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If this was NASCAR of five years ago, Chase Elliott’s dominating victory in the preseason Clash would make him the favorite to win the Daytona 500.

Also starting outside the top 10 were Bubba Wallace, who started 14th and finished fifth, Ross Chastain who raced from 17th to sixth, and Austin Cindric, who started 16th and wound up seventh. On a night when the race was largely in the drivers’ hands, a few of them seized the opportunity.