When did a NASCAR go 220MPH? 212 and 210. Explain.

@@buddywilliams5650 Just a made up example to illustrate a point. You’re splitting hairs is there a big difference between 190 and 220?

@@bobbypaluga4346 take it easy Bobby.

@@buddywilliams5650 NASCAR has actually gone 220 on a few occasions. Biffle clocked 220 down the front stretch at Michigan in 2014. Bill Elliot almost got it in 87 with a pole speed over 210 at Daytona

GamerBoy2694 YES!! SAME!!

I was 14 lol

I was 5 and remember watching this video I’m 14 now

I was only 6 when this aired

I am a huge Jeff Gordon fan but when we lost big E that day I knew nascar would not be the same I wish they would have had safer barrier than day at Daytona because Dale and Jeff had a few more years of racing left and memories for us to see

A generation of crybabies.

good spot!

It's actually this song: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ntiBi6t839nLgas.html

PywackettBarchetta holy shit I always thought they sounded similar. Thanks for pointing that out!

+Wade Davis and if we whore the hans device that would help too

+Wade Davis True, but even with the hans and soft wall he still would've died more than likely. His left lap bet broke because It was installed improperly.

Not to mention when he collected Schrader, that turned his car head on instead of right side

Josh Wooten it was produced in 07 I think

Yes. I wrote down several reasons of why he retired. That was top of the list.

I've always wondered the true reason, as I'm sure we all do. I heard from a crew member of a major team in the Canadian series that he was paid off because there wasn't enough room with the arrival of Suarez. I dont want to spread anything, but who really knows.

he's bill's son. i don't know how old he was back then but i realized they're both part of the family

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twosilentzs yep

He grew up so fast.

Yeah but too bad he is the worse driver in Nascar during his time. He couldn't hold Darrells gloves in racing. Only reason he kept a job was cause fans liked him even though he crashed and totaled so many cars. Especially in 06 and 07.

Your welcome.

TheSmoothGrind what the guy said just didn’t seem right for some reason

A generation of crybabies.

+Kyle O Nah bro, the speed at Dega is what makes it great as a fan attending the race. I agree about some of the speed at other tracks though. But not Talladega or Daytona.

Kyle O watch for the #777 and #113, were the new drivers, soon to be in a month you will see

Deuce, if listened to the quote closely he said " SOME PEOPLE go to races to see wrecks" he didn't say all people go to races to see crashes but if you had listened I wouldn't need to explain it to you.

***** They lowered HP again this year but decreased poundage. Speed is what keeps the fans.

***** at over 200, cars are more likely to go airborne

The Indy cars have far more downforce built into them so they are less likely to come off the ground in a crash, more to do with not killing the spectators then anything really.

I would rather see a race at 150 mph that is a tight race than see a faster race. There used to be and still can be great racing at 120 mph. Its not the absolute danger / flying into the stands that keeps a real fan interested. The cars should pass rules are a little more mainstream exciting. Id rather just see a good race. Its why i go to my local track to watch people just over 100 mph on a shorter track.

+Rob Moore a car has a lift off point at 170.

Theyre buried together, dingbat.

Same tombstone? Dingbat is clever.

Robert Shinn They're not buried together, Dale Sr is resting in a tomb on his property behind the old DEI shop in Mooresville.

They were trying to make a point jacka$$!

Well, it sounds bad but it took his death for Nascar to take safety seriously. Dale was last man to die in the sport. Before than it seemed like you went only a couple years in between deaths. But Nascar went and ruined what made the sport popular, no one wants all these gimmicks. Old fashioned points system. Reward consistency. There were drivers who never won a race all year and won a championship just because of consistency. That's the way it should be. Not playoffs or chase bullshit. They tried to appeal to yuppies who were football fans. I'm not even southern but them pushing away the southern feel of the sport is what killed it. Plenty of northern people were watching in the 90s and early 00s. It was the largest spectator sport in the world and they ruined it and pushed away their core fanbase.

In fairness, most stock car drivers were against the first iteration of the HANS device because it was too big and bulky and it was hard to get out of a car quickly (e.g., if it was on fire) while wearing one.

He was saying the birthplace of speed for NASCAR is Daytona.

Why? Just run a 350 inbred engine in every one of them.

Jimmy Horton (#32) went over the wall in the 1993 DieHard 500. He came out of the car uninjured and can be seen standing beside it. Stanley Smith (#49) suffered a life-threatening injury in the crash. He is one of the few drivers to survive a basilar skull fracture.

bones007able or a throwback race where they bring out some classics. I hate that I'll never see a superbird race in person

The new camero ZL1 is legit enough, street version is V8 RWD with only 200 hp less than NASCAR, just Ferd needs to get it's shit together and put the mustang and revive Dodge, Toyoda should bring some Supra V8 thing or Lexus, or return to China

Bojo David Danica would've died like 12 times with the old cars and concrete walls :^)

They have to save the footage because as sad as it may be it is A: a part of the history B: dales crash is important to the idea of speed and danger and C: why would it be okay for them to show footage of fireball Robert's crash but because there are so many dale earnhardt fans they can't show dales wreck?

@@theheadofthetable4246 but the images were more frightening than the video angles. Even the photos show the interior of the 🚗. Adam Petty's and Kenny Irwin's wrecks weren't televised, but the images of those cars stopped are on the internet.

Richard Petty on the left; Adam Petty in the Middle; Kyle Petty on the right.

+Evan Lively awesome! Thanks!

3 generations.

That "announcer" is a great NASCAR historian and knows more about this sport than you ever will. So who is the REAL dummy?

Yeah... I'll never blame Richard for that incident... I'll blame his boss... I'll blame his crew... But I won't blame Richard... Mainly because he truly convinced me that he was utterly clueless as to what was going on at the time... Richard was just driving... He didn't know the car he was driving might or might not have been rigged...

You watched the video on mute didn't you? That comment you made makes me think you did.

He was talking about just in NASCAR dumba$$, you clearly don't understand nascar or the video.

Goody Cat but meme1 is also overengineered as hell and 500x times more expensive, so that 2 fools with faster rides always win. Low budget NASCARs are ran by average Joes with some engineering and wrenching background... Yet it's too expensive for they to be competitive. JGR would be like Mercedes compared on how they dominate and they're still a world appart in budget differences. So yeah. If NASCAR had F1 budgets they'd kept on developing the 70's aerocars and be running 300+mph today

Nobody's talking about F1 idiot!!!

So why don't you then? Get some guys together, buy some cars, engines, equipment & a hauler & go down to Daytona in February & show everyone how it's done...

Vine Wood I will beat half of them, if I did.

bluejackgirlyx gran turismo doesn't count

catfishbilly martinez hahaha! But seriously- I bet I can get a team of guys from across the country - and - racing on ten random tracks ( Pocono would have to be included, and INdy) that the non pros could o some damage ti their ego's - think about it - the pressure is on them - and they will just get beat down,,, what do u think abt smoke killing that kid and getting away with it - I think it speakls volumes about how effed up their minds are on one hand they race big tracks - wiot big teams - big crowds, big fields, for big money - and the next day - they are up in cayahuga new York - racing in rally cars on a dirt track--- like the dukes of hazard - with the winner getting a pick up truck worth of baled hay and seed. I think smoke os guilty - but he is lucky - the circumstances skew in his favor... meaning there is no set of representatives who can intelligently speak to what exactlky happened on the track - clearly the tape is what they viewed and you can see the other drivers on the the inner track - while smoke is up top - and how would smoke feel if every time he got pout of hi9s car to throwe his helmet at someone - that someone decided to turn right and run him over? he showed himself not to be a man worthy of the name smoke - but - a more fitting title - like " gutless puke child with no brains."

Well if you can beat half of, or as a matter of fact, if you can even qualify for a race why aren't you? Or are you content with your current six-figure income?

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