While driving in the 2001 Daytona 500, Earnhardt died of basilar skull fracture in a last-lap crash at Daytona International Speedway on February 18, 2001.

At the 2001 Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on February 18, 2001, Earnhardt was involved in a car accident after the final lap, in which Earnhardt's car was pushed into the wall nose-first by Ken Schrader's car at an estimated speed of.

* 1987 – A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop restrictor plate racing the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega.

The annual national championship for Club Racing is called the SCCA National Championship Runoffs and has been held at Riverside International Raceway ( 1964, 1966, 1968 ), Daytona International Speedway ( 1965, 1967, 1969 ), Road Atlanta ( 1970 – 1993 ), Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course ( 1994 – 2005 ), and Heartland Park Topeka ( 2006 – 2008 ).

Some stock cars may reach speeds in excess of at tracks such as Daytona International Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway.

The Daytona 500 is a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series motor race held annually at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.

The winner of the Daytona 500 is presented with the Harley J. Earl Trophy in Victory Lane, and the winning car is displayed, in race-winning condition, for one year at Daytona 500 Experience, a museum and gallery adjacent to Daytona International Speedway.

Course map of Daytona International Speedway

Eventually, a stock car race was held at Daytona International Speedway in 1959.

Pack of Laydown Enduros at Daytona International Speedway | Daytona, USA

* Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach

The Volusia County Branch Jail is a modern facility, located on Highway US-92 ( International Speedway Boulevard ), approximately halfway between DeLand and Daytona Beach.

Runs along the eastern border of both Daytona Beach International Airport, and Daytona International Speedway.

The Wetherells spent that first fall and winter at Daytona Beach in the woods in an old house at what then was the northeast comer of Ridgewood and Volusia Avenue but is now known as International Speedway Boulevard ( U. S. Routes l and 92 ).

It became the Late Model Sportsman series in 1968, and soon featured races on larger tracks such as Daytona International Speedway.

The Daytona 500 is ours.

" The King ", as he is nicknamed, is most well known for winning the NASCAR Championship seven times ( Dale Earnhardt is the only other driver to accomplish this feat ), winning a record 200 races during his career, winning the Daytona 500 a record seven times, and winning a record 27 races ( ten of them consecutively ) in the 1967 season alone.

The most famous event in the series is the Daytona 500, an annual race at Daytona Beach, Florida.

The most famous might well be Mario Andretti, who is the only driver ever to win the Indianapolis 500 ( 1969 ), NASCAR's Daytona 500 ( 1967 ), and the Formula One World Championship ( 1978 ).

* The Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls, now Bethune-Cookman University, is founded.

The Daytona 500 is regarded as the most important and prestigious race on the NASCAR calendar, carrying by far the largest purse.

The race is the direct successor of shorter races held on Daytona Beach.

By 1961, it began to be referred to as the " Daytona 500 ", by which it is still commonly known.

The qualifying procedure is unique for the Daytona 500.

For NASCAR Grand National winners at Daytona from 1949 – 1958, see Daytona Beach & Road Course. Mario Andretti, born in Italy, is the only driver to win the race not from the United States.

There are seven Superspeedways in the United States, the most famous being Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Daytona International Speedway, both long.

Due to the unwelcome attention generated by their crimes and an incident where Hamilton killed a CPD detective, the gang and their women took a long vacation at a beach house in Daytona Beach, Florida, highlighted by a New Year's Eve barbecue which climaxed by Dillinger emptying his Thompson submachine gun at the moon at the stroke of midnight.

After a long campaign of cross argument and debate, both on the internet and documented at events, most notably Anime Express in 2005, an event in Daytona Beach.

The accident took place in Thousand Oaks near the Myers ' residence. While on bereavement leave, John Roberts took over for him for NASCAR on Fox coverage of the Budweiser Shootout and the 2012 Daytona 500, which was postponed to Monday night and ran into early morning Tuesday due to a two-hour long red flag.

Before too long the name was changed to Daytona Beach Municipal Airport.

The only ( non-points ) win came during Speedweeks at Daytona in the Twin 125-mile qualifying race, his record 8th straight win in the event.

On February 3 and 4, 2001, the first time in his career, Earnhardt participated in the Rolex 24 endurance race at Daytona, the event which kicks off Speedweeks at the track.

Richard Childress Racing entered the number 3 in the Daytona Truck race on 13 February 2010 painted identically to when Earnhardt drove it, but with Bass Pro Shops as a sponsor.

Shelby's first victory came on their maiden race with the Ford program, with Ken Miles and Lloyd Ruby taking a Shelby American-entered GT40 to victory in the Daytona 2000 in February 1965.

* 1936 – Daytona Beach Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.

After a historic race between Ransom Olds and Alexander Winton in 1903, the beach became a mecca for racing enthusiasts and 15 records were set on what became the Daytona Beach road course between 1905 and 1935.

Following that, the RX-7 won its class in the IMSA 24 Hours of Daytona race ten years in a row, starting in 1982.

Since 1995, U. S. television ratings for the Daytona 500 have been the highest for any auto race of the year, surpassing the traditional leader, the Indianapolis 500 which in turn greatly surpasses the Daytona 500 in in-track attendance and international viewing.

Because of inclement weather conditions during the scheduled 2012 race, the Daytona 500 was rescheduled to Monday night, February 27, 2012.

It was the first time in the 54 years of the Daytona 500 that the race was not only postponed, but ran as a night race.

Some teams must race their way into the Daytona 500 field.

Prior to 2005, after the top two cars were set, the top 14 cars in the qualifying races advanced to the field, and then between six ( 1998 – 2003 ), eight ( 1995 – 97, 2004 ), or ten ( until 1994 ) fastest cars which did not advance from the qualifying race were added, and, since 1976, between one and seven cars were added by previous year's points performance and or championship, except for 1985, when no such car was eligible for a provisional starting spot, the only time that happened in the Daytona 500 from when the provisional was added in 1976 through 2004.

The Daytona 500 was the first auto race to be televised live flag-to-flag on network television when CBS aired it in 1979, continuing to air until 2000.

From 2001 to 2006, the race alternated between FOX and NBC under the terms of a six-year, $ 2. 48 billion NASCAR television contract, with FOX broadcasting the Daytona 500 in odd-numbered years ( 2001, 2003, 2005 ) and the Pepsi 400 in even-numbered years ( 2002, 2004, 2006 ), with NBC broadcasting the opposite race in that year.