Daytona 500 start time
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- Date: Feb 17,2008
Daytona 500 on FOX Daytona International Speedway
Daytona Beach, FL 3:15 p.m. EST
The Daytona 500 is a 200-lap, 500 mile (805 km) NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race held annually at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. It is one of four restrictor plate races on the Cup schedule. In 2008, the race will celebrate its 50th running.
The 2008 Super Bowl of Stock Car Racing marks the 50th running of “The Great American Race”, and is scheduled to be run on Sunday, February 17, 2008, celebrating the Golden Anniversary of the first race run in 1959. The race is scheduled to be the first Daytona 500 run using NASCAR’s Car of Tomorrow, which was introduced in 2007, and become standard as of 2008. The race also marks the first race under the “Sprint Cup” banner, following the merger of Sprint with NEXTEL in 2005.
The Daytona 500 was the first 500-mile auto race to be televised live flag-to-flag on network television when CBS aired it in 1979, continuing to air until 2000. From 2001 to 2006, the race alternated between FOX and NBC under the terms of a six-year, $2.48 billion NASCAR television contract. Starting in 2007, FOX became the exclusive home of the Daytona 500 under the terms of NASCAR’s new television package.
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