All-time Daytona 500 winners
The 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season opens Sunday with the 67th running of the Daytona 500, the sport’s pinnacle event.
The race, first on the schedule in 1959, has been the season-opener since 1982. Three-time NASCAR champion Lee Petty won the inaugural event.
The first seven Daytona 500 featured seven different winners before Richard Petty, who is the all-time Daytona 500 wins leader at seven, became the first multi-champion of the series’ biggest race in 1966.
In total, 43 drivers have won the race with 12 drivers winning on more than one occasion. Eight drivers entered for the 2025 Daytona 500 are past champions of the race.
The 67th Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway is scheduled for Sunday, Feb. 16, at 2:30 p.m., on FOX, Motor Racing Network, Sirius XM NASCAR Radio (200 laps; Stages end on laps 65, 130, 200).
ALL-TIME DAYTONA 500 WINS
7: Richard Petty
5: Cale Yarborough
4: Bobby Allison
3: Bill Elliott, Jeff Gordon, Denny Hamlin, Dale Jarrett
2: Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jimmie Johnson, Matt Kenseth, Sterling Marlin, Michael Waltrip
1: Davey Allison, Mario Andretti, Buddy Baker, Trevor Bayne, Geoffrey Bodine, Ward Burton, Kurt Busch, William Byron, Austin Cindric, Derrike Cope, Austin Dillon, Dale Earnhardt, AJ Foyt, Pete Hamilton, Kevin Harvick, Ernie Irvan, Junior Johnson, Joey Logano, Fred Lorenzen, Tiny Lund, Michael McDowell, Jamie McMurray, Ryan Newman, Marvin Panch, Benny Parsons, David Pearson, Lee Petty, Fireball Roberts, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Darrell Waltrip, LeeRoy Yarbrough
FORMER DAYTONA 500 CHAMPIONS
1959: Lee Petty
1960: Junior Johnson
1961: Marvin Panch
1962: Fireball Roberts
1963: Tiny Lund
1964: Richard Petty
1965: Fred Lorenzon
1966: Richard Petty
1967: Mario Andretti
1968: Cale Yarborough
1969: LeeRoy Yarbrough
1970: Pete Hamilton
1971: Richard Petty
1972: A.J. Foyt
1973: Richard Petty
1974: Richard Petty
1975: Benny Parsons
1976: David Pearson
1977: Cale Yarborough
1978: Bobby Allison
1979: Richard Petty
1980: Buddy Baker
1981: Richard Petty
1982: Bobby Allison
1983: Cale Yarborough
1984: Cale Yarborough
1985: Bill Elliott
1986: Geoff Bodine
1987: Bill Elliott
1988: Bobby Allison
1989: Darrell Waltrip
1990: Derrike Cope
1991: Ernie Irvan
1992: Davey Allison
1993: Dale Jarrett
1994: Sterling Marlin
1995: Sterling Marlin
1996: Dale Jarrett
1997: Jeff Gordon
1998: Dale Earnhardt
1999: Jeff Gordon
2000: Dale Jarrett
2001: Michael Waltrip
2002: Ward Burton
2003: Michael Waltrip
2004: Dale Earnhardt Jr.
2005: Jeff Gordon
2006: Jimmie Johnson
2007: Kevin Harvick
2008: Ryan Newman
2009: Matt Kenseth
2010: Jamie McMurray
2011: Trevor Bayne
2012: Matt Kenseth
2013: Jimmie Johnson
2014: Dale Earnhardt Jr.
2015: Joey Logano
2016: Denny Hamlin
2017: Kurt Busch
2018: Austin Dillon
2019: Denny Hamlin
2020: Denny Hamlin
2021: Michael McDowell
2022: Austin Cindric
2023: Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
2024: William Byron
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Dominic Aragon is currently the editor-in-chief for The Racing Experts.
From Grants, New Mexico, USA, Aragon started watching NASCAR in 2004 and has been covering the sport since 2009. Aragon is a 2012 graduate of Grants High School and a May 2016 graduate of the University of New Mexico with a B.A. in Mass Communications & Journalism. Aragon has worked in local and national media, as a musician, and an educator. He is co-author of the 2024 book "All of It: Daytona 500 Champion Tells the Rest of the Story" with racer Geoff Bodine.
Aragon, his wife Feliz, and son Christopher currently reside in Grants, New Mexico, USA.
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