Who knew at the time that Denny Hamlin's razor-thin margin of victory in the Daytona 500 would be emblematic of the 2016 season?
With a bold move off Turn 4, Hamlin got to the finish line roughly six inches ahead of Martin Truex Jr. The official margin of victory was 0.010 of a second, tied for seventh closest in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series since the advent of electronic timing and scoring in 1993.
Two weeks later, Kevin Harvick would duplicate that winning margin when he won a drag race to the stripe against Carl Edwards at Phoenix.