I keep forgetting this is basically what brought NASCAR into the social media age.

5:54 my man over here fishing in a puddle. That was great.

I was supposed to go to this race, my first Daytona 500, but my grandparents and I left because of the postponement, and I stayed up till midnight with my grandfather watching this race, and it was worth it. I did see my first 500 the next year.

R.I.P Steve Byrnes

My dad and I were at this race. I'll never forget a fan to my right screaming "WOAH!" and pointing toward the backstretch when Montoya hit the jet dryer. Nobody around had noticed what happened except for him. I thought he was just another drunk idiot, but he totally witnessed history when most around us hadn't.

My favorite part was watching Brad K, and Dale Jr racing to the porta potty to take a piss.

5:54 I love how Greg Biffle is "fishing"

We were sitting on the Supertretch during this. I’ll never forget MRN over the speakers: “Trouble! Juan Pablo Montoya’s car has just blown apart!” We all look towards three and see that massive inferno. My younger brother who decided to skip that year said he could see the flames all the way from the beach. That’s how big of a fire one Juan started...

Danica-“I’m not a big fan of running in the back” 😂😂😂😂

2012 Daytona 500 summary: ...HAVE YOU EVER??

2012 was a great season. for so many reasons. as a BK fan, it was topped with a cup. Jeff and Clint issues, etc.. it was entertaining.

This was the best Daytona 500 I've ever watched.

I was a senior in high school and I was dissapointed by the rainout on Sunday cuz I wasn't gonna get to watch it Live then I was at lunch the next day and I was supposed to work that Monday night and my boss called me knowing I was a Nascar fan and said hey did you hear there gonna run the 500 now this evening you stay home and watch it tonight I stayed up watch the entire race man I was dragging ass the next morning for school but it was worth it

How many drivers does it take, to mess up the Daytona 500 ? Just Juan :)

Daytona Track Repair 101: Tide Detergent in a garden spreader Hoses and water Air blowers Have track engineer kick the asphalt. "Yep, all good!"

Man I forgot the Blaney story. What a great night.

I can't be the only one who was hoping they wouldn't be able to fix the track so Blaney could win.

Wow, I had no idea that they made a documentary out of this! I was so excited for the 500 that Sunday (I watched the entire Sunday telecast), and then I found out it was cancelled. I remember going to school the next day, finding out that I would watch the race that night, and then came everything else. I watched the *entire* race up until the jet dryer incident. That's when I realized that there no way the race wasn't going to be completed before midnight. So I went to bed and then found out who won the next morning. That was unequivocally the craziest 500 I've ever seen, and no other is going to even remotely top it.

The jet dryer incident is number Juan on the list of weird things to happen in the Daytona 500

This was the first Daytona 500 that I watched basically the whole race. I was in college sitting in an office watching the race. I closed up the office and got back to my apartment which was only a few yards away. Turned on the tv and saw the fire. I remember thinking "what the hell did I just miss?"

I've Watched This so many times!

Oh boy, I remember that my grandmother tuned into fox for a show( it was 8 years ago dont remember what the show was) but she got upset that it wasn't on, on the bright side that was my first nascar race i have ever watched, and have been a fan since,. And watching Juan Pablo Montoya Slide into the jet dryer was just something i have never seen before.

Who remembers having school that Monday by coming home with excitement to watch the Daytona 500 that night and tried to watch the whole race but had to go to bed for school on Tuesday? I hope I’m not the only one that dealt with this...

the 2012 speedweeks is probably my favorite speedweeks that I've ever watched, I remember being so hyped for the pack racing being back, and it was just wild overall

I'm glad that they ran this race in primetime instead of late morning to about lunch time because I was in school at that time and I was not gonna miss the Daytona 500 on my life. I was 9 at the time. Now I'm 19 and still a nascar fan today.

If it weren't for that damn wall, Danica would've been a championship racer!

I remember it been there for all the races that whole week waiting out the rain and then a crazy race best Daytona 500 I've ever been to and the craziest was not there in 2001

I remember being at this Daytona race and watching all that. There was a massive cheer when a truck went around the track going to the wreck.

I'm surprised there is a photo of Jaun's car in Dale Jrs. car graveyard. Because he has said many times that when he asked Chip Ganassi if he could put the car in the graveyard Chip said yes but only if no photos or videos were ever taken of it. So to see a photo of it in the graveyard is really surprising.

And here we are in the monsoon of Daytona 2024.

The weather also forced one personnel change; John Cena, who was supposed to be the honorary starter on suggestion by Carl Edwards, had to leave for a WWE commitment elsewhere

When they came back from commercials and I saw what happened, I will never forget that moment

Yes the 2012 Daytona 500 was craziest race ever.

I remember skipping Kub Scouts for this race and by god I was not disapointed. I hated when races were resceduled to Monday Afternoon because I coundn't watch it because of school, then the rain gave us this absolute banger of a race.

how calm was montoya he just said we broke and hit the safty truck like it was normal

OMG!!!!! I NEVER SEEN A SINGLE DAYTONA 500 END LIKE AT 1 or 2 in the morning!!!!!!!! So Many hours Nascar had to go through to find out the Winner of that race!!!!!

Craziest Daytona 500 I have ever seen!

34:03 The jet dyer is released from care center and is hurt

Craziest Daytona 500 ever

-It was Juan hot night- Omg Darrell Waltrip

I'm from Dublin IRELAND and NASCAR was on TV over here till a few year's ago and not anymore just as I was loving it gone off TV now I only get to see little bit's on KZfaq days later. I miss it

I am always watching Nascar Racing every year. By year. Be in a History book 2017-2018. Fans were there at race track remember this year Forever.

Jet fuel can't melt turn 3

“ Danica Patrick is a superstar.” I have heard nothing more funny than that statement

The most bizarre Daytona 500 Danica crashes nope that's normal

iv waited for this to be online for a while thx for the upload

I remember this race like the back of my hand.

I still think it's awesome that Tide saved the Daytona 500

best part of the clip in my opinion is @ 1:27.

“It’s was Juan hot night” 😂

17:50 I love KB sometimes on the radio XD

Montoya is SUPER LUCKY to be alive!

Rip steve byrnes

I remember getting disappointed that the Daytona 500 got postponed from Sunday to Monday because I knew I was gonna be forced to go to school. But I got lucky because I got sick on Monday with a fever, cold, and sore throat. But then I got annoyed when the rains came back and wondered if they were gonna postpone it again to the next day. Until they made the announcement on the news that they were gonna run the race at night instead. I was so excited and thrilled about it, and enjoyed the race all the way up to the Juan Pablo Montoya incident. I remember my mom calling me up from her place asking me what happened, I said I didn't know from looking at the replay, and when the replay stopped, I saw the huge fire coming from the jet dryer, and even the track got lit on fire. It was incredibly weird. I remember staying up to watch the remainder of the race, and going to bed at around a quarter to 1 AM. It was crazy, but it was worth it.

This was Juan's fifteen minutes of fame in nascar. He finally wised up and realized if he wanted any hopes of being known as a good race driver that he had to go back to open wheel. Maybe Danica will take a page out of his book and do the same so Stewart can put a competitive driver in that car. The only reason he is keeping her around is for the sponsorship money.

The Daytona "500" should be held on the third Sunday evening of February every year, perhaps with the green flag being waved at 6 P.M. Eastern time, so local Fox stations' local 10 P.M. newscasts on the East Coast would start on-schedule (barring a weather delay or an extended red flag period).

Crazy to think 11 years after Dave Blaney almost lucked out and won the 500, that Ryan won the Championship! Proud Papa for sure!

"List that as the things you don't see every day." Lol no kidding. I love how Paublo just casually announced to his crew. "Uh hey we hit the jet joke and broke." Lol

I remember this race so vividly. It was the day after my dads birthday. I remember going to school that day. I remember saying to one of my best friends that we may have a nighttime daytona 500. We had it indeed. It was absolutely insane. By midnight, i was getting tired and ready to fall asleep. But then the explosion heard round the world. So i was like okay.... will Dave Blaney win this?! Then by 1:45 in the morning i was like yep we're finishing this. Then sure enough i was up till 3:30. Up at 7am for school the next day. My dad had asked me he was like so did you listen to the Daytona 500? Im like howd you know? He was like, obviously i know you... your a nascar fan you wanted to see where your favorite driver was gonna finish. I was like you mad? He was like ill be mad if you can't stay awake for class. I was awake throughout the classes i had. Then by my last class i was ready to go to bed. My dad actually got me a mtn dew to stay awake until going to bed that night. A daytona 500 a 15 year old girl will never forget. Here I am almost 28 and I enjoyed it

Certainly will never forget this race. I stayed up all night just to see how it would end. And they’re right, Montoya’s NASCAR career is solely remembered for blowing up the jet drier during the Daytona 500 😂

who's watching This in 2017 and 2018

Hey it’s me in 2021

I remember watching this race and it honestly was great overall. And kenseth went from overheating on pit road to winning

man i rember this first daytona i ever watched in aus live it was tusday mourning it was a long dayi watched the whole thing live

Man I love that picture of Steve Byrnes

My first daytona 500 i went to in person

“ Uh they better start working on trying to put that fire out because it’s going to burn a hole in the track”. Thank you captain obvious.

Mile Helton made sure the race restarted so Blaney didn't win

I'm from IRELAND and I only started looking at Nascar because Juan pablo montoya started driving there after F1. and i love it but it's not on T.V 🏁 here in IRELAND anymore its PPV now only get to see a little bit of high lights now miss it.

How many drivers does it take to ruin a jet dryer? Juan just juan

Brad is still tweeting😂

"I don't know, we've never set the track on fire!"

Poor Matt always getting overshadowed.

Miss Steve. DW, Mike Joy, Larry Mac, and SB. Thats Nascar.

A Very Expensive Race for Race Teams and Car Owners. Along with Talladega.

Footage of Montoya hitting the jet dryer is more valuable than Bigfoot footage

I wish it was like this every weekend lmao

I remember this race like yesterday. Staying up until 3am to watch the finish and JPM hitting the jet dryer. That’s when I lost all respect for the driver

@23:10 Dat face doe....

Quote of the year: "Seriously, are we all kidding ourselves? We just around for 36 hours, and we wreck on lap 1. I mean, we've got to be the smartest people, ever."

Here of hopefully they day of the 2020 daytona 500 on this monday

Here’s a bold prediction for speedweek if nascar does it. Xfinity Thursday night Trucks Wednesday night daytona 500 practice and qualifying Friday. Duels Saturday morning with the 500 following the duels that night

This is not the good ol' days but it's better than today.

miss Steve and during the night part was tied between this and wwe. this won. old fs1 we miss u greatly.

It certainly entertained who was watching at home xD, just not the way they thought it would.

2012 Daytona 500 was probably the last of the great races of the old guard.

Tide laundry detergent on a race track?

I truly believe that if Danica would have taken the same route that Hailie Deegan is doing, she would have had far better results! Just my opinion.

All that waiting just to get wrecked after one lap..... *there were lots of tears shed that night* 😭

I was there at the track stadium, and once I saw it. I was like what the hell happen over there?

I wish I could find a way to watch the rain coverage of that race.

27:07 tag you're it

Really miss Byrnes

Biffle sandbagged so bad that final lap. Jr or Biffle could've won that.

i came here for the thumbnail

Rain delays make good TV.

Should have done this, this year

Dale's funeral comment question, did you guys race so hard that you ended up killing each other.

2012 is one of the greatest years of my entire life! Tomorrow is potentially the 12 year anniversary I found my beloved BFDI object shows!!! AND TOMORROW, as much evidence has already proven my 12 year zodiac theory, the 2024 Daytona 500 will turn out EXACTLY like the 2012 Daytona 500. But instead of Kenseth winning, I got Chase Elliott or especially hail melon himself ROSS CHASTAIN! Keep in mind though, Bell is in the 20 and won the duel. when Kenseth retired, he drove the 20 and also keep in mind that Kenseth won a Daytona duel in 2012 before the 2012 Daytona 500, just like Bell won the 2nd daytona duel in 2024. when jet dryer MONTOYAAAAA destroyed the jet dryer in 2012, Dave Blaney was the leader. Today, his son Ryan Blaney is the defending champion of the NASCAR Sprint Cup looking to win the 2024 Daytona 500. fyi Carl Edwards finished 2nd in the 2011 Daytona 500, then won the 2012 Daytona 500 pole. Joey Logano finished 2nd in the 2023 Daytona 500, then won the 2024 Daytona 500 pole. Edwards finished 8th in this race. Is Logano finishing 8th in the 2024 Daytona 500? Perhaps we live in god’s simulation? 🤔 - Cole Coibi Coleyball

No footage from Montoya's dashcam, or from his right pointing towards him? I thought all cars are equipped with those.