2011 NASCAR Media Day, Daytona - Images by Brian Cleary

Each year when the stars of NASCAR arrive in Daytona Beach, Florida for February's season opening Daytona 500, the first order of business is the annual media day.

This is a great opportunity to stock up on nicely lit portraits of the top drivers on the NASCAR tour.

Roll your cursor over any image to get caption info, click on an image for print and download availability and pricing, or simply sit back and enjoy the slideshow!

Slideshows.bcpix.com is the Slideshow blog of Florida-based freelance photographer Brian Cleary and features selected collections of images from his online photo archive which contains more than 30 years of photography, both editorial stock and royalty-free stock photography and is housed at www.bcpix.com.

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