Edit: If you're looking for this year's coverage, be sure to check out our 2012 Daytona 500 results StoryStream.
Improbably, unbelievably, 20-year-old Trevor Bayne has won the Daytona 500.
A kid who just left his teen years on Saturday won the Great American Race a day later, ushering in NASCAR's newest star. Amazingly, Bayne has no full-time ride and isn't even running for points in the Sprint Cup Series this year.
Somehow, Bayne sent the Wood Brothers' famous No. 21 car to Victory Lane, with a retro David Pearson paint scheme along for the ride.
Runnerup Carl Edwards' late charge – a push from third-place David Gilliland – was barely not enough to overtake Bayne.
There was a race record for both lead changes and caution flags resulted in one of the strangest Daytona 500s in the 53-year history of the "Great American Race."
The two-car drafts were prevalent throughout the race – as expected – and there were plenty of crashes because of it. Several star drivers were collected in early wrecks, leaving just a few solid contenders at the end.
Here are the full race results for the 2011 Daytona 500:
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Congratulations to Ford Teams
I watched all day while broadcasters pulled for GM and Toyota! NASCAR tried to screw Ford at every opportunity and I was reminded of the joking comment one of my coworkers made years ago; “Looks to me, he siad, that NASCAR may make Fords pull a camper trailer around to slow them down.” And I was also reminded of what I heard Dale Earnhart Sr. say; “These restrictor plate races are going to kill somebody one of these days.” Little did he realize that he would be that somebody. He was good in restrictor plate races, but he really didn’t like them. I don’t either. Let the drivers actually race.
by RivaRascal75 on Feb 20, 2011 6:14 PM EST reply actions
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