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This year Fourth of July was celebrated with fireworks on and off the race track. Daytona always provides side-by-side action-packed racing and this year’s Coke Zero 400 was no exception. Eight cautions, one involving David Ragan in the UPS Ford, kept fans on the edge of their seats. On-track activity was washed out Thursday and Friday afternoon, once again canceling qualifying and forcing officials to set the field by owner points, starting Ragan 31st. The UPS Ford was fast on the speed charts in practice and the entire team knew they could come from behind. Ragan barely avoided a mid-race debacle which involved around 12 cars, to ultimately get spun around from contact with the No. 2 car with 30 laps to go. Ragan rebounded back, adjusting on the car in his final two pit stops. The final caution came as the field closed in on the checkered flag. Multiple cars became tangled up and Ragan remarkably squeezed by unscathed for a 13th-place finish.

Ragan Survives Last-Lap Wreck to Finish 13th at Daytona | Roush Fenway Racing