Bluegreen Vacations Duels at Daytona starting lineups

Thursday night’s Bluegreen Vacation Duels at Daytona International Speedway (7 p.m. ET on FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) will set the field and lineup for the 2021 Daytona 500 (Sunday at 2:30 p.m. ET on FOX, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

Alex Bowman will start on the pole in the first Daytona Duel. He’ll have Hendrick Motorsports teammate Kyle Larson, who starts eighth, in the race. Team Penske will have three cars in the starting lineup with Austin Cindric (10th), Joey Logano (11th) and Wood Brothers Racing’s Matt DiBenedetto (ninth).

William Byron will start on the pole in the second Daytona Duel. He’ll have Hendrick Motorsports teammate Chase Elliott, who starts fifth, in the race. Joe Gibbs Racing will have three cars in this race with Kyle Busch (starts eighth), Martin Truex Jr. (14th) and JGR-aligned 23XI Racing with Bubba Wallace (second).

Below are the lineups for each duel race.

*indicates Open team that is not locked into the Daytona 500 (only two of those will race into Sunday’s event — Ryan Preece and David Ragan made the field based on their qualifying speed Wednesday night as the top two Open teams on the speed chart)

Duel #1

Duel #2