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William Byron ends Hendrick Motorsports' nine-year Daytona 500 drought by hanging on to win after avoiding a crash just as the white flag comes out.
2013 Daytona 500; Race details [1] [2] [3] Race 1 of 36 in the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series: Date: February 24, 2013 () Location: Daytona International Speedway Daytona Beach, Florida, U.S. Course: Permanent racing facility 2.5 mi (4.023 km) Distance: 200 laps, 500 mi (804.672 km) Weather
Typical three-wide pack during the 2021 Daytona 500. Five-wide pack at Talladega Superspeedway during the 2019 GEICO 500. Until the 2000s, massive crashes were referred to as "major" [1] [2] [3] or "terrific" [4] crashes. By the mid-1990s, competitors and media began taking note of the multi-car wrecks at Daytona and Talladega.
Defending NASCAR Cup Champion Ryan Blaney finds himself in a backup car to start the Daytona 500 on Sunday. The champ is not taking Superspeedway crash lightly.
The Daytona 500 big one came with eight laps to go. Eighteen cars, including Denny Hamlin and pole sitter Joey Logano included in wreck.
The 2013 Budweiser Duels were a pair of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car races that were held on February 21, 2013, at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. Both contested over 60 laps, were the qualifying races for the 2013 Daytona 500. The first race was won by Kevin Harvick for the Richard Childress Racing team.
The majority of the Daytona 500 was incident-free. There were no crashes in between the two wrecks in the final 10 laps of the race and a crash that happened on the fifth lap of the race.
Since 1996, [21] [22] U.S. television ratings for the Daytona 500 have been the highest for any auto race of the year, surpassing the traditional leader, the Indianapolis 500. The 2006 Daytona 500 attracted the sixth largest average live global TV audience of any sporting event that year with 20 million viewers. [23]