1998 NAPA Autocare 500 from Martinsville Speedway | NASCAR Classic Full Race Replay
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.พ. 2025
- Relive the 1998 NAPA Autocare 500 from Martinsville Speedway that saw Ricky Rudd fight off Jeff Gordon and extreme heat exhaustion to win the grandfather clock. Rudd later did his Victory Lane interview while laying down and being tended to by EMS.
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The sport was so alive during these times. It truly was a spectacle and a weekend experience worth going to. Wish it could get back to this
It would if Nascar would go back to a low downforce high horsepower rules package again. 1.5 mile track being driven wide open doesn’t create racing. That creates a race where clean air is superior.
Go back to when drivers actually had to have some skill to drive one of these cars. Where they were doing 185-190 on a 1.5 mile track and actually had to get braking points figured out and had to make decisions other than just “I’m gonna stay in the draft because if I don’t my low horsepower car won’t be able to overtake”
NASCAR has slowly killed the fan experience. Why spend all the money to go to a race, and have a lesser experience? They need to do what IMSA does, and make the sport accessible to everyone, not just those that can pay the extra bucks.
nascar should have learn if it not broken dont fix it
In my humble opinion, every NASCAR fan who has never seen this race should watch it in its entirety. Ricky Rudd's performance in this race despite the conditions inside his race car was nothing short of incredible.
I saw this race live !! First NASCAR race !! Visited Al Rudd's junkyard in Virginia a week later !! They treated this Mexican well !! Nice guys !! A good family !!
Was there n person, was 🔥 hot as hell. 106 I believe when we left the hotel...was in row 1 at start of turn 1 was covered n a layer of salt(dried sweat) & rubber an inch thick 😆 by end of race!!! A truly unforgettable experience, b4 that I was a nascar fan ever since i have been a nascar fanatic!!!
@@JasonRatcliff7896was definitely not 106 degrees. Official records show 89 degrees with it being under 80 degrees before 11am.
90s man. Everything seems to be have been amazing
It truly was an incredible time for the sport. Being 11 years old at the time I had no idea how special these times would end up being.
It was definitely a special time and the sport was growing fast in the 90s.....
Yeah, I was 10 years old back in 98. Loved the sport so much back then, it truly was amazing back then. So much better than it is today. In saying that I feel life in general was better then that it is today.
The best NASCAR coverage in the history of the sport. I miss these guys so much.
Was there this day in person, row 1 entry to turn 1...IT WAS SO 🔥 HOTTT...BY THE END OF RACE WAS COMPLETELY COVERED N RUBBER & DRIED SWEAT, I'LL NEVER FORGET IT, STILL A HARDCORE FAN & ATTEND RACES TO THIS DAY!!!
Fantastic Race! Loved rewatching this. I remember this race as a kid, more so for Rich Bickle getting emotional over a top 5. Butttt, having watched the full '98 season again, and seeing that team MISS a few races, you can see why he was so overcome with emotions.
Thanks for the correct aspect ratio on this video. I was critical in the past but very much appreciate this.
A 4:3 race that's not bastardizingly cropped. Kudos!
Not a fan of how they're filling the borders (Plain black, please, NASCAR), but I'll take that over a blurry cropped 16:9 upload any day.
It would be awesome to have entire seasons uploaded in this quality!
I actually remember watching this exact race with my dad as a little kid. Don't remember Rudd's health at the end, but i remember my dad getting choked up watching the Rich Bickle post race interview
I love this race mainly because it shows how much people cared back then. Rich Bickle crying after finishing 4th, Rudd driving the whole race in unbelievably tough heat. I hate to say it but I don't think people care and are that passionate anymore. Maybe I'm wrong.
This is an historic race. The winner was part of a lot of great historic races. Rudd belongs in the HOF. He competed hard with the best of them and was a formidable opponent to the sports best. Rudd has the respect of both fans and fellow drivers for over 2 decades. Put him in!
Rudd got in 😎
I was only nine years old at the time of this race and 98 was my first season as a diehard fan. I became a huge fan of Ricky Rudd because I liked Tide Car, I do remember he wasn’t doing that well that season but seeing he started 2nd I remember actually randomly praying he would win thinking that was a long shot and he frickin won! LOL may be a coincidence who knows but for a kid and considering all the circumstances it was surely a magical moment, I’ll never forget it.
Pingu! You drove for NASCAR?
Wowsers! The sport was bursting in Popularity in these ages
It's quite striking Sterling Marlin never won on short tracks in cup, he often ran well at Bristol, Rockingham and Martinsville but never sealed the deal... On the other hand, he won the 2000 Cheez-It 250 (Busch race) at Bristol in the #82, a car he wasn't even supposed to drive that day.
It’s about time I finally have something good to talk about unlike the last few months, this race was overshadowed by Mark McGuire’s then-MLB record of 70 home runs in one season. That was VERY MAJOR at the time in sports that weekend.
So funny to hear the commentators talk about it accidentally on the air at 2:24:48 haha. "I thought you said we're clear!"
Bob Jenkins, Ned Jarrett and Benny Parsons were the Best Announcing Trio in NASCAR Full Stop.
Who else loves the 90s?
NASCAR. Thank you! 👍🏻
This is exactly the way it was presented. No cropping, no gimmicky editing. Just 100% perfect quality! 👌🏻 thank you for keeping the 4:3 aspect ratio because it’s from 1998, that’s how it should look like! A+++++++
@Mori Calliope troll 😒
Yeah, unless we’re talking about races from 2005-present, sure. But every year before 2005 is a big no.
n0lkpji
Ricky Rudd was a badass.
I was at that race , went to both Martinsville races each year from 97 to 04
Was at this race. Unbelievable heat. Rudd was tough. 😅
I love how the cars are already on the track for pace laps when the coverage starts and they get right into it, rather than three hours of bull crap beforehand.
You know they did have pre race coverage before this right? They just edited it for TH-cam
Thanks NASCAR for the upload.
That espn intro was on a different level
On this 1998 episode of ESPN's Speedworld, we'll head to Martinsville, Virginia, where the NASCAR Winston Cup Series series held the NAPA Autocare 500.
Also pretty cool this has the satellite feed! 😎🏁
The first Nascar race I saw on tv. I'm a fan since that day.
I was use to wake up (very) early on sundays to watch F1. And at that time, Schumacker was dominating the sport.
So it was a bit... I wouldn't say boring, but action was missing.
It's like, Before that race, the world was in black and white, and after this incredible finish, the world was in colors...
That's because they washed it in Tide 😉
Me too. Loved the Sunday ritual of waking early for the Shumaker/Hakkenin rivalry in F1 as I learned about F1 for the first time and then came Nascar. Hardly missed a race for the next 15 years and then my interest finally fizzeled out -stll watch F1 though. What an exciting era was late 90's Nascar.
Nascar must’ve seen Darian’s video from a few days ago
Yeah that’s quite the coincidence
@@erikcorr3261 I Like Stanton Barrett ☺
Pretty much 🤪
@@anthonydeloreto3881 I'm Really Agree
I was gonna say the same thing lol
Now a days you wouldn’t see a driver finish a race like that. Ricky Rudd was one tough customer.
man this is soooo good, the nostalgia...
Ricky will always be my favorite true blue collar iron man
Rudd was and is so underrated
It was runs like this that helped get Ricky Rudd into the NHoF this year.
I enjoy watching these older races, cant believe Rudd was able to withstand the heat for hours and maintain his ability to drive. Im sure if he had a mid pack car he would have hopped out.
Rich Bickle ❤️
He cried after this race not because of how great he finished, it was more so missing out on winning that race. Losing that race as great as he ran is what made him cry more so.
@@anthonydeloreto3881You're wrong
@@GPSjammer That’s what he said in his book.
RIP Bob Jenkins
And Benny Parsons. Bob, Benny, and Ned (as well as the late Ken Squier) were the great NASCAR broadcasters.
Ricky Rudd was one tough driver even when he had heat exhaustion he won
Who else agrees The Rooster belongs in the NASCAR Hall of Fame?
He just got in
Ricky rudd was a real racecar driver
Man, no corner walls or curbs ?? And two actual pit roads ...the best version of Martinsville....
An actual Victory Lane?
They always had curbs there just not so tall back then
Chad Little's John Deere livery has to be one of my all time favourite liveries.
Man, the MLB home run chsase in 98...dominated everything. ESPN had a habit of cutting away to the ballpark during other sports to cover the at bats. Including, amusingly, other more important baseball games..or CART/IRL/NHRA/insert motorsport here
Jeff Gordon finishes 2nd in a stellar year
Awesome race
What a PILE OF GRIT FROM RICKY RUDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOW ABOUT THAT!!!! that chamber must've at least 200 degrees +
I like how they don't throw a yellow every 5 seconds
I miss these cars
4:55 welcome to Martinsville 👌
I was hardcore rudd fan and was there! Was torture listening to scanner
Back when martinsville had duel pit roads
In my 2019 Hyundai Kona, I welded the spider gears together to have a "poor mans posi" but I feel no difference because my engine has no balls.
Starting Last: Dave Marcis
man I remember how hot nascar was back then
Why no pre-race? Pre race was great back then! (Not so now.)
Did he say god bless america lmao
Which parts of the race car body had to be shaped identically to the road car in 1998?
WHY DID HE THANK KYLE BUSCH AND NOT MENTION DALE JR!!!!!!!???????MAKES NO SENSE!! JR NEEDS TO HAVE A SIT DOWN WITH NOAH COME ON MAN!!
Last career pole for Ernie Irvan
Back when broadcasting was better and the quality of racing was too. Less circus-like.
its odd seeing martinsville with its old split pit lane and not its current pit lane
Look at the crowd. NASCAR dont have crowds like that anymore.
Helloo
We need power back. 670 HP is pathetic.
You mean the same amount as seen in this race?
@@joshjarnagin3161 It's 2021, we should be at 1200 HP by now.
Did the maths for you. 1200 horsepower plus an already unstable aero package equals a 40-car field of 260mph unguided missiles. I think I'd rather stick with the restrictors rather than watch rows A through M at plate tracks get disembowelled.
@@joshjarnagin3161 They were running well above 800hp in 1998 depending on team.
@@anubeia Take the plates off. If the rich boys don't want to drive the 260mph unguided missiles there are a line of dudes around the block that will.
Dale Earnhardt, 4 laps down...
97-98 were rough years for us Earnhardt fans....
@@Chad-wu4ij 99 with a mysterious chip in his neck
@@coca-colatrackhousewarrior9925 and he still won 3 races 99 and I think had over 20 top 10s. The man was a beast...
It was one of the last few races, but they're not spending the entire race obsessing over "playoffs" or some other BS. Anyone missing it? No? Didn't think so...
They didn't need to mention point standings because with 6 races to go and Gordon up by 300 points it was kinda pointless.
Now look at nascar 😭
Once NASCAR tried to go corporate and made the first 26 races basically meaningless they killed the sport. Plus all the gimmicks, stages, strict templates, lack of short tracks, and most importantly not allowing drivers to be themselves and develop personalities. Blue collar America can't relate to the sport anymore.
Wow Earnhardt sucked in this race, and God it was hot in 1998, I remember, I was rooting houses😐
I think nascar got ride of purse details because drivers are making too much for subpar on track action