NASCAR By the Numbers: Day 14 in the Countdown to the Daytona 500
We are counting down the daysย until the Daytona 500ย using some fun facts.
No. 14
Number of Sprint Cup wins held by each Kevin Harvick and Ryan Newman.
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Poles won during the 1980 Cup Series by Cale Yarborough. In 1984, he became the first driver to qualify for the Daytona 500 with a top speed of more than 200 miles per hour.
Total number of races where Dale Earnhardt completed all 500 laps of the Daytona 500, which isย theย track record.
Car No. driven by Tony Stewart. Stewart has 39 Sprint Cup wins and two Cupย Series championships inย 2002 and 2005. In 2009, Stewart became the first driver/owner to win a Sprint Cup race since Ricky Rudd in 1998.
He went on to winย four Sprint Cup races andย the Sprint Cupย All- Starย Challenge that season. Most recently, Stewart has been in the news for a confrontation he had with the co-owner of the Sydney Speedway over track safety concerns.
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