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[4] [8] Stewart's largest margin of victory was at the 2006 Banquet 400 at Kansas Speedway, a race where he finished 12.422 ahead of the second-placed Casey Mears of Chip Ganassi Racing, [12] and the smallest margin of victory was at the 2011 DRIVE4COPD 300 at Daytona, where he beat his KHI teammate Clint Bowyer by 0.007 seconds.
Stewart was in contention to win it, only to lose the lead to Earnhardt Jr. with 20 laps to go. That would be Stewart's best finish in the Daytona 500. At Infineon, Stewart was involved in an altercation with rookie driver Brian Vickers. On lap 88 of 110, Stewart got spun out by Vickers as retaliation for an earlier collision in the race.
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]
Richard Petty has the most Daytona 500 wins with seven and Cale Yarborough is second with four. The 2025 Daytona 500 will be held on Feb. 16. 2024: William Byron. 2023: Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
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
Tony Stewart (141–168) Dale Earnhardt Jr. (169) Jimmie Johnson (170) Scott Wimmer* (171–175) Tony Stewart (176–180) Dale Earnhardt Jr. (181–200). Led the Most Laps: Tony Stewart, 98 of 200 laps; Cars running at the finish: 31; Rookie of the race: Scott Wimmer; Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s win was the third Daytona 500 win for DEI, after Michael ...
The 2006 Daytona 500 was the first stock car race of the 2006 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series. The 48th Daytona 500 was held on February 19, 2006, at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida, before 200,000 spectators. Hendrick Motorsports' Jimmie Johnson, won the 203-lap race after starting ninth.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Tony Stewart put his NASCAR team on blast ahead of the Daytona 500 and in the wake of a winless 2023 season: get to victory lane, hang banners — or else.