I agree with ya

Back in the days before the diversity hires.....

​@@pulsarlights2825What would that have to do with anything? Race fans are there for the racing period and that is regardless of diversity hires as you call it.

@@wildstar43 so you are saying the ratings and sales have not dropped in recent years? The race fans are still showing the same level of support?

@@wildstar43 I agree, race should not be a determining factor in hiring, only ability, experience and the best qualified should matter.

Completely agree. I’m sure it’s sponsor dollars going to the network to get in tight on the hood and doesn’t do the racing action justice.

I also agree.. I feel like camera work compared now to then . You could tell a lot better back then how fast the cars were going..

In car cameras back then we're wayyyyy better too. Made you feel like you were in the seat and could feel the banking. The more closed up the cockpits became it was good for safety but definitely took away from that cool viewer experience

I met him here in my town in 1997 at the Winn-Dixie when they sponsored his Busch series car. Great guy.

I had just got back from gulf and Harry Gant was my man . I was on the USS Nicholson DD982.

@@de868 Neat. I was hauling fuel.

Vine Wood That's the era of nascar that I collect because of how they look!

NASCAR needs to find a way to make the cars look more like these and less like the goofy looking pieces of crap they are running today. Surely there is a way to combine the modern safety features with a body that actually looks sleek and racy like the Gen 4 cars did. Nobody wants to watch those deformed looking Gen 6 cars go around the track.

Real paint not no lame wraps, 850hp, drivers with personalities, full stands,....etc etc .

Yes he did, and if he had led all of the laps like he could have they would have thrown debris cautions and everything else to put him back into the field. Saw it many times until I quit watching altogether.

You are correct sir Nascar love to screw Those boys anyway they could 1985 Daytona, 500. Nobody's gonna touch bill. Caution with four to go best thing end under caution but let's throw a green flag with one laptop to go. Hoping bill will Miss A shift, didn't happen? 1997 bill has the fastest car there. gets tag team on a restart is coming under 3rd place with sterling pushing him when caution threw with 5 lefts to go. Could have at least had one lap under green. But no let's run it out under caution and so Jeff Gordon can win. 1986. NASCAR allowed GM to put a d*** arrow coup.Out Which was nothing more than an Arrow dynamic Band-Aid to cover up a p*** pour design by gm s An alllow the feild to catch bill. Those aero coups shouldn't ever been allowed to run in nascar.

Back then car owners weren't just sitting in corporate boxes sipping champagne and kissing sponsors asses. Back then they were hands on. Guys like Richard Childress, Rick Hendrick, Robert Yates and Junior Johnson acted as legitimate parts of their own pit crews. They got their hands dirty as much as the guys changing tires or handing the gas cans, or other owners actually out in their cars like Darrell Waltrip, Rusty Wallace and Alan Kulwicki.

They would be penalized severely.

That just shows ya the money involved then vs now. If a car is going to be competitive now, it better be a super trained, fast professional! The only owner who still acts like that is Richard Childress. He has always seemed to want to be the co-crewchief. It is kind of frustrating.

SMIFF! I’ll say it again 👍

Shut up old.man

James Gentry you’d be really embarrassed for an old man to whip your punk ass.

@@jamesgentry13 enjoy your iracing

Today's racing isn't racing, it's a bunch of snot nose yuppies who's only racing because of daddy's money, racing back then required talent and balls,today it only requires writing a check...

Jonny Crash you are exactly right. Doesn’t matter how little skill you have just as long as daddy can write the checks.

Labonte's situation was a strange one. Rumor had it that he wasn't very happy with the lack of results he was getting with Hagan Racing which is part of why he just "quit" on lap 8 here. Though he did stick with the team until the end of 1993 before joining Rick Hendrick to replace Ricky Rudd in the #5 when Rudd, like Darrell Waltrip in 1991, left Hendrick to start his own team (unlike Waltrip though who stuck with Chevy's and got some help from Hendrick, Rudd's new team went cold turkey and ran Ford Thunderbirds). Benny's wife died during the ESPN's broadcast of the Pocono race 3 weeks earlier. The only Winston Cup race between Pocono and this one was at Michigan which was broadcast by CBS so this was Benny's first time back in the booth since Connie's passing.

I recall reading a book that covered Labonte's season with the #94 Hagan team. It covered that incident and a few other races where the team felt Labonte intentionally "blew up" the motors when he was not happy with the way his car was running. Man, I wish I could remember the title of that book!

I guess now it would be a Walmart parking lot. A Kmart parking lot now would be mostly empty.

Looks like today's NASCAR getting ready to qualify. What a joke it is now.

@@nascage there is an old saying ... if it ain't broke, don't fix it. In recent years NASCAR is guilty of continually trying to fix something that wasn't broke and unfortunately in the process have basically broken it. And most of it sadly seems to be because some marketing people seem to have convinced NASCAR that fans today have short attention spans and won't sit through 3-4 hours of straight up racing like they used to.

I thought he was about to pull a Nigel Mansell and pass out during the interview! He looked absolutely beat!

You can tell that it took a toll on him. That race couldn't end fast enough for him

Yep according to darrell its 17 an a half flips an up to that point he had the dominate car that day till he wreacked.typical waltrip an his bull shit.he shouldn't be called jaws ot should be penokio cause he can tell more lies than anybody i ever saw like elliots car being a 7/8 size car is why it was so fast

And tell it. And tell it. And tell it.

I have one of his coil springs from that wreck.

That is AWESOME! How'd you get a hold of it?

SMIFF TV I was in the infield and his car ended up pretty much right in front of us. After the race other kids were going into the infield and getting scrap metal and other pieces they left. I was 9 at the time and my dad didn't want me going out there because track officials were circling the track. eventually he realized nobody was stopping the other kids so he finally let me out there. everything was gone by then and I was just walking around looking at empty grass, I walked further over towards turn 3 and I saw the coil spring laying there in the grass. I was really happy I found it. The Orlando Sentinel ran a story about it too. One of the older kids next to us got all kinds of stuff, his water bottle, goggles, a coil spring, and several pieces of scrap metal.

@@sevendst19 Wow, his goggles! That tells you how violent these wrecks were back in the day.

@@nascage I'm not sure they fell off, I think they likely took them off when he was removed from the car and put on the stretcher. He did have a helmet on and everything. One of the coil springs rolled up and whacked against a metal guardrail that was before the tall chainlink fencing that circled the infield. I saw it/heard it hit and the older kid next to us got it.

ESPN dropped Nascar for lil bit ...said it wasn't a sport they should view and wasn't a sport in gen....but then realized the $$$$$$ so ESPN came back .....p on ESPN. No offense

118 octane....OMGGGGG NOTHIN BETTER. I run 110 in lawnmower and 4whlr just for the smell

Not 850hp with that plate on them. Maybe 475!

@@knobdikker yes with the plate 475-ish but they only ran the plate on 2 tracks.

Yep its gone.waltrip got it back i belive but not positive in2015.i saw a documentary were they sent Jeff Hammond to get it an i belive bring it to Darell house cause las time Darell laid eyes on it he he was side ways an keyed his microphone an said im in big trouble right as he closed that road as it fliped an he didnt think it was in that bad of shape an thought him an hamond might fix it get it going again

They had it at darlington when I was younger at the race in 98 took pictures standing next to it and all.. car was totally destroyed

Thought I was having a acid flashback haha. I noticed the same thing

I think it’s the tracking on the vhs they ripped it from

Bob

Yep! Bob Jenkins and Ken Squier were the best IMO, with Benny and Ned being great color commentators as well.

👍I agree

Well when you're up against the wall that is insurance companies... you're kinda forced to do what they ask. So don't blame Nascar

They outa call that dam thing the ernie plate cause he is the reason they put them on the cars

Plates been used since 68 ....this kinda plate was for Bobbys talladega wreck few yr back

Cancer

Ohhh ok thanks yea couldn't rem