A Look Back: Every Daytona 500 Winner

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The 66th running of the Daytona 500 at Daytona Int’l Speedway is set for Sunday, Feb. 18. Tickets are already sold out for the Great American Race.

The list of winners of the Super Bowl of stock car racing reads like a who’s-who of motorsports with Richard Petty leading the way with seven Daytona 500 triumphs. His first came in 1964 and his last in 1981.

Seven Daytona 500 winners (Jimmie Johnson, Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano, Austin Dillon, Michael McDowell, Austin Cindric and Ricky Stenhouse Jr.) are entered this year.

Hamlin has won the 500 three times and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. is the defending race winner.

Here’s a look back at the previous winners of the Daytona 500, which was first run in 1959, with Lee Petty prevailing in a much-publicized photo-finish.

Daytona 500 Winners

2023 Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

2022 Austin Cindric

2021 Michael McDowell

2020 Denny Hamlin

Dale Earnhardt Jr. after winning the 2014 Daytona 500. (Tom Pennington/Getty Images)

2019 Denny Hamlin

2018 Austin Dillon

2017 Kurt Busch

2016 Denny Hamlin

2015 Joey Logano

2014 Dale Earnhardt Jr.

2013 Jimmie Johnson

2012 Matt Kenseth

2011 Trevor Bayne

2010 Jamie McMurray

2009 Matt Kenseth

2008 Ryan Newman

2007 Kevin Harvick

2006 Jimmie Johnson

2005 Jeff Gordon

Getty Images — Jeff Gordon, driver of the No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet, celebrates by performing a burnout on the front stretch after winning the Daytona 500 at the Daytona Int’l Speedway. (NASCAR photo)

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 Derrike Cope

1989 Darrell Waltrip

1988 Bobby Allison

S Dw1 14 12 — Darrell Waltrip en route to winning his lone Daytona 500. (SPEED SPORT Archives photo)

1987 Bill Elliott

1986 Geoff Bodine

1985 Bill Elliott

1984 Cale Yarborough

1983 Cale Yarborough

1982 Bobby Allison

1981 Richard Petty

1980 Buddy Baker

1979 Richard Petty

1978 Bobby Allison

1977 Cale Yarborough

1976 David Pearson

1975 Benny Parsons

1974 Richard Petty

Dale Inman 1981 Nascar Daytona 500 Richard Petty — Richard Petty’s No. 43 entry at the 1981 Daytona 500. (NASCAR Photo)

1973 Richard Petty

1972 A.J. Foyt

1971 Richard Petty

1970 Pete Hamilton

1969 LeeRoy Yarbrough

1968 Cale Yarborough

1967 Mario Andretti

1966 Richard Petty

1965 Fred Lorenzen

1964 Richard Petty

1963 Tiny Lund

1962 Glenn “Fireball” Roberts

1961 Marvin Panch

1960 Junior Johnson

1959 Lee Petty