Daytona 500 winners by year: Every driver who has won NASCAR's most famous race

The Daytona 500 has produced kings, kicked off championship dynasties, cemented legacies, and lifted relative unknowns into the biggest spotlight.

The "Great American Race" has been held 64 times, with the patriarch of the Petty family, Lee Petty, taking the first Daytona 500 checkered flag in 1959. His son, Richard "The King" Petty, holds the record for most Daytona 500 victories, winning the first of his seven Harley J. Earl trophies in 1964.