COBO CUP 2025 Newsletter – Volume 1

Byron won the Daytona 500

#24-William Byron won the 2025 Daytona 500 NASCAR Cup Series race at Daytona International Speedway. The win is his 2nd consecutive Daytona 500 win, 3rd win at Daytona and 14th of his career.

#45-Tyler Reddick finished 2nd followed by #84-Jimmie Johnson, pole sitter #19-Chase Briscoe, #42-John Hunter Nemechek, #48-Alex Bowman, #12-Ryan Blaney, #2-Austin Cindric, #40-Justin Allgaier, and #17-Chris Buescher.

The race ended after the first Overtime attempt. Overtime was set up by an accident with 5 laps remaining. Byron was running 9th at the white flag. Cindric and #11-Denny Hamlin were side by side for the lead on the final lap, but the field bunched up on the backstretch and caused Hamlin and Cindric to lose control. Byron shot to the lead and held off Reddick by .11 second. Despite the accident on the backstretch, NASCAR did not throw the caution and the drivers race to the finish.

After the start was moved up an hour due to the forecast, the race was twice red flagged due to rain, once for 3 hours, 10 minutes and the other for 20 minutes. There were 56 lead changes among 15 drivers and 8 cautions for 47 yellow flag laps. The average speed of the race was: 129.159mph.

Stage Winners

• Stage 1 was won by #22-Logano
• Stage 2 was won by #12-Blaney

Perfect Team (per category): William Byron, Ryan Blaney, Chris Buescher, Austin Cindric, Ricky Stenhouse Jr, Eric Jones & Joe Hunter Nemechek for 248 points.

Worst Picks (per category): Christopher Bell, Joey Logano, Ross Chastain, Kyle Busch, Ryan Preece, AJ Allmendinger & Zane Smith.         

Facts: WTAF wins the Daytona 500 with 238 points ($1200). They beat Northern Base by 16 points. Please check your teams (names, drivers) and let me know if there is a problem. Let me know this week as once the next race starts, there will be no adjustments to a team.  

Standings Leaders:

• WTAF (1 week)

Challenges: You have until Saturday to challenge the points. Race winners will be paid out once challenge deadline has expired.

Bottom of the Barrel: All-Can Lose with 63 points. That’s the fight for the 2026 free entry.    

Pole Pool: There is no pole point awarded with the 500 as the pool had not yet started. Points will be awarded starting with this weekend’s race at Atlanta.  

Awarded Points: the points from the Duels do not count as those races took place before our pool started. All points per race are posted on our website.   

Cobo Cup Sponsors:   

• Fred’s Auto & Equipment Service Centre Inc @www.fredsauto.ca
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• Dry N Shine Auto Spa @www.drynshineautospa.com
• Splitsville Hamilton – the place the Cobo Cup crew parties
• ILich Construction & Design

New Sponsor:

• Power Athletic Message

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Next Race: 

Race #2 of 36: Sunday February the 23^rd, 2025 at Atlanta, GA on TSN. Green Flag: 3:00pm                                                                      

“NUFF SAID”

COBO CUP 2025 Standings Leader: WTAF                                                                                                                                                            cobocup@yahoo.ca