8 past Daytona 500 winners competing in NASCAR's 2025 season opener

Ask any NASCAR driver, and they’ll surely tell you they’d do just about anything to win the Daytona 500 — whether they’ve never won a race or have taken the Daytona 500 checkered flag before and everyone in between.

But those who have won it will also tell you it’s much harder to win than it looks.

The Daytona 500 opens the NASCAR Cup Series schedule every season, and for this year’s race, there are multiple previous winners, including a couple drivers who have won it more than once.

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Here’s a look at the previous Daytona 500 winners entered in the 2025 race, listed in chronological order of their Daytona 500 victories.