Ricky Stenhouse Jr. on the key factor to Daytona 500 success: “It’s going to be limiting mistakes”

Anton Hreskiv
1 min readFeb 7, 2021
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. takes the 2020 Daytona 500 pole position. Credits: NASCAR, Getty Images.

The 2020 Daytona 500 polesitter wants to avoid mistakes in order to be in the Daytona 500 title contention.

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. knows how to win at Daytona International Speedway. JTG-Daugherty Racing’s driver went on to win the 400-mile race at the World Center of Racing back in 2017. During the Daytona 500 media day, Stenhouse Jr. commented on the factor, which could help him get the Harley J. Earl Trophy on February 14th.

“I think it’s just putting myself in better situations throughout the race is what is going to help us battling for that chequered flag,” said the no.47 car driver.

Stenhouse Jr. also added: “For me, it’s watching some film, looking at the last couple of years of how the races played out… You’ve got to do everything right and we plan on having a fast car or one of the fastest cars when we show up there next week.”

“For me, it’s going to be limiting those mistakes and putting ourselves in a good position”, he mentioned in the end.

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Anton Hreskiv

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