1989: The Rich Vogler & Steve Chassey Controversy
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2024
- Controversy ensued during an August 3, 1989 USAC National Midget event during ESPN's Thursday Night Thunder broadcast.
Rich Vogler was involved in an incident that also collected Jeff Gordon & Don Schilling. From there, commentator Steve Chassey issues his remarks regarding how he saw the accident. Then there was the apology.
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turned out for the best, i think, because of the Gary Lee and Larry Rice era that followed
I hope that this Gordon kid recovered from this setback and had a great career….he turned 18 the day after this race
Ah yes. The moment has surfaced.
go back a couple years, the race is on yt, where vogler dumped chassey. thats where this all started.
People have been looking for this for years!
...wait, this was enough to get them fired?
Seriously. That was a polite, genteel disagreement over proper racing etiquette.
Bullshit - Rich Vogler was Up on the Inside - Other driver got too close to try to push him back - Rich did his great racing!!!!
Is this the "incident" that got both Nuber and Chassey fired from Thursday Night Thunder? Or was there a different on-air argument that they had?
I don’t know for certain, but I would guess Larry and Steve got fired for something that happened OFF-air, in relation to this incident.
Maybe they had a loud, profanity laced argument in front of other people in the press box, or went after each other physically and had to be separated/restrained.
Again, I don’t know if either of those things happened, but what they said on the air wouldn’t constitute a fireable offense in my view, unless USAC had an issue with commentators showing anything other than the usual neutral, descriptive commentary.
What Nuber and Chassey said was certainly opinionated, but both used a professional tone and didn’t get hostile or aggressive with each other.
@@jamesbowers5946: I was expecting fireworks. I won't speculate on what might have happened behind the scenes, but the on-air dialogue here was downright respectful.
Shilling drove up on Richy .... GET outta the way
Vogler got what was coming to him the next year, after stuff like this and his Indy 500 bump day theatrics and probably numerous other incidents in his career.
I stand with Steve.
Maybe Vogler didn't give him much room but Schilling definitely drifted up into him.
He didnt have anywhere to go
Yes he pushed up
@@KellieLeigh48he was making the pass and that wasn’t the groove too be in. His momentum pushed him up. Without a “chopper” view or chase view which they don’t have then will never know 💯
Well you opened your pie hole again about Vogel and that ended your broadcasting career. He took his personal vendetta against Vogler onto the broadcast(s). Reminds of listening to Bobby Unser on the Indy 500 broadcast, unprofessional
Might have been but at least he didn't lie
Lot of years have passed, let sleeping dogs lie.
The world needs to take your advice there.
All to preserve history. Nothing more. Nobody was harmed when all was said & done on this night. Just an interesting footnote in racing history.
The best part that came out of it was Jeff Gordon’s car owner, Rollie Helmling, scored the Diet Pepsi sponsorship because of this crash.
The next morning after this incident, Helmling (who owned a grocery store), still angry, moved all the Pepsi down off the shelf. Pepsi was an associate sponsor of Vogler at the time.
A distributor came by and wondered why all the Pepsi was moved. Helmling told him exactly why. The distributor asked how they could make it up to him. Helmling said, “well, you could sponsor my team.”
From that, a deal was struck. The first option was for Helmling to run Mountain Dew sponsorship on his car. Helmling refused because of the green superstition in racing. The second offer was for Diet Pepsi. Thus, the famed Diet Pepsi #4 was born. All created by this accident.
this is for posterity
I remember all of that, the following year Vogler got 'bit' on the ass hard!
his ego finally wrote a check his ass couldnt cash.
Schilling dive bombed, Rich had the lead and his chosen line. Vogler in the right Schilling and Gordon wrong.
Dive bombed? He was up along side him the whole back straightaway. 😂