22 Thundering Pics Of 1957’s Daytona Beach Speed Week
Daytona Beach's sands didn't hold an official NASCAR race until 1959, but you'd never know that just looking at them two years prior.
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Daytona Beach's sands didn't hold an official NASCAR race until 1959, but you'd never know that looking at them two years prior.
In 1957, Daytona Beach held its eighth annual "NASCAR International Safety and Performance Trials," featuring over 200,000 spectators and some of the era's fastest cars.
Check out some awesome photos from an event that set records and paved the way, (not literally), for the start of NASCAR at Daytona forevermore.
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