2000 Daytona 250
| Race details | |||
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| Race 1 of 24 in the 2000 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season | |||
Track map of Daytona International Speedway showing mainly the speedway.
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| Date | February 18, 2000 | ||
| Location | Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach, Florida | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility 2.5 mi (4.02336 km) |
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| Distance | 100 laps, 250 mi (402.336 km) | ||
| Weather | Temperatures reaching up to 79 °F (26 °C); wind speeds approaching 20 miles per hour (32 km/h) | ||
| Average speed | 130.152 miles per hour (209.459 km/h) | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Bobby Hamilton Racing | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Mike Wallace | Ultra Motorsports | |
| Laps | 59 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 2 | Mike Wallace | Ultra Motorsports | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network |
ESPN ESPN2 |
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| Announcers |
Marty Reid Benny Parsons Ray Evernham |
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The 2000 Daytona 250 was a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race held at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida on February 18, 2000. The inaugural running of the event, Joe Ruttman won the pole, while Mike Wallace won the race, the third win of his Truck Series career.
A quarter of this race was held under the caution flag. The average green flag was nearly 11 laps.
Daytona International Speedway is one of two superspeedways to hold Camping World Truck Series races; the other one is Talladega Superspeedway. Its standard track is a four-turn, 2.5-mile (4.0 km) superspeedway. Daytona's turns are banked at 31 degrees, and the front stretch (the location of the finish line) is banked at 18 degrees.
Joe Ruttman, driving the #18 for Bobby Hamilton Racing, was on the pole. He would lead the field to the green flag and led the first lap before Lyndon Amick briefly took the lead for two laps. The lead would then switch between Andy Houston, Mike Wallace, and Bobby Hamilton before the first caution came out for a crash in Turn 2, which began when Geoff Bodine spun after making contact by Amick. Defending Truck champion Jack Sprague, Steve Grissom, Rick Crawford, and Bryan Reffner were also involved. The race restarted, and the lead was taken by a couple more drivers before the second caution came out when Mike Cope cut a tire and spun in turn 4. At the restart, Terry Cook was the leader but Houston, Wallace, and Hamilton again swapped the lead. Wallace had a tire go flat and had to make a pit stop. That same lap, Kurt Busch made contact with Hamilton and spun him out in the tri-oval, collecting Ruttman, Randy Renfrow, Randy Tolsma, and Houston. Renfrow almost flipped over. Wallace managed to stay on the lead lap. The race restarted on Lap 43, and went green until lap 50 when Jimmy Kitchens spun on the backstretch. Most of the leaders made pit stops except for Rob Morgan, who stayed out.
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