After last week's eventful Daytona 500 that featured a return of a capacity crowd at the World Center of Racing, NASCAR heads back to Fontana, California and the Auto Club Speedway.
Austin Cindric held off Bubba Wallace to win the Daytona 500. Cindric’s victory came in his eighth career start in NASCAR’s top series. Brad Keselowski and Martin Truex Jr. are second and third in the standings. Truex won both stages. Three-time 500 winner Denny Hamlin failed to finish for the first time in 17 Daytona 500s.
Practice will be at 2 pm ET Saturday and qualifying at 2:35 pm ET. The green flag drops at 3:30 pm ET Sunday.
The X-Finity Series will practice at noon ET Saturday and its qualifying will be at 12:30 pm ET with the race at 5 pm ET Saturday afternoon.
Austin Hill won at Daytona in his first start as a full-time driver in the series.Hill edged ahead of A.J. Allmendinger just before a caution froze the field, making Hill the winner. Allmendinger is the points leader by four ahead of Hill. Defending series champion Daniel Hemric finished 28th, four laps down.
The truck series returns to action next week in Las Vegas.
