Chris Buescher defends his Coke Zero Sugar 400 title at Daytona International Speedway in the penultimate race of the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series regular season on Saturday, August 24, 2024 (8/24/24) in Daytona Beach, Florida.

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What you need to know:

What: Coke Zero 400, a NASCAR Cup Series race

When: Saturday, 24 August 2024 (24.08.2024)

Time: 7:30 p.m. ET

Where: Daytona International Speedway

TV: ABC

Station finder: Verizon Fios, Xfinity, Spectrum, Optimum/Altice, Cox, DirecTV

Live stream: fuboTV (free trial), DirecTV Stream (free trial), Hulu + Live TV

Here is a recent NASCAR story from AP:

BROOKLYN, Mich. (AP) — NASCAR has just two races left in the regular season, and two contests are at stake.

Tyler Reddick took his second win of the season on Monday at Michigan International Speedway, securing the lead in a hotly contested four-driver race for the regular season championship.

Reddick is 10 points ahead of Chase Elliott, while Denny Hamlin and Kyle Larson are within striking distance.

Reddick passed Larson to take the lead in the Cup standings. His win gave him another playoff spot, as he was one of 12 drivers who automatically earned qualification with a win.

This means that there are still four spots available in the 16-car playoffs, with races still to come on Saturday evening in Daytona and on September 1 in Darlington.

Five drivers have a chance to advance even without a win, but at least one will not be there.

“It’s really tough on the racetrack for speed and for points,” Reddick said. “That’s what this Next Gen era has really done. It’s brought us closer together from the front of the field to the end.”

Martin Truex Jr. is 13th in the playoff rankings, 77 points ahead of the cut line, but a lead in this format is far from certain.

Ty Gibbs, Chris Buescher and Ross Chastain currently occupy the bottom three spots and Bubba Wallace slipped to 17th place, one point behind Chastain.

“We knew at the beginning of the year, before we even got to Daytona, that the only way to be truly safe before the playoffs was to win,” Buescher said.

Kyle Busch, who won his first stage of the season on Sunday and finished fourth, is among the drivers who must win to advance.

Austin Dillon will be one of the desperate drivers to be the first to see the checkered flag to extend the season unless he wins an appeal on Wednesday or is subsequently given the opportunity to appeal NASCAR’s decision to strip him of his playoff spot.

Dillon finished 17th in the FireKeepers 400, a week after passing Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin on the final lap to win at Richmond.

Reddick, meanwhile, is at the top of the points standings thanks to his consistency and leads the series with 11 top-5 finishes and 17 top-10 finishes in 24 races.

Four months ago, he also won at Talladega in his No. 45 Toyota for 23XI, owned by Hamlin and Michael Jordan, earning points for the first time for himself and the No. 1 team.

An accident can change a lot in any race and in the overall standings, as many drivers learned in Michigan.

Larson, who was the favorite to win the race according to BetMGM Sportsbook, lost control of the No. 5 Chevrolet on lap 115 and several cars became tangled in the chaos.

A few laps later, Logano brought his damaged No. 22 Ford into the garage and Wallace’s No. 23 Toyota took a hit that slowed the struggling driver’s relative success in the race.

The pileup left Logano in 33rd place, Larson one place behind and Wallace in 26th place. This meant that he slipped from 15th to 17th place in the playoff rankings of the 16-car field.

“With the competition out there, it’s just a few yards here and there,” Reddick said.

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