Hearing Dale Sr say "Neil's car hit the wall just right, Rodney Orr's car hit the wall just right. It's a bad deal and nobody can change it", it still breaks my heart.

Man, Ken Squier, Bob Jenkins, Paul Page, Ned Jarrett, Benny Parsons, we sure were spoiled in the 90s with our TV announcers.

Terrible year for motorsports. Losing Bonnett and Orr at Daytona, months before losing Ratzenberger and Senna at Imola. RIP

1960-1966 & 1992-2001 were the most dangerous times in NASCAR history. 1960-66: 11 drivers were killed 1992-2001: 15 drivers were killed

Man I heard names I haven't heard in 20 years. RIP to all the drivers that have died chasing the checkers. Your loss will never be forgotten.

I was a little kid in 1994. I remember where I was when I was told about Neil Bonnett. My friend's father was a track paramedic at Daytona. I was with my friend that day and I remember his father coming home afterward and was pretty upset.

Rusty Wallace sounded like he was giving a speech to a group of soldiers during that speech

"so use your damn heads please" is the best closing line for a speech

Shame to lose Neil Bonnett. He was one of those guys that could get a Non NASCAR fan into liking it real quick just by the way he talked. He had a great way of getting you hooked into racing.

Excellent video. I had no idea Jimmy Means' decision to retire was tied to this speedweeks. After seeing his friend J.D. McDuffie pass, it's not surprising that all the tragedies in NASCAR finally convinced him to walk away.

"With 69 cars attempting to qualify..." Dont Say it Dont Say it Dont Say it Dont Say it Dont Say it Dont Say it Dont Say it Dont Say it Dont Say it Dont Say it Dont Say it Dont Say it Dont Say it Dont Say it Nice.

That rusty Wallace speech is stuff of legend.

Holy hell I’d never seen that ARCA crash. That’s insane he destroyed the wall

This was before the safer barrier, boys. No HANs. Just you, the machine, and the concrete.

Dale saying: "they hit the wall just right" My heart

That winter of '94 was terrible, and I remember it like it was yesterday. It's hard to believe today is 25 years since Neil Bonnett left us. I even remember the project I was working on in the shop when we heard the news on the radio.

To add some additional context the CBS crew also lost another team member the same day as Neil. "Captain" Jack Foster, who had been around seemingly forever, had a heart attack that morning. Added to the on-track tragedies, that was an unbelievably tough week for the tv crew. Of course Neil was a member of that family as well.

Damn hearing Dale say " its a bad deal cant no body change it." Is haunting because he would lose his life in the same manner. I do find comfort in the fact that he died doing what he loved.

1994 was a tragic year for motorsports with the deaths of Rodney Orr and Neil Bonnet at Daytona and the deaths of Roland Ratzenburger and Ayrton Senna in Imola, Italy. Also the 1994 NASCAR Winston Cup Season was the first to mandate the use of Roof Flaps.

Earnhardt didn't like it when Jerry Punch brought up his Dad in that post race interview. Earnhardt was that old fashioned southern man that, come hell or high water, did not want to face his emotions. So when somebody else unexpectedly brings up the subject on national television and he was forced to say something he clearly looked annoyed.

When someone says “racing isn’t what it used to be, we miss the old days of racing.” Show them this

Ernie Irvan was very close to be another fatality. He had a 10% chance of survival.

"It's a bad deal, can't nobody change it" Might be the most ironic statement in all of motorsports

So much grim irony here Bonnet had been cheating death for too long and Orr had switched to Nascar to be safer

If those fatal crashes didn’t get into those drivers heads, Rusty’s speech definitely did.

I've been watching NASCAR since 1999, read and studied NASCAR history books and watched tons of races on ESPN Classic and SPEED. And these videos bring out so much more details that you don't always catch or remember. Thanks for putting all this together

Damn, who would have thought those same words Dale Spoke in this video would also apply to him to the letter a few years later. “Neil’s car hit the wall just right.” “Rodney Orr’s car hit the wall just right.” Prophetic

D.W. did a great job doing the show “Winners” after Neil’s passing.

1994 was the year o started hating Gordon but after like 8 years of blind hate for a very skilled man I started to appreciate a person like him.

I never knew Sterling got a Earnhardt style pit road congrats from the other teams. Spectacular video, sir.

1994 was a tough year for motorsport Worldwide, two fatalities in F1, two in this one event, numerous big accidents and incidents of drivers getting hurt

Thats an eerie piece of sound bite from Dale Sr.He said both of those guys car hit the wall just right.Crazy his car hit the wall just right at the same track 7 years later.

I remember seeing the autopsy photos of NB and RO, both accidents were very tragic but RO was the most terrifying thank God those pictures aren't available online any longer

It seems like God kept telling Neil to stop racing but Neil didn't listen, racing was too much in his blood.

I had forgotten Tony Eury, most famous for being Dale Earnhardt Jrs crew chief in his first years in Winston Cup and Dale Earnhardt's Busch Grand National Series Car, was Neil Bonnetts crew chief in the 51 car. Also from what I hear, Andy Farr's wreck looked very similar to Rodney Orr's crash. Rodney's crash was just at a higher speed.

@18:43 "Neil's car hit the wall just right. Rodney Orr's car hit the wall just right..." ... Dale's car hit the wall just right. Definitely a bad deal.

Noticed something humorous towards the end when Sterling Marlin was about to take his cap off in Victory Lane before deciding against it (must have been worrying about dislodging his rug)

I was 10 years old in 1994. I was (still am and always will be) a huge Rusty Wallace fan and had been for a few years before 1994. You could always tell that Rusty was never comfortable in these races and that's why he never really had much success at them. His speech shows a lot of that. It's a shame because poor showings at restrictor plate races did cost him a championship or two.

I love these videos.

If Rusty’s accomplishments hadn’t got him in the Hall of Fame, that speech alone probably should have.

The more I watch old races, the more I realize those cars were like literal soapboxes. As cool as they may have seemed, they clearly had some serious handling issues. It's so crazy to see that in hindsight, how those cars would slide and skid for meters on end over almost nothing. The respect I have for all those NASCAR guys from the '90s - Schrader, Wallace, Earnhardt Sr., Rudd, and all the other race drivers like we don't see anymore, even though I respect today's drivers too, but the old ones were true badasses. i want to thank you especially; your video is absolutely fascinating. I'm so glad I was able to understand so many details about that NASCAR era. Thank you very much

I was there for Speedweeks 93 & 94, great video. It brought back some great memories and very sad ones too. Never forget the ones we lost.

I missed Brock’s voice, I’m glad to hear it again

Losing Neil Bonnett was a huge gut punch for Dale Sr. who at one point was over heard saying " I'll be in one of those soon enough..." referring to a coffin. Those crashes in 93 and 94 were among the most horrific in all modern motor sports. Like Rusty said, " I"ll bet everyone in this room is running a little scared..." He heard no objections to his comment. That's saying a lot considering who was sitting in that drivers meeting. Some of the toughest most bad ass drivers ever to run Nascar. I miss Sr. every day though. And the rest of them also for sure. I have a stuffy #3 car on my dash that I won in one of those claw machines. It's covered in poppies. But that's another story.

Amazing at the amount of fans attending the ARCA race then vs. the amount of fans attending Cup races now....wow!

Tire wars always cause safety issues in any form of motorsport. Safety was one of the major reasons why the FIA allowed Michelin to withdraw from formula one a year before their contract was due to be up after the farce that was the 2005 us gp at indianpolis that was caused by tire safety issues that couldn't be resolved

Thank you for this. I think sometimes we forget just how dangerous this sport is. Thank God for all the safety innovations since Earnhardt's death in 2001. I didn't become a fan until 1997 so I have no memories of the 1994 season but this was a great mini documentary.

Amazing video. Never stop making these long videos about the interesting history of NASCAR. I could watch these all day!

Thank you!! I learned a ton and this is so well done. Emotional the whole way through. Put racing into perspective.

This is a really good video it should be aired on T.V. It really shows how everything went down in detail.

Fantastic piece that reminds us how tough Daytona really is. Thanks, Brock.

Rusty Wallace's speech was incredible. The passion he had...bravo 👏👏

It's eerie to hear Dale talking about people dying the same way and at the same place he will die at in 7 years.

Man I miss Benny Parsons he was in my opinion the greatest Nascar broadcaster for T.V ever.Bernie was the greatest Track guy but man starting in 2007 when he was gone nobody has taken his place.

Dale saying that both drivers who died "hit the wall just right" is damn creepy... Because his car hit the wall just right too. Except hitting the wall just right, actually meant just wrong. RIP Neil... Rodney... And Dale

Amazing video. Really puts the entire week into perspective.

I tell you one thing, MMM (Morgan McClure Motorsports) and they #4 Kodak Chevrolet, was strong at the restrictor plate races with Ernie Irvan, but when they showed up in Daytona in 1994, with Sterling Marlin and with a different design of exhaust headers that made the car sound like a Indy car compared to everyone else's cars, but once that 4 car got out front, he could stay out front by two car lengths and they couldn't close up on him unless they all worked together perfectly. It wasn't until 1996 when rcr and Hendrick were able to close the gap between there 4 car and the field at the plate tracks but Marlin was still tough to beat at Daytona and Talladega.

Great job with this documentary . Definitely a sad start to the season, but my guy finally wins his first race.

1994 had to be one of the hardest seasons in all of NASCAR history. Not only was there the events of Speedweeks, but later that year Ernie Irvan was nearly killed in a crash at Michigan. The sport is very lucky that it had the rise of Jeff Gordon and his rivalry with Dale Earnhardt to keep people invested after all that tragedy.

This was really good! Didn’t know about the other deaths aside from Neil, and the car flipping into Lake Lloyd. I was born in 1993.

Why is it that I think the in car cameras back in the 80s and 90s were way better then cameras today? Something about the way they moved around and had them placed in the car were so awesome

1994 did have a lot of hype leading up to Daytona. If you were a diehard fan you just couldn't wait for that entire week to begin. Then all of the drama and tragedies happened. Very profound.

Tremendous job!!!! Amazing video, thanks for all the work put into this!!!

Excellent piece of history. Fans not old enough to remember need to watch. I remember this like yesterday

Outstanding job putting this all together. Thank yoU!!!

Man this was a hell of a video. Nascar was reeling back then the roof flaps I think saved the sport from doing something drastic people forget what a brutal sport it was then.

Dammit I loved these drivers. Those drivers were superhuman. Broke my heart every time we lost one.

Love these mini docs. Always do a fantastic job NASCARMan.

So grateful for this video. I started watching only a few years after so I completely missed this era and knew this information but didn’t KNOW the details or context. Awesome!!!

Excellent mini doc, really kept my attention the whole time. Very well made

I was a big fan of Bonnet and I never missed an episode of "Winners" on TNN. I remember arriving in Daytona 2 days after Orr was killed. It rained so much that we assumed the 125's would be postponed and it was just a coincidence that we were driving by the track 15 minutes before the start. We got in our seats just as they took the green for the first one. Three minutes after the checkered on the second one the rain began to pour and that is the way the rest of the week went weather wise. The rain would stop just before each race. I also remember that Earnhardt won everything he was in but the 500.The image of that car flipping into Lake Lloyd has stayed with me. I remember talking to a man that said he had never missed a Daytona 500 race. I got to meet Smokey Unick briefly over at a small museum. I went back the next year but I haven't returned since. I think Ned is the best announcer ever, but I am prejudiced. He drove a couple races for my dad back when he first started and I visited his shop ca 1961. Glad I stumbled on this video.

Great job editing & making this piece. Thanks for the hard work! Makes my day at at work a lot better lol

Awesome job guys! Loved every minute of it. What a wild speedweeks

This was a well put together documentary. Thoroughly enjoyed!

You guys are doing great work on these videos. I hope to see many more. The roof flaps were (and are) nothing but a good thing. As I recall, Jack Roush came up with the idea. In 1994, there was no SAFER barrier (we can thank Tony George for funding its development), no HANS device (Dr. Robert Hubbard, made possible by Jim Downing), and no truly safety-oriented seats (Randy LaJoie deserves tons of credit for his contributions). Also, NASCAR did absolutely no safety testing of the cars. Its policy was to put responsibility on the teams, preferring to avoid potential liabilities. The death of Dale Earnhardt changed NASCAR's approach; they took total control of all aspects of safety. They tested cars, they required HANS devices, they deployed SAFER barriers, they required better seats, and made a whole bunch of other new rules related to safety. At the time, I was the Purchasing Manager for Racer Wholesale, and the Production Manager for G-FORCE Racing Gear, and found myself in the middle of it all.

In Tennessee we had a bad ice storm and saw none of what happened. Heard it on a battery radio. Had no electric for 39 days. I watched winners every week and loved Neil Bonnet. Was one of a few other years 2000 and 2001. Thank you for doing this.

This was awesome!! Such a tragic week, with a tremendous finish.

This is great thanks. I would love to travel one day to United States Of America and watch a NASCAR race..

Man that was a great video! More of an F1 fan but my interest for Nascar started some time ago and more and more since last year. Subscribed to keep watching this content!

Very very well put together video. Managing to get all of the footage and put it together and documenting it so well. Great job all around.

It is so amazing how far NASCAR has come as far as safety is concerned. That is the one positive thing that can be said about NASCAR as a company.

Awesome video!!! Loved it. Brought back a lot of memories for me.

Great video! It's crazy how far safety measures have come. This video really puts that into perspective.

NASCAR needs more of this stuff on KZfaq. Racing fans as a whole should watch this.

The Peter Paul, John Thomas and Edward Edwards showdown was my most memorable highlight.

Damn, I sure do miss the IROC races

Great video. I miss ole Neil. Crazy it’s been 25 years.

7:27 is really something, that interview is only about an hour or so prior to his crash that killed him and he's standing there saying that he's not worried about crashing and hurting himself again

Thank you for this video, really well done guys.

I remember watching the 94 500 I was 5 and didn't know the importance of the race have been a fan of Rusty since birth 2 was always my favorite number... Nascar needs more drivers like him for Earnhardt to shake his head yes the hole time and Schrader to also speak up shows these younger guys need veterans around to speak and show them the way... Leaves me in tears the way we lost good valuable drivers back in the day good video when my kids get older I will show them this to in lighten them on how Nascar got it's safer features

Wow. This was before my time, but I've always heard of this speedweeks and the turmoil and tragedy. This was an interesting and informative watch.

Absolutely fantastic video. So many memories there, both good and bad. The fact that you found Andy Farr's wreck is impressive alone. My neighbor (back then) was there at the track all week and in a call back home to me he swore he watched a man die that day.

This was an excellent documentary guys! Thank you.

Rusty has a point in the drivers meeting video at the start, but tbf there has been instances of cars flipping on their own. Best example is Bobby Allison’s wreck

Great job on this video! God Bless all of the racers who have passed on the track.

Good Stuff bud!! Glad it’s NASCAR season again. Keep grinding 🙏🏼

That's some of the best footage I've seen of Neil's crash. Thank you.

I love your videos, thanks for sharing this!

A great video! Thank you for creating it!

This is first class documentary. Well done, nascarman!