What’s the difference between racing the Daytona 500 and Indy 500? Drivers who have tried both explain.

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What’s the difference between racing the Daytona 500 and Indy 500? Drivers who have tried both explain.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — They are the signature spectacles in each racing series, the Indianapolis 500 and all its pageantry with more than a century of tradition and milk drinking in open wheel racing, and the Daytona 500, NASCAR’s season opener run under the Florida sun at the unofficial home of the “ birthplace of speed.” Indy and Daytona. Just say the city names to even casual sports fans and they’ll surely know each of them as two of the bigge…