THE SEASON HAS BEGUN

ToddyTurnsLeft
Jan 4
4 min read

Updated: Jan 6

The First Season of Nova Has Officially Begun with The First Race Ever for The Lite Series at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.

There have been some wild moments from the lite series yesterday with 56 laps & 10 cautions and one new winner came from the shadows.

Off Rails Racing’s VKV and Verge Finished In a 1-2 Finish with one of the most unexpected push to the finish. I was able to interview both of them after the race.

Verge: Well, it was pretty challenging with the constant stop-and-go race, but once things settled down a bit, I was able to make smart decisions through the field in order to stay behind my pal. I'm glad we were able to pull off a 1-2 and put the team and ourselves on the map and I'm just very glad that Dj was able to pull away and I stuck behind him and secured 2nd. Overall, it's a wonderful feeling.

VKV (joint statement): it was a really up and down day, and I was determined to get to the front, and I got to the front pretty fast, but I kept getting minor setbacks. And I knew that for the first race of the season that this was a pretty big moment, and I just focused on getting up front and helping my teammate, and working together, and I really couldn't have won the race without Verge / Shadow **(either name works but I'd recommend Verge since 97% of people know me as Verge)**. I really owe him big time for this victory. But yeah, I wasn't expecting to be the most dominant car and I just kept my head down and I thank God.

Season 9 Big Beer 350 @ Daytona International

#11 - djking_lord (Pontiac)
#55 - leafy_verge (Pontiac)
#14 - Litman_Nick (Ford)
#19 - Revel (Pontiac)
#2 - Thelordmew (Dodge)
#13 - Antolol (Toyota)
#3 - Trustful (Dodge)
#17 - JJSpeed (Toyota)
#78 - Princewill (Dodge)
#34 - goodjadencc (Pontiac)
#4 - Gesior (Ford)
#95 - Fox (Chevy)
#97 - Notspitfirez (Dodge) (DNF)
#86 - Velocity (Dodge) (DNF)
#33 - Drift (Dodge) (DSQ)
#5 - Gokan (Ford) (DNQ)
#28 - Alperen (Toyota) (DNQ)
#94 - Toddy (Ford) (DNQ)
#70 - Changeabletrain (Dodge) (DNQ)
#48 - Eurotixz (Chevy) (DNQ)
#45 - Hypeblox (Dodge) (DNQ)
#29 - Nikitifi (Pontiac) (DNQ)
#83 - Bandz (Ford) (DNQ)
#9 - Ventage (Pontiac) (DNQ)
#07 - Dreggsome (Ford) (DNQ)
#00 - Musashi (Pontiac) (DNQ)

The Newly Trek Daytona 500 Was Set With 80 Laps and 11 Cautions and Dreggsome Wins It After Litman Nick, who dominated the whole race and never won at Daytona Lifted and Gave It to Dreggsome. I caught Up to Both Drivers on Pit Road

Dreggsome: It's crazy, I haven't won a race since the D&W days and now I'm the first ever Nova D1 winner? Gotta thank Nick for his pre-race coaching (and letting me slide in at the end there), Pancake and Toxic for being incredible teammates and Viking for being the man himself. Think I got a little extra luck from using NTR's old number from his MRI days lmao. Never in a million years did I expect something like this to happen.

Litman Nick: After we saw pancake get dumped from p2, I knew I had a huge gap and wouldn’t lose without a major mistake. However going down the backstretch I hear “MRI 1-2-3” being yelled out. I knew pancake wasn’t in the mix so as I look back I see THE Dreggsome in p2 with a huge gap. Knowing this team has always been side by side with him I knew what I had to do. This teams success means way more then my own. Knowing that the longest tenured driver after the founder, I made the conscious decision to back off of the win and still lock up the 1-2-3. This victory is the largest in a long time and gives me similar joy to know that I once again helped the team win another Daytona opener race, dating back to S2 D2 Daytona.

Those are the interviews from the MRI’s Drivers.

We also got the release of the official race results. And then after that we will see some post race penalties from yesterday and possibly today.