The 2020 Daytona 500, the 62nd running of the event, was a NASCAR Cup Series race held on February 16–17, 2020. It was contested over 209 laps—extended from 200 laps due to an overtime finish, on the 2.5-mile (4.0 km) asphalt superspeedway. It was the first race of the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series season.
Daytona International Speedway, the circuit where the 62nd annual Daytona 500 took place. The first twenty laps were raced on Sunday afternoon and the remaining laps (including the green-white-checkered finish) were completed on Monday evening.
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. scored the pole position.
Ryan Newman crashed on the final lap as Denny Hamlin (#11) and Ryan Blaney (#12) raced to the finish line
Denny Hamlin won the race.
The Daytona 500 is a 500-mile-long (805 km) NASCAR Cup Series motor race held annually at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. It is the first of two Cup races held every year at Daytona, the second being the Coke Zero Sugar 400, and one of three held in Florida, with the annual fall showdown Dixie Vodka 400 being held at Homestead south of Miami. From 1988 to 2019, it was one of the four restrictor plate races on the Cup schedule. The inaugural Daytona 500 was held in 1959 coinciding with the opening of the speedway and since 1982, it has been the season-opening race of the Cup series.
Aerial view of Daytona International Speedway
Trevor Bayne, driving the No. 21 Ford for Wood Brothers Racing, won the 2011 Daytona 500.
The start of the 2015 Daytona 500
Prerace ceremonies before the 2008 Daytona 500.
