This race aired the same day Tim Richmond passed away. R.I.P Tim Richmond

Good grief I miss Speedworld.

NASCAR’s greatest years and greatest drivers.

What great announcing. So much knowledge. So well passed along to people new to the sport as well as to people who have been fans for years. What a great crew. So classy

2:15:00 Geoff Bodine has a crash pretty much identical to one that would demolish Tommy Kendall's legs and kill J.D. McDuffie just two years later.

44:48 Another classic Zerex commercial with Alan and Rusty

45:27 - seems real sad that they show J. D. McDuffie spin and then i hear BP say "[Rudd and Wallace] got killed on this....", was it just 2 years later J. D. would die at this race? I loved the independents and what they brought to Nascar, i miss them. God bless you J. D.

@nicopatrizi1953

3 жыл бұрын

2:21:25 yes he died in 1991 in turn 5 the same that Bodine tastes in this video

Late 80’s Nascars were so cool

That intro is a master class of ESPN Speedworld magic!

The vintage Zerex ads are great! I still miss Alan Kulwicki.

Jerry Punch should be in the nascar hof.

@aloysiusdevadanderabercrom6401

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, he should.

For a team sponsored by antifreeze, Kulwicki sure blew up a lot of engines

Not only was Tommy Kendall a good race car driver, but he had suitcase Jake as a crew chief, should have known he was gonna run good.

I also think it's kinda eerie that the 25 car gets the lead at 23:10, seeing the Folgers colors in the front on the day Tim died and at a track that Richmond was so good at was just too much.

@RC.41

5 жыл бұрын

Always hidden signs in life

@a1b1c184

Жыл бұрын

Am I crazy for thinking Richmond may have been the first celebrity killed by giving them AIDS? Next was Magic Johnson even though he didn't die, then Easy E. It may just be the nature of the disease and I'm not anti gay or anything I'm just saying it's weird.

@beyondthegraveRIP

Жыл бұрын

@@a1b1c184 Don’t forget Freddie Mercury

Wild that back then people just stood in the pit stalls holding a sign. It seems like a pole with the sign on it would have been there from the start, but, it took a decades to happen.

That Fella did right by that Roger Miller tune.

@trecooledge1326

4 жыл бұрын

Right? I thought he did amazing. Even though Ricky and Rusty played nice for the intro, they weren't the best of friends lol.

Morgan Shepherd / Cal Naughton Jr on the pole for this one

Tim Richmond would’ve been a Winston Cup Champion....could win on every kind of track and was without a doubt the most talented road course racer in the entire field

When racing was racing!

First time watching the race and I'm a Dale Earnhardt fan it's 2023

I had no idea that Bob Tullius ever ran cars in NASCAR, or that Jim Sauter drove for him.

1:17:35 Bob already warming up for the Wilkesboro finish

2:18:07 Davey Allison working a double shift as Rusty Wallace's crew chief

30 years later

I've always wondered what would have been had Tim Richmond lived and not had Aids? What would have been if he'd been in the Folgers 25 instead of Schrader? I really think that what happened with Jeff Gordon in the 90's is about what we would have seen with Tim and Harry Hyde had Tim not gotten sick. The 25 car was the car I was for, from the first time I saw Tim Richmond in it in 1986. And I liked Ken Schrader, but I do think Tim was better. But if ya look at my screen name you'll see what I think about the situation, it's just sad...

@TheNASCARJeff

6 жыл бұрын

Your 100% correct, Tim Richmond would have been a champion and I also believe it would have cost my driver Dale Earhnardt the chance at seven. But if Tim had lived Jeff Gordon would have driven for Bill Davis, not Rick Hendrick.

@cfoster81

6 жыл бұрын

I didn't even know that. There are a lot of "What Ifs" that surround Tim Richmond. I don't how many Championships he could have won, but he was just as fast on the road courses as he was on the ovals

@crouchb15

5 жыл бұрын

Working on that www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/nascar-an-alternative-history-1985-present.435238/

@badmonkey2222

4 жыл бұрын

I think Tim would have won 3 championships for sure and Dale wouldn't have 7 prb 4 or 5 and Jeff no telling how things would have been I mean just think if Davey Allison and Alan Kulwiki would have survived...So yea there is definitely a lot of what if's

@Dupontman627

19 күн бұрын

​​@@badmonkey22222001 Daytona 500 plays a role regarding Kulwicki, Richmond, and Davey if they still lived

Presents...SPEEDWORLD LIVE FROM MISS THAT MAN...that was the mpment to crack one🍺 open in the couch.

Funny how they claimed here that Earnhardt wasn't as good on road courses, yet for his career his average qualifying position was best on road courses and average finishes was better than on superspeedways. Short tracks was his best

First race I've watched with Bob Jenkins since it was announced he had brain cancer in Feb, 2021

13:44 there’s a dog in the car

Back when they actually used to wash the windshields.

I did not expect Rusty to be taller than Rudd. Rusty always struck me as a short guy.

@jesseyoungblood6265

3 жыл бұрын

Rusty is like 6'2". Rudd is under 6'.

@DavidClark-vu3dw

8 ай бұрын

Wallace is 6'. Rudd looks to be about 5'8".

14:41 race start

When did they start using the bus stop chicane? (at Watkins Glen)

@SMIFFTV

2 жыл бұрын

1992. It was created to slow cars down after two bad incidents in the carousel in 1991: Tommy Kendall breaking both of his legs in an IMSA crash and, of course, JD McDuffie's fatal crash in the Cup race.

@roberthanson579

2 жыл бұрын

@@SMIFFTV, good info.

Old bias plys man they could sling those cars end of an era.

Quaker state⚡ 🔥⚡ Kodiak

1:36:40 hat of the week time

8:21 it's true Jr

And Michael Waltrip... Being Michael Waltrip again lol.

skip to 1:13

THE WALLICE THE BIRD CREW WINS

Spoke too soon about Tommy...

This race was a vivid example of how NASCAR was allowing Earnhardt to ignore the rules. He almost ran the official over who was holding his for the penalty. No repercussions. He ignores the order to pit again. No repercussion. He ran through the Waltrip pit and hit a crew member. No violation there! He literally bumped Morgan off the track obviously intentionally....again no violation there. Yet every time anybody else ever did any of these things it cost them the race. Earnhardt routinely wrecked other drivers. Twice when he did so it gave him a cup. Then he died bexauze he was blocking the field so his son and driver would win the Daytona 500. He was a great driver but NASCAR should never had let him cheat like that. Would have saved his life if NASCAR enforced the rules.

2:10:10

Ned, Benny and Bob where the best... these clowns we have now (Waltrip's) are just imitators. These guys made the race enjoyable without a lot of Bullsh@t.

@cfoster81

6 жыл бұрын

And I was lucky to watch the coverage then and I still miss hearing BP on TV but it is always special that Ned still comes back for the annual Throwback Race at the Southern 500

@scottpeters371

4 жыл бұрын

Watching the raw feeds of the races they did, you can tell they had a lot of fun doing races together with some of the banter back and forth during the breaks

Beep beep hahaha

If you don't like Richard petty you don't Like nascar Earnhardt an petty we're the John Wayne an Clint Eastwood of nascar

Tim Richmond was an absolute winner, but I don’t see him being a champion. His death is sad and tragic, regardless. NASCAR lost a real star August 13, 1989.

Once again Dale Earnhardt gets away with cheating..LOL Going through cones and not staying put for 15 second penalty.

@wesleyloroff2736

3 жыл бұрын

not an Earnhardt fan but t quote King Richard, If you ain't cheating you ain't trying

When did Chevrolet switch to Luminas? I thought is was 1990 And even the lineups show monte carlos? What’s going on is this even real?

@SMIFFTV

5 жыл бұрын

Chevy debuted the Luminas in the '89 Winston 500

@emeyer6963

3 жыл бұрын

Guys running Monte Carlo's were low budget teams that did not want to reskin them until they got wrecked

This track was better without that stupid "bus stop". The high speed going with the original track configuration helped create a good passing zone. The moronic bus stop created a wrecking/passing zone. Which was not helpful to the cars or the drivers.

@bryankramer3567

4 жыл бұрын

I am going to assume you don't understand the reason the bus stop was put there, so let me explain. Even though you don't like it, it was put in for 1992 because JD McDuffie got killed in an accident in turn 5 in 1991 that was even scarier than Bodine's wreck near the end of this race.

@scottpeters371

4 жыл бұрын

@@bryankramer3567 Not to mention Tommy Kendall IMSA accident in the same corner 6 weeks earlier that put him out of action for almost a year

@josephscott6388

2 жыл бұрын

only other option was cutting down a forest.