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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 ]
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Denny Hamlin will be pushing for his fourth Daytona 500 victory on Sunday, which would tie him with Cale Yarbrough for the second-most 500 wins of all-time. Richard Petty has the most 500 ...
Daytona International Speedway is a race track in Daytona Beach, Florida, United States, about 50 mi (80 km) north of Orlando.Since opening in 1959, it has been the home of the Daytona 500, the most prestigious race in NASCAR as well as its season opening event.
William Byron won his second consecutive Daytona 500, taking the checkered flag after a last-lap wreck took out multiple contenders.
[9] [10] Michael Waltrip holds the distinction of having the longest time for his maiden victory. He competed in 463 races before he achieved his first win at the 2001 Daytona 500. [11] Petty holds the record for the most consecutive wins, having won ten races in succession in 1967. [12]