| If you want to see the best cars in racing today, | | | | the biggest, and it's traditionally the first race run |
| then you have to buy some Daytona 500 tickets. | | | | every season. And, in additional to all of the fun |
| And you have to buy tickets for the whole family | | | | and excitement of the day, at the end, the |
| - this is an event to share! Watching speed and | | | | winner is presented with the Harley J. Earl Trophy, |
| hearing the roar of the engines is guaranteed to | | | | and for the remainder of the year one can see |
| get your blood flowing. It's also an amazing | | | | the winning car on display at the museum, right |
| performance of man and machine. The Daytona | | | | next to the Speedway. |
| 500 brings the fastest and the toughest cars that | | | | SOME WINNERS |
| have ever been assembled, and you're | | | | Just like all races, Daytona has but one winner |
| guaranteed to see some of the best racing the | | | | every year. When you buy your tickets you |
| world has ever known! | | | | won't just get to see one of the best races run |
| DAYTONA'S HISTORY | | | | each year, you'll also witness a piece of history: |
| Before the infamous Daytona 500, and its | | | | the next winner of the Daytona 500. The first |
| amazing track and amenities, there was nothing | | | | winner of this historic race was Lee Petty, the |
| but beach and road. That never kept anyone | | | | founder of the racing Petty family. Lee Petty won |
| from racing there. It would seem that spot was | | | | the race the first time it was run, in 1959. |
| just made to be raced on. Back then, the races | | | | Like father, like son, Lee's son Richard Petty went |
| were shorter and they were held on the famous | | | | on to top the list of multiple winners of the |
| Daytona Beach itself, literally run partly on sand | | | | Daytona 500, having won it no less than seven |
| and partly on the roadway nearby. | | | | times, in 1964, 1966, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1979, and |
| In the past, the races were run at 200 mile | | | | 1981. Let us not forget the race's fastest winner, |
| intervals with stock cars. At that point in time, the | | | | who won the Daytona 500 at the thrilling speed |
| cars had wipers and radiators that were meant to | | | | of 177.602 miles per hour in 1980. Buddy Baker |
| make sure that the sand that they threw up | | | | takes that prize. Several other famous drivers |
| wouldn't damage the vehicles. Out of these | | | | have not only won, but have done so several |
| beginnings in the first part of the twentieth | | | | times, including both Dale Jarrett and Jeff Gordon, |
| century, the Daytona 500 was born. | | | | each having done so three time each. |
| TODAY AT DAYTONA | | | | If you can only make it to one NASCAR race this |
| Today, getting Daytona 500 tickets is the best | | | | year, or, better yet, have yet to enjoy the |
| way to get up close and personal with some of | | | | experience of a NASCAR race, make it this |
| the most awe-inspiring race cars of our time. The | | | | year's Daytona 500. You are guaranteed never to |
| Daytona 500 is held in the Daytona International | | | | regret it. The Daytona 500 is a living, breathing |
| Speedway, and it has been ever since it's first | | | | part of NASCAR history, and the excitement of |
| occurrence in 1959. | | | | this event every year is indescribable. You have |
| The Daytona 500 is run in 200 laps, and is 500 | | | | to see it to believe it. The Daytona 500 kicks off |
| miles, from whence cometh its name. Over the | | | | the NASCAR season, with everyone's excitement |
| course of the Daytona 500's fifty year history, it | | | | level at a peak. The cars are pristine, and the |
| has seen some of the most amazing names in | | | | celebrities are everywhere. So do yourself a |
| racing history grace its track and its history | | | | favor, treat yourself to an unforgettable |
| books. The Daytona 500 is seen by most as the | | | | experience. Buy tickets to the Daytona 500 - only |
| most important and even the most prestigious | | | | don't forget to buy enough for family and friends, |
| NASCAR race of the season. It's winner's purse is | | | | or they may never forgive you! |