"Sensational rookie Tony Stewart!" Holy cow I'm getting old!

Look at that crowd! Wow, these were the days. I miss this Nascar.

The introduction to this race is just fantastic

Watching this will make you sad. What a wonderful sport this was. The colors, sounds and excitement were unreal. Now it's like a parade with sponsors.

I wish CBS would come back to broadcast NASCAR races. The passion and perfection of a broadcast was unprecedented and blows today's broadcasts out of the water.

I was lucky enough to be at this race. Had a blast. Sat on the backstretch. The entire place was packed with fans!!!!

Crazy to see the backstretch grandstands filled. Now, that never happens. Miss those days.

I loved how, since it was a primetime broadcast, they used CBS's closing credits template at the time. The Blue Sky promo was a bit jarring for following an auto race, but the Letterman promo was spot-on.

The race weekend that ended Mark Martin's championship hopes. Incredible the injuries he suffered and raced through after his practice crash.

The 1999 Pepsi 400 aired on CBS on Saturday July 3, 1999. It *easily* won its Saturday night timeslot, with a 5.4/13 rating/share (42nd out of 115 shows airing that week) and was watched by 8.11 million viewers.

This is really cool to look back on. I was on the backstretch for this race! Thank you for letting me revisit this!

Earnhardt was really impressive in this race. He was using the side draft before anyone else knew it existed.

Dale Earnhardt 1999 Superspeedway Finishes. Daytona 500 2nd. Talladega 1st. Daytona 400 2nd. Talladega 1st.

Times have changed. Kmart was main sponsor. Now they are in Bankruptcy court.

How i love this marvelous and powerful V8 sound of that year!!!.

That kid Erin Hughes sang the National Anthem really well. : )

Shalom and Amen

1:04:59 Wow the DISRESPECT on Ward Burton was real and not lost on Mike Joy LOL!!!!

When Dale Jarrett is on a rail. look out.

Back when nascar was worth watching

Man I miss NASCAR on CBS i was born in 88 and grew up 15 mins from Daytona so if I wasnt there watching the races I would watch them on CBS. No better trio in NASCAR broadcasting then Jarrett, Baker and Joy.

2:52 Goldberg and Bill Elliott, two very successful Georgia products

Thanks for posting this! I love your channel....I remember watching all these races as a kid!

Dang....Earnhardt likely would have won had the race not finished under caution. Would have been glorious to see Dale win at Daytona again.

I missed watching this race when I was a kid and I didn't get to see how Jarrett won the race or even knew it was controversial. Thanks so much for the upload!

A fun race. Rusty just couldn’t hang on the restrictor plate tracks. He led a ton of laps, just to get shuffled at the end. Just like the 1999 Daytona 500. Such a clean race as well.

When they moved the Pepsi 400 to nighttime, Earnhardt finished no worse than 10th and had a shot at winning all 3 that he was in. He finished 10th in '98 after leading 41 laps but hit a tire like a hockey puck down pit road that messed up the valence and handling, yet shot up through the field after having his front end replaced. He finished 2nd in this race, and if Jarrett had passed the pace car again Earnhardt would have won his third Pepsi 400 and first under the lights, and then in 2000 he finished 8th.

1:23:40 funny is MRN had gone to break just before this pass occurred.

My grandma took me to this race.. We had pit passes and all. It was amazing being 10 or 9 or whatever I was watching my hero Dale Earnhardt in person. Damn Dale Jarrett ruined the party though winning LUCKILY due to caution lol.. I think Dale woulda got him if he had the chance. I still remember watching this last lap in tears begging my Aunt (she worked for NASCAR) too do something to let them finish the race under green lol. Gosh life was so much easier and happier back than… Dads dead now, Aunt lost her husband (my Uncle) last month, my grandma and I don’t even speak.. god things change.. I’m a papa myself now watching these highlights with my 2 year old.

Involved in crash 1 Steve Park 2 Rusty Wallace 4 Bobby Hamilton 5 Terry Labonte 6 Mark Martin 7 Michael Waltrip 9 Jerry Nadeau 10 Ricky Rudd 12 Jeremy Mayfield 16 Kevin Lepage 22 Ward Burton 24 Jeff Gordon 28 Kenny Irwin 42 Joe Nemechek 43 John Andretti 55 Kenny Wallace 60 Geoffery Bodine 66 Darrell Waltrip 94 Bill Elliott 97 Chad Little

Greg Gumbel has always been synonymous with the NFL, never knew he did some NASCAR on CBS work!

Thank you oh so much for this!

When NASCAR was great, & simple! Announcers just called & talked about the race!! All you hear during a race today is so many damn stupid rules drivers have to obey by, takes away from the actual racing

Greg Gumbel doing NASCAR lol

nice race dave thanks

Agree. They should run Darlington, fall Charlotte, and at least one Richmond race on a Sunday afternoon. Atlanta too

I was born on the day of this race

Great race indeed, I was there and it was amazing. It was the top for nascar, now it's fasting dying sport.

58:06 Hooray for the age of 10-10-XXX numbers!

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At 0:09:49, was that Dr. Punch from ESPN?

The last time they raced at Daytona in the 19th century. Cars had a special paint scheme.

Ernie Irvan's final career top-10 finish

Very very well said :-)

Yes.

There we go I found it.

Of course he passed the pace car - it was a Pontiac. EVERYBODY passed Pontiacs - even Yugos! :lmao:

2:05:10 "you are the shit!"

Didn't the IRL have a nighttime race on ABC from Las Vegas previous to this?

19:25 Start

The Dale and Dale show part 3 (?)

The Kodak 4 car actually won at Daytona 5 times......correct me if I'm wrong

The peanut boys won this race

What a great national anthem by 12-year-old Erin Hughes! Too bad she can't stay 12 years old forever.

11:20

Or even Ken Squier

@ebraman9588 The big difference here is this: Mark was forced to do it as a one-shot because he had a really hard crash in practice and broke his wrist. Danica did that all her career as a force of habit. I think Danica pioneered it as a habit in NASCAR, although the practice was hardly new.

Back when drivers actually missed the show and no such thing as charters....

back then they didn't have green white checkers. good race but I hate a race that ends under caution .

WOW CANT SHE SING

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GILLBERG

I had a Chance to Win 1 Million Dollars at This Race as part of a Discount Auto Parts Promotion before they became Advance Auto Parts, where 6 months before the July 4th Race on your Entry you had to Pick in Order the First 5 Racers, And the Driver I picked to Win the Race Mark martin wrecked his car with less then a minute left in practice and broke his arm and started a back up car from the back of the pack I had 2 of the other 5 racers but No Dale Jarrett who won because Jimmy Spencers crash or Jarrett would have run out of gas giving Dale Sr the Win. I am not complaining, I got a weekend for 2 at Orlando Hotel, Luxury Bus to Infield at Daytone and Seats on the End of Pit Roads in Grandstands and $1,000 spending Money. I Took my brother who all my life had always been there for me and deserved it, There were 10 of us that had a chance to Win that Million and No One Did, But we All Enjoyed our Time

On July 4, 1999, GMA Network aired the 1999 Pepsi 400, the first NASCAR night race on American Network Television, which was the cornerstone of the 19th year of NASCAR Racing on Philippine Television. This race was jointly produced by Television and Production Exponents, Inc. and SilverStar Communications, Inc. and simulcasted on the Entertainment Music Channel 27 with a radio simulcast on Super Radyo DZBB 594 kHz and Campus Radio 97.1 WLS FM

The Date Of This Race Never Should've Been Changed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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