5: Only five days to go before the 2024 season opens with NASCAR’s crown jewel, the DAYTONA 500 at Daytona International Speedway. For all the great drivers that have driven the No. 5 in their NASCAR Cup Series careers, the car number has only a single win in The Great American Race. Geoffrey Bodine won that race driving the Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet in 1986 starting from the outside pole position and leading a dominating 101 of the 200 laps.
He finished more than 11-seconds ahead of runner-up NASCAR Hall of Famer Terry Labonte who would ironically go on to win the 1996 championship in that No. 5 Hendrick Chevrolet. Kyle Larson, the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series champion, now drives the No. 5 and he is a perpetual favorite to put that back in any track’s Victory Lane – perhaps capturing his first DAYTONA 500 victory in five days. – Holly Cain
Tune-in to the 2024 DAYTONA 500 on Sunday, February 18 at 2:30 p.m. ET on FOX, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
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