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 flag-to-flag network ... disqualifying his pole run and ...

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By the time CBS Sports carried the first live flag-to-flag broadcast of the Daytona 500 in 1979, the purse had grown to $538,330, crossing the million dollar mark for the first time in 1985.