NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at DAYTONA Watch FREE Live Stream Online & Listen: Live Coverage: STARTING GRID

Tonight at 7:45 p.m. ET under the lights at Daytona International Speedway, Dale Earnhardt Jr. will sit atop the pole for this week's race on NBC, which can be live streamed for free by clicking this link.

This week's top storyline is the return of Kyle Busch to Daytona more than four months after he smashed into a wall and suffered a broken leg and broken foot. Busch will start tonight's run in 13^th position, and will be driving a backup car after another mishap in practice.

Busch expressed some frustration about mixing up with Brad Keselowski so early in his practice run.

"I just wanted to get out there and make some laps and feel my car on the long run and get the tires to where they would wear out a little bit and you would kind of slide around some," Busch said.

"[I] never even got that far. It was a bit disappointing and frustrating all at the same time because our guys, they work really hard and they build great race cars as do all the teams out here."

The concrete wall Busch crashed into has been replaced with a SAFER barrier, but not everything has been converted. NASCAR says the process is underway to make every track safer.

"These race tracks know what needs to happen," Busch said.

"It's not a secret. It's not us drivers telling them where we'd like to see a wall. It's kind of taking a survey driving around a race track and looking at different ways that a race car may happen to hit that wall. It's not rocket science, it just needs to happen."

Starting Grid

1	Dale Earnhardt Jr.	Chevrolet		N/A
2	Austin Dillon	Chevrolet		N/A
3	Clint Bowyer	Toyota		N/A
4	Paul Menard	Chevrolet		N/A
5	Trevor Bayne	Ford	6	N/A
6	David Gilliland	Ford		N/A
7	AJ Allmendinger	Chevrolet		N/A
8	David Ragan	Toyota		N/A
9	Jamie McMurray	Chevrolet		N/A
10	Kasey Kahne	Chevrolet		N/A
11	Sam Hornish Jr.	Ford		N/A
12	Jimmie Johnson	Chevrolet		N/A
13	Kyle Busch	Toyota		N/A
14	Brett Moffitt	Ford		N/A
15	Casey Mears	Chevrolet		N/A
16	Kyle Larson	Chevrolet		N/A
17	Ryan Newman	Chevrolet		N/A
18	Michael Annett	Chevrolet	46	N/A
19	Matt Kenseth	Toyota		N/A
20	Martin Truex Jr.	Chevrolet		N/A
21	Justin Allgaier	Chevrolet		N/A
22	Landon Cassill	Chevrolet		N/A
23	Jeff Gordon	Chevrolet		N/A
24	Carl Edwards	Toyota		N/A
25	Greg Biffle	Ford		N/A
26	Brian Scott	Chevrolet		N/A
27	Danica Patrick	Chevrolet		N/A
28	Kurt Busch	Chevrolet		N/A
29	Cole Whitt	Ford		N/A
30	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	Ford		N/A
31	Tony Stewart	Chevrolet		N/A
32	Brad Keselowski	Ford		N/A
33	Joey Logano	Ford		N/A
34	Kevin Harvick	Chevrolet		N/A
35	Denny Hamlin	Toyota		N/A
36	Aric Almirola	Ford		N/A
37	Alex Bowman	Chevrolet		N/A
38	Bobby Labonte	Ford		N/A
39	J.J. Yeley	Toyota		N/A
40	Jeb Burton	Toyota		N/A
41	Matt DiBenedetto	Toyota		N/A
42	Josh Wise	Ford		N/A
43	Brendan Gaughan	Chevrolet	62	N/A

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