Contested over 164 laps—extended from 160 laps due to an overtime finish, on the 2.5-mile (4.0 km) superspeedway, it was the 25th race of the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series season.

In addition to NASCAR, the track also hosts ARCA, AMA Superbike, USCC, SCCA, and Motocross races.

The track was built in 1959 by NASCAR founder William "Bill" France, Sr. to host racing held at the former Daytona Beach Road Course.

His banked design permitted higher speeds and gave fans a better view of the cars.

Lights were installed around the track in 1998 and today, it is the third-largest single lit outdoor sports facility.

The project, named "Daytona Rising", was completed in January 2016, at a cost of US $400 million, placing emphasis on improving fan experience with five expanded and redesigned fan entrances (called "injectors") as well as wider and more comfortable seating with more restrooms and concession stands.

Josh Berry attempted to take the lead on lap 17 but failed to get in front of Logano.

Joey Logano won the race off of pit road and he led the field to the restart on lap 42.

The wreck collected Ross Chastain, Martin Truex Jr., Ryan Preece, Alex Bowman, William Byron, Chase Elliott, Erik Jones, Tyler Reddick, Kyle Larson, Daniel Hemric, Corey LaJoie, Ryan Blaney, Austin Dillon, Denny Hamlin, Noah Gragson, Christopher Bell, John Hunter Nemechek, Ty Gibbs, and Austin Hill.

Chris Buescher won the race off of pit road and he led the field to the restart on lap 67.

Martin Truex Jr. and Erik Jones would get flat tires all while Shane van Gisbergen's car all of a sudden blew up as thick smoke plumed out of his car signaling his engine expired and brought out the third caution of the race for fluid on the track.

With 42 to go, Justin Haley took the lead in a move that even impressed six–time NBA champion and owner of 23XI Racing Michael Jordan.

Austin Cindric won the race off of pit road and he led the field to the restart with 16 laps to go.

Brad Keselowski was attempting to take the lead but was penalized for beating Cindric to the restart box and had to come down pit road.

Keselowski and his team argued Cindric spun the tires before eventually serving his penalty with 13 to go.

McDowell's near flip was almost similar to Tony Stewart's airborne wreck at Talladega Superspeedway in the Fall of 2012.

The cars involved were Michael McDowell, Austin Cindric, Kyle Larson, Bubba Wallace, Joey Logano, Alex Bowman, Tyler Reddick, Justin Haley, William Byron, Ryan Blaney, Kyle Busch, Christopher Bell, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Chris Buescher, and Austin Hill.

Berry's wreck was almost identical to his teammate Ryan Preece in last year's race but this time Berry's car never began to barrel roll violently like Preece's due to the track getting rid of the infield grass on the backstretch to slow cars down when they spin.

Berry became the fourth car in the top three Series of NASCAR to be involved in an airborne crash in the last week joining McDowell and both Kyle Sieg and Corey LaJoie the previous week at Michigan where both Sieg and LaJoie flipped over.

But all of a sudden, Harrison Burton shot out to the lead into turn 3 with a big push by Parker Retzlaff.

The win also locked Burton into the NASCAR playoffs as he was the 14th different winner of 2024 after he was 34th in points coming into the race, last among the full–time drivers.

This was Diffey's first race as the main lap-by-lap commentator, as NBC announced prior to the event that he would be replacing Rick Allen for the rest of the season.

Seconds after Burton's son, Harrison, won the race, Diffey made the call, "Jeff, your little boy has done it!"

Alex Hayden, Jeff Striegle, and 1989 NASCAR Cup Series Champion Rusty Wallace called the action for MRN when the field raced thru the front straightaway.

Mike Bagley worked the Daytona Backstretch for MRN from a spotter's stand in the inside of the track.