The regular-season finale at Daytona didn’t just sizzle, it detonated. Under the Saturday night lights on August 23, 2025, the Coke Zero Sugar 400 delivered the kind of white-knuckle theater only the World Center of Racing seems to summon. Weather-tossed qualifying set the grid by metric, playoff math hanging by a thread, and a four-wide, last-lap dash saw Ryan Blaney storm from 13th to the lead to take his second win of the year and secure a vital playoff boost. Tyler Reddick and Alex Bowman squeaked into the postseason on points while bubble drivers threw the kitchen sink at the draft in a frantic final stint. It was Daytona at its most cinematic, and a reminder that when the pack decides to go, it really goes. But before that fireworks finale, a quieter, calculated game shaped the scrip

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