They need to bring back a NO-BULL style purse again, having a fan win a million dollars was pretty cool

The car Dale Jarrett used here ended up becoming re-purposed into an ARCA racer and still kept its number 88. It ended getting Dodge sheet metal on it.

Man, I miss seeing the #88 Quality Care out on the track. Hell I miss seeing all those cars/sponsors on the track.

Including the No Bull 5 Million Dollar Bonus, Dale Jarrett earned a NASCAR record $2,277,975 for winning the 2000 Daytona 500.

"Dropping back like rain through a drain" - good stuff from Buddy Baker.

Poor Benson I wish he won the race. What an amazing underdog story that would have been.

sad to see benson lose hes really a class act, but as a dale jarrett fan this was awesome!

I dont care how bad this race was, id take this race over the next years finish any day.

MAN, Jarrett and Todd Parrott were a helluva combination at Daytona and Talladega

Agreed 3000%. Could not have said that any better. And I was seven when I first starting watching NASCAR in 1997. I'm sad what this sport has become: a mainstream dictatorship that the Junior Nation rules.

Dale Jarrett’s third Daytona 500 victory

DJ raced a smart race.

One of the only 500's that made me go to sleep.... and not for a minute. I mean a while! Nice to see my favorite driver winning, but I wish there was a better race. And as much as I love Jarrett, I wish Benson would have won.

And so, the 21 consecutive Daytona 500 races to air on CBS comes to an end. Yes, they still air races that year but despite that it is the end of an long era.

Buddy Baker and Ned Jarrett in the booth.

Boring race, but I'll take this once over what happened 364 Days later =(

JB did a great job would have been awesome if he won but I'm a Jarrett fan forever

Way to go DJ!!!!!

I remember when you could pass below the yellow line to pass.

You edited out the key moment of the race, when Jeff Burton hung Mark Martin (his own teammate) out whenever Martin made his move on Benson. Burton chose to follow Dale Jarrett instead. Martin had the best car in this race and never recovered. Back then, it took 30 laps to recover from getting shuffled out in the front of the pack. Much different from today. To this day, I've never seen Mark Martin speak about this race. Outside of 2007, it was his best chance to win the 500.

Rodney J. Wise was the starter of this race.

As a Benson fan, this race was awesome. Lousy finish, but this was the pivotal movement after Roush that helped to show Johnny's potential, that and his Winston Cup win on my 18th birthday. Speaking of which, if you can find that somewhere please drop me an email

Felt bad for Benson. I think I would've been a little more aggressive with my blocking if I were him.

The finish was great.

I wish Todd Parrott would've shown some emotion...

Johnny Benson's car was turned into a coffee table in his home.

Benson is the last of his kind. he came in as a "young" 30 year old, and has real raw talent, but all nascar owners want is young guys who they let go after a year with them...its a shame

back when men were men and raced to the yellow.

Wow I still remember watching this

@cumznu This 500 was so bad, people were seen on TV taking naps on their trailers! Thats what happens when only 9 lead changes occur at Daytona.

i miss racing back to the yellow flag... that made for some great racing, though not here...

wow a year later micheal waltrip wins this race

Dale Jarrett is a great champion

Wish Spence would talk abt these performances during his little excerpts

i always enjoyed this 500 odd

I agree, ending the Nationwackers would be another plus

this Daytona 500 isn't as boring as the races we have too watch now.

thank god for green white checkerd finishes now a days i always hated when big races like this ended under caution but on the other had if we always had gwc finished earnhardt sr might not have won his 500.... but im sooo glad we have it today :)

thanks. i forgot when he retired. i thought he retired in 2000

Interesting, that pass would not be legal today.

yea agree

@Lights0ut1109 i think this may have been before that rule...

not as bad as this years :D

@caseyreavis Totally agree!!!!!!!!!!!! They need to bring it back they wont though its so much about safety today, good racing is almost non existent.

I feel bad for anyone who watched this race both there in person and on TV, I feel like this race sucked for pretty much everyone except for maybe Dale Jarret, I wonder how he feels about this race looking back at it.

Exactly what I thought too lol.

man, if Johnny Benson only coulda pulled it off :P

What is said about this is that such a boring Daytona 500 was the last one for CBS, to date, to broadcast.

jeff burton would have challenged dale for the win if that caution would have not come out

Where have I seen this before? Hmmm, 2013 Daytona 500? I don't know why NASCAR decided that spoiler, and that restrictor plate were the appropriate ones to use. I have never seen a truly bad race, but today's race was just miserable.

The daytona500 in 2000 and 2006 were probably the worst 500's but I don't think that they absolutly horrible tho

man, if Johnny Benson only coulda pulled it off :P but geez, this caution situation they had was a mess. it's good they came up with green-white-checker finishes

@sporgie84 how was 2004 bad?

Hey, does anyone know who was announcing this race, along with Mike Joy? Thanks!

While this race wasn't great, I'd watch it over this year's Daytona 500 any day of the week, which had about 15 cautions (a Daytona 500 record), over half the field out of the race, this pathetic 2 car tandem bullshit (pack racing's WAY better), and while I do give props to Trevor Bayne for winning this year's race and becoming the youngest winner in the 500, there was at least 10-15 other drivers that should've won that race but either got wrecked or had other misfortunes

I miss them racing back to the start finish line like they do after the wreck don't understand what they don't do that anymore it was so exciting. Now they just freeze the field boring!!!

was ernie ervin in this race

Todays finish was so bad. Not sure if it was worse than this though.

I agree Nascar went from being all racing to a complete joke now, I barely even watch it now because of it. I got a bunch of old races on VHS and DVD and watch those instead since it's racing not a joke

@racing202 it was funny how he was killed a year. almost like it was meant to be

This Daytona aero package sucked. Fords dominated and it was awful single file racing. Couldn't suck up to the car ahead of you well at all. Earnhardt was dang right in his interview with ESPN.

This Daytona 500 was dubbed "The dud race of 2000", beucase of the asusmption anyone could have won if lucky. 2013 was WAY worse! Trust me!

Benson got robbed that day thanks to terrible Michael Waltrip

It may not have been the best Daytona 500, but NASCAR was a lot better back then. Back when it was "racing" and not a "show".

tell me guys why is this race boring dont get mad I just want to know

can i have a dollar

@drzchulo1993 Jealosy

well tht sucked -_-

this was a pretty boring ass race