2017 Can-Am Duels
| Race details | |
|---|---|
| Date | February 23, 2017 |
| Location |
Daytona International Speedway Daytona Beach, Florida |
| Course | Permanent racing facility 2.5 mi (4 km) |
| Distance |
Race 1: 60 laps, 150 mi (240 km) Race 2: 60 laps, 150 mi (240 km) |
| Avg Speed |
Race 1: 160.095 mph (257.648 km/h) Race 2: 156.977 mph (252.630 km/h) |
| Race 1 | |
| Pole position | Chase Elliott |
| Most laps led | Brad Keselowski (28) |
| Winner | Chase Elliott |
| Race 2 | |
| Pole position | Dale Earnhardt Jr. |
| Most laps led | Dale Earnhardt Jr. (53) |
| Winner | Denny Hamlin |
| Television | |
| Network | Fox Sports 1 & MRN |
| Announcers |
Mike Joy, Jeff Gordon and Darrell Waltrip (Television) Joe Moore and Jeff Striegle (Booth) Dave Moody (1 & 2), Mike Bagley (Backstretch) and Kyle Rickey (3 & 4) (Turns) (Radio) |
The 2017 Can-Am Duels is a pair of Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series races scheduled to be held on February 23, 2017, at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. Both contested over 60 laps, they will be the qualifying races for the 2017 Daytona 500.
Daytona International Speedway is one of six superspeedways to hold NASCAR races, the others being Michigan International Speedway, Auto Club Speedway, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Pocono Raceway and Talladega Superspeedway. The standard track at Daytona International Speedway is a four–turn superspeedway that is 2.5-mile (4.0 km) long. The track's turns are banked at 31 degrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, is banked at 18 degrees.
Joey Logano was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 46.604 seconds and a speed of 193.116 mph (310.790 km/h).
Chase Elliott scored the pole for the Daytona 500 with a time of 46.663 and a speed of 192.872 mph (310.397 km/h). He said afterwards that everyone at Hendrick Motorsports did "a lot of work this off-season. This team definitely has a knack for these plate tracks, as they showed with Jeff Gordon and then last year with here and Talladega." He also mentioned how these accomplishments don't "just happen by staying the same, as everybody knows. Everyone is always trying to get better and make their cars better and faster, and the engine shop is always finding new things. So I think that's just proof that they're improving with everybody else and taking that next step, which is really impressive." He ended by saying he was "happy to be a part of it, and hopefully we can run good next Sunday."
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