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Ricky Stenhouse Jr. wins longest Daytona 500 ever

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. won the longest Daytona 500 ever under caution after a wreck on the final lap.

Stenhouse was ahead of Joey Logano thanks to a push from Christopher Bell when Kyle Larson went head-on into the wall amid a big crash on the second green-white-checker restart attempt.

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The race officially ended on the 212th lap. The previous longest Daytona 500 was 209 laps in 2020.

The wreck on the final lap came after a big crash on the first two-lap overtime restart necessitated another attempt to get to the finish.