Trevor Bayne, the youngest ever winner of the Daytona 500.

 NASCAR: 20-year-old Trevor Bayne gets a historic win .00Bayne is the youngest Daytona 500 champion ever. He turned 20 on Saturday. This was just his second Sprint Cup start. Ever.
.This entire crazy afternoon may have been the shot in the arm NASCAR desperately needed. The sagging racing circuit is desperate for new stars, new drama and new excitement, and what was the wildest, strangest and, in the end, most compelling Daytona 500 in years delivered just that.It’s like a Triple-A baseball player drilling the game-winning homer in the World Series, only more unlikely.

Put it this way, Bayne had so little idea of what was going on that he missed the turn when he was ordered to victory lane.

It was his one moment of being a typical teenage driver (well, as of Friday, he was). In a sport that traces its roots to old Southern bootleggers, the champion of the biggest race can’t even legally drink.

A new asphalt surface and a series of technological advancements has officially changed superspeedway racing. This was the first 500 that was essentially team dancing – one car pushing a