I always loved Dave Despain's commentary

Fantastic racing in this race , great decade for nascar , great commentary .

Bad ass race. Watched it start from finish.

Damn dave despain look like he play in lynard skynyrd

@garymack9734

3 жыл бұрын

LMAO!

@badbooking3221

3 жыл бұрын

They are in sweet home alabama you know..

@badmonkey2222

3 жыл бұрын

Dave was the man

Just one of the greatest races of all time. Sure wish we could see this kind of racing now.

I miss the days of 355cu no restrictor plates ... the luck of drafting and whos car can hold out and who can actually build the winning car ... GMC 😁

@caballopalido

Жыл бұрын

I MISS THE DAYS OF JUDGING MINI-SKIRT AND THIN SILKY BLOUSE COMPETITIONS. THOSE WERE THE DAYS MY FRIEND. THAT'S THE WORLD I MISS.

Does anybody else think that this was perhaps Bumpergate 1.0? I believe it was Tim Brewer (Yarborough) who claimed that they had tested their Buick both with and without a rear bumper prior to Daytona '82, and that the bumper-free car was a good deal faster. "I was born in the morning, but not yesterday morning."

*POINT STANDINGS and WINS before the 1981 ALABAMA 500 (10 of 31):* #28 Bobby Allison (1386pts with 1 win, Pontiac) #12 Harry Gant (-83, Oldsmobile) #88 Ricky Rudd (-138, Buick) #11 Darrell Waltrip (-164 with 4 wins, Buick) #90 Jody Ridley (-165, Ford) #2 Dale Earnhardt (-247, Pontiac) #43 Richard Petty (-248 with 2 wins, Buick) #15 Benny Parsons (-286, Ford) #44 Terry Labonte (-290, Buick) Cale Yarborough (#27 Buick) decided to move down to a partial schedule and still won the Atlanta 500. Morgan Shepherd (Pontiac #5) surprised many when he won the Virginia 500. Drivers listed are the season's current top8, last season's top8 plus whatever race winner that doesn't fit any of those 2 descriptions. Yes, I’m using the unsponsored names of the races. In Talladega’s case, the Spring race was the Alabama 500 while the Summer one was the Talladega 500.

It's marvelous *NOT SEEING* pack racing on a superspeedway. Those guys were literally _grabbing the bull by the horns_ in this race.

@apexkilla

3 жыл бұрын

No they weren’t literally grabbing the bull by the horns

@edroberts6841

3 жыл бұрын

@@apexkilla Considering this was a non-restrictor plate race, without power steering & dicing it out at full throttle with those aero-bricks of cars, it would certainly be close to handling a bull by its horns.

@apexkilla

3 жыл бұрын

Ed Roberts Thus obviously went right over your head. They weren’t LITERALLY grabbing any bulls by their horns as stated.

@brianhartley2258

3 жыл бұрын

@@apexkilla My! My! It looks like someone is very TOUCHY when it comes to semantics! I have a cousin, from what he told me, had an experience at Talladega back in the late 1970s that could be akin to dealing with a bull. He was best friends with one of the sons of a NASCAR cup team at a time when the team was doing a test session at Talladega where near the end of the day after a testing session had concluded the driver and team treated my cousin to several laps of a ride a long since it was his birthday. They loaned him a helmet and he awkwardly rode in the passenger side of the racer. The driver, with using the tach as his guide, was going to get it up to around 170 mph (top lap times back then was around 190+ mph). My cousin said it was an experience of a lifetime! The sensations of the pounding noise even with ear protection, vibrations, the steep banking, the g-forces, and the driver clutching that steering wheel with all he had to deal with the vibrations and the adjustments he had to make to keep the car under control, he couldn't imagine how a person could endure that for 3 hours. My cousin said after that, he never bothered wasting his money on amusement park rides as they were so plain boring when compared to his ride along experience. So Mateo, why so prickly with the semantics? Based on what my cousin described, driving those cars were hairy, indeed. Maybe like dealing with a bull?

@apexkilla

3 жыл бұрын

Brian Hartley well, thank you for that super interesting story. If you notice, I never disputed that the cars were far more difficult to drive back then. All I’ve said was that they were not “literally” grabbing bulls by their horns.

Thank you!

SMIFF! Always adding. Oh hell yes

1981, Go see a race, 2020, Stay home, there's a pandemic out there.

First cup race I attended.

Ok 1981 Bobby Allison wins on a super speedway with the rear bumper falling off on a Buick Regal, 1982 he wins the Daytona 500 bumper falls on what car….a Buick Regal

And they call today's racing "the most competitive." I beg to differ. Creating rules and "IROC" cars, keeping 30 cars on the lead lap doesn't hold a candle to 80s racing.

1:31:23 Guy thinks he's already hit.

this is recorded on the old Beta recorder

Dave hippie despain dig ?

announce team is second to none here, just blow Ken Squire away in my view. i wonder if ESPN offered Despain the full time job. Nuber knew the histories of every single driver in every single race (LW Wright excluded)

@tommynesbitt4837

2 жыл бұрын

The personnel and graphics make me wonder if MRN didn't produce this race for ESPN

@MrChristopherHaas

2 жыл бұрын

@@tommynesbitt4837 i was wondering the same thing

Bobby Allison out drove them boys again sorry Waltrip and Baker

Back when men drove real cars and drivers were men. Drivers today couldn’t make a pocket on these drivers shirts

@prevost8686

3 жыл бұрын

I have no use for today’s NASCAR. Won’t attend it and won’t watch it on TV. Piss on them.

@kingofrunescapepking

3 жыл бұрын

OK boomer

@soonerlegendspodcast

3 жыл бұрын

Ed Kell what does being a boomer have to do with it?

@nascage

3 жыл бұрын

@@prevost8686 I still watch, but mostly because it's the only form of "stock car" racing available to me on national TV. Granted, I rarely watch live and usually record it, only to scan through most of it. I'm looking forward to Tony Stewart's new racing series that will be making its debut in the coming years.

@fsca72

3 жыл бұрын

Ed Kell he does make a good point. Drivers now are just stepping outta their rv’s and hopping right into their car. These guys put in lots of work getting the set ups right with their crews, look up what Mark Martin said about this era. Hell remember even in the 90’s it wasn’t uncommon to see drivers in garage. Plus all the equipment they have now, cold air systems etc, competition cautions, and stage racing.By the way even though I hate it I’m a millennial

Wonder how long the name 'Alabama Gang' would be allowed to exist nowadays? Be a buncha boohooing, then canceled..lol.

that's real racing