Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s JR Motorsports team earned a long-awaited start at last Sunday's Daytona 500, and driver Justin Allgaier did not disappoint. The 38-year-old NASCAR star shepherded the No. 40 Chevy to a ninth-place finish in a field featuring the best drivers in the sport.

What a NASCAR Cup Series debut it was for JR Motorsports in the Daytona 500 as Justin Allgaier not only made the field in the team's No. 40 Traveller Whiskey Ch

Team co-owner Dale Earnhardt Jr. knows now the NASCAR Cup Series is where he wants JR Motorsports to be after a fruitful Daytona 500 entry.

Man, we got here, and we got a taste of it,” Dale Earnhardt Jr. said about Justin Allgaier qualifying for the Daytona 500.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. got his first taste of NASCAR Cup Series racing as a team owner in the Daytona 500, as JR Motorsports entered Justin Allgaier into the race.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Dale Earnhardt Jr. stretched out his hand to Justin Allgaier on pit road after Allgaier finished ninth in Sunday’s Daytona 500 in the first race for Earnhardt as a Cup car owner.

The final few laps and even the very end of the 2025 Daytona 500 were marred by massive crashes that wiped out several race leaders in the late stages. While most fans have laid the blame at the drivers,