It's official and final! Lee Petty won the baffling Daytona 500 Sunday. The final decision was announced last night at 6 p.m., 61 hours after Petty in his 1959 Oldsmobile and Beauchamp in his 1959 Thunderbird had raced across the yellow finish line ...
The fastest and most spectacular 500 mile late model "stock car" race ever run anywhere was also the most controversial of all time yesterday as Johnny Beauchamp of Harlan, Iowa, and Lee Petty of Randleman, N.C., crossed the finish line at Daytona ...
Rivals Lee Petty and Johnny Beauchamp, along with millions of automotive racing fans all over the nation, are still waiting today to find out who won the incredible Daytona 500 Sunday. Bill France, president of NASCAR and the Daytona International ...
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