2018 JGR Authentic Erik Jones Buy a Toyota Camry *WINNER*

Thanks to Joe Gibbs Racing, Harpoon Design is proud to present the 2018 JGR Authentic Erik Jones Buy a Toyota Camry! For a few years now, Erik Jones has been ticketed for big-league success. After winning consistently in lower NASCAR leagues and putting together bursts of decency through two seasons at the Cup level, Saturday night he became the latest racer to make Daytona’s July race his first spotlight victory. First he had to survive, which was no easy task on a turbulent night, then he had to power past Martin Truex Jr. on the two-lap overtime finish before an estimated 60,000 at Daytona International Speedway. He’s the third driver in the past seven years to leave the 400 as a first-time Cup winner (David Ragan did it in 2011, Aric Almirola in 2014). The 22-year-old Michigan native was a bundle of emotion when he exited his car in front of the grandstands and began a network TV interview piped over the track’s PA system. “Oh, boy. How ’bout that race, boys and girls?” he bellowed to cheers. “That was something else, man. I thought we were out of it, then we were right back in it.” It was that kind of night. Less than half of the 40-car field finished on four wheels. Only 13 were on the lead lap. In the 31 seasons of restrictor-plate racing at Daytona, the sight of tow trucks has become quite common, particularly in the past decade, as every race seems crazier than the last. But Saturday night’s 400-miler set a new high bar — or is it a low? — for wars of attrition. A day earlier, Denny Hamlin looked ahead to the 400 and all but promised mayhem. He earns no bonus points for his premonition because it’s not like you needed a crystal ball to suggest a restrictor-plate race at Daytona would turn violent. But even by Daytona standards, it was stunning to watch 25 cars get all or part of the first Big One on Lap 54. Some teams taped or tapped body parts together and got back after it, some didn’t.