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Stock Car Scoop: Flips, Eliminations Abound at Chaotic Daytona

Amid the playoff implications, barrel-rolling vehicles and high-tension racing, Chris Buescher emerged the winner of the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway on Saturday (Aug. 26).

Adam Cheek and Vito Pugliese break down Buescher’s status as a playoff threat, Ryan Preece‘s violent, video-game-esque flip on the backstretch, Chase Elliott missing the playoffs and Bubba Wallace securing the final postseason slot.

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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.