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The 1967 24 Hours of Daytona was an endurance sports car race that took place on 4 and 5 February 1967 at the 3.8-mile (6.1 km) Daytona International Speedway road course in Daytona Beach, Florida. It was the sixth running of the Daytona Continental endurance race, and the second time the event was held as a 24-hour race.
SR 483 / CR 483 at Daytona Beach: SR A1A at Daytona Beach: George W. Engram Boulevard; Fairview Avenue; Main Street — — Crosses Halifax River via Main Street Bridge. CR 4047 — — US 17 north of DeLand: SR 11: Marsh Road — — East side of DeLand Municipal Airport. CR 4050 — — SR 5A at Daytona Beach: SR A1A at Daytona Beach: Orange ...
Since its opening in 1959, Daytona International Speedway has seen 41 on-track fatalities: 24 car drivers, 12 motorcyclists, 3 go-kart drivers, 1 powerboat racer, and 1 track worker. The most notable death was that of Dale Earnhardt, who was killed on the last lap of the Daytona 500 on February 18, 2001.
While competing the inaugural Daytona 250 Truck Series race at Daytona International Speedway, on February 18, 2000, Bodine was involved in a vicious, fiery accident on the 57th lap of the race while driving the No. 15 Ford F-150 for Billy Ballew.
Daytona Beach is a coastal resort city in Volusia County, Florida, United States.Located on the East Coast of the United States, its population was 72,647 at the 2020 census.
The Fresh From Florida 250 is the first race of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season at Daytona International Speedway and as of 2004 has been held under the lights. It is the Truck Series event of Speedweeks – the series of races leading up to the Daytona 500 .
Area codes 850 and 448 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan for the Florida panhandle, including Pensacola, Tallahassee and Panama City. [1] Area code 850 was created in 1997 in a split from 904, and area code 448 was assigned as a second code to the same area in an overlay plan in 2019; mandatory ten-digit local dialing began in May 2021.
The first name it was given was Sholtz Field, after the then Governor of Florida, who was from Daytona Beach. The airport began with two gravel runways, one 1,800 feet (550 m) long and one 2,100 feet (640 m). Before long the name became Daytona Beach Municipal Airport. [3] Eastern Air Lines began passenger service, flying Kingbirds and Condors ...