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Cale stormed past Baker on the backstretch and Ruttman drafted into second; Baker dove under Ruttman and Elliott snookered them both on the high side in a three-abreast photo finish for second. The win was Cale's third in the 500 and was also the first time that an in-car camera of a car went into victory lane before a national CBS Sports audience.
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]
First woman to win a pole in the Daytona 500 and first woman to win a pole in any Cup race. First Australian car to win a pole in any Cup race. 2014: Austin Dillon: 196.019 mph (315.462 km/h) First time the No. 3 car has gone to the pole in Daytona since 1996, and the first appearance for the No. 3 in the NASCAR Cup Series since 2001. 2015
Here is the all-time winners list for the NASCAR Daytona 500, which starts each season and began in 1959. ... 1983: Cale Yarborough. 1982: Bobby Allison. 1981: Richard Petty.
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. ... 1983: Cale Yarborough (3 ...
At the 1983 Daytona 500 on February 20, 1983, Waltrip, a pre-race favorite to win the race, drove the Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS Pepsi Challenger. He was involved in an accident when his car spun on lap 64, at exit of turn 4, at nearly 200 mph (320 km/h), as he was making an evasive maneuver to avoid rear-ending a much slower car ahead of him.
Allison only captured one championship (1983) but he won the series' top races repeatedly, taking the Daytona 500 flag three times, the Charlotte Coca-Cola 600 three times, and the Darlington ...
His 14.82% winning percentage is the ninth best of all-time and third among those with 500 or more starts. [6] Yarborough won the Daytona 500 four times; his first win coming in 1968 for the Wood Brothers, the second in 1977 for Junior Johnson, and back-to-back wins in 1983 and 1984 for Ranier-Lundy Racing.