Mike Kelley to Ricky Stenhouse Jr: ‘We believe and we believe today’
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and his Crew Chief Mike Kelley won the 65th Daytona 500 Sunday night for JTG Daugherty Racing.
Kelley guided Stenhouse Jr. to a pair of Xfinity Series titles earlier in his career and in their first race back together, they recaptured that magic to win the Great American Race.
"We believe and we believe today."@StenhouseJr's Crew Chief @MkelleyJTG put a note with those words in the top of his rollbar so only he could see it before Sunday's race began.@JTGRacing (a team of 40) now has a @DAYTONA 500 champ. Emotional weekend for this team. pic.twitter.com/CsnMZ6ZmGc
— Alex Walker (@AlexWalkerTV) February 21, 2023
In Victory Lane, Kelley told us he wrote Stenhouse Jr. a note before the race started and it said: “We believe and we believe today.”
That belief from this small 40-person team propelled Stenhouse Jr. to break his 199-race winless streak at Daytona International Speedway. It is the fourth-longest gap between Cup Series wins in history.
