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  Daytona 500 tickets - Daytona 500 Auto Racing tickets, Daytona 500 NASCAR tickets and Daytona 500 schedule
Daytona 500 tickets are the gold standard of NASCAR tickets, and ABCTickets.com puts you smack dead center in the middle of the most widely acclaimed race in the world.
Thanks to television and professional marketing, the Daytona 500 is the premier stock car race of the year, bringing the thrills and violence of racing into the homes of millions.
Although the Indianapolis 500 has a larger viewing audience, in-car cameras at the Daytona 500 allow the viewer to watch the driver, the cars in front, and the cars behind from the safety of the roll cage.
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The Daytona 500 marks the beginning of another year of great NASCAR action.
All of the greatest NASCAR racers find their way to Daytona Motor Speedway in Daytona, FL for this great race with hopes to set the pace for a great winning year, and for the right to say that they one a big race in Daytona.
Daytona 500 tickets are generally delivered the week of the game.
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 Daytona 500 Tickets - Daytona 500 NASCAR Tickets
The Daytona 500 is a 200-lap, 500 mile NASCAR Nextel Cup Series race held annually at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.
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 Daytona 500 at AllExperts
The 1974 Daytona 500, won by Richard Petty, was shortened to 180 laps (450 miles) in response to the energy crisis.
The 2001 Daytona 500 was also the first NASCAR Winston Cup (now Nextel Cup) points race to be televised by the Fox Network, which covered the other major Cup events during Speedweeks, as well as the previous day's Busch Series race.
The Daytona 500 was the first 500-mile auto race to be televised live and in its entirety when CBS aired it in 1979.
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 Daytona 500   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The 2005 Daytona 500 was the perfect example of why the race is considered the Super Bowl of NASCAR, even though it is the season's first race.
NASCAR couldn't ask for a better start to its season, as the Daytona 500 proved to be racing at its finest.Known as the "Great American Race," the Daytona 500 is 203 laps of high-octane excitement, and it's the grounds on which good drivers become great drivers if they succeed.
Daytona 500 attracts up to 200,000 people to Daytona International Speedway, and the estimated television viewership is over 29 million.
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 TEC | 1998 Daytona 500
In one of the most emotion-charged finishes in the history of Daytona International Speedway, Dale Earnhardt, a seven-time NASCAR Winston Cup Series champion whose racing achievements are the stuff of dreams, did something he hadn't been able to do for 20 years.
Earnhardt, who has now won 31 races at Daytona, including this first Daytona 500, ended a 59-race losing streak and effectively hushed the talk that he couldn't drive 500 hard, competitive miles after mysteriously fling out on the first lap of the Southern 500 at Darlington last year.
Earnhardt was on hand at DAYTONA USA Monday morning for a press gathering and to meet several hundred diehard fans who braved the rainy weather, as his winning No. 3 GM Goodwrench Service Plus Chevrolet was put on display in "Gatorade Victory Lane" at "The Ultimate Motorports Attraction" for the next year.
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 Daytona 500 Tickets at StubHub!
The Daytona 500 has been running at the Daytona International Speedway since 1959 and it has grown into one of the most prestigious races on the NASCAR schedule.
Seeing it, on the other hand, can be an even greater challenge, as Daytona 500 tickets are the most difficult motorsports tickets to find.
The Daytona 500 is known as "The Great American Race." Fans have been flocking to it by the hundreds of thousands for decades, and the upswing in NASCAR popularity has only increased the focus on the Daytona 500.
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 Daytona 500 Tickets - nwtix.com/Daytona 500 Tickets - Buys/Sells Daytona 500 Ticket   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Daytona 500 Ticket prices and availability are subject to change at any time.
Daytona 500 Ticket deliveries are guaranteed no later than the day before the event unless stated otherwise, however every effort will be made to deliver Daytona 500 tickets as early as possible.
All Daytona 500 tickets will be delivered by federal express overnight unless stated otherwise.
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 2008 Daytona 500 Tickets, Daytona Tickets, Daytona International Speedway
The Daytona 500 — the Great American Race - is the centerpiece of Speedweeks, the two-week long celebration of NASCAR Nextel Cup racing at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Daytona 500 tickets are the perfect gift for a stock car racing enthusiast; the Daytona experience is one that any fan will remember long after roar of the engines has faded.
Gordon's third Daytona 500 win was no easy drive, as Nextel Cup fans come to expect from the close restrictor plate racing at Daytona, with four lead changes in the final nine laps.
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 Daytona 500 Tickets : Daytona 500 Nextel Cup Tickets @ BuySellTix
Daytona 500 tickets for 2007 bring you to the hottest racing event of the year.
The 49th annual Daytona 500 is approaching and drivers are gearing up and gaining position, or losing it in some cases.
Daytona 500 tickets are a must if winners Dale Jarrett, Sterling Martin, and Michael Waltrip are some of your idols.
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Every February since 1959, this speedway has hosted the Daytona 500, the first and most exciting race of the Winston Cup (now Nextel Cup) racing season, the race where everyone is on equal footing and has the same hope of taking home the Cup.
If the Daytona 500 tickets you are looking for are not available, please check back as our inventory is constantly updated.
Daytona International Speedway, on the Florida coast at Daytona Beach, has an advantage over most tracks in being available year round for racing events.
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 rpm.espn.com: Daytona 500 vs. Indianapolis 500
The "500" has been a Memorial Day tradition since 1911 when Ray Harroun, a mechanic, Indiana's Marmon Automobile Company, retro-fitted one of Marmon's Wasp models with what is believed to be the first rear view mirror and soldiered home first in what was then called the 500 sweepstakes.
Depending upon whether or not the East Coast gets hammered with a snow storm, The Daytona 500 may from time to time garner superior ratings to the Indy 500 but averaging the ratings 500 vs. Daytona for the past 10 years will show Indy to be a slight winner.
Comparing the Indy 500 to the Daytona 500 is a case of "apples and oranges." Both have cool nicknames -- "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing" and "The Great American Race." One marks the start of summer; the other the start of a new season.
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 USATODAY.com - J. Gordon wins late shootout for third Daytona 500 title   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — NASCAR's all-around champion, Jeff Gordon, went one-on-one with its superspeedway ace, Dale Earnhardt Jr., to win in a hectic overtime finish to Sunday's Daytona 500.
NASCAR officials are constantly tweaking the cars' specifications for Daytona and Talladega, trying to achieve the proper balance between safe racing and exciting racing at the high-speed tracks.
Gordon says the racing at Daytona and Talladega is simply too fast to bunch drivers into a tight pack for a two-lap sprint to the finish.
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 SPEED Magazine - news-journalonline.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Tensions will run high for today's Daytona 500 pole qualifying session, but the 1987 time trials were a downright frightening experience.
This afternoon's Daytona 500 qualifying session promises to be a long and tedious day for the 25 hopefuls that are not guaranteed a spot in the 49th running of the event.
Daytona International Speedway announced the posted awards for the Feb. 18 Daytona 500 will reach a new high-water mark for the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series.
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 February 19, 2006 - Daytona 500
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Feb. 14, 2006)-The Alltel Dodge team and Ryan Newman didn't win the pole for the prestigious Daytona 500, but their 2006 Speedweeks appearance provides many more opportunities for success.
Newman's teammate, Kurt Busch, was the runner-up in the 2005 Daytona 500.
The Daytona 500 will air live Sunday on NBC at 1:30 p.m., ET, and can be heard on MRN Radio.
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 The 2000 Daytona 500
Jonny Benson's bid for the Daytona 500 was dashed by a stronger Dale Jarrett and his Ford buddies.
Dale Jarrett won his third Daytona 500 under caution after overpowering Johnny Benson with four laps to go.
His latest conquest came Sunday in a wild Bud Shootout when the Daytona 500 pole-sitter emerged the winner of a race that saw Ricky Rudd finish on the roof of his No. 28.
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 Daytona 500   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Gordon could have found no better way to start his 1999 campaign than to win the Daytona 500 and that's exactly what he did.
Over the final 21 of the race's 200 laps around the 2.5 mile Daytona track, Gordon charged from 10th place, took the lead with 11 laps to go and held off Dale Earnhardt - the driver Gordon all but idolizes and who won the 1998 Daytona 500 - in a thrilling finish.
Additionaly, Gordon became the first driver to win the Daytona 500 from the pole since Bill Elliott did it in 1987.
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 Daytona 500
We found that Daytona plays well with three or four but is unbalanced with two players as each can normally control their cars a bit too well.
Daytona 500 is a double treat for the gamer - not only is it effectively a timely reissue of Formel Eins giving you most of the components needed to recreate the original, it is also a very good game in its own right.
I understand Daytona is selling well in the States, perhaps on the back of the NASCAR and Days of Thunder connection, but I would like to think it will also sell on its undoubted merits as a game.
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 The FADER Magazine - Daytona 500
A few months back, we profiled BX rapper Daytona, a young dude with a gift for wordplay (and threads) who was as eager to rap over some dancehall as an old Dr Dre instrumental.
At the time, all he had out was a white-label 12" and a single mixtape hosting gig, but Daytona's just popped up again, speed rhyming over Timberlake and Timbo's "SexyBack" (now that's coke rap for you) and releasing his first solo mixtape, Happy Land Social Club.
But laying back between takes on a couch in lower Manhattan’s Beat Box studios, South Bronx MC Daytona is crispy in a baby blue cashmere sweater, boxfresh Adidas with baby blue laces skipping every other hole and a sideways hat with camouflage trefoils in the exact matching hue.
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 Gordon Goes the Extra Mile (washingtonpost.com)
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., Feb. 20 -- There was so much crashing toward the wild finish of Sunday's Daytona 500 that NASCAR officials had to tack on three extra laps, technically making it the Daytona 507.5, to haul off the debris and still give fans the high-speed finish they came to see.
Hendrick, whose drivers have now won five Daytona 500s, spoke about the photograph that he treasures most of his late son, Ricky: It is of Ricky, then a small child, sitting on his shoulders at Daytona when Geoff Bodine won the team's first Daytona 500 in 1986.
Mark Martin and Rusty Wallace, competing in their final Daytona 500 before retiring at season's end, finished sixth and 10th respectively -- hardly what they wanted, but they ran with dignity after forging a pre-race pact to help each other in the aerodynamic draft if they could.
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 Daytona 500 Nascar Tickets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Daytona 500 is a 200-lap, 500 mile NASCAR race held annually at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Not only is Daytona NASCAR's biggest race, it is also the circuit's first race of the year; this phenomenon is virtually unique in sports.
Since 1995, U.S. television ratings for the Daytona 500 have been the highest for any auto race of the year, surpassing the traditional leader, the Indy 500.
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Crew chiefs suspended for Daytona 500 (USA Today) NASCAR took its strongest stance against cheating Tuesday, suspending the crew chiefs for Matt Kenseth, Kasey Kahne, Scott Riggs and Elliott Sadler and docking all four drivers points before the season-opening Daytona 500.
There simply are no losers, when it comes to storylines for Sunday's 49th annual Daytona 500.
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 Home - Daytona USA
Over the past 10 years, DAYTONA USA, "The Official Attraction of NASCAR," has been delivering magical motorsports memories to both hard-core race fans and casual observers through hands-on activities, challenging thrills and one-of-a-kind sights.
DAYTONA USA To Show The Documentary "Dale" During Speedweeks
DAYTONA USA, The Official Attraction of NASCAR, will show the documentary "Dale" inside the Pepsi IMAX Theatre during Speedweeks 2007.
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 Daytona 500 Tickets Daytona International Speedway Tickets
Since 1959, Daytona International Speedway has hosted the Daytona 500 NASCAR auto race, now the culmination of an action-packed, exciting two-week long festival of speed for NASCAR fans known simply as Speedweeks.
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The race is the direct successor of a race that was held on Daytona Beach itself; however, the Daytona 500 proper has been held at the Daytona International Speedway since its inaugural run.
Lee Petty, founder of a famous racing family whose most renowned member was his son Richard, won the first Daytona 500 on February 22, 1959 defeating Johnny Beauchamp in a highly unusual incident.
Qualifying is unique at Daytona for the 500, as teams actually must race their way into the Daytona 500 field, instead of taking qualifying laps.
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