Davey Allison
The 2011 Daytona 500 winner, Trevor Bayne.
Davey Allison won the 1992 Daytona 500.
The first race on the Speedway was in 1958. Racing on the sand began in the early 1900s.
The 2014 Daytona 500 was on February 23rd. The race was won by Dale Earnhardt Jr.
This race was won by Jimmie Johnson.
Cale Yarborough won the race in that year.
Lee Petty was the first Daytona 500 winner. Red Byron was the first NASCAR driver to win the Daytona Beach Road Course And the first NASCAR race was Charlotte Speedway, in Charlotte, North Carolina. Glenn Dunnaway was declared the winner, but a post-race inspection revealed that his car was fitted with illegal springs, causing NASCAR to disqualify him. Jim Roper was declared the official winner of the event.
The Daytona 500.
The tallest driver to win the Daytona 500 was Buddy Bakerat 6' 6". He won the race in 1980.Michael Waltrip, who is 6' 5", won two Daytona 500's (2001 & 2003).
This year the Daytona 500 is run in the month of Febuary. Most of the drivers that qualified were ready to go by the time the green flag dropped. The winner of the race this year was Bobby Allison.
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1959, was won by Lee Petty in an Oldsmobile