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shermantanktop04/03/20251 replyview on HN

I know nothing about car racing and I’ll prove it: until your comment I always vaguely assumed that the number of cars in the Daytona 500 was…500?


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paulcole04/03/2025

The 500 is the length of the race in miles. It’s 200 laps of a 2.5 mile track.