When you save your 2011 Daytona 500 viewing experience for a later date, you should go ahead and skip this post all together.
Still with us? This year marks the 53 Paved over the biggest race in NASCAR, and thanks to a completely new track, the event saw a record market share of 74 lead changes among 22 drivers. The new sticky asphalt also led to a lot of side-by-side race with more than a few pile ups as a result. But all this carnage was to open the door to a very unlikely winner.
Wood Brothers Racing took home the checkered flag for the first time since 1976 with 20 years old Knoxville, Tennessee native Trevor Bayne behind the wheel. Never heard of him? We are not surprised. The Daytona 500 marked only to start his second Sprint Cup Series. Bayne led in the last six rounds and successfully fought off a last minute rush by Carl Edwards to take home the $ 1,460,000 purse and become the youngest winner of the Daytona 500 While Bayne was only scheduled to run five races with Wood Brothers this year, could change this victory only to his schedule.
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