1997 Winston 500
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11 жыл бұрынTalladega Superspeedway- Talladega, AL
May 10, 1997
@M1lesJames 9 жыл бұрын
This was the first race I ever attended in person, I was 14 at the time. Mark Martin became my favorite driver that day, and I'm glad he did. Mark's a class act, a true champion to the people.
@Fetterkuss1983 4 жыл бұрын
Mine too! I was 13. Liked Mark but Dale was always my man.
@goodeyebrian3598 3 жыл бұрын
This was my first Talladega race. I was 17. I went to the two rainouts too. After this, I went to every Dega race until DE’s last win in 2000.
@coreybaldwin7563 8 ай бұрын
@@goodeyebrian3598 Right? The rain was a mess. Sunday and Monday.
@bcherbs 10 ай бұрын
From crowd to drivers , the shear amount of people involved is mind blowing to say the least !
@pj2cray 3 жыл бұрын
Watching this after Dale Jr's Podcast talking about Mark Martin's rear shocks in this race. It's great how stories bring you back to reference different things throughout the history of the sport.
@default123default2 3 жыл бұрын
Yeah I just heard it on Martin's podcast. It's insane how much he's bouncing even on the victory lap
@pj2cray 2 жыл бұрын
@@default123default2 Would you remember which episode of his podcast this was?
@MrBurney12 2 жыл бұрын
@@pj2cray It's on the Larry McReynolds episode of Dale Jr's show.
@81casperflip 3 жыл бұрын
Two paint schemes I'll never forget #98 RCA and #46 First Union. This was around the time I started getting into nascar. Really miss these days
@ohiopower 11 жыл бұрын
I miss Ned and Benny in the booth. They didn't treat the viewers like they were morons. Especially the hardcore ones.
@dajangreensword1795 2 жыл бұрын
This still remains as NASCAR'S fastest ever race.
@4fanintexas 6 жыл бұрын
This was my first race working for Nascar. Went on to work at Talladega for another 19 years before hanging it up at the end of the 2015 season. If I'm not mistaken, this race was rained out in April and ended up being run in May on Mother's Day weekend. Will probably never see them run on Mother's Day weekend again.That day it was rained out was miserable. Cold and rainy... never got above 50 degrees I'm sure.
@scottpeters371 2 жыл бұрын
One of the greatest races in NASCAR history. Some of the rocket scientists racing now should watch this and take notes
@sivvybee 11 жыл бұрын
The Best announcers in Nascar. Bob,Ned and Benny.
@donnievick3076 4 жыл бұрын
Buddy Baker was good too.
@acewilliams7917 4 жыл бұрын
Add a little Dr. Jerry Punch...
@cfoster81 3 жыл бұрын
Other than the CBS crew lead by Ken Squire when Ned worked with him through the 80s into the early 90s, Bob Jenkins, "Gentleman" Ned Jarrett, the late Benny Parsons and Dr. Jerry Punch during ESPN's first stint of NASCAR coverage were the best TV broadcasters
@jonathanpatterson2502 3 жыл бұрын
this was my first race at the age of 13 (now I'm 37) sitting down low at the end of the front stretch. Can't believe how time flys
@MarkMeadows90 5 жыл бұрын
Ol' Mark Martin. My favorite driver at the time.
@robertanderson2898 3 жыл бұрын
This one is special to me. I graduated in '97 and I recorded this race right around the time i did. I might still have it on tape somewhere.
@default123default2 3 жыл бұрын
Anyone here from the Mark Martin podcast ? He talks about how they ran qualifying shocks in the car and it was fast but rough as hell! Look at the in car view. He's bouncing around in there
@JJA1987 Жыл бұрын
Dale tried that in the fall race weekend according to Larry Mac but he couldn't drive it for some reason - Since that was the reason Mark beat him in the Spring
@MarkMeadows90 5 жыл бұрын
Best era in NASCAR. The restrictor plate race cars sounded AMAZING back then.
@acewilliams7917 4 жыл бұрын
They sound like cars. Good ol' american muscle.
@DaveyMurray1 9 жыл бұрын
Good ol days where you had to be good all year to win a championship.
@danielwest9955 6 жыл бұрын
I feel you. Although, Truex was preeety good all season.
@johnboy4025 3 жыл бұрын
Hence why JJ should never be put on the same pedestal as Petty and Earnhardt.
@braydenfletcher8159 3 жыл бұрын
@Holy shit, it's a talking muffin If we are talking that way, Petty won 4 titles under 4 different formats. It's the rules in place. Johnson might've drove more consistently in the summer months if they knew there wasn't going to be a reset. Dont trust my word? Listen to Chad Knaus on the Dale Jr Download. He practically said as much
@joepa62 10 жыл бұрын
the best nascar race ever ;cars to the limit ! green flag all the way fastest driver and car of all time mark martin ; no stupid lucky dog pass or green white yellow or manditory yellow ; martin set the record straight ! you can pass me but first ya gotta catch me !!! martin out front with earnhardt; gordon on his tail and they still couldnt hook up to pass him ; plus a record over 188 mph ave speed which i think will never be broken because of the smaller fuel tanks and more pitstops ; its been a pleasure spending the years watching in my opinion the best driver and most classiest driver of all time ; congrats to mark martin ; hope you get into the hall of fame soon !!! you have definately earned it !!!!!!!!
@acewilliams7917 4 жыл бұрын
Mr.Consistency!!!
@gtgodbear6320 4 жыл бұрын
This race feels like it was yesterday. I can't believe it was 24years ago.
@acewilliams7917 4 жыл бұрын
Tell me about. Time flies.
@larryyoder4861 9 ай бұрын
My wife and I drove from southern Indiana for this race and Mark Martin my favorite driver won 🎉
@robertanderson2898 3 жыл бұрын
No competition cautions, no stages, no Playoffs...... just flat out good ol' Nascar racing. No Free Passes either though ......
@denverthuggit 11 жыл бұрын
Back when the cars were race cars, and the racing was real racing.
@acewilliams7917 7 жыл бұрын
Nothing like a beautiful day at the track. the grass is so nice you can eat it.
@michaelkilgore8358 4 жыл бұрын
Don't you mean smoke it.
@acewilliams7917 4 жыл бұрын
@@michaelkilgore8358 If you feel like smoking it...feel free!! It's a beautiful day at the track.
@Quartermaster323 3 жыл бұрын
My second race I watched on tv. Instant Mark Martin fan, instant NASCAR fan. To hear other drivers describe Martin, this is a man to strive to be. ☆MM4EVR☆ Still my favorite Martin win even though I there to see him win at California
@pashedmotatos 9 жыл бұрын
I turned 6 years old the day this race was run. It's cool to see what race this was. I am hearing good things about this race. I was a kid and knew what NASCAR was but I never watched it back then. This seems like an incredible race. Back when America was still great; simpler and prosperous days.
@mrbeaverstate 9 жыл бұрын
188 laps without a caution, not one styrofaom cup or napkin to bring a yellow.
@Probowler37 9 жыл бұрын
LOL not even a bubble gum wrapper!
@aebking 9 жыл бұрын
And was still a great race,wish Nascar would take note,but they wont
@jamesgentry13 9 жыл бұрын
aebking #1 got to cater to the casual ADD fan
@aebking 9 жыл бұрын
More like the corporate CEOs who probably only watches the highlights on fox sports1 lol!
@MovieLover1995 5 жыл бұрын
The other two Talladega races that ran caution free were the 2001 Spring race won by Bobby Hamilton and the 2002 Fall race with Dale Earnhardt Jr. getting his third Talladega victory in less than a year.
@richardrobinsonii2024 3 жыл бұрын
Back when someone said "I'M FASTER THAN YOU AND I CAN PROVE IT" AND OF COURSE THE CARS FROM THE 1995 TO 2000s WAS FAST
@sivvybee 6 жыл бұрын
Fastest Race in Nascar History. Look who was the Pusher.
@michaelkilgore8358 4 жыл бұрын
The 3 should have won it.
@zzzx8017 3 жыл бұрын
@@michaelkilgore8358 No Way! Mark had the fastest car!
@wyattshipman6597 3 жыл бұрын
Rear Shock’s were beating Mark to hell!
@patboger1339 Жыл бұрын
500 miles, caution free. They did this again in 2001. I miss the days when this was possible.
@swvastories3498 4 жыл бұрын
From a time when the race was the main story, not an hour pre-race show where we get to find out what a driver's favorite movie was last year.
@coreybaldwin168 4 жыл бұрын
I was there that day. I wasn't worried Mark Martin would get freight trained. I worried Earnhart would wreck him to win like he has done so many times before.
@Ob1tuber 2 жыл бұрын
But Earnhardt just went, I’ll race you clean, just don’t brake check me
@gilliganallmighty3 2 жыл бұрын
If it had been any other driver, Earnhardt may have booted him, but Martin was a driver who had the kind of attitude and respect that other drivers reciprocated in kind.
@JJA1987 Жыл бұрын
Dale and Mark always respected each other
@richardferrell7412 Жыл бұрын
This was my first Talladega Cup Race. I was a regular at Atlanta and Bristol but I always said I had no desire to go to Talladega because I thought you could see it better on TV than in person. Man was I ever wrong. I was 31 and had just recently got divorced and I had taken my vacation in April and went to the Busch race at the Nashville Fairgrounds for Steve Parks first win and then the next weekend saw Mark Martin win the Busch race at Talladega with Steve Park right on his back bumper and we listened to Dale coaching Steve on the radio in the final laps but he couldn’t pull it off. Then the monsoon came and the rest of the weekend was ruined. I worked weekends and my boss was very upset that I asked for the weekend off two weeks after returning from vacation. For this race we just drove down the day of the race and luckily ate breakfast in a McDonalds with the Valvoline crew that morning then got to see them win the race. For the next several years I never missed a Talladega race. Awesome Memories.
@Blackout690 10 жыл бұрын
those were the days
@dracer555 8 жыл бұрын
My first race at talledega. And I was a matin fan,
@thomascook2771 2 жыл бұрын
Best driver to never win it all. Damn good racer
@cfoster81 3 жыл бұрын
Modern day NASCAR fans should watch this race and to this day, I still can't believe there were NO cautions during the entire race
@budamania1989 7 жыл бұрын
good racing and caution free too thanks
@Posirep 9 жыл бұрын
NASCAR would never let this happen now. They NEED their phantom debris yellows.
@aebking 9 жыл бұрын
Yep
@AlonsoRules 7 жыл бұрын
gotta have those debris cautions, green white checkers, wrecks and junior
@24RulezJG 7 жыл бұрын
Don't forget the infamous stage racing. Brian France should be very ashamed of himself. His Grandad, Big Bill France Sr is rolling around in his grave right now.
@jeffreysnydr 3 жыл бұрын
Had my first communion on this day...
@CoasterMan13Official 3 жыл бұрын
Fastest race in the sport's history.
@Be.authentic_ 11 ай бұрын
I love how the caution flag just said NAH during this race 😂😂
@johnnyjameson3641 5 жыл бұрын
This was apparently before stereo was invented
@wolverine9632 2 жыл бұрын
Probably recorded on a mono VCR
@Mxpositive48 3 жыл бұрын
Isn't this also the fastest race in nascar history?
@mustang6172 8 жыл бұрын
Anyone else find it weird that Firestone is sponsoring a NASCAR race? Much less one at Talladega?
@freddiefrenzy6775 7 жыл бұрын
They probably were a sponsor of ESPN's SpeedWorld, not the race itself
@ricksanchezsflask8794 5 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure Firestone was a sponsor of the coverage, not the race. I recall seeing a lot of Firestone commercials during NASCAR races.
@Zerosen89 Ай бұрын
love classic nascar
@MovieLover1995 5 ай бұрын
The very first NASCAR race at Talladega to be postponed to a Monday, and the very first Talladega race to go completely caution free.
@2004Cosby 11 жыл бұрын
What's the song at the very beginning
@jallenw.67 2 жыл бұрын
I was at this race
@larryfriend2584 4 жыл бұрын
I was at this Race. the Last 25 Laps Mark Martin was Leading Dale Earnhardt and the Guy standing next to me was yelling Go Dale Go, while I was Yelling Make that Ford Wide Mark. Back and Forth we Yelled. When it was over and Mark Martin had Won this Guy and I shook Hands and His Wife Hugged me and we Exchanged Numbers and Said we'd meet in the same place in the fall and walked away Friends. I got so Drunk and I didn't spend a Penny for Beer, everyone around me kept handing me one when I would finish one. What a Day.
@CyclonesFan24 2 жыл бұрын
What's the song they played at the beginning?
@WhoopityDoo 11 жыл бұрын
Amen, dude.
@davidebasinger2997 5 ай бұрын
Anybody know the song they keep using during the race?
@joepa62 10 жыл бұрын
mark said not today !!!!!! jimmy fenig (martins crew chief ) said the tranny was only hanging on by a thread !! cracked main tranny shaft ; fastest nascar race ever with average speed set by martin at over 188 mph
@jpyt845 8 жыл бұрын
What song is that at 0:50-1:20. They used this music for the intro on Fox Sports Net Formula One Coverage
@AlexLozanoRacing 3 жыл бұрын
It's called "Pit Stop" by Jean Christophe Soullier and Kamil Rustam.
@jpyt845 3 жыл бұрын
@@AlexLozanoRacing Link to whole album: www.universalproductionmusic.com/en-us/discover/albums/378/Rock-The-Factory
@thewarwagon5649 5 жыл бұрын
NO debris cautions, because they had to race on Monday! NOBODY watching on TV, sad to say.
@Harmds5fl 3 ай бұрын
Race the truck dale we love the truck❤
@andrewhayes88 9 жыл бұрын
Strange that they didnt just postpone this event to the Monday after the original race date. I'm assuming that more bad weather happened that week? Would be very odd if the delayed a race to a scheduled off weekend today
@WahooBrad24 9 жыл бұрын
They did attempt on Monday,but it rained that day as well. So they pushed it to the Saturday of Mother's Day weekend which back then was an off-weekend for the Cup Series.
@scottwhitefishing 9 жыл бұрын
Andrew Hayes It rained that Monday as well, they tried and teams had to move on to the next race.
@AlonsoRules 7 жыл бұрын
they had to move across for Sears Point, so a Tuesday race just wasn't possible
@WhoopityDoo 11 жыл бұрын
It wasn't to me. Andretti's restrictor-plate cars were top notch in 1997.
@kevingeorge548 3 жыл бұрын
Ya, that 98 car was bad ass fast on the restrictor plate races that year. Love that paint scheme on the 98.
@stretson 11 жыл бұрын
man oh man.. I do too!!!!
@Kaos17428 6 жыл бұрын
My parents were at that race
@billyman623 3 жыл бұрын
I liked ss races like this, now they just bump the hell out of each othet
@coreybaldwin7563 5 жыл бұрын
I was there that day. I thinking Earnhart was going to crash Martin. I was surprised he didn't.
@donnievick3076 4 жыл бұрын
Not surprising at all.
@larryyoder4861 9 ай бұрын
Most other tracks he would’ve except Talladega is too dangerous
@fredflintstone505 9 ай бұрын
@@donnievick3076 Earnhardt’a way of racing was “if you can’t beat um, wreck um” He wasn’t called the intimidator for nothing.
@WhoopityDoo 11 жыл бұрын
Probably the Washington Redskins, considering their ties to Bobby's team owner at the time, Joe Gibbs.
@davidmatthewvinotjr8396 9 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know music at 2:50
@josephtuleya771 8 жыл бұрын
+David Matthew Vinot, Jr song is gerry rafferty called ---> right down the line
@Harmds5fl 3 ай бұрын
Old school🎉
@JC-jj1xm 2 жыл бұрын
Here’s a multi million dollar idea. There is
@DiegoOspina86 11 жыл бұрын
of all time?
@mikehergenroether6160 2 ай бұрын
Proof that 'plate' tracks can have great racing without stages and riding around in a pack all race.
@Harmds5fl 3 ай бұрын
People wanna see the truck race dale🎉
@coca-colatrackhousewarrior9925 Жыл бұрын
No cautions like with April 2001 and October 2002
@michaelgentry4908 Жыл бұрын
Drivers had to be exhausted after going caution free all race
@Huntngame 3 ай бұрын
This was racing.
@xblackcatx1312 5 жыл бұрын
NASCAR is dead. I miss these days.
@acewilliams7917 4 жыл бұрын
It died with Earnhardt. Never watched it sence. All i watch now are races of the past.
@gtgodbear6320 4 жыл бұрын
Dick Trickle? Poor guy. "Hi, I'm Dick Trickle"
@NSBlack_Stallion Жыл бұрын
4:24 Oh my God what a lie. 😂
@kamaugates1269 11 жыл бұрын
ABSELOUTLY NO CAUTION! there shold be the big one
@AOIbis 3 жыл бұрын
I miss these days, I haven’t watched NASCAR in like 18 years. Just doesn’t feel like racing.
@charliechapman2842 4 жыл бұрын
Please. Both sides of my headset!
@andredesouza9270 6 жыл бұрын
#newnascarsucks
@mrmysterion5533 6 жыл бұрын
10:30 Start
@briantaylor9285 Жыл бұрын
1997 is when NASCAR peaked imho.
@isiahbethel5956 2 жыл бұрын
Audio sucks!