What’s the difference between racing Indy 500 and Daytona 500? Drivers who have tried both explain
1 month, 1 week ago

What’s the difference between racing Indy 500 and Daytona 500? Drivers who have tried both explain

Associated Press  

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — They are the signature spectacles in each racing series, the Indianapolis 500 and all its pageantry with more than a century of tradition and milk drinking in open wheel racing, and the Daytona 500, NASCAR’s season opener run under the Florida sun at the unofficial home of the “ birthplace of speed.” Indy and Daytona. “They’re two completely different concepts of racing and I think people don’t really understand the differences,” said Juan Pablo Montoya, a two-time Indy 500 champion with seven starts in the Daytona 500. This year’s Daytona 500 field is dotted with drivers who have tried both, including seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson, AJ Allmendinger, Kyle Larson and even a Daytona 500 rookie in four-time Indy 500 champion Helio Castroneves. The energy of this race as you build up to it and as you walk out and they announce you, at least for me, it’s the same emotion for sure.” Allmendinger finished third in the 2009 and 2017 Daytona 500s, and was seventh in the 2013 Indy 500 and leading until he was forced to pit because his seatbelt became undone.

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