Everything is on the line this weekend at Daytona International Speedway, as the NASCAR Cup and Xfinity series visit the superspeedway for the finale of the latter’s regular season and one of the final races of the former’s.
Adam Cheek and Dalton Hopkins discuss all of the factors in the headlines this weekend, from which driver will come up clutch with a victory to lock themselves into the playoffs to how Kurt Busch‘s postseason waiver being withdrawn changes the landscape of this weekend’s racing.
The duo also discusses its winner picks and Daytona’s place as the regular-season finale.
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Adam Cheek joined Frontstretch as a contributing writer in January 2019. A 2020 graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, he covered sports there and later spent a year and a half as a sports host on 910 the Fan in Richmond, VA. He's freelanced for Richmond Magazine and the Richmond Times-Dispatch and also hosts the Adam Cheek's Sports Week podcast. Adam has followed racing since the age of three, inheriting the passion from his grandfather, who raced in amateur events up and down the East Coast in the 1950s.
Dalton Hopkins began writing for Frontstretch in April 2021. Currently, he is the lead writer for the weekly Thinkin' Out Loud column, co-host of the Frontstretch Happy Hour podcast, and one of our lead reporters. Beforehand, he wrote for IMSA shortly after graduating from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 2019. Simultaneously, he also serves as a Captain in the US Army.
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