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The 1959 First 500 Mile NASCAR International Sweepstakes at Daytona [2] (now known as the 1959 Inaugural Daytona 500) was the second race of the 1959 NASCAR Grand National Series season. It was held on February 22, 1959, in front of 41,921 spectators. [ 3 ]
The idea of having two individual races to establish the starting lineup of the Daytona 500 dates back to the first race in 1959. [17] That event, advertised as "the 500 Mile NASCAR International Sweepstakes", [ 18 ] featured cars from NASCAR's Grand National division racing against cars in the Convertible division. [ 17 ]
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 ]
NASCAR added a new provision this year that earmarks a starting position for such drivers. ... and the first Daytona 500 was held Feb. 22, 1959, in front of a crowd of more than 41,000. They ...
Richard Petty reminisces about the first Daytona 500, held during his rookie year and won by his father, as NASCAR begins its 75th anniversary season.
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 Daytona 500 on Sunday will start the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series season and a new era for the series.. Kevin Harvick is retired, the last of the Young Guns era of the early 2000s. There is still ...
Allison won the 1982 Daytona 500 in spite of this. It was also the first Daytona 500 chosen to be the first race of the NASCAR season. 1983: Cale Yarborough was the first driver to run a qualifying lap over 200 mph (320 km/h) at Daytona in his No. 28 Chevrolet Monte Carlo. However, on his second of two qualifying laps, Yarborough crashed and ...