Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I tu te putanga 2001 o The Winston i te Mei 19, 2001, i Lowe's Motor Speedway i Concord, North Carolina. Ko te tau tekau mā whitu tēnei o te whakataetae. Ko te nuinga o te wā ka maumahara ki te tīmatanga, i te wā i rere mai ai te ua ki te rori, nā reira i mawhiti ai ngā motokā, ā, i tukituki ki te pakitara. Ko tētahi o te hunga tuatahi i hinga ko Kevin Harvick, i tana putanga tuatahi ki te huarahi tere. Kātahi a Jeff Gordon ka eke ki te taha, ka tukinotia i muri i tana whiu i a Jeff Burton i muri, kātahi ka tukinotia a Michael Waltrip i a Gordon, ka whakangaromia tōna motokā, i taua wā ka mutu te whakataetae. I hoki mai ngā kaihautū katoa me ngā waka tāpiri. I te mutunga, ka whiti atu a Gordon i te raina, ka wikitoria i tana tuatoru o nga whakataetae All-Star, i whakataurite i a Dale Earnhardt. Ko nga taraiwa a Johnny Benson me Todd Bodine i eke mai i te Winston Open, me te wikitoria a Benson i te Open me te wikitoria a Bodine i te whakataetae No Bull 5 Sprint. Ko te hui tuatahi tēnei o Winstone, kāore a Darrell Waltrip rāua ko Dale Earnhardt. I reti a Waltrip i te mutunga o te tau 2000 a ka karanga i te whakataetae 2001 mai i te pouaka, a i mate a Earnhardt i te timatanga o te tau i te
Ko te Daytona 500. I whakataetae nga kaieke e rua i nga huihuinga 16 tuatahi.