It’s in race fans’ DNA to critique the on-track product, and rightfully so. Niche sports like NASCAR survive on the diehards.

Ninth in the No. 24 Chevrolet with one lap left, Byron became the first back-to-back winner since Denny Hamlin in 2019-20.

The Daytona 500 is a race of dreams, of legacies etched in rubber and asphalt, of drivers testing themselves to the very ...