Daytona 500: Trevor Bayne and the Wood Brothers Win One for the Ages

It was a Daytona 500 for the ages—more appropriately, it was for all ages. The youngest driver ever managed to win driving a car fielded by the oldest team in the field. On Sunday, Trevor Bayne proved to every child with a dream to win the Daytona 500 that anything is possible. On the same day, the Wood Brothers proved that decades won’t necessarily marginalize a team in a sport that separates the haves and have nots by fractions of a second. Bayne was just 19 years old when he climbed in the cab of his Ford pickup last week and came to Daytona to make only his second start in the Sprint Cup Series. He turned 20 the day before the race. Just weeks before, the car he would drive in the Daytona 500 was adorned with a sticker celeb...

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