During the 2012 Daytona 500, something in Juan Pablo Montoya's car broke while he was driving around the track under caution, sending his car up the race track and into the rear of one of the jet dryers which was cleaning up the debris. Jet fuel poured down the banking of the track and a spark set the fuel on fire.
The race that followed the 2012 Daytona 500 was the Subway Fresh Fit 500. It was on March 4th at Phoenix International Raceway. Denny Hamlin was the race winner.
No, she did not. Danica Patrick's first Nascar Cup Series race was the 2012 Daytona 500.
The 2012 Daytona 500 will be on Monday, February 27th. Sunday's race was postponed due to rain.
February 18, 2012 - Budweiser Shootout (first non-points race)February 24, 2012 - NextEra Energy Resources 250 (first Truck Series race)February 25, 2012 - DRIVE4COPD 300 (first Nationwide Series race)February 27, 2012 - Daytona 500 (first Cup Series race)
The Nascar Nationwide Series race on February 19, 2011 at Daytona started at 1:15pm EST.
Yes
The Coke Zero 400 on July 7, 2012 was televised on TNT.
On July 6, 2012 at the Daytona International Speedway, Kurt Busch won the Subway Jalapeno 250.
There were 43 drivers competing in the 2012 Daytona 500, just like every other Nascar Sprint Cup Series race.
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 start of the 2012 Daytona 500 was to have been at approximately 1:30PM on Sunday, February 26th. The race was postponed due to rain and rescheduled for Monday, February 27th. The green flag waved at 7:13PM.
The 1979 Daytona 500