Sports
February 16, 2023
By Nandini Sharma
The Daytona 500 has created monarchs, launched championship dynasties, solidified legacies, and catapulted relative unknowns into the most prominent limelight.
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Daytona 500 is started in 1959 with the first winner Lee Petty and now it happens 64 times Here are the Daytona 500 winners year by year:
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1959: Lee Petty 1960: Junior Johnson 1961: Marvin Panch 1962: Fireball Roberts 1963: Tiny Lund 1964: Richard Petty 1965: Fred Lorenzen
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1966: Richard Petty 1967: Mario Andretti 1968: Cale Yarborough 1969: LeeRoy Yarbrough 1970: Pete Hamilton 1971: Richard Petty 1972: A.J. Foyt
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1973: Richard Petty 1974: Richard Petty 1975: Benny Parsons 1976: David Pearson 1977: Cale Yarborough 1978: Bobby Allison 1979: Richard Petty
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1980: Buddy Baker 1981: Richard Petty 1982: Bobby Allison 1983: Cale Yarborough 1984: Cale Yarborough 1985: Bill Elliott 1986: Geoff Bodine
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1987: Bill Elliott 1988: Bobby Allison 1989: Darrell Waltrip 1990: Derrike Cope 1991: Ernie Irvan 1992: Davey Allison 1993: Dale Jarrett
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1994: Sterling Marlin 1995: Sterling Marlin 1996: Dale Jarrett 1997: Jeff Gordon 1998: Dale Earnhardt Sr. 1999: Jeff Gordon 2000: Dale Jarrett
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2001: Michael Waltrip 2002: Ward Burton 2003: Michael Waltrip 2004: Dale Earnhardt Jr. 2005: Jeff Gordon 2006: Jimmie Johnson 2007: Kevin Harvick
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2008: Ryan Newman 2009: Matt Kenseth 2010: Jamie McMurray 2011: Trevor Bayne 2012: Matt Kenseth 2013: Jimmie Johnson 2014: Dale Earnhardt Jr.
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2015: Joey Logano 2016: Denny Hamlin 2017: Kurt Busch 2018: Austin Dillon 2019: Denny Hamlin 2020: Denny Hamlin 2021: Michael McDowell 2022: Austin Cindric
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Hollywood icon Raquel Welch died at 82
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