{"id":477164,"date":"2026-02-15T20:44:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T20:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/477164\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T20:44:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T20:44:28","slug":"celebrities-at-2026-daytona-500-marshawn-lynch-puka-nacua-bart-simpson-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/477164\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrities at 2026 Daytona 500: Marshawn Lynch, Puka Nacua, Bart Simpson, More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">It&#8217;s a star-studded full house at Daytona International Speedway in Florida for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nascar\/daytona-500\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Daytona 500<\/a>, and we&#8217;re keeping track of the biggest and most notable names in attendance for Sunday&#8217;s race <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nascar\/daytona-500-nascar-cup-series-feb-15-2026-racetrax-6081\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">on FOX<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">A few big-name celebrities at today&#8217;s event include comedian Nate Bargatze serving as the Grand Marshal, actor Kurt Russell driving the honorary pace car and country singer Miranda Lambert performing at the pre-race concert.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">[NASCAR: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/stories\/nascar\/2026-daytona-500-great-american-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">2026 Daytona 500: Everything To Know About The Great American Race<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">Follow along to see the other celebrities in attendance at the Daytona 500. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/live-blog\/nascar\/daytona-500-live-updates-leaderboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Watch live race updates here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">[Daytona 500: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/stories\/nascar\/daytona-500-bart-simpson-simpsons-800-episode\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Honorary Starter Bart Simpson Will Wave NASCAR&#8217;s Green Flag<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a star-studded full house at Daytona International Speedway in Florida for the Daytona 500, and we&#8217;re keeping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,187630,19546,189831,187701,634,8354,82],"class_list":["post-477164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cup-daytona-500-02-15-2026","tag-daytona-500","tag-event_preview","tag-event_recap","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-cup-series","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}