Joe Jagersberger ... Born ... AAA driver 1911 & 1912.
1913
Bayliss Levrett... Born ... AAA driver from 1949 to 1952
1932
Edwin Keith "Banjo" Matthews... Born ... A NASCAR driver, car owner and builder.
1960
Junior Johnson wins the second Daytona 500 by being the first stockcar driver to exploit "drafting".
1961
Elmer Shannon... Died ... AAA driver
1965
Fred Lorenzen won the rain shortened Daytona 500 in a Holman-Moody Ford. The race was stopped after 332.5 miles and could not be resumed.
1968
Scott Sharp... Born ... Trans-Am and Indycar racer.
1971
Richard Petty led teammate Buddy Baker across the line in the Daytona 500. It was Petty's 3rd Daytona 500 win. Petty's Plymouth finished 10 seconds ahead of Baker's Petty Enterprises Dodge with A.J. Foyt third in the Wood Brothers Mercury. Foyt was leading with 39 laps to go when he ran out of gas, losing a lap in the process. Foyt unlapped himself in the final 20 laps, but couldn't catch the Petty team. Donnie Allison was leading at the time of the last yellow, but he was eliminated after his Mercury darted into the wall during the last caution lap. Petty averaged 144.462 mph.
1974
Bobby Isaac and Cale Yarborough won the twin 125 mile NASCAR GN qualifying races at Daytona International Speedway. Isaac, the 1970 NASCAR GN champion, had recently returned to racing after a retirement.
1980
Neil Bonnett and Donnie Allison won the twin 125 mile NASCAR GN qualifying races at Daytona International Speedway.
1982
Bobby Allison easily won the Daytona 500 in the DiGard Racing Buick. The rear bumper fell off of Allison's car on lap 4, prompting some to charge that DiGard crew chief Gary Nelson had done it intentionally. Cale Yarborough, who finished 22.8 seconds behind Allison in second, and his crew chief Tim Brewer were the most vocal protestors.
2000
Tony Bettenhausen Jr. ... Died ... Tony Lee Bettenhausen Jr. was one of three racing brothers and a son of two-time U.S. Auto Club national champion Melvin "Tony" Bettenhausen, who ran at the Indianapolis 500 from 1946-60 and was killed in practice in 1961. Tony Jr. drove Indy cars from 1979-93 and also competed in 33 Nextel Cup Series series events in his career, most coming in 1974 when he scored a career best 7th place effort at Richmond International Raceway. He raced in 11 Indy 500 with his best finish of 7th in 1981. He died in a plane crash that he was piloting, he was 48.
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