Only problem is the winner beating the field by multiple laps

No doubt! This was real racing, not a circus with a bunch of self absorbed wanna be a rock star drivers.

😂😂😂

So true i cant even stand to watch it anymore

If it was like this, I could buy a brand new 2 door Bel Air 57 Chevy with fuel injection for $4000. I would buy 2. They would be worth more than my 401K. .

you mean half the field wrecked. or how about the leader who beat the field 3 laps ahead. sorry but thats just flat out boring in todays time. you have to remember with everything it has to evolve to continue. and thats what nascar did. cant keep pandering to old nascar fans who in 10 to 20 years will be dead. have to keep on evolving to have younger fans keep the sport going. this is boring to my generation. to me no, but to other millennials its boring.

perhaps your generation should be watching big brother and the bachelor, and not a real sport. nascar used to be about who was smart enough to drive the race to win at the end, now with all the silly rules, its just like a game show, with stops so everyone can catch up, too bad the real fans are all leaving - look at the empty seats at the races. too bad nascar doesnt start a new series, with real cars for the real fans to attend.

Jimmy Johnson would not have won as many without all the stupid ways to win a championship. Petty and Earnhardt did it the real way.

Maybe you’ve been under a rock the last 15 years, but it’s BECAUSE of your “innovation” and rule changes that NASCAR is in trouble RIGHT NOW!!! They have evolved the sport into a homogenous boring 3 hours of truly just making left turns all day. TV ratings are down over 40% the last 10 years, they’ve removed large sections of grandstands in Charlotte and Martinsville, and big corporate sponsors are leaving. Lowe’s has been as NASCAR today as Purolator and Havoline were in the old days and this was their last season. There’s talk of the France family selling NASCAR to Disney of all things!!!!! All of this because they followed your advice to a T to try to attract a younger audience. But tell me again why it’s wrong for a driver to lap the field two or three times. If his car works and he can do it you go for it.

@@joe6096 They are negotiating atm. The France family want to get their money out before its too late. The thought is that the future seasons will be 20 races and no chase etc. Richard Petty said over at the Goodward historics this year that it would cost him $150m to run a two car team for the whole season these days. The sums just don't work. The leanest team in Nascar are the Wood Brothers. The get the whole family out. They said that its $50-60m per car. Thats insane. Thats F1 territory. And they have the same problem.

Also Fonty Flocks career ended, right there, as well, due to injuries.

"Why, you little rascal!..."

It's all about driver safety. Races were exciting but because there was REAL danger involved. As pilots (and crowds) began to die in accidents, things began to chance. This is what caused the inclusion of restrictor plates, speed regulations, yellow flags, etc. We want to see raw carnage on the track, but within the cars are real people with families waiting them for dinner. The more "safe" auto racing is, the more slow and programmed becomes. This is why it's very likely we'll never see +800MPH futuristic racing in the future. Unless we find a way to make pilots immune against crashes, we'll always see NASCAR and variants become more and more boring (with the plus of keeping the drivers alive and well.)

It was 4 laps, not 4 days...

Myers died in this race.

Reluctantly I am for safety. And other inhancements. Take tires for example. Do you think NASCAR should still use baloon tires? Nascar has been the lead for improving our own cars. Keep innovating!

Although much has been done in order to improve driver & public safety....I wish NASCAR would go back to(or create a seperate league for) actual stock cars....the drivers know the risk involved, and let the spectators sign a waver and sit in back row seats with some extra fencing in front to protect them from flying tires, hoods, doors, and quarter panels. And no, not demolition derbies, I mean actual races where the point is to drive clean and finish 1st. These crazy dudes down in Florida been doing it with school buses for years, but there's not really any money in it.

Yeah no doubt about it you're old have you made your final arrangements as not to be a burden on your love one's and could I be any bigger of an ass I'm from 64 not far behind you oops

Me too!

why are so many old people on youtube god.

In the future racing at 200 mph like today will seem like a Sunday stroll

I'm 1957 vintage myself.

No, he didn't start NASCAR until 1961

hahahaha

Boy! He just ripped out the car's radiator, and just had another one put in-today, a stock car lost the radiator, it's engine would have been totalled, just trying to reach the pit boxes...

@mrs abe sorry 20 minute mark...to like 22 min

Yes he was.

I would be the driver with flames shooting out of his ass jumping over that G.D. wall !!! Know DAT !!

i was wondering bcus back then that was a hell of an impact :( wish it didnt take nascar f1 n indycar till later 2000s to really try to do anything about safety

Actually, in a other video of this on KZfaq has some cut footage saying that he died

R.i.p. Myers

RIP

correct

Video appears to be 1956, not 1957 as I there. The Yuick cars 1957 were Fords.

...I agree with what you're saying...but to me, it died in stages...the most definitive being when they started running front-wheel drive cars dissected and plopped on a rear wheel drive tube chassis...the next stage, when they started running Toyotas...Toyotas are good cars, but NASCAR is an American tradition, and shouldn't have Toyotas...Nascar with Toyotas, but no Dodges= no good....

Plus now ticket prices are $125.00 a pop and up.

NASCAR, NFL football, NBA basketball and now high level College football is not for the middle class anymore but priced so high that it is built for large companies, upper middle class, and the rich. I say screw them all.

NASCAR limited the aero bodies to 305 cubic inches in 1971. Non-aero bodies could still run the 426s and 427s. A few years later the limit was set to 358 cubic inches where it stands today.

Conan the Destroyer Conan the Destroyer This comment is a year old but ima respond anyway. At my home track mid level seats go for around $40 .Mid level NBA seats will cost around the same as long as your not going to a Lakers or Clippers game or something. (Nosebleed seats at NBA games can sometimes cost under $20) NFL tickets also wont usually run more than $50 as long as you aren't trying to sit fieldside or at a highly anticipated game. High-level college football is different. When you sell out 90,000 seat stadiums weekly, of course ticket prices are gonna be in that $90-100 range. Sports tickets also aren't something you're supposed to go off a limb and purchase. If you plan ahead and SAVE you should have absolutely 0 problem attending a sporting event unless you're trying to live off $20,000 a year.

And old smokey would run fuel line Thur them roll cages boys couldn't figure out his car could run more laps then theirs

+Denny Doobles What's new? My kids love it when we see a Sunoco fuel sign :-)

Denny, would you have even had the opportunity to see this video clip without the help of Wynns Friction Proofing? Sponsors make sporting events possible to be seen on TV, heard on radio and played on the internet for years to come. Enjoy life and quit your complaining.

back then they definitely had to piggy back onto sponsors to be able to put out any production (tv/film/replay)

Also for the "Best Damn Garage In Town".

LMFAO!

I stopped watching NASCAR when V8 powered, tube framed, fiberglass bodied vehicles with Toyota Camry painted on the front started racing... A Toyota Camry is a good civilian car though, I gotta admit-very reliable in the long term, never rusts, very practical and well thought out...but how do they put things labeled Taurus or Monte Carlo into a race and it isn't even what they are? They should just make up new names for these vehicles, and rename NASCAR to something more accurate. Call it... Technological Innovations Traveling Sideways ;) good acronym, yes?

+dhamrick100 Yea, real & dangerous.

+Cal Wolfe Holy shit you were actually there? :O

True, it was the 8th Southern 500 since the "0" race was 1950, won by Johnny Mantz in a Plymouth.

Darlington has NEVER had a Cup race in July. Not even once.

That was in Daytona what are you smoking ??

Go for it

You're welcome

When this race took place car dealerships would sponsor teams and supply them with cars for the races. I think that the only things stock in today's stock cars are the car's silhouette and engine displacement. Today, everything, down to the engine block, is custom built for the race cars.