NASCAR 2020 Race 26: Daytona Coke Zero 400 SATURDAY

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Coke Zero 400
Saturday, August 29, 2020 - Daytona International Speedway
7:30pm/et
Laps: 160 - Stages: 50/100/160
TV: NBC - Radio: MRN, Sirius XM NASCAR




Track Specs:
2.5 mile tri-oval with 31-degree banking in the turns
18-degree banking in the tri-oval and 6-degree banking on the straightaways
Grandstand Seating: 101,000 [was 147,000, 168,000], with 124 suites

Pit Stalls:
Length: 28 feet
Width: 16 feet

Some Daytona Track Records & Stats

Double Yellow Line at Daytona = do not pass: In order to emphasize the yellow-line rule at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway where passes are not permitted, NASCAR has made the single yellow line into a double-yellow line. The second yellow line was painted on the inside of the existing yellow line.


2020 Daytona 500 Race Winner: Denny Hamlin, 141.040mph, started 5th
Track Race Record: Buddy Baker, Feb 1980, 177.602mph
Oldest Race Winner: Bobby Allison, 50 years, 2 months, 11 days, 2/14/1988
Youngest Race Winner: Trevor Bayne, 20 years, 0 months, 1 days, 2/20/2011
Youngest July Race Winner: Jeff Gordon, 23 years, 10 months, 27 days, 7/1/1995
Worst Starting Spot to win: #14-Tony Stewart, started 42nd, 7/7/2012

2020 Daytona 500 Pole Winner: Ricky Stenhouse, Jr, 194.582 mph, finished 20th
Track Qualifying Record: Bill Elliott, 210.364mph, February 1987
Track Qualifying Record with restrictor plate (single car run): Ken Schrader, 196.996, February 1989
Track Qualifying Record with restrictor plate (group qualifying): #24-Jeff Gordon, 201.293mph, February 2014
Oldest Daytona 500 Pole Winner: Mark Martin, 51 years, 0 months, 27 days, 2/6/2010
Oldest Pole Winner: Mark Martin, 52 years, 5 months, 23 days, Daytona, 7/1/2011
Youngest Pole Winner: Chase Elliott, 20 years, 2 months, 17 days, 2/14/2016
Youngest July Pole Winner: Jeff Gordon, 24 years, 11 months, 2 days, 7/6/1996
Only Woman Daytona 500 Pole Sitter: #10-Danica Patrick, 196.434, finished 8th

Race statistics (2020 Daytona 500)

Lead changes: 23 among 13 different drivers
Cautions/Laps: 9 for 39
Red flags: 3 (1 for weather, 2 for accidents)
Time of race: 3 hours, 42 minutes and 10 seconds
Margin of Victory: 0.014 seconds
Average speed: 141.11 miles per hour (227.09 km/h)