* Trevor Bayne became the youngest winner of the Daytona 500. * Trevor Bayne is the second-youngest driver (20 years, 1 day) to win a Sprint Cup race — Joey Logano was 19 years, 1 month, 4 days when he won at New Hampshire in June 2009. * Trevor Bayne is the second driver to win the Daytona 500 in his first start; Lee Petty won the inaugural event in 1959. * Trevor Bayne is the seventh driver to get his first Sprint Cup vcitory in the Daytona 500 — Tiny Lund (1963), Mario Andretti (1967), Pete Hamilton (1970), Derrike Cope (1990), Sterling Marlin (1994) and Michael Waltrip (2001). * The past six 500s have been won by first-time 500 victors; Jeff Gordon in 2005 is the most recent repeat winner. * This was the 98th Cup victory for the Wood Brothers; the team’s last win came at Bristol in March 2001 with Elliott Sadler. * The race set records for leaders (22), lead changes (74), cautions (16) and tied the record for caution laps (60). * Carl Edwards (second) earned his best Daytona 500 finish in his seventh start. * David Gilliland (third) picked up his third Cup Series top-five finish in his 151st start. * Bobby Labonte (fourth) earned his best finish since comign home third at Martinsville in Oct. 2006. * Regan Smith (seventh) had his career-best finish in his 96th start. * Paul Menard (ninth) earned his ninth top-10 finish in his 148th start. * Bill Elliott (12th) had his best finish since also finishing 12th in the 2008 race at Homestead-Miami Speedway. * Jimmie Johnson (27th) has finished 27th or worse in the six Daytona 500s since he won in 2006. * This was the fifth 500 to end under a green-white-checkered finish and the second consecutive 500 in which the race went 208 laps.(Sporting News Wire Service /nascar.com)(2-20-2011)
