Lee Petty[?] won the first Daytona 500 on February 22, 1959.
Daytona 500 winners:
... coniferous. The Ayan spruce[?] (Abies ayanensis), the Sakhalin fir[?] (Abies sachalensis) and the Daurian larch[?] are the chief trees; on the upper parts of the ...