Daytona's motorsports hall of fame and museum has a new president

Kurt Russell is the 2026 Daytona 500 honorary pace car driver Actor Kurt Russell is the 2026 Daytona 500 honorary pace car driver. Season 2 of his Apple TV series, “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters,” airs Feb. 27. Daren Lucas has been named the new president of the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in Daytona.Lucas plans to elevate the museum by utilizing a newly acquired archive of over a million historical items. A familiar face is the new leader at Daytona’s Motorsports Hall of Fame of America. Daren Lucas, who spent the early 2000s with NASCAR and its former International Speedway Corp., was recently named new president for the hall of fame and its wide-ranging museum, which sits in...