Big wrecks, wild finish and a surprise winner Daytona 500 Extended Highlights | NASCAR

Green flag. The 63rd Daytona 500 is underway. Three is with you. You are clear. He is not too wide right behind you. One back your lane. 11 going to the back. Maybe he's looking for Bubba right there, huh? Clint, you were asking about how he's going to do it. Well, he's in the back now. Perfect. Caution. At the end of lap number three, Spanaway Washington's Derek Cope. The winner here in 1990. And who did he beat? Dale Earnhardt on the last lap. He's in the back now. 62-year-old Cope. Kevin Harvick outside. Eric Almirola. Christopher Bell. Ryan Newman. Alex Bowman. Joey Logano. And we're back to green. That's Tim Fedewa. Kevin Harvick spotter. How cool is it to see Ryan Newman challenging for the lead again at Daytona? Thinking the same thing. And look. Joey Logano is going to push him to be the sole leader right now. That is so cool. That's like back in your era, Jeff. Oh, no! So he's in the back now. Oh, no! Oh, no. The 24 is on his side. Remember what I said, Clint? About 21 cars. I don't know if we got there, but man, that took out a lot of race cars and a lot of great race cars and their bumper. Big shot. Oh, yeah. He just got over on that right side. I could tell you another part of that equation, Jeff. These cars, they have skew in the rear ends. That's obviously for speed and make the cars go fast. Make them pull up to other cars. It's also, in my experience, makes him squirrely. When that car hits him, it pushes that car into the steer of the rear end and it can turn you in a heartbeat. So reminiscent when Eric Almirola lost the lead in the closing yards of this race, two thousand eighteen, he was along for the ride soon as he got contacted, it just turned his car right. He took the words right out of my mouth. Unbelievable crushing blow to so many teams, so many efforts that it goes into having fast cars and being at this Daytona five hundred. That was a lot of heavy hitters in this one. We're going to ride with Ryan Newman through this twenty four car. Go up on the side, tape it. Let's get out of here. We did it. See you tomorrow. And, you know, we gave the time and said, throw that in the trash. But here we are. I think that was our home and they got us back. Cascarola comes to pit road for tires and fuel. So does B.J. McLeod. They give up the front spot. Restart the sixty third Daytona five hundred. They approach the Geico restart zone anywhere in that area. The control car, the leader Chase Elliott, can hit the gas and we'll ride along and listen. Here we go. Two Daytona five hundred winners on point Dylan on the inside. Hamlin three time winner on the outside. Hamlin on point. Oh, right. Quinn Half and Chase Briscoe and caution is out for the third time at lap thirty eight. Hamlin Keselowski Hamlin elects the outside. That is the leader's choice. Which lane to restart in and we're back to green. Hamlin won a league leading eleven stages in twenty twenty. And here they come to the line to complete Hamlin over Preece and Dylan. Sorry, I thought those two guys have Legano and Bubba Wallace Junior. We're going to enjoy one another. Joey cut him a break right there. Did the right thing. Backed out of it. I am Preece and that thirty seven car going to peel off pitting from second place. They really like their car and he has shown it. It's just going to be a four tire change. The three of Austin Dillon upper left. He grazed the wall on the back stretch, so they'll give it a look. But otherwise, fine. Regan, bottom up your screen. Christopher Bell, that race car is just too loose on entry. The back of it wants to slide out. Jamie, Denny Hamlin in the eleven has led thirty five laps, a little bit tighter than in the duels. He also said he feels like he's slow out front. They told him this really dense air makes the car a little more draggy than it was the other night. What Clint's talking about is the theory that these cars create a rising round column of warm air that keeps rain and storms and fog away. It's been debunked by scientists, but we believe the vortex theory works when it does. It's hot air. All right. Kevin Harvick has a really good car in that four, but he was shuffled outside the top ten. His crew chief, Rodney Childers, said, You need to run with the twenty, the twenty three in the eleven. I know it's not what we want, but those are the best cars right now. Well, Christopher Bell was reminded to get heat in the brakes and make sure that what you saw happened there did not a little bit free as he got on the pit road. That race car has been good. Kyle. That car's a little bit loose off a four Jamie three time Daytona five hundred champion Denny Hamill. A little bit tight right sides and fuel nets at a good stop as you see the reaction by the eleven team. And he knows Joey's adventure. Joey likes it when you're aggressively pushing him. So watch for Kyle Busch. Oh, we're going to go three wide, though. Kevin Harvick has other ideas. He's trying to shuffle Denny Hamill. Now he knows Denny's one of his biggest threats to win this Daytona five hundred. And there they go. Denny Hamill backed up and got a big push from the twenty three bubble. Wallace Jr. Drove right by Kevin Harvick. Oh, Michael McDowell came down and Keselowski went with him. That was much earlier. And I thought they were going to do it. I thought they're going to wait. What do you mean? No, I thought they're going to wait. One more lap. Bubba Wallace going down to block that Kyle Busch right behind Logano as the middle moves forward and Hamlin comes down to cover. Gosh, these guys are driving like it's the last lap of the five hundred at the stage. Wallace on the bottom, Hamlin on the top. Here they come for the green and white checkers to end stage two. Three wide behind. Then Hamlin again. Harvick's right there. Good race. Man, if Harvick could have maybe gotten to the quarter panel a little bit sooner off of turn four, I think he would have had it all right. Ready for the restart. Stage three. Austin Dillon. Denny Hamlin. Here we go. Big jump for the three. Austin Dillon and have a little better run to the end of that stage. Dillon said it was more his fault. Just right side tires for the three. Regan. Bubba Wallace. Very common. Collected that race car and very happy with how it was handled at the end of that stage. Even with all the battling that he was doing. Logano's pit the first box. That's what he does. Vince. Well, it's just going to be a two tire change. Losing a little grip, said Logano. But otherwise, the car is fine. Two tires, right side and fuel. Take right side and put some fuel on it. He just told his team this is the best the car has been all night. So that's good news for young Austin Cedric, the four of Kevin Harvick. All good with the car so far. And martin Truex Jr., even though he's got damage, here come these boards around the Chevrolet. Last time going to get to chase Elliott a little further. I mean, they got to be carrying three, four or five more miles per hour than these other guys. He's going to move up right here. Force him to go to the bottom. And now all you could do if you're Denny Hamlin, just try to stall them out, not get too far. Shuffle back. Might be able to get in front of Austin Dillon. Actually, the two of them still think it was too early. Cole Custer's a nice move, but look at they're all trying to get back to it. Hold on. Ross. Yes. Stay that hole. Just closed up so fast. Kyle Larson. Cole Custer's wishing he probably didn't pull down. I try to block that. Logano goes back up. Keselowski with him. McDowell in tow. Dillon on the bottom. Runs on top. Oh, teammates around. They go in a hard crash. Kyle Busch. Kyle Larson. Caution is out. Bubba Wallace is in this. Austin Sendrick. Hard hit by Kyle Busch. Caution's out. McDowell is first to the line, but we'll have to go back to the moment of caution, which ends the race. Brad Keselowski is climbing out. He's okay. Joey Logano, we see taking off the gloves and the steering wheel. I think McDowell's the one that's going to win. That time stamps all video to determine the order of finish at the moment of caution. Huge run. Went for it. Joey was obviously had to block. Question is, where did that caution come out? Chase Elliott pulls ahead of Michael McDowell. Look at the run he got right there, though. Dowell, the run on the outside with a little help from Hamlin. We know the caution was out there. We saw some caution lights where Michael McDowell, the three of Austin Dillon, pulled ahead of Chase Elliott and Michael McDowell from Glendale, Arizona, for Bob Jenkins. Front row. Motorsports has won the Daytona 500. How about that? Man. That's a huge win for Michael McDowell and that team doesn't get any bigger than this and a huge crash.