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The end of the Daytona 500 was simply breathtaking. For 199 laps there were almost no lead changes, until everything blew up on the final lap. Matt Kenseth led into the final lap, but lost control on the outside. This left Martin Truex Jr. and Denny Hamlin jockeying for position. The finish speaks for itself, with Hamlin winning by inches.

Just how close was it? Take a look at this:

Denny Hamlin won the Daytona 500 on Sunday at Daytona International Speedway after taking the lead on the final turn and holding off Martin Truex Jr. in the closest finish in race history. The margin of victory was one-hundredth of a second. Kyle Busch finished third.

Matt Kenseth, a teammate of Hamlin’s at Joe Gibbs Racing, had been leading heading into the final turn, but hit the wall after getting loose when moving up the track to block Hamlin. He finished 14th. Holding the inside line, Truex was almost able to take advantage of the situation but Hamlin nipped him at the checkered flag.

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A REAL TIRE!

The funniest pre-race moment of the Daytona 500 happened in the infield when Jamie Little couldn’t see John Cena. Couldn’t see him ... could not see John Cena. SHE LITERALLY COULDN’T SEE JOHN CENA!

This is life. This is everything.

2016 Daytona 500: Denny Hamlin edges Martin Truex Jr. in closest finish in history

Joey Logano’s got a whole lot more bread today. The 24-year old driver, once known as “Sliced Bread” (as in, the greatest thing since), stayed near the front of the pack at the 57th running of the Daytona 500 for most of the day before winning the Great American Race. After taking the lead on the 191st lap, Logano held on through a finish that ended under caution after a wreck on the final lap of a green-white-checkered finish. Now he and Tean Penske gets their payday, with first place worth $1,581,453.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- With the knowledge of having what he thought was the superior car, all Dale Earnhardt Jr. could do was lament a third-place finish in Sunday’s Daytona 500 after a poor decision on a restart with 19 laps remaining cost him dearly.

Lined up third, Earnhardt attempted to slide up the track in an attempt to pair up with teammate Jimmie Johnson, as the two had worked well together throughout the afternoon. But the move proved disastrous with Earnhardt miscalculating the distance, getting stuck in the middle and shuffled out of the draft. He would plummet from third to 15th almost instantaneously.

Tony Stewart and Matt Kenseth, two of the pre-race favorites to win the Daytona 500, were involved in an early incident Sunday at Daytona International Speedway.

Stewart was in the bottom groove when his No. 14 car jumped out from underneath him and darted up the track and into Ryan Blaney, pushing both into the Turn 4 wall. Kenseth was directly behind Blaney and sustained nose damage.

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Coverage of the Great American Race begins at 1 p.m. (ET), but the green flag is set to wave a little bit later, at approximately 1:30 p.m. The broadcast will be available both in English and Spanish.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Ideally Daytona Speedweeks is about the promise of a new season up ahead. The whole “hope springs eternal” thing where every driver thinks they’re going to win a championship, and teams are optimistic that an offseason of hard work will pay great dividends.

Entering this year’s edition of Speedweeks the talk was about Jeff Gordon’s pending retirement and the momentum NASCAR gained following a very successful 2014. What’s unfolded, however, has seen that positivity dissolve thanks to a bizarre series of events taking attention away from Sunday’s Great America Race.

Mike Joy, Darrell Waltrip and Larry McReynolds will guide television viewers through the 57th running of the Daytona 500 on Sunday when coverage begins at 1 p.m. (ET) on FOX, and they should be a familiar trio to regular viewers of the Great American Race. This is the 15th season that Fox Sports owns the rights to the event, and this particular trio called the very first Daytona 500 the network televised in 2001, and every one since. That makes them the longest running three-man broadcast crew in sports.

“The main difference is that Fox Sports is an analyst-driven production,” Joy said in a conference call earlier in the week. “You see that in football, baseball, and you see it in NASCAR. That in and of itself was a big culture shift from the way that CBS, ABC and NBC were putting sports on the air, where their anchors were at the top of the telecast and then they would fill in with analysts specific to a given sport. This was very different right from the start and I think that’s one of the big reasons it works so well.”

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Jimmie Johnson won a dramatic second Budweiser Duel qualifying race Thursday at Daytona International Speedway.

Johnson completed a Hendrick Motorsports sweep of the races that set the field for Sunday’s Daytona 500, with teammate Dale Earnhardt Jr. taking the victory in the first duel. Kyle Busch and Carl Edwards finished second and third, respectively.