2016 Daytona 500
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The 2016 Daytona 500, the 58th running of the event, was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race held on February 21, 2016, at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. Contested over 200 laps
Daytona International Speedway, the track where the race was held, the photo above taken a year prior.
Chase Elliott scored the pole for the Daytona 500.
Denny Hamlin scored his 27th career victory in Sprint Cup, his first in the Daytona 500.
The 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series was the 68th season of professional stock car racing in the United States and the 45th modern-era Cup series season. The season began at Daytona International Speedwa
2016 Daytona 500
…International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. Contested over 200 laps on the 2.5-mile (4.0 km) asphalt superspeedway, it was the first race of the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season. Denny Hamlin won the race in a photo finish over Martin Truex Jr. The top-five was rounded out by Kyle Busch, Kevin Harvick and Carl Edwards…
Jimmie Johnson, the 2016 Sprint Cup Series champion, his record-tying seventh title
Joey Logano finished 3 points behind Jimmie Johnson in second place.
Kyle Busch, the defending champion, finished 5 points behind Jimmie Johnson in third place.
Carl Edwards finished 33 points behind Jimmie Johnson in fourth place in the final season of his career.