The Daytona 450, started on lap 21 to preserve the 500 name, and the first race under a peculiar points system that led to the Winston Cup Points system we all know and wish hadnt been changed

@bloqk16

8 ай бұрын

That was marvelous of you to provide those details. I recall that era well, the end of bargain-priced gasoline. I miss the old points system in NASCAR, there were many seasons where there was high-drama on whom would be champ at season's end. That points system change in the 21st century transitioned me from an avid race fan to a casual one; whereupon if I missed a televised race, no biggie for me.

@user-jf4nj3ez2k

3 ай бұрын

Yep. Energy crisis. But later in the year races went back to being their normal distance.

@AmericanFlyOnTheWall

2 ай бұрын

I definitely wish they had left the points like they were and never started stage racing. I haven't attended a race since 2015 or watched one on TV since 2018. By the way, bring back Rockingham!

the Daytona 450! The only Daytona 500 race that was scheduled to race under 500 miles

@DanArnets1492

6 ай бұрын

Would've made a whole lot more sense to force teams to use 10% less fuel, might've improved American fuel efficiency a lot

not really racing , but watching the results of Bill Frances's handicapping handiwork.

Donnie Allison had it balls to the wall , thats one badass

@beeemm2578

13 күн бұрын

Always liked him. Non nonsense, straight forward. He'd put ya through the wall if need be..lol

Is it a Tire or a Macanical Malfunction 😂 dude and Keith Jackson were Point 👉 on

So much air under Pettys car looked like a jacked up hot rod

@randylucas2458

Ай бұрын

Believe it or not that's how we used to set cars up on the street too we would Jack the back ends up to preload the front

I like the old school racing better than the pack racing of today. Generally the best car won the race, not like today where the lucky one wins because the good cars get crashed out. Keith Jackson could call a stock car race as good as he could a football game.

The flag guy getting a smoke at 1:03:45 ...the good old days (-:

1. Why did the late caution come out? 2. How was Petty a lap up on everyone after Donnie Allison malady? Foyt and Cale should have been on same lap. Not that it mattered, Petty was going 10 mph BY HIMSELF than ANYONE ELSE could go drafting one another lol.

@cjs83172

8 ай бұрын

The last caution came out due to Bob Burcham's blown engine right at the start-finish line, and it was running over parts from that engine that blew Donnie Allison's tires out. (Burcham had also brought out the race's fourth caution when he spun wildly through the tri-oval grass and into the pit area.) The second point is one of the stranger ones because you'd have thought that Foyt (who would've been a non-factor in the closing laps due to a shattered windshield), Cale Yarborough, Coo Coo Marlin, Ramo Stott, and Dick Brooks (who went out near the end with a broken left from wheel) would all have been able to make up a lap, since the field had not been formed behind the pace car. Another thing not mentioned at the end is the goof-up that occurred that changed the second, third, and fourth place finishers, because while Marlin was, in fact, in front of Stott and Yarborough when Petty took the checkered flag just behind them, but then lifted, allowing Stott and Yarborough to blow right past him, and them when Yarborough made his patented last-lap slingshot pass on Stott, it allowed Yarborough to get second place, while Stott took third and Marlin had to settle for fourth.

@MrChristopherHaas

8 ай бұрын

@@cjs83172 thank you. I always kind of figured that Allison ran over whatever it was that caused the caution but there was no mention of it in this…or any other…broadcast.

@cjs83172

8 ай бұрын

@@MrChristopherHaas And as sometimes happens, Burcham's blown engine may have had something to do with his earlier spin, because sometimes when you spin out like he did that one time (Burcham's spin is documented in the Car & Track version of this race, which by the way, has a lot of NFL Films music in it), you can damage the engine, leading to the possibility that the spin through the grass and into the pits helped lead to the blown engine later. But nowhere is it mentioned who it was that blew the engine that led to Allison blowing both front tires, but it was Burcham's silver #57.

@STP43FAN1

8 ай бұрын

I think Cale, Ramo Stott, and Marlin were scored as on the tail end of the lead lap and thus couldn’t pass the pacecar; Donnie best then back to the flag (shown in the CAR & TRACK film) before his spin off Burcham’s engine failure.

@cjs83172

8 ай бұрын

@@STP43FAN1 There's no question about the fact that Donnie beat the other cars that were one lap down (Cale, Foyt, Ramo Stott, Coo Coo Marlin, and Dick Brooks) to the start-finish line. But there has always been a question regarding the fact that, with Donnie having spun out, the pace car not having gone out onto the track, and Richard Petty being three-quarters of a lap behind when all that started (and the other five all likely being on the same lap as Richard, given their track positioning), whether those other cars should also have had an opportunity to move up. As things turned out, Foyt had a windshield broken so badly he had to drive the last five laps one-handed and Brooks broke a left front wheel, leaving the other three to battle for second place behind (or just in front of) Petty, which led to the day's single-biggest mistake, which the broadcast makes no mention of, which would have been Coo Coo Marlin backing off, allowing both Stott and Yarborough to fly by, and then Yarborough to execute his patented slingshot entering turn three to grab second place from Stott. And while it didn't affect any finishing position, one minor scoring mess-up did occur, because NASCAR scoring showed Darrell Waltrip as finishing one lap behind, but when Richard Petty drafted by him at the start-finish line, it actually put him two laps behind at the finish.

KING...STP & 43

Was PETTY using the HEMI or the WEDGE?

@adcoxrobert3786

2 ай бұрын

The Hemi. The wedge couldn't make enough power to keep up with the other cars.

@randylucas2458

Ай бұрын

Dodge only has one 7 L motor that would be the 426 Hemi

@markwatkinshield2914

Ай бұрын

@@randylucas2458 Due to the restrictions NASCAR put on the HEMI, the MOPAR teams used the 426 wedge head engine at some races.

@randylucas2458

Ай бұрын

@@markwatkinshield2914 I don't think I've ever seen one of those did they put wedge heads on the 426?

@markwatkinshield2914

Ай бұрын

@@randylucas2458 Yes there was the 426 Max Wedge and 426 Street Wedge produced in 1964. Then as NASCAR restricted the 426 HEMI engine, Chrysler went back to the Wedge at some tracks. I have a vintage Stock Car Racing magazine that wrote about it.

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Nascar sucks today haven't watched it since the early 80s

@beeemm2578

13 күн бұрын

I mean, look at these cars? completely bad ass. Nascar didn't evolve naturally...they forced too many wholesale changes, like format and rule changes, ect. Its a shame.