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Three-time race winner Jeff Gordon leads the field to the start of the 2015 Daytona 500. The Daytona 500 is an annual American stock car race sanctioned by the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) and held every February at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.
He averaged 161.550 mph—an all-time record for the Daytona 500. During the start of the 1974 NASCAR season, many races had their distance cut ten percent in response to the 1973 oil crisis . As a result, the 1974 Daytona 500, won by Richard Petty (his second straight, making him the first driver ever to do it), was shortened to 180 laps (450 ...
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 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.
Denny Hamlin will be pushing for his fourth Daytona 500 victory on Sunday, which would tie him with Cale Yarbrough for the second-most 500 wins of all-time. Richard Petty has the most 500 ...
Here's where that would rank him among all-time Daytona 500 winners, including Richard Petty. ... Richard Petty's record Dayton 500 wins came in 1964, 1966, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1979 and 1981. ...
Track layout. The qualifying session for pole position is held before the Daytona 500. Drivers take one timed lap to determine their time. The fastest qualifier takes the pole position for the Daytona 500 and starts on the inside of the first row; the second fastest starts alongside him on the outside, referred to as the "outside pole."
The total purse — all the money available to win — for the 2024 Daytona 500 is a record-breaking $28,035,991, up by more than $1 million from 2023, when the purse was $26,934,357.