I Want to be a Race Car Driver - The MuscleCar Place Blog
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February 23, 2011 |
I Want to be a Race Car Driver
Bayne wins the 2011 Daytona 500 in hes 2nd Sprint Cup Race! Image: USA Today
The Daytona 500 was this past weekend, and America (and the world) can
now look in the record books and see that 20-year-old Trevor Bayne has
become the youngest winner in the history of the race. That's right. The
youngest winner, ever. To top it off, he did it in only his 2nd start
in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, and in his first Daytona 500. In
addition to that, the team he was driving for, the historic Wood
Brothers Racing team, is now a small single-car underfunded operation
that is just a shadow of it's former glorious self. The last time they
visited victory lane after the Daytona 500 was with David Pearson in 1976!
Oddly enough, the paint scheme on Pearson's '76 Mercury Montego (which
was an ugly car with a cool paint job) was identical to that on Bayne's
2011 Ford Fusion. Bayne held off the best NASCAR stars in the industry
to get the win, and as a Daytona 500 Champion his life will be forever
changed. I'm jealous of him. Big time.
David Pearson took this #21 to Daytona Victory lane in 1976.
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