like dude waited 50 centuries to throw the damn caution. All in the name of saving money
liked immediately for bag boys.
Yep them bag boys. 😅
bag boys bag boys what you gonna do
I mean this year it was actually speedweeks, cause it ended on monday, so it spanned between two weeks xD (Monday vs Sunday week start is debatable so idk if this joke works)
The thing is… if we have a few races that are a bit anticlimactic then the actually good ones will stand out
My favorite part was when even the leaders were only using 65% throttle as the entire field stayed in their qualifying positions for stage 1.
I thought that was funny.
The pack: “Hey, guys, that wreck put us in a bad spot. We may be able to make it to the end of stage one, but we’ll have to slow down to about 170 MPH to make it work. How does that sound? Ok? Alright. We’re doing this.”
A.J. Allmendinger: “I DIDN’T HEAR NO BELL!”
What a weird set of songs for BG Music, I like it!
I feel like we haven't seen someone win a Daytona 500 in a clean and respectable manner since 2019. But in general it just rarely happens. There's almost always some kind of controversy to the results.
The finish was confusing for me. My family and I left to go get gelato after the Big One and I the rest that I saw was on someone else’s phone and it was just the remaining cars stopped
I thought it was a fantastic race start to finish. The racing throughout the pack was pretty good and I thought it was a solid Daytona 500. Can’t wait for the rest of the season.
You must be an ai or paid to post.
@@slipstream7324No. I’m an actual NASCAR fan.
Why is no one talking about DJ Khaled wanting to start a NASCAR team?
Idk if turning point is right. But this win and really this finish brings about a question. Who is the top guy at Hendrick. A year ago I never woulda though Byron could be that guy.. but Chase, Larson and Byron all have a championship now. Sure Byron's is less important but he finished 2nd in the regular season and the season title last year... and he's younger. Hendrick officially has the allstar lineup they tried for around 2010
Hard to believe that this was a similar line up to the one they had in 2018
Also now that of it, that just leaves Bowman as the odd man out at Hendrick
It’s still Larson. Byron got about all the luck you could ask for last year. Larson was ahead of him late in races for the majority of Byron’s wins.
Don’t be a hater of GWCs and then hate the end on caution. It’s what you ask for tbh
It was tremendous race at Daytona. Next year, can we please do start the race at 1pm eastern instead for late race at 2:30pm, in 2025?
Also, they want that Pacific timezone viewership
its crazy to me that plate racing has had less and less wrecks recently compared to other years. I love it but just an observation.
My respect for you has gone up insanely after hearing Hazbin Hotel music in the background
The legacy of Jeff Gordon's #24 is still alive and well in 2024
The legacy of Jeff Gordon's 24 ended when he stepped out of the car for the last time in 2015
@@S.K.R.E.Inc.I think to be more specific we should say Hendrick's #24
I learned people bitch about everything
Nothing was controversial about the finish. The yellow after white rule has been around for years. People just wanna cry it was Hendrick cause their team sucks.
The 8-bit A7X music is great
I hated where they were showing mini documentaries during the race. The toyota one tricked me.
"Heres a commercial free run brought to you by Toyota"
Now here is this Toyota Showcase on 3/4 of the screen, screw the race, you want Toyota content..
Thats Fox not nascar though in my opinion
I pretty much agree here. The booth was great. I have no complaints at all. The racing was fantastic. The first stage was really weird and felt off. But from stage 2 onwards I really enjoyed watching it. That Wendys skit with 30ish laps to go really dropped my jaw to the floor. We literally had just come back from commercial break and they do this skit. I'm like I don't care at all about this. It adds 0 to the broadcast. It is just a money thing they had to do. Other than that the race and broadcast was great. Nascar made the right call on the finish. Does not mean I have to like it. But kudos to them.
I only got to see the first 60 laps of the race because I had to leave for work so I listened to some of it on MRN and from what I saw and heard it was really good racing. I loved the new sponsorships we have to kick off the season on the cars and for my money I would say this was one of the best racing we've seen at Dayton in a while. Not a total wreck fest, not a ton of controversy at the end the "they should've let them race back" comments and what's so crazy is that it was ran on a Monday but it felt like a Sunday!
even if they wreak plate racing is the most exciting to watch unlike west coast racing
Is hell is forever 8 bit in this it’s all hazbin
This race was the anti 1990 Daytona 500. Everyone remembers the last lap and its an all time finish. Watch the 1990 Daytona 500. Its one of the most boring Daytona 500 of all time if it wasnt for the last lap. This years race was amazing until the last lap and no one will remember the race for that lap. It will be everything else.
Scheduled distance and a non random driver winning was very refreshing
7/10 luckily the last 50 laps was good first stage was god awful and the middle didn't have much action definitely miss pre next gen when they actually made moves and raced all day
3 caution u kidding me???????
Give me a break! Dale Earnhardt's 1998 Daytona 500 win was coming to the caution flag and no one cried about it! There's no excuse. It was just hard racing! Get over it!
The racing passed the eye test with some three wide racing but that is simply because of the fuel saving by the leaders. The next gen just isn't good enough for superspeedways which is crazy as they had the perfect package for superspeedway racing from 2019-2021 and threw it away. Also the ending was kind of anticlimactic but that's what happens when NASCAR can use their discrepancy to call the caution as they please.
In a post 2020 Daytona 500 world I’m completely fine with races ending under caution. We were a trigger happy race control away from possibly talking about a very different race…
So you prefer a boring finish? Ryan Newman's flip won't happen again, finishing under yellow shouldn't happen ever again
@@Isaac_Arangoyou can’t say that type of flip will never happen again when that accident has happened several times in the past, minus the getting hit while upside down part. Ricky Rudd in 2000 flipped the exact same way, Kyle Busch almost flipped in 2009 from a similar accident, I’m not saying it’s a common occurrence but saying it’ll never happen again is just wrong, it’s always possible especially if there’s a past of it happening. I hope we never see a wreck like that again but you can’t prove it’ll never happen again.
@@smunger69 What I mean is that it can happen but the driver won't get as hurt as Newman
@@Isaac_ArangoAwful comment. Very wrong in all ways
Dude they wrecked right at and after the line. No way would they allow the drivers to race back around full speed with all that debris at the finish line.
I am a recent returnee to NASCAR after a 20 plus year absence, everything was superb except my adopted dude Ross Chastain couldnt quite pull it off despite a gutsy move in the end, and that ridiculous Wendy's segment oh geez!
I had a great time watching even though I could’ve gone to work with Xfinity getting pushed to 9 PM but I didn’t know till after the fact + the finish was meh but I understand it in a way! Good video Iceberg!
I would love to see a superspeedway race without yellow flags after the stages. Daytona and Talladega both have two races a year maybe just try doing one race with no caution break after the stage to see how it changes the structure of the race strategy
they started doing that at road courses, so there is hope for that plan.
They're going back to stage cautions at road courses
i think nascar should let them race back to the caution again, that would be awesome.
I heard A7X in the background and could no longer focus lol
What IS the best Daytona 500? It’s a hard choice but I’d have to go 05 or 07.
Yesterday was a great race idc what anyone says. Best 500 of the Gen 7 era. Racing product reminded me of the late Gen 6 speedway racing years with a hint of Gen 4 to me. I didn’t have a problem with the race ending under caution. Sure I wanted a green flag finish don’t get me wrong but I’m an old school fan. I prefer legitimacy over entertainment.
Huh? These cars race nothing like the Gen 6 cars at superspeedways. Once you get out of line your momentum stops and you can’t pass anyone.
@@kalebdegroot7825 Huh? They actually do quite a lot. With how hard the pushes are. And how no line has a distinct advantage over the other. You couldn’t pass by yourself with the Gen 6 your comment makes absolutely no sense
I was rooting for Joey Lagano just because it was funny
Mike Joy says commercial free racing. Then proceeds to have commercials every 3 minutes. Those Toyota and Wendy's "commercials" are absolutely ridiculous. So annoying
Like you said... it was some of the best speedway racing this car has seen
Off topic, but am I the only one who thinks that the “bag boys” ad is funny when it isnt played on a reptitive loop
nemechek bro
I've learned that NASCAR fans will throw hissy fits no matter what happens. If there's no wrecks, it's a terrible race. If there's a lot of wrecks, it's a terrible race. If a race has an overtime finish, it's rigged. If it ends under yellow, it's rigged. If a A-tier driver wins, it sucks. If an underdog wins, it still sucks. And Lord knows if a Toyota wins, they paid off NASCAR to do it. People love to complain.
it's almost like their are different people with different opinions and not a hivemind
I feel for Kyle Bush, man needs a reliable teammate. Austin Dillon sucks ass and is a useless driver. Kyle is carrying RCR solo currently
William Byron is probably the 24's best driver since Jeff Gordon.
That’s not saying much, as there’s only been 2 drivers including Byron since Jeff retired.
First Daytona 500 i went to!! It was an incredible experience all the way through. The racing as well!! Of course not a 10/10 but still pretty decent. And as for the finish i still thought it was decent. Definitely some shock and disappointment in the moment of not getting a last lap but understandable of course its gonna happen!!
Dega is gonna be a banger this year!