Sports

February 16, 2023

NASCAR Daytona 500 winners year  by year

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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