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

Buy our Daytona 500 book Today’s driver and car: In 1979, Donnie Allison nearly won the Daytona 500 in the No. 1 Hawaiian Tropic car. Thirty-one years later, Jamie McMurray carried the No. 1 ...

Bobby, Donnie and Cale throw hands in famous fight 1979: The first ... erasing it from the record books. 1985: Fan favorite Bill Elliott secured his first Daytona 500 victory.

The Daytona 500 has been the stage for some of the most ... each event has left a lasting impact on the sport. The 1979 edition introduced NASCAR to mainstream America with a dramatic last-lap ...

CBS commentator Ken Squier was calling the action on the 1979 Daytona 500 television broadcast when ... A.J. Baime is the author of seven books, including Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their ...

Amtrak has a temporary route called "the Floridian." So instead of driving to South Florida, I took a 15-hour round-trip ...

Richard Petty won the Daytona 500 in 1979 in an Olds after Cale Yarborough and Donnie Allison crashed their Oldsmobiles on the last lap while led. And Petty took his seventh championship during ...

Ron Hubbard, who founded the church based on his book Dianetics ... in a crash in the final turn of the final lap of the Daytona 500. He was 49. In 2003, nearly 200 people died and scores were ...