Justin Allgaier won the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Daytona International Speedway in double overtime Friday night for his first victory in 26 starts at the famed track. The 37-year-old Allgaier had finished second at Daytona twice and even had the lead on the final lap in the season opener in February. “I've been coming to this place for a long time," Allgaier said.
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It had been almost 17 years since my father and I had gone to the track together, a time spanning the misery of middle school to my becoming a writer, a time spanning the beginning of the decline in NASCAR viewership through the advent of its newest iteration in Chicago, a place that couldn’t be farther from the South if it tried.