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∙ 12y agoRichard Petty won the Daytona 500 seven times.
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∙ 13y agoRichard Petty has won the Daytona 500 7 times.
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∙ 12y agoRichard Petty finished second twice in the Daytona 500, it was in 1962 and 1976.
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∙ 9y agoAs of 2015, Kyle Busch has never won the Daytona 500.
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∙ 13y agoRichard Petty won ten races at Daytona in his career, which included seven Daytona 500 wins.
Dale Earnhardt Sr. has the most wins at Daytona with 34. This includes victories in the Cup and Busch Series, IROC, the Budweiser Shootout and the Daytona qualifying races.
Cale Yarborough won the Daytona 500 four times, which is second most. Richard Petty leads all drivers with seven victories.
Richard Petty had a number of accomplishments in his career. However, his record at the Daytona 500 is certainly something to make note of. In a race that only the best are able to win, Petty sat atop the leader board seven different times and holds the record for the most wins at the track.
Richard Petty won the Daytona 500 seven times, using several different car makes.1964 (Plymouth)1966 (Plymouth)1971 (Plymouth)1973 (Dodge)1974 (Dodge)1979 (Oldsmobile)1981 (Buick)
Most of the drivers who won the Daytona 500 only won it once in their careers. Only ten drivers have won it more than once, led by Richard Petty who won it seven times.
From 1958 through 1992, Richard Petty started 1,184 races and won 200 times.
During his Nascar Cup Series career, Richard Petty won 61races starting from the pole position.
Lee Petty won the Nascar Grand National Series championship in 1954.
Over the course of both drivers careers, Dale Sr. and Richard Petty have beaten each other multiple times.
This track is a 2.5 mile track. There was 250 laps to the race in any year. How can 250 laps times 2.5 mi/lap = 500 miles The answer should be 200 laps doing your calculations of 250x 2.5 mi /lap would gives a total distance of 625 miles. You would have to change the name of the race to the daytona 625
In 1967 Cale Yarborough won the 400 and then won the 500 in 1968, in 1976 and 1977 he did it again. Bobby Alison did it 1987 and 1988; Jeff Gordon in 1998 and 1999; Dale Jarrett in 1999 and 2000; Micahel Waltrip in 2002 and 2003; and Jeff Gordon in 2004 and 2005.
Richard Petty is one of the all-time most popular drivers in the history of NASCAR. He has won NASCARÕs most popular driver 8 times in the years 1962, 1964, 1968, 1974,1975,1976,1977, and 1978.