Fresh off his first podium finish in the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series, Kyle Larson is looking to sustain his momentum for the EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix race this coming weekend at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin.

Kyle Larson will try to snap a 0-for-11 skid in the Daytona 500, and The Associated Press will be embedded with his No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports team.

Owen Larson called it when he said his dad wouldn’t win the Daytona 500 because “he probably needs to try really hard because he’s not good at superspeedway racing.”

Kyle Larson, the poster boy of Hendrick Motorsports’ resilience in the NASCAR Cup Series, has had to weather many a storm to win on various tracks. Be it the bumper-to-fender racing in the short tracks or the tire-burning smell of gravel on the road tracks,

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