Monday, February 21, 2011

Trevor Bayne Wins Daytona 500: NASCAR's Biggest Race Won By 20-Year-Old Rookie

Trevor Bayne Wins Daytona 500: NASCAR's Biggest Race Won By 
20-Year-Old Rookie Trevor Bayne Wins Daytona 500: NASCAR's Biggest Race Won By 20-Year-Old Rookie  Latest news update about;Trevor Bayne Wins Daytona 500: NASCAR's Biggest Race Won By 20-Year-Old Rookie;Trevor Bayne finally made a mistake. Fortunately for him, it didn't happen until he missed the turn pulling into Victory Lane at the Daytona 500.The youngest driver to win the Great American Race gave the historic Wood Brothers team its fifth Daytona 500 victory – its first since 1976 with David Pearson – and Bayne did it in a No. 21 Ford that was retrofitted to resemble Pearson's famed ride.In just his second Sprint Cup start, the 20-year-old Bayne stunned NASCAR's biggest names with a thrilling overtime win Sunday at Daytona International Speedway, holding off Carl Edwards after fan favorite Dale Earnhardt Jr.Trevor Bayne Wins Daytona 500: NASCAR's Biggest Race Won By 20-Year-Old Rookie  crashed in NASCAR's first attempt at a green-white-checkered flag finish."Our first 500, are you kidding me?" said Bayne, who needed directions to Victory Lane. "Wow. This is unbelievable."Unbelievable, indeed.Just one day after celebrating his 20th birthday and leaving his teenage years behind, the aw-shucks Tennessean who shaves once a week and considers "Rugrats" his favorite TV show captured the sport's biggest race.When he found himself at the front, and victory just two laps away, he never thought it would last. Bayne was content just to say he had been leading at the start of the green-white-checkered."I'm a little bit worried that one of them is going to come after me tonight," he said. "I'm going to have to sleep with one eye open. That's why I said I felt a little undeserving. I'm leading, and I'm saying, 'Who can I push?'"
Trevor Bayne Wins Daytona 500: NASCAR's Biggest Race Won By 20-Year-Old Rookie 

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