Daytona 500 2027, Daytona Beach

The Daytona 500 is the NASCAR Cup Series season opener, 200 laps on the high banks at Daytona International Speedway. The speedway calls it The Great American Race.

The 2027 race is the 69th running, on Sunday 21 February 2027. It ends Speedweeks presented by AdventHealth, a week of qualifying, support races and the Duels that set the field.

Dates and hours

The speedway has published this Speedweeks 2027 schedule:

• Saturday 13 February 2027: the Wheatley Vodka Clash At Daytona, at night. The speedway says it is the first Clash at Daytona since 2021.
• Wednesday 17 February 2027: Daytona 500 qualifying.
• Thursday 18 February 2027: the Duel At Daytona, two qualifying races that set the starting field.
• Friday 19 February 2027: NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race, at night.
• Saturday 20 February 2027: NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series and ARCA Menards Series doubleheader.
• Sunday 21 February 2027: the Daytona 500.

Start times for 2027 are not published. The speedway lists the Saturday 20 February races as TBD. Check the speedway’s event page or the NASCAR Tracks app in race week.

Tickets

Every seat for the Daytona 500 is reserved, and the speedway says every guest, regardless of age, needs a reserved seat. Tickets are sold through Ticketmaster from the speedway’s site. The options:

• Single day: a reserved seat for Sunday 21 February.
• 2-Day package: reserved seats for the Daytona 500 and the Saturday O’Reilly and ARCA doubleheader.
• 4-Day package: reserved seats for the Daytona 500, the Saturday doubleheader, the Friday Truck race and the Thursday Duels.
• Trioval Club, sold as 2-Day and 4-Day packages: reserved 21-inch seats facing the start/finish line in sections 340 to 362, 440 to 444 and 458 to 462, with a private open-air bar and patio.

Qualifying on Wednesday and the Clash on 13 February are sold as separate tickets.

Prices are not listed on the speedway’s pages. They appear only inside the Ticketmaster checkout, which was not readable for this page. Buy from the speedway’s links rather than a resale site, so the weather exchange policy below applies.

Add-ons sold alongside a ticket: Hard Rock Bet Fanzone and pre-race access, parking, and scanner rental. NASCAR ONE fueled by Elevate is the premium package with garage and pit passes. On Location is the speedway’s official travel package provider.

Fanzone and pre-race

The Hard Rock Bet Fanzone is an add-on, not a ticket on its own. You need a daily admission ticket as well. Kids 12 and under must be with a paid adult.

For the Daytona 500, the Fanzone pass covers the pre-race concert, driver introductions from the front row, driver Q&As, a look into the garage as cars are prepared, and the chance to sign the start/finish line. The speedway sells a Sunday pass, a Saturday pass, a Thursday pass and a 4-day Thursday to Sunday pass.

Parking

Paid parking near the track is sold in advance as an add-on. The speedway’s parking page lists free parking in Lot 7, with a shuttle, and in the rear of the Volusia Mall (Lot 8) at select events. Paid lots are 1, 3, 4 and 8, with day-of parking until full.

Reserved ADA parking is in Lots 1 and 4, general ADA parking is in Lot 6 with a placard, and motorcycles park in Lot 4A. The speedway says which lots open and their prices vary by event.

The official rideshare pickup and drop-off is near Lot 1, off the frontage road by the Cracker Barrel on International Speedway Blvd, eastbound. For traffic updates before and after the race, the speedway points to WNDB on 1150 AM and 93.5 FM.

Camping

All Speedweeks camping was reserved by 8 November 2026. The speedway runs a waitlist and says it will contact people if sites free up. Campgrounds include Orange inside Turns 3 and 4, The Shores at Lake Lloyd, Yellow, Green and Red RV in the infield, Park West RV outside Turns 1 and 2, and Horseshoe.

Pets are allowed in the camping areas on a leash, but not in the venue or the Fanzone. Quiet time in all camping areas is midnight to 6am.

Before you go

The speedway allows outside food and drink at every event. Its bag rules:

• Up to two bags per person, each no larger than 18 x 18 x 14 inches.
• One soft-sided cooler per person, no larger than 14 x 14 x 14 inches. No glass. Ice is fine, dry ice is not.
• No hard-sided coolers, umbrellas, collapsible chairs, wagons or drones.
• Insulated cups up to 64 oz, scanners, headsets, cameras and hearing protection are allowed.

You can leave and come back. Scan your ticket out, then scan it again on the way in, with a new bag check. Strollers are admitted, with stroller parking in the grandstands. Frontstretch seating is smoke free, including e-cigarettes. Tune a radio to FM 107.9 for the public address system.

If the race is postponed, the speedway’s Weather Protection Program lets you exchange regular grandstand tickets bought from the track. Daytona 500 tickets are the only ones that can move to the same race the following year. There are no cash refunds.

A few weeks earlier, the same speedway hosts the Rolex 24 At Daytona, 28 to 31 January 2027.

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