January 25, 1941 - August 10, 2015. Take a Victory Lap Buddy; your struggle is over, you gave us the Race Fans so much joy, Rest in Peace.

@ShaneLarocque

9 жыл бұрын

C. Middleton Well Said

@cidspimms

9 жыл бұрын

Shane Larocque Thank-You, I just spoke from my heart.

@pigboy05

9 жыл бұрын

C. Middleton I agree,Steve can interview him again or just chat id think.Even from Australia i enjoyed his commentary and watching him in the old races like this,he had balls!!!!

@donaldmcmanus1954

5 жыл бұрын

Waddle Wilson had a car that day 😂

Still the fastest Daytona 500 to date. It was almost broken in 1985 and subsequent years after that but still no driver has yet to come close to Buddy's record of 177.602 mph. #RIPBuddyBaker #RIPSteveByrnes

I wish SPEED showed these classic races still... always looked forward to watching them!

Seeing the cars with being slightly twitchy and bouncing, shows that the cars, of that era, are really being manhandled by the drivers. It makes the current NASCAR race cars look like slot cars with their rock-like stability. This video also shows that good racing can be done with some space between the racers, it does not have to have the cars (of the current era) bunched together with scarcely any space between them.

@SDRacing88

4 жыл бұрын

Oh absolutely......you listen to drivers today talk about handling and what not.....its a joke.

To : rowdyeverylap, Thank's for showing this video and I was at this race and I was in the ground area and got a autograph from Buddy on my shirt & I still have it and it's kept away real good so my grandkids won't find it! I really appreciate you showing this video & it brings back alot of memories for me l'm still a huge Nascar fan to this very day & here its Saturday October 12th. 2019 and I'm still a fan of Nascar.. Hope everyone enjoyed the race like I did, so thank's once again for showing this and hope you have more for us to watch rowdyeverylap & I love watching or going to see a Nascar race & I alway's get a Nascar pass so I can walk around and see old friends that I knew from along time ago and I became a fan since 1970 and some of you youngsters haven't been born yet? ♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡

R.I.P Buddy all us NASCAR fans will all miss you. A True Legend & Ambassador for the sport for so many years.

RIP Mr. Buddy Baker and Mr. Steve Byrnes, two great men.

@cluckhead1913

4 жыл бұрын

Never heard of either one of them!

great race, beautiful cars, awesome drivers, wish it was still like this

real racing .nascar needs to go back to this kind of racing. maybe they can get the fans back.

"If I was scared of death, I wouldn't be a race car driver." RIP Buddy

41:33 - A haunting interview, especially when Squire asks him about the possibility of death in competition.

Thanks Rowdy, Gerat job of posting races! Going to watch Buddy win like I did live in 1980! Buddy was one of the best!!!

Loving all these full races!

that interview with dale was awesome. its great to know that he went out doing what he loved and a place that he loved

R.I.P. Buddy!

I was 8 when I watched this race.My Dad liked Baker and was happy when he won.He was kind of a Lloyd Ruby figure up until then and one thought he would never actually win it (soft spoken and a victim of bad luck.) I'm glad he won it.

Thanks for the upload!

RIP Buddy!Now you are with your Dad.

Thank You rowdyeverylap this was such a record breaking race for Baker. And of course it is always nice to race with Earnhardt in a race.

R.I.P. to racing’s gentle giant, the 6’4” Buddy Baker. Such a nice man and an underrated driver. If there is an afterlife he must be racing somewhere.

The interview with Dale...holy shit...

Wow! NASCAR has lost two of the best this year. This is awesome! Rest In Peace, Buddy, bet Steve was there to welcome you in!

Two people have a boring life. Thanks for this friend!

f*** restricter plates. Love that engine sound, too.

Eric Cox Also, the fastest 400-mile Daytona race ever was ran that year, won by Bobby Allison at over 173 MPH. Astonishing to see that both records from that year are still up nearly 35 years later.

@cjs83172

9 жыл бұрын

And yet, not only did the 1980 Daytona 500 finish under caution, but when Bobby Allison set the record for the fastest Firecracker 400, there was a horrible crash involving Phil Finney just after Allison took the checkered flag. In fact, of the three fastest Daytona 500s ever run, the only one to finish under green was the 1987 race (the second-fastest in race history), which was about 70 seconds slower than the 1980 race was. The third-fastest Daytona 500 on the book, the 1998 race, also finished under caution. And actually the fourth-fastest Daytona 500, the 1985 race, had two cautions in the final eight laps, including one that nearly caused that race to end under caution. I also find it odd that, much like the Indianapolis 500 (twice), what was then the two fastest Daytona 500s were run in consecutive years. This was the fastest, and the one that followed it in 1981, was the second-fastest when it was run. It was also ironic that it was Bobby Allison that Buddy Baker beat to win his only Daytona 500, because two years earlier, the 1978 race came down to those same two drivers, and it was Allison that came out the winner. And another connection between the 1978 and 1980 races was that the winning driver used Dave Marcis as a drafting partner in the closing laps. In 1978, Allison drafted Marcis to victory after Baker's engine failure, while Baker and Marcis were running together in the final miles in 1980, though Baker was in front of Marcis at the end of the 1980 race.

@seitengewehr98

7 жыл бұрын

Impressive, you really know your stuff. Good comment.

@The1973Drummer

5 жыл бұрын

Did Marcis gain any points by drafting with Baker at the end of the race?

Over 177 miles per hour. Thanks to the Gray Ghost of Harry Ranier setup by Waddell Wilson.

I was 11 days old

1980 Daytona 500 (200 laps/500 miles) Average Speed: 177.602 MPH Winner: Buddy Baker (28) Started on The Pole What's ironic is even though it's the fastest Daytona 500 in the 54 year history of it, the race ended under caution.

Gods speed Buddy

A well deserved win.RIP.

Wonder What Waddell and Harry did that year following the excitement of 1979 race to keep that record still standing today? Stuffed so much power in the gray ghost

Apparently the automakers in 1980 werent building anything worthwhile because every one of these cars was a pre 1980 body style

@emeyer6963

5 жыл бұрын

Didn't go to shorter wheelbase cars until 1981.

Buddy Baker was OP,

But then again, the video starts with Buddy talking about the win, so there's no need to remove the description, unless he edits the video, you know cut the interview out, but then he'll have to upload the video, with no description, but then again, we've known for 32 years now who won, so yeah.

AJ Foyt makes Kyle Busch seem downright likeable.

That grey ghost Olds was unreal fast. I remember Buddy Baker saying it was the same car that Lennie Pond had set the previous 500 mile record at Tallageda while driving for the same Harry Rainer car a few years earlier. I know you may say they build new cars for Daytona but this was the last year for the longer wheelbase cars. Earnhardt never changed he always wanted 4 tires. That's probably the reason for the long stop. (first one

@Hoffbottraces

6 жыл бұрын

The late Harold Brookshire designed the cam for that car while working as the lead designer at Comp Cams. Another legend in his own right.

@fsca72

5 жыл бұрын

Bob Adams Yes UD Harold’s cam designs. What I still use today

you shouldnt put who won in the discription. doh

You guys are right; I had forgotten that sound. The sound of a pure race car. Buddy Baker was a huge man, yet so soft spoken. Nascar is a joke. The drivers of today have trouble just restarting a race, and who started the burnout crap? You would never catch Petty or Bobby Allison doing a burnout! It is now scripted to the point of being totally stupid! Stage racing! Green White Checkers! Red flags! Speeding on pit road! From 1966 until 1988, I went to about 60 races. Today, I would not go outside to see this 'Bore-fest' if they built a track in the backyard!

You're so right...

Part 2. If you cant' tell this was before pit road speed limits. The cars were going well over 100mph on pit road.

I think that this was the last year that NASCAR used full size race cars

@fsca72

5 жыл бұрын

If you look at the entry list it’s ford thunderbird, Mercury Montego, dodge magnum, olds cutlass, and a Buick century. A lot of the those body’s in new generations made it through the late 80’s. Thunderbird an Monte Carlo lasted through till the 2000’s with brief run of the lumina.

@pacmancucumber1783 your welcome I only got like 40 or so, I am doing the 1981 Daytona 500 next, then I got 1988, 1998 & 2004 after that

Were they running restricter plates this year?

* nice to see a race with Earnhardt in the race I mean

30:17 First caution for those who are wondering

In the victory celebration on the microphone while he was pulling in, did I hear the name Mike Joy!?

@nicktinsman275

8 жыл бұрын

+michael eden yes you did

@O5fan

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, and a few seconds after that, you hear Mike Joy speaking.

177.602 MPH

Who is that Dale Earnhardt kid? He looks pretty good.

nope restrictor plates were 1988

Since it finished under caution, this race failed to give fans the show they paid for, right? Just like 1998, when Earnhardt finally won? This race unquestionably needed a green-white-checkered finish to really put the ole' WWE make-it-up-as-you-go feel into it, and make sure the winning team came down to timing and luck. [/biting-sarcasm]

Bill Broderick, useful or just self important?

Even though Baker is gone he will never be forgotten just like Earnhardt will never be forgotten even though mr. Richard Petty is not racing anymore he is still the one that I say is my racing hero I don't know why but those are the guys that I was raised with Cale Yarborough and Dale Waltrip in the list goes on and on but who's that we're going to fill those shoes I know I can't so my hat goes off to those guys racing in 2019 is nothing like what it was in the 70s and 80s I'm sorry but from 1995 on 2 modern day NASCAR has gone downhill because all of the old race car drivers are no longer with us driving thank God for KZread

This version of NASCAR is why I fell in love with it as a kid... the current version of NASCAR is why I no longer watch

Real Race Cars running Real Races!

Need to put all races up to 1989 should go onto DVD. Everything after that NASCAR went to shit!

the days before plastics and over regulation. This is why nascar became famous. Now the cars are so controled, i don't see the fun in it anymore :(

This is the first time I’ve seen the 1980 Daytona 500. Now, why in the hell would the Speed Channel tell me that Dale Earnhardt wouldn’t go on to win this race - half way through? This is horse shit; practically ruined the experience for me.

@earnhardt3613

5 жыл бұрын

Probably since 100% of the race fans in the USA knew it took him 20 years to win a Daytona 500 and this was only his 2nd year and 500 are you telling the world of race fans YOU did NOT know this.....................What a Dumba$$

@davepearce7545

5 жыл бұрын

Look at his user name. Two words he has never been called.

I'll watch all these real NASCAR races.. but here in 2023.. I will not watch Any NASCAR races . It sucks now..

Why did I quit watching NASCAR? Cause it's not like this anymore.

Dale makes me sick.

Vintage was better