wish dodge ran in cup through all these years ... and yeah they do sound amazing. personally i do enjoy the sound of the gen 6 too. nascars will always sound amazing.
Thanks for up'ing this. I was there - Sunday AND Monday. Nearly got washed away when the wind and rains moved in quickly on Sunday. Rained so hard I think the track moved about 6 feet. Returned on Monday, sat on backstretch & The Big One happened near us. Many ran to the fence to see the safety crews carefully remove Kyle Petty with what turned out to be a broken leg.
I can see why other drivers hated Ernie Irvan back then. Benny Parsons says about three laps prior to the big wreck, "no Ernie don't try to squeeze in there". Well, he at least waited a few more laps Benny. Miss these days of racing though with Bob, Ned, and Benny in the booth.
jdtractor man did you catch Benny saying “Swervin’ Irvan” when they came back from commercial break? They were talking amongst themselves and didn’t realize the were back live.
And Davey Allison was 100% correct in his comments about the way some of them were driving. They weren't respecting the speed they were going and were trying to push their way back inline even when there wasn't a gap to go into. Unfortunately I think that's what happened. Irvan was stuck in the middle between Kyle Petty and Sterling Marlin and was trying to get up inline behind Petty but completely misjudged it and instead of going behind he clipped the back of him and triggered chaos.
When I look at the replays, I really feel Ernie was squeezed in the middle and couldn't go anywhere. Some will say just back off, and maybe you'd be out of that bad spot, but then again, if you were to do that too often, you turn into Darrell Waltrip the last 5-6 years of his career....off the back and out of the draft.
Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Chevrolet, Fords, the golden era of racing and all men racing. You don’t see any spoil brats behind the wheel of any of these cars
Michael Waltrip moved to 4th in the point standings after this race. He peaked well in the top 10 of the point standings several points of different seasons despite never finishing better than 12th in his career
I remember my dad picking me up from school on the Monday this aired and as soon as we got home, the wreck had just happened a few minutes before. I remember very vividly seeing Mark Martin's car raise up like it was on strings and then settle back down without flipping on my parents old Curtis Mathes TV. One thing missing from the clip though that was a great quote was the Felix Sabates interview in which Jerry Punch asked him what Kyle Petty told him when he talked to him in the care center and Felix said "I can't repeat it on television."
Yup, it rained that Sunday so the race was delayed to Monday. I got home from school that day as well and turned on the TV like you said right after the big wreck...
Just think if Tim Richmond had been alive? Still a loss after all of these years. Davey,Alan . Everything is different now,even the crowds as they don’t have the crowds. Too many rules,corporate input and the new guys are thinking about the fame and wealth
I was thinking the same thing. If the guys you mentioned were around in the 90s, NASCAR would have been even more enjoyable to watch on Sunday. What would have been...🤔
18:53 difficult start race for Richard Petty. Personally i finded this race was very cool !!! 01:58:58 I like to much the paint scheme of Rick Mast car, simple but nice ! with his number one.
Vine Wood not many respect or understand how much changes and goes on throughout a whole 500 mile race. "they just turn left" or "they only go in circles its stupid." Sad. I wasn't even thought about when this race took place, its so cool to be able to watch and see the similarities and diffrences first hand. Too cool.
a video of a crash represents a much smaller time commitment than a nearly 3 hour long race broadcast. i would suggest most famous/infamous racing sports highlights uploads garner more views than the uploads of the full events from which they are derived. how many youtube viewers have viewed carlton fisk's homer from game 6 of the 75 world series vs how many have viewed the whole of game 6, or the whole of the 75 fall classic?
And unlike ABC who didn't show the Monday after the spring race in Atlanta, ESPN stayed with it and shuffled their programming to accommodate showing the Winston 500.
Yeah, woulda been only his 2nd win in a plate race, 5th win overall at Talladega... He never really had another decent run in a plate race after this race but at least he won once, Rusty never won a points race at either Daytona or Talladega, period... Since 1980, only Rusty Wallace, Alan Kulwicki, Martin Truex Jr & Kyle Larson have won championships but never won a points paying race at either Daytona & or Talladega...
@@vinewood8295 the reason they let gant win was nascar was goina award the win to darrell an his car did not pass post race insection cas his rear spoiler was found to be to low it was around 30 degrees an nascar had a minumum off 35 so they told waltripif he protested he would be disqalified
Ah, that last lap! a couple of times it looked like Rick Mast in 10th helped Harry Gant with a little bumping; but it wasn't definitive enough to tell on video; I believe the Leo Jackson team got away with one here
Darell Waltrip's was throwing a hissy fit in nascar's trailer trying to get hary disqualified an blill France jr told Darrell that's fine an while were at it the second place car is also disqualified for having his spoiler at 30 degrees 35 was minimum. He told Darrell would you like to keep runin your dam smart mouth.an dw was suddenly fine with second.
The 1991 Winston 500 was notorious for the Big One that almost claimed the life of Kyle Petty, who had a Good Season in 1992. This race was aired on GMA Radio-Television Arts on May 7, 1991 at 2:30 P.M.
Harry Gant should have been penalized for getting a push on the last lap though. It was against the rules at the time. This is still against the rules.
The most horrible moment in the 20-year run of NASCAR on GMA was The Big One at the 1991 Winston 500 that was held at the Talladega Superspeedway. It was aired on GMA Radio-Television Arts on May 7, 1991 at 2:30 P.M.
Damn what great racing. The 90's and early 2000's was a great time for Nascar.
Best I've ever seen is Canadian NASCAR
Yes it Earnhardt
Was
If they could run like this now I'd watch weekly like I used to
I AGREE
NASCAR is homo now.
True Gladiators with that concrete wall back then. Bob Jenkins , Ned Jarrett, and Benny Parsons were the best announcers.
And Buddy Baker too.
We lost Bob Jenkins two days ago. Rest In Peace. 🙏❤️🙏
I,sure do miss the days of the Ford Thunderbird, Chevy Lumina and the Pontiac Grand prix. those old cars sounded so good.
cant forget the few years of Buick Regal and Olds Cutlass while the IROC series had Dodge Daytonas.. Great time in NASCAR
Matt Johnston
wish dodge ran in cup through all these years ... and yeah they do sound amazing. personally i do enjoy the sound of the gen 6 too. nascars will always sound amazing.
Old? Lol
I know X-pipes are better for high rpms, but the cars sounds so much better when they could still run large diameter oval shaped exhaust with H-pipes.
RIP Bob Jenkins
Thanks for up'ing this. I was there - Sunday AND Monday. Nearly got washed away when the wind and rains moved in quickly on Sunday. Rained so hard I think the track moved about 6 feet. Returned on Monday, sat on backstretch & The Big One happened near us. Many ran to the fence to see the safety crews carefully remove Kyle Petty with what turned out to be a broken leg.
BP saying "here comes swervin'" is the best thing in this entire video.
Ah the good old days when you could watch commercial free on C-band and hear the announcers talking among themselves.
33:19 "Here comes Swervin'" LMAO
It's wild to see how relatively unprotected the drivers were in the cars back in those days...crazy
I can see why other drivers hated Ernie Irvan back then. Benny Parsons says about three laps prior to the big wreck, "no Ernie don't try to squeeze in there". Well, he at least waited a few more laps Benny. Miss these days of racing though with Bob, Ned, and Benny in the booth.
jdtractor man did you catch Benny saying “Swervin’ Irvan” when they came back from commercial break? They were talking amongst themselves and didn’t realize the were back live.
Ernie was such a moron driving. Still pissed him for screwing Davey out of a shot at the title in 1992. Dummy.
And Davey Allison was 100% correct in his comments about the way some of them were driving. They weren't respecting the speed they were going and were trying to push their way back inline even when there wasn't a gap to go into.
Unfortunately I think that's what happened. Irvan was stuck in the middle between Kyle Petty and Sterling Marlin and was trying to get up inline behind Petty but completely misjudged it and instead of going behind he clipped the back of him and triggered chaos.
When I look at the replays, I really feel Ernie was squeezed in the middle and couldn't go anywhere.
Some will say just back off, and maybe you'd be out of that bad spot, but then again, if you were to do that too often, you turn into Darrell Waltrip the last 5-6 years of his career....off the back and out of the draft.
Ah, back in the day when crash replays started with the words "Ernie Irvin got into....."
Ah the good ol days of racing back to the caution
1:12:43
Ah that old speed world theme. I remember it from the monster truck challenge episodes back then.
The exit of the road for Larry Pearson at the beginning of the race is tough.
"I never get tired of this old 90s course.
Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Chevrolet, Fords, the golden era of racing and all men racing. You don’t see any spoil brats behind the wheel of any of these cars
Interesting to watch Sr. sidedraft and no on was aware of it.
irvan was aware of it. but the difference between earnhardt and irvan in 1991 was earnhardt could side draft without wrecking half the field.
your wrong elliott was side drafting along wth dale richard petty among othes as far back as 84
I grew up there in the 80s and 90s, wish we had these phones back then.
3 days of "Woodstock" twice a year 😊
Dale Earnhardt took over the points lead after this race & held on for the rest of the 1991 season
1980-2005ish nascar was at its best.Its crazy i forgot how long it took to dry a track back then compared to now
Michael Waltrip moved to 4th in the point standings after this race. He peaked well in the top 10 of the point standings several points of different seasons despite never finishing better than 12th in his career
He was 5th in points going into the August Bristol race in 2003 but had a terrible stretch the last few weeks of the year.
I remember my dad picking me up from school on the Monday this aired and as soon as we got home, the wreck had just happened a few minutes before. I remember very vividly seeing Mark Martin's car raise up like it was on strings and then settle back down without flipping on my parents old Curtis Mathes TV. One thing missing from the clip though that was a great quote was the Felix Sabates interview in which Jerry Punch asked him what Kyle Petty told him when he talked to him in the care center and Felix said "I can't repeat it on television."
Yup, it rained that Sunday so the race was delayed to Monday. I got home from school that day as well and turned on the TV like you said right after the big wreck...
Man watching these old races you can see just how amazing of a drafter Earnhardt is. Honestly it’s incredible to see in action.
King of side drafting!
Good example of this at 1:12:00 ..just before the BIG ONE!!😂
Best part is BP saying here comes swervin.
"Handsome" Harry's only superspeedway win.
Which should have been nullified due to the illegal push.
91 had the best paintjobs ever
Yep those were the years. Dont even watch anymore.
Nothing more iconic than that black 3 screaming off turn 4 at Talladega.
14:51 race start
Just think if Tim Richmond had been alive? Still a loss after all of these years. Davey,Alan . Everything is different now,even the crowds as they don’t have the crowds. Too many rules,corporate input and the new guys are thinking about the fame and wealth
I was thinking the same thing. If the guys you mentioned were around in the 90s, NASCAR would have been even more enjoyable to watch on Sunday. What would have been...🤔
YES IMAGE NOT CONTENT THE CHASE IS BULL
And there's no attitude or bravado. Need rivals and real fights. Not pushy shovy I hate you crap. Lol
I love Ricky Rudd in the Tide Chevrolet #5 car
18:53 difficult start race for Richard Petty.
Personally i finded this race was very cool !!!
01:58:58 I like to much the paint scheme of Rick Mast car, simple but nice ! with his number one.
Wow, 70,000 plus watched the big crash from this race, barely over 5k wanted to see the whole race to the finish...
but casual fans dont watch for the wrecks hahahahaha....
Vine Wood not many respect or understand how much changes and goes on throughout a whole 500 mile race. "they just turn left" or "they only go in circles its stupid." Sad. I wasn't even thought about when this race took place, its so cool to be able to watch and see the similarities and diffrences first hand. Too cool.
If this hadn't been a Monday rain delayed race they'd been 150 thousand their watching
Their driver probably got taken out so why stay and watch the restrictor plate madness?
a video of a crash represents a much smaller time commitment than a nearly 3 hour long race broadcast. i would suggest most famous/infamous racing sports highlights uploads garner more views than the uploads of the full events from which they are derived. how many youtube viewers have viewed carlton fisk's homer from game 6 of the 75 world series vs how many have viewed the whole of game 6, or the whole of the 75 fall classic?
I seen the intake and heads of a superspeedway #4
D.w. was pissed. He swore mast pushed gant to the win
This was a Monday race I believe due to a weekend rain out.
And unlike ABC who didn't show the Monday after the spring race in Atlanta, ESPN stayed with it and shuffled their programming to accommodate showing the Winston 500.
Chris gerke died a day after from this race from injuries at the caraway medical Center he was killed at a arca race on Saturday
This should have been a win for DW, even Harry said in the interview that Mast was pushing him that last lap!
Yeah, woulda been only his 2nd win in a plate race, 5th win overall at Talladega... He never really had another decent run in a plate race after this race but at least he won once, Rusty never won a points race at either Daytona or Talladega, period... Since 1980, only Rusty Wallace, Alan Kulwicki, Martin Truex Jr & Kyle Larson have won championships but never won a points paying race at either Daytona & or Talladega...
@@vinewood8295 the reason they let gant win was nascar was goina award the win to darrell an his car did not pass post race insection cas his rear spoiler was found to be to low it was around 30 degrees an nascar had a minumum off 35 so they told waltripif he protested he would be disqalified
Which is highly illegal, but NASCAR wanted a good ole boy to win:
Ah, that last lap! a couple of times it looked like Rick Mast in 10th helped Harry Gant with a little bumping; but it wasn't definitive enough to tell on video; I believe the Leo Jackson team got away with one here
Lol. Listen to post race interview and you will hear Harry say that Rick bumped him a few times! I don't know how they missed it???
Darell Waltrip's was throwing a hissy fit in nascar's trailer trying to get hary disqualified an blill France jr told Darrell that's fine an while were at it the second place car is also disqualified for having his spoiler at 30 degrees 35 was minimum. He told Darrell would you like to keep runin your dam smart mouth.an dw was suddenly fine with second.
The 1991 Winston 500 was notorious for the Big One that almost claimed the life of Kyle Petty, who had a Good Season in 1992. This race was aired on GMA Radio-Television Arts on May 7, 1991 at 2:30 P.M.
Harry was pushed the whole last lap.
I don't like restrictor plates--why not limit the amount of fuel instead and incentivize efficiency.
Or just run a V6 package based around a shortened V8, sorta like how many road car V6s are designed.
the old guy winning in an oldsmobile by having the best gas mileage
May Talladega
Many of these drivers HOF'ers!
Harry Gant should have been penalized for getting a push on the last lap though. It was against the rules at the time. This is still against the rules.
I got fired from my first job on the day this race was run. LOL
i got sispended from high school for skipping out about 930 am an going home to watch
The most horrible moment in the 20-year run of NASCAR on GMA was The Big One at the 1991 Winston 500 that was held at the Talladega Superspeedway. It was aired on GMA Radio-Television Arts on May 7, 1991 at 2:30 P.M.
They had FORD THUNDERBIRDS, PONTIAC GRAND PRIXS, AND CHEVROLET LUMINAS. Not this unibody garbage
I was told Dale was born a women????
Aren't we all?
i always thought he was a pussysory i had to i couldnt stnd him