As a part of his ‘Velocity Does America’ marathon livestream, standard streamer IShowSpeed went to Daytona Worldwide Speedway the place he met up with Spire Motorsports driver and 2024 NASCAR Cup Rookie of the 12 months, Carson Hocevar. Daytona monitor president Frank Kelleher was additionally current for the get-together.
IShowSpeed has over 43 million subscribers on YouTube and 1.4 million followers on Twitch. Roughly 35k (common) viewers have been watching him at Daytona. You may observe IShowSpeed’s 35-day marathon livestream HERE.
Hocevar took the 20-year-old across the 2.5-mile superspeedway in a race automotive earlier than IShowSpeed obtained behind the wheel himself, driving a Chevrolet offered by the NASCAR Racing Expertise.
He rapidly realized how tight it’s contained in the automotive, commenting on the lack to maneuver round as soon as strapped into the motive force’s seat.
He lapped the circuit just a few instances and spent eight minutes out on monitor. In accordance with the speedway, he reached 124 mph throughout his time behind the wheel. For many who do not watch NASCAR, the 2025 pole pace for the Daytona 500 was 182.745 mph, set by Chase Briscoe. The lap document for NASCAR at Daytona occurred again in 1987 earlier than NASCAR began proscribing the engines, when Invoice Elliott received the pole at 210.364 mph.
Three-wide battle for the race lead with William Byron, Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet, Ryan Blaney, Crew Penske Ford, and Bubba Wallace, 23XI Racing Toyota
Photograph by: Michael Bush – Icon Sportswire by way of Getty Photos
“I f**** aced that,” he stated with a smile as he climbed out of the automotive. “That was far more enjoyable than the F1 factor I did,” he continued, referencing a stream final 12 months the place he drove an F4 automotive on the Nurburgring. He additionally expressed curiosity in coming again and doing it once more.
After operating just a few laps, Hocevar took him across the monitor in a firetruck the place the siren obtained a little bit of a exercise, exhibiting him the steepness of the banking and the end line. At one level, he and Hocevar obtained ahold of the hearth hose, and proceeded to spray water everywhere in the infield.
Earlier this, YouTuber Cleetus McFarland (Garrett Mitchell) made his ARCA debut at Daytona, additionally operating at Talladega and Charlotte.
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