The 55th-running of NASCAR's Daytona 500 is just more than a week away, but the Sprint Cup Series stars will be on-track at Daytona International Speedway beginning Friday, Feb. 15, for practice for Saturday night's Sprint Unlimited exhibition race. Then on Sunday, Daytona 500 qualifying will determine the top two starting positions for The Great American Race next weekend. We are on the ground at Daytona for the duration, kicking things off today by testing your knowledge of NASCAR's biggest event. The answers are posted below the questions. Enjoy as you prepare for another season of stock-car action.

1. What did David Pearson shout by way of explanation as he crashed on the last lap of the Daytona 500 in 1976?

2. Who is the only driver whose only official NASCAR win was in the 500?

3. What did CBS TV broadcaster Ned Jarrett call the final few laps of the 1993 race?

4. Who is the only college graduate to win a Daytona 500?

5. Who were the only father and son to finish 1-2 in a 500?

6. What team has the only 1-2-3 500 finish, and who were its drivers?

7. What team has fielded the highest number of different 500 winners, and who are they?

8. What famous driver is said to have invented drafting at Daytona International Speedway in 1960?

9. What impromptu dance did Darrell Waltrip do in Victory Lane when he won in 1988?

10. Who was driving the “third car” in the finish-line photo of Lee Petty and Johnny Beauchamp at the checkered flag in 1959?

11. Neither was born in Daytona Beach, but who are the only Daytona Beach residents to have won a 500?

12. Who are the father and son duos to have won a 500?

13. Though “successful” is a subjective term, who is arguably the most successful NASCAR driver never to have won a Daytona 500?

14. What is the name of the lake in the speedway's infield, and where did track-builder Bill France take the dirt from the lake?

15. Who was the first driver to exceed 200 mph in Daytona 500 qualifying, and why didn't he start on the pole?

16. Who was the first woman to run a Daytona 500?

17. Who was the famous photographer whose finish-line photo helped Bill France Sr. determine the winner of the inaugural 500?

18. Officially -- and that's a key word -- who won the first stock-car race on Daytona 500 weekend in 1959?

19. What year witnessed the only full-distance, caution-free Daytona 500?

20. Who are the only Daytona 500 winners to also have won an Indianapolis 500?

21. What Daytona 500 winner led the fewest laps?

22. What sports-car driver did Tiny Lund rescue from a burning car and thus earn a ride in that injured driver's car in 1963?

23. Name every pole-winner who's qualified at more than 200 mph for a Daytona 500.

24. Who are the youngest and oldest 500 winners?

25. Who was the last 500 winner to start from the pole?

ANSWERS:

1. “The bitch hit me.”

2. Mario Andretti

3. “The Dale and Dale Show”

4. Ryan Newman (Purdue University), in 2008

5. Bobby and Davey Allison in 1988

6. Jeff Gordon, Terry Labonte and Ricky Craven for Hendrick Motorsports in 1997

7. Wood Brothers Racing with Tiny Lund, Cale Yarborough, A.J. Foyt, David Pearson and Trevor Bayne

8. Race-winner Junior Johnson

9. The Icky Shuffle

10. Joe Weatherly

11. Fireball Roberts and Marvin Panch

12. Lee and Richard Petty, Dale and Dale Earnhardt Jr., and Bobby and Davey Allison

13. Three-time Sprint Cup champion Tony Stewart

14. Dirt taken from Lake Lloyd was used to form the speedway's banking

15. Cale Yarborough, who crashed on his second qualifying lap and started a backup car in 1983

16. Janet Guthrie in 1977

17. The late T. Taylor Warren

18. Bob Welborn won a qualifying race

19. The first one, in 1959

20. Mario Andretti and A.J. Foyt

21. Jamie McMurray led the last two in 2010

22. Marvin Panch

23. Cale Yarborough and Bill Elliott

24. Trevor Bayne was 20 in 2011 and Bobby Allison 50 in 1988

25. Dale Jarrett in 2000

How many did you get right? Let us know by commenting below.

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