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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.
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]
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. ... 2011: Trevor Bayne. 2010 ...
Here is the all-time winners list for the NASCAR Daytona 500, which starts each season and began in 1959. ... 2011: Trevor Bayne. 2010: Jamie McMurray. 2009: Matt Kenseth. 2008: Ryan Newman.
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] Despite the big win, Bayne finished 40th the next week at Phoenix.
Denny Hamlin heads into the 2024 Daytona 500 with more wins than any NASCAR Cup Series driver in the field.. Hamlin does not, however, have the most Dayton 500 wins in history.That honor belongs ...
Allison was inducted into NASCAR’s second Hall of Fame class, in 2011. He was the 1983 NASCAR champion, finished second in the series title race five times, and a three-time winner of the Daytona 500. “Bobby was the ultimate fan’s driver,” Allison’s family said in a statement.
The 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series was the 63rd season of professional stock car racing in the United States and the 40th modern-era Cup series season. The season included 36 races and two exhibition races, beginning with the Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway and ending with the Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The final ten ...