{"id":49305,"date":"2025-01-30T09:59:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T15:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/?p=49305"},"modified":"2025-01-30T10:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T16:00:11","slug":"countdown-to-the-daytona-500-17-days-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/30\/countdown-to-the-daytona-500-17-days-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Countdown to the DAYTONA 500: 17 days to go"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Matt Kenseth crosses the finish line ahead of Dale Earnhardt Jr and Greg Biffle to win the Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway. Photo by Chris Graythen\/Getty Images for NASCAR<\/p><\/div>\n

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By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service<\/em><\/p>\n

Today marks 17 days before NASCAR Cup Series drivers compete in the 67th running of the Great American Race. In 2009 and 2012, NASCAR Hall of Famer Matt Kenseth drove the No. 17 Roush Fenway Racing Ford to victory in the DAYTONA 500. Kenseth\u2019s first victory in NASCAR\u2019s most prestigious race was shortened by rain to 152 laps, making a winner of Drew Blickensderfer in his debut as a NASCAR Cup Series crew chief. Kenseth\u2019s 2012 win required overtime in a race extended two laps beyond its scheduled distance.<\/p>\n

Tune-in to the 2025 DAYTONA 500 on Sunday, February 16 at 2:30 p.m. ET on FOX, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service Today marks 17 days before NASCAR Cup Series drivers compete in the 67th running of the Great American Race. In 2009 and 2012, NASCAR Hall of Famer Matt Kenseth drove the No. 17 Roush Fenway Racing Ford to victory in the DAYTONA 500. Kenseth\u2019s first victory in NASCAR\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":676,"featured_media":49306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[42,287,224,16],"class_list":["post-49305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nascar","tag-daytona-500","tag-daytona-international-speedway","tag-matt-kenseth","tag-nascar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/racedaysa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2012-Daytona-500-Matt-Kenseth-crosses-finish-line-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1703&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7hzTZ-cPf","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49305"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49309,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49305\/revisions\/49309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}