NASCAR: Counting Down The 10 Closest Finishes Of All-Time
NASCAR’s 2016 Daytona 500 provided the closest finish in the history of the event. However that wasn’t the closest finish in NASCAR history, see where this year’s Daytona 500 falls on the top-10 list.
NASCAR is a fickle sport.
Sometimes NASCAR produces some boring and forgettable races and sometimes NASCAR produces finishes like what we all witnessed in the 2016 Daytona 500 between Martin Truex Jr. and Denny Hamlin. The finish between Hamlin and Truex Jr. was the closest in Daytona 500 history, which is a pretty impressive feat.
While the finish was the best in the history of the Daytona 500, it wasn’t necessarily the best in the history of the sport. In this article you will find the 10 closest finishes in NASCAR history since the invent of electronic scoring in 1993. We have also thrown in a couple of finishes that just missed the top-10 as an added bonus.
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