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Daytona International Speedway

By | Published: November 18, 2017 6
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Location: Daytona Beach, Florida
Year of first Cup event: 1959
Banking: Turns (31)
Backstretch (3) and Tri-oval (18)
Length/Track type: 2.5 miles, paved (One of two tracks to use restrictor plates)
Cup events currently hosted: Advance Auto Parts Clash (held in February, non-points)
Can-Am Duels (held in February, non-points)
Daytona 500 (held in February)
Coke Zero Sugar 400 (held in July)
Most frequent winner: Richard Petty (10)
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The Xfinity Series will return to Daytona in 2019 for two races, one in February and the other in July. The Gander Outdoors Truck Series will debut at Daytona in February of 2019.

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Daytona International Speedway

2016 saw the debut of Daytona International Speedway's $400 million 're-imagining' Daytona Rising efforts -- a high-tech, first-class motor racing facility unlike anything else in the sport.

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In 1978, the outer banks of Daytona International Speedway had its first full repaving since it was built in 1958. This shows work around the outside circumference of the speedway.

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The property that was to be the site for groundbreaking of Daytona International Speedway and its completion during 1958. The inaugural Daytona 500 was held in February 1959.

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In the days prior to the building of Daytona International Speedway, racing was conducted on the actual sands of Daytona Beach. Huge crowds lined the dunes where the cars roared down the beach straightaway; others were seated in the corner wooden bleachers and along the inside perimeter of the beach-road course.

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