NASCAR: Final missing Daytona 500 driver confirmed
By Asher Fair
Timmy Hill is, in fact, set to compete for MBM Motorsports in the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series season-opening Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway.
When the entry list for the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series season-opening Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway was released on Tuesday afternoon, only 43 drivers were listed for the 44 cars on the entry list, including the 36 chartered entries and the eight non-chartered entries.
Only seven of the eight non-chartered entries, which are slated to battle for the four remaining open positions in the 40-car starting lineup for this 200-lap race around the four-turn, 2.5-mile (4.023-kilometer) high-banked oval in Daytona Beach, Florida, had drivers listed.
The one that didn’t was the #66 Ford for MBM Motorsports.
It had been assumed for quite some time that Timmy Hill would drive this car.
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He made his Daytona 500 debut for the team in last year’s running of the race and ran inside the top 10 before he was involved in a late wreck which led to him finishing in 27th place, and he went on to run the entire 36-race schedule for the team.
Over the offseason, the team had indicated that he would be back not just for this year’s edition of the “Great American Race” but for additional races throughout the season. Now it has been confirmed that the 27-year-old Port Tobacco, Maryland native is set to attempt to qualify for the 63rd annual Daytona 500, as his name was included on the official qualifying order alongside the #66 entry.
Driving a non-chartered car, Hill car lock himself into this race by recording one of the two fastest speeds among the non-chartered entries in this evening’s single-car session.
If he doesn’t do that, he will need to lock himself into the field in his Bluegreen Vacations Duel race tomorrow evening.
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Both single-car qualifying and the Bluegreen Vacations Duels are set to be broadcast live on Fox Sports 1 beginning at 7:00 a.m. ET, with the former set to take place today and the latter set to take place tomorrow. Fox is set to broadcast the Daytona 500 live beginning at 2:30 p.m. ET this Sunday, February 14.