We return to racing under the lights this week.  The NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Series travels back to where the season started this weekend at Daytona International Speedway for the Coke Zero Sugar 400. The second Daytona race of the season is held July 4th week every year.  Unlike the Daytona 500, the Monster Energy Cup Series races under the lights for this dramatic and entertaining racing event.  

This will be the third superspeedway race of the 2019 season, so we should now begin to see some trends forming on these larger ovals.  With the same aero-rules package being used for the second time this season at Daytona, we hope to see some the same racing that made the Daytona 500 a competitive and exciting affair.  If the drivers can duplicate the action we saw in May at Talladega, we should be in for a thrilling ride this Saturday night.  The 500-mile race at Talladega Superspeedway earlier this season featured a whopping 38 lead changes, which was a six-season high at the track.  The Daytona 500 only offered a 15 lead changes, so we will see if more lead swaps will happen this weekend after two superspeedway races are in the bank with this new rules package.  The pack racing that super speedways create lead to lots of lead changes and parity in these events.  However, we also need to remember the 21 cars that DNF'd at Daytona is also a season high mark, and really illustrates the luck side