Many weeks back, Fox Sports began promoting the 2025 Daytona 500. Networks only do that with events like the Masters, Kentucky Derby and Super Bowl.

Through the 500’s first few decades ... Except in a prior era, fewer folks realized it. Big Bill France, founder of NASCAR and Daytona International Speedway, was, among other things, a promoter ...

This phenomenon covered both editions of Bill France, by the way — Senior and Junior. Buy our Daytona 500 book here Since 2003, after years of devil-may-care, we’ve had to pay attention to the ...

That wasn’t rain that delayed the Daytona 500 on Sunday, it was Bill France ... his big track built, but also handed over a bit of financial leverage to others. If that first Daytona 500 ...

DAYTONA BEACH — That wasn’t rain that delayed the Daytona 500 on Sunday, it was Bill France ... big track built but also handed over a bit of financial leverage to others. If that first ...

DAYTONA BEACH — The seventh Daytona 500 ... It was 37 years before rain got involved again, and over the years, it became ...

Since 1959, the 2.5-mile track has served as home of NASCAR's most prestigious race, the Daytona 500 — the first race on the ... the year before NASCAR founder Bill France Sr.' ...