Daytona 500, Team USA & Grassroots Racing
Stacking Pennies with Corey LaJoie
NASCAR
4.8 • 850 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Stacking Pennies, Corey LaJoie and Ryan “Skip” Flores dive into Daytona Speedweeks and the Daytona 500, breaking down what it takes to make the field and survive “The Great American Race.” From qualifying and the Duels to running up front at Daytona, they share garage-level insight on strategy, pressure, and the unpredictability of superspeedway racing, while also touching on Team USA, national pride, and what it means to represent something bigger when the spotlight is brightest.
Topics
- Daytona Speedweeks and the path to making the Daytona 500
- Qualifying pressure, Duel races, and race-day strategy
- Superspeedway racing: risk, chaos, and survival
- The Super Bowl as a cultural parallel to the Daytona 500
- Team USA and national pride through the lens of Olympic competition
- Tony Stewart’s return to Truck Series racing and what it means for the sport
- Behind-the-scenes moments from NASCAR’s biggest race weekend
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| 0:00.0 | You know what time it is. |
| 0:01.8 | It is Daytona Week. |
| 0:04.7 | The Daytona 500 is just around the corner here in six days. |
| 0:10.2 | It's where heroes are made and legends never die. |
| 0:13.4 | Year 25 after the fateful day, we had lost Dale Earnhardt. |
| 0:17.3 | We're going to recap all of this, so much racing going on in Florida. |
| 0:20.7 | Join about our dear friend co-host, Ryan Flora, zooming in from Sunny Florida. We are here |
| 0:26.3 | freezing our gonane-na's off. I can literally see my breath in the nonsense garage. So I'm |
| 0:33.0 | ready to head south here in a second. But first, we got to press go and tape some stacking pennies all that and |
| 0:39.3 | more let's buckle up stacking them deep selling them cheap that tastes like gasoline rubber and |
| 0:52.9 | victory where's that here stack and pennies I taste like gasoline, rubber, and victory. Of course out here, stacking back. |
| 1:00.4 | Big show on tap today. |
| 1:02.8 | We've got the duly gassed up, brinkly loaded down with all the stuff. |
| 1:08.4 | But before we head to South, we got to press go and record one last episode before the big day. |
| 1:15.5 | I am Corey LaJoy. |
| 1:17.0 | This is Stag and Penny. |
| 1:18.0 | It's joined by now. |
| 1:21.9 | Booth commentator on Flow Racing, Mr. Ryan Flores. |
| 1:26.1 | I'm joining you live from the Hilton, New Smyrna Beach on Flagler Ave, Business Center. |
| 1:33.1 | I'm already down here. |
| 1:33.9 | They called Speed Weeks for a reason. |
| 1:36.0 | It's been so cool. |
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