This year's Daytona 500 field is dotted with drivers who have tried both, including seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson, AJ Allmendinger, Kyle Larson and even a Daytona 500 rookie in four-time Indy 500 champion Helio Castroneves.
“They’re two completely different concepts of racing and I think people don’t really understand the differences,” said Juan Pablo Montoya, a two-time Indy 500 champion with seven starts in the Daytona 500.
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.".
I feel like maybe Indy just has like a little bit more of the kind of history feel to it than the 500, Daytona 500.
Montoya is one of the handful of elite drivers to attempt racing in both the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 500.
