Last year: Daniel Suarez edged Ryan Blaney and Kyle Busch in a three-wide finish. There were 10 cautions and an Atlanta-record 47 lead changes, alongside a pileup of at least 16 cars, the biggest in the history of Atlanta Motor Speedway. Last race: William Byron captured his second Daytona 500 win while narrowly avoiding a final-lap crash.

So we had quite a week of NASCAR action. Close races, big wrecks, and William Byron walks away as a two-time, back-to-back Daytona 500 champion. Between Wednesday and Sunday, there was a lot going on in the stock car racing world.

Denny Hamlin thought he was in the right spot on the last lap of Sunday’s Daytona 500. Cole Custer saw an opportunity. William Byron collected the checkered flag. Byron went from seventh to first on the backstretch when he slipped by crashing cars to win the Daytona 500 for the second year in a row.

Here's who won the Daytona 500, how much the purse was for this year's race, and just how social media reacted to it.

William Byron is riding high off his historic Daytona 500 win. Was it enough to boost him to the top spot in this week's rankings?