the appearance of bristol motor speedway has changed so much over the years

Bruton Smith made Bristol the coliseum it is today he sunk millions into that joint so back in the day Bristol looked like your typical short track. Love these old races with the good ol' boys.

Back in the day where you did not have to say Bristol is better than everyone else you just saw it.

When they did the starting lineup and you k ow all the names back till row 12. Lol. Those were the days

D.W. driving the 11 Bud Chevy. Wow!

@EricCox4848

4 жыл бұрын

DW drove for Junior Johnson in the #11 from 1981 until the end of 1986. The Mountain Dew Buick, Pepsi Challenger Chevrolet, and the Budweiser Chevrolet. Points championships in '81, '82, and '85.

I absolutely love the classic NASCAR races. Back then a race was a race

Anyone else miss NASCAR?

@SUPERMAN_71

4 жыл бұрын

So much it hurts sometimes

Rip JD McDuffie

Let’s go back in time and tell these guys they can’t drive without splitters, side skirts, monster spoilers, and an electron microscope inspection process.

Dale Earnhardt won this race with No Power Steering. His power steering went out around lap 100 so he had to muscle that almost the whole race and his arm kept falling asleep from all the pressure which make this his most hard earned victory and his first Bristol victory driving for Richard Childress wrangler 3 and might be his second win there after winning his rookie year 1st career win in 1979

I can sit and watch these old races all day. I can't even stand the current NASCAR. No stupid "Chase" back in the day. All the races were an event.

@cc2450

5 жыл бұрын

Chuck Allen I love it too but I can't not watch my nascar even today.

There was a dude named PHIL GOOD? Lololololololololol come on lolololol

RIP Dale Earnhardt #3

I was at this race, I was a bigtime earnhardt fan, and I always listen on scanner to what dale and crew said. When dale lost power steering Childress hollered and told dale, bud Moore (owner #15 car) just told rudd on the radio we dont have to worry about the #3 today he ain't got no power steering. Dale never said nothing. With about 30 or 40 laps to go dale was beating the bumper and fenders off rudds car to pass him and he hollered on the radio to Childress and said "you wrecking they starting worrying about us yet Richard " lol.

The late 80s cars were fast as runs off a shovel ! Hence the tire burning !

Unfortunately I was Born and raised in Bristol didn't really get into NASCAR till 1990 . I hate all the stuff by mail. Wish I would've been bred into NASCAR. Anyway the motor speedway. It's amazing. Only got to go once. 1993 August grace. Amazing sorry for the horrible spelling spellcheck sucks

@brianbooher2286

6 жыл бұрын

Will Ellis 1979 don't feal bad I was born an raised their 2 I have always been into NASCAR sinse I watched Elliott hand em their ass earlier in 85.

@cc2450

5 жыл бұрын

Reboot toys Ellis 1979 how close to the track ?

A Japanese car ad interrupting, classic.

Love the classic ads too lol

Did they seriously go to commercial with less than 15 laps to go???

Is it me or does the all asphalt Bristol look wider? Those steel guard rails look deadly also. This was when Bristol racing was good. The modern Bristol has been castrated.

@brianbooher7318

Жыл бұрын

The biggest thing is boss hog took the banking from 36 to24vdegrees an that ruined bristol

was bristol loud then as it is now?

@brianbooher7318

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly I couldn't tell you that the cars were any louder or quieter but I do know I grew up about 12 miles from the racetrack and you could hear them like they was in your backyard when I was growing up in the early 80s and by the time I moved from the home place in 2008 you couldn't even tell race was in town because I reckon the grandstands and then people muffle the noise and the cat out that Highway 394 and I don't know if it routed the sound that way or if it was just the fact that the people was absorbing all the sound. But you couldn't even hear them. I want to say the cars were not allowed or just being at the racetrack with them stands built all the way around it it was probably a lot louder now

Put bristol back like uts supposed to be they ruined it when they dropped the banking down to 24 degrees. Put it back to 36 like it's supposed to be an it be the fastest half Mike in the world again .stupidest thing Bruton ever done was change bristol.this race was rub on my 7th birthday I live about 4 miles from bristol an remember this well

Sterlin Marlin?

@carwhiz90

8 жыл бұрын

Sterling Marlin is what it was supposed to say

IIRC this race was postponed the previous weekend and at the time NASCAR had ran the next weekend if there was no race scheduled. Due to the fact this was Easter weekend they ended up running on Saturday afternoon April 6

@badbooking3221

5 жыл бұрын

That's why NASCAR should have 30ish races in a season, having 36 leaves almost no room for postponements. The 2001 season was an anomaly though.

@mikeshelton5629

4 жыл бұрын

Yep, I was there. It was on Saturday

what is wrong with the video at the end

Do You Have The '81 Daytona 500

@RandysRacingPlace633

8 жыл бұрын

+Jessie Henry kzread.info/dash/bejne/Znt4l69wdKWYfrA.html

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Hey! Good for you! You got advertising! (Hope you get a few bucks for it...)

This the reason why i can't stand todays nascar.

Dale Earnhrdt Sr won this race driving the last 400 laps with no power steering. I wonder how many people knew that? They don't make drivers like that anymore! Most of them are a bunch of spoiled,rich and disrespectful little punks that show no appreciation! People can vote on who the greatest nascar driver in history is all they want but just like in life itself it's not always about what you did,it's about how you did it! You can vote by looking at stats on a piece of paper for 3 days or work your ass off and do your homework. Dale Earnhardt Sr is by far the very BEST.He was the toughest,most aggressive, never gave up and had the greatest car control I've ever seen.He did more with less than any other driver. Not to mention he used to kick everybodys ass in IROC!

@toddbowser9415

6 жыл бұрын

Caden Parker I knew that, most impressive win of dale’s career and you don’t hear much about it, he basically fell out of the car in victory lane,from being so exhausted, THE REAL IRON MAN!!