Another one....

This may be the highest quality video of the vintage NASCAR races on the internet. Wish there were more old races that were this clear. Thanks NASCAR, please keep posting.

You need to do more of these NASCAR! The archives you have are extensive. I’m sure there’s broadcasts/coverage that haven’t even been seen before! There’s a big audience for these, you must surely realise this. I’m from the UK and love this. So I can imagine in the US, so many people would love this.

Can we also get some higher quality Cup races at Wilkesboro in the 2020s?

who ever worked on these 2020 replays - did an amazing job. i don't know if it's because my high end PC, or Vid card... but these replays look LIVE..and are simply amazing art..like it's being filmed today and we are back in time in 1987 at the running of the Winston Cup Holly Farms 400. frigin amazing and Thank You for your Art, and thank you to D.E.jr and iRacing for preserving this old girl. the tears i shed are for honor and with pride. Dale Sr would be ecstatic about this project of preserving Wilkesboro like IRacing and D Jr are doing. God Bless you all.

Bring it back... it needs to come back. Just like DW said in the 96 Broadcast for the last race.. "You can't keep taking and taking from the fans and the sponsors, you need to maintain a grass roots level of racing in this sport otherwise; you'll wake up one day and they'll be gone and our old friends won't be there" Point being you have to maintain what grew the sport in the first place, yes expansion is good and was needed but you can't turn your back on what got you there in the first place.

The starting grid for this race reads like a list of Hall of Famers. Love it.

Much more enjoyable to watch than modern day P.C. Nascar that has sold it's soul and forgotten the folks in the south who made it was it was ...

Thank you nascar for replaying this!!! I really wish nascar racing could get back to this at tracks like north wilkesboro!!!!

Who's here after iracing's 1987 Cup Cars and track announcement?

Sorry to leave two comments on the same video but just want to point out how much better and more informative the broadcasts were back then.

Thank you NASCAR for posting this!! Is this anyone else's first time seeing a race at N. Wilkesboro? By the time I started watching NASCAR in 1997 this track was off the circuit.

The reason racing like this in the 80's and 90's was so good was because the cars were not stuck to the racetrack. People complain about "aero" affecting the cars, but back when this race was run there was no mention of "aero". That was because the cars all were true stock cars that sat at a normal height from the track surface. If Nascar wanted to eliminate aero it would be a very simple change to just raise the cars up off the track like they used to be. It would improve the quality of racing so much and it would make the cars depend on engine and horsepower instead of aerodynamics. I am sure every long suffering Nascar fan would love to see that happen.

Thank you for posting these old race videos! This is awesome!

I'd love to see some races from 1986, especially the ones Tim Richmond won.

you guys got any more races from the 80s hidden in a box like this with same film quality? youtubers have been uploading their VHS tapings for years but this is top grade material!

This shows that old racing replays still have a good quality and 60fps but they look ugly because of cassettes or anything else that saves those replays, I love to see the full original quality and frame of classic racing replays.

nice to see NASCAR finally taking after Indycars youtube

Bring this track back. And the Fairgrounds in Nashville. This is when racing was pure

Watch slapshoes video on North W

NASCAR should race at north Wilkesboro Speedway for real to 🏎🏆

That's what real NASCAR is

Junior Johnson is the greatest. I love it.

The balls of you to post this after Dale Jr had to clean up the mess here.

I'm assuming these uploads are in response to iRacing scanning North Wilkesboro and wanting to release it the way it looked in 1987.

I always loved this track. I could see a full refurbishment of North Wtilkesboro with new stands and luxury boxes. Friday night or Saturday. Then do it again Sunday morning but invert the full field from the race before.

90 secs in and this is literally a race full of NASCAR HOFers. BP racing? Are you kidding me? Let's do this!

Love that you guys are doing this, but don’t love having the winner in the description. This race was before I was born so I wanted to watch and see who won without knowing first. Guess I’ll know that for these uploads in the future.

Even Nascar misses North Wilkesboro!

Please get this track back on the schedule. We need more short tracks and less mile and a half tracks.

North Wilkesboro Rockingham South Boston and Nazareth should be back

MORE OF THIS NASCAR! PLEASE MORE 2005 HD RACES IN 16:9 AND 2004 AND 2006!

EVEN MORE OF THE WILKI LET'S GO

Hi guys, first thanks for bringing back these races from the past, it's just a gift, they've given me the chance to see Dale Earnhardt run again, I think it's very important to remember, for the NASCAR story to have all this digital racing material, and in this quality, thanks for bringing these races, there are some of the 70's, are incredible, if possible make this channel a digital racing museum. greetings to all the team that made this great material possible

It’s incredible how legitimate racing was back in the day. In today’s NASCAR there would have been a caution with 13 to go for a slowing Ernie Ervin which got off the track and then it sets up manufactured drama overzealous Earnhardt puts Labonte in the wall and fans go crazy The guy who dominated all afternoon ends in a smoking heap SMH

The starting grid music though. another elusive song ID missing in racing.

damn this is some high def quality stuff!!!! this is the best! you got any more?

Man what a lineup!

Great upload. Thanks NASCAR.

My dad has memories of this race in 87, he was there! Broke his ankle after the race walking out. Lol This video makes me cry, I know that North Wilkesboro is just rotting away right now. I'm glad Jr cleaned it up for iRacing, but isn't there ANYONE who will totally renovate it?! Love you NASCAR!! Long time fan and go to multiple races every year!!

It's a little weird seeing the broadcasters "dial up" drivers all the way back in 1987. They could do that AND give proper attention to the starting line-up!

TWO North Wilksoboro races in one day?! Is this a hint at things to come for the speedway?

Keep doing upload every race you got. Every 90 race in order every 80 race in order. Every 00s race in order. Then some of the 70 races that still exist.

Man, I miss Dr. Jerry Punch. I enjoy hearing him on these old races. Miss you!

Thank you very much... these uploads are great

nice color...wow...missed these...fun ! thanks

All I ever see is comments that we should race here again. Someone better start getting the hint.

Please bring back North Wiksboro

Haha Junior Johnson had lead in Terry’s right side tires. Since the first run was so long the lead conducted a bunch of heat an blew the front right tire 😂 listen how terry says the car got better after the car tapped the wall

Why the hell would someone dislike this?

Miss this track

NASCAR bring racing back to North Wilkesboro!

NASCAR does mean that NASCAR going to race at north wilkesboro speedway again in the near future ?🏎🏆

Ya'll published this for Greg Hill and the iRacing team, didn't you?

"jibba jabba mumble mumble mumble had a tire go down" Interview with Junior Johnson. lol

How about the complete 1987 season? 1989? Us fans like the older style of racing. It'd be good going back to North Wilkesboro or even Rockingham and do racing there today. 1987 was the year Earnhardt was winning everything in sight. 11 races won, including The Winston. And he won the championship.

I'm from north Carolina and I miss it's race

Yes more of this please nascar

back when nascar was fun

Hey NASCAR, since y'all are starting to upload full races on the channel during the offseason, I want to know if I can offer a suggestion. I've got a few races in my head I want to see in high quality/HD so I'm wondering lol

rip dale

why did we leave this looks like so much fun to watch?

Can anyone tell me the great electronic anthems NASCAR used during the ‘80 years?

Glory days

This is so cool. I wasn't born quite yet I don't think. I was born on Sept 1987. I'm still a fan of Dale Earnhardt.

any chance could yall upload the Modified race from the day before?

Post these oldies on your website a monitor the click traffic there as well.

What's left of that Steve Christman car is in my back yard...

Too bad the ESPN Speedworld intro is edited out.

The 8 car used to have Miller as a sponsor. Funny how when Daddy's fans (I mean Earnhardt Jr) had rival Budweiser in the 8 car

Anyone down to do a street stock or K&N race here on iRacing when it comes out?

I watch this race, and while I do like the general aesthetics of these cars, is the racing from the 80s or before really that good. In this particular race, Terry Labonte and Dale Earnhardt were the only drivers to finish on the lead lap. It just didn't seem like there were as many competitive cars back then. Nowadays, we have plenty of cars that can compete just fine. As for North Wilkesboro, while I'm glad it's making a comeback for the All-Star race in a little over a month (as of this post), how much do we really need that track? It's close to Charlotte, Martinsville, and Bristol all of which have two races. I think that an exact replica of North Wilkesboro should be built either at the sight of Kentucky Speedway or Chicagoland. I know that NASCAR was largely localized to the Carolinas in the past, but ticket prices were also lower back then (even inflation adjusted). Therefore, it's necessary to have short tracks all over the U.S. that the NASCAR Cup Series visits, not just in one region.

NASCAR, are you going to bring North Wilkesboro back for the 2021 or 2022 season? Would be nice to have at least a hint

I dont know how realistic it is but has NASCAR ever looked into doing a WWE Network kind of thing? Putting all your archives that you can on a streaming service. I'd pay whatever you wanted for that and I'm sure others would as well.

Iracing brought me here👍

Interviewer: so what are your plans to improve your standing in the race? Crew chief: what?? Interview: ...can you make it faster?

This is the year iRacing is modeling NW after when it launches in 2020

Bring this place back... For the love of God do something positive for the sport! I haven’t attended a race since Carl Edwards flew into the fence at Dega. I’d easily travel to NC to see this race. If you don’t bring back this track and may be others this sport will not last. Please listen to savespeedway!!

Bring N.W. back!

So after seeing this , somebody within NASCAR must understand what once made it great seeing this got put on KZfaq….so with that said …WHY ARE YOU STILL SO OUT OF TOUCH WITH THE FANS THAT MADE THIS SPORT??….bring back southern marketing/branding , bring back the southern driver, and bring back the good southern tracks …and when all that comes back so will the fans, along with not having to worry about the corporate dollars you will be able to rely on fan money

soy el unico mexicano al al que le gusta la nascar

When the stock cars were stock cars and not carbon fiber

Poor Bill Elliott. 97 mph slower pole speed than Talladega.

RIP Dale sr

Ah, yes. The 39th road to Winston Cup Series championship.

Is this a hint?

Zyesss

Modifieds!!!!

Please bring nascar back into the older days for at least one race like the monte Carlos.be great for the 48 Johnson

You guys finally figured out that you needed to do this. But could you please leave the other races people post on KZfaq alone? I know you want to make money off of the (counts ads)... HOLY SHIT, who are you... Morgz?

Car ran better after removing over weighted rims. Maybe 200lbs. Under legal weight

I like to see old Busch series and trucks uploads soon

Oh come on, I've just watched it yesterday in shitty quality, you can't be like this

Iceman

Love these and miss them BUT nobody misses the Bullshit winning/finishing under caution

Nascar is dead now it’s sad to see