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Ricky Stenhouse's lone Sprint Cup race was last year's Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte. The 24-year-old finished a solid 11th and on the lead lap for the same No. 21 team that Bayne drove for at Daytona.

Stenhouse hopes to follow Bayne

Ricky Stenhouse knows the odds are stacked against him in the Daytona 500. But the defending champion in the second-tier Nationwide series knows unlikelier things have happened, or at least as unlikely. It happened last year to Stenhouse's good friend, Trevor Bayne.

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