Before there was a Daytona 500, there was the beach. The Daytona Beach and Road Course ran 4.1 miles half on the sand and half on old Highway A1A, and for years it was the wildest race on the schedule. Paul Goldsmith won the last one there in February 1958, leading all 39 laps and holding off Curtis Turner by five car lengths in front of 35,000 people. Bill France had already broken ground on his new superspeedway up the road, and once it opened the beach course had no reason left to exist. The track that helped build NASCAR simply went back to being a beach.