about Daytona's annual summertime stock-car race, now known as the Coke Zero Sugar 400 and scheduled to crank to life Saturday night at the "World Center of Speed." Four years ago, after many, many marketing surveys and roundtables, the soda’s name was changed to Coke Zero Sugar, and therefore the race’s name was tweaked yet again. Daytona's Coke Zero Sugar 400 was originally Firecracker 250OK, let’s go back to the top of the previous item. One of Big Bill France’s big reasons for building his big track — maybe his biggest reason — was to overtake Indianapolis as the fastest speedway around. It soon became apparent the Pepsi 400 couldn’t be conducted in a safe and/or comfortable manner for teams and fans.

Source: The Star August 24, 2022 00:36 UTC