As a part of his ‘Velocity Does America’ marathon livestream, well-liked 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 observe 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 had been watching him at Daytona. You can follow IShowSpeed’s 35-day marathon livestream HERE.
Hocevar took the 20-year-old across the 2.5-mile superspeedway in a race automobile earlier than IShowSpeed acquired behind the wheel himself, driving a Chevrolet offered by the NASCAR Racing Expertise.
He shortly realized how tight it’s contained in the automobile, commenting on the shortcoming to maneuver round as soon as strapped into the motive force’s seat.
He lapped the circuit a couple of occasions and spent eight minutes out on observe. In keeping with the speedway, he reached 124 mph throughout his time behind the wheel. For many who do not watch NASCAR, the 2025 pole velocity for the Daytona 500 was 182.745 mph, set by Chase Briscoe. The lap report for NASCAR at Daytona occurred again in 1987 earlier than NASCAR began proscribing the engines, when Invoice Elliott gained 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 through Getty Photographs
“I f**** aced that,” he stated with a smile as he climbed out of the automobile. “That was far more enjoyable than the F1 factor I did,” he continued, referencing a stream final yr the place he drove an F4 automobile on the Nurburgring. He additionally expressed curiosity in coming again and doing it once more.
After working a couple of laps, Hocevar took him across the observe in a firetruck the place the siren acquired a little bit of a exercise, displaying him the steepness of the banking and the end line. At one level, he and Hocevar acquired ahold of the fireplace hose, and proceeded to spray water all around the infield.
Earlier this, YouTuber Cleetus McFarland (Garrett Mitchell) made his ARCA debut at Daytona, also running at Talladega and Charlotte.
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