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 5 Things I'm looking forward to in the 2023 NASCAR season. By Brian H Cotnoir We are Officially one month away from the start of the 2023 NASCAR Season!  Thank God!  I feel like it's been 10 years since the Championship Weekend in Phoenix, and honestly this season is the most I've looked forward to in a long time.  I'm still riding the high of watching my favorite driver, Christopher Bell, get two walk-off wins in the Playoffs and make the Championship 4, and I believe there will be plenty more to look forward to this season.  So here are 5 Things I'm looking forward to in the 2023 NASCAR Season 1.)  Kyle Busch (and KBM's) switch to Chevy I believe Kyle Busch will do great things at Richard Childress Racing and his return to GM, but I don't think I'll be the only one who will take some getting used to driving anything other than a Toyota.   I mean, Kyle Busch made Toyota what it is today in NASCAR.   He won everything (minus a Daytona 500) in a Toyota.

5 Best Drivers who never won the Daytona 500 By Brian H Cotnoir In football the biggest accomplishment a player can achieve is winning the Super Bowl.  In baseball it's winning the World Series, and in Hockey it's hoisting the Stanley Cup.  All these events happen at the end of the season, but NASCAR is the only sport I know whose biggest event opening race of the season.   Winning the Daytona 500 is one of the biggest accomplishments a driver can achieve in NASCAR, and even if the only race you win in your career it cements your legacy as a Daytona 500 Champion.  The biggest names in the sport: Dale Earnhardt, Richard Petty, Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Bobby Allison, Junior Johnson, and Bill Elliott have all won the Daytona 500.  However, many other well-known drivers in the sport have never won the Daytona 500 but have come oh so close and several occasions.  Today, I'm going to talk about 5 of those drivers who never who won just about everything in the sport, but never