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Four drivers have won the event twice in a row, but no one has won three or more consecutively. [1] Trevor Bayne and Bobby Allison are the youngest and oldest Daytona 500 winners, winning at the ages of 20 years and 1 day in 2011 and 50 years, 2 months, and 11 days old in 1988, respectively. [15] [16] Petty also holds the distinction of having ...
Matt Kenseth held off Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Greg Biffle over the last 40 laps to win his second Daytona 500 and first Daytona 500 to go the distance. Kenseth was the first repeat winner in the Daytona 500 since Michael Waltrip's rain-shortened 2003 race. Besides Montoya's accident with the jet dryer, there were three large crashes in the race ...
The first 500-mile event in Daytona happened in 1959. Two year later, the Daytona 500 moniker was adopted and is now considered one of racing’s most well-known events. Winless in the Daytona 500
The Daytona 500 is a 500-mile-long (805 km) NASCAR Cup Series motor race held annually at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.It is the first of two Cup races held every year at Daytona, the second being the Coke Zero Sugar 400, and one of three held in Florida, with the annual fall showdown Straight Talk Wireless 400 being held at Homestead south of Miami.
Here's a full list of past winners in the history of the Daytona 500: Daytona 500 history: Past winners of NASCAR's biggest race. 2023: Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 2022: Austin Cindric. 2021: Michael McDowell
Here is the all-time winners list for the NASCAR Daytona 500, which starts each season and began in 1959. Richard Petty has the most Daytona 500 wins with seven and Cale Yarborough is second with ...
The 1967 Daytona 500 was a NASCAR Grand National Series event that was held on February 26, 1967, at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.Mario Andretti won his first NASCAR Cup Series race, and was the first foreign born, European and Italian driver to win a NASCAR Cup Series race.
It was the first time that the Daytona 500 was the first race of the season. [3] Bobby Allison would take the win in the #88 Gatorade-sponsored Buick Regal. [2] Allison holds the distinction of leading the most laps in consecutive Daytona 500s in 1981 and 1982, and then win the next year. A live audience of 120,000 patrons was there for the 194 ...