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.

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.

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

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

Earnhardt Jr. is no stranger to having success at Daytona. The NASCAR Hall of Famer has won the Daytona 500 twice. It was an emotional night for JR Motorsports and the sport as a whole. All feels right in the NASCAR world with the team competing in the Daytona 500.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. is a two-time Daytona 500 champion. He’s competing in the race in a new way in 2025, and the entire sport is excited for it.

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,