In this edition, we talk the Daytona 500. The official date of the Daytona 500 is the Sunday before the third Monday of February. The first Daytona 500 in 1959 took three days for NASCAR to declare a …
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In this edition, we talk the Daytona 500.
The official date of the Daytona 500 is the Sunday before the third Monday of February. The first Daytona 500 in 1959 took three days for NASCAR to declare a winner. There were three side-by-side cars, driven by Lee Petty, Johnny Beauchamp and Joe Weatherly, at the finish line. Weatherly wasn’t on the lead lap, and Beauchamp was originally declared the winner. But after reviewing snapshots of the finish, NASCAR founder Bill France Sr. reversed his decision and gave the checkered flag to Petty. Derrike Cope, Ward Burton, Michael Waltrip, Trevor Bayne, Michael McDowell, Austin Cindric and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. have won “The Great American Race,” while Rusty Wallace, Tony Stewart, Kyle Busch, Mark Martin, Martin Truex Jr. and Kyle Larson have not.
