I lived IN south Boston when he won. It was nutsss after

I followed Ricky Craven because in live in Maine. He won twice in Cup. It was awesome.

@@jessebeckwith3446 I liked Craven and Musgrave. Musgrave broke my heart too many times.

@@kimchi2780 Musgrave finished well in points there for a bit mid 90's...so close to victory

I was a 16 year old kid who had been through it as a Ward Burton fan for 5 years. Over 20 years later, as I type this reply after watching this video, I STILL can't stop crying. That was THE greatest day of my life as a sports fan. As a born and bred Alabama boy, I've been through the worst of times for Alabama football, and I've seen success beyond comprehension, but NONE of it compares to watching that 22 Caterpillar Dodge take that checkered flag that day.

I wonder what produced that sound

@@Daytonamike924 they used an X-pipe style design exhaust called a "boom tube" and it only exited out one side of the car, that's what made the exhaust note sound like that back in 99-2005ish

@@ryanjamieson8779 not true it ran out of both sides and it was only the x pipes not the boom tube or anything else cause iroc had the same sound and those exhaust pipes were round. There is a whole video explaining why they had that but it was basically the 90 degree kinked x pipe and they had that sound from 1995 with sterling marlin at first clear till the last superspeedway race in 2007. Iroc had the same dude that made them put them on the cars cause they thought they sounded cool and a few of the xfinity cars at superspeedways run them again but not all of them.

that was a really dumb move...

Couldnt agree more. And you commented that two years ago. It's even worse now. The drivers don't appreciate it like they once did.

@@theyguy958 It just keeps gettin worse

I think its been watered-down down a bit, but mostly by the media. Ateast in the last decade. It also doesn't help. We have had more repeat winners, and younger winners. Who haven't spent a whole career winning one race. To me as a racing fan. This is one of the big four races. That most drivers dream of winning. The other three are Monaco, lemans, and the Indy 500.

Stages and Giant Ass Spoilers, it's a death trap race now. 2 Years in a row I thought I saw guys get killed, Newman in 20 and Brad and Kyle in 21. McDowell is a joke of a driver and got lucky he slipped past the wreck. And what a winner Trevor Bayne became. This used to be the race even the best struggled to win or never won, DW and Dale tried for most of their career to finally get it. Tony Stewart never did and Mark Martin either. Now I think I could go win it...

@@MrBurney12 Elliott should've won that, that was not real racing.....

I remember during one of the interviews with Ward , he was asked how he felt about winning the 500 , his response was " whee "

I think you got to give it to Ward for that "SON OF A BITCH, WE WON IT!!!" line.

TuckerWhite94 I believe that honor belongs to Long Islander Tommy Baldwin Jr! Greatest thing ever said on a NASCAR radio!

They were,agree!

1000% sounded better

David, not your imagination. Real sound. I love this. IMO the v10 screaming f1 engines were way better.

Not your imagination..love the plate sound back then

from 95 (with Steling Marlin especially) until the last year of Gen4 in 2007 the sound in plate racing was incredible. The first 500 with the Gen6 in 2013 came close to this sound as well.

Hahahahaha

Holy shit, me too. I was jumping up and down

I was in tears

I was 5. It was my first memory.

Me too

if he won that would be a story and a half to tell... pretty much his first race in full form since that horrendous crash he had in the first truck series race in Daytona two years before (he returned during the 2000 season, but was even fired from his cup team because of his struggles and ran two cup races in 2001)

Currently FOX airs the first 16 races of the year, and NBC airs the last 20 races.

I was so heart broken for Sterling...had the points lead silver bullet was a blur that year

Not to mention it was just two years after Bodine's monster crash at Daytona in 2000

That’s why this ruled

He won it in ‘86.

He actually won it back in 1986

I can't believe they didn't bleep him. He does say "Son of a bitch", correct?

@@richhood9934 man you cant control those things :D he won daytona500

nascarfan88ta Son of a bitch! We won it man!

Last lap no caution in nascar

Why hello me from 9 years ago 😂

@@teiguemccormack3533 well in 1950-2015 ( i don't know after 2016 ) no countion in last lap in Nascar rules