The Greatest Daytona 500 Finishes on a Squares Board

The Daytona 500 has produced some of the most dramatic finishes in racing history. Lead changes on the last lap, photo finishes, and overtime restarts. Each one would have sent a squares pool into chaos.

Cale Yarborough and Donnie Allison crashed on the last lap. Richard Petty won. Then Yarborough and Bobby Allison got in a fistfight on national TV. It was the race that put NASCAR on the map.

Six months after losing his father in the 2001 Daytona 500, Dale Earnhardt Jr. won the July race at Daytona. The 500 itself that year was won by Michael Waltrip, Dale Sr.'s teammate.

The closest finish in Daytona 500 history. Hamlin beat Martin Truex Jr. by hundredths of a second. Both were in the same pit stall area, both racing for Joe Gibbs. A squares board would have flipped in the final feet.

Every one of these races is in the replay archive. Watch the car numbers move across the board and see which squares would have won.