Zealots of Extravaganza flock the grandstands like the swallows of Capistrano! 300,000-strong watch their favorite driver rampage at 210 miles-per-hour, praying for victory and a $10,000,000 grand prize. It's a year where smoking has re-intensified, with all the white cars on the grid morphed into a tobacco-stained brown! Like the old days, this signifies the start of every Extravaganza Series race.

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Two consumption-based sponsors occupy the front row! Ken Pettit's Marley-Man Chevrolet hopes to smoke the competition, with heartbeat-addict Craig Lee putting his NOS Energy to use. Zach Michael's Coca-Cola Mustang stole the show to lead the first lap of the 2025 season, with Matthew Dominique, Bink Lucas, Logan Sheets and Molemar Diggs leading laps early. As the dust settled, John Tharp and Johnny Reed Foley solidified themselves as the preeminent forces through lap-24.

Alex Crapser dominated the remaining stint, leading throughout and after green flag stops on lap-43. Zakk Miller finally took the advantage with help from newfound lapped-traffic, passing the #04 before Michael Henson and Ryan Heuser took their turns leading the field. Miller would take the top-spot back before disaster struck. Timothy McDonnell catapults into the wall! Backstretch bliss turns into a turn-3 nightmare, getting hooked below Jonathan Skrabacz and Michael Henson.

The aftermath saw Dan Johnston plow into the rear of McDonnell's Volkswagen, directly into the path of John Tharp's passenger door before Ken Pettit nailed him head-on. Pettit, Henson, McDonnell and Johnston all failed to continue, starting the season inside the proverbial coffin. Up front, Zakk Miller, Ryan Heuser, Rick Jackson and Alex Crapser all led after the restart. Jeremy Hebel, William Perry, Geno Sphere, Doug Spark, Jonathan Skrabacz and David Butterworth were all trapped down a lap after the yellow.

Crapser, Rick Jackson, Logan Sheets, Zakk Miller and Johnny Reed Foley were the class of the field during the second green-flag stint. The halfway bacon went to Ryan Heuser, who was lambasting himself after seventeen years of failing to win the big race. A four-car breakaway between he, Crapser, Miller and Jimmie Stevens gapped the second-pack by three-seconds, proving who the long-run drivers would be if the race should stay green.

Crapser and Stevens pulled to an immaculate four-second advantage after the second round of fuel stops. Lapped traffic helped boost the draft, with Dalton Lucas, Jeremy Hebel, Ben Geer, Tony Gunk, Jonathan Skrabacz and Cristian Torres manipulating ways to climb back into contention. Heuser, Foley and Dakota Wilkins would catch the lead group by lap 120, with Crapser's #04 Pennzoil Chevrolet dominating the field throughout.

John Battista, Rob Scarberry, Scott Jackson and Zach Michael each witnessed a mustard-stained mirage in their mirror. It was Alex Crapser! Battista attempted to be the hero, sending Cristian Torres into a turn-3 tailspin for the ages. The field stayed green! He'd tangle with David Butterworth just six laps later, bringing out the caution while keeping 25 cars on the lead lap. The restart saw Crapser finally lose his advantage to Johnny Reed Foley. The #138 NOS Energy Chevrolet took the top-spot back, leading the field through the 45-to-go mark.

An excursion of the ages! Zach Michael maneuvers through the dead-mines to take the lead from the 18th position in only 16 laps. What a feat! The Domino's man relinquished the spot back to Heuser, Alan Nesfeder and Chauncey Redmond Jr., only for Alex Crapser to take it back with 30 laps remaining. 85 laps led on the night with one pit stop to go! Zakk Miller, Chauncey Redmond and Bink Lucas battled successfully to take his lead away with the help of lapped traffic.

A miraculous three-wide maneuver handed Dakota Wilkins his first lead of the night! Zach Michael stole his thunder, power-sliding past the #77 with Ryan Heuser, Redmond and Zakk Miller following the slipstream. Disaster would strike Miller with 15-to-go! He and teammate Steven Spears tangled in the pits, leaving Miller past his pit stall and ending his reign as a 2025 Daytona 500 Champion. Race dominator Alex Crapser endured a morbid pit stop, losing the draft out of the pits. Miraculously, Alan Nesfeder came out on top by gambling on less fuel.

Lifesaver Racing teammates Jimmie Stevens and Bink Lucas powered past Nesfeder to take the lead with 12 laps-to-go. Bink stole the advantage the following circuit, losing it to the Nesfeder-Pizzaro duo with the help of lapped traffic. Just behind them, Ryan Heuser, Johnny Reed Foley and Craig Lee erased a three-second gap out of the pits to slipstream back into contention. Immaculate draft work from the Quick-Silver teammates fooled Foley into taking the outside lane. The two used Jimmie Stevens to dismantle Pizzaro's advantage at the helm, with Heuser taking the top-spot from the "AMPIO" man with three laps remaining! It was no contest from there. Ryan Heuser steals the Daytona 500 away in a Quick-Silver sweep of the Gods! After 18 years of trying, Heuser is finally a Champion of the Great American Race!

It took 22 tries for Mustard Mahoney and Ryan Heuser to find victory lane in 2024. Their Brickyard 400 victory was huge, solidifying Heuser's preeminent resume as a Crown Jewel master. Now he's finally won the biggest of them all after 18 years of defeat! NOS Energy won every event they entered during Speedweeks, hoping to extend their lucrative deal that initiated in 2019. Congratulations to Ryan, crew chief Mustard Mahoney and the entire Quick-Silver Motorsports organization for an immaculate Daytona 500 victory!

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