2021 Bluegreen Vacations Duels Explained

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2021 Bluegreen Vacations Duels
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Header1:	Race details^[1] ^[2] ^[3] ^[4] ^[5] ^[6]
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: 63 laps, 157.5 mi (252 km)
Label6:	Avg Speed
Data6:	Race 1: 191.966mph Race 2: 158.071mph
Label7:	Weather
Header10:	Race 1
Label11:	Pole position
Data11:	Alex Bowman
Label12:	Most laps led
Data12:	Aric Almirola (52)
Label13:	Winner
Data13:	Aric Almirola
Header14:	Race 2
Label16:	Pole position
Data16:	William Byron
Label17:	Most laps led
Data17:	William Byron (34)
Label19:	Winner
Data19:	Austin Dillon
Header20:	Television
Label21:	Network
Data21:	FS1 & MRN
Label22:	Announcers
Data22:	Mike Joy, Jeff Gordon and Clint Bowyer (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

The 2021 Bluegreen Vacations Duels were a pair of NASCAR Cup Series stock car races held on February 11, 2021, at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. Both contested over 60 laps, they were the qualifying races for the 2021 Daytona 500.

Report

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

Alex Bowman scored the pole for the race with a time of 47.056 and a speed of 191.261mph.^[7]

Qualifying results

Pos		Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Time
1	48			Chevrolet	47.056
2	24			Chevrolet	47.314
3	10			Ford	47.324
4	23			Toyota	47.474
5	47			Chevrolet	47.477
6	4			Ford	47.489
7	20			Toyota	47.573
8	37			Chevrolet	47.585
9	3			Chevrolet	47.631
10	99			Chevrolet	47.636
11	11			Toyota	47.695
12	9			Chevrolet	47.695
13	36			Ford	47.730
14	1			Chevrolet	47.742
15	5			Chevrolet	47.752
16	18			Toyota	47.780
17	21			Ford	47.881
18	12			Ford	47.895
19	33	Austin Cindric (i)		Ford	47.900
20	16			Chevrolet	47.925
21	22			Ford	47.943
22	14	Chase Briscoe (R)		Ford	47.956
23	6			Ford	47.960
24	42			Chevrolet	47.972
25	41			Ford	48.060
26	2			Ford	48.072
27	34			Ford	48.124
28	19			Toyota	48.165
29	43			Chevrolet	48.189
30	17			Ford	48.269
31	8			Chevrolet	48.347
32	38	Anthony Alfredo (R)		Ford	48.422
33	96	Ty Dillon (i)		Toyota	48.446
34	77			Chevrolet	48.746
35	7			Chevrolet	48.767
36	00			Chevrolet	49.571
37	13	Garrett Smithley (i)		Ford	49.880
38	78	B. J. McLeod (i)		Ford	49.985
39	66	Timmy Hill (i)		Ford	50.016
40	51			Chevrolet	50.074
41	53			Ford	50.630
42	52			Ford	50.926
43	15			Chevrolet	0.000
44	62	Noah Gragson (i)		Chevrolet	0.000
Official qualifying results

Duels

Duel 1

Duel 1 results

Pos	Grid		Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Points
1	2	10	Aric Almirola	Stewart-Haas Racing	Ford	60	10
2	4	20	Christopher Bell	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	60	9
3	12	6	Ryan Newman	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford	60	8
4	11	22	Joey Logano	Team Penske	Ford	60	7
5	5	37	Ryan Preece	JTG Daugherty Racing	Chevrolet	60	6
6	17	96	Ty Dillon (i)	Gaunt Brothers Racing	Toyota	60	5
7	8	5	Kyle Larson	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	60	4
8	6	99	Daniel Suárez	Trackhouse Racing Team	Chevrolet	60	3
9	14	34	Michael McDowell	Front Row Motorsports	Ford	60	2
10	18	77	Jamie McMurray	Spire Motorsports	Chevrolet	60	1
11	3	47	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	JTG Daugherty Racing	Chevrolet	60	0
12	9	21	Matt DiBenedetto	Wood Brothers Racing	Ford	60	0
13	7	11	Denny Hamlin	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	60	0
14	13	41	Cole Custer	Stewart-Haas Racing	Ford	60	0
15	16	8	Tyler Reddick	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	60	0
16	10	33	Austin Cindric (i)	Team Penske	Ford	59	0
17	15	43	Erik Jones	Richard Petty Motorsports	Chevrolet	59	0
18	19	00	Quin Houff	StarCom Racing	Chevrolet	58	0
19	20	66	Timmy Hill (i)	MBM Motorsports	Ford	57	0
20	1	48	Alex Bowman	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	56	0
21	21	51	Cody Ware	Petty Ware Racing	Chevrolet	56	0
22	22	52	Josh Bilicki	Rick Ware Racing	Ford	14	0
Official race results

NOTE: Points in italics are owner points only. The driver is ineligible because he declared points in another national series. Owner points, not driver points, will be used by NASCAR in calculating points for purposes of setting fields for the majority of Cup Series races in 2021.

Duel 2

Duel 2 results

Pos	Grid		Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Points
1	4	3	Austin Dillon	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	63	10
2	2	23	Bubba Wallace	23XI Racing	Toyota	63	9
3	3	4	Kevin Harvick	Stewart-Haas Racing	Ford	63	8
4	8	18	Kyle Busch	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	63	7
5	5	9	Chase Elliott	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	63	6
6	9	12	Ryan Blaney	Team Penske	Ford	63	5
7	17	7	Corey LaJoie	Spire Motorsports	Chevrolet	63	4
8	6	36	David Ragan	Front Row Motorsports	Ford	63	3
9	7	1	Kurt Busch	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet	63	2
10	15	17	Chris Buescher	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford	63	1
11	13	2	Brad Keselowski	Team Penske	Ford	63	0
12	14	19	Martin Truex Jr.	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	63	0
13	20	53	Joey Gase	Rick Ware Racing	Ford	63	0
14	10	16	Kaz Grala	Kaulig Racing	Chevrolet	63	0
15	11	14	Chase Briscoe (R)	Stewart-Haas Racing	Ford	61	0
16	18	13	Garrett Smithley (i)	MBM Motorsports	Ford	61	0
17	21	15	Derrike Cope	Rick Ware Racing	Chevrolet	59	0
18	22	62	Noah Gragson (i)	Beard Motorsports	Chevrolet	56	0
19	1	24	William Byron	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	56	0
20	12	42	Ross Chastain	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet	56	0
21	16	38	Anthony Alfredo (R)	Front Row Motorsports	Ford	35	0
22	19	78	B. J. McLeod (i)	Live Fast Motorsports	Ford	35	0
Official race results

Media

Radio

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2021 schedule . Jayski.com. . January 11, 2021.
2. Web site: Daytona International Speedway . NASCAR.com . NASCAR Media Group, LLC. . January 11, 2021 . 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. Jayski.com. Jayski's Silly Season Site. February 9, 2021. February 9, 2021.
4. Web site: Qualifying Results. NASCAR.com. NASCAR. February 10, 2021. February 10, 2021.
5. Web site: Bluegreen Vacations Duel 1 Results. NASCAR.com. NASCAR. February 11, 2021. February 11, 2021.
6. Web site: Bluegreen Vacations Duel 2 Results. NASCAR.com. NASCAR. February 11, 2021. February 11, 2021.
7. Web site: Utter. Jim. Alex Bowman wins Daytona 500 pole in all-Hendrick front row. Motorsport.com. Motorsport Network. February 10, 2021. Daytona Beach, Florida. February 10, 2021.