NASCAR Gatorade Duel Race Betting Odds

Nascar Gatorade Duel

Date: Feb. 23, 2012

Where: Daytona International Speedway

Known officially as the Gatorade Duel Qualifying Races and even though the Duel races have no bearing on The Chase standings, drivers should be gunning for a good finish as the results do have a bearing on the Daytona 500 starting grid. It is held annually in February at the Daytona International Speedway and each duel race is a quick 60 laps of Daytona, which comes out to 150 miles. The first Gatorade Duel starts at 2:00 PM on Thursday, February 23, 2012 and the second Duel race is slated to run right after race No. 1 at 4:00 pm ET.

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Gatorade Duel Race Qualifying

Normal qualifying in the Sprint Cup Series consists of solo laps and fields that are set by a system of qualifying speeds, owners points and past champions provisionals. In the Gatorade Duel, Qualifying for the Daytona 500, through this use of the Gatorade Duel, is unique in NASCAR with only the front row, pole and outside pole, with starters being established through the conventional qualifying means of timed laps. After the two top positions are determined, the rest of the starting grid is determined by the finishing order of the two Gatorade Duel races. The entire Daytona 500 field is split into two groups, each racing in one of the qualifying races, and the finishing order of the first race fills the odd grid positions, while the order of the second qualifier fills the even ones.

Gatorade Duel Race History

The Duel event originally debuted as twin 100-mile races, and from 1959-1971 were counted with points going towards the Grand National championship, and prize money counted separately from the Daytona 500. Beginning in 1968, the races were scheduled to be lengthened to 125 miles, but cancelled due to rain, and leaving the starting lineup for that year's Daytona 500 to fall back on timed laps. In 1969, the races were actually run for 125 miles, or 50 laps; now requiring fuel stop, teams were challenged to change prior pit stop strategies.

With the start of NASCAR's modern era in 1971, the Daytona Gatorade Duel races were dropped as point-earning events for the Grand National Championship; as part of Winston Cup's changes to the series, races were now required to be at least 250 miles in order to qualify for official Championship points. The Duel races continued, serving only as the Daytona 500 qualifier and for whatever prize money was awarded, but no longer for official championship points.

Daytona 500 qualifying is in full effect and the betting odds are up on both of the Gatorade Duel races before start time.

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