Is a penny worth 200 laps? Dale Earnhardt fights to get his lucky penny removed from his Daytona-winning car for the remainder of the season (Andy Lyons/AP)
Penny for his thoughts?
Win gives Earnhardt special feeling for lucky coin
If a small copper penny makes as much of difference during the rest of the Winston Cup season as it did in Sunday's 40th Daytona 500, then first-time winner Dale Earnhardt might fight to get it back. FULL STORY
Earnhardt finally wins Daytona 500 in 20th try
Dale Earnhardt had challenged people to look into his eyes last week and read the determination that was there to finally win the Daytona 500.
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Tough finish for defending race, series champions
The 1998 Daytona 500 wasn't kind to Jeff Gordon and Mark Martin, two of the most successful drivers in the 1997 event.
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Crew chief McReynolds silences critics with Earnhardt's win
The first person Dale Earnhardt embraced after ending his personal nightmare Sunday with a victory
in the Daytona 500 was crew chief Larry McReynolds.
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Nemechek rules NAPA 300 in Chevy
Joe Nemechek led all but 15 of 120 laps in the most dominating NASCAR Busch Series performance
ever at
Daytona International Speedway, and won the NAPA Auto Parts 300 Saturday.
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At age 40, Daytona 500 could
produce historic firsts
The opening week of the racing season has traditionally been dubbed "Speed
Week" in Daytona.
But this year it's been anniversary week, a weeklong party celebrating
50 years of NASCAR and 40 years of the "Great American Race," the Daytona
500.
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NASCAR racing began on the beach
