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@@evantaddy3 lol

That fence has like 2" thick steel cables weaved throughout it. Saw it up close. Been to Talledega 8 times.

All those pieces of twisted metal flying up in the crowd at 200 mph! Do they wear helmets too, if they are in the front rows??😊

Wait until I tell my Floridian cousins three Brits came up with the best NASCAR slogan of all time

Yes! Moonshine runners had to outrun the police so they boosted their cars to 200 horsepower and eventually 300hp. That was not enough because they had heavy loads. They built tough, flexible suspension systems and added wider tires. The police chased them for a bit and usually gave up. The police asked Chrysler for a squad car to handle this kind of speed and curves. The 300 horsepower Chrysler 300 was born, the old grandpappy of today's Bentley-looking sedan. By 1970 the 300 had up to 375bhp and could catch anything on a straight road at least. Moonshine runners started not only NASCAR but the American muscle car trend which exists to this day with Challenger Demon with 840 hp. Folks like Hennessey bring these and other cars up to 1000 horsepower.

This is the only reason I don't talk shit about it. My grand father had 2 identical cars but one had a raised rear suspension so the loaded trunk would look like the other. I love history.

@@LarryHatch So just some good ol' boys never meaning no harm.....

Actually started after prohibition ended, when the guys didn't have anything left to do with their cars.

@@citisoccer A lot of the Southern states still had dry counties and some still do. So, running shine meant making and transporting booze in those counties well into the 60s.

My mind immediately said "Ricky Bobby" lmfao

Dick Trickle is still the best NASCAR name ever.

@@McShaganpronouncedShaegen "That's a strong name."

Yes

Ricky Craven, Ricky Stenhouse, Ricky Hendrick

The center of the us is basically New York 🤷🏽‍♂️

I really got into NASCAR pre the Chase, it's way more tactical than F1 once you understand it and very entertaining, especially short tracks. but they ruined it with the chase imo.

@@liluzisquirt-3542 Do you not understand geography or are you intentionally being stupid?

@@Dr.Spatula I think he’s referring to where the most people are and where the most attention is in the us

@@Thunderbolt2396 doesn't make the comment any less stupid

Hold my beer.

1979 Daytona 500 featured a fistfight between Donnie Allison and Cale Yarborough. That was actually the first NASCAR race to air on TV from beginning to end.

Only when both drivers survive the crash

lol there might have been a few angry people over the years

*The Busch brothers have entered the chat*

Man.. That's mind blowing that it's been nearly 20 years since that happened.

Actually the last death in Cup were Adam Petty and Kenny Irwin Jr.

@@nolandavis9040 Those were in the the last deaths that were in the same weekend (2000) Earnhardt died in 2001

Last death in any NASCAR/NASCAR related series was in 2003.

Didnt Tony Stewart accidently kill somebody though? I may be remembering things wrong

Yep, also most of the speedways aren’t perfect ovals. Such as Atlanta Motorspeedway. Then ya have Bristol, that is an old tiny track.

@@thejestor9378 Well.. it's a newer tiny track on the bones of an old tiny track. The last vestiges of 'old tiny Bristol' are what ripped open Mike Harmon's car in this video, and Michael Waltrip's car earlier. If you can see out of the place at all, it's old Bristol.... should the horizon seem to be made entirely of seats, new Bristol :)

@@thejestor9378 dont forget about the Tricky Triangle at Pocono.

Agreed on this one. Jeff Gordon had one of the most sudden and vicious wrecks ever at the Glen. Link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nKmfgpRera6yY3U.html I always thought if he was driving the 2001 era Cup cars, pre-Earnhardt Sr death, this accident could very well have killed him.

Not to be that guy, but just to help prevent confusion the proper terms are symmetrical and asymmetrical, where as netrual would tend to be used to describe the balance of the car (oversteer vs understeer aka loose vs tight) Again I'm sure most nascar fans understand your comment how ever it's worded but then again this video targets a broader audience that may get confused if they watch a nascar race and the term netrual is used to describe the cars handling characteristics

I think nascar should start using the milk tradition at indy. Indy car drivers stole the tradition of kissing the bricks from nascar so i only think it fair nascar does the same

Before each Indy 500, all 33 drivers specify what kind of milk they would want should they win the race. Also, the only winning driver to shun the tradition was Emerson Fittipaldi who drank orange juice to promote his orange groves

NASCAR *does* follow the milk drinking tradition at their own Brickyard race at the same track.

@@maxh.3579 then why have they never shown it on camera?

@@Lcngopher Tradition

Actually NASCAR does run at the Brickyard (Indianapolis). And they do carry on the tradition of Milk for the celebration.

​@Jim Clark OKEY DOKE! #preperationH

@Jim Clark I agree that they should not try to capitalize on what IndyCar does. Next year they are trying out the road course because the Brickyard 400 has been steadily declining in both viewership, and attendance. It's a wonderful facility. Just not built for NASCAR.

Also for Chance. By far one of the most insightful comments I've seen. Coming from a Earnhardt fan. His father was one of the best that's ever lived. Right up there with Petty, Yarbrough, Allison, and Pearson. His loss was tragic. However unfortunately I feel that if it were not for his death we may not have had the safety innovations that we have today.

@Jim Clark oldest united states racing event compared to Nascar, which has routes that are from America and ingrained into the south where it started, as well as with American car building deserves less than Indy.. yeah no, f that.

Dan Gurney was an underrated legend. I believe he was part of the 1-2-3 finish for Ford in Le Mans, or at the very least a part of that team.

@@captainfordgunz1995 Yes, it was the '67 24 Hours that he won with AJ Foyt driving the Mk VII GT40 that he started the champagne spraying tradition.

Dan Gurney also has 5 wins and 10 Top 10 out of 16 career NASCAR Cup level races. He was an ace at Riverside and pretty much any road course.

@@kacebox174 He's also the last person to build, own and drive a car that won an F1 race.

@@SAVikingSA He is easily one of the best to ever do it and more people should know him.

Yea seeing that truck disappear into flames and reappear as the bare frame, and then get smacked again. Crazy how that wasn’t a fatal crash.

@@chinqlinq89 agreed, by all accounts, he should have been

I believe there's video of the crash after they go to commercial with the commentators chatting

@@MarkPentler From watching the race on KZfaq, they don't show a replay for nearly 10 mins until they see him out of the car and moving on the stretcher.

Switching to sequential gearboxes in 2022 with the new cars. They looks and sound completely badass.

It was a scary crash. Kind of reminds me of Davey Allison's crash at Pocono back in '92. It was almost a similar situation for him.

He won the following race in Richmond.

Ricky Rudd doing that at the Daytona 500 is why they have mandatory check-ins at the infield care centers for crashes like that.

People be saying football and hockey are the toughest sport's, try driving 200mph for 500miles with your eyes taped open and a few broken bones😂

We’re just built different here in America

I have been to a few NASCAR races in my area and they are mind-bending loud and fast. 200 mph and no muffler They have a "post" with the positions displayed, but you need headphones dialed into the radio to know who is in the lead.

It doesn't matter how loud it is at the track. When 40 cars go by at speed it's the only thing you can hear for a few seconds. You can't even hear yourself think. It's so loud that you're not even sure you heard the sound correctly if that makes any sense.

NASCAR is amazing but top fuel dragsters are in another world when it comes to pure mind bending power and speed

When the field comes by at Daytona, you don’t just hear the sound…you FEEL it in every cell of your body.

@@tb9579 Same with Dega

Yeah, sudden stops from 150-200 mph are punishing!

Yeah, that was like the 1st year they raced the trucks at a plate track. Had no plates on cause they thought trucks would be slow enough. They were topping 200 & faster than the cup cars.

Yeah, that wreck is by far the worst NASCAR wreck I've seen.

Following up on that comment the restrictor plates, perhaps ironically, led to more crashes at the superspeedways (though at slightly slower speeds). The plates restrict the air/fuel mixture to limit the car's top speed. So drivers found that closely following behind ("drafting") another car they could push the car in front faster, and ride in the slipstream. So the speeds were reduced but the cars started traveling in packs only inches apart.

​@@pigs18 And then there's people like me that would love to see what happens if you put both the 1987 and the 2020 on the same exact tire and put them head to head. part of why the old cars sucked to drive was their tires. I don't have engine specs for those, but I'm really curious. We already know the new cars are FASTER than the 1987s, but the unrestricted 1987 was Faster than the 2020 car. 205 in the 2020 vs 215 in the 1987, but the 87 didn't have much power, whereas the 2020s have a lot more power (on the short tracks, anyway). That said, iRacing added the 1987 Monte and Thunderbird to the service. JUST driving them on a simulation/video game is nerve wracking. We tend to beg the question HOW THE HELL did these men drive these things?! They're fun, though. I'd like to put these two at Talledega just to see how that pans out, even though we would get the era-correct tire on each car.

@@morgfarm1 It would be interesting to see a race like that for sure, and tires play a huge part, but aerodynamics is another major factor that would likely give a new gen car an edge. Back when these legends were driving the old Montes and T-birds, they had to actually lift the throttle going through the turns at Talladega. Now that the new cars have splitters and vortex generators they stay more planted in high G situations. It may be close though because the old cars would win the drag races down the straights!

Also in that wreck right before he hits The catch fences his car hits the wall in mid air and if that didn’t happen people could’ve died in the stands

We’re just built different here in America

That's not what nascar stands for

@@lancebudgeon2062 yes, it is... Look it up on Google.

@@lancebudgeon2062 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASCAR

@Drew2400 Yeah I know 😅 way to much of an exaggeration, anyway nice profile pic

Rovals

@Drew2400 7

Well we got eggshapes, trioval, quadovals, paperclips but not many pure ovals... Guess bristol and dover would be and a few others

Yeah and also a Richard petty crash as well who is the king

I thought everyone knew about the 500! I guess they're not huge race fans

"Ricky seems like a perfect NASCAR name" lol

Technically it would be Reese Bobby, cause he said it first.

Correction, 2022. the human malware thing pushed the Gen7 car out until February 2022. And they're adding more road courses - I believe its either 4 or 6 road track events next year.

I watched that one live on TV, and even I could see debris flying thru the fence. And from what I recall reading, one woman ended having her jaw broken by the debris.

I completely get it, but that sound so fucking funny. "Sometimes they shift"

Pocono is also notorious for destroying transmissions.

Be sequential gear boxes in 2021

Like most series in the world

Indeed. It's why they flip sooooo many times!

Have you seen the film "Blink of an eye" ? It's pretty interesting about Dale Sr, and Michael Waltrip

If you've ever seen CART/ChampCar, that's what it has become

They do show the wives of the drivers at times if they are at the track. They look like they are having an anxiety attack for sure.

Jimmie Johnson had 5 consecutive championships btw.

In my opinion, Jeff Gordon is better than Johnson. Gordon won 93 Cup races, compared to Johnson's 84. Gordon was limited by the rules changing (as well as the Chase, but that is a whole other can of worms) in the late 2000s and early 2010s, and was extremely close to winning the championship three of those years.

@@country_flyboy that’s a really hard argument to make, but I understand, for me personally, I’d rather have the 4 extra championship rings, compared to Gordon’s 10 more wins, ya know what I mean? But u do see what ur sayin

dale is the greatest one

the Jeff Bodine daytona crash in this video was up there too if you see the pictures of the truck mid crash it would blow your mind he survived

With far less downforce! An F1 car could ride up a sloped wall at 100 mph. At 150mph, any stock car that isn't driving straight is going to produce lift.

They go closer to 180 on most intermediates, I think you're confusing the speeds with IndyCar, which sticks to a range of 200-210, with 220-232 lap average in qualifying (topout at low 240s at Indy and the 2 milers for speed at a point)

@@insertcolorherehawk3761 the original post is correct. The cars can go beyond 200 at Daytona and Talladega.

was at that race and he hit the fence 70 feet left of me, was just waiting to see the cars come by then next thing you know there is debris everywhere. it also made them raise the fences since if the car was 3 ft higher then it would have killed alot of spectators. still remember the drunk earnhart fan with his wide eyes saying "that was awesome" as everyone is just quiet trying to comprehend what just happened and if edwards was dead or not.

@@jacksonblanks8038 damn. I will always say if newman didnt hit edwards, he wouldve not flown up like he did. You can see the rear of his car start to settle back down even at normal speed and he gets hit by newman and flies into the fence. I dont blame newman at all because it happend so fast he couldnt avoid it

@@Lcngopher yeah he def couldnt have, and what really screwed edwards over was the wing as it lifted it up then air caught under the car then it was game over. newman might have pushed it up another foot or two maybe. but i used to race sprint cars and the rolls are fine its those fence crashes and head on into concrete crashes that hurt the most.

It's a shame that he never could win the championship. He came close a couple times. He's doing great as a car owner though. Just like his daddy. Chase Elliott is the first driver to win most popular driver, and the championship since his daddy did it in '88.

The king is undoubtedly the best. You dont have 7 championships and 95 more wins than second place overall (which is a difference of two more than my favorite driver won of 93) and not be the best

@@Lcngopher I agree. There have been notable drivers in certain decades that have been the best of their craft. David Pearson, and Richard Petty always seemed to get the best out of each other. In the '80s Cale Yarbrough, Bobby Allison, and Darrel Waltrip ruled the track as well as Dale Earnhardt. In the '90s it was Davey Allison, Rusty Wallace, Ricky Rudd, Dale Earnhardt, and if I'm not mistaken your favorite driver Jeff Gordon. He was my favorite growing up as well. In the 2000's it was drivers like Tony Stewart, Jimmy Johnson, Matt Kenseth, and Jeff Gordon yet again although his success was mostly to the early 2000s. Now we have guys like Kyle Larson, Joey Logano, my current favorite driver Brad Keselowski, and of course the most talented driver today Kyle Busch. There have been lots of drivers that can be considered the greatest of all time. Seven championships will probably never be replicated again. Unfortunately today's system prioritizes winning over consistency. Where one race regardless if you've won the last 35 can determine somebody else as a champion. I still love my sport, but I couldn't agree more. Back then when you drove a car you were a wheel man. That's not to disrespect the drivers of today. But there's a hell of a lot more things that were fighting you in that race car than there are today.

Also... those embankments are not easy to navigate.

I will say that it can be boring sometimes, but it really comes down to two things. The first is how passionate you are for the sport. If you just love NASCAR, and the tradition it's hard to get bored. The second is the track. It's kind of like someone who is watching Formula 1 for the first time. You have to have a certain type of love for that Motorsport. Not everybody wants to see Lewis Hamilton get out to a 7-second lead. That's coming from a fan of his. You just have to feel the rush.I myself would love to get a crack in both cars. Even if it's just a test drive. Some only get their entertainment from watching the crashes. I get that. However because I've improved upon my knowledge in the sport over the last few years I understand that it also hurts to watch those. Not only because of the dangers that it poses to the drivers, but because it is financial hell when you tear up one of those pieces of equipment. If you want entertainment though. I'd suggest watching the super speedways like Daytona, and Talladega. That's where a majority of these crashes take place in this video anyways. Not only are the crashes wild when they happen, but all the competition is close together. The short tracks like Richmond, Bristol, and Martinsville are also fun to watch. Where it's truly boring to watch NASCAR is at the mile and a halfs. I usually enjoy it, but I can't blame somebody for turning those off because usually once one guy gets out to the lead depending on the rules package they're in a league of their own. The road courses are great as well. Many may suggest that they're trying to do what Formula 1, and IndyCar are doing, but I can salute them for trying to grow the sport, and trying to get away from the more boring side by going to the tracks that require more skill.

Think he got Jr and sr missed up and I think it is sr and petty 1,2 on most people best of all time

There is no clip of Dale. You must be referring to Tony Stewart's wreck where he is flipping upside down. Same race, not the same wreck.

Or if you’re Ricky Rudd, you taped your swollen eyes open so you could see, then went racing 😂

Indeed, in one of these wrecks the commentators compare it to the same driver's wreck earlier in the year.

We’re just built different here in America

@@DankWilliams_Jr. No, racecar drivers are just built differently everywhere. Jeremy Clark said it best on Top Gear when talking about instinctually slowing down going into a blind corner on Mazda Raceway at Leguna Seca. Professional drivers just go full speed because as Clark said, "That part of [their] brain is just broken."

And they have 4 shift manual gearboxes, the only time the downshift is under caution or when they’re going to Pitlane

@@tigerfire828 And of course the road courses.

@@nascarisawesome5018 yes them too

Just found a new one "Biggest crashes so far 2021! (Banger racing)"