"For 68 years, the world's greatest stock car racers have descended upon the white sands of eastern Florida to compete for the most coveted checkered flag their sport has to offer. Actually, they have come here for much longer than that -- high-horsepower machinery first started barreling down the actual sands of the actual beach all the way back in 1902."
"Much like last weekend's big NFL game in Santa Clara, a sizable percentage of this weekend's audience will be those who watch only one NASCAR race per year. Perhaps you are one of those people. Or perhaps you are one of my people, who have a bronze Richard Petty bust on their desk (I totally do) and describes the result of any and all failures around the house as "it done blowed up.""
High-horsepower cars first barreled down the sands of Daytona Beach in 1902. In 1959 Bill France rounded up bulldozers and constructed a 2.5-mile D-shaped oval with 31 degrees of banking, stacked 40 feet wide and 20 feet tall, moving racing inland and creating the Daytona 500. The event has become NASCAR's most coveted checkered-flag race. A sizable portion of the audience watches only this single NASCAR race each year. Pre-race conversations with drivers produced five frequently mentioned favorites who also top betting odds. Casual fans often adopt vintage shirts, garage rituals, and simple cheat-sheet facts to follow the action.
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