1982: The Daytona 500 became the official season-opening NASCAR race, a spot on the schedule it still holds. 1983: Cale Yarborough ruined his car during qualifying. No problem. He went to a local ...

William Byron secured back-to-back Daytona 500 victories, becoming only the fifth driver in NASCAR history to achieve this.

The highlight of the NASCAR Cup Series season is the annual running of the Daytona 500 at the famed Daytona International Speedway. The race has produced some of the most dramatic and historic ...

William Byron was the big winner after a huge wreck reshuffled the leaderboard on the last lap of the Daytona 500. On Sunday ... and 1974), Cale Yarborough (1983 and 1984), Sterling Marlin ...

In 1983, Rudd won his first two Cup Series races and became the youngest driver to win the pole for the Daytona 500 at that time. Over the years, he drove for top teams like Richard Childress ...

Byron is just the fifth driver to win the Daytona 500 in consecutive years. Richard Petty (1973, 1974), Cale Yarborough (1983, 1984), Sterling Marlin (1994, 1995), and Denny Hamlin (2019 ...