Over the years we've seen several drivers from Texas make the Daytona 500 that much more fun to watch.
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Davey was as smart as he was driven. He had keen resources at his disposal. Donnie was a 10-time Winston Cup winner, famous for "The Fight," postrace fisticuffs backing up Bobby with Cale Yarborough after the 1979 Daytona 500. It shot NASCAR racing from regional obscurity to national ...
A NASCAR Hall of Famer and the 1965 Daytona 500 champion. Dec. 18. Tsuneo Watanabe, 98. The powerful head of the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest newspaper, who had close ties with the country’s powerful conservative leaders. Dec. 19. Rickey Henderson, 65. The baseball Hall of Famer ...
When he missed the season-opening Daytona 500 in February 1987, media reported that he had pneumonia. The infection most likely resulted from his compromised immune system, which was weakened by AIDS. Despite the state of his health, Richmond competed in eight races in 1987, winning two events...
Comment: Wallace is my pick to win the 2021 Daytona 500, so in theory he could be No. 1 on this list. If things don't fall into place for him in the season opener, however, expect 23XI to come out the gates prepared, but with some kinks to work out in the season's first few...
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— Four of the last five winners of the summer Daytona race got their first win of the season. — Five past Daytona winners are not locked into the playoffs: Austin Dillon, Austin Cindric, Justin Haley, Erik Jones, Aric Almirola.
Cooper liked to race cars and boats, and entered the $28,000 Salton City 500 miles (800 km) boat race, and the Southwest Championship Drag Boat races in 1965, and the 1967 Orange Bowl Regatta with fire fighter Red Adair. In 1968, he entered the 24 Hours of Daytona, but NASA ...