Records Fall at 2010 Daytona 500

Records Fall at 2010 Daytona 500


A number of records and race bests were recording in Sunday’s Daytona 500. For instance:

- There was a Daytona record 21 different leaders.

- There were 52 lead changes, which is third-most ever at Daytona.

- There were 170 green flag passes for the lead, by FAR the most ever at Daytona since the inception of the Loop Data statistic in 2005. Here's a breakdown, race-by-race in the Daytona 500:

02/14/10 170
02/15/09 34
02/17/08 77
02/18/07 45
02/19/06 82
02/20/05 29

- There were 9,450 green flag passes, the most since the inception of Loop Data in 2005.