The first Daytona 500 race was held at the Daytona International Speedway on February 22, 1959.
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The first Daytona 500 was run in 1959. The first Daytona 500 to be the first race on the NASCAR schedule was the 1982 Daytona 500.
Lee Petty won the first race at the Daytona International Speedway. It was the 1959 Daytona 500.
The Daytona 500, which is the first Sprint Cup race of the year, is 500 miles. The summer Sprint Cup race at Daytona is 400 miles.
No, she did not. Danica Patrick's first Nascar Cup Series race was the 2012 Daytona 500.
Starting in 1982, the Daytona 500 became the first race to begin the Nascar schedule.
The Southern 500 came first, the inaugural race was on September 4, 1950. The first Daytona 500 was on February 22, 1959.
The first Daytona 500 race was on February 22, 1959 and won by Lee Petty.
I think it was the 1972 Daytona 500. One of the 500's was the first fully televised race.
Dale Earnhardt Sr's first Daytona 500 was in 1979 where he finished 8th.
Daytona 500, Florida.
The first Daytona 500 was on Febuary 22, 1959. And NASCAR has been established before the start of the Daytona 500, so the answer your question...no. No, it was not. For example, for most of the time that NASCAR raced there, the now gone, Riverside International Raceway (CA), a road course was the first race of the season. There was no "Daytona 500" until the speedway was built in 1959. Even before that, the races on the beach at Daytona were not the first race of the season.
The Daytona 500 is a 200 lap race.