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The 2011 Daytona 500, the 53rd running of the event, was held on February 20, 2011, at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida as the first race of the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup season. Trevor Bayne , driving for Wood Brothers Racing , won the race becoming the youngest Daytona 500 winner.
The final calendar for the 2017 season was released on May 5, 2016. [8] Key changes from 2016 include: The Daytona 500 was moved back a week. The Texas spring race was moved from Saturday night to Sunday afternoon. Dover's spring race was moved back to the slot between the Coca-Cola 600 and the June Pocono race.
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.
The last three Daytona 500 winners have come from two midpack race teams and a rookie. Last season, a known excellent pack-racing veteran captured the checkered flag. FULL WEEK SCHEDULE: NASCAR at ...
Here is the all-time winners list for the NASCAR Daytona 500, which starts each season and began in 1959. ... 2016: Denny Hamlin. ... 2012: Matt Kenseth. 2011: Trevor Bayne. 2010: Jamie McMurray ...
This was the third straight Daytona 500 to be won by a past winner of the race, after Kenseth in 2012 and Johnson in 2013, and the third Daytona 500 won by a car with the number No. 88 (as Dale Jarrett won the 1996 and 2000 races with the No. 88 for Yates Racing). Thanks to the introduction of a slightly taller rear spoiler to increase drag and ...
He returned to the Wood Brothers in 2011 for a limited schedule. He won the first race of the season, the Daytona 500, to become the youngest winner in Daytona 500 history, at the age of 20 years and one day. [3] This was the Wood Brothers' first win since the 2001 season when Elliott Sadler won at Bristol. [17]
Johnson began the 2016 season with a 16th-place finish at the Daytona 500. In the next race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, he won his first race of the season and the 76th of his career, tying Dale Earnhardt for seventh on the all-time wins list. [92] Johnson finished third and eleventh in the next two events of the season at Las Vegas and Phoenix.