No big deal, though: Byron won his first Daytona 500 in 2024 in a Hendrick Motorsports backup car. "We've won this race with a backup car, so I'm not super worried on that aspect," Byron said. No driver in 67 previous Daytona 500s has won "The Great American Race" three years in a row. "I feel like for a while it was a joke; I couldn't finish a race here," Byron said. Byron has five career victories at drafting tracks -- two at Atlanta and three at Daytona (he won the summer race in 2020).