It was 29 years ago this February 19 that Cale Yarborough sped to his fourth Daytona 500 victory. Yarborough’s feat is even more remarkable when one realizes that his average pole-winning time was five miles an hour faster than the 196.434 miles-per-hour time that Danica Patrick set last weekend to become the first female to ever earn the pole slot.
By the time he retired from racing the NASCAR circuit, South Carolina’s good ol’ boy Yarborough had more Daytona 500 victories than everyone but the porn-mustached Richard Petty.