{"id":219188,"date":"2021-02-14T23:35:08","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T05:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=219188"},"modified":"2021-02-14T23:36:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T05:36:29","slug":"michael-mcdowell-wins-2021-daytona-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=219188","title":{"rendered":"Michael McDowell Wins 2021 Daytona 500"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Michael McDowell won the Daytona 500 after Penske Racing teammates Joey Logano and Brad Keselowski wrecked on the final lap.<\/p>\n<p>It was McDowell&#8217;s first victory in 358 Cup Series starts, a stunning upset in NASCAR&#8217;s signature event. McDowell lead just one lap \u2014 the only that mattered.<\/p>\n<p>McDowell was running third when Keselowski got a huge run on Logano. Keselowski tried to pass Logano on the low side, but Logano tried to block him and ended up crashing both of them.<\/p>\n<p>Chase Elliott was second, followed by Austin Dillon, Kevin Harvick and Denny Hamlin.<\/p>\n<p>Hamlin was trying to become the first in NASCAR history to win three consecutive Daytona 500s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Michael McDowell won the Daytona 500 after Penske Racing teammates Joey Logano and Brad Keselowski wrecked on the final lap. It was McDowell&#8217;s first victory in 358 Cup Series starts, a stunning upset in NASCAR&#8217;s signature event. McDowell lead just one lap \u2014 the only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":194219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219189,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219188\/revisions\/219189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/194219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}