What are your favorite moments from the Daytona summer race?

@evanj2400

2 жыл бұрын

William Byron

@Carshtime

2 жыл бұрын

2007 finish

@DupontandLowesWarrior

2 жыл бұрын

1995 1998 2004 and 2020

@bayleyxsonicfan1918

2 жыл бұрын

@@evanj2400 ya!

@bayleyxsonicfan1918

2 жыл бұрын

Stewart winning in 2009!

"A person who throws something on the race track at a car is not a race fan. He is a race idiot." -Bob Jenkins (1947-2021)

@wilhelmvg9978

2 жыл бұрын

Or he’s just from Philly.

@dougbourdo2589

2 жыл бұрын

Ryan Ward... Thank you. I was trying to find that quote. It is Perfect.

@teresagoodwin7458

2 жыл бұрын

AMEN 🙏🇺🇸🤗🏁🏆🏁🇺🇸🙏

@dumbdave961

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. Fortunately I'm not a race idiot. I'm just an idiot XD

@ogedeh

2 жыл бұрын

I threw a turd once but I never been to a race. Just had a sister

Mikey's awesome response to the seat-cushion incident... "I thought they were congratulating me, I thought it was like a ticker-tape parade. You mean they were mad?"

@Dat-Mudkip

2 жыл бұрын

Mikey always knew how to take things with stride...

@Natendo_Switch

2 жыл бұрын

The cushion incident was even mentioned in Nascar Thunder 2004 from one of the challenges. Having actual context for it now makes it genuinely funny.

@MrMiD.Life.Crisis

2 жыл бұрын

That is such a Mikey thing to say God bless him. I think he often pretended to be unaware of certain things so he got away without having to side one way or the other. It's a smart thing to do - lol 'its smart to sometimes pretend to be dumb'. Hope you guys are good. Great channel BTW.

@christiankallio8586

2 жыл бұрын

@@Natendo_Switch That's exactly what I was thinking. I remember that from Thunder 2004. Mikey was interviewing himself

@dumbdave961

2 жыл бұрын

@@Natendo_Switch Man, I play that on the PS1 and the PS2 version seems like a completely different game. There are challenges but there is no context for them at all.

Mikey helps Jr. win summer Daytona 2001? A-okay. Mikey helps Jr. Win spring Talladega 2002? A-okay. Jr. helps Mikey win summer Daytona 2002? Massive friggin problem apparently. When did the fans turn on Mikey, why

@Ultrase7en767

2 жыл бұрын

No, they never cared about Mikey in 2nd, they just wanted JR to win

@blze0018

2 жыл бұрын

A lot of Jr. fans built their ENTIRE life around him. It was borderline cult status with some of them.

@joshuapittman4663

2 жыл бұрын

@@blze0018 The same can be said about William Clyde Elliott II aka Chase Elliott nowadays. A lot of his fans treat him as the next coming of Christ.

@S.K.R.E.Inc.

2 жыл бұрын

I guess the beer and caffeine took a hit on them

@zackmenard7501

2 жыл бұрын

@@joshuapittman4663 😭 It's so true though

Shades of Jeff Gordon at Talladega in 2004 when fans threw beer cans on the track. Also can we take a moment and appreciate how bad ass those engines sounded?

@ThatsBadTV

2 жыл бұрын

Remember that Jeff Gordon incident like it was yesterday..

@BrendonH2112

2 жыл бұрын

X-pipes baaby 🤙🏻

@Coolbreeze0988

2 жыл бұрын

That wasn’t nearly as bad as vickers lol I was 7 and man I wanted to throw something out there too!

@RazorSharp75426

2 жыл бұрын

Well, those engine sounds a bit muffled on plate tracks and sounds like buzzing bees and hornets.

@Cruising_On_Lake_Havasoma

2 жыл бұрын

@@Coolbreeze0988 I don't blame Vickers one bit for doing that. Saying it was Dale Jr's fault though was... ill-advised, to put it mildly.

I remember this whole race. The interview when Dale Jarrett was upset about the slow reaction from the safety crew after that big crash and he waved off the ambulance was memorable.

@bonniewynn3983

2 жыл бұрын

It's awesome to hear him talk about this. He's still hot about it and I don't blame him.

Dale Jr was and is a great guy, unfortunately some of his fan didn’t have the class as he does.

@24LindseyTribett24

2 жыл бұрын

Jr is damn good driver, and great guy too!

@jamesgentry13

2 жыл бұрын

Most of his fans

@Youtube-Uploader

2 жыл бұрын

100% true

@ArthurCallahan389

2 жыл бұрын

After Sr died I was a die hard Jr fan. He was much classier than most people realized. And I always loved Michael Waltrip! He & Jr were good friends & worked great together. IDK why anyone would have a problem with him helping Mikey get a win! Classless people I guess.

@chuckmccane9696

2 жыл бұрын

Jr. just wishes he can drive, he’s waste!!

I would have pulled a Kyle Busch if I were Mikey. "If you can't stand your favorite to lose, don't watch!"

@skylerwd6

2 жыл бұрын

I might not like Kyle, but I'll be damned if he wasn't right though.

@thelastflag8696

2 жыл бұрын

"If you dont like that kind of racing, dont even watch" - KB Chicago 2018

@alexcasares7401

2 ай бұрын

Or Denny Hamlin's I beat your favorites

I was 15, and this was the second Pepsi 400 I attended. My family and I were on the backstretch in the middle of all of this happening, and boy... Do I remember it vividly! I remember my mom and dad being very appalled by the behavior. My brother and I thought it was hilarious. I'd say at the very beginning it was a handful of fans who were actually upset and throwing anything they could over the fence. And then it was just a chain reaction of others joining in, but I'd say most of them were doing it out of the hilarity of the situation after a certain point. Definitely a moment I will never forget!

@ronwilliams329

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, I was appalled as well. As someone who has seen some really bad things that happen to innocent people when fans start throwing stuff I'd fully support a law (like some cities already have in place) to put the offenders in jail for 14 days and fine them $1,000 to $5,000 for throwing objects into the field of play at sporting events. There is simply no excuse for such behavior. I often wonder where these types of people are when an election gets stolen, LOL!

The fans of that era literally could not be pleased. I was at Daytona the next year for the Winn Dixie 250 and Pepsi 400 when Mikey rode Jr’s bumper the whole race and never tried to pass him and the stands were booing then too. The people behind me said “Mikey might not wanna race Jr but he’ll damn sure wipe his butt for him.”

@sandrahunter5749

2 жыл бұрын

I'm a big Michael waltrip fan and I still love him!

@tryithere

2 жыл бұрын

@@sandrahunter5749 If only he didn't have that whiney voice.

@ncinteriorsplus3520

2 жыл бұрын

It was amazing how most Jr fans didn't even know they were team mates. I went to tons of races when Jr was on the 8 and 88 and if he didn't win they were all talking tihs. No matter what state or race it was the same thing everytime.

@NaruSanavai

2 жыл бұрын

@@tryithere As though that's his fault? We don't choose our voice - it just forms.

@icaanul

2 жыл бұрын

@@NaruSanavai Well, his voice is an extra level of sassssssy

It’s always nice coming into one of Jaret’s videos not knowing anything about the race he’s about to explain to us. Thank you Jaret for educating me!

2002 Daytona Night?… *never heard of it…* _“The 2001 is all I know”_

@joboots007

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like U had one 2 many,eh Denny????

@sainttimothy2230

2 жыл бұрын

Shake n bake

It’s rediculous. The same thing happened when Gordon was dominating Talladega in the mid 2000’s. It was dangerous to not be a jr fan and I truly believe it turned a lot of people off of nascar. The Jr fans were a very loud and aggressive majority who were often drunk

@crystaljon

2 жыл бұрын

The 2007 one was pretty bad, especially because Jr. basically begged his fanbase not to do it if Gordon won. And they did it anyway.

@JJA1987

2 жыл бұрын

NASCAR let it happen - Had they finish both these races under green it be different

@marklittle8805

2 жыл бұрын

Being a Jr fan meant cheering beside some absolute idiots. Dale Jr would never approve of this crap and yet the subsector of his fan base acted like absolute morons any time they felt he was done a disservice

@chrisyetman1

2 жыл бұрын

I was ridiculous, but it had zero to do with any loss of fans, imo

@joshuapittman4663

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly, I’d argue that Chase Elliott fans today might be worse, one of his fans attempted to attack Kyle Busch last year at Darlington. I don’t remember Jr fans literally attacking a driver who “wronged him”.

I was there. Always been a huge Tony Stewart fan and I was crushed when he was wrecked so early. He wrecked right in front of me. We were in the back stretch grandstands. We started seeing beer cans and seat cushions flying over our heads after the ending debacle. People were pissed. This was the race that brought on the advent of the green white checker

@casey2173

2 жыл бұрын

Dude, you weren’t there let’s be honest.

@coorsbandit5212

2 жыл бұрын

@@casey2173 whatever you say

@kingofrunescapepking

2 жыл бұрын

The 2004 Aaron's 499 was the race that brought the green-white-checker to the Cup Series

@casey2173

2 жыл бұрын

@@coorsbandit5212 just joking bro.

@DonCarlosDonCarlos

2 жыл бұрын

I think it was Pocono 2004, Jeremy Mayfield had a chance to steal the win from Jimmie Johnson caution came out with 4 to go

man i miss the sound of that engine package

@brawndothirstmutilator5863

2 жыл бұрын

It had nothing to do with the engine package it's all the tuned X pipe. The restrictor plate was pathetically small.

@johnmcmullen456

2 жыл бұрын

@@brawndothirstmutilator5863 Am I correct that the cup cars today are not allowed any type of X pipe or H crossover pipe? If so, why prohibited?

@brett22bt

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnmcmullen456 Looks like our armchair expert ( Brawndo Thirst Mutilator) doesn't have an answer.

That crowd reaction is nothing compared to how some football fans in Europe or South America react when there are troubles inside a stadium/sports facility.

@xminusone1

2 жыл бұрын

UK..

@LamborghiniDiabloSVPursuit

2 жыл бұрын

El Salvador and Honduras: Wages a literal war over the results of a football qualifying match.

@MyWeedgrower

2 жыл бұрын

@@LamborghiniDiabloSVPursuit england fans travel to different countries just to riot. they tried that in holland once and were met at the train station by riot police and told to get back on the train and go home. they destroyed a city in Romania even screaming at children then the russian fans beat them up

“The wings will be extra crispy tonight.”-Mike Joy

I've always loved and respected the Waltrips, coming from an Earnhardt fan that should mean a lot. Daryll and Mikey have always been respectable drivers.

I went to quite a few of those summer Daytona night races & a few things that stick out every time I see these old races pop up is the packed crowd, the atmosphere ,excitement & those flash bulbs popping off. Hopefully one day we can get back to that as a sport.

@1234KeithB

2 жыл бұрын

Not gonna happen

@stevenhunt3113

2 жыл бұрын

They threw those races away when they changed the rules to the point you could name the winner by the end of the 1st lap of any race except Martinsville

Ryan Newnan trying to forge his own path instead of pushing Rusty is the root cause of the finish.

The race may have had a bust of an ending, but I miss those days....the cars, the personalities and the passion.

@Taydiablo3

2 жыл бұрын

I remember working at the race track during my teen years, it was awesome.

@andrewyork3869

2 жыл бұрын

It might come back some new and interesting characters may be on the horizon....

This was my first race i ever attended. I went home drenched in beer from the overflow mess of liquid flowing down from up above. Fans were acting so stupid and violent. Was a very disappointing first experience.

@YoYo-lh3ln

2 жыл бұрын

Disappointing, but looking back, you probably cherish it!

@greggstrasser5791

2 жыл бұрын

That’s just Murica.

@deusvult6920

2 жыл бұрын

@@YoYo-lh3ln doubtful

@jtknapp3261

2 жыл бұрын

Chicken Bone Alley...

@overheadcam

2 жыл бұрын

Stupid and violent? In america? You're lying surely

Holy crap, I've seen the footage of Gordon winning over Jr, but I haven't seen this one before. Looked like a FedEx truck's trunk opened and released all the mail it had en route for delivery

They didn’t throw chairs, they threw seat covers that Pepsi gave away.

@genehollon1472

2 жыл бұрын

BOTH--- or EITHER , is ridiculous ,asinine , childish behavior

@sludge4125

2 жыл бұрын

Some people just love fake news, RFS87. Chairs...smh 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

@SkylineBNR34

2 жыл бұрын

Pretty hard to throw bleachers.

Wow, the camera angles were way better back then. Emphasized the speed Love the crowder mix at the end btw 🤘

@stansmith5019

2 жыл бұрын

Damn near everything was better back then. Food even tasted different

@overheadcam

2 жыл бұрын

Not so much the angles but the focal length of the cameras

I think one thing nascar should do is stop counting caution laps and do however many green flag laps the race is scheduled for. Some smaller races like Bristol martinsville especially. To many laps run under caution and not enough green flag laps run at those places.

@FloridaManRacer

2 жыл бұрын

the races would be 7 hours long. a 30 green flag laps count only feature at my short track can take up to 45 minutes to run with enough cautions. they run 16 second laps under green...

@JEEPERDUDE98

2 жыл бұрын

@@FloridaManRacer it wouldn’t be 7 hours long if they didn’t count the caution laps. They roughly run 3.75 laps under green at Bristol and martinsville about 2.50-3 give or take at both tracks. They can usually run 70ish laps in 20mins under green at Bristol so average caution laps they run a race it would add maybe an hour or so to the time it takes. But at least you get to see 500 green flag laps. People’s attention spans now days are short I guess gotta be on those phones.

@sludge4125

2 жыл бұрын

@@JEEPERDUDE98 Your logic is faulty, so blame the “fans.” smh 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

@JEEPERDUDE98

2 жыл бұрын

@@sludge4125 I’ll be dogged

@jamesgentry13

2 жыл бұрын

Totally takes fuel strategy out. Not good and if yoibdidint count caution laps the race would be way longer

I still have the NASCAR Illustrated issue that featured this race. It's actually one of the first races I vividly remember in my early fandom for NASCAR, I was 8 at the time. It still blows me away that Nemechek wasn't hurt by his vicious impact with the wall in the big one.

Good god, those engines sound FEROCIOUS!!

@gadbammit4736

2 жыл бұрын

Wait till they start running this electric toy out there in the next few years and you come back here

@thargor6750

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah fuck hey.... time to go fight dragons or something. Electric racing just wont cut it.

@steeltaz725

2 жыл бұрын

You need to go to a NHRA event. 2 cars make more hp and noise then the 40 going around that track

@thargor6750

2 жыл бұрын

@@steeltaz725 electric dragsters. That's going to be awesome too.

@steeltaz725

2 жыл бұрын

@@thargor6750 I’m not much into the quietness of it. But the 1400 hp Mustang Cobra is badass 176 mph in 1/4 mile!!!

I remember being at this race with my uncle sitting up on the second tier..I just remember when they started throwing beer cans a lot of ppl in the front few rows were getting annihilated with them 😂

The Jr fanbase make the Chase fanbase look like the Hamlin fanbase

@the11fan33

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t get it?

@JJA1987

2 жыл бұрын

Not

@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT

2 жыл бұрын

@@JJA1987 you only say that because you’re a fan of both and don’t realize how toxic you are. Of course you’d be defensive about it lmao

@M1lesJames

2 жыл бұрын

Dale Jr and Chase Elliot by far have the most cancerous fan base

@JJA-ri4op

2 жыл бұрын

Oh Here We Go SIGH

As a Gordon fan I loved when he won at Dega and had the fans crying it was hilarious to me 😂.

@zackstaa7826

Жыл бұрын

I was there at the 2004 Aaron’s 499 to watch Gordon win and fans threw stuff on the track. I think that was the first year they stopped racing back to the line and before the green white checkered. I think that was the race NASCAR decided to start doing green white checkered the next year

@rcguy902

Жыл бұрын

Noone cried just nobody likes a cheater and Gordon didn't win jr was ahead that's fact

@allencapps4622

Жыл бұрын

@@rcguy902 sounds like your still crying and Jr wasn't crap compared to the 24 😂.

@rcguy902

Жыл бұрын

@@allencapps4622 you sound mad and crying the 24 wasn't as good as my all-time favorite driver Dale Earnhardt 7 championships to 4 stay mad loser and jr was very good

@toadsixeight

Жыл бұрын

@@rcguy902jr sucked tbh. How much championships did he win? Oh yeah none lol

Damn I forgot about that, this is right after Darrell waltrip had retired! You can't miss that announcer! He was one hell of a driver too

I love how jimmy eats world is just paying in the background 🥰

One of the most forgotten summer daytona races. Got overshadowed because of the year before and maybe the year after(?). Boy i miss those restrictor plate engines by the gen 4 cars. Also great winston cup season by all means

@alexthesniper1952

2 жыл бұрын

X-pipes were the best

@chickentrappedsoul2984

2 жыл бұрын

I guess it’s to safe now?

This was one of Jeff Gordon's best races in my opinion. If you wanna see what made Jeff Gordon "Jeff Gordon," watch this race. The aggression he showed trying to get his lap back and how hard the field tried to keep him a lap down really highlights how good he was in his prime. EDIT: And this incident is pretty disgusting. Much worse than the 2004 Dega incident where Gordon won fair and square by the rules and hadn't done anything wrong, but it was far less of a surprise considering who the 2 drivers involved were. But this one is worse because for one, Jr wasn't even close to winning - he tried and he lost out hard and that's nobody's fault but the 8 team's. And secondly, if there is any other driver that Jr Nation should have liked at that time it's Michael Waltrip. The fact that they'd be that irrate about Michael Waltrip winning for the first time since the '01 Daytona 500 is pretty upsetting.

@sevendst19

2 жыл бұрын

I hated Gordon, and I think he had to pit for some unknown reason as the race went green off a caution. He got out well ahead of being a lap down but with no drafting partner, so we were on the backstretch counting the time from when he went by until the leaders went by until he was finally lapped. There was no wave around then either so he had to pass the leader to get the lap back. I just knew with him a lap down he had virtually no shot at winning.

@joshshultz1250

2 жыл бұрын

I think the problem is less so Jr being out of it and more so that rule about ending on caution. With an honest restart there's always a chance. Watching the laps tick away without any racing sort of feels like being robbed. Imagine if in football the penalties resulted in automatic clock running and no play. That would be pretty absurd.

@customplumbingandgasfitter2168

Жыл бұрын

yeah....42 vs 1 that night

This came up in my recommended, and it's the first video of yours I've watched. I appreciate how concise you are when you speak. Even when I'm high I'm able to stay with you and understand what you're saying. Great video!

I may have some context as to why everyone was so pissed off that night. As we all know, Dale Earnhardt Jr. was the most popular NASCAR driver at the time, and his father’s passing in 2001 further cemented that. As for Michael Waltrip, he wasn’t nearly as liked as Dale Jr. In fact, he was probably one of the most hated. A lot of people, at the time, thought that he was a “waste of space” in DEI, and should’ve been replaced with another young, upstart talent. For example: Kurt Busch, Ryan Newman, or Jimmie Johnson. Everyone treated his 2001 Daytona 500 win as a fluke, and it didn’t help that Dale Earnhardt passed away in that same race, resulting in hardly anybody remembering who won. By 2002, Michael’s poor performances in top level equipment resulted in him being extremely hated. Even when he did get his win, everyone was pissed because Daytona had pretty much been a luck based racetrack since the restrictor plate era. For example, Jeff Gordon struggled the whole race due to a flat tire and Tony Stewart, who wrecked out early, would later on become the 2002 Winston Cup Champion. Had Junior won, the crowd reaction would’ve been totally different. Previous events up to this point led up to the reaction.

@ryanwilson5301

2 жыл бұрын

Make sure that you note what is said is opinion and not factual. To say Michael Waltrip at that point in 2002 was the most hated driver out there is not accurate at all. If he was hated it probably definitely was not because of his "poor performance" over one and a half seasons in "top level equipment". Not everyone treated Waltrip's 2001 Daytona 500 win as a fluke, maybe some did but definitely not everyone. People were probably pissed solely for the fact that Dale Earnhardt Jr lost but I'm sure alot fans were pissed at how the race ended in general. Nobody really wants to see a race, let alone a Daytona race end under caution.

@austinreed5805

2 жыл бұрын

@@ryanwilson5301 Yeah, I should’ve worded the comment a bit better. Some fans actually did think that way though, just not as much as I would call “most hated”.

@thinlineofsanity1035

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao. You wasted a lot of time typing out all that when your last 2 sentences summed it up the best. "If JR had won, fans wouldn't have reacted that way. It would've ended much better." Smh. Well lets just make sure certain drivers win at certain tracks so fans dont have to be held accountable, and so fans will act like decent f'n human beings which they should be doing anyway. I remember watching it on TV. I couldn't imagine if I had had my kid at that race. Parents, or anyone there with elderly ppl were probably scared to death. Thats crazy how they acted.

@cycloneranger7927

Жыл бұрын

I’m guessing you were a child when this race occurred? I can’t think of any other reason for somebody to rewrite history so badly. Waltrip wasn’t hated; Dale Jr. just had a lot of fanboys.

I was at this race sitting at the exit of pit road and turn 1 where the big one happened. I don’t remember the end as much as I do Dale Jarrett walking back from his car and everyone screaming at him. I was only 11 at the time though so I didn’t notice what was happening on the other side of the track with people throwing things.

Could you imagine if Modern day NASCAR Twitter was around when this finish happened lmao.

Thank you for helping me get more in depth with this sports history that I am recently gotten invested in.

I actually didn't even know this happened I wasn't mad I was happy for Michael as was Dale Jr cool video man. I remember what they did at Degga throwing cans at Gordon but that was a different circumstance

The other thing this race really exposed was the uncooperative relationship between Rusty and Ryan at Penske Racing. They were in a position to run 1-2 in this race, but they appeared to have no interested in working with each other. Both suffered as a result.

is it just me, or do the older cars take a longgg time to get up to speed?

@D2RCR

2 жыл бұрын

It was a product of the restrictor plates, it took about a full lap for the cars to get up to speed. It was most obvious during qualifying.

@christianbennett6970

2 жыл бұрын

They had a 7 grand rev limiter on the plate tracks so they had way less torque

2002 is probably the most forgotten year of NASCAR since the turn of the century, but it was actually one of the best years competition-wise.

@Dat-Mudkip

2 жыл бұрын

Had a lot of good looking paint schemes too!

@justlucky8254

2 жыл бұрын

@@Dat-Mudkip nobody knows what paint is anymore. Every kid can explain how wraps work though.

I'm Australian and that's nothing. Years ago when the Easter bike race's were held in Bathurst NSW. The police had a small sub station on the mountain. The police upset the fans who then decided to riot. The police evacuated from the mountain and the police station was dismantled by the fans. It has never been rebuilt.

Those are some nice paint schemes on the thumbnail.

This was probably the closest that Rusty came to winning a plate race.

@myzlstyx

2 жыл бұрын

Shame for a driver who accomplished so much. Would've loved to see one plate win. This one was gut-wrenchingly close.

@sevendst19

2 жыл бұрын

He won the bud shootout in 1998 at Daytona and dominated the 99 Daytona 500 but they didn't pit for new tires with over 20 laps left and his car just faded by the end of the race.

@MrBurney12

2 жыл бұрын

If he had helped Jr he had a better chance to win but everybody know he would run last before he helped him.

This was as close as Rusty ever came to a Daytona win

I was actually at this race and watched the cascade of trash from our in-field site between turns 1 & 2. By the time they were done, it looked like it had snowed trash on the track. It was nuts. I kinda shared their sentiment because that was the only race we went to every year and it was disappointing to have it end in a caution.

The fans were definitely seeing "The Red" that night, no doubt.

@skylerwd6

2 жыл бұрын

The Red... well it filters through.

I like how he says you can run 3 wide and there’s room to run 4 on the back. Yeah, but 90% of the time when they power back in for the shoot, all hell breaks loose. Not many of the drivers nowadays have the skills or balls to hold 4 coming out of the back stretch. Not many of them have the balls to even try it, just saying.

It's sad to see the fans acting that way. I'm sure they weren't mad that Mikey won, anybody who was a Junior fan was a Mikey fan too. They were just mad that a great finish didn't go to the end and that Junior didn't win. People forget how frustrating it was before GWCs were a thing.

@cswilliams29

2 жыл бұрын

"anybody who was a Junior fan was a Mikey fan too" Nope...

i love how you rsong at the end is the same song that steven crowder uses in his, Incredible content!!! keep up the great worK!

When NASCAR actually does something like implementing a rule primitively that no one is concerned about (fans, media, players, managers, GMs, and owners alike) it is usually going to go wrong and negatively impact the sport. If rule changes or clarifications are needed NASCAR is always too late and dragging their feet to correct an issue that has gone from an ant hill to a mountain in that relatively short amount of time! If it takes people destroying property which is pathetic behavior and NOT the correct way to plead for a better product first and foremost! This is just entertainment, and like always NASCAR will have lost control of a situation and are running scared, in panic mode, and desperate damage control which we all know that type of decision making is NEVER good. Well, that is until NASCAR the only sport that changes rules randomly only to hurt the product out on the track and not correctly changing rules that are in need of obvious change and correction. It is sad that NASCAR needs a riot to realize they need to update a rule quickly and in doing so create a butterfly effect because it is rushed with little to no forethought of how much it will be hurting the racing in general for years to come. Not to mention it is compounding the larger problem until they reach the point of no return and the sport dies just like where MLB is heading right now as well!

@harryparsons2750

Жыл бұрын

You have no idea what you’re talking about

While I don't condone throwing objects on race tracks in front of multi thousand-dollar cars I do agree that cautions should not count as laps against the race for as if you are caution you are locked in position and cannot race at the very minimum you should not count caution laps at the finish a lesson three laps to go that way there is a full speed white flag and a checkered flag

i love Michael Waltrip deck lid "GOD BLESS AMERICA"

I had a tear at the finish watching back then because of what happened the year before. Mickey did it this time kinda on his own

I miss the old Daytona infield! I used to camp it turned three and four for the last 20 years before they shut it down. It's been gone for probably 8 or 9 years now. It was one giant insane party! I just wish I was old enough to experience it back when it was the funnest. All the fun things got taken away.

I remember watching this on tv and thinking it was frustrating but not as frustrating as the fact that they weren’t running the 2001 package. I hated how hard it was to pass.

They weren't chairs, Pepsi gave us seat cushions back there...that's why they flew so well.🤣 They ran the last 4-5 laps under caution, after everything was cleaned up.

@cpmaverick

2 жыл бұрын

When they came to the line after the wreck there were 3 laps left. Zero chance to get it restarted. Sounds like maybe you were drunk along with the rest of those confused hooligans 😆

It's funny how many forget that Dale Sr won his Daytona 500 under caution.

@andrewcrawford5131

2 жыл бұрын

That was a wreck on the last lap coming back to the checkered

@cmujazzbone

2 жыл бұрын

@@andrewcrawford5131 Nope, it was a wreck coming to the WHITE flag. Earnhardt had to make a lap under caution to win.

@MrBurney12

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah but they were coming to the white flag. Even with no gwc rules they had time to restart on this race.

@wesleymills9254

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrBurney12 and a restart would have changed nothing. The best car won that night.

@MrBurney12

2 жыл бұрын

@@wesleymills9254 You are correct if Jr. had a good enough car to pass him he could have done it before then. I just think as a race fan I would rather not have a race decided by that with plenty of time to clean up a relatively small accident.

Joy, Waltrip, McReynolds is soothing to the ears. The best.

@sludge4125

2 жыл бұрын

Jenkins, Jarrett, and Parsons were my favorite trio.

@DupontandLowesWarrior

2 жыл бұрын

@@sludge4125 Squire Jarrett Baker

@sludge4125

2 жыл бұрын

@@DupontandLowesWarrior Buddy Baker is a great man, and a heck of a nice guy.

I would love to see you do a video on the most competitive nascar season. Like most amount of winners or most fighting for the championship.

@FallingPicturesProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Naturally or with the Chase shaking things up? And how late in the season are we talking. If memory serves correctly 2006 and 1992 would be the closest going into the last race because it would have been 6 competitors going into the final race.

@acog_quarks8753

2 жыл бұрын

@@FallingPicturesProductions I’d say he should do both because I like his videos and would always like more content. And I’d have to look at a season recap or something for those because I just got into nascar last year so I wasn’t around for 06 nor was I born yet for 92

@Dat-Mudkip

2 жыл бұрын

@@FallingPicturesProductions 2004 was a pretty close year as well... and 2011 was as close as it gets, both by winners and points!

I've been to one F1 race...the now infamous US gran prix 2005. You want to talk about pissed fans, think about flying across the world to see a race and there ends up being 6 cars. All kinds of stuff was being thrown on the track. Fans just picked up and left in disgust. I was able to move around and sit at other seats because it was nearly empty.

nice song choice at the beginning lol

I miss this era of not just nascar but racing in general...

fans like those in attendance are the reason nascar adopted such gimmicky rules to try to please them, and ultimately why I stopped following the sport

@paulburgess1574

2 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry but I don't agree with them throwing stuff I do understand when you pay or invest half a day watching the race you want to see them race to a finish or what's the point just pick a winner each week

@joseph6270

2 жыл бұрын

@@paulburgess1574 I think we’re on the same page

@apacheworrier3776

2 жыл бұрын

I was at this race with my father. That’s exactly what everyone was yelling “Let them race”! We were getting showered with beer, and seat cushions, and programs, were flying from every direction. People were cursing up a storm all the way back to their cars.

I've watched uou for awhile now and I just now hit me that the background music is chevelle lol

Witnessed something close only once: World Superbike at Magny Cours. I was standing at the best corner, and there was a guy in a van touring around the track with vip. He was blocking the view and when the crowd started to express their displeasure because he wasn’t moving on, he laughed, insulted them and didn’t move on purpose. Oh how wrong he was! His van got peppered with glass beer bottles! I am not into that destructive attitude…but he had it coming!

In old races the cars look so slow after a start or restart.

@christianbennett6970

2 жыл бұрын

They had a rev limiter at about 7 grand on the tac back then on the superspeedways so they didn't have nearly as much torque for acceleration

Man I miss Nascar it use to be so cool

BROOOO this was my first year at Daytona when they threw the seat cushions! That was the last time they had them there too😂

Fans there be like *I went to a Nascar race and soccer fans broke out in rage* lol. I remember this race and know the fans were disgruntled but not that bad. Thanks for another awesome video Iceberg

Not Waltrips fault. But the fans were right. Now, we have a green white checkered flag. Hated watching race’s end underneath a caution flag.

I went to the 2021 coke 400 and dang there are now far fewer teams and slower speeds. Amazing faculty though!

Mannnnn, I'm so excited for Friday and Saturday. Nothing beats being at Daytona.

I was at that race though I was in the front stretch and didn't even see the chaos in the back plus I was 10 at the time and I wasn't just paying attention to the cars rather then the backstretch. That race there was what got me into Nascar. The sounds of the old school engines there live was amazing.

The fans reaction led to the green, white, checker. Just telling the what they wanted.

Miss those Pepsi schemes

Why did you have to put an instrumental version of "The Middle" in this clip? You inadvertently reverted me back to my childhood and reminded me how much I used to love that song. I will be listening to it for the next year now. Thank you!

Wooo what an experience this might be - I’d like to watch a Daytona race before I die

This was about when I started watching NASCAR, I never understood the crowd reaction DEI and Michael deserved that win. Sure JR helped but i'd be interested to hear his opinion, I'll bet he agrees it was Mikeys race.

Back in 2001 *When they used more than a Toyota Supra, a Mustang GT, a Chevy Camaro, and a Toyota Camry for a Stock Car*

I rewatched this race 2 months ago but I honestly didn’t even notice them throwing stuff on the backstretch until this video.

Great video and very well made- it’s hard to believe Waltrip could have actually won. It’s management’s fault for allowing it to happen. Don’t get me wrong, I love the Waltrips but just like a recent win at Dega (last week I think) - it would never have happened if you think about it. It’s a publicity stunt for ratings and BW didn’t deserve to win the race. I know it’s necessary for safety reasons but I remember when Dale Sr. said it was not fair to restrict the engines because it took the drivers skills away. Just an opinion lol- I say let them have at it and may the best man/woman win without being restricted 🚫

I making a prediction for the Daytona race this weekend, if chase eillot doesn't win the race, the fans will do what they did back in the '02 july race when dale didn't won and throw stuff at the winner.

I really, really, really REALLY miss that sound of those gen 4 restrictor plate cars. That sound that made me love NASCAR and didn't wanna miss a lick of any race on Sundays. That sound will always bring me back to my adolescent years

This was common in the earlier days of NASCAR. Even as late as the early 90's it happens. People don't realize back in the day in the grand stands people would throw their empty beer cans down to the walkway at the bottom of the track so things were being thrown around constantly anyway. Every race I went to back then (90-92) Martinsville and Charlotte, it was like this. I was in Charlotte the year Davey Allison won the Winston sideways cause Kyle Petty was wrecking him trying to win, all this with Earnhardt spinning out in turn 4 trying to pass Davey. As they passed the finish line all I saw was a bombardment of cans and plenty went over the fence onto the cars and track. You could lean right up against the fence as the cars went by. Be only 6 ft away from the cars going 170 mph down the front tri oval at Charlotte. Racing was so much fun back then. I remember my parents got the tickets for the race for only like $10 each (good seats, high enough to see everything low enough to still feel the action) by saving Winston cig wrappers. Much like Camel cash and Marlboro miles.

If moonshiners had restrictor plates, we'd have no NASCAR.

I was at that event when I was 10 and if It saw this today and even my 10 year old self, I would be mad at the fans for throwing beer cans and chairs onto the track

My friends died in 2007. They loved racing. Whenever I see racing from this era i think of them because I know they were watching

The fans paid for a race. Instead they got a clown show. They had every right to show their displeasure.

Hot take: Contrary to popular belief, Dale Earnhardt's death wasn't what led to the downfall of NASCAR. His son's cancerous fanbase was.

@rudyk5518

2 жыл бұрын

His bad fanbase was a small part, but the main cause of the decline is what Brian France did to NASCAR.

Don't end under caution. It's like finishing with a tie. The race is unresolved in my mind. In my DRUNK mind....it's the greatest travesty that can be experienced. Gimme that chair...

@JJA1987

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly

Most people: interesting story Me: vibin' to instrumental version of The Middle

Fans came to see a race not a trot around the track. Glad they have fixed this for the most part.

I was at this race and I remember what happened very vividly. Everyone was upset that the finish went under caution. What I always remember is when they interviewed Sterling Marlin and he talked shit about the fans in the "cheap seats" throwing the cushions on the track. Which was patently false. The seat cushions were given out to the higher priced seats, not the regular grandstand areas. Sterling always became "Cheap Seats" Marlin for me after that. I really resented him for going after a lot of the die hard fans that went to races every year. When it was the sponsor's guests or other white collar people that threw those cushions out there on the track who probably didn't give two shits about NASCAR. NASCAR started really catering to those people and priced out a lot of their loyal fanbase. Parking at Daytona would go from 10 to 20 bucks to 50 and 60 bucks. Seat and merch prices went up and up. It's a shame.

Why nascar ever allowed caution lap finishes just boggles the mind.

It’s surprising that it doesn’t happen more often, as it takes place in other sporting events-football, baseball, basketball, even soccer. But I believe the main reason it doesn’t happen in NASCAR is that it presents a danger to the drivers, as debris on the track is so detrimental to a race car and the safety crews.

😆 I was there that night. On the back stretch. My first nascar race. Epic. It was raining beer cans and seat cushions.This may have been the last night they sold bucket beer deals at Daytona.