2021 Bluegreen Vacations Duels

The 2021 Bluegreen Vacations Duels are a pair of NASCAR Cup Series stock car races that will be held on February 11, 2021, at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. Both contested over 60 laps, they will be the qualifying races for the 2021 Daytona 500.

Background
Daytona International Speedway is one of six superspeedways to hold NASCAR races, the others being Michigan International Speedway, Auto Club Speedway, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Pocono Raceway and Talladega Superspeedway. The standard track at Daytona International Speedway is a four–turn superspeedway that is 2.5 mi long. The track's turns are banked at 31 degrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, is banked at 18 degrees.

Qualifying
Alex Bowman scored the pole for the race with a time of 47.056 and a speed of 191.261 mph.

Duel 1
Aric Almirola held off Joey Logano to win the first Duel.

Duel 1 results
''NOTE: Points in italics are owner points only. The driver is ineligible because he declared points in another national series. Owner points, not driver points, will be used by NASCAR in calculating points for purposes of setting fields for the majority of Cup Series races in 2021.''

Duel 2
The race was delayed by rain. In the second Duel, there were multicar wrecks on lap 36 and with three laps to go in the race; the latter caution sent the race into an overtime finish. In overtime, Austin Dillon held off Bubba Wallace to win the second Duel.