Michael Waltrip (2001)
The first known telecast of Nascar was in 1960 and it was the Daytona 500 race.
Starting in 1982, the Daytona 500 became the first race to begin the Nascar schedule.
He won three NASCAR championships and the first Daytona 500.
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Bootleggin` you have to be faster than the revenuers! The first Nascar race was held on the sands of Daytona Beach.
The first race on the Speedway was in 1958. Racing on the sand began in the early 1900s.
In the sand on Daytona beach. Yes, the beach itself.
The 1979 Daytona 500
No, she did not. Danica Patrick's first Nascar Cup Series race was the 2012 Daytona 500.
February 15, 1948 was the first organized race sanctioned by Nascar - held right on Datona Beach, The first actual nascar race was held in April of that year. Later the Nascar corp. was created in Daytona Florida.
Daytona Beach is famous as a vacation destination and for stock car racing. The Daytona 500 race is the first race of the NASCAR season.
First wire-to-wire race was the 1979 Daytona 500.