O'Reilly Auto Parts 253

The O'Reilly Auto Parts 253 (formerly called the Go Bowling 235) was an annual NASCAR Cup Series stock car race held on the infield road course at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.

The 2020 running was to be the only race created to compensate for the various race cancellations caused by the. As sanitary conditions have not evolved favorably, NASCAR has decided that a second running took place in 2021.

Christopher Bell is the defending race winner after winning it in 2021.

A race in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and the NASCAR Xfinity Series, respectively called the BrakeBest Select 159 and the Super Start Batteries 188, are also organized on the same circuit on the same weekend.

History
The Daytona road race, which uses part of the oval's track (2.5 mi), is usually used during the car race of the 24 Hours of Daytona and during the Daytona 200 motorcycle race. In March 2020, NASCAR announced that the Busch Clash exhibition race would use the road course instead of the single oval.

Chase Elliott won the inaugural event in 2020 in the presence of an attendance reduced in the main stand to 10% of its capacity in respect of imposed by the pandemic. In the middle of the race, it was briefly stopped following a thunderstorm (lightning).

Although intended to be a one-off race, the event was staged again in 2021 and became the race following the pandemic cancellation of the planned Auto Club 400 at Auto Club Speedway.

The pandemic has greatly impacted the 2020 NASCAR calendar resulting in race postponements and cancellations. In July 2020, the Go Bowling at The Glen race scheduled for August at Watkins Glen International course was canceled due to quarantine measures imposed by New York for outside visitors. Faced with this problem, NASCAR chose to move this race to the Daytona road course two weeks before the speedway hosted the Coke Zero Sugar 400, Watkins Glen's race sponsor, GoBowling.com, agreeing to transfer its partnership to the new Daytona race. NASCAR has nevertheless added a new chicane to the road course at the exit of turn 4 of the oval to allow the cars to slow down before entering the first corner requiring heavy braking. . and WGI's trophy maker produced a glass trophy for the event.

The addition of this race was the of NASCAR Cup Series races that was contested on the road course in 2021, which constitutes the record in the history of this discipline.

The 2021 running was lengthened to 70 laps and 252.70 mi long. .

The company was replaced by the  company as the naming rights sponsor and was renamed the O'Reilly Auto Parts 253. .