The True Story of Dale Earnhardt Sr., Norman Negre and Nitrous!
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- The rumors you may have heard about Dale Earnhardt Sr and Norman Negre ... Dale's first Winston Cup crew chief ... are true! Get the full inside story on Dale Sr's Winston Cup debut straight from Norman himself.
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I think the most amazing thing about that story is that a 19 year old kid got a 5 or 6 year old race car to make the race and finish.
Back then you raced a car until it fell apart!
I like the "we had to use nitrous to eat"...those were the best days of Nascar...at least from my perspective. Everything is now so damn clean and corporate.
Love hearing all this old NASCAR history from those that were there and lived it.
Only thing I like about NASCAR nowadays.
Winston Cup Rules 😀
Awesome stories! Dale Sr. was the greatest. Hearing these old stories is very cool! And I agree about dirt trained drivers....they have a better understanding of the edge of traction I think. If you can be fast on dirt, you'll be fast anywhere.
Norman Negre Was NASCAR Winston Cup Series Crew Member From 1975 To 1993 Including Alan Kulwicki Thanks For Uploading Rick And Steve
These videos are some of the best about NASCAR period. Thanks for the work y'all do.
Ron Hammel with 10,000 RPM speed Equipment was a pioneer with nitrous. He was putting it on Navy airplanes to get them off of the deck of aircraft carriers before all this happened.
Wow- what an awesome story! We need more stories like this being told - in all facets of racing!
Great story. Sorry to see the comments from the haters. This was classic Nascar history being told. And for those who didn't watch it, the NO2 was only used for 2 straightaways on the qualifying lap, not during the race. Dale wheeled an older, sub-par car to a finish in the Coke 600. That is an accomplishment in itself.
Norman used to be my neighbor. I grew up with his son and daughter. We have known Norman and his wife Penny for long time. He is a great guy.
"It's fixin' to be 50 years..." Man, do I know how that feels. I'm going to be 72 this year, and memories seem to be melting together and becoming one. Didn't know nitrous was used back then, even for just qualifying.
I absolutely LOVE these stories from way back when especially the Men who started Nascar that I was BLESSED to not only watch race at THE OLD COLUMBIA SPEEDWAY IN CAYCE SOUTH CAROLINA EVERY THURSDAY NIGHT 🏁🏆🏁 I got to meet every driver from Ralph Earnhardt, Lee Petty, Buck Baker, Fred Lorenzen, Cale Yarbrough, Junior Johnson, Tiny Lund,Fireball Roberts, Sam Ard, Donnie and Bobby Allison, Bobby Isaac, David Pearson, Buddy Baker ,Richard Petty and so many others. Plus we would be at Darlington twice every year and we were always in the infield and back then you could wander around the cars and talk to the driver's and crew members as long as they weren't busy trying to fix or change something on their car. Literally full access, not like now where you have to know somebody to get credentials to get in the pit area. In the early days there was no regulated or designated place for each driver to park. This was a PRECIOUS PRICELESS TREASURED BLESSING and MEMORIES FOREVER 💞🤗💞🏁🏆🏁GOD BLESS YOU FOR SHARING THIS PRICELESS TREASURED BLESSING 🏁🏆🏁👍😁Please continue because these truly are solid gold and I miss the kind of racing that the driver's would race the wheels off to try to Win 🏁🏆🏁There was much more respect but occasionally's would flare but the racing was SO MUCH BETTER AND MORE EXCITING THAN NOW!! I personally would love for the stage racing to go away and I'm certain that there would only be a couple of driver's that could race for a continuous 400-600 miles /laps depending on the track. Unlike even during Dale "THE INTIMIDATOR "Earnhardt Sr Era with Darrell Waltrip,some of the driver's I mentioned before and Harry Gant and all those who raced then were tough as nails. They'd get out of their race cars with dirty sweaty faces and even being dog tired exhausted especially when their race car was ill handling but they would take time to speak to the fans that were near where they parked their trucks and trailers. Pure magic. 🏁🏆🏁
There's so much similarity between alabama and australia
Thank you Rick and Steve!!!!
Great story. I subscribed to your channel. Really enjoy and look forwards to more videos about Dale and all of the great drivers that Made NASCAR. Thanks.
Thanks Rick you the Man - so fitting for April 29th - sure hope Kerry, Kelly, J.R. get to see this - Great story from Norman
Your videos are awesome! Keep them coming!
My true Earnhardt story was at a dirt track in Ga.
It rained hard all night before the race.
They scraped it best they could and told us everybody on the track!!
Ambulances -Wreckers-Everybody! Every class usually got two warmup
laps but the track had to be ironed out first.
Earnhardt was in A class and I was in B class.
We're not usually on the track together but this was necessary today.
We went slow laps for 45 minutes and then got the green hot laps flag.
The track was still a mudhole and we were going about half speed.
After sliding thru the first lap I felt a bump -looked in the mirror and saw a
blue car on my bumper.
I wondered what creep would bump me under these conditions!
He went around me and covered me with mud!
I got in the pits and asked my Uncle who was that idiot bumping me??
He said -Son that was Dale Earnhardt!
Good you let him by because the second bump you would say Hello Wall!
He was already a maniac on the track even then!
This was a masterful interview, asking all the right questions
Great interview!
Yes it was incredibly hot that day. Temperature in the upper 90's
No cool suits then!
Very interesting story, cool to find out that Dodge Charger was originally a Nickel's 1969 Dodge Daytona. I would love to have that Nascar wing car.
I am pretty sure a couple of the wing cars that were rebodied to the newer bodies have been saved and Bodied back to wing cars! I think one is here in Iowa
Great story. Thank You.
like the old saying goes, "if you aint cheating, you aint racing"!
Great vid!!!! 👍🏁
Fantastic
Excellent content! Thank you for your effort to bring this story to race fans everywhere.
norman seems like a nice person i remember his dad also
I think that was the start of the downfall of NASCAR. When NASCAR basically ran them little low budget teams out of even entering the track to even try to qualify.
Why? Because the fans & local people just love to see a small team or their local teams do good. It makes great local area media press.
After that it just started getting boring.
When I help them out on my free time at nights we always worked to win the race. Do the very best we could with what little we had.
You're exactly you're right
Nascar has ruined racing no little guy out there anymore I quit going to three or four races because of this s*** all the rules and regulations I got off work to see them guys run they was hungry now you got big stars on them cars and s***
Guess you forgot that Senior had an all out assault on the Elliott brothers in the early 80's. The brothers were doing way more than Dale ever dreamed of doing. Namely dynoing their own engines and grinding their own cams. Let alone doing their own porting heads and intakes.
Earnhardt and Waltrip was on their knees begging NASCAR to outlaw the Fords in every way possible. And he got is way. Every car that Ford sent to the track, NASCAR had an Earnhardt rule to counteract the cars handling.
I'm a country boy from Johnson County dirt is what I love 😅
when you come out of turn 4 hit the kill switch and hang on ! (lenny bohler)
Id like to know how he added the extra fuel with the nitrous. Must of leaned her out pretty good
Probably added gas with the nitrous shot
Same. Since it was only for the qualifying lap, I bet he had that carb jetted really fat.
I would like knowing how and when they would use nitrous. One crew chief said it was fogged into the breather providing 200 extra hp. IDK.
How can + 200 hp be hid on the track. I believe he said it was just for qualifying. If a car is 3 seconds faster or is blowing by other cars this would certainly draw attention. Love to know more.
Cool
Why did yall stop your partnership with DJD?
That's the first diecast I bought.
How much
I heard, NASCAR story somewhere it escapes me now, I think it was another team, they put the nitrous in the roll cage. Anybody that knows can jump in it might be that mandrella effect.
I don't know about that story but I heard AJ Foyt put gas in his roll cage and could go something like 5 or 8 extra miles
i heard that about petty over 40 yrs ago
@@farnorthhomested844 thank you! 👍
Smokey was rumored to have done that
Anyone have the video of Ed's car on fire at Ontario?
You'd have to have big bottle to run a whole race
He said it was tiny, and only used for 2 straightaways in qualifying.
Hold up. How did they make a 2nd gen charger, a 3rd gen?
I just recently saw a General Lee that was actually a Crown Vic and you couldn't tell.
Racing this way now would eliminate all the pretty boys nowadays 😂😂
I'd love to know what all had to happen to get a wing car to look like a 73 at the end of its life time 😂 tbh it was a mistake, the 73/74 suspension was the best ever made
Awesome story keep them coming. Anything on Dale in interesting.
Biased because I’m an Earnhardt guy, but loved this!
Awesome, when racing was racing. Idk Wth this crap is today.
Only fun part aree the crashes.
Dale drove his heart out that very day.
Don't blame him for using Nitrous , all the big teams where too 😮
Cheaters and losers 😂
@@Gunsandfun1961You definitely were a loser if you didn't cheat back then because they all cheated.If you didn't, you stood no chance.
1:45 Hey TV production staff who have come so far since I first started bugging you with my "know it all" attitude! Great strides in tech, both audio and video are state of the art for the vaults of history. Two quick points to cover right here. The first shot is a little tight for no reason (IMO) and then you crass the axis. Which sounds evil, but is just a description of swapping the orientation for the viewer. When the next shot comes off like a mirror it's wonky. In these "Electronic Field Productions" (a term made up when "Film At Eleven!" was a thing) the director should have a look through each camera to match shots and communicate what he's looking for. Which for this type of stuff will become quickly routine. So, don't cross your axis and see what you're getting! Looking very good.. p.s. the wipe is questionable. Cuts, cuts cuts. With the occasional dissolve to show time passage. (Every switcher came with standard wipes, including the star wipe. If you ever used it, you revealed yourself a goon).
What does crossing the axis mean?
@@TheSceneVault Using an oval track as an example, if you shot the cars from the outside and inside of the track, the cars would appear to instantly change direction each time you cut back and forth. In an interview setting, both subjects would appear to be looking in the same direction as you cut back and forth. Think of it as the imaginary front of the stage you are shooting and don't get behind any of your actors or their perspective will flip when you cut, crossing the axis.
Soooooooooo … in terms that a novice like me could understand … the person should be looking in the same direction in both cuts?
@badad0166 Could you email me at rick@thescenevault.com?
Dale came to Summerville Speedway for all-star race Davey Allison Rusty Wallace Harry Gant and many more 17 Cup Drivers Dale smoked them won the race Rusty told Robert Powell his car was junk He Finish 2 Robert Told him will I just won the National championship
I would think that engine would make a different sound.
He was thinking about Kerry not Dale Jr being born Dale is same age as me no way a Daytona was racing in Charlotte in 1980
No sir, Kerry was born in 69. Jr was born in 74...this is about the 75 world 600
Wasn't a Daytona by then.
Dale Sr never did an actual race using nitrous. One practice session only. The nitrous bottle was there without his knowledge.
Keep on believing that 😂
@@larrymitchell8464 facts too difficult for you to comprehend?
@@sergeantmasson3669 we all used it and most of us didn’t talk about it I was a part owner in a team in the 68 and 69 don’t tell me I don’t know what I am talking about .
@@larrymitchell8464 BULLSH*T.
@@larrymitchell8464 Nitrous not used in NASCAR until the 70's, PUTZ. It wasn't legal then and it still isn't.
Figures, we always knew he cheated at all those restrictor plate races. And of course he never ad a problem of taking out someone that he could not legally out run. So, it figures he had been cheating from the start.
Great video. Awful music.
NASCAR has sucked. For years quit watching when I was a kid. Early 80's?mid.80's?
Earnhardt was called the "intimidator" because he didn't care about running someone off the track and possibly killing them to win. Yeah, that was intimidating. He should have been kicked out of the sport years before he got himself killed by not wearing proper safety equipment. He was a jerk and its extremely lucky he didn't kill someone else before his ego got him killed. Although he did manage to severely injure many other drivers. Im not glad he's dead but I am glad hes gone from racing and can't hurt or kill anyone anymore.
Wow are you kidding me seriously 😂😂😂😂😂😂 you call yourself a nascar fan, I've sent way more dangerous driving done today. See this is the problem with people today, no damn respect for the dead. You sir are not a true nascar fan. Earnhardt didn't intentionally wreak ppl to win, unlike Kyle Busch, denny Hamlin, and keiselowski, Logan, and most of your modern drivers who do it today almost every race.
Go back and actually watch ACTUAL full races instead of the you tube highlight reels bud
@@matthewbarratt1040 I watched them live. I don't have to go back
@@matthewbarratt1040 Really? That's the problem with people today?
Dale stayed on his knees. Had it not been for all the rule changes in the mid 80's Earnhardt would have never made a comeback. Thanks to Sr and Darrell Waltrip they got the cleveland banned for being a big block; because of the bigger valves. All the time the Chevys were running a 400sbc block with 4.125+" bore, compared to the Cleveland's 4" bore.
After NASCAR held GM's hand in 86 to show them what they were doing wrong with the back glass, then NASCAR raised the rear spoiler heights on the Fords, steeper angles on the Fords and taller ground clearance.
Nascar had to bring about the previous champion pit stall rule for every race, just to bring Dale's career back; even after all the rule changes to Ford.
And had it not been for Davey, Tim Richmond and Kulwicki dying, Dale would still be out of a career.
Funny enough Dale cashed in royally for Davey and Kulwicki's death.
Then Dale just cruised for a couple years in his final pit road spot and coasted to easy victories and points. That is why DW ended up with 10 more races won and many more pole positions than Dale.
Oh yeah, Honorable mention goes to Gary Nelson for being Chevy's pride and joy baby boy.....
Man the interviewer is ridiculous, everytime you wait for an answer he goes to something else. Wish he would of just let the man talk!
Sorry ... I'll try to remember that in the next interview.
@@TheSceneVault It ok, liked the content just was waiting for him to answer your questions which were good.😄
Reporter should just shut up and let the guy tell his story.
I’ll try to do better next time …
@@TheSceneVaultpeep how Shawn Ryan or Tucker does interviews.
It's a learned skill.
Then tape and publish the back and forth discussion style when you're sharing a beer afterwards.
Both have their places for different purposes.