NASCAR: Which Driver Has the Most to Gain in This Year’s Daytona 500?

Winning the Daytona 500 is one of the greatest accomplishments a race-car driver can achieve, an automatic membership into one of the sports world's most exclusive fraternities.No matter what happens in the rest of a driver's career, a win in the Great American Race brings worldwide and lifelong recognition that no other stock-car race offers.Only 35 drivers have ever won NASCAR's so-called Super Bowl, led by The King, Richard Petty, who holds the record for most Daytona 500 triumphs with seven. No other driver has ever won more than four (Cale Yarborough).Even the man who shares the record (seven each) for most career Cup championships with Petty, the late Dale Earnhardt—who lost his life 12 years ago on the final lap of the 2001 Day...

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