There have been 21 drivers to race in both the Indy 500 and Daytona 500.
Mario Andretti and A.J. Foyt have both won the Indy 500 and Daytona 500 races.
AJ Foyt made his career in an Indy car, winning the Indy 500 4 times. He also won the 1972 Daytona 500 for the Wood Brothers Mario Andretti also has won both races. He won the Indy 500 in 1969 and the Daytona 500 in 1967.
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Danica Patrick has raced both open wheel race cars in the Indy Racing League, and stock cars in the Nascar Cup and Nationwide Series.
Both are huge events, but the Daytona NASCAR race is called the Great American Race, therefore, one would consider it to be the biggest.
Technically both Alberto ascari and michael schumacher are joint on 7, however ascari won them at a period when the indy 500 was classed an f1 race, even though it was a completely different race and category. So If you ignore the Indy 500 which none of the f1 drivers raced in then ascari had 9 wins
There have been four Nascar drivers who have won both the Bud Shootout and the Daytona 500 in one year.Bobby Allison - 1982Bill Elliott - 1987Dale Jarrett - 1996, 2000Jeff Gordon - 1997
In the 2008 Daytona 500 there will be 48 drivers. See the following link: http://www.daytona500.com/content-display.cfm/cat/Contending-Drivers Actually, there should only be 43 in the actual race. 54 ran qualifying yesterday, then that field will be split in half for the Duel 150's on Thursday and the combination of both will determine the 43 drivers for Sunday
they both raced horses
The simple past and past participle are both raced.
In 1994, Bill Elliott drove the #11 Budweiser Ford for Junior Johnson, in both the Daytona 500 and Pepsi 400 Daytona races.
The most famous Indy 500 driver named Al are Al Unser Sr and Al Unser Jr. They are father and son and both have won the Indy 500, Al Sr 4 times.