{"id":352531,"date":"2025-12-18T04:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/352531\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T04:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:19:07","slug":"five-most-heartbreaking-daytona-500-losses-in-nascar-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/352531\/","title":{"rendered":"Five most heartbreaking Daytona 500 losses in NASCAR history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Daytona 500 is the most prestigious race in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nascar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NASCAR<\/a>, which means those who win it experience the highest high the sport can provide. But those who fall just short experience a heartbreak like no other. Here are the five most heartbreaking Daytona 500 losses in the race&#8217;s 67-year history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>5. Dale Earnhardt, 1990\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Had Earnhardt not been able to finally conquer NASCAR&#8217;s greatest race in 1998, this entry would easily top the list. Earnhardt, who was already a three-time Cup Series champ and superspeedway ace by the start of the 90s, led the &#8220;Great American Race&#8221; going into the final corner of the 1990 edition and had led 155 laps on the day. But on Lap 200, he encountered a flat tire in Turn 3.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Daytona 500 is the most prestigious race in NASCAR, which means those who win it experience the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-352531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}