In 1960 Daytona Superspeedway hosted this sportsman race. 68 cars entered into the race, back then there were a maximum of 68 cars in a superspeedway race. Coming out of turn four 37 cars get into a massive wreck where at least six cars get on their roofs. Amazingly, evryone walked away from this.
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Trevor Bayne finally made a mistake. Fortunately for him, it didn’t happen until he missed the turn pulling into Victory Lane at the Daytona 500.
The youngest driver to win the Great American Race gave the historic Wood Brothers team its fifth Daytona 500 victory—its first since 1976 with David Pearson—and Bayne did it in a No. 21 Ford that was retrofitted to resemble Pearson’s famed ride.
In just his second Sprint Cup start, the 20-year-old Bayne stunned NASCAR’s biggest names with … More
Some memories take up permanent residence. They never leave, are never displaced, never wane, so unique they be. The birth of your child. Your team wins the World Series for the first time in 56 years. Your first adult beverage. The first time you lived on your own. The first time you realized you didn’t know everything and that your parents, to your surprise, had a clue.
For Andy Lally, one of those memories would be the exact time and day when he heard these words, “I’d like for you to drive my car in the Daytona 500.â€Â   … More
For a few laps, at least, Danica Patrick’s day was going better than most people imagined: She was racing for the lead at Daytona International Speedway.
Patrick briefly led Saturday’s NASCAR Nationwide race at Daytona, but she couldn’t stay there. Still relatively inexperienced in stock car racing, Patrick struggled when it was her turn to be the pushing car in the two-car style of drafting that has dominated Daytona Speedweeks.
Unable to consistently team up with a drafting partner, she … More