Wheatley Vodka Clash

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The Wheatley Vodka Clash is an annual non-championship pre-season NASCAR Cup Series exhibition event held in February before the season-opening Daytona 500. The event was held each year at Daytona International Speedway from the race's inception in 1979 until 2021, after which it was moved to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in 2022 as part of launching the seventh-generation chassis. In 2025, the Clash was moved to Bowman Gray Stadium before being placed back at Daytona in 2027. Previously at Daytona, the race, along with the ARCA Menards Series' season-opening General Tire 200, served as the kickoff events for Daytona Speedweeks. The event is one of two non-points races on the Cup Series schedule, the other being the NASCAR All-Star Race. The event has been sponsored by Anheuser-Busch (which owns the Busch Beer and Budweiser brands) for most of its history. In 2013, Anheuser-Busch moved their Daytona Speedweeks race sponsorship to the Duel races after the departure of longtime Duel title...

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