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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] It was the first race held at the 2.5-mile (4.0 kilometer) Daytona International Speedway. [4]
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.
It was the first time the Daytona 500 reached last night television. 2013: This was the first race with NASCAR's new redesigned Generation 6 body. The big highlight was that rookie Danica Patrick won the pole, the first woman to win a pole in a NASCAR Cup Series race or the Daytona 500. She also was the first woman to lead laps under green flag ...
Here is the all-time winners list for the NASCAR Daytona 500, which starts each season and began in 1959. ... Daytona 500 winners list year by year in NASCAR Great American Race. Show comments ...
JTG Daugherty Racing's Ricky Stenhouse Jr. outlasted Joey Logano and Christopher Bell in a green-white-checkered finish for his first Daytona 500 victory and his third career Cup Series victory.
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.
In the 66 editions of the Daytona 500 that have occurred as of the 2024 race, 43 different drivers have won. [13] The winner of the first race was Lee Petty in 1959, and the most recent victor was William Byron in 2024. [1] Richard Petty holds the record for the most victories with seven, with Cale Yarborough in second place with four wins. [14]
The Daytona Beach course hosted its last event in 1958 and, in 1959 the first Daytona 500 was held at the new superspeedway. Daytona Speed Week on the beach course continued through 1961 without using the adjoining public road, with time/distance record attempts held for the standing mile and flying mile in multiple classes.