Daytona 500 – 2023

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I attended the Daytona 500 this year…it is amazing! I recommend that every race fan attend this event at least once. Pack racing is not necessarily the easiest to watch given the huge size of the track, but when the pack passes your seating location, the sound and thunder of the pack is startling. My YouTube video of the event is embedded below.

Full disclosure: Kevin Harvick driving the #4 Ford for Stewart-Haas racing is my current favorite driver. 2023 is his last year and this was his last Daytona 500.

If you are interested, I took a track tour in 2022. Here’s a link to that post!

Photo Gallery

A tiger doesn’t change their stripes, so of course I attended the Daytona 500 with my camera and took lots of photos. My favorites are in the gallery below.

View of the press box at the World Center of Racing - Daytona International Speedway
View of the press box at the World Center of Racing – Daytona International Speedway
The Goodyear blimp looking down on the Daytona 500
The Goodyear blimp looking down on Daytona
Pre-race crowd on the infield before the 2023 Daytona 500
Pre-race crowd on the infield
Driver introductions on the infield before the 2023 Daytona 500
Driver introductions on the infield
Looking down pit lane during the Daytona 500
Looking down pit lane
Kevin Harvick waving to the crowd during driver introductions at the 2023 Daytona 500
Kevin Harvick waving to the crowd during driver introductions
The USAF Thunderbirds opened the show at the 2023 Daytona 500
The USAF Thunderbirds opened the show
Looking down the grandstand toward the start/finish line during the Daytona 500
Looking down the grandstand toward the start/finish line
My driver, Kevin Harvick in the 4
My driver, Kevin Harvick in the 4
Kevin Harvick driving in the Daytona 500
Kevin Harvick driving
Twilight over Daytona Motor Speedway
Twilight over Daytona Motor Speedway
The pack in turn 4 of the 2023 Daytona 500
The pack in turn 4
Chase Elliot's #9 in the pits as seen on the big screen
Chase Elliot’s #9 in the pits as seen on the big screen
A small pack in turn 4 led by the 4 during the Daytona 500
A small pack in turn 4 led by the 4 during the Daytona 500
Pit lane standing ready during the Daytona 500
Pit lane standing ready
Empty pit lane during the Daytona 500
Empty pit lane during
The Daytona 500 pack of cars coming out of turn 4
The pack of cars coming out of turn 4
The Daytona 500 pack coming out of turn 4
The pack coming out of turn 4

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