The 2019 Daytona 500, the 61st running of the event, was a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race held on February 17, 2019, Contested over 207 laps—extended from 200 laps due to an overtime finish, on the 2.5-mile (4.0 km) asphalt superspeedway.

2016 winner Denny Hamlin held off teammate Kyle Busch over the final laps to win his second Daytona 500 in four years.

[15] The standard track at Daytona International Speedway is a four-turn superspeedway that is 2.5 miles (4.0 km) long.

[20] Paul Menard was the fastest in the fourth practice session with a time of 44.830 seconds and a speed of 200.758 mph (323.089 km/h).

[21] Michael McDowell was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 47.012 seconds and a speed of 191.440 mph (308.093 km/h).

[22] New England Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman and Houston Texans linebacker J. J. Watt each had duties before the race.

"I think these guys are absolutely insane," Edelman, the MVP at Super Bowl LIII earlier that month, said before the race.

On lap 21, the first caution flew when Corey LaJoie's right front tire blew and had laid debris on the racetrack.

On lap 107, the fourth caution would fly when Casey Mears and Parker Kligerman crashed in turn 1.

With 42 to go, the 6th caution would fly for the second multi car crash of the race that occurred on pit road.

With 20 to go, the 8th caution would fly when Kyle Larson crashed in turn 3 after he blew a left rear tire.

With 14 laps to go, the 9th caution would fly when Brad Keselowski blew a left rear tire and spun off of turn 4.

DiBenedetto led a race high 49 laps and was in the midst of pulling off perhaps one of the greatest upsets in NASCAR history before he got collected.

The cars involved were Matt DiBenedetto, Paul Menard, Erik Jones, Ryan Blaney, Matt Tifft, Tyler Reddick, Daniel Suárez, Austin Dillon, Ryan Newman, Aric Almirola, David Ragan, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ryan Preece, Chris Buescher, Daniel Hemric, Martin Truex Jr., Chase Elliott, Jimmie Johnson, William Byron, Ty Dillon, Joey Logano, and Kyle Larson.

It started when Ricky Stenhouse Jr. went to the inside of Kyle Larson to make it three wide but ended up making contact with Larson and sent Stenhouse into Kevin Harvick and it sent the three cars spinning into turn 3 and also collected Chase Elliott, Alex Bowman, Ty Dillon, and Brad Keselowski.

Going down the backstretch, Clint Bowyer went to make it three wide underneath Michael McDowell and William Byron but Bowyer ended up cutting across the nose of McDowell and turned up into Byron and Chase Elliott and triggered the third big one and the 12th and final caution of the race collecting 8 cars including Landon Cassill, Jamie McMurray, Brad Keselowski, and Brendan Gaughan.

Pit road was manned by Jamie Little, Regan Smith, Vince Welch and Matt Yocum.

Spanish-language network Fox Sports LA aired the race live, with lap-by-lap announcer Jessi Losada and color analyst Rodolfo Landeros.

The booth crew was consisted of Alex Hayden, Jeff Striegle and 1989 Cup Series champion Rusty Wallace.