Daytona 500

The race is 500 miles which is 200 laps (the track is 2.5 miles) and as far as time, it usually runs about 4 hours (give or take) depending on the amount and severity of cautions.

Beer. Lots and lots of beer.

The 2009 Daytona 500 was won by Matt Kenseth, racing for the Jack Roush team.

Kenseth had been winless for the entire 2008 season. This was Roush's first Daytona 500 win after 21 years of NASCAR racing.

The Indy 500 is held annually at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The racetrack has a capacity of about 250,000 people.

With infield seating raising capacity to an approximate 400,000. It is the highest-capacity sports venue in the world.

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.

Nascar tracks are like football and baseball stadiums, they are all different in seating capacity. Some Nascar tracks, like New Hampshire Motor Speedway, can hold 93,521 in their grandstand seats. But tracks like Indianapolis Motor Speedway have 257,325 permanent seats. The difference with Nascar is that at some tracks you can hold more people with infield seating, unlike a stadium.

Dale Jr. finished 2nd in the 2001 Daytona 500. Michael Waltrip his teammate won the race. Three years later Dale Earnhardt Jr. won the 2004 Daytona 500, three years after his dad died and six years after his dad won the 500.

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Greyhound or taxi.

Greyhound standard fare from Orlando to Daytona is $20, travel time - 1 hour. The only problem is that you will have to use a taxi from your hotel/resort or home to Greyhound station in Orlando and from Greyhound station to Speedway in Daytona.

I strongly recommend to use a taxi and make sure too book your transfer in advance. The earlier you book the lower rate you get... I would recommend Star Trans transportation company (link below). I know they provide transportation to Daytona Speedway for Daytona 500 race. Or you can also use Mears.

Dale Earnhardt Sr. died on February 18, 2001, on the final lap of the Daytona 500.

The first NASCAR races Daytona Speedway were held in 1959. Lee Petty won the 500 in a '59 Oldsmobile and Fireball Roberts won the 400 in a '59 Pontiac. The winners of the Duels were Lloyd 'Shorty' Rollins in a Ford and Bob Welborn in a Chevy.

On February 19, 2012, the Daytona 500 qualifying will be televised on FOX.

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The best seats for the Daytona 500 are at whatever sports bar in town has the biggest television. Daytona International Speedway is so big a person who attends the race can only see about half of it, and it's cold outside. I love NASCAR but I wouldn't attend the Daytona 500 even with a free ticket.

For the 2010 Daytona 500, the attendance was 175,000.

The average milage for an Indy car is approximately 1.3 gallons of fuel per lap at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Since a lap is 2.5 miles, that works out to 1.923 mpg.

In the first few races every entrant who posted the entry fee and attained a minimum qualifying speed was given a spot in the field and entries started in the order that their applications were received or a random draw. Speed-based qualifying began in 1915.

The only driver who has done this was Mario AndrettiHe won the Indy 500 in 1969

He won the Daytona 500 in 1967

He become the WDC in Formula 1 in 1978

Mario Andretti won the 1967 Daytona 500.

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In the past field size was based on the size of the tracks. At one time there was over 50 drivers running at tracks like Daytona and as little as 28 running at tracks like Hickory. However, when the modern era came about and the Money got better with Winston as the series sponsor NASCAR and the drivers settled on 42 drivers for the field, as most tracks would accomodiate that many pit stalls. Again, keep in mind NASCAR used to have up to 60 cars trying to make the field and if you could get in then you could make money.

In 1989, the King Richard Petty, failed to qualify for a Race, So 3 time Champion Darrell Waltrip, who has been know to shoot his mouth off, told a national audience that it was a shame someone with the Kings status should miss a race. So Darrell proposed a "Past Champions" provisional that would allow any previous champion to be placed in the 43rd starting spot. Well in 1998, I believe, NASCAR decided to make the 43rd spot perminate. So if a past champions provisional was not used then the 43rd spot would be fielded by the next highest qualifier.

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One car for each state in the union when Nascar was formed.

NASCAR was formed n 1948 when there were 48 states.

One car for each state -- Washington is the 42nd state since 1889.

Dale Earnhardt Sr. drove the #

K-2 car when he drove dirt at the start of his racing career

2 Wrangler car at the start of his career in Nascar

3 Wrangler car when he started driving for RCR

3 Goodwrench car for the majority of his Nascar career it's also the car he died in, at the 2001 Daytona 500

It's tough to say because the Daytona 500 is the Nascar Super Bowl and more fans like Nascar than Indycar, but the Indy 500 racetrack has more seats than in Daytona. So I think more people go to the Indy 500 just because the track has more seats and the Indy 500 is the most important race in motor sports.

The Daytona 500 pit road speed limit is 55 mph.

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