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The first rain-shortened Daytona 500 was the 1965 event. Leader Marvin Panch and Fred Lorenzen made contact on Lap 129, as rain began to fall; Panch spun out, and Lorenzen won when the race was finally called on Lap 133. The 1966 Daytona 500, won by Richard Petty, was also shortened, to 198 laps, due to rain.
The course started on the pavement of highway A1A (at 4511 South Atlantic Avenue, Ponce Inlet A restaurant named "Racing's North Turn" now stands at that location. It went south 2 mi (3.2 km) parallel to the ocean on A1A (S. Atlantic Ave) to the end of the road, where the drivers accessed the beach at the south turn at the Beach Street approach , returned 2 miles (3.2 km) north on the sandy ...
The Daytona 500 is a 500-mile-long (805 km) NASCAR Cup Series motor race held annually at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.It is the first of two Cup races held every year at Daytona, the second being the Coke Zero Sugar 400, and one of three held in Florida, with the annual fall showdown Dixie Vodka 400 being held at Homestead south of Miami.
Here's a full list of past winners in the history of the Daytona 500: Daytona 500 history: Past winners of NASCAR's biggest race. 2023: Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 2022: Austin Cindric. 2021: Michael McDowell
Daytona Beach is a coastal resort city in Volusia County, Florida, United States. Located on the East Coast of the United States, its population was 72,647 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Deltona–Daytona Beach–Ormond Beach metropolitan area, and is a principal city of the Fun Coast region of Florida.
Trevor Bayne and Bobby Allison are the youngest and oldest Daytona 500 winners, winning at the ages of 20 years and 1 day in 2011 and 50 years, 2 months, and 11 days old in 1988, respectively. [ 15][ 16] Petty also holds the distinction of having the longest time between his first and last wins, 17 years between the 1964 and 1981 races. [ 17]
Plenty of Ass Left to Kick. Two years after the 467-hp V-8-powered RC F debuted, team Vasser Sullivan Racing brought their Lexus sports cars to the 2019 Rolex 24. The team's No. 14 car won last ...
The Mary McLeod Bethune Home is a historic house on the campus of Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida. Built in the early-1900s, it was home to Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955), a prominent African-American educator and civil rights leader, from 1913 until her death. It was designated a United States National Historic Landmark ...