Junior Johnson won the second Daytona 500 in history and is the man responsible for "drafting" on the race track. Johnson tells when he learned about the draft. As he expected, the Pontiacs were up to 30 mph faster than Junior in practice. And they stayed faster in time trials. After a series of adjustments, Junior decided to try and run along with a top Pontiac in practice. "Cotton Owens came by and I got behind him. Right on his rear bumper. And I stayed right there! We came back to the garage and Cotton walked over to me. 'Boy, you've sure got that thing to running,' Cotton said. What he didn't know was that I had discovered the aerodynamic draft at Daytona."
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