Buy our Daytona 500 book Today’s driver and car: Cale Yarborough in Junior Johnson's No. 11 Chevy, which carried Cale to three straight Cup championships (1976-78) and victory in the 1977 ...

Cale Yarborough won it four times ... The Daytona 500 is the season opener race and one of the oldest races of NASCAR. The Daytona 500 is also the race with the biggest prize pool in the Cup ...

Five years later, his son, Richard, claimed the increasingly iconic NASCAR race for the first ... all-time wins leaderboard with seven. Cale Yarborough is the only other driver with more than three.

A fourth win would tie Hamlin with Cale Yarborough for the second-most Daytona 500 victories behind ... Because of the potential for rain, NASCAR moved the green flag drop from 3:11 ET to 2 ...

William Byron secured back-to-back Daytona 500 victories, becoming only the fifth driver in NASCAR history to achieve this.

Years of sporadic starts followed at Darlington until 1965 when Yarborough managed to make 46 starts in 55 races with several ...

1982: The Daytona 500 became the official season-opening NASCAR race, a spot on the schedule it still holds. 1983: Cale Yarborough ruined his car during qualifying. No problem. He went to a local ...

Just four drivers — Richard Petty, Cale Yarborough ... Byron strengthened his bond with Daytona, a track that yielded the first of his now 14 NASCAR Cup Series victories. At 27, he also became ...

This story has been changed to reflect NASCAR's decision ... 66 previous editions of the Daytona 500, five drivers have amassed three or more race wins: Cale Yarborough (four), Bobby Allison ...

Richard Petty (1973, 1974), Cale Yarborough (1983 ... champion Tony Stewart won just about everything in NASCAR but failed to win the Daytona 500. Rusty Wallace won 55 NASCAR Cup Series races ...

Christopher Bell, who has won three Cup races in a row, will start from the back of the field in Las Vegas after NASCAR ...