Daytona International Speedway will host the 67th running of the Daytona 500 Sunday. Here is one fact about each of the first 66 races.

The Daytona 500 is a NASCAR Cup Series race held annually at ... It also featured the biggest field — 68 cars. 1961: Fireball Roberts led 170 of the 200 laps but blew an engine with 13 to ...

23XI Racing, co-owned by Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin, purchased a charter from StarCom Racing for $13 million ahead of the 2022 season, setting the high mark. Prices would continue to climb. Spire ...

“Chevrolet has been using the SS designation since 1961,” said Fox lead announcer Mike Joy during the race, “and this is the quickest one ever!” And on race day, NASCAR announced that it had installed ...

1961: Fireball Roberts led 170 of the 200 laps ... 1973: Country music singer Marty Robbins made 35 NASCAR starts between 1966 and 1982. This was his first of two Daytona 500s.

The iconic wondermill was designed specifically to go into Richard Petty's Belvedere so he could destroy the field in NASCAR ... to come out of Detroit. In 1961, Chevy created the Super Sport ...

Bristol Motor Speedway opened its “Major League Year” in grand fashion Wednesday with some of the fastest racers in both ...

Former NASCAR driver Landon Huffman took to X to criticize the all-electric racecar prototype displayed at Daytona International Speedway. Huffman mentioned burning the EV, signaling his ...

Chevrolet sold nearly 11,000 Corvettes in 1961, but fewer than 1,500 were fitteed with the 315-horsepower "Fuelie" engine.

The EV.R is based on the NASCAR Next Gen chassis with a 78 kWh liquid-cooled battery. GM’s wild prototype racer also has an advanced programmable all-wheel drive system. Chevrolet will pace this ...