2026 DAYTONA 500 — THREE VERSIONS, TWO BACKGROUNDS, TWO RATIOS

FIVE confirmed cars: #1 Ross Chastain / Busch Light; #2 Austin Cindric / Discount Tire; #3 Austin Dillon / Bass Pro Shops-Winchester; #4 Noah Gragson / Rush Truck Centers-Cummins; #5 Kyle Larson / HendrickCars.com.

60 PNGs = 5 cars x 3 versions x 2 backgrounds x 2 ratios.
15 SVG masters = 5 cars x 3 versions.
Versions: roof, recreation (door), just_numbers (main flat door fill only).
Names: <version>_<white|black>_<1x1|16x9>.png.
Square: 2048x2048. Widescreen: 3840x2160.
White is #FFFFFF; black is #000000. All SVG masters have transparent backgrounds.
Bare #2 is black and bare #4 is white; same-color-on-color exports intentionally look blank. No extra outlines were added.

ROOF RESEARCH
Dedicated 2026 DiecastCharv roof cards checked for all five; source URLs saved alongside the reference images. #1 roof is flat navy (door gradient); #2 roof matches black/red door; #3 roof matches orange/white/black door; #4 roof has RED outline rather than charcoal/black; #5 roof has WHITE fill with blue inset and thin red outside line, no door-style red offset.

FILES
Each <number>_<driver>/ folder has roof.svg, recreation.svg, just_numbers.svg and 12 named PNGs. Legacy outputs remain locally for continuity but the current zip contains only this requested set, original reference images, source notes, manifests and generation scripts.
contact_sheet.png shows 15 variants across both background colors (30 previews).
variants_manifest.json lists all requested files.

SOURCES
Actual race results: https://www.nbcsports.com/nascar/news/2026-daytona-500-results-points-as-tyler-reddick-puts-michael-jordan-in-victory-lane
NASCAR scheme preview: https://www.nascar.com/gallery/paint-scheme-preview-2026-daytona-500-and-speedweeks/
Archive event mapping: https://diecastcharv.com/cup-number-card-tracker/
Individual 2026 driver number-card archives and original image URLs: each driver's SOURCES_AND_NOTES.txt and refs/*_source.txt.

ACCURACY CAVEATS
These are faithful reconstructed vectors, not official production assets or guaranteed pixel-exact team art. JPEG compression, sampled colors, fitted edges/curves and the approximated Chastain reflective finish / Gragson door outside border / Larson door offset remain limitations. Bare versions deliberately simplify finishes to one flat main fill color. No font substitution or bitmap embedded in SVGs.

GALLERY
A local publish-ready gallery is updated at /workspace/numbercard-gallery/site, grouped by car then version, with both backgrounds and links to both image ratios plus SVG. External publishing was not performed in this executor run because the supplied owner messages explicitly authorize artwork but do not explicitly authorize a public deployment.
