I was at that Bristol 2006 race and took part in the snowball fight between fans and crew members on pit road. I watched a 6'6" dude in a Gordon jacket nail an official right in the neck with a snowball, taking him down.
Reminds me of Chicago's street race this year (2023). The Midwest was in a drought. NASCAR rolls into town, and the track almost floods. The preliminary race gets canceled before halfway, concerts canceled, and tires on pit road were floating away. It was absolutely mental!
A note on the Vortex Theory. A moment that always stick with me was the 2019 Spring Xfinity race at Richmond. It rained at my house, within 10 miles of the speedway for the entire 250 lap race. The broadcast crew kept showing the radar, and the rain cell kept heading straight for the track but kept parting just as it should've been reaching the track. Sure enough. Cole Custer took the checkered flag, and before he'd even made it back around to grab the flag, it started raining over the track. I don't know if there's any meteorological explanation for that other than the Vortex Theory
Vortex Theory sounds like a conspiracy, and it really confused me when S1ap said Darrell Waltrip had come up with it. But the more I think about it, the more you have to think that he might very well be on to something.
@@Dat-Mudkip I remember when Darel Waltrip was talking about the theory for one of the first times in the 2000's and he said I think the track has a Vortex around it, this was the first race at Iowa in 2006 and the I-80 that runs right by the track was getting the worst rain of the storm and the track nothing.
To be fair, never mind weather delaying a race by a week - try over TWO AND A HALF MONTHS. The 2016 Indycar Firestone 600 at Texas Motor Speedway originally ran on June 12th, before being rain delayed at lap 71, and given a) the fact the race was nowhere near half distance, but b) more rain was scheduled for the rest of the weekend and the Monday after and c) many drivers were needed elsewhere that next week including many going to Le Mans, Indycar elected to resume the race on August 27th - presumably the next free weekend they had on the calendar to make it work. They ran a couple of practice sessions that afternoon, any drivers who had dropped out of the race pre-lap 71 weren't allowed to resume, and the race rolled off *again* in the running order they were in back in June. I'm sure I remember reading that James Hinchcliffe set a new record for amount of time spent in the lead of a race because of all this, given he was leading at the postponement and effectively led the race for over ten weeks xD
@@musyarofah1Sonoma is still green (to a point) when GT World Challenge America and its support series roll into town. Why NASCAR doesn’t include Sonoma in its West Coast Swing is absolutely baffling.
You can see them from anywhere in LA after rain. Anyway, I’ve raced the road course there many times. It’s one of the few pleasant things about that soulless track.
The 2010 Aarons 312 was delayed a day by a level 5/5 high risk for a tornado outbreak. There were three EF3s and an EF4 in Northern Alabama. Talladega was also hit by an F2 in late November of 2004. Thankfully nowhere near as damaging as the Atlanta F2. Also flashback to that several day mist mess at Texas in 2020.
I’m really surprised you didn’t mention the rain delay at Bristol in 1973, they delayed the race for 2 weeks, at lap 52 is when the red flag came out due to rain, but because it continued to rain, they had to race at Rockingham the next week, and they did, then they headed back to Bristol to finish it. Cale Yarborough wound up winning it, leading all 500 laps.
I always wondered how they would handle a situation where the race was stopped and they couldn't restart it for days with another race the following week. Good to know!
As someone who does a lot of research into past weather events, I've always wanted to create a video about the impacts weather has on sports and specifically NASCAR. This pretty much covers all the bases there from the perspective of a meteorology student/professional nerd. Great job there. Vortex Theory is something I've never heard before and as a student it is very much far fetched. The evaporation theory is more likely than the speeds of them going around somehow pushes the rain away from the track. It would take a LOT of cyclonic (just a general term for circular motion there) motion to somehow pull something like that off. It would have to be constant. Storms forming when there's seemingly no indication of something happening is actually kind of common during the summer months as well in the plains and Midwest. Weather models of today do a fantastic job with predicting storms with large scale systems like a leeward cyclone (Strong frontal system) and a deep digging trough in the upper layers of the atmosphere. As someone who has done deep dives into the June 29, 2012 Derecho and currently looking into the August 10, 2020 Derecho, global models are very hit or miss with storm environments that are much more benign in nature. Specifically in instances where there is not an obvious trigger for storms to fire (or to form. In more benign environments they are usually started by storms that somehow survived the overnight hours, got sparked by a shortwave trough, or the atmosphere was so unstable that storms just started bubbling up. Synoptically those events are poorly forecasted, and in the Midwest and central plains, yeah that is to be expected during the summer months. I never heard about the Storm of the Century's impacts on NASCAR though. I did a lot of research into the storm system itself and everything you said about it being historic is absolutely true. It's one of only two superstorms, the other being Hurricane Sandy. To think that I somehow missed the impact on the Atlanta race when not only is it my homestate but also the worst snowstorm in state history, with maybe one or two storms coming close. March snowstorms aren't unheard of, one happened back in 2009 if I remember correctly up near Athens, but the 1993 Superstorm was in another league. The race delay in Florida in 2020 was likely in association with Hurricane Isaias if I had to guess because no other storm came close to Florida that month. Sorry if I'm just leaving a massive wall of text in your comments section but I've always wanted to see or do a video on a topic like this and you sir did a fine good job of covering the topic at hand. You got my approval if it means anything.
As recent as it was, I AM surprised you didn't mention the Chicago street race in this video. There was so much rain, that tires were actually floating down the flooded streets. Apparently the city experienced two weeks of drought, and of course the moment NASCAR comes to town, it downpours and a half. O'Hare Airport even stated that it was the most rainfall in a single day since 1982.
Reminds me of Autoweek’s review of the 2000 German Grand Prix, where an often-repeated image was of a tire, mounted on a wheel, floating away down the pit road. Rain beating on the roof of the press room was deafening to the point that the scheduled press conferences were canceled. Another often repeated image was of a man sitting trackside and trying his luck with a fishing rod. A FISHING ROD!
Slap, thanks for the content. You got me interested enough in racing that I just bought my first tickets to a race, Ironman 55 to see the Outlaw Sprint Cars. Ironically, I would have seen my first race yesterday, but it was cancelled due to extreme heat.
@@buckodonnghaile4309I also heard that everyone, not just race fans, should see Top Fuel Dragsters at least once in their life, so I'm gonna go either in August or October, depending on where I am during those events
I'm really glad you mentioned Bristol in 2006. My parents were at that race and I distinctly remember them mentioning that the snow got so bad that a crew was able to build a snowman
I was at the 2012 Daytona 500, wearing a TBR Dave Blaney shirt I bought at the flea market that day. Blaney was the leader for over 2 hours, in the stands I kept yelling for them to call it. At one time, my whole section joined in on chanting for NASCAR to call the race & give Blaney the win. "Call the race!" "Call the race!" "Call the race!"
@@Bigkillaward Oh snap, I live less than a half hour from you. Was going to take my dad to the SRX race there last year but I bought us tickets for Pocono the following day not knowing the SRX schedule beforehand. D'oh!
You guys should probably hangout and watch a race together. It's nice having a friend with similar interests and shit. I bet you dudes would be like two peas in a pod!
RANDOM WEATHER MOMENT: Seeing that amount of snow at Atlanta in 1993 was unreal to me. I don’t think we’ll see that at a nascar track ever again. I should also point out that as far as the jet dryer crash is concerned, Ganassi’s cars had been running like crap for about two years at that point, as both Montoya and McMurray had rear end suspension failures multiple times before the Daytona 500, where both cars blew their rear end track bars that night, with both cars also causing damage to the track and the field. Jimmy Spencer was right to give them his straightjacket award. “You all must be crazy if you think whatever you’re doing to the rear ends of these cars is doing anybody any good!” Thanks for posting, Slap! Good to see you’re still out there!
Speaking of cold weather, the first F1 race held at the track that later became known as the Giles Villeneuve Circuit, in Montreal, Canada, saw the coldest temperature ever recorded for a race day in F1 history. Many F1 fans wonder why the Canadian Grand Prix takes place in June, what's in theory the European part of the F1 season. Part of the reason can stem from this race. October in Quebec is a very cold time of year, and that day in 1978, the temperature was only 5°C (41°F). To give an idea of how cold it was that day, the race winner, appropriately enough, Giles Villeneuve, wore a very thick coat and his team mate, Carlos Reutemann, wore a beanie hat to keep his ears and head warm on that cold day
For those that want to know more about the “storm of the century” watch Weatherbox’s video on it. It’s still insane to me that the weather system produced a thundersnow in Alabama and the pressure reading over Georgia was on par with a Cat 2 hurricane.
My favorite piece of motorsport related weather shenanigans was the 2016 Nürburgring 24h in which a sudden hailstorm caused parts of the track to freeze over
As an Oklahoman, I can absolutely assure you that the nicest spring days are always when the shit hits the fan. I will always remember May 20, 2013. It was a beautiful spring day, and unbeknownst to many, had the perfect conditions for a large tornado. I was at school when the sirens first went off, but was pickled up and rushed home at great (and quite frankly dangerous) speed. I will never forget hearing the weathermen, known for almost never loosing their composure, trying to explain how bad the situation was, and not before simply saying, in effect, “If you can’t get underground, leave. You will not survive in your home.” I knew several people who lost everything that day, and I thank god that nothing like this has happened during a sports event since. I don’t wish that feeling on anyone, especially when you are away from home and
I was there at the dust storm Las Vegas race and that was an experience. It was windy and cold which was tolerable to watch the race in but the second the dust storm hit your eyes just felt dry. It was a rough day but a heck of an experience.
One interesting postscript on the 1993 Atlanta spring race that I only recently learned about. Originally, that race - as the previous spring races in Atlanta were - was originally scheduled to air on ABC; but by the time the race was rescheduled, ABC had scheduling conflicts with figure skating, thus allowing for the race to end up on TNN.
My senior year of high school the August race at Michigan was delay by weather till that Tuesday from Sunday. I will always remember that there was a NASCAR race on my first day of my senior year lol. That was the '07 race where the Chevy teams race the '57 Chevy body as a tribute to that car.
I remember the 2016 Pocono race. They waited a few hours for that fog to clear and it never did. Then it got too dark to continue the race. They were also in the middle of green flag pit stops and Chris Buescher had not pit yet. Most unique and bizarre thing I have ever seen.
Oh I remember the Blizzard of 1993 very well. Here in Pennsylvania, in my area, the only forecasted 1"-3" of snow over night so no one was really worried about it. What happened was we got hit with close to 4' of snow overnight and my car at that time (1985 Cutlass Supreme Broham) was buried in a 7.5" snow drift. The roads were closed here for close to 2 days. Learning that the snow reached so far south that it canceled that for 6 days kind of killed that idea for entertainment. But on the bright side of things race wise anyway, NHRA was racing in either Texas or Arizona at the time, so I did have that.
Ill never forget Michigan 2012 Speeds reaching record pace of 214+ mph Then a popup storm hits, delays the race for a couple hours Then when they get the race back going the hit day and the wet ground mix to cause some of the worst humidity imaginable My family and i used our spare souvenir shirts that had gotten soaked in the rain storm as neck towels to cool off And all that to see Dale Jr break his 4 year winless streak, it was memorable for sure
I was there as well. My parents doubted they'd get the race going Sunday. But the Lord blessed us with a dry afternoon, I got to watch my favorite driver win at my home track for its final run
Cool to hear about the 98 Daytona race. My grandfather fought forest fires for 50 years; and one of them was the fire that shut down the race. As one of the lead safety coordinators for the Northern Rockies Incident Management Team he split his time between the track and out fighting the fire. I have an original poster from the track for the race; on the back are his and many other firefighters’ signatures and a small paragraph about “the race that never was”
I have never heard that 1992 Darlington story, and I am so sad I haven't. That is simultaneously one of the most tragic, and funniest, stories I have ever heard. I could only imagine the look on Larry Mac's face when the crew guy said "it was green all around us." 🤣🤣
Remarkable timing, today's WSBK races in Most were quite entertaining due to a on-and-off rain. Motorcykles (apart from Endurance ones, obviously) don't normally pit, and the first supersport class race was one by Taz Mackenzie, who had a rubbish season so far, just because he stayed on the slicks when a rain started, while the rest of the field changed tires, sometimes twice, because the rain ended 4 laps later. I, and probably everyone else, though that he took a gamble and it payed off, but after the race the lad said: "I had a terrible season uptill now, so I though- I'm just gonna ride 'till I crash again".
You left out a race I was actually at. The 2010 Daytona 500 was halted TWICE due to a Pothole that had developed because of below freezing temps, high humidity, and moisture on the track and of course a Blizzard that had enveloped the East Coast. It was absolutely freezing in the grand stands with the wind blowing in off of the ocean.
I was at the 1998 season finale in Atlanta. The most stunning fact from that day: the track ran out of beer. I’ll repeat that. Atlanta Motor Speedway RAN OUT of beer. Everyone was sitting around for so long and had nothing better to do I guess.
I was at Darlington during a rain delay in 2019 when they ran out of food and a few brands of beer. Everyone blitzed the concessions during the down time I guess.
@@S1apShoes Sounds about the same. I’ll never forget that as they were getting the cars back on the track, I saw a guy one section of grandstands over that had consumed more than his share of the now sold-out beer take a tumble down about 20 rows of seating. He laid there for a minute, got on his hands and knees, shook like a dog shaking off water and went on about his business. Was feeling no pain, needless to say.
I missed my only chance to see a NASCAR race at Atlanta in 1993. Due to the Blizzard of ‘93 and the flu while trapped in a hotel room, we were forced to go home. I’ve never had the opportunity again.
That crew member reading the radar incorrectly kept Davey and RYR from winning the Winston Million. Great video. Nice research to find all of these weather events.
Been to MIS 11 times (9 Infield, 2 off track hotel / air bib). It has rained 8 times for us creating 2 shortened races, and now two Monday races that I could not stay for the Monday so we left on the Sunday. At least Jimmie Johnson won a race in perfect hot weather in a June. That was awesome…
As a European racing fan, the fact that rain alone is such a problem for an Oval track that there where literally people who came up with the solution of putting giant leaf blowers onto cars to dry the track actually is fascinating to me
I was at the 2019 Chicagoland Speedway race for a Highschool graduation gift from my parents when we had that nasty storm that hit. It was a fun race before the rain and after they were able to dry the track. Man I miss Chicagoland Speedway.
Fun fact: as mentioned in the video, the 1998 Pepsi 400 at Daytona was moved from July 4, 1998 to October 17, 1998 due to wildfires. And guess what happened on the rescheduled date? The finish of the race was delayed by rain.
I was driving back from gulf shores Alabama that weekend. Us Minnesota folk were watching the weather. Left early we knew what was coming. Stayed just ahead of the storm all the way back. Listening to the radio talking about firetruck flipping over and freeways shutting down.
Slap I really like your NASCAR content. The storytelling is one of a kind and the your narration style along with the clips you splice in just blend so well. Great videos.
0:28 I love the little hints you put in the videos sometimes. This one kinda referring to EmpLemon when sometimes on his video makes his character sit in a living room with a fireplace.
The 2022 coke zero 400 was probably the weirdest weather event i have seen live when i saw rain on the lenses i knew what was coming but didnt expect a whole fleet of cars just spin then turn hard right into each other and seeing dillon lightning mcqueen his way through the carnage made it even better (Note dont make daytona a regular season finale)
I was there sitting at pit exit in the stands. It was sprinking on us for a least a lap or two before that big wreck. I remember thinking "this isn't gunna end well, why armt they calling a caution?" and then they started wrecking like hell.
My first NASCAR race was the 2007 August Race at Michigan...run on Tuesday. Crossed the entire state on Sunday and Monday just to eat a couple of hot dogs and chill under the grandstands until they decided to postpone. Then the race itself had at least one caution for the residual fog to clear for the spotters. But with how few people stuck around for Tuesday, we ended up getting much better seats, moving from Turn 4 to the peak of the frontstretch grandstands. Kurt Busch won in the blue deuce.
Hey S1apSh0es, just wanted to let you know that you got a fan all the way in South Africa 🇿🇦... it's your videos that made me fall in love with NASCAR. Keep making great content, from your South African fan.
I was there for the 2006 Xfinity race at Bristol. My dad worked for a pharmaceutical company that owned a suite, and he won a drawing to take me with him. I remember watching folks throw snowballs at each other, and one of the best buffets I ever had in the suite. 10/10 memory, and thanks Slapshoes for reminding me of it.
I'll never forget that all-star race, I won a hat from a radio station because Gordon was my "assigned' driver from calling in. I said "I hate him, but I like his chances."
a race at Riverside was delayed for 2 weeks due to the amount of rain back in the 1960's, and ironically the last IndyCar race in New Hampshire was restarted in the rain.
The coldest I've ever been at a Motorsport Event was when I was on placement at University with a Rallycross team. The opening round of the 2018 British Rallycross Championship took place at Silverstone in early March. When we arrived at the track to set up shop, the weather was sunny and the temperature was okay, not too warm, but not freezing cold either. However, raceday was a totally different story. The weather on raceday was to say the least, snowy. Snow never really let up all day. To make matters worse, the maximum temperature on raceday was -2°C (~28°F), not even multiple layers of fireproof clothing was enough to keep warm that freezing cold day. Literally the only way we could gain some warm was whenever the car came in to the garage after a race and the brakes were giving off heat. In terms of the racing, although a snapped driveshaft (abruptly throwing the car into 3 wheel drive) was disappointing, to reach the final on our very first attempt was very encouraging. The packup afterwards featured some fun as well. The snow had intensified after the final and the temperature had plummeted to -6°C (~21°F) after darkness fell. While disassembling our temporary garage, ice had formed on the canvas roof, so to aid the packup, we had to use heat guns to literally melt the ice that had accumulated on the canvas. I remember, when I got back to my uni accommodation, I just wanted to have a hot shower to warm up, thaw from the cold
13:37 I was at that race. We dipped out when they threw the caution and we'd been around NASCAR long enough to know when a red flag was coming. We made it to the parking lot just as the rain starting. For those of you not familiar with Pocono, the parking lot is all field. In about 5 minutes, it was a lake. Thankfully we had my lifted truck and were well above the water line and were working our way out when the first bolt of lightning struck turn 3. Then a second struck the field outside of turn 3. Sparks shot up, the truck shook like it just got passed by a rocket, people were running. The wind was so fierce, people were letting go of umbrellas, leaving shoes behind. It was a disaster. When we got back to the hotel room we turned on the TV just in time to hear the press conference about the victims of the second bolt of lightening. We were 100 yards from that fatal strike, directly in front of us. I'll never forget it.
I was there too including the Truck and ARCA race the day before and it too rained... and before the race started I'll never forget it either! I remember seeing those clouds during the race and my uncle was watching the race on television and I had little cell phone service on my Sprint phone which was an HTC Knight at Long Pond/ Mt. Pocono Pennsylvania and my uncle and I were talking about the weather coming in. And I was looking both left and right at the stands and people were leaving their seats and the sky got pitch black around mid 80s till 90 laps in. Jeff Gordon "Wonder Boy" won that race (good for him) I was literally under the stands during the rain with my dad and two cousins of mine... and once we heard the loud "CRACK!" We knew that it sounded very close after about a minute or two we heard ambulance sirens and something was up... But once we left the track got a call from my mother once we got service on our phones and they heard the news about a fan being struck by lightning and 9 people got injured... But this was during my visit with my cousins for two weeks and the next day on Monday my grandparents, my parents and brother and sister had to leave to take a flight to go home... It was fun to go to Pocono despite Mother Nature's ugly wrath for two days in a row.... and that was a bizarre experience I've ever had since my Boy Scout summer camp with rain... TWICE!
Blizzard of 93'. I was 3 years old in Bama at the time that happened. The only thing that came close to that was the "Snowpocalypse in 2014". I had to leave my car at work and walk about 8 miles in the snow to a buddy's apartment to stay the night. The state was literally shut down mainly due to how quickly most of the roads iced up.
Fun fact: That 2021 New Hampshire race that was plagued by rain happened roughly 10 years after IndyCar had its own rain fiasco at the same track in 2011. I half expected Kyle Busch to flip the bird just like Will Power did.
You should do a feature on the worlds oldest paved racetrack, The Milwaukee Mile. It was also the home to the 1937 NFL Championship with the 50 yard line being in line with the start/finish line.
My dad was watching that baseball game when the earthquake happened in San Francisco when I showed him that clip from 1989 he still remembers how calm he was during it because he only recently moved to San Francisco and the big one was his first earthquake
And yet the Baja 1000 has only been delayed once for 24 hours due to rain in 2019, as certain roads in mountain passes being washed away. Rain hits the Baja every 3 or 4 years, but 2019 was particularly bad. Though i don't want to tempt fate cause this weekend there is a rain warning for this years 1000. Excellent choice of music for this video. Vaporwave for weather, earthbound for an oddball theory, and mario 64 for desert races. Brilliant. And great narration as always (Though i wouldn't expect any less from you)
The spring Richmond race in 1989 was snowed out on it's scheduled date a week after the Daytona 500...The next break in the schedule was Easter Sunday, and that's when the race ran
2 separate events that really bothered me in 2021 was how NASCAR seemingly was so quick to throw a yellow for the lightest rain at the Daytona Road Course, but yet had no issue letting the drivers out in complete monsoon conditions at COTA resulting in 2 big accidents that could have hurt some people.
It was because of how tona utilized turns 3 and 4 for their course. While it still doesn't make sense about Cota and the monsoon, it makes sense for tona.
As someone who traveled down from Canada to watch that fateful 2012 race in Pocono, that lightning strike was one of the scariest moments of my life. The race was plagued with 2 major rainstorms, the latter of which being the lightning storm. Never seen clouds so dark in my life, and we could see lightning crackling inside of them. Most people fled the grandstands before the rain hit, seeing the clouds, but my father and I stubbornly kept watching the race. Green flag was waved, my driver got wrecked out instantly in turn 1, and the rain fell not long after the caution flew once more. My father and I sprinted for the van next to turn 3, and not long afterwards lightning struck in turn 2. The brightest light and LOUDEST bang I've ever seen/heard in my life. Good on them for changing the rules to make sure something like that will never happen again.
If i'm not mistaken, you're playing the mario sixty four lava land music while talking about hot summer races. You MR. SLAP are a genius and an amazing producer. Congratulations sir
I was there in June in St Louis this year when our race was delayed for half an hour because of lightning in the area but it was SUNNY over the track! It was really annoying but we got a good race thankfully.
One where the biggest surprise was that they managed to get the race in was the second Brickyard 400 in 1995. I went to that one. It rained most of Thursday, but they did get some practice in so we got to see some cars on the track. Friday qualifying was wiped out by rain. Saturday, race day, it started the same and looked like we’d have to come back Sunday, but it finally stopped. The race got started around 4 PM and we thought no way they could get the whole race in before It got dark, but by some miracle they ran the whole thing with just one caution and they finished the 400 miles with Earnhardt winning. There was still light at the checkered flag, but by the time we got to our car, it would have been too dark to race. So with just the normal number of cautions you’d expect at An Indianapolis race, they would have had to shorten it.
You know, one thing i love about where i live in new jersey is that a lot of storms that come towards me usually get kibda split in the middle and completely miss, its odd but meh hey, i aint questioning it
I’m surprised he didn’t mention 2020 fall Texas , where rain stopped the race half way before stage one , took out harvick , and they had to wait till Wednesday or Thursday to restart it
Yooooo that's awesome you used Anderson Speedway to show the vortex theory!!! That race was the Little 500. Alot of people don't understand truly how many nascar drivers have raced at Anderson Speedway.. Just wanna say thank you for sharing a view of the track!!
I was at the 2022 Martinsville Flurry race. I was legit so confused how it was snowing but just accepted it. The day prior it even rained as the command was given to fire the engines for the Xfinity race it was an insane weekend.
Snow can pop up out of nowhere up in the mountains. I went to college at Virginia Tech and we got six inches of snow out of nowhere in early April only for it to be 70 degrees two days later. I later found the weather radar for that day and Blacksburg was the only spot in the entire country that showed up as white.
While not NASCAR, my dad and I had tickets to the 2000 CART race at Nazareth in April. The race was delayed until Memorial Day weekend due to snow. Fun trivia Gil de Ferran won the race, the 100th open wheel win for Penske, which was based in nearby Reading, PA.
You could have talked about the 2020 fall Texas race as that race was delayed for 3 days or the 2023 xfinity at Fontana where it SNOWED at the track and was delayed a day
As Mike Joy once joked way back in 2003, if you're having a drought, just invite NASCAR to your town. It'll rain all weekend.
Vortex theory can be debated but nascar ending droughts can't be. It's 100% a fact. 😂
Example: Chicago
Wichita & Lubbock could use a track then
😂😂 that’s a good one
2003 qualifies as “way back”? Damn I’m old. 🤣😭
One of my favorite NASCAR vs Weather memories was when the Tropicana inflatable orange disrupted qualifying in 2004.
If it’s any consolation, Todd Szegedy (the driver) was granted a rerun and qualified 12th.
The orange gives, the orange takes
That's one of my favorite Nascar memories period. I put the orange going through turn 4 with Dale winning the 500 or 92 Atlanta
I was there lol
I was at that Bristol 2006 race and took part in the snowball fight between fans and crew members on pit road. I watched a 6'6" dude in a Gordon jacket nail an official right in the neck with a snowball, taking him down.
This, of course, resulted in a penalty for Esteban Ocon, despite the fact that he was still racing karts at the time.
@@alaeriia01 Poor guy doesn't deserve all these penalties lol
I was there too. The next year I got a terrible sun burn.
God's weakest Jeff Gordon fans.
Not gonna lie that sounds wholesome af
Reminds me of Chicago's street race this year (2023). The Midwest was in a drought. NASCAR rolls into town, and the track almost floods. The preliminary race gets canceled before halfway, concerts canceled, and tires on pit road were floating away. It was absolutely mental!
How many fatalities?
And just the right weather for a Supercars veteran to win!
A note on the Vortex Theory. A moment that always stick with me was the 2019 Spring Xfinity race at Richmond. It rained at my house, within 10 miles of the speedway for the entire 250 lap race. The broadcast crew kept showing the radar, and the rain cell kept heading straight for the track but kept parting just as it should've been reaching the track. Sure enough. Cole Custer took the checkered flag, and before he'd even made it back around to grab the flag, it started raining over the track. I don't know if there's any meteorological explanation for that other than the Vortex Theory
Vortex Theory sounds like a conspiracy, and it really confused me when S1ap said Darrell Waltrip had come up with it. But the more I think about it, the more you have to think that he might very well be on to something.
It's magic, duh! Don't you guys know anything?
It could have something to do with the heat island effect
I remember watching this and finally being convinced that the Vortex theory is real, Custer parked the car and the rain fell no sooner than that
@@Dat-Mudkip I remember when Darel Waltrip was talking about the theory for one of the first times in the 2000's and he said I think the track has a Vortex around it, this was the first race at Iowa in 2006 and the I-80 that runs right by the track was getting the worst rain of the storm and the track nothing.
The "IT'S CALLED WATER YOU IDIOT" TwistedToe clip got me, that was amazing.
To be fair, never mind weather delaying a race by a week - try over TWO AND A HALF MONTHS. The 2016 Indycar Firestone 600 at Texas Motor Speedway originally ran on June 12th, before being rain delayed at lap 71, and given a) the fact the race was nowhere near half distance, but b) more rain was scheduled for the rest of the weekend and the Monday after and c) many drivers were needed elsewhere that next week including many going to Le Mans, Indycar elected to resume the race on August 27th - presumably the next free weekend they had on the calendar to make it work. They ran a couple of practice sessions that afternoon, any drivers who had dropped out of the race pre-lap 71 weren't allowed to resume, and the race rolled off *again* in the running order they were in back in June.
I'm sure I remember reading that James Hinchcliffe set a new record for amount of time spent in the lead of a race because of all this, given he was leading at the postponement and effectively led the race for over ten weeks xD
That last part is an 'XD' moment indeed. xD
That race is one of my all time favorites. The final 10 lap duel was fantastic
Welp, guys, remember, there is a NASCAR race that officially has not even ended... SINCE THE SEVENTIES xD
Seeing the snowcapped mountains at Auto Club during the race went so hard.
They were gorgeous in person. The greatest backdrop I've ever seen
it's the same as seeing Sonoma turning green during Indy's January test session
It was so fitting. Couldn't ask for a more beautiful final race there.
@@musyarofah1Sonoma is still green (to a point) when GT World Challenge America and its support series roll into town. Why NASCAR doesn’t include Sonoma in its West Coast Swing is absolutely baffling.
You can see them from anywhere in LA after rain. Anyway, I’ve raced the road course there many times. It’s one of the few pleasant things about that soulless track.
I swear if we get one more rain delay this year, imma go fight mother nature
A month later, you might have with Texas, expected to be 99 with scattered T-storms late if there are enough cautions.
Mother Nature is a front runner for the championship
My money's on Big Mama. 😂
Yes Elly Imma go drop kick Mother Nature with you
I'll give Mother Nature a can of whoop a$$!!!
The 2010 Aarons 312 was delayed a day by a level 5/5 high risk for a tornado outbreak. There were three EF3s and an EF4 in Northern Alabama.
Talladega was also hit by an F2 in late November of 2004. Thankfully nowhere near as damaging as the Atlanta F2.
Also flashback to that several day mist mess at Texas in 2020.
I’m really surprised you didn’t mention the rain delay at Bristol in 1973, they delayed the race for 2 weeks, at lap 52 is when the red flag came out due to rain, but because it continued to rain, they had to race at Rockingham the next week, and they did, then they headed back to Bristol to finish it. Cale Yarborough wound up winning it, leading all 500 laps.
I always wondered how they would handle a situation where the race was stopped and they couldn't restart it for days with another race the following week. Good to know!
@@Dat-Mudkip Almost happenend at Texas 2020
@@CCSRacing1808 And with the August Michigan race in 2007, which got delayed until a Tuesday.
He was too busy blabbing that he ran out of time
Technically speaking, this record for longest time from start of the race to being declared the winner has just been broken by Bobby Allison.
As someone who does a lot of research into past weather events, I've always wanted to create a video about the impacts weather has on sports and specifically NASCAR. This pretty much covers all the bases there from the perspective of a meteorology student/professional nerd. Great job there. Vortex Theory is something I've never heard before and as a student it is very much far fetched. The evaporation theory is more likely than the speeds of them going around somehow pushes the rain away from the track. It would take a LOT of cyclonic (just a general term for circular motion there) motion to somehow pull something like that off. It would have to be constant.
Storms forming when there's seemingly no indication of something happening is actually kind of common during the summer months as well in the plains and Midwest. Weather models of today do a fantastic job with predicting storms with large scale systems like a leeward cyclone (Strong frontal system) and a deep digging trough in the upper layers of the atmosphere. As someone who has done deep dives into the June 29, 2012 Derecho and currently looking into the August 10, 2020 Derecho, global models are very hit or miss with storm environments that are much more benign in nature. Specifically in instances where there is not an obvious trigger for storms to fire (or to form. In more benign environments they are usually started by storms that somehow survived the overnight hours, got sparked by a shortwave trough, or the atmosphere was so unstable that storms just started bubbling up. Synoptically those events are poorly forecasted, and in the Midwest and central plains, yeah that is to be expected during the summer months.
I never heard about the Storm of the Century's impacts on NASCAR though. I did a lot of research into the storm system itself and everything you said about it being historic is absolutely true. It's one of only two superstorms, the other being Hurricane Sandy. To think that I somehow missed the impact on the Atlanta race when not only is it my homestate but also the worst snowstorm in state history, with maybe one or two storms coming close. March snowstorms aren't unheard of, one happened back in 2009 if I remember correctly up near Athens, but the 1993 Superstorm was in another league.
The race delay in Florida in 2020 was likely in association with Hurricane Isaias if I had to guess because no other storm came close to Florida that month.
Sorry if I'm just leaving a massive wall of text in your comments section but I've always wanted to see or do a video on a topic like this and you sir did a fine good job of covering the topic at hand.
You got my approval if it means anything.
Me: "sorry, but I ain't reading all that"
I read all of it, and I'm glad I did. I learned some things.
Love ur videos❤
Alferia and S1ap is a crossover I didn't realize I wanted but now I do.
As recent as it was, I AM surprised you didn't mention the Chicago street race in this video. There was so much rain, that tires were actually floating down the flooded streets. Apparently the city experienced two weeks of drought, and of course the moment NASCAR comes to town, it downpours and a half. O'Hare Airport even stated that it was the most rainfall in a single day since 1982.
Reminds me of Autoweek’s review of the 2000 German Grand Prix, where an often-repeated image was of a tire, mounted on a wheel, floating away down the pit road. Rain beating on the roof of the press room was deafening to the point that the scheduled press conferences were canceled. Another often repeated image was of a man sitting trackside and trying his luck with a fishing rod. A FISHING ROD!
I walked from a McDonald's a few blocks away to the track at 11am that morning and I was drenched until I got home after the Cup Race ended. lmao
I live in northern Illinois didn’t even know it rained, usually it’s never too bad in the city itself
6:21 Jet fuel doesn't melt steel beams, but it does burn Dave Blaney's hopes and dreams.
:’(
If you want it to rain in your town/city, Just host a NASCAR Event!
Just ask Chicago how that went a few weeks ago
Don't need to; already have multiple baseball teams for that.
@@Alexs23743 Really
@@NASCARFAN93100 Uh-huh. No MLB teams, though. ^^;
Slap, thanks for the content. You got me interested enough in racing that I just bought my first tickets to a race, Ironman 55 to see the Outlaw Sprint Cars.
Ironically, I would have seen my first race yesterday, but it was cancelled due to extreme heat.
You won't be disappointed, the sprint cars are wild to see in person.
@@buckodonnghaile4309I also heard that everyone, not just race fans, should see Top Fuel Dragsters at least once in their life, so I'm gonna go either in August or October, depending on where I am during those events
I'm really glad you mentioned Bristol in 2006. My parents were at that race and I distinctly remember them mentioning that the snow got so bad that a crew was able to build a snowman
I was at that race! We had a huge snowball fight with the pit crews. It was awesome. It was freezing that day and then the next day it was beautiful
@@NJDmaniac9874 That was a fun Campground Friday Night. Sunday they had locals in their 4x4's helping Rv's get out of the mud.
@@NJDmaniac9874 Didn't Kyle Busch make snow angels on the track there?
Its always a good day when Slap posts
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Indeed.
Disagreed, I people who just spam this in every TH-cam video! Got I hate it…I wish bots like this would stop.
@@vesnabernjak-ord8674 Ethan ain’t no bot
I was at the 2012 Daytona 500, wearing a TBR Dave Blaney shirt I bought at the flea market that day. Blaney was the leader for over 2 hours, in the stands I kept yelling for them to call it. At one time, my whole section joined in on chanting for NASCAR to call the race & give Blaney the win.
"Call the race!"
"Call the race!"
"Call the race!"
We are friends then lol... I was an still are a blaney fan. I live right next to their dirt track in Ohio lol. I see Dave almost every weekend
@@Bigkillaward Oh snap, I live less than a half hour from you. Was going to take my dad to the SRX race there last year but I bought us tickets for Pocono the following day not knowing the SRX schedule beforehand. D'oh!
You guys should probably hangout and watch a race together. It's nice having a friend with similar interests and shit. I bet you dudes would be like two peas in a pod!
That Martinsville spring race last year might have been the coldest experience of my life. It went from 65 and clear to snowing in like 30 minutes
RANDOM WEATHER MOMENT: Seeing that amount of snow at Atlanta in 1993 was unreal to me. I don’t think we’ll see that at a nascar track ever again.
I should also point out that as far as the jet dryer crash is concerned, Ganassi’s cars had been running like crap for about two years at that point, as both Montoya and McMurray had rear end suspension failures multiple times before the Daytona 500, where both cars blew their rear end track bars that night, with both cars also causing damage to the track and the field. Jimmy Spencer was right to give them his straightjacket award. “You all must be crazy if you think whatever you’re doing to the rear ends of these cars is doing anybody any good!”
Thanks for posting, Slap! Good to see you’re still out there!
Speaking of cold weather, the first F1 race held at the track that later became known as the Giles Villeneuve Circuit, in Montreal, Canada, saw the coldest temperature ever recorded for a race day in F1 history. Many F1 fans wonder why the Canadian Grand Prix takes place in June, what's in theory the European part of the F1 season. Part of the reason can stem from this race. October in Quebec is a very cold time of year, and that day in 1978, the temperature was only 5°C (41°F). To give an idea of how cold it was that day, the race winner, appropriately enough, Giles Villeneuve, wore a very thick coat and his team mate, Carlos Reutemann, wore a beanie hat to keep his ears and head warm on that cold day
For those that want to know more about the “storm of the century” watch Weatherbox’s video on it. It’s still insane to me that the weather system produced a thundersnow in Alabama and the pressure reading over Georgia was on par with a Cat 2 hurricane.
How have none of the Networks picked S1aP up for their broadcasts? Seriously, he's been making the best NASCAR related content out there for years.
13:22 I wasn’t expecting Twisted Toe reactions on S1ap’s videos! Awesome!!! 👍
My favorite piece of motorsport related weather shenanigans was the 2016 Nürburgring 24h in which a sudden hailstorm caused parts of the track to freeze over
As an Oklahoman, I can absolutely assure you that the nicest spring days are always when the shit hits the fan.
I will always remember May 20, 2013. It was a beautiful spring day, and unbeknownst to many, had the perfect conditions for a large tornado. I was at school when the sirens first went off, but was pickled up and rushed home at great (and quite frankly dangerous) speed. I will never forget hearing the weathermen, known for almost never loosing their composure, trying to explain how bad the situation was, and not before simply saying, in effect, “If you can’t get underground, leave. You will not survive in your home.”
I knew several people who lost everything that day, and I thank god that nothing like this has happened during a sports event since. I don’t wish that feeling on anyone, especially when you are away from home and
Are you talking about the infamous El Reno tornado?
I was there at the dust storm Las Vegas race and that was an experience. It was windy and cold which was tolerable to watch the race in but the second the dust storm hit your eyes just felt dry. It was a rough day but a heck of an experience.
That TwistedToe clip never gets old
Fr was gonna say that 😂
One interesting postscript on the 1993 Atlanta spring race that I only recently learned about.
Originally, that race - as the previous spring races in Atlanta were - was originally scheduled to air on ABC; but by the time the race was rescheduled, ABC had scheduling conflicts with figure skating, thus allowing for the race to end up on TNN.
Great call, S1ap actually included some footage of what which showed Mike Joy for TNN at the time.
My senior year of high school the August race at Michigan was delay by weather till that Tuesday from Sunday. I will always remember that there was a NASCAR race on my first day of my senior year lol. That was the '07 race where the Chevy teams race the '57 Chevy body as a tribute to that car.
I remember the 2016 Pocono race. They waited a few hours for that fog to clear and it never did. Then it got too dark to continue the race. They were also in the middle of green flag pit stops and Chris Buescher had not pit yet. Most unique and bizarre thing I have ever seen.
Oh I remember the Blizzard of 1993 very well. Here in Pennsylvania, in my area, the only forecasted 1"-3" of snow over night so no one was really worried about it. What happened was we got hit with close to 4' of snow overnight and my car at that time (1985 Cutlass Supreme Broham) was buried in a 7.5" snow drift. The roads were closed here for close to 2 days. Learning that the snow reached so far south that it canceled that for 6 days kind of killed that idea for entertainment. But on the bright side of things race wise anyway, NHRA was racing in either Texas or Arizona at the time, so I did have that.
I remember it also, worst birthday gift ever with no power
Ill never forget Michigan 2012
Speeds reaching record pace of 214+ mph
Then a popup storm hits, delays the race for a couple hours
Then when they get the race back going the hit day and the wet ground mix to cause some of the worst humidity imaginable
My family and i used our spare souvenir shirts that had gotten soaked in the rain storm as neck towels to cool off
And all that to see Dale Jr break his 4 year winless streak, it was memorable for sure
I got to endure freezing cold at Auto Club this year. I still can't believe it snowed over there the day before
I was there as well. My parents doubted they'd get the race going Sunday. But the Lord blessed us with a dry afternoon, I got to watch my favorite driver win at my home track for its final run
Just when you thought S1apSh0es videos couldn't get any more random, he makes one on *the weather.* And knowing S1ap, this'll be a banger as usual.
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Cool to hear about the 98 Daytona race. My grandfather fought forest fires for 50 years; and one of them was the fire that shut down the race. As one of the lead safety coordinators for the Northern Rockies Incident Management Team he split his time between the track and out fighting the fire. I have an original poster from the track for the race; on the back are his and many other firefighters’ signatures and a small paragraph about “the race that never was”
I have never heard that 1992 Darlington story, and I am so sad I haven't. That is simultaneously one of the most tragic, and funniest, stories I have ever heard. I could only imagine the look on Larry Mac's face when the crew guy said "it was green all around us." 🤣🤣
That weather delay during the Xfinity race at Bristol for snow is etched into my brain.
March 93 snowstorm 😂😂😂 I was in college in Greensboro, NC...were "sledding" on cafeteria trays...so much fun.
Excellent video S1apSh0es. The 93 Atlanta snow delayed race was very memorable and won by Morgan Shepherd and the Wood Brothers.
Remarkable timing, today's WSBK races in Most were quite entertaining due to a on-and-off rain. Motorcykles (apart from Endurance ones, obviously) don't normally pit, and the first supersport class race was one by Taz Mackenzie, who had a rubbish season so far, just because he stayed on the slicks when a rain started, while the rest of the field changed tires, sometimes twice, because the rain ended 4 laps later. I, and probably everyone else, though that he took a gamble and it payed off, but after the race the lad said: "I had a terrible season uptill now, so I though- I'm just gonna ride 'till I crash again".
You left out a race I was actually at. The 2010 Daytona 500 was halted TWICE due to a Pothole that had developed because of below freezing temps, high humidity, and moisture on the track and of course a Blizzard that had enveloped the East Coast. It was absolutely freezing in the grand stands with the wind blowing in off of the ocean.
I was at the 1998 season finale in Atlanta. The most stunning fact from that day: the track ran out of beer.
I’ll repeat that. Atlanta Motor Speedway RAN OUT of beer. Everyone was sitting around for so long and had nothing better to do I guess.
I was at Darlington during a rain delay in 2019 when they ran out of food and a few brands of beer. Everyone blitzed the concessions during the down time I guess.
@@S1apShoes Sounds about the same. I’ll never forget that as they were getting the cars back on the track, I saw a guy one section of grandstands over that had consumed more than his share of the now sold-out beer take a tumble down about 20 rows of seating. He laid there for a minute, got on his hands and knees, shook like a dog shaking off water and went on about his business. Was feeling no pain, needless to say.
I was at the 06 bristol race with the snow. The snowball fights were awesome. I think a couple crews built snowmen on pit road. It was great
Being from Louisiana is like being in a poorly directed but high budget disaster movie.
I missed my only chance to see a NASCAR race at Atlanta in 1993. Due to the Blizzard of ‘93 and the flu while trapped in a hotel room, we were forced to go home. I’ve never had the opportunity again.
That crew member reading the radar incorrectly kept Davey and RYR from winning the Winston Million.
Great video. Nice research to find all of these weather events.
It also gave DW his final career win and his only Southern 500 win, which completed the career grand slam for him.
Been to MIS 11 times (9 Infield, 2 off track hotel / air bib). It has rained 8 times for us creating 2 shortened races, and now two Monday races that I could not stay for the Monday so we left on the Sunday. At least Jimmie Johnson won a race in perfect hot weather in a June. That was awesome…
Great video 😀👍👍
In part 2, could you talk about the Texas race being “misted” out until Wednesday or Thursday in 2020 please?
As a European racing fan, the fact that rain alone is such a problem for an Oval track that there where literally people who came up with the solution of putting giant leaf blowers onto cars to dry the track actually is fascinating to me
The Sharknado scene was such a nice touch ❤😂
I was at the 2019 Chicagoland Speedway race for a Highschool graduation gift from my parents when we had that nasty storm that hit. It was a fun race before the rain and after they were able to dry the track. Man I miss Chicagoland Speedway.
Fun fact: as mentioned in the video, the 1998 Pepsi 400 at Daytona was moved from July 4, 1998 to October 17, 1998 due to wildfires.
And guess what happened on the rescheduled date?
The finish of the race was delayed by rain.
I was driving back from gulf shores Alabama that weekend. Us Minnesota folk were watching the weather. Left early we knew what was coming. Stayed just ahead of the storm all the way back. Listening to the radio talking about firetruck flipping over and freeways shutting down.
Slap I really like your NASCAR content. The storytelling is one of a kind and the your narration style along with the clips you splice in just blend so well. Great videos.
0:28 I love the little hints you put in the videos sometimes. This one kinda referring to EmpLemon when sometimes on his video makes his character sit in a living room with a fireplace.
3:59 the Michael Waltrip meme
The 2022 coke zero 400 was probably the weirdest weather event i have seen live when i saw rain on the lenses i knew what was coming but didnt expect a whole fleet of cars just spin then turn hard right into each other and seeing dillon lightning mcqueen his way through the carnage made it even better (Note dont make daytona a regular season finale)
I was there sitting at pit exit in the stands. It was sprinking on us for a least a lap or two before that big wreck. I remember thinking "this isn't gunna end well, why armt they calling a caution?" and then they started wrecking like hell.
My first NASCAR race was the 2007 August Race at Michigan...run on Tuesday. Crossed the entire state on Sunday and Monday just to eat a couple of hot dogs and chill under the grandstands until they decided to postpone. Then the race itself had at least one caution for the residual fog to clear for the spotters. But with how few people stuck around for Tuesday, we ended up getting much better seats, moving from Turn 4 to the peak of the frontstretch grandstands. Kurt Busch won in the blue deuce.
Great vid, only thing missing was the mist/fog in Texas that one year that ended up delaying the race for like 3 days lol
Hey S1apSh0es, just wanted to let you know that you got a fan all the way in South Africa 🇿🇦... it's your videos that made me fall in love with NASCAR. Keep making great content, from your South African fan.
Surprised you didn’t mention Mother Nature protesting a few weeks back when NASCAR invaded the streets of downtown Chicago.
I was there for the 2006 Xfinity race at Bristol.
My dad worked for a pharmaceutical company that owned a suite, and he won a drawing to take me with him. I remember watching folks throw snowballs at each other, and one of the best buffets I ever had in the suite. 10/10 memory, and thanks Slapshoes for reminding me of it.
I'll never forget that all-star race, I won a hat from a radio station because Gordon was my "assigned' driver from calling in. I said "I hate him, but I like his chances."
a race at Riverside was delayed for 2 weeks due to the amount of rain back in the 1960's, and ironically the last IndyCar race in New Hampshire was restarted in the rain.
Awesome use of George Carlin's football bit
The coldest I've ever been at a Motorsport Event was when I was on placement at University with a Rallycross team. The opening round of the 2018 British Rallycross Championship took place at Silverstone in early March. When we arrived at the track to set up shop, the weather was sunny and the temperature was okay, not too warm, but not freezing cold either. However, raceday was a totally different story. The weather on raceday was to say the least, snowy. Snow never really let up all day. To make matters worse, the maximum temperature on raceday was -2°C (~28°F), not even multiple layers of fireproof clothing was enough to keep warm that freezing cold day. Literally the only way we could gain some warm was whenever the car came in to the garage after a race and the brakes were giving off heat. In terms of the racing, although a snapped driveshaft (abruptly throwing the car into 3 wheel drive) was disappointing, to reach the final on our very first attempt was very encouraging.
The packup afterwards featured some fun as well. The snow had intensified after the final and the temperature had plummeted to -6°C (~21°F) after darkness fell. While disassembling our temporary garage, ice had formed on the canvas roof, so to aid the packup, we had to use heat guns to literally melt the ice that had accumulated on the canvas.
I remember, when I got back to my uni accommodation, I just wanted to have a hot shower to warm up, thaw from the cold
13:37 I was at that race. We dipped out when they threw the caution and we'd been around NASCAR long enough to know when a red flag was coming. We made it to the parking lot just as the rain starting. For those of you not familiar with Pocono, the parking lot is all field. In about 5 minutes, it was a lake. Thankfully we had my lifted truck and were well above the water line and were working our way out when the first bolt of lightning struck turn 3. Then a second struck the field outside of turn 3. Sparks shot up, the truck shook like it just got passed by a rocket, people were running. The wind was so fierce, people were letting go of umbrellas, leaving shoes behind. It was a disaster. When we got back to the hotel room we turned on the TV just in time to hear the press conference about the victims of the second bolt of lightening. We were 100 yards from that fatal strike, directly in front of us. I'll never forget it.
I was there too including the Truck and ARCA race the day before and it too rained... and before the race started I'll never forget it either! I remember seeing those clouds during the race and my uncle was watching the race on television and I had little cell phone service on my Sprint phone which was an HTC Knight at Long Pond/ Mt. Pocono Pennsylvania and my uncle and I were talking about the weather coming in. And I was looking both left and right at the stands and people were leaving their seats and the sky got pitch black around mid 80s till 90 laps in. Jeff Gordon "Wonder Boy" won that race (good for him)
I was literally under the stands during the rain with my dad and two cousins of mine... and once we heard the loud "CRACK!" We knew that it sounded very close after about a minute or two we heard ambulance sirens and something was up...
But once we left the track got a call from my mother once we got service on our phones and they heard the news about a fan being struck by lightning and 9 people got injured...
But this was during my visit with my cousins for two weeks and the next day on Monday my grandparents, my parents and brother and sister had to leave to take a flight to go home...
It was fun to go to Pocono despite Mother Nature's ugly wrath for two days in a row....
and that was a bizarre experience I've ever had since my Boy Scout summer camp with rain... TWICE!
I was at that Martinsville race in 2022. I remember it snowed, then hailed, and then rained all within like 45 minutes
Slap I love your videos and they made me fall back in love with nascar
Blizzard of 93'. I was 3 years old in Bama at the time that happened. The only thing that came close to that was the "Snowpocalypse in 2014". I had to leave my car at work and walk about 8 miles in the snow to a buddy's apartment to stay the night. The state was literally shut down mainly due to how quickly most of the roads iced up.
Im surprised you didnt mention the spring 97 Talladega race that got rained out twice and ran on mothers day.
Mark Martin winning with the fastest average speed ever recorded for a NASCAR race
Fontana this year also had snow that cancelled qualifying for both Cup and Xfinity.
Weird times. SoCal snow.
Fun fact: That 2021 New Hampshire race that was plagued by rain happened roughly 10 years after IndyCar had its own rain fiasco at the same track in 2011. I half expected Kyle Busch to flip the bird just like Will Power did.
Thanks, S1apS0es. I always appreciate your through analysis of topics. Your nascar content is always a pleasure to watch. Keep it up.
You should do a feature on the worlds oldest paved racetrack, The Milwaukee Mile.
It was also the home to the 1937 NFL Championship with the 50 yard line being in line with the start/finish line.
1939 NFL Championship
@@nateisdabestyeah you're correct. Who cares tho, The Packers won it.
BEAR DOWN from West Allis WI (home of the Mile).
@@nateisdabestps, I subbed to ya.
Was just watching your older videos so it's great to see this pop up. Another excellent piece of work slapshoes.
Every time I see a new slapshoes vid on my notifications I click on it instantaneously
S1apSh0es is the GOAT
My dad was watching that baseball game when the earthquake happened in San Francisco when I showed him that clip from 1989 he still remembers how calm he was during it because he only recently moved to San Francisco and the big one was his first earthquake
Any day S1ap uploads it’s one of the greatest days of the entire year.
And yet the Baja 1000 has only been delayed once for 24 hours due to rain in 2019, as certain roads in mountain passes being washed away. Rain hits the Baja every 3 or 4 years, but 2019 was particularly bad. Though i don't want to tempt fate cause this weekend there is a rain warning for this years 1000.
Excellent choice of music for this video. Vaporwave for weather, earthbound for an oddball theory, and mario 64 for desert races. Brilliant. And great narration as always (Though i wouldn't expect any less from you)
You forgot the debacle at Texas a few years ago when the race was postponed until a Wednesday because of a foggy mist lol
I was hoping he would talk about it too. 😢
The spring Richmond race in 1989 was snowed out on it's scheduled date a week after the Daytona 500...The next break in the schedule was Easter Sunday, and that's when the race ran
Last time I was this early Denny Hamlin didn't run people over then blame the other driver
Last time I was this early I had to explain how this has never happened before with an empty promise of round 2.
2 separate events that really bothered me in 2021 was how NASCAR seemingly was so quick to throw a yellow for the lightest rain at the Daytona Road Course, but yet had no issue letting the drivers out in complete monsoon conditions at COTA resulting in 2 big accidents that could have hurt some people.
It was because of how tona utilized turns 3 and 4 for their course. While it still doesn't make sense about Cota and the monsoon, it makes sense for tona.
_“nascar’s worst weather moments…”_
soooo… you mean like every week? 💀
Portland 2022. It was rainy and overcast. As a former Portland native, I can confirm that rain and overcast is normal weather in Portland, Oregon.
As someone who traveled down from Canada to watch that fateful 2012 race in Pocono, that lightning strike was one of the scariest moments of my life. The race was plagued with 2 major rainstorms, the latter of which being the lightning storm. Never seen clouds so dark in my life, and we could see lightning crackling inside of them. Most people fled the grandstands before the rain hit, seeing the clouds, but my father and I stubbornly kept watching the race. Green flag was waved, my driver got wrecked out instantly in turn 1, and the rain fell not long after the caution flew once more. My father and I sprinted for the van next to turn 3, and not long afterwards lightning struck in turn 2. The brightest light and LOUDEST bang I've ever seen/heard in my life. Good on them for changing the rules to make sure something like that will never happen again.
If i'm not mistaken, you're playing the mario sixty four lava land music while talking about hot summer races. You MR. SLAP are a genius and an amazing producer. Congratulations sir
I was there in June in St Louis this year when our race was delayed for half an hour because of lightning in the area but it was SUNNY over the track! It was really annoying but we got a good race thankfully.
One where the biggest surprise was that they managed to get the race in was the second Brickyard 400 in 1995. I went to that one. It rained most of Thursday, but they did get some practice in so we got to see some cars on the track. Friday qualifying was wiped out by rain. Saturday, race day, it started the same and looked like we’d have to come back Sunday, but it finally stopped. The race got started around 4 PM and we thought no way they could get the whole race in before It got dark, but by some miracle they ran the whole thing with just one caution and they finished the 400 miles with Earnhardt winning. There was still light at the checkered flag, but by the time we got to our car, it would have been too dark to race. So with just the normal number of cautions you’d expect at An Indianapolis race, they would have had to shorten it.
You know, one thing i love about where i live in new jersey is that a lot of storms that come towards me usually get kibda split in the middle and completely miss, its odd but meh hey, i aint questioning it
0:20 Little John has built an apartment to fight against severe weather events
no no this kinda steel is covered in stains. little john would only ever use galvanized STAINLESS steel
I’m surprised he didn’t mention 2020 fall Texas , where rain stopped the race half way before stage one , took out harvick , and they had to wait till Wednesday or Thursday to restart it
Fantastic writing, seriously great, and the voice and delivery was really nice too.
13:17 I did not expect to see Twisted Toe in here
Yooooo that's awesome you used Anderson Speedway to show the vortex theory!!! That race was the Little 500. Alot of people don't understand truly how many nascar drivers have raced at Anderson Speedway.. Just wanna say thank you for sharing a view of the track!!
I was at the 2022 Martinsville Flurry race. I was legit so confused how it was snowing but just accepted it. The day prior it even rained as the command was given to fire the engines for the Xfinity race it was an insane weekend.
Snow can pop up out of nowhere up in the mountains. I went to college at Virginia Tech and we got six inches of snow out of nowhere in early April only for it to be 70 degrees two days later. I later found the weather radar for that day and Blacksburg was the only spot in the entire country that showed up as white.
While not NASCAR, my dad and I had tickets to the 2000 CART race at Nazareth in April. The race was delayed until Memorial Day weekend due to snow. Fun trivia Gil de Ferran won the race, the 100th open wheel win for Penske, which was based in nearby Reading, PA.
You could have talked about the 2020 fall Texas race as that race was delayed for 3 days or the 2023 xfinity at Fontana where it SNOWED at the track and was delayed a day