Numbers Game: 2012 Daytona 500
57 – Denny Hamlin led a race-high 57 laps. In his six previous starts in the 500, he led only for 40 laps combined.
57 – Denny Hamlin led a race-high 57 laps. In his six previous starts in the 500, he led only for 40 laps combined.
The unintended move of the Daytona 500 to Monday night might have been the impetus to explore adding more midweek races to the schedule.
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The Daytona International Speedway … putting the “car” back in “carnage.”
This style of racing is dangerous, plain and simple. And wasn’t electronic fuel injection supposed to eliminate the need for a restrictor plate?
If you’re going to have to postpone the biggest race of the year to Monday night, you might as well pull out all the stops
Matt Kenseth provided a finish every fan should have stayed up for. Will this win will be enough to move him from sideshow to main attraction?
I really wish we could have gotten the Daytona 500 in on Sunday (Feb. 26), but that just gives us more stuff to look at.
After the track was finally deemed safe for racing at around midnight ET, it was Matt Kenseth who emerged victorious.
Here’s a look inside the numbers at how some of your favorite drivers and teams could make history once the checkered flag falls.