Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida is home to some of the most important NASCAR races that exist. It is a 2.5 miles and has 168.000 fans. So not only a NASCAR facility, share of the track to it is other associations. It is the race, which most Americans know because it around so long, home: the Daytona 500 NASCAR sponsors this event as a NEXTEL Cup - Daytona 500-"the great American race".
In 2008 will be the 50th annual NEXTEL Cup Daytona 500 race. NASCAR Daytona 500 is a 500-mile race that consists of 200 round. This race of the NASCAR season will kick-off on 17 February. The winner of the Daytona 500 the Harley gets j. Earl trophy awarded. Harley was Earl j. an automotive designer, was the second Commissioner of NASCAR. The Harley j. Earl trophy is plated in gold instead of silver for the race in 2008.
NASCAR Daytona 500 has a unique qualified procedure. Top 35 teams from the previous year's competition are automatically in the current Daytona 500 - racing at Daytona International Speedway compete qualified. There are 150-mile qualifying race instead of a week before the big race and the two top drivers from the qualifications credited the 35. Other top qualifiers will fill the remaining spots on 43 and priority will be given to previous champions without a place.
The Daytona International Speedway has seen WINS exciting to his share in the course of its history. For example take the Daytona 500 victory in 1976, David Pearson where just the King beat racing Richard Petty. The two actually destroyed on their darts for the processing and both cars went into rotation. Richard Petty's car ground to a halt come out when it went into the infield. Pearson managed to get his car crossed the finish line at 30 mph. All of this excitement was only 20 meters from the finish.
The Daytona 500 has its share of the tragedies had. In 2001, Dale Earnhardt died in a crash on the last turn of the last lap of the race. Dale Earnhardt had won 34 times on this route.
It has been suggested that some car changes, so that drivers, faster to break this caused and they were in the rules after this serious race set. The changes of the car more aerodynamic and allowed more cars take the lead during a race. The idea was to inject more excitement in the race at Daytona International Speedway, as well as other tracks.
Since this race Daytona 500 on the NASCAR Datyona so popular, there is an entire Web site it dedicated to: http://www.daytona500.com it has streaming video on-it of the earlier races.
Daytona 500, the messages with Dale Earnhardt, Jr. returned the number 88 for his car in the upcoming 50th race. The number 88 is important in the NASCAR because same number used it in earlier years of his grandfather Ralph Earnhardt was. But this is not the only connection that makes the number 88 significant. The number 88 has a long list of drivers who have displayed include Bobbie Allison, Donnie Allison, fireball Roberts, and Darrell Waltrip to call the number. The number 88 is recorded in WINS, 65 and as no. 9 in the all-time the most winning numbers.
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