Do they race these days or is it a moving carshow/advertisement?

I think everyone misses Ken Squier as a NASCAR commentator and analyst.

+Prague Life Ken is truly a legend and Icon in the world of Nascar. It was so cool and great that NBC allowed him and Ned Jarrett to call a big portion of the Cup race at Darlington Labor day Southern 500 last year.

+Dylan Watson I did not know about that! I need to find a video of that telecast. Thanks for the tip.

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U missed Neil's Good Friend Dale Earnhardt

This was back when I was going to races or listening to/watching them every weekend. The 80s were the best times for the sport I can remember.

You might be right about that but Dale couldn't run the blinding speeds like bill an Davey an bobie Dale was mediocre at best till that bring that stupid restrictor plate out they should dozed daytona an talladega down after the 88 season cause the first year of restrctors was bad but its been terrible ever sinse an is a disgrace to what big billl France built them tracks for

@@brianbooher7318 WTF?? Earnhardt owned the race until the heat knocked the drivers out and they started driving wreckless.

No pit road speed limits.

harold gave me and my wife pit passes at the 86 winston 500 at talladega.it was the most memorible 3 days of our lives.we met and talked with every NASCAR driver in those 3 days.we met him at a motel in anniston,al where my daughter was working at the front desk.he was a straight up nice guy!

bigorange113 I would love to go to Talladega to see the action, and I would love the thrill of being in the flagstand there. Although I think it's time for Talladega to get a new flagstand because it is WAY too low to the track, they need to raise it higher towards the top of the fence like Daytona.

I don't think Davey getting the ride had so much to do with him about winning but how he was one of few who didn't beat his car to hell in this race he bring it home without a scratch an he was a true rookie I think is what got him the ride it kinda a shame junior didn't give him a ride cause at the time Ranier racing was jus s team that started a few races an built cars to win but didn't run for the cup with the 28 until 88 junior had the best team out their an put Davey with Tim brewer an you had an instant championship contender wheir as the 28 team had its growing pains an didn't become a contender till 91 which they grew together an built one hell of a team for Dale sory ass Jarrett to reap the rewards off of.such a shame

This was the race Hillin earned a reputation for being a bit reckless and Earnhardt was pissed at him.

Hillin gave a much different account in his interview that was clearly not reality. Hillin just flat out ran over #33.

Wouldn't we all? Unfortunately, almost 30 years ago (1988 specifically), the restrictor plates were mandated for all races (Sprint Cup, Xfinity, and Camping World Truck Series) at Daytona and Talladega for a reason (the first time since the early '70s that they had been used, BTW), and as you're probably well aware, that reason was to keep the cars from sailing into the catch fence and possibly into the grand stand, as was the case of what happened to Bobby Allison at Talladega in 1987; unfortunately, the restrictor plates couldn't keep Richard Petty off of the wall the following year at Daytona and most recently Neil Bonnett sailed into the catch fence in 1993, and in 2009, Carl Edwards had an incident similar to both Bobby and Neil's crashes, all three occurring at Talladega.

+EricEbac22 There was a huge difference between the 1981-87 tumbles such as Allison, Barkdoll at Daytona et al and Petty's 1988 crash. The speeds in the last five to six years have reached 200 again and people wonder why the cars are flying again. They need to cap the HP more, not let it creep back up.

Runt Pittman = engine builder.

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+EricEbac22 They had actually thought about it in 1983 after all the tumbling at Daytona.

+Michael Daly do you have nascar races from 1989

Joseph Bevacqua I did - unfortunately my tapes got old. I still vividly remember several races that year, especially the Diehard 500 at Talladega.

Michael Daly what happing in that race?

Joseph Bevacqua The lead changed hands a season-high 49 times among nine drivers. Morgan Shepherd led the most laps but got shuffled out and finished sixth; Davey Allison spun out with about ten to go but didn't hit anything; Darrell Waltrip rammed Jimmy Spencer on pit road on an early yellow (the result of NASCAR'S then-new rule closing pit road when the yellow comes out and throwing everyone in at once); Terry Labonte grabbed the win, his last with Junior Johnson's team; Rusty Wallace got knocked out when Geoff Bodine spun and collected three other cars; Alan Kulwicki spun on a green flag stop then crashed later with Sterling Marlin. It was a whale of a race.

+Robby Burns Was that Allison's teammate?

***** Yeah he and Bobby Allison's cars were owned by the Stavola Brothers and both cars were sponsored by Miller American, the cars paint schemes were reversed.

Incest somewhere.

That was the Winston 500 in May.