Feb 16, 2025 · Daytona 500 restart: 2nd rain delay lasts just 20 minutes. At about 6:15 p.m., cars once again took to the track for a few caution laps. This time, they made it to the green flag at 6:22.

Feb 16, 2025 · DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The Daytona 500 has resumed after two weather delays totaling more than 3 1/2 hours, and with President Donald Trump set to watch the rest of the race in Florida, after he earlier led drivers on two laps around the track in his heavily armored presidential limousine known in Washington as “The Beast.”. The rain appeared to be gone for good when the season ...

Rain puts a pause on 2025 Daytona 500 just after green flag ... Threats of weather have been top-of-mind for NASCAR officials coming into Sunday's Daytona 500. Enough that Friday, they announced ...

Feb 16, 2025 · Trump is the second sitting U.S. president to attend the Daytona 500, having attended in a 2020 race (which also was delayed by rain and eventually postponed to Monday). President George W. Bush gave the command to start engines at the 2004 Daytona 500. This is the fourth time in five years that the Daytona 500 has been delayed.

Feb 16, 2025 · Update: The Daytona 500 restarted with a green flag about 6:20 p.m. It didn't take long for a rain delay to hit the 2025 Daytona 500.. As the drivers were about to finish lap 8 of 200, the caution ...

Feb 16, 2025 · The rain appeared to be gone for good when the season-opener started close to 6:30 p.m. EST and the Daytona 500 was set to finish Sunday under the lights. Trump won't be around when the checkered ...

Feb 16, 2025 · DAYTONA BEACH — The seventh Daytona 500, in 1965, was dramatically shortened by rain — just 133 of 200 laps were completed before rain halted things and Fred Lorenzen left with the wet trophy.

Feb 15, 2025 · Sunday's Daytona 500 has already been impacted by weather, as the start time for "The Great American Race" was moved up on Friday to 2 p.m. ET. While the time change was intended to avoid the rain ...

Feb 16, 2025 · The Daytona 500 has resumed under the lights Sunday after two rain delays that totaled more than 3 hours, 30 minutes and 20 laps.

Feb 12, 2025 · The Daytona 500 was moved up one hour to start at 1:30 p.m. in hopes of missing some of the rain forecast for Sunday afternoon in Daytona Beach. DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – The Daytona 500 got underway an hour early at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday to try and beat any potential weather hazards in Florida , but the NASCAR race entered a weather delay shortly ...