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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 the longest time between his first and last wins, 17 years between the 1964 and 1981 races. [ 17 ]
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 ...
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
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 ...
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 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."
Petty also holds the record for the longest time between his first win and his last. He won his first race in 1960 and his last in 1984, a span of 24 years. [6] Bill Elliott holds the record for the longest period of time between two race victories, seven years between the 1994 Mountain Dew Southern 500 and the 2001 Pennzoil Freedom 400.