DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Sunday’s Daytona 500 will take place before a sold-out crowd, NASCAR announced Tuesday.
Daytona International Speedway is back to full capacity a year after the pandemic roughly limited attendance to 30,000 fans inside the sprawling facility that usually packs more than 100,000 NASCAR fans.
NASCAR also announced that country music star Trace Adkins will sing the national anthem prior to the race.
Adkins has sold more than 11 million albums over a 25-year career and is a multi-time Grammy nominee.
Hall of Fame cornerback Charles Woodson was named grand marshal and will give the command for drivers to start their engines. Woodson won the Heisman Trophy and Thorpe Award as a three-way, national championship player at Michigan. The Raiders drafted him No. 4 overall in 1998 and he was recognized as the league’s top rookie on defense after making 64 tackles, five interceptions and forcing a fumble.
Woodson was an AP first-team All-Pro four times and was on the second…
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