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The 1966 Daytona 500 was the fifth event of 49 in the 1966 season, [5] which included the two qualifying races for the 500. The 1966 season opened in Augusta with Petty taking the win in the season inaugural event. Dan Gurney followed with a win in Riverside before the drivers and their teams ventured to Daytona International Speedway for the ...
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 ]
Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach: February 25, 1966 4 5 Daytona 500: February 27, 1966 6 Peach Blossom 500: North Carolina Motor Speedway, Rockingham: March 14, 1966 7 Southeastern 500: Bristol International Speedway, Bristol: March 20, 1966 8 Atlanta 500: Atlanta International Raceway, Hampton: March 27, 1966 9 Hickory 250 ...
Daytona 500: Daytona International Speedway: Daytona Beach, Florida: 194 April 5 Northwestern Bank 400: North Wilkesboro Speedway: North Wilkesboro, North Carolina: 195 August 16 Champion Spark Plug 400: Michigan International Speedway: Brooklyn, Michigan: 196 March 6/13 [note 2] 1983: Warner W. Hodgdon Carolina 500: North Carolina Motor ...
0–9. 1959 Daytona 500; 1959 Firecracker 250; 1960 Daytona 500; 1961 Daytona 500; 1962 Daytona 500; 1963 Daytona 500; 1964 Daytona 500; 1964 Firecracker 400
Daytona 500 pole position winners for the NASCAR Cup Series's Daytona 500 are rewarded with being the driver to lead the field across the start line at the beginning of the 200-lap 500-mile (800 km) race. Pole qualifying for the Daytona 500 is held one weekend before the race at the Daytona International Speedway.
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.
The first rain-shortened Daytona 500 was the 1965 event. Leader Marvin Panch and Fred Lorenzen made contact on Lap 129, as rain began to fall; Panch spun out, and Lorenzen won when the race was finally called on Lap 133. The 1966 Daytona 500, won by Richard Petty, was also shortened, to 198 laps, due to rain. [11]