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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]
Travis Kvapil started racing at Rockford at age 16 and was the 1994 track champion in the American Short Tracker division. [11] Rich Bickle was the track's sportsman rookie of the year in 1980. [12] Several notable people started their racing careers at Rockford. NASCAR crew chief Chad Knaus was his father's crew chief for his championship race ...
This Daytona 500 winner raced at Rockford Speedway in his early racing days, then went on to become one of the most famous Sprint Cup drivers in the world. Matt Kenseth's son Ross also raced at ...
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 ...
The Harley J. Earl Trophy is named after General Motors car designer Harley Earl.Earl, the second commissioner of NASCAR, was the designer of the Chevrolet Corvette; [1] his Firebird I concept car provides the basis of the automobile that sits atop the trophy; [2] the car is often misidentified as Sir Malcolm Campbell's "Blue Bird" land speed record car. [3]
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
During the start of the 1974 NASCAR season, many races had their distance cut ten percent in response to the energy crisis of the year. As a result, the 1974 Daytona 500, [2] [3] won by Richard Petty (his second straight, making him the first driver ever to do it), was shortened to 180 laps (450 miles), as symbolically, the race "started" on ...
After three years of being the best driver never to win the Daytona 500, Glenn "Fireball" Roberts came to the 1962 edition race of the Daytona 500 on a hot roll, he won the American Challenge for winners of 1961 NASCAR events, the pole position for the Daytona 500, and the Twin-100-mile qualifier. He dominated the race, leading 144 of the 200 ...