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The 1979 Daytona 500 was the first 500-mile race to be broadcast in its entirety live on national television in the United States. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Races were shown on television, but the Indianapolis 500 , for example, was broadcast on tape delay later in the evening on the day it was run in this era and usually in edited form.
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 ]
Richard Petty, the 1979 NASCAR Winston Cup Series Champion. This would be the final of his 7 championships. Darrell Waltrip finished second in the standings Dale Earnhardt, the 1979 rookie of the year. The 1979 NASCAR Winston Cup Series was the 31st season of professional stock car racing in the United States and the 8th modern-era Cup series ...
Here is the all-time winners list for the NASCAR Daytona 500, which starts each season and began in 1959. ... 1979: Richard Petty. 1978: Bobby Allison. 1977: Cale Yarborough.
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. won the Daytona 500 in 2023. Here's the history of NASCAR's "Great American Race," including other past winners. ... 1979: Richard Petty (6) 1978: Bobby Allison. 1977: Cale ...
For Bobby Allison, the Daytona 500 prior to the 1978 race was not kind to him, in fact he came to the race with a 67-race winless streak but with 11 laps remaining, he pushed his Bud Moore Ford around Buddy Baker to take the lead and never look back as he captured his first Daytona 500 win. The 1979 Daytona 500 was the first 500-mile (800 km ...
In perhaps the most famous and most well known NASCAR race, the 1979 Daytona 500, held February 18, 1979, a race that Richard Petty won, Waltrip was a pre-race favorite to win the race. As the first NASCAR race covered "flag to flag" on national television, Cale Yarborough , and Donnie Allison , while battling for the lead on the last lap, came ...
Longtime NASCAR announcer Ken Squier died Wednesday. He was 88. Squier is the most recognizable voice and face in NASCAR television history. He was the announcer for the 1979 Daytona 500, the race ...