2020 Bluegreen Vacations Duels Explained

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2020 Bluegreen Vacations Duels
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Header1:	Race details^[1] ^[2] ^[3] ^[4] ^[5]
Label2:	Date
Label3:	Location
Data3:	Daytona International Speedway Daytona Beach, Florida
Label4:	Course
Data4:	Permanent racing facility 2.5 mi (4 km)
Label5:	Distance
Data5:	Race 1: 60 laps, 150 mi (240 km) Race 2: 60 laps, 150 mi (240 km)
Label6:	Avg Speed
Data6:	Race 1: 166.105mph Race 2: 170.994mph
Label7:	Weather
Header10:	Race 1
Label11:	Pole position
Data11:	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
Label12:	Most laps led
Data12:	Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (27)
Label13:	Winner
Data13:	Joey Logano
Header14:	Race 2
Label16:	Pole position
Data16:	Alex Bowman
Label17:	Most laps led
Data17:	Kevin Harvick (34)
Label19:	Winner
Data19:	William Byron
Header20:	Television
Label21:	Network
Data21:	FS1 & MRN
Label22:	Announcers
Data22:	Mike Joy and Jeff Gordon (Television) Alex Hayden, Jeff Striegle and Rusty Wallace (Booth) Dave Moody (1 & 2), Mike Bagley (Backstretch) and Kyle Rickey (3 & 4) (Turns) (Radio)
Label23:	Nielsen Ratings
Data23:	1.544 million^[6]

The 2020 Bluegreen Vacations Duels were a pair of NASCAR Cup Series stock car races held on February 13, 2020, at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. Both contested over 60 laps, they were the qualifying races for the 2020 Daytona 500.

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Background

Daytona International Speedway is one of six superspeedways to hold NASCAR races, the others being Michigan International Speedway, Auto Club Speedway, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Pocono Raceway and Talladega Superspeedway. The standard track at Daytona International Speedway is a four–turn superspeedway that is 2.5miles long. The track's turns are banked at 31 degrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, is banked at 18 degrees.

Qualifying

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. scored the pole for the race with a time of 46.253 and a speed of 194.582mph.^[7]

Qualifying results

Pos		Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Time
1	47			Chevrolet	46.253
2	88			Chevrolet	46.305
3	9			Chevrolet	46.319
4	48			Chevrolet	46.419
5	11			Toyota	46.528
6	18			Toyota	46.662
7	10			Ford	46.732
8	24			Chevrolet	46.767
9	95	Christopher Bell (R)		Toyota	46.818
10	20			Toyota	46.859
11	22			Ford	46.867
12	4			Ford	46.869
13	14			Ford	46.906
14	41	Cole Custer (R)		Ford	46.921
15	6			Ford	46.950
16	21			Ford	46.952
17	37			Chevrolet	46.969
18	8	Tyler Reddick (R)		Chevrolet	46.983
19	17			Ford	46.984
20	42			Chevrolet	46.987
21	19			Toyota	46.994
22	1			Chevrolet	47.052
23	2			Ford	47.054
24	34			Ford	47.070
25	38	John Hunter Nemechek (R)		Ford	47.076
26	36			Ford	47.151
27	12			Ford	47.205
28	77	Ross Chastain (i)		Chevrolet	47.262
29	3			Chevrolet	47.273
30	13			Chevrolet	47.353
31	16	Justin Haley (i)		Chevrolet	47.364
32	43			Chevrolet	47.491
33	62	Brendan Gaughan (i)		Chevrolet	47.633
34	27			Chevrolet	48.037
35	66	Timmy Hill (i)		Ford	48.225
36	96			Toyota	48.523
37	32			Ford	48.605
38	00	Quin Houff (R)		Chevrolet	48.943
39	54	J. J. Yeley (i)		Ford	49.102
40	15	Brennan Poole (R)		Chevrolet	49.510
41	49	Chad Finchum (i)		Toyota	49.515
42	51	Joey Gase (i)		Chevrolet	50.068
43	52	B. J. McLeod (i)		Ford	0.000
Official qualifying results

Duels

Duel 1

Duel 1 results

Pos	Grid		Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Points
1	6	22	Joey Logano	Team Penske	Ford	60	10
2	4	10	Aric Almirola	Stewart-Haas Racing	Ford	60	9
3	8	6	Ryan Newman	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford	60	8
4	12	2	Brad Keselowski	Team Penske	Ford	60	7
5	17	43	Bubba Wallace	Richard Petty Motorsports	Chevrolet	60	6
6	15	3	Austin Dillon	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	60	5
7	11	19	Martin Truex Jr.	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	60	4
8	1	47	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	JTG Daugherty Racing	Chevrolet	60	3
9	5	95	Christopher Bell (R)	Leavine Family Racing	Toyota	60	2
10	10	17	Chris Buescher	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford	60	1
11	3	11	Denny Hamlin	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	60	0
12	13	38	John Hunter Nemechek (R)	Front Row Motorsports	Ford	60	0
13	2	9	Chase Elliott	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	60	0
14	14	12	Ryan Blaney	Team Penske	Ford	60	0
15	7	14	Clint Bowyer	Stewart-Haas Racing	Ford	60	0
16	9	37	Ryan Preece	JTG Daugherty Racing	Chevrolet	60	0
17	16	16	Justin Haley (i)	Kaulig Racing	Chevrolet	60	0
18	18	27	Reed Sorenson	Premium Motorsports	Chevrolet	59	0
19	20	00	Quin Houff (R)	StarCom Racing	Chevrolet	58	0
20	21	49	Chad Finchum (i)	MBM Motorsports	Toyota	57	0
21	22	51	Joey Gase (i)	Petty Ware Racing	Chevrolet	57	0
22	19	96	Daniel Suárez	Gaunt Brothers Racing	Toyota	28	0
Official race results

Duel 2

Duel 2 results

Pos	Grid		Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Points
1	4	24	William Byron	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	60	10
2	2	48	Jimmie Johnson	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	60	9
3	10	42	Kyle Larson	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet	60	8
4	6	4	Kevin Harvick	Stewart-Haas Racing	Ford	60	7
5	7	41	Cole Custer (R)	Stewart-Haas Racing	Ford	60	6
6	5	20	Erik Jones	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	60	5
7	8	21	Matt DiBenedetto	Wood Brothers Racing	Ford	60	4
8	11	1	Kurt Busch	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet	60	3
9	14	77	Ross Chastain (i)	Spire Motorsports	Chevrolet	60	0
10	9	8	Tyler Reddick (R)	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	60	1
11	15	13	Ty Dillon	Germain Racing	Chevrolet	60	0
12	12	34	Michael McDowell	Front Row Motorsports	Ford	60	0
13	3	18	Kyle Busch	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	60	0
14	13	36	David Ragan	Rick Ware Racing	Ford	60	0
15	1	88	Alex Bowman	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	60	0
16	17	66	Timmy Hill (i)	MBM Motorsports	Ford	60	0
17	16	62	Brendan Gaughan (i)	Beard Motorsports	Chevrolet	60	0
18	20	15	Brennan Poole (R)	Premium Motorsports	Chevrolet	59	0
19	18	32	Corey LaJoie	Go Fas Racing	Ford	59	0
20	21	52	B. J. McLeod (i)	Rick Ware Racing	Ford	58	0
21	19	54	J. J. Yeley (i)	Rick Ware Racing	Ford	41	0
Official race results

Media

Radio

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2020 schedule . Jayski.com. . January 17, 2020.
2. Web site: Daytona International Speedway . NASCAR.com . NASCAR Media Group, LLC. . January 17, 2020 . July 4, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150704230431/http://www.nascar.com/en_us/nascar-tracks/daytona-international-speedway.html . dead .
3. Web site: Entry List. MRN.com. Motor Racing Network. February 6, 2020. February 6, 2020.
4. Web site: Qualifying Results. MRN.com. Motor Racing Network. February 9, 2020. February 9, 2020.
5. Web site: Bluegreen Vacations Duels Results. Motor Racing Network. February 13, 2020. February 13, 2020.
6. Web site: Bluegreen Vacations Duels ratings. https://web.archive.org/web/20200215005403/http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-thursday-cable-originals-network-finals-2-13-2020.html. dead. 15 February 2020. ShowBuzzDaily. Mitch Metcalf. 14 February 2020.
7. Web site: Utter. Jim. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. rockets to first Daytona 500 pole. Motorsport.com. Motorsport Network. February 8, 2020. Daytona Beach, Florida. February 8, 2020.