Four times in the past six years, the Daytona 500 has dealt with rain. Over the past four-plus decades of the race, things ...

Daytona International Speedway will host the 67th running of the Daytona 500 Sunday. Here is one fact about each of the first 66 races.

DAYTONA BEACH — The seventh Daytona 500, in 1965, was dramatically shortened by rain — just 133 of 200 laps were completed before rain halted things and Fred Lorenzen left with the wet trophy.

1964: Richard Petty cruised to his first Daytona 500 victory by leading 184 laps, a record that still stands. 1965: For the first time, the race did not span 500 miles due to rain. That year ...

Ford Motor Company While Ford's Total Performance campaign of the Sixties won big victories in NASCAR and the Indy 500 in partnership ... and prepare two for the 1965 Daytona Continental 2000 ...