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 ...

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 ...

After tomorrow’s Daytona ... driver in NASCAR Cup Series history to win the crown jewel event in back-to-back seasons (2019, 2020), etching his name alongside Richard Petty, Cale Yarborough ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Daytona 500 is NASCAR's marquee event. Find out more about their yearly top races -- otherwise known as crown jewels.

As most fans know, those four words helped put NASCAR on the map. CBS commentator Ken Squier was calling the action on the 1979 Daytona 500 television broadcast when Cale Yarborough and the ...

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 ...