In 2003, a collision with Schrader ... eventually came to a stop on the infield grass and upright. Troyer only raced until 1973, with his last the Daytona 500 that year.

Leave one hand dangling, as one Daytona 500 fan foolishly did last year, and the tip of a finger may get sliced off and lost in the infield muck. The afterparty morphed into a search party for the ...

As a one-day, in-person extravaganza, yes, the Indy 500 still dwarfs Daytona — Indy’s 250,000 spectators, give or take, is roughly double the number who fill Daytona’s grandstands and wedge into the ...