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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 ]
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 ]
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 ...
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.
The first Daytona 500 was held in 1959 and in 1982, it became the opening event for the NASCAR Cup season. [1] The term " pole position " was originally coined in the American horse racing industry, and indicated the position of the starter being next to the "poles", which established the boundaries of the course. [ 2 ]
1959 Daytona 500; F. 1959 Firecracker 250; H. 1959 Hickory 250; S. 1959 Southern 500; W. 1959 Western North Carolina 500 This page was last edited on 12 December ...
Welborn won the pole position for the 1959 Daytona 500 by winning his qualifying race. He had 5 poles and 3 wins during the season. Welborn amassed 9 total wins in the 1950s and early 1960s driving his car and one owned by Julian Petty. He made his last NASCAR start in 1964 while driving for Holman-Moody.
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.