Daytona Beach, FL -- The NASRA Cup Series headed back to Daytona for the Gatorade Duels. The top 5 drivers from each duel that were not locked into the race transferred into the Daytona 200.
Duel 1 ran clean untill the lap 15 mark, When a muti car wreck involving Mike Husby and Dave Collard brought out the first yellow flag of the race. After pitstops the race again ran clean untill the #99 of Clint Monahan and the #00 of Connor Mackenzie got involved in an incident. Monahan would transfer but the officials later decided that Connor Mackenzie would be the one to transfer. Matt Riley would go on to win the race and transfer. The unofficial drivers that transfered were: Matt Riley, Connor Mackenzie, Taylor Laskoski, Aaron Eaton and Andrew Hayes.
Duel 2 started out alot less calm than Duel 1. A big wreck triggerd by the #2 of Bertus De Jong when De Jong's wheel fell off took out several contenders. Another incident a few laps later would then end a few more drivers chances at getting into the Daytona 200. At the end the #18 of Pete Engelmanas and the #16 of Jordan Robson were 1-2. Robson made a move to the high side coming off turn 4 and would beat the #18 to the line by 0.002, the closest finish NASRA history. Transferring in Duel 2 were: Kip Barker, Stephen Black, Jeremy Stanley, Harry O' Neil and Justin Brooks.
The Gatorade Duels wrapped up another event in NASRA Speedweeks. Next week NASRA is off due to the Nascar races at Daytona, but will return February 17th with the NASRA Supertruck Series Camping World 150, and February 19th for the biggest race of em' all, the Daytona 200.
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