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List of NASCAR Daytona 500 winners by year: Richard Petty, Jeff Gordon, William Byron
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List of NASCAR Daytona 500 winners by year: Richard Petty, Jeff Gordon, William Byron

Here is the list of all-time winners for the NASCAR Daytona 500, which runs each season and began in 1959.

Richard Petty has the most Daytona 500 wins with seven, and Cale Yarborough is second with four.

The 2025 Daytona 500 will take place on February 16.

2024: William Byron

2023: Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

2022: Austin Cindric

2021: Michael McDowell

2020: Denny Hamlin

2019: Denny Hamlin

2018: Austin Dillon

2017: Kurt Busch

2016: Denny Hamlin

2015: Joey Logano

2014: Dale Earnhardt Jr.

2013: Jimmy Johnson

2012: Matt Kenseth

2011: Trevor Bayne

2010: Jamie McMurray

2009: Matt Kenseth

2008: Ryan Newman

2007: Kevin Harvick

2006: Jimmy Johnson

2005: Jeff Gordon

2004: Dale Earnhardt Jr.

2003: Michael Waltrip

2002: Ward Burton

2001: Michael Waltrip

2000: Dale Jarrett

1999: Jeff Gordon

1998: Dale Earnhardt

1997: Jeff Gordon

1996: Dale Jarrett

1995: Sterling Marlin

1994: Sterling Marlin

1993: Dale Jarrett

1992: Davey Allison

1991: Ernie Irvan

1990: Derrick Cope

1989: Darrell Waltrip

1988: Bobby Allison

1987: Bill Elliott

1986: Geoff Bodine

1985: Bill Elliott

1984: Yarborough Way

1983: Yarborough Road

1982: Bobby Allison

1981: Richard Petty

1980: Buddy Baker

1979: Richard Petty

1978: Bobby Allison

1977: Yarborough Road

1976: David Pearson

1975: Benny Parsons

1974: Richard Petty

1973: Richard Petty

1972: AJ Foyt

1971: Richard Petty

1970: Pete Hamilton

1969: LeeRoy Yarbrough

1968: Yarborough Road

1967: Mario Andretti

1966: Richard Petty

1965: Fred Lorenzen

1964: Richard Petty

1963: Tiny Lund

1962: Glenn “Fireball” Roberts

1961: Marvin Punch

1960: Junior Johnson

1959: Lee Petty

This article originally appeared on the Nashville Tennessean: List of year-by-year Daytona 500 winners in the NASCAR Great American Race