DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Significant numbers heading into Sunday's Daytona 500:

1 -- First Daytona 500 start for both pole-winning rookie Jimmie Johnson and outside pole starter Kevin Harvick, last year's top Winston Cup rookie.

2 -- Car number of Rusty Wallace, a former series champion and winner of 54 races, still looking for his first Daytona 500 win in his 20th start.

2½ -- Length of Daytona International Speedway oval in miles.

3 -- Car number missing from the Daytona lineup for the first time since the late Dale Earnhardt first used it here in 1984.

3 -- Number of Wallace and Bodine brothers in race field.

3 -- Rookies in field (Johnson, Ryan Newman and Shawna Robinson).

6 -- Total of former winners in field, including three-time winner Dale Jarrett, two-time winners Jeff Gordon, Sterling Marlin and Bill Elliott and one-time winners Geoffrey Bodine and Michael Waltrip.

7 -- Richard Petty's record for Daytona 500 victories.

9 -- Number of drivers who have won from pole.

14 -- Most wins by a manufacturer (Chevrolet).

21 -- Age of youngest driver in race (Casey Atwood).

33 -- Times Dave Marcis has qualified for the Daytona 500 (breaking record of 32 by Richard Petty).

33 -- Lowest starting position by winner (Bobby Allison, 1978).

43 -- Number of cars in starting lineup.

44 -- Number of times Daytona 500 has been run.

49 -- Car number of Shawna Robinson, only the second woman and first since 1980 to race in the Daytona 500.

60 -- Age of oldest driver ever to race in Daytona 500 (Dave Marcis).

200 -- Total race laps.