Having taken place just this past weekend, this year’s Rolex 24 at Daytona Speedway marks the 60th anniversary of the legendary endurance event. Sixty-one drivers representing racing’s finest competed for the first place title- and the coveted Rolex watch that is awarded as a symbolic prize to every winner. The watch brand has been the Title Sponsor of the race for three decades, in an ode to the 1935 victory of Sir Malcolm “King of Speed” Campbell, who took on the track wearing a Rolex Oyster. The prize was the engraved Rolex Cosmograph Daytona, a 1963 model that has evolved through nearly sixty years of racing history to become
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