In 1970 I was 20 years old in Denver, Colorado at a USAF training center when this race was run. Today I am 74 years old sitting by my desktop computer with a Beechwood Aged Bud watching this race for the first time. Brings back memories. Life is good.

This was the greatest year ever in the history of NASCAR. First, you had all those legendary, iconic drivers. Too many to name. Then, you had the cars. The 426 Hemi Daytonas and Superbirds and Boss 429 Torino Talladegas and Mercury Cyclone Spoilers. It was a year in Camelot. And just like that, it was gone the next year.

@goldenltd1970

5 ай бұрын

It was already fading in that year with Ford stopping backing up their teams, which in turn let to Fords only enter 19 races

@gothard5

5 ай бұрын

nah, 1979

@JackF99

4 ай бұрын

Same for street cars. 1970 was the best year of the performance era. Things went downhill fast after that.

@petergiannaros9037

2 ай бұрын

@@gothard5 Wrong.As said Ford pulled out of racing after 1969.If Bunkie had stayed i think things would have been different.

@robertparker6654

Ай бұрын

The aero cars and the hemis FORD AND MOPARS.,and all big blocks , all gone by 1975.

This year was the absolute peak for American muscle cars in NASCAR!

The 426 Hemi is a legendary race engine. But, the ability of the Ford and Mercury cars to run even with the winged aero cars demonstrates just how strong the Holman-Moody Boss 429 really was.

This was back in the era when there was no speed limit in pit lane; best illustrated by the late pit stop by David Pearson.

@tymcfadden8496

8 ай бұрын

Big displacement and no restrictor plates too!

@DanArnets1492

7 ай бұрын

@@tymcfadden8496 - Restrictor plates weren't really needed as cars could barely go over the 200mph mark

@tymcfadden8496

7 ай бұрын

@@DanArnets1492 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@tymcfadden8496

7 ай бұрын

@@DanArnets1492 thanks for kid-splaining something I've been watching for almost 50 years now....

@DanArnets1492

7 ай бұрын

@@tymcfadden8496 - Well, I had to explain things to a dumbass kid that doesn't know restrictor plates are only there to avoid NASCAR Cup cars going way over 200mph, specially without a draft

😊 Wendell Scott. A true racer. I saw the man pull in for a pit stop under yellow, climbed out of his owne machine, and became the pit crew... No other name in NASCAR could do what he did with no respect, running alone. RIP WL

Pete Hamilton went for the jugular on the start. Damn that was slick.

@davidthayer6969

7 ай бұрын

lol, he didnt win.

Those dodge and Plymouth wing cars are cool, but the ford and mercs still keep up.

This race was my first race I went to, was 9 years old

The 1968-70 seasons are some of the best car wise to me specially with the charger 500s and Daytonas and Plymouth superbirds if it’s possible I would like to see one form a shot track or road course from 1970

@bloqk16

8 ай бұрын

I didn't understand in my younger years why ABC-TV [US] "Wide World of Sports" [WWoS] never covered the Motor Trend Riverside 500 stock car race in January. Unless it was a matter of economics, as it was a five-hour race; whereas the Can Am and Indy races of that era, at the same track, were half that length and the WWoS would televise those events. I'd guess the advertising sponsorship dollars were not there to cover the production costs, and show a profit, for televising the NASCAR Riverside event in that era.

@goldenltd1970

5 ай бұрын

There is a short clip of the 1970 Riverside 500 on YT

their comments regarding drivers and their car numbers back then in very interesting. car numbers based on the previous year’s point standings. Supercross still does that, but only with the #1 plate.

those Chryslers winged warriors were just too beautiful

Amazing!

thanks ben ther 93 as o own 69 super bee

No offense to Jim Mckay but if you look at the spelling of Cale's and Leroy's last name it is not the same. Mckay's calling of the 1972 800 meters at the Munich Olympics is one of my all-time favorite broadcasting events. RIP Jim.

cheers

Three Chevrolets in a 40 car field. How funny. Always shuts the bowtie fans up when you point out such facts.

@Andrew_460

4 ай бұрын

This was before the France family owned shares of GM. Before Nascar started heavily favoring the GM cars and heavily penalizing the Fords and Mopars.

@Chestickles

2 ай бұрын

@@Andrew_460 Wow, no response from those other fans, I thought they would have pounced on you! 😁

This is teue stock car racing!!! Now not so much🥺

Chris Economaki @ 11.35........the sloped nose is a disadvantage due to overheating.

👍🏁🏁👍

Did the MOPARS get the same restrictions and weight as the FORD's?

"... world's fastest race...". I could be wrong but I think Talladega was faster than Daytona even at this time.

@bloqk16

8 ай бұрын

TV announcers are great when it comes to hyperbole for events, with the Firecracker 400 not being an exception. The MLB "World Series" . . . are teams from Japan and Cuba involved? The NFL Super Bowl for its world champion? I don't know of an American style of professional football being played outside of the 48. Your comment got my curiosity going, so I checked online with racing reference: This race speed average: 162 mph [261 km/h for those international viewers] The Alabama 500 held in April had a race average of 152 mph [245 km/h] The Talladega 500 in August was at 158 mph [254 km/h] But then, there are factors of the Daytona race being 400 miles versus the 500 miles at Talladega. Had Talladega had a 400 mile race, would that have bumped up the average race speed for that track? Ah! Prior to Daytona or Talladega, the high-bank oval at Monza, Italy, held the distinction of fastest race with the "Race of Two Worlds" pitting the Indy roadsters versus the best that Europe had; with Jim Rathmann winning the 1958 multi-heat event at an average speed of 166 mph [268 km/h].

@DanArnets1492

7 ай бұрын

The July 400-mile race at Daytona was sometimes the fastest race in motorsports for 2 reasons · Way more banking than the Indy 500 · 100 less miles than the Daytona 500 or the Talladega 500-mile races meant less of a need to keep the engine safe enough

@tymcfadden8496

7 ай бұрын

@@DanArnets1492🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@davidthayer6969

7 ай бұрын

AVERAGE SPEED for 1970 this race had the fastest average speed at 162.

@DanArnets1492

7 ай бұрын

@@tymcfadden8496 - Indy didn't become faster than Daytona until the mid 70s, lack of downforce meant high banks were king

Doesn't matter how much horsepower /torque when the TIRES wear Junk sh*t compound's. That's why I think the Hemi's didn't run away, real nose heavy in weight

@davidthayer6969

3 ай бұрын

thats funny, the reason the HEMI didnt run away was because the Boss 429 had at LEAST 50 more HP and 500 more RPM.

@petergiannaros9037

2 ай бұрын

@@davidthayer6969 Very true !

I Like 1986 Chevrolet Monte Carlo Super Sport Fastback Aero Coupe Totally Amazing Badass NASCAR Winston Cup Series

back when nascar was actually good and not woke left wing propaganda

1st

@ronniewatkins

8 ай бұрын

Who cares?

@46AFD

8 ай бұрын

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@petergiannaros9037

2 ай бұрын

@@ronniewatkins Obviously you do.

NASCAR SUCKS