David Ragan Captures First Win at Daytona

The "NASCAR 2011 Season of First Time Winners" continues with another driver people predicted will get a win, David Ragan.

On February 20, 2011, David Ragan made a costly mistake by switching lanes before the line for at a restart at the Daytona 500 that probably costed him the race. Today, he pulled off the win with the help with his teammate Matt Kenseth. And this was a race where it was anyone's race. We even saw drivers like Joe Nemechek, Travis Kvapil, Andy Lally, Terry Labonte, Landon Cassill, and Casey Mears that we saw up in front at some point of the race, but green flag pit stops hurt them to get a much needed finish.

They're were some incidents in this race, but much less cautions than the Daytona 500. First caution was for the Daytona 500 winner, Trevor Bayne, who was spun out by Brad Keselowski really early in the race. Second caution was points leader, Carl Edwards, who got spun out by his teammate, Greg Biffle. Third caution, was caused by Dave Blaney, which by the looks of it was bumped by his teammate, Geoffrey Bodine. Fourth caution happened in the closing laps where Jeff Gordon started to spin out and NASCAR quickly threw the caution for safety since a bigger pack of cars was coming.

That incident then caused a green-white-checkered. The first restart caused a multi-car crash when Joey Logano got into Mark Martin. As Martin spun, a handful of drivers had no where to go. The next restart will be the final restart of the night. Kasey Kahne was pushing Logano to the lead, while Matt Kenseth was pushing David Ragan. Another pairing of this race, Ryan Newman and Denny Hamlin, lost the draft and fell back quickly. On Turn 3 of the last lap, the next multi-car happened when Marcos Ambrose spun out, and once Ragan came closer to the finish line, and bigger wreck happened leaving several cars damaged, which caused some scary moments when some drivers barely missed Ryan Newman. All the drivers from those incidents were okay.

After all that, David Ragan came out with the win, his first in his career in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series

Next week, we head to a new track for the Sprint Cup Series, Kentucky Speedway for the Quaker State 400.