Completed: 1961
Distance: .533 miles
Shape: Oval
Banking: 36° turns, 16° straights
Frontstretch: 650 feet
Backstretch: 650 feet
Seating: 160,000
TailgatingDAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- There is a timelessness about the Wood Brothers racing team that's as enduring as the gold numbers on the side of the No. 21 car. After Trevor Bayne won last season's Daytona 500, many of the faces in Victory Lane were the same as those who celebrated the last time the organization won NASCAR's biggest race 35 years earlier. For decades the franchise operated out of its ancestral home in Stuart, Va., moving to the sport's Charlotte hub only when competitive factors demanded it. The team principals still bear the last name of those who founded it, drawing a direct link between the high banks of Daytona and the beech tree that's long stood over the family homestead.
MoreAlthough his qualifying time was not fast enough, McDowell still has a shot at the Daytona 500 with four spots being awarded based on the Gatorade Duels.
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