T-Rex was the moment that made me realize I really shouldn't blame teams that bend the rules as much as possible to get a fast race car. When you legit build the fastest car possible BY THE BOOK and it STILL gets banned what are you supposed to do then? You follow the rules and STILL get banned so to Hell with the rules.
Just goes to show in all of motorsport that vague rules lead to grey areas which leads to innovation..which then leads to bans when that innovation is too outside the box for the governing organization lol
I loved how they banned this T-Rex or trying to build better cars than today’s stupidity equal racing cars that all crowded in bunched together and it was boring! I wished NASCAR just leave it to the owners and drivers control not NASCAR became fat purses and tv deals and big corporations and became greedy and destroyed southern only love sport and taken away from them. Now, it has become like the NFL playoffs style and it’s not working! Racing is totaling different from football and NBA playoff games. But NASCAR can’t seem to understand because they have become blindsided by money and don’t care about the sport and its fans base anymore!
@@waydebaker33Dumbest story ever. When everyone is doing what they can to gain an edge without getting caught, what sense does it make to punish someone that works along side NASCAR to legally make the fastest car ever?
I’ll be honest, I wasn’t expecting this all star race to be uploaded. But I gotta applaud NASCAR for continuing to remaster these 20th century races in HD! 👍🏻
Johnnyred51, don't forget about Ray, Brian, and the rest of the team... The best driver ain't shit without an incredible team and awesome equipment... And vice versa!!!
Unbelievable performance by Jeff Gordon. From the back to the front twice. I know the car T-Rex was really good and historic but damn that's some driving right there
Watch the video of Ray talking about this car... It was definitely the car!!! And I'm a lifelong Gordon fan from '92 (actually well before, more like Thursday Night Thunder on ESPN WAAAYYY back!)
how could people used to hate this kid??!! only bc he used to beat everyone's favorite driver! hes always been a classy fella during interviews and never talks crap and makes sure he acknowledges and thanks everyone that he needs to!
Because he was handed everything and never earned his way up a spoiled rich kid who never worked for anything Dale Earnhardt was better and cooler 7 championships to a measly 4
@@rcguy902 Earnhardt was given the 1990 Championship by NASCAR for a penalty to the #6 they pulled out of their asses. Remember the tyre incident for the #3? No penalty.
It's such a beautiful thing to see these cars just "drive". Bouncing around, wiggling, putting them wherever they want. Just a thing of beauty. All of these modern aero dependent show car generations suck. There was more excitement in the first 30 laps (with no cautions) than there is in a full race today.
Pretty much happens with any racing series. If someone has advantage, they ban it. Edit: IMSA banned awd, ATTC banned skylines... just to mention top of mind.
TRex was great but I feel like Gordon's 2001 backup car in The Winston was just as dominant. It really was a hot rod. Idk why it doesn't get the same recognition.
OH BOY!!! T REX!!! And T. Rex was not named soley for the Tyrannosaurus Rex and Jurassic Park on the car like most people assume and think they know. The car was actually named after the chassis designer, Rex Stump. So, since the car was so dominant in the testing session for the Winston, they knew that had something special. So, with the T. Rex on the car, and the man's name that designed it was named Rex... They gave it the name, T. REX! A freaking incredible car. But the following year in 1998, Ray Evernham, Jeff Gordon and Hendrick Motorsports brought a car that was even faster than T. Rex. But, there werea things they learned from T. Rex that NASCAR didn't outlaw and put on the "DON'T BRING BACK EVER" list. Like running a lot bigger sway bars in the front and the rear of the car, bigger than anyone had ever run before that. And he dominated The Winston that year, but bc of 2 extra caution laps at the end of the race bc Jeff jumped the green flag, so NASCAR threw the caution to redo the start, and Jeff run out of gas going into turn 1. Plus, I understand that the 24 car was fast... But he didn't dominate the 97 Winston. When u hear people talk about it, they make it seem like he lead from flag to flag, and over a second a lap faster and nobody could stay with him. But he only led 9 laps. But, he was faster once he got out front, but that car struggled badly in traffic.
Being born in '93 i never saw this full race. But Nascar had zero right to ban the T-Rex chassis after just one race in which Jeff only led 10 laps. Why didn't they ban Bobby Labonte's, Jarret's, and Earnhardt's cars too while they were at it. France's and making stupid decisions, classic.
Did you watch the full race yet? In both of the first two stages Jeff started at the rear and blitzed into 3rd. The one stage he didn't start at the rear he ran away from the field crazy quick. It may have been a bad move to ban the chassis, but lets not be mistaken and think those other 3 cars were remotely close to its level
Lol I guarantee you Jeff spent a majority of the night sand-bagging. If he would have given that thing everything it had we would have been a full second a lap faster than everyone else.
Three things: 1.) Back when double-file restarts were a rare thing. 2.) This format would be perfect if they took the average finish from the first two segments. Kind of BS that you could just intentionally finish last in the first segment, get a huge lead in the second segment by starting up front, and then get to start up front for the final segment. 3.) I have always heard about how insanely dominant Gordon's T-Rex car was, but it wasn't THAT bad. He seemed to pretty clearly have the best car but it wasn't blatantly obvious. Didn't even lead a lap until the final 10-lap segment and he wasn't restarting around the other fastest cars of the night because the drivers who purposely dropped to the back in segment 1 were still leading.
Kyle Wagoner #3 point, you are correct about laps led. Consider this, if you as he driver of Trex know that you have the field covered and can pass cars at will.... why would you show that to your opponents on segments 1&2 while the have an opportunity to make a pit stop and make their car better.
you can see the official pull Ray aside in the background. most of it occurs behind Jeff but Evernham disappears right before the victory lane interview ends
Imagine you build your car by the book you spend all that time and money building t rex , only to make the car so good without breaking the rules then nascar says don't bring that thing back were going to have to change the rules to give everyone else chance , jeff one greatest driver ever with one most fastest and well made made cars in nascar history he would have been unstoppable
We as nascar fans are getting robbed by the Tv provider. Listen to races back in the day compared to today. Back in the day you had 3 ppl in the booth n 3 or 4 ppl on pit road. Today. Im wondeing if the big salaries the driver broadcasters get paid isnt ruining the whole show.
I remember this race I stayed at my grandparents this night and he won everything and my grandfather was just laughing in the corner and he always loved watching nascar with me he passed in 2019 and hates the chase format but old style racing his fav and he was a Earnhardt fan and I was a Gordon fan we used to argue all the time but it was the best memories I had with that man he really was loved and loved me more than anyone loved me bc of him I am the woman I am today
Does anyone know exactly what made this car illegal after the race? nothing has ever been disclosed that I can find but its been 20+ yrs and its just as many years obsolete. So what was it? chassis? aero?
I don't think anything was illegal. I think it was just right up to the line and ahead of the rules i.e. it did things that weren't against the rules because they were no rules on the book that was against what they was doing. But like Petty and Elliott before, Nascar can't have one car so dominant that no one else can touch them.
The car itself wasn't illegal at all. Everything was 100% to the rule. The problem is that the car had the potential to be so dominant that it likely would've forced every other car to change to be like Gordon's in order to be competitive (which would've Coste a bunch of money and would've made many races boring as a result, since Gordon could've and likely would've won almost every race the car ran at). Rather than force everyone else to change, they told Gordon's team to go back to what everyone else was running, essentially changing the rule book so they couldn't run the car again. Of course, Gordon's team likely went and did the same thing multiple times over the next few years, building cars that were 100% legal but stretched every rule (I know they ran the T-rex chassis at one of the Daytona races later in 1997, but they changed everything they needed to before running it and it finished 4th).
@@ak102986 Much of it is due to lightening the unsprung weight. They lightened areas that they could and used Titanium for that process. This was an EXPENSIVE car to build. Another example is aero. Lowering the chassis rails a bit created an air block similar to Gurney's BLAT car and 80's formula 1 did and basically made the car have downforce basically expand across the whole underbody of the car. If you wanna know just how powerful underbody design can be, look up the "Delta wing" you can see it as a successor to the BLAT where essentially there was no wing, just a huge underbody and a big diffuser.
How bout that racing. Multiple cars going back and fourth. Multiple cars coming from the back to the front back the back and to the front again. They could run 2 3 wide and not wreck. Cars were bouncing around and once the leader got passed the 2nd place car would pass the leader back and fourth. You don't see that in today's nascar. Seems once a car is out front it'll stay out front.
If you wish to save the future of your sport, you better apologize to the whole world for the fake noose publicity stunt, before the next race even starts.
T-Rex was the moment that made me realize I really shouldn't blame teams that bend the rules as much as possible to get a fast race car. When you legit build the fastest car possible BY THE BOOK and it STILL gets banned what are you supposed to do then? You follow the rules and STILL get banned so to Hell with the rules.
Just goes to show in all of motorsport that vague rules lead to grey areas which leads to innovation..which then leads to bans when that innovation is too outside the box for the governing organization lol
I loved how they banned this T-Rex or trying to build better cars than today’s stupidity equal racing cars that all crowded in bunched together and it was boring! I wished NASCAR just leave it to the owners and drivers control not NASCAR became fat purses and tv deals and big corporations and became greedy and destroyed southern only love sport and taken away from them. Now, it has become like the NFL playoffs style and it’s not working! Racing is totaling different from football and NBA playoff games. But NASCAR can’t seem to understand because they have become blindsided by money and don’t care about the sport and its fans base anymore!
"we built this car completely by the rule book... it is completely legal...," France takes a puff of his cigar and says "it wont be by tomorrow"
Greatest. Story. Ever.
@@waydebaker33Dumbest story ever. When everyone is doing what they can to gain an edge without getting caught, what sense does it make to punish someone that works along side NASCAR to legally make the fastest car ever?
The golden age of nascar paint schemes 🔥
I’ll be honest, I wasn’t expecting this all star race to be uploaded. But I gotta applaud NASCAR for continuing to remaster these 20th century races in HD! 👍🏻
Imagine if NASCAR let Jeff race that car for the rest of the season, and if Hendrick brought it back for the rest of the decade.
110-130 Wins
@@DupontandLowesWarrior 💯
Would have wrecked it somewhere in between
@@Ilovefootball173 they write down the setups and they can just repeat it
@@JBeezy003 With 8 titles
Jeff Gordon! One of the greatest drivers in the history of NASCAR.
Johnnyred51, don't forget about Ray, Brian, and the rest of the team... The best driver ain't shit without an incredible team and awesome equipment... And vice versa!!!
The legendary t-rex car🦖
Ah yes, T-Rex. Nascar's equivalent to Roger Penske's Beast engine.
Unbelievable performance by Jeff Gordon. From the back to the front twice. I know the car T-Rex was really good and historic but damn that's some driving right there
Watch the video of Ray talking about this car... It was definitely the car!!! And I'm a lifelong Gordon fan from '92 (actually well before, more like Thursday Night Thunder on ESPN WAAAYYY back!)
how could people used to hate this kid??!! only bc he used to beat everyone's favorite driver! hes always been a classy fella during interviews and never talks crap and makes sure he acknowledges and thanks everyone that he needs to!
That's all it was as you saw how everyone loved him in his final year.... It's the fact he was so young and was just better then everyone
Because he was handed everything and never earned his way up a spoiled rich kid who never worked for anything Dale Earnhardt was better and cooler 7 championships to a measly 4
@@rcguy902you’re completely clueless if you really think that.
@@rcguy902poop take
@@rcguy902 Earnhardt was given the 1990 Championship by NASCAR for a penalty to the #6 they pulled out of their asses.
Remember the tyre incident for the #3? No penalty.
It's such a beautiful thing to see these cars just "drive". Bouncing around, wiggling, putting them wherever they want. Just a thing of beauty. All of these modern aero dependent show car generations suck. There was more excitement in the first 30 laps (with no cautions) than there is in a full race today.
Because they hired a big idiot to be CEO in 2003.
The greatest car driven in the greatest race by the greatest driver of the 90's. Absolute domination by good ol' T-rex
The car so fast NASCAR had to ban it.
Pretty much happens with any racing series. If someone has advantage, they ban it.
Edit: IMSA banned awd, ATTC banned skylines... just to mention top of mind.
@@crabby112unless you’re F1 in recent years. The Max Verstappen show continues.
When the commentators said that Mark Martin said he has the fastest car on the track -- "Oh my sweet summer child how little you know"
"Pick up the phone and call your owner, and tell him that car is illegal."
Ray: "I swear it's legal"
"It won't be tomorrow"
The most effortless pass on a turn I have ever seen. You know which car I'm talking about.
Man listening to these guys in the booth really takes me back.
@20:25, the moment that the NASCAR world was put on notice of "the 2nd generation of Hendrick chassis" and T-Rex's fate was sealed. haha
TRex was great but I feel like Gordon's 2001 backup car in The Winston was just as dominant. It really was a hot rod. Idk why it doesn't get the same recognition.
I know its hard to believe that NASCAR was actually about racing at one time
And when the stands were lined with drunk inbred apes
It still is
@@NUKE_DUKEM777 no its not
@@charlespiro6917it is Atlanta 2024 for proof
really loved the rounded look on the monte carlo that year
OH BOY!!! T REX!!! And T. Rex was not named soley for the Tyrannosaurus Rex and Jurassic Park on the car like most people assume and think they know. The car was actually named after the chassis designer, Rex Stump. So, since the car was so dominant in the testing session for the Winston, they knew that had something special. So, with the T. Rex on the car, and the man's name that designed it was named Rex... They gave it the name, T. REX! A freaking incredible car. But the following year in 1998, Ray Evernham, Jeff Gordon and Hendrick Motorsports brought a car that was even faster than T. Rex. But, there werea things they learned from T. Rex that NASCAR didn't outlaw and put on the "DON'T BRING BACK EVER" list. Like running a lot bigger sway bars in the front and the rear of the car, bigger than anyone had ever run before that. And he dominated The Winston that year, but bc of 2 extra caution laps at the end of the race bc Jeff jumped the green flag, so NASCAR threw the caution to redo the start, and Jeff run out of gas going into turn 1.
Plus, I understand that the 24 car was fast... But he didn't dominate the 97 Winston. When u hear people talk about it, they make it seem like he lead from flag to flag, and over a second a lap faster and nobody could stay with him. But he only led 9 laps. But, he was faster once he got out front, but that car struggled badly in traffic.
Back to the front twice. I'd say he didn't struggle to badly..
Jeff Gordon's Jurassic Park Car Was Ruthless
Here we go, a Jeff Gordon win on replay. Next do 2001 where they got to replace the cars.
Back when Charlotte didn’t determine the leader after turn 1
Every single one of those drivers are stock car legends.
I know right the 90’s was amazing period for nascar
My all time favorite paint scheme. That car looked as good as it was fast.
This year of car is what iRacing needs next!
100%
I agree
@22:35: "This has got to be a worrisome thing for all of the other teams."
Love Darrell's comment about following Jeff through the field.
Being born in '93 i never saw this full race. But Nascar had zero right to ban the T-Rex chassis after just one race in which Jeff only led 10 laps. Why didn't they ban Bobby Labonte's, Jarret's, and Earnhardt's cars too while they were at it. France's and making stupid decisions, classic.
Did you watch the full race yet? In both of the first two stages Jeff started at the rear and blitzed into 3rd. The one stage he didn't start at the rear he ran away from the field crazy quick. It may have been a bad move to ban the chassis, but lets not be mistaken and think those other 3 cars were remotely close to its level
Lol I guarantee you Jeff spent a majority of the night sand-bagging. If he would have given that thing everything it had we would have been a full second a lap faster than everyone else.
If the T-Rex isn't priceless engineering I don't know what is
Three things:
1.) Back when double-file restarts were a rare thing.
2.) This format would be perfect if they took the average finish from the first two segments. Kind of BS that you could just intentionally finish last in the first segment, get a huge lead in the second segment by starting up front, and then get to start up front for the final segment.
3.) I have always heard about how insanely dominant Gordon's T-Rex car was, but it wasn't THAT bad. He seemed to pretty clearly have the best car but it wasn't blatantly obvious. Didn't even lead a lap until the final 10-lap segment and he wasn't restarting around the other fastest cars of the night because the drivers who purposely dropped to the back in segment 1 were still leading.
Kyle Wagoner #3 point, you are correct about laps led. Consider this, if you as he driver of Trex know that you have the field covered and can pass cars at will.... why would you show that to your opponents on segments 1&2 while the have an opportunity to make a pit stop and make their car better.
Kudos to Bobby Labonte for running away with the Stage 2 win. I had forgotten he spun out on Lap 3, but that was a nice recovery.
I do appreciate the hands-on technical explanations. However, I am grateful camera technology has improved since this.
you can see the official pull Ray aside in the background. most of it occurs behind Jeff but Evernham disappears right before the victory lane interview ends
Thanks NASCAR for the upload.
I'll spend the rest of my life wondering how much Davey Allison could have accomplished in racing.
Truly a tragedy his career/life was cut short
Jeff Gordon was unstoppable that night
So Jeff Gordon squad builds a damn near perfect racecar and NASCAR punished them 🤔
Another great example of innovation that’s legal being stumped by the rules
Imagine you build your car by the book you spend all that time and money building t rex , only to make the car so good without breaking the rules then nascar says don't bring that thing back were going to have to change the rules to give everyone else chance , jeff one greatest driver ever with one most fastest and well made made cars in nascar history he would have been unstoppable
"Its easier to kill Frankenstein than it is to get along with him'
I miss TNN
Eli Gold was totally underrated. That man could call a race to a T.
I don't. Did you miss how much they mentioned the sponsors all the time? Horrible broadcast.
Peak NASCAR
Back when racing was racing now it’s just a circus show sad to say I’m more excited to watch this then the new races.
my Favorite setup by far in Nascar 04 The only game that allows the T-REX Car to be Relieved in all it's glory!
We as nascar fans are getting robbed by the Tv provider. Listen to races back in the day compared to today. Back in the day you had 3 ppl in the booth n 3 or 4 ppl on pit road. Today. Im wondeing if the big salaries the driver broadcasters get paid isnt ruining the whole show.
A car built so perfect nascar banned it lmao
For the reaction it garnered, it wasn't as obvious a stomping as I thought. Though, as Richard Petty always said, "Win by just enough".
The good old days 😀
The good old days I miss it
The reason the trex car got banned is cause people were upset Gordon won there was a lot of bets for dale to win
we need the 2000 winston
Reversing field was ridiculous
I remember this race I stayed at my grandparents this night and he won everything and my grandfather was just laughing in the corner and he always loved watching nascar with me he passed in 2019 and hates the chase format but old style racing his fav and he was a Earnhardt fan and I was a Gordon fan we used to argue all the time but it was the best memories I had with that man he really was loved and loved me more than anyone loved me bc of him I am the woman I am today
Why was there star wars music at the beginning?
I'm glad I wasn't the only I thought I was going crazy
Jeff Gordon Is Win
The Winston
I still don't understand why this car got outlawed. It's not like he dominated the race. He didn't lead at all until very early in the third segment.
This was when NASCAR was great without the chase and playoff bullshit.
Ole Brook always tried to work her way into the camera view!
Ahh this is big boy's NASCAR
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Back when NASCAR was about racing and not about virtue signaling on bent knee to communists.
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t-wex t-wex t-wex!!!
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Does anyone know exactly what made this car illegal after the race? nothing has ever been disclosed that I can find but its been 20+ yrs and its just as many years obsolete. So what was it? chassis? aero?
I don't think anything was illegal. I think it was just right up to the line and ahead of the rules i.e. it did things that weren't against the rules because they were no rules on the book that was against what they was doing. But like Petty and Elliott before, Nascar can't have one car so dominant that no one else can touch them.
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The car itself wasn't illegal at all. Everything was 100% to the rule. The problem is that the car had the potential to be so dominant that it likely would've forced every other car to change to be like Gordon's in order to be competitive (which would've Coste a bunch of money and would've made many races boring as a result, since Gordon could've and likely would've won almost every race the car ran at). Rather than force everyone else to change, they told Gordon's team to go back to what everyone else was running, essentially changing the rule book so they couldn't run the car again. Of course, Gordon's team likely went and did the same thing multiple times over the next few years, building cars that were 100% legal but stretched every rule (I know they ran the T-rex chassis at one of the Daytona races later in 1997, but they changed everything they needed to before running it and it finished 4th).
@@ak102986 Much of it is due to lightening the unsprung weight. They lightened areas that they could and used Titanium for that process. This was an EXPENSIVE car to build. Another example is aero. Lowering the chassis rails a bit created an air block similar to Gurney's BLAT car and 80's formula 1 did and basically made the car have downforce basically expand across the whole underbody of the car.
If you wanna know just how powerful underbody design can be, look up the "Delta wing" you can see it as a successor to the BLAT where essentially there was no wing, just a huge underbody and a big diffuser.
I have the Wheaties car as a 1:24 scale die cast and now I need to find the t-Rex car
no way u ever read this but I have the T rex die cast
@@kyle57688 I have it 1:64
Jeff Gordon's win again. Put others drivers please...
How bout that racing. Multiple cars going back and fourth. Multiple cars coming from the back to the front back the back and to the front again. They could run 2 3 wide and not wreck. Cars were bouncing around and once the leader got passed the 2nd place car would pass the leader back and fourth. You don't see that in today's nascar. Seems once a car is out front it'll stay out front.
I don't get it. It was a fast car but not stupid fast to draw all attention.
Maybe just go with showing the races from back in the day? Might help.
If you wish to save the future of your sport, you better apologize to the whole world for the fake noose publicity stunt, before the next race even starts.
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Racing was so god back then
Yo just noticed the star wars theme playing during the pace laps
They never could find anything wrong with this car. But it wasn't back on the track. Haha Bad car.
It was too good, a totally legal, Nascar made sure they changed the rules so it couldn't compete again.
The material the hubs were made of was rather flammable ...
This was about the end of NASCAR and the beginning of pandercar or politicar
Are you STILL crying about the flag policy?
@@Foxfire_forty-nine you really think thats it
@@charlespiro6917 is it because Corey LaJoie has a Trump 2020 sponsored car in the Cup series?
@@charlespiro6917 Are you there, Charles?
Why is NASCAR showing this? NASCAR abandoned it’s heritage remember . There’s no diversity, what happened to change?
Haha you are clearly new to the channel, champ.
@@Foxfire_forty-nine Yes I'm here to support Bubba Smollet's struggle for social justice
@@Truth_Hurts528 oh you sad little incel troll.
First
Screw nascar
Well...goodbye, kiddo.
I see, we have an IndyCar fan
Better enjoy these re runs. NASCAR is done. They can take their Jussie Smollett and shove it! NASCAR died with #3!
@@DanielNuteson this is much worse then that you will see. Enjoy though i know i most certainly did when it was racing.
You sound a bit triggered.
Daniel Nuteson Lol. That’s why the stands are so empty.
Devin C Nope. Only libtard pansies get triggered. 😂
@@Foxfire_forty-nine did yoyr mother not give you enough attention as a child?
Who cares?
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