RIP John Andretti. What a great win this was!

Races were so special when Bob Jenkins and Benny Parsons were announcing. The excitement of Bob's voice, and his welcoming tone, Benny just sounded like the guy that if he wasn't your grandfather, you wished he was, such personable guys she's great commentators

The radio communications at the end of the race are priceless... "God Dammit!!!" "AHHHHHH"

RIP John Andretti

Hearing the ESPN Speedworld theme is better than anything nascar gave us since 2007

I love satellite feeds! Just being able to hear the conversations about the race in between the commercials. I wish I could find more of these!

The sound of these cars man….

Rest in peace John Andretti, always remember the great times when John was a competitor in racing and taking a finely tuned machine and experiencing the joy of success.

RIP John Andretti.

RIP Benny Parsons, my favorite announcer in NASCAR, maybe my favorite in any sport..

1997. My favourite Pepsi 400 of all time. Apart from 2001.

If you listen to the cars they sound a lot better then they do today

This was perhaps one of the best starts in Billy Standridge’s cup career. R.I.P. Billy Standridge

Rip john andretti

That last lap wreck cost Mark Martin the championship - the lottery of plate racing

Rip John Andretti and Benny Parsons

As yes, the GOD DAMNIT race.

Thanks for the upload! That was my first trip/race at Daytona

Andretti had a great car that day.

The Ray Romano of NASCAR. Watched this race live on tv and saw him win at Martinsville.

This is in surprisingly great quality

OH WE GOT A CRASH! Trickle and Burton GOD DAMMIT! COME ON COME ONCOME ON!

This was my first full season as a nascar fan..I was in 5th grade was Earnhardt thru and thru. Too bad he had 0 wins but he finished 5th in points and still hurting from talladega

1997 produced 2 first time winners. Jeff Burton in the first race at Texas and John Andretti at Daytona

I sometimes wish this race was held back during the middle of the day in the heat. I like it when they get spread out. It's like a chess match of drafting vs handling, the best handling cars stay up front but if you make one wrong move you lose the lead draft.

I was there. John would have won Talledega earlier with a little help. It was him against everyone one else. They knew he was fast and was the one to beat so they made sure they kept him back. My brother-in-law was a big Gordon fan and going to the race I said John is going to lead some today and he said I bet he does not lead as many as Jeff at the halfway point I asked him what happened to Jeff. I wish Cale would have been at Winner’s Circle.

Yes this was a great race for him RIP

The last ever Daytona 400 on ESPN. RIP 1989-1997.

What I really miss is that if there was an accident during a commercial break. They’d cut the commercial and go right back to the race.

I do know that. I knew it way back in '97 when I watched it and I know it now. Main reason why they cut away from his feed so quickly. He said "god dammit" because Burton making it 3-wide took them from a potential top-10 finish and wrecked them on the last corner of the last lap. They took a hit in points because of it, and as later in the season proved, cost them possibly a championship.

He said "god dammit," not "hot dammit." And that was Martin's spotter who said it.

good racing there between these warriors ty

What made them get less strung out? Mandatory spoiler angle/height? 1996 and beyond seemed like they stayed much more tightly bunched.

NASCAR needs to come back to this ASAP.

RIP Firecracker/Pepsi/Coke Zero 400 on ESPN/ABC 196(?)-1997.

1:15:36 Is that Norm Benning?

Cale Yarborough's 1st & only win as a car owner

Last Pepsi 400 at Daytime.

Does anyone know the starting lineup thene song/title? Thanks for your time and help

why cant they race like this on restrictor plate races anymore?

Ward Burton's 1997 Season was Derailed in The Last Lap Crash

Last daytime Pepsi 400.

I was hopping my driver Terry Labonte was gonna win but a damn good race anyway lol

Classic.

Let's go away!!!!!! DAYTONAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

Dam yellow killed it that 4 was coming

its the 90sist thing ever!

The 1997 Pepsi 400 at the Daytona International Speedway was the last time a 4th of July NASCAR Race to be held on daytime, as the next few Daytona 400 Races were held at night-time. The final Daytime Pepsi 400 was jointly produced by Television and Production Exponents, Inc. and SilverStar Communications, Inc., and aired live, nationwide, and via-satellite on Citynet Television 27 on July 5, 1997, with an encore telecast on GMA Network on July 6, 1997. The Citynet Television 27 live telecast meanwhile was also aired on DZBB 594 Radyo Bisig Bayan and Campus Radio 97.1 WLS FM

That car was a HOSS that day!

exact same hit. Ward.. for all intense and purposes.. walked away.

NASCAR lost me and a lot of people when the cars they raced no longer looked real.

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Doesn't even matter. NASCAR and ESPN/ABC are complete shit now. When I want my NASCAR fix, I just watch the '90s races up here.

2:34:21 GAWDAMMIT

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Ha damn it 😂2:34:21

Am I the only one who skips thru to the end of these races? Lol

Don’t mean to knock tradition, but if NASCAR races were like a third less than the total laps of most races they have, I feel It’d more intense and exciting

Wards hit at the end and just that accident was identical to the accident that killed Dale

R.I.P John Andretti.

RIP John Andretti

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