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The Budweiser Shootout held since 1979, the non-points event (formerly named the Busch Clash and Bud Shootout) has jump-started the NASCAR Winston Cup Series as the season-opening race at the World Center of Racing one week before the Daytona 500.
George Everette Bud Day was a United States Air Force colonel, World War II veteran, Korean War and Vietnam War pilot, prisoner of war, and Medal of Honor and Air Force Cross recipient. As of 2016, he is the only person to be awarded both the Medal of Honor and Air Force Cross. Day's actions from 26 August 1967 through 14 March 1973, were the last to earn a Medal of Honor prior to the end of U.S. involvement in the war on 30 April 1975, though some honorees were cited for their medals after Da