For this week's edition of 'A Look Back' we have decided to take a bit of a different twist than normal by bringing in some of the best in the business and tapping their memories from Daytona. There have been so many great races and dramatic finishes in the 500 that it was difficult for some to narrow it down to just one race, while for others the answer was simple.

Richard Petty
You're lucky enough to win seven races here, and Daddy had won a race and Pete Hamilton won races here for us. It's hard to say what would be the favorite. I think the one I remember the most probably is the '76 job we lost. So, you know, not the one's you won as much as the one's you lost.

Richard Childress
It had to been when Earnhardt won it. We tried for so many years and to win the Daytona 500 was big.

Bobby Allison
My first Daytona 500 win in 78, the qualifiers rained out Thursday and we had to run them Friday morning. I got wrecked right at the end of the race pretty bad. The guys had work, work, work to get the car fixed and I had to start way in the back and came on and won that thing. I still remember 78, but I can't remember '88, so that has to be a good one.

J.D. Gibbs
For us my first year changing tires, our second year in racing, we won the race with Dale Jarrett. We've only won one, so that was a big deal. I remember I was changing tires and I know I left some [lugnuts] loose on the last stop so I couldn't even enjoy the race until that ting finished and he came across first and his dad announcing it. We went across the infield and wrestled and rolled around there. That was just a great memory for our team and Interstate.

Ray Evernham
1997 when we won our first one here and the Hendrick cars came across 1-2-3. That was a pretty big day for us.

Steve Addington
Coming down here last year, having a dominant car and leading all the laps as we did. We just got in a bad situation there on the restart. [Jeff] Burton ran him down bellow the line and he had to check up. I felt like that was - you don't get those opportunities too many times. It felt good running that strong all day long last year.

John Roberts
Absolutely favorite memory from the 500 of course was '98 when Earnhardt won it. We were standing there and at the time I was working at a TV station that just happened to broadcast in Kannapolis, N.C., that was Dale's hometown. It was - as you can imagine - just mass, mass pandemonium. What a little local news coup it would be if we could be the ones that could get Dale on live.

So he came by, him and Richard Childress, they both came riding up on the back of a police motorcycle. They were going to do interviews, and I grabbed Dale by the shoulder - which I didn't know if it was going to be the right move or not - I grabbed him by the shoulder and said, 'Hey, Dale in about 15 minutes we'll be broadcasting to Charlotte and it goes live to Kannapolis and if you come back here I think it would be pretty cool. He said, 'What time?' and I said, 'Fifteen minutes from now, 6:25,' and he said, 'I'll be there.' I turned to my photographer and said, 'Yeah, right. He's going to be here.'

So, he cruises off, does a bunch of other stuff and right on time Dale Earnhardt and Richard Childress came walking over. Dale had the hugest bottle of champaign in his hand I had ever seen. We sat there and talked for a few minutes and it was about the coolest thing. The look on that guy's face and the relief on Childress' face after nineteen years of trying. That was just a really, really cool thing to be a part of. Every time I see that video I just remember that whole thing.

Jeff Burton
Certainly, Ward winning is right up there. Watching Cale and the Allisons go at it was pretty big, I was a kid and watching it on TV. That was pretty cool, I remember that like it was yesterday.

Jimmy Elledge
The earliest one would be in '79, that's probably the first race I really watched and still remember the outcome of. I remember being all devastated because I was excited because Richard Petty won and I didn't think he was going to win. Then Donnie and Cale crashed.

As a team member I would say, the years I worked with Dale Earnhardt, they were always special on a team. But as a crew chief, last year's 500. There's really no describable feeling with two to go we were in position to possibly win the race, in a spot where if the line went right and things started happening we could have won that. To describe that feeling is pretty hard.

Ken Squire
The last one, because every one of them are unique and special. You can pick some of them out, but its the Daytona 500. There's been some good ones and there have been some exciting ones. They've all been suspenseful. It's pretty hard to pick one over another, it really is - but the 1976 race was pretty good.

Leonard Wood
Well it would be one of two, the one in '63 when Marvin Paunch was the driver and he got in an accident in a sports car and got burned. Tiny Lund and three other guys came up, lifted the car and saved his life. And then [Lund] gets in the car and wins the race, that was a cinderella story. Then you can't forget that one with David Pearson and Richard Petty in 1976 crashing off the fourth turn there, and then we ended up winning the race. They're both very exciting.

These competitors have been a part of some of the greatest Daytona 500s in the history of the sport. For this writer, my favorite Daytona 500 memory is tough to choose as well. As a fan of Rusty Wallace growing up, there was the unforgettable image of the black and gold No. 2 cartwheeling down the backstretch in 1993. However, the two Daytona 500s that stick out are the 1992 and 2002 Daytona 500s.

The 1992 Daytona 500 was full of hype and definitely lived up to it. Junior Johnson's two-car team of Bill Elliott and Sterling Marlin led the field to the green. On lap 93, Elliott decided he had enough of riding behind Marlin and made the move to the outside going through the second corner. Jumping on the opportunity, Ernie Irvan drove down under both cars making it three wide. Believing they had cleared Marlin, both Irvan and Elliott moved to the middle of the track as they came off the corner. Unfortunately for the three of them and those behind them, Marlin was still there and the No. 4 of Irvan and the No. 11 of Elliott came. As the three cars hooked together and slid down the track, Davey Allison and Morgan Shepherd cleared the incident, while a number of cars behind them were not so lucky. Allison was able to not only survive the incident, but drove on to capture his only Daytona 500 victory.

The 2002 Daytona 500 marked the first time I had the chance to see the Daytona 500 in person. Following the tragedy that happened the year before, the mode was definitely somber as fans made their way around the speedway. Sitting on the backstretch, I was able to see my first live 'Big One' as Kevin Harvick and Jeff Gordon tangled going into Turn 1. Gordon was able to continue on and battled with Sterling Marlin until the closing laps. As the field stacked up on a restart late in the race, Gordon and Marlin got together heading into Turn 1. Gordon spun to the inside and Marlin received damage to his right front fender. NASCAR red flagged the race to clean up the mess of the frontstretch. While the cars sat on the backstretch, Marlin climbed from his car and pulled his fender out from his tire. Marlin was subsequently black flagged and Ward Burton drove off to the victory.

What is your favorite Daytona 500 memory? Send us your thoughts or post them on the Hardcore Forum. We want to hear your thoughts and read you relive your favorite memories from 'The Great American Race.'