Author: Kelly Crandall, RACER

Christopher Bell will let others decide if his win on Daytona’s road course was a statement, but Bell knew the move back to Joe Gibbs Racing was big.

Denny Hamlin, the defending race winner at Homestead, earned the pole for Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race with Joey Logano also on the front row.

Toyota confirmed its partnership with 23XI Racing, the new NASCAR team owned by Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin with Bubba Wallace behind the wheel.

Austin Wayne Self, 23, will have to participate in the NASCAR Road to Recovery program before being reinstated.