Don't forget that most paint schemes from this era represent products from companies you might use in your daily life. Beer, clothes, chewing tobacco (smoking tobacco was banned by Winston), detergent, car parts, car-related products, department stores...
Just to point out to younger fans or new fans, Rockingham's Cup events were 500 miles/492 laps long until the mid-90's. Afterwards like Dover, at the same time the distance was reduced to a pair of 400 mile/393 lap events. No rookie ever won at Rockingham, but three guys did manage to nab their first or for one driver, their ONLY win at Rockingham. Mark Martin won his first of 40 in 1989, Ward Burton his first of five in 1995 (his sophomore year), and Johnny Benson in 2002 got his ONLY Cup win.
@@TracksideViews And only a few of those 500-mile marathons at Dover were run after the surface switched from asphalt to concrete. Rockingham has always been asphalt. In my opinion, running 500 miles at Dover on concrete is less straining than asphalt, but you are still pulling a ton of G's.
Even the Pocono 500-mile races were damn tough. I've been watching all Cup broadcasts available on TH-cam in chronological order and I think I haven't seen a race lap there under a minute (150mph or faster)!
@@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT - Almost all races had practice BUT some had qualifying in a very weird way For example, some races had a qualifying format all about a speed trap rather than a full lap. They would time cars near the end of the front straight and that'd be it!
@@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT - The Southern 500's qualifying system was that for some years. Even deep in the 1980s, some tracks (North Wilkesboro was one) had a 2-day 2-run system. There were 2 qualifying sessions on 2 consecutive days and speeds/times would be averaged.
I absolutely love the full races you post the more the better thank you so much for bringing real racing back to the world with this old school reality of when men were men and the world card for one another and what they did! God Bless You Sir!
Awesome! I had taped this on our Beta VCR when it aired. The VCR malfunctioned in late 1986 and tapes wouldn’t eject anymore. I had to keep taping over stuff including this. 😢 The quality is superb. Thank you!
So I’m assuming back in the day pit road speed limits were not even a thing apparently? Seeing some of these guys enter pit Road at full speed was pretty awesome!
That's right, not until 1990 when Rudd I believe came flying into pit road, locked up the brakes and killed one of Bill Elliott's crew members. Injured a few others. It was the final race of that season in Atlanta.
Yeah everybody always forgets, Davey entered the Rookie Of The Year contest in 1986 before winning it in 1987. The Sadler Bros had to scale back due to lack of funds after a few races in 1986. He also entered some races prior with Hoss Ellington and Junior Johnson
I'm tell'n y'all, I don't care what Chocolate Meyers repeatedly tries to tell everyone on his Nascar radio show every damn day, No Chocolate! The racing is NOT better now then it was back in the day! This is REAL RAW RACING here, not the bunched up racing that's "artificially manufactured" these days! Lucky dog lap's back & Stage racing makes me wanna 👎🤮 I mean no disrespect to Chocolate, he seems to be a truly great guy, & I guess him always telling us that is just a case of him knowing where his bread gets buttered & we all know how much Choc likes to eat! 😏
In 1987, ALL Cup races were broadcasted · 21 races got full broadcasts while 8 got long summaries (1-hour slots, sometimes longer) or partial broadcasts --- For whatever reason, Martinsville and Pocono had 2 dates each but no full broadcast. I've been watching all NASCAR Cup races available on TH-cam in chronological order and tracks like North Carolina, Dover, Pocono and Martinsville rarely got proper live broadcasts but things were very inconsistent. Martinsville only got 1 in 1981, Pocono got both in 1984 and 1985 but nothing in 1986, Rockingham only had a couple up to this point...
**FACTS BEFORE the 1987 CAROLINA 500** · Dale Earnhardt comfortably won the 1987 title thanks to great consistency combined by bad luck of his main competitors Darrell Waltrip and Tim Richmond. Meanwhile, Alan Kulwicki was the best rookie by quite some margin despite his budget being way smaller than his main rival Michael Waltrip. · NASCAR decided to not end the season with a road course race, making the Dixie 500 the final race of the season. · Darrell Waltrip went to a new Hendrick Motorsports car (GM #17), Terry Labonte got DW’s old car (GM #11), Sterling Marlin got Terry’s old ride (GM #44), Cale Yarborough became an owner-driver (GM #29), Morgan Shepherd got Ruttman’s seat (GM #26), Kyle Petty switched numbers but not team (Ford #21) and so did Alan Kulwicki (Ford #7). · The early stages of the race were a matter of Elliot vs Baker vs Bodine while several mechanical DNFs took mostly low-level entries plus also AJ Foyt (last), Rusty Wallace (41st) and Kyle Petty (35th) · Despite the race having 3 stints with green flag pitstops, a total of 11 cars finished on the lead lap and there were no DNFs due to crashes somehow. In the longer runs, Ken Schrader (Ford #90) often contended for the lead. · In the end, Geoff Bodine (GM #5) tried to make his fuel tank last for a bit over 100 miles but fell short by 3 laps. Of the cars that stopped for fuel naturally, Bill Elliott was the best and won after managing a narrow gap built precisely during the pitstop with Benny Parsons (GM #35, Tim Richmond’s car), Richard Petty (GM #43), Buddy Baker (GM #88) and Dale Earnhardt (GM #3) completing the top5. The other lead lap cars were Bobby Allison (GM #22), Ken Schrader, Darrell Waltrip (GM #17), Ricky Rudd (Ford #15), Cale Yarborough (GM #29) and a surprising Phil Parsons (GM #55). · Bodine finished 14th, best rookie of 1986 Alan Kulwicki (Ford #7) was 15th, Terry Labonte (GM #11) was 18th and Harry Gant (GM #33) retired due to transmission problems and got 31st.
I have to ask if I'm doing something wrong. The thumbnail for all of your races always look really good but when I try to watch them it's pretty blurry. Is there something I should change in my settings? Thank you for continuing to bring everyone these great old races!
starts wins 1 Dale Earnhardt 676 76 2 Richard Petty 1,184 200 3 Jimmie Johnson 686 83 JJ is the only driver with 5 consecutive championships. It's all subjective.
@@IDYLBERRY Johnson won three and never any consecutive. The Chase is a fantacy App. These are the most prolific Winston Cup champions. 1.) Dale Earnhardt: 7 titles, 22 full seasons, 676 starts 2.) Jeffy: 7 titles, 23 full seasons, 805 starts 3.) Richard Petty: 7 titles. 34 full seasons, 1184 starts 4) Kevin Harvick: 4 titles, 21 full seasons, 754 starts
These paint schemes were fairly simple, and to me, they epitomize what a race car should look like! Beautiful cars!
Don't forget that most paint schemes from this era represent products from companies you might use in your daily life. Beer, clothes, chewing tobacco (smoking tobacco was banned by Winston), detergent, car parts, car-related products, department stores...
Just to point out to younger fans or new fans, Rockingham's Cup events were 500 miles/492 laps long until the mid-90's. Afterwards like Dover, at the same time the distance was reduced to a pair of 400 mile/393 lap events. No rookie ever won at Rockingham, but three guys did manage to nab their first or for one driver, their ONLY win at Rockingham. Mark Martin won his first of 40 in 1989, Ward Burton his first of five in 1995 (his sophomore year), and Johnny Benson in 2002 got his ONLY Cup win.
And they were some of the toughest races all season at 500 miles. Over 4 hours and a battle of attrition.
@@TracksideViews And only a few of those 500-mile marathons at Dover were run after the surface switched from asphalt to concrete. Rockingham has always been asphalt. In my opinion, running 500 miles at Dover on concrete is less straining than asphalt, but you are still pulling a ton of G's.
@@mattkowal90 Dover went to concrete in 1995 I believe, Rockingham and Dover were always 4-5 hour marathons
Even the Pocono 500-mile races were damn tough. I've been watching all Cup broadcasts available on TH-cam in chronological order and I think I haven't seen a race lap there under a minute (150mph or faster)!
1987: Oh yeah no practice or qualifying? Yikes!
2020 and 2021: Y’all ain’t going to believe this..
Some NASCAR races back in the 1950s: amateurs
From what I heard, some races back in the day had no practice and qualifying, I believe
@@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT - Almost all races had practice BUT some had qualifying in a very weird way
For example, some races had a qualifying format all about a speed trap rather than a full lap. They would time cars near the end of the front straight and that'd be it!
@ my god
@@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT - The Southern 500's qualifying system was that for some years. Even deep in the 1980s, some tracks (North Wilkesboro was one) had a 2-day 2-run system. There were 2 qualifying sessions on 2 consecutive days and speeds/times would be averaged.
This race should always be the 2nd race of the season. Bring it back!
I always thought Richmond was the second race right after Daytona?
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@@toyman81 i think richmond was the third or fourth usually. But rockingham was definitely the second
Daytona used to be the second race of the season after Riverside, at least before 82.
@toyman81 some years it was, but both Richmond and Rockingham were always early season until 1998.
I absolutely love the full races you post the more the better thank you so much for bringing real racing back to the world with this old school reality of when men were men and the world card for one another and what they did! God Bless You Sir!
I really really love watching these Nascar racing a whole whole lot and I still listening Nascar racing on the radio
Love these old REAL races
R.I.P. Dale Earnhardt you were the best and also Merry Christmas SMIFF
Awesome! I had taped this on our Beta VCR when it aired. The VCR malfunctioned in late 1986 and tapes wouldn’t eject anymore. I had to keep taping over stuff including this. 😢 The quality is superb. Thank you!
So I’m assuming back in the day pit road speed limits were not even a thing apparently? Seeing some of these guys enter pit Road at full speed was pretty awesome!
That's right, not until 1990 when Rudd I believe came flying into pit road, locked up the brakes and killed one of Bill Elliott's crew members. Injured a few others. It was the final race of that season in Atlanta.
Here you go, this is a good point in time to pick up the video of that incident. th-cam.com/video/GT7F93mvavU/w-d-xo.html
Another classic!!!! Loved this
Wow. Davey shut down Dick B real quick.
Dick: So this is your first cup race here.
Davey: That's where you're wrong.
Yeah everybody always forgets, Davey entered the Rookie Of The Year contest in 1986 before winning it in 1987. The Sadler Bros had to scale back due to lack of funds after a few races in 1986. He also entered some races prior with Hoss Ellington and Junior Johnson
This race was 9 days before I was born in 87 😂 was a Dale Sr fan from that day forward. #3
Merry Christmas !!! 🎄🎄🎄
Great quality video. Thank you
I'm tell'n y'all, I don't care what Chocolate Meyers repeatedly tries to tell everyone on his Nascar radio show every damn day, No Chocolate! The racing is NOT better now then it was back in the day! This is REAL RAW RACING here, not the bunched up racing that's "artificially manufactured" these days! Lucky dog lap's back & Stage racing makes me wanna 👎🤮
I mean no disrespect to Chocolate, he seems to be a truly great guy, & I guess him always telling us that is just a case of him knowing where his bread gets buttered & we all know how much Choc likes to eat! 😏
The camera angles are awesome
Back when they aired about 4 races on tv a year. I started watching a few years before this. None bettter than the Intimidator, Dale Earnhardt!
In 1987, ALL Cup races were broadcasted
· 21 races got full broadcasts while 8 got long summaries (1-hour slots, sometimes longer) or partial broadcasts --- For whatever reason, Martinsville and Pocono had 2 dates each but no full broadcast.
I've been watching all NASCAR Cup races available on TH-cam in chronological order and tracks like North Carolina, Dover, Pocono and Martinsville rarely got proper live broadcasts but things were very inconsistent. Martinsville only got 1 in 1981, Pocono got both in 1984 and 1985 but nothing in 1986, Rockingham only had a couple up to this point...
Thanks for the video I know what I am watching tonight!👍
That was the beginning of a 7 race stretch were Dale won 6 out of 7 races, to bad he did not get 7 in a row!
**FACTS BEFORE the 1987 CAROLINA 500**
· Dale Earnhardt comfortably won the 1987 title thanks to great consistency combined by bad luck of his main competitors Darrell Waltrip and Tim Richmond. Meanwhile, Alan Kulwicki was the best rookie by quite some margin despite his budget being way smaller than his main rival Michael Waltrip.
· NASCAR decided to not end the season with a road course race, making the Dixie 500 the final race of the season.
· Darrell Waltrip went to a new Hendrick Motorsports car (GM #17), Terry Labonte got DW’s old car (GM #11), Sterling Marlin got Terry’s old ride (GM #44), Cale Yarborough became an owner-driver (GM #29), Morgan Shepherd got Ruttman’s seat (GM #26), Kyle Petty switched numbers but not team (Ford #21) and so did Alan Kulwicki (Ford #7).
· The early stages of the race were a matter of Elliot vs Baker vs Bodine while several mechanical DNFs took mostly low-level entries plus also AJ Foyt (last), Rusty Wallace (41st) and Kyle Petty (35th)
· Despite the race having 3 stints with green flag pitstops, a total of 11 cars finished on the lead lap and there were no DNFs due to crashes somehow. In the longer runs, Ken Schrader (Ford #90) often contended for the lead.
· In the end, Geoff Bodine (GM #5) tried to make his fuel tank last for a bit over 100 miles but fell short by 3 laps. Of the cars that stopped for fuel naturally, Bill Elliott was the best and won after managing a narrow gap built precisely during the pitstop with Benny Parsons (GM #35, Tim Richmond’s car), Richard Petty (GM #43), Buddy Baker (GM #88) and Dale Earnhardt (GM #3) completing the top5. The other lead lap cars were Bobby Allison (GM #22), Ken Schrader, Darrell Waltrip (GM #17), Ricky Rudd (Ford #15), Cale Yarborough (GM #29) and a surprising Phil Parsons (GM #55).
· Bodine finished 14th, best rookie of 1986 Alan Kulwicki (Ford #7) was 15th, Terry Labonte (GM #11) was 18th and Harry Gant (GM #33) retired due to transmission problems and got 31st.
Merry Christmas Smiff
I have to ask if I'm doing something wrong. The thumbnail for all of your races always look really good but when I try to watch them it's pretty blurry. Is there something I should change in my settings? Thank you for continuing to bring everyone these great old races!
No stupid burnouts win... with honor and determination and talent.
The Greatest Of All Time, Dale Earnhardt!
starts wins
1 Dale Earnhardt 676 76
2 Richard Petty 1,184 200
3 Jimmie Johnson 686 83
JJ is the only driver with 5 consecutive championships. It's all subjective.
@@IDYLBERRY Yeah there is not even a close 2nd to Petty. He was one of the most dominate individual of any sports.
@@ray5177 Not talking about Jeffy or Johnson, LOl!
@@IDYLBERRY Johnson won three and never any consecutive. The Chase is a fantacy App. These are the most prolific Winston Cup champions.
1.) Dale Earnhardt: 7 titles, 22 full seasons, 676 starts
2.) Jeffy: 7 titles, 23 full seasons, 805 starts
3.) Richard Petty: 7 titles. 34 full seasons, 1184 starts
4) Kevin Harvick: 4 titles, 21 full seasons, 754 starts
@nohbody85 in my opinion Gordon was a far superior driver to Jimmie Johnson, take Chad away from Jimmie Johnson and he couldn't do anything.
Do you have the 1979 Gabriel 400? (the race was previously uploaded on Mike Pinto's channel which is now terminated).
Audio Trouble, Sir. Just Letting You Know.
Yeah it's strange. It works on my ps4 but not my phone 😒 ok so I plugged headphones in and it worked. TH-cam hates our phones apparently.
What’s with the audio
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Neil Bonnett was a legend, but damn he made some idiot moves!
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Can somebody find the MRN broadcast of this race and try to sync them together?
Did SETN eventually turn into ESPN?
No they were totally separate
Back when men were men, no boy buns and skinny jeans.