250,000 people in attendance for a brickyard nascar race. Oh my how times have changed lol

1:12:14 Brian France was the worst thing that ever happened to Nascar

I feel bad for DW in his interview about Dale's accident.

Kinda sad hearing Kyle Petty talking about the loss of the races at North Wilkesboro mentioning that one of the races went to Texas and the other went to New Hampshire full while knowing that it was that move to New Hampshire that eventually cost him his son!

Scary, this is now The Old Days. 🙄

I feel like NASCAR can get back to this point, and I hope it does.

Man I miss 90s and early 2000s Nascar

The nostalgia in this! I remember seeing this on DVD when I was younger! Thanks for uploading this!

god every time i see the clips of dw in the booth in the end of 2001 daytona it makes me cry. he’s so happy and proud of his brother and then moments later to have all of that happiness sucked right out of you unknowingly having watched a friend pass away is so hard to watch. i’m just glad this race helped boost michaels confidence in his cup career and was able to win another daytona 500. dei was really dominant during those days before it ended up how it did. i know dale would’ve been proud of what he started and what his drivers accomplished in his cars. if only it’s future was in the right hands with dale jr and his siblings im sure they would still be a dominant team to this day. rest in peace 3

35:17 - can you imagine the modern day officials. "passing below the yellow line, penalty car #3". Rip.

Thanks for the upload! Never seen this before.

I have been to 5 NASCAR races from 1996-1999, and there was nothing else like it!

I remember going to Michigan in the early 2000’s & just packed!

Yeah making nascar “hip” has worked real well haha

Thanks for this. Been trying to learn more and more about Nascar, watching old races from all era's. You are one of the guys helping me learn about something interesting and quite foreign to me as a lifelong F1/sportscar fan. Really exciting sport with unique history and crazy fans. I love it, and thank you for your work on this channel. Keep up the great work man!

Incredible how Darlington is billed as the next historic track to close down when the Throwback weekend and return of the Labor Day Southern 500 has changed so much for Darlington's future!

1:12:12 - thats part of the problem. You have an un-sophisticated man (and a damn idiot in my eyes) trying to make a sport sophisticated, when noone on this dayumn planet wants it to be sophisticated. One of the reasons we love it so much is because its real (Wilkesboro) , its grass roots (Rockingham) and its by the people, for the people and the more you take it away from that the more it will fall. Im not even from any of the Southern States but i recognise what made this sport great. Thank the Lord Brian got replaced. As much as Smokey thought little Bill was an idiot, he dayumn sure helped make this sport great. Heres a saying that ive just made up but I think makes sense. If you polish something too much, it starts to wear away. I hope you're all well and good and staying safe.

40:00 - i dont know why these guys are saying they didnt think people outside Nascar knew who Dale [Sr.] was. I knew who he was, out here in England, before we had Internet. Even Hip - hop artists in New York were name dropping Dale by 1999 and thats just on a particular cd i bought. Senior was a massive massive name in global motorsport but also in popular culture. (the song is Mos Def - Speed law). Rip Dale and all those we've lost. Ps i hope everyones well and good and staying safe.

Man this was right before the downfall. Right up to this point, NASCAR peaked.

some good memories thank you NASCAR

Pretty cool to watch this knowing Darlington is still alive and well.

J. K. Simmons as the narrator is pretty cool

To insinuate Yanks weren't interested in NASCAR or even knew who Dale Sr was until his death is the biggest asinine statement, what foolish nonsense.

You can tell how much Darrell Loved Dale.

Yes Kyle, we do have to go there every year until the end of time!

I remember watching this and falling asleep.

When the narrator said the drivers aren’t guys in pajamas the camera showed Hamlin

300 million Americans and 1 quarter of them are Nascar fans. Half of those are Earnhardt fans. All respect and call Petty the King. I always wanted to go back in time when Petty , Pearson, Yarborough and Bobby Allison dueled it out Internet and You Tube made it happen. Thanks.

Why is the cover of the video some Walmart looking chick the hell

Poor Darrell talking about Dale 😢😢

the downfall came because NASCAR forgot about guys like me who built racing engines in my basement and was able to make the daytona 500 when there were 50/60 cars trying to make the race.

When NASCAR reached its peak. The only thing that ruined it from that point on was a recession from 2008-2009 that was unparalleled, the car of tomorrow or COT, NASCAR going away from its roots by getting out of Rockingham or even North Wilkesboro. And all the drivers became too polished. And I think that's partly the reason why a lot of us NASCAR fans would rather see the racing that existed from the 90s in the early 2000s from the cars are we seeing in the program. Could there ever be a another contract for television they should definitely go back to ESPN. And if anything, bring back Bob Jenkins.

am i the only one who thinks denny hamlin is a pudwhack?

NASCAR has turned into the completely wrong direction.

The Chase was invented to keep interest in the fall. Thanks to NFL RedZone, I have no interest in NASCAR in the fall

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Eh, not important but @15:00 the narrator narrates: the Scots and the Irish, in one sentence .. Advice: when in Ireland or Scotland and while in a pub .. Do not say/use Irish and Scottish together in one sentence ! And absolutely not on a Saturday night, say around 10:45 pm (in fact, don't ever talk Irish in Scotland or Scottish in Ireland) Also, GREAT DOCU ... Thx

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Schrader goes there because he can win there but he can't win in Cup series.

Yep, this was before ESPN, NBC and Fox killed the sport. To hell with NASCAR today.

Huh

Zero chance that anti white, politically correct ESPN would air this in 2020

Bubba

The part around 11:00mins he says they settled on the land no one wanted lol thats a bold faced lie look up the Royal Proclamation 1763 The land east of the Appalachian mountains was for the settlers the land west of the appalachian mountains is Indian territory Most importantly Iroquois territory.

25%? yeah not quite LOL within just the first 15min there is alotta stupid sh1t said.