California telling you what is best...for you. Vote Democrat, keep 'em flying. There used to be a racetrack, that brought money in from all over the world, now it's a gangbanger shithole...Property values down...taxes up.
Joseph Kennedy I agree and newyork can go with it, to many libtards fucking this country up, I never knew they built a mall over riverside I always thought it was jus abandoned
I miss the 80/90s of NASCAR. Harry Gant, Rusty, Bodine, D.W., Dale, Kulwicki, Davey, Ricky, Terry, Mark, Bill, Swirvin Irvin, etc. Those guys made the sport. They all had personality.
This is so awesome. Guys today whine incessantly if the car slides an inch. These two slid through every turn. This is driving. This blew me away. No wonder no one goes or watches anymore.
Correct.............bias belted tires allow the tire to flex more and the driver to slide the cars with control........four wheel drifts etc..............with radials they don't flex as much and are so stiff that by the time you have flexed the tire (sidewalls are really bowing from lateral forces) the tire loses grip and off into a spin you go.........so you can't power slide or drift the car racing as well.......................Nascar went to radials because............well they stated that people drive them so we need to be on them...............nonsense, run what makes a race car race and forget what is on the road everyday.
While you're right about that, the racing itself was still pretty spread out until around the 90s. Racing this good to watch was actually a rarity in a single race. Though the championships were usually very close in decisions.
I used to race street stock, 1971 Monte Carlo, tired motor, bent frame, car had seen better days.I drove the hell out of it! and yes you never stop man handling, the wheel. Car scared me too death.
You young ones missed those great days. Bodine, Rudd, Wallace, Jaws, awesome Bill, and Ol Iron Head on track, and Buddy Baker calling the race. It really was a better show then.
@@danigodarling8141 beauty of the internet and technology. I'm 27 and I watch these races all the time. As a little kid Dale Earnhardt was my hero so I make a point to go back and watch his races before I was born too.
@@vinewood8295 bodine won a lot of races. 18 cup wins is pretty good not to mention the hundreds of modified wins he has. Dale had much more success at the cup level which is obvious but both were good drivers.....way better than what we have today.
@@willp8003 18 wins & 100 top 5 runs in 575 Cup starts? That to go with only 2 top 5 final points position finishes in almost 30 seasons of racing at the Cup level & you call that pretty good.... I could care less about his modified numbers although it may be enough to get him voted to the top 75 alltime in NASCAR we'll see...
@@vinewood8295 he was already voted one of the top 50 years ago. He has the record for modified wins in a season at 55. I know you don't care about that but that's an impressive total for one season. Other than Richie Evans he may be the best modified driver of all time.
Spent many a weekend at Riverside for NASCAR, Trans AM, Times Grand Prix SCCA, etc. What a great track and great racing. Fun hearing the names of the former stars again. This was when racing was racing.
Hangin' the ass out on every turn ! I really miss the 80's and 90's Nascar. I thought I just remembered it being great because that's when I started watching.
I attended every Cup race @ Riverside from 1981 to the end in 1988 ( except Nov. 1982 ). I still believe if Riverside had managed to keep the developers at bay for a few more years, maybe MAYBE Bruton Smith could have bought the track and turned it into a Showplace. It had the fan support, it had the events, ( 2 Cup races, IndyCar, SCORE Off Road, SCCA, IMSA, even drag racing UP the back straightaway ) it had the track rental days, for TV and EPA Mileage testing, it had corporate support from Datsun / Nissan. Bruton knew how to PROMOTE; a decent investment in new grandstands, better concessions, lotsa grass & plants, maybe a motorhome terrace with full hookups -- and Riverside would still be around today. Such a waste...
I loved RIR. Raced there some back in FF SCCA racing. We were doing the NASCAR track one time and I remember going into turn 8, an off camber turn that tightens up as you progress through it, and I was going to spinout because I braked late, going too fast, and got my line wrong, but instead as I should have been exiting the turn, I straightened the wheel and dirt tracked it toward the straight. That soil was so hard it's almost like driving on the regular road. I made it!! 😆😄😁
Yes..maybe Burton might have seen what a diamond RIR truly was and could have helped it. But one correction that I have with your post is the average attendance at the Cup races had been in decline for years. It's really sad that we lost such a great facility for nothing more than a stupid Mervyn's store and some cookie cutter houses. I'd had been in attendance at RIR since 1975.
Man I couldn't stand him back then. If you were a fan of basically anybody else Dale was the enemy. That said, the day he died absolutely broke my heart. The sport lost its luster, barely watched it after that. Amazing how the guy I love to hate, has been the one I miss the most. RIP Dale
@@F3502000 A hero is only as great as the villain. Earnhardt was great at being both, depending on who you were rooting for. He was a great driver for sure
growing up in the 90s watching this man race on tv and going to richmond and rockingham were the highlihgts of my life. It was all I ever looked forward to counting down the days until sunday so I could watch this man race. There will never be anyone else like him.
Anyone who thinks Earnhardt is overrated just watch this. HMS was dominant then too, imagine Jimmie Johnson in that 3 car all the time. He may never win a race
My Dad took me to this race. We used to frequent Riveside and Ontario motor speed way all the time. We saw the last TIMES 500 at Ontario. Back when SoCal was still the racing mecca of the world. Boy how times have changed.
My Dad worked for the Los Angeles Times....free general admission to Riverside Int'l and Ontario Super Motor Speedway! I even used to go to The Los Angeles Times 24: hour race of endurance.... it was great growing up in the San Gabriel Valley in the 60s thru the 80! Ever eat at Sunnymead Burgers???? It's still there! Eric Underwood Class of 81 Downey High school California USA ♥️🇺🇲
I miss the historic old Riverside track, '80s NASCAR, and the '80s in general. I lived in Riverside in the '80s and went to a few events at the track including the '84 spring race won by Terry Labonte. I'm glad I did, because little did we know the track's days were numbered. If I had known that back then I would have gone to more races, but that's how it is when you're young. You think you have all the time in the world and nothing will ever change.
This is how NASCAR should film there road course races these days, the long tracking shots from low camera angles make them seem like they are just flying!
Riverside was great because there was room to pass in several areas. Also, the mix of drivers skill in the S’s and raw horse power, this track was great! Such a mistake getting rid of this track!
Great memories of that track. I was at the race at the end of 1983 (There were two races at Riverside that year. I believe the first one was in May or June). I remember watching the cars slithering through the Esses in double file right off the green flag. It was one of the most awesome visual and auditory experiences I've ever had. It was like watching a giant sidewinder snake moving through the desert with the roar of all those engines. Bill Elliott won the day and the biggest payday of the year.
I’ll never understand why nascar fans historically (and even now) haven’t been able to grasp and enjoy road courses. Watching these old cars get thrown around while racing one another is some of the most entertaining racing I’ll probably ever see.
Wish this track was around today. I live in Riverside and this track was long gone by the time I was born but it looked like a lot of fun. Another NASCAR road course would be awesome.
It was. I lived in Tustin and went to Riverside a few times in the late 70's and early 80's. I would bring my bicycle and ride all over the place. Ontario was the same way. As a 12 year old on a little BMX bike I could sneak in/around all over the place. Lot's of fun!
I'll bet nascar is kicking themselves in the ass after letting Riverside Raceway go. My step dad would show me old recordings, memorabilia, photos of when he went all the time as a kid and young adult. This was some really great racing! I just wish the track was still around to host more nascar
Thank you for uploading this. I wasn't at this particular race, but heard it - as i did nearly all the races in the 80s. My childhood home was a half mile from the former raceway.
@Austin Quillen 1. The version that Dale and company drove was far from what you could put in your driveway. 2. A Man who feels the need to curse does not have much to say.
I lived at that place!.. and Petty used the dirt plenty of times, They may not remember . I raced there on motorbikes a lot. The trans am and stock cars were fast as hell there!
Thanks very much for sharing this wonderful record of two of the hardest-nosed racers in the series duking it out -- without crashing the heck out of each other! That takes some serious skill on both drivers' parts. I didn't begin watching NASCAR until 1993, so I missed out on seeing Riverside races live, but this course seems really neat. I'm so sad that it didn't survive.
Old riverside was an extremely difficult road course when I motorcycle road raced there, I can only imagine how difficult it was to go fast driving a nascar
Sure, you do not; if you exclude every Dirt Track Race and every Crisco'd Asphalt Figure 88 Race. ("Crisco'd" and the extra "8" were added, in memory of the late Elsie Wylie "Buddy" Baker)
Dale Jr.'s voice jumps two octaves when someone has a close call! Love it! My single favorite NASCAR announcer moment was Buddy Baker (I think) watching a driver catch an almost uncontrollable slide and declaring, "He just about saw Elvis in that corner!" ROTFL!
OMFG. Earnhardt was on him like it was stuck on his tail. Like a tractor trailer. That is nuts. This really shows what kind of a race car driver Earnhardt was. Top notch. Amazing.
Gee, from what I saw, Bodine got passed due to a slower car, and after a lap or two of trying to find a way around Earnhardt, he passed him - and then drove away from him! I guess maybe Bodine was a helluva driver too.
They were all REAL drivers in REAL cars back then, I don't care who your favorite was. The steering wheel holders of today wouldn't know what to do with those cars except run them straight into a wall then cry about the setup on cable tv! I'm an Earnhardt fan forever but like I said, they were all REAL drivers back then. The safety improvements that have been made since that terrible day in 2001 have been a God send. It's just so unfortunate that it took Earnhardts death to kick things into high gear!
@@MikeBrown-ii3pt very true but at least Dale died doing what he sincerely loved doing, driving a race car. Nobody was as passionate or hard-driven as he was not only respected for his driving style but for what he was away from racing Sunday he and Bodine would bang fenders then on Monday Dale would quietly work on his farm and perhaps lend Bodine a hand on housing project if he was working on one.
i was going to say something similar, but i had a feeling someone already beat me to it. to real pass in the grass... or sand... or dirt... or whatever!
they still have to drive them today it's just different in that they had bias ply tires that were way more forgiving and allowed you to hang the car out. today the tires don't allow you to drive that way as they are much snappier in that you get sideways you better be quick handed to recover.. drivers today would hang the cars out just the same if you gave them those tires again. today you need to be more precise or ya wreck.
It was actually harder back then driving the cars. You really had to be a real wheel man to drive those cars. The bias ply tires didn't grip as well as the radial but yes they were more forgiving you can get the car sideways and still save it vs the radials its much more difficult. But the trade off was the radial had proven to be faster and grip better over the bias ply. Problem is as you said if you over drive the car there's not much room for error. But back then when they were on bias ply they did have to drive harder than when they were driving the cars in 1990 and up when it became mandatory to use radials. Plus the steering gear ratio wasn't as great back then as it is now. They are full of shit when NASCAR America says today's racing is greater than its ever been...... I think that's Horseshit.
A part of the problem I think would be that the room the stock out of racing I mean nascar stands for “national association of stock car racing” and I hav haven’t seen a v8 Camry off the track ever
Really miss Riverside. Loved the Busch race at 11:00 and the Bud 400 at 1:00. Then flipping a coin to see which of us would drive us back to Santa Ana. Always a great time.
Once at a entertainment park the ticket holder at the can am cars slowed traffic enough for me to take the win on approaching the ticket holder after the win she whispered love your long sleeve Jersey which had Dale Earnhardts logo on it I'm a Dale Earnhardt fan also thanks for the upload of a legend.
These were the days of racing. When Men decided things on the track and not micro -managed by officials. If anyone were to start a series like these races today, I'm sure the stands would be full again. It wouldn't hurt to try. jmho.
![[MV] A leap of faith...ความเชื่อใจครั้งสุดท้าย (From "Petrichor the series")](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/U1piZH2CNXA/mqdefault.jpg)
Damn shame this track doesn't exist anymore.
If this existed today, this would be the 'Hurt in the Dirt' because the front end of the car would be ripped off and automatic DNF.
I know today there's a useless shopping mall over it, crazy fact Riverside was where The Love Bug was filmed
California telling you what is best...for you. Vote Democrat, keep 'em flying.
There used to be a racetrack, that brought money in from all over the world, now it's a gangbanger shithole...Property values down...taxes up.
Same with the legendary Ontario Speedway
Joseph Kennedy I agree and newyork can go with it, to many libtards fucking this country up, I never knew they built a mall over riverside I always thought it was jus abandoned
I miss the 80/90s of NASCAR. Harry Gant, Rusty, Bodine, D.W., Dale, Kulwicki, Davey, Ricky, Terry, Mark, Bill, Swirvin Irvin, etc. Those guys made the sport. They all had personality.
Morgan Shepard.
For real
Dammit man, brings a tear to my eye, that's when racing was racing and NASCAR was affordable and family-friendly. Gone are the days my friend
This is so awesome. Guys today whine incessantly if the car slides an inch. These two slid through every turn. This is driving. This blew me away. No wonder no one goes or watches anymore.
Bias ply tires will do this. Radial tires have either a lot of grip or no grip. Bias ply will have a progressive grip level loss.
You have no idea how correct you are. Tires of today really ruined the sport.
iiJose Nater Thanks, I really wish they would switch back to the bias ply.
Correct.............bias belted tires allow the tire to flex more and the driver to slide the cars with control........four wheel drifts etc..............with radials they don't flex as much and are so stiff that by the time you have flexed the tire (sidewalls are really bowing from lateral forces) the tire loses grip and off into a spin you go.........so you can't power slide or drift the car racing as well.......................Nascar went to radials because............well they stated that people drive them so we need to be on them...............nonsense, run what makes a race car race and forget what is on the road everyday.
Andrew Poss o
This is seriously some of the best racing I've ever seen.
You know Dale was grinning ear to ear the whole time! I didn't much care for him back in the day, but Geoff Bodine really was a fantastic wheel man.
The 80's we're great for NASCAR. The cars looked best then.
While you're right about that, the racing itself was still pretty spread out until around the 90s. Racing this good to watch was actually a rarity in a single race. Though the championships were usually very close in decisions.
Agreed.. beautiful cars back then.
Love the chevy lumina!
@@TheMallen07 these are monte carlo aero coupes if im not mistaken
@@ricochetey you're right, my mistake.
I would watch nascar every week if the racing was still like this
It was an amazing time. Waiting for the new Winston Cup Scene to be delivered was the highlight of the week.
Lies
its back
Boy they manhandled those cars back then.
I used to race street stock, 1971 Monte Carlo, tired motor, bent frame, car had seen better days.I drove the hell out of it! and yes you never stop man handling, the wheel. Car scared me too death.
That's because they had men driving them.
Bias ply tires...they could slide them around, radials ruined racing
Yep, it looks kind of fun.
Don Barker its too clean and sterile now, the cars need to be more street.
You young ones missed those great days. Bodine, Rudd, Wallace, Jaws, awesome Bill, and Ol Iron Head on track, and Buddy Baker calling the race. It really was a better show then.
Amen...
Greg Lyle I know them and I’m 26
@@danigodarling8141 beauty of the internet and technology. I'm 27 and I watch these races all the time. As a little kid Dale Earnhardt was my hero so I make a point to go back and watch his races before I was born too.
I loved buddy baker too. The John madden of nascar. I liked your comment.
Ya you forgot Petty, Allison, Yarborough..Gurney
"They say you cut the course..." -iRacing
Holy crap this is real racing.
Two completely different driving styles. Bodine is smooth and Earnhardt is a raging beast!
How many races and championships did Geoff's smooth driving win him and how much did Dale win driving like a raging beast though???
@@vinewood8295 bodine won a lot of races. 18 cup wins is pretty good not to mention the hundreds of modified wins he has. Dale had much more success at the cup level which is obvious but both were good drivers.....way better than what we have today.
@@willp8003 18 wins & 100 top 5 runs in 575 Cup starts? That to go with only 2 top 5 final points position finishes in almost 30 seasons of racing at the Cup level & you call that pretty good.... I could care less about his modified numbers although it may be enough to get him voted to the top 75 alltime in NASCAR we'll see...
@@vinewood8295 he was already voted one of the top 50 years ago. He has the record for modified wins in a season at 55. I know you don't care about that but that's an impressive total for one season. Other than Richie Evans he may be the best modified driver of all time.
Spent many a weekend at Riverside for NASCAR, Trans AM, Times Grand Prix SCCA, etc. What a great track and great racing. Fun hearing the names of the former stars again. This was when racing was racing.
Hangin' the ass out on every turn ! I really miss the 80's and 90's Nascar. I thought I just remembered it being great because that's when I started watching.
Why is nascar dead
Answer: they don't race like this anymore
Trucks do
It’s not dead
Rally-cross?
Make nascar great again
MrMW2nd amen brother
Donald Trump should buy NASCAR :3
does :3 mean balls in your mouth
Joe Acampora um... No...
We need to buy the stock back in stock car
This is when Nascar was good nowadays it's a snooze fest
IKR
@whiterthan hitler Which was 2018 where the sponsors became irrelivant. 2018 Was bad for everything tbh.
Daytona and Talladega is still cool tho
Mike McCurry yeah I like how sloppy this race is! Great
The old camera angles where you could see the cars sliding.... amazing
Earnhardt didn't care about saving tires or gas. That cost him some races, but it was fun to watch. Ol' Ironhead driving like he's late for supper 😅
I attended every Cup race @ Riverside from 1981 to the end in 1988 ( except Nov. 1982 ). I still believe if Riverside had managed to keep the developers at bay for a few more years, maybe MAYBE Bruton Smith could have bought the track and turned it into a Showplace. It had the fan support, it had the events, ( 2 Cup races, IndyCar, SCORE Off Road, SCCA, IMSA, even drag racing UP the back straightaway ) it had the track rental days, for TV and EPA Mileage testing, it had corporate support from Datsun / Nissan. Bruton knew how to PROMOTE; a decent investment in new grandstands, better concessions, lotsa grass & plants, maybe a motorhome terrace with full hookups -- and Riverside would still be around today. Such a waste...
I loved RIR. Raced there some back in FF SCCA racing. We were doing the NASCAR track one time and I remember going into turn 8, an off camber turn that tightens up as you progress through it, and I was going to spinout because I braked late, going too fast, and got my line wrong, but instead as I should have been exiting the turn, I straightened the wheel and dirt tracked it toward the straight. That soil was so hard it's almost like driving on the regular road. I made it!! 😆😄😁
Yes..maybe Burton might have seen what a diamond RIR truly was and could have helped it. But one correction that I have with your post is the average attendance at the Cup races had been in decline for years. It's really sad that we lost such a great facility for nothing more than a stupid Mervyn's store and some cookie cutter houses. I'd had been in attendance at RIR since 1975.
I saw Dale Earnhardt 9 times at Talladega & treasure every moment!!! He truly was the GOAT of NASCAR!!!!
RIP #3❤ u are missed
Amen!!!!
Man I couldn't stand him back then. If you were a fan of basically anybody else Dale was the enemy. That said, the day he died absolutely broke my heart. The sport lost its luster, barely watched it after that. Amazing how the guy I love to hate, has been the one I miss the most. RIP Dale
@@F3502000 A hero is only as great as the villain. Earnhardt was great at being both, depending on who you were rooting for. He was a great driver for sure
Earnhardt was the best. That says alot about Bodine this day
He was the woat when it came to being a dad apparently
Brian France, if you are watching, you can still fix your horrible tenure at Nascar. This is racing.
For real get rid of all areo and make it come down to the driver. Give them all the same noses with no splitter and all side panels flat.
He's too busy doing dope
Duane Bailey, making everything the same as what's wrong with it now. They need to make them all different again
And 3 years later he’s out of NASCAR for being a methhead!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
growing up in the 90s watching this man race on tv and going to richmond and rockingham were the highlihgts of my life. It was all I ever looked forward to counting down the days until sunday so I could watch this man race. There will never be anyone else like him.
Bodine definitely had more horsepower, but Earnhardt had more Earnhardt, meaning it was a helluva race...
I'm Australian so I have no idea who that is - but I love this comment: "but Earnhardt had more Earnhardt"
Waddell Wilson power, before Hendrick gave him to Waltrip
SRVstiger i have no clue what the rules were or how different they could be back then?
Anyone who thinks Earnhardt is overrated just watch this. HMS was dominant then too, imagine Jimmie Johnson in that 3 car all the time. He may never win a race
@@nathanielhiggerson7679 Dale regularly won in 5th place cars. Pissed me off bigtime
My Dad took me to this race.
We used to frequent Riveside and Ontario motor speed way all the time.
We saw the last TIMES 500 at Ontario.
Back when SoCal was still the racing mecca of the world.
Boy how times have changed.
My Dad worked for the Los Angeles Times....free general admission to Riverside Int'l and Ontario Super Motor Speedway! I even used to go to The Los Angeles Times 24: hour race of endurance.... it was great growing up in the San Gabriel Valley in the 60s thru the 80!
Ever eat at Sunnymead Burgers????
It's still there!
Eric Underwood Class of 81 Downey High school California USA ♥️🇺🇲
What beautiful driving. The Golden years.
I miss the historic old Riverside track, '80s NASCAR, and the '80s in general. I lived in Riverside in the '80s and went to a few events at the track including the '84 spring race won by Terry Labonte. I'm glad I did, because little did we know the track's days were numbered. If I had known that back then I would have gone to more races, but that's how it is when you're young. You think you have all the time in the world and nothing will ever change.
That Earnhardt fella ain't ever gonna amount to much if he keeps driving that way. LOL
Tell that to 7 Winston Cups buddy
@@DixietheGoat9 You know I was being highly sarcastic, right?
This is how NASCAR should film there road course races these days, the long tracking shots from low camera angles make them seem like they are just flying!
I watched that live from the turn six grandstand. It was really cool!
Me too!
I was there in turn six as well. When the green flagged dropped you could feel the noise from way down at start/finish......
This is pure driving, pure racing pure Skill.
Riverside was great because there was room to pass in several areas. Also, the mix of drivers skill in the S’s and raw horse power, this track was great! Such a mistake getting rid of this track!
I grew up going to Riverside as a kid. Then progress came
I miss the 80`s. Less rules, more racing and not everyone won a trophy.
They should go back to bodies like these. Or some sort of low downforce. Them sliding like that is awesome.
The sliding is due to the bias ply tires they use to run.
Jaymobe07 sliding is from tires not bodies
Gen 3 cars not safe enough but i love the racing
Yes lets go back to where a driver slamming the wall would probably mean their death or injury....
@@truckercowboyed2638 yaknow if we had this bodystyle we could put a modern rollcage in it
im not even a giant nascar fan but this is just beautiful racing
Now that is driving a race car. That looks so exhausting
When racing was racing in NASCAR was NASCAR. God I miss these days..
And Stock Car were Stock Cars
Great memories of that track. I was at the race at the end of 1983 (There were two races at Riverside that year. I believe the first one was in May or June). I remember watching the cars slithering through the Esses in double file right off the green flag. It was one of the most awesome visual and auditory experiences I've ever had. It was like watching a giant sidewinder snake moving through the desert with the roar of all those engines. Bill Elliott won the day and the biggest payday of the year.
The last race at Riverside was June 12, 1988. Rusty Wallace won under caution.
A friend and myself were there.
I’ll never understand why nascar fans historically (and even now) haven’t been able to grasp and enjoy road courses. Watching these old cars get thrown around while racing one another is some of the most entertaining racing I’ll probably ever see.
Wish this track was around today. I live in Riverside and this track was long gone by the time I was born but it looked like a lot of fun. Another NASCAR road course would be awesome.
It was. I lived in Tustin and went to Riverside a few times in the late 70's and early 80's. I would bring my bicycle and ride all over the place. Ontario was the same way. As a 12 year old on a little BMX bike I could sneak in/around all over the place. Lot's of fun!
I'll bet nascar is kicking themselves in the ass after letting Riverside Raceway go. My step dad would show me old recordings, memorabilia, photos of when he went all the time as a kid and young adult. This was some really great racing! I just wish the track was still around to host more nascar
Damn they are sliding through every corner! And I love the look of those monte Carlos all lowered and with those big slicks just a good looking car!
When the cars and drivers were cool.
Man those old cars were fun to watch!
Those Monte Carlos were some beautiful machines.
I was fortunate to have grown up in the 80s, my dad took us to Michigan in 84 and 85, I miss the cars and drivers.
The 70s and 80s were the best i dont even watch nascar anymore these guys were racers nowdays just posterboys
Thank you for uploading this.
I wasn't at this particular race, but heard it - as i did nearly all the races in the 80s.
My childhood home was a half mile from the former raceway.
Best racing I've seen in 30 years!
When they actually looked just like the car in your driveway
And even then they really didn't.
@Austin Quillen 1. The version that Dale and company drove was far from what you could put in your driveway. 2. A Man who feels the need to curse does not have much to say.
@mad ass You are correct. The actual quote is "A man curses because he doesn't have the words to say what's on his mind.”
They’ve gotten a little better lately
Joseph Houk cursing is a crutch for inarticulate motherfuckers.
I lived at that place!.. and Petty used the dirt plenty of times, They may not remember . I raced there on motorbikes a lot.
The trans am and stock cars were fast as hell there!
Thanks very much for sharing this wonderful record of two of the hardest-nosed racers in the series duking it out -- without crashing the heck out of each other! That takes some serious skill on both drivers' parts. I didn't begin watching NASCAR until 1993, so I missed out on seeing Riverside races live, but this course seems really neat. I'm so sad that it didn't survive.
Sure do miss this track. Used to sit in the Esses for the Bud 400 and the Winston girls, oh my!!
I remember when they tore down this raceway to build a stupid mall. That was real driving back then..
Old riverside was an extremely difficult road course when I motorcycle road raced there, I can only imagine how difficult it was to go fast driving a nascar
You don’t see racing this intense anymore unless you like motorcycles.
Sure, you do not; if you exclude every Dirt Track Race and every Crisco'd Asphalt Figure 88 Race. ("Crisco'd" and the extra "8" were added, in memory of the late Elsie Wylie "Buddy" Baker)
The Lucas Oil offroad series is pretty intense
Do you need some examples? I can show you some examples. Just tell me
That'd be scary af being a racecar driver and seeing Earnhardt behind you
Thats why they called him the Intimidator
this is what racing should be and id give anything to take a time machine and watch this live
The commentary at the beginning makes the whole video. If only commentators today showed that much emotion.
Help Me
Ken Squier is the Dos Equis guy of commentators. Lmfao
I gotta say Dale Jr does a pretty good job but your right burton and most of these other guys are a bore fest.
Dale Jr.'s voice jumps two octaves when someone has a close call! Love it! My single favorite NASCAR announcer moment was Buddy Baker (I think) watching a driver catch an almost uncontrollable slide and declaring, "He just about saw Elvis in that corner!" ROTFL!
I think they have more enthusiasm today. Just look to Rick allen, and Dale jr
OMFG. Earnhardt was on him like it was stuck on his tail. Like a tractor trailer.
That is nuts.
This really shows what kind of a race car driver Earnhardt was.
Top notch.
Amazing.
Gee, from what I saw, Bodine got passed due to a slower car, and after a lap or two of trying to find a way around Earnhardt, he passed him - and then drove away from him! I guess maybe Bodine was a helluva driver too.
They were all REAL drivers in REAL cars back then, I don't care who your favorite was. The steering wheel holders of today wouldn't know what to do with those cars except run them straight into a wall then cry about the setup on cable tv! I'm an Earnhardt fan forever but like I said, they were all REAL drivers back then. The safety improvements that have been made since that terrible day in 2001 have been a God send. It's just so unfortunate that it took Earnhardts death to kick things into high gear!
Bodine was top notch as well...
@@MikeBrown-ii3pt very true but at least Dale died doing what he sincerely loved doing, driving a race car. Nobody was as passionate or hard-driven as he was not only respected for his driving style but for what he was away from racing Sunday he and Bodine would bang fenders then on Monday Dale would quietly work on his farm and perhaps lend Bodine a hand on housing project if he was working on one.
@@detomasopantera1966 Should have seen him in the northeast modifieds!
NASCAR back then really was better than today
Riverside, the best road course NASCAR ever had.
I say Sonoma is better, but agree to disagree
When racing was real
It still is, need evidence?
"The Pass in the Dirt" never quite caught on....
should be disqualified
Well he would have hit the dude, dipshit
i was going to say something similar, but i had a feeling someone already beat me to it. to real pass in the grass... or sand... or dirt... or whatever!
Beryllium that’s why nascar sux ass these daze....🖕😘🖕
Beryllium Disqualified for what? That wasnt against any rules, Pugsley.
I watched this Riverside race live. How I wish Nascar would return to it's roots.
And how I wish you actually noticed that NASCAR was most popular when it was furthest from stock
Those Monte Carlos were some great looking race cars.
I really really miss watching this old nascar racing a whole whole lot
Back when you had to 'drive' the car.....and....those cars had 'STYLE'. Not the bullshit cookie cutters of today.
they still have to drive them today it's just different in that they had bias ply tires that were way more forgiving and allowed you to hang the car out. today the tires don't allow you to drive that way as they are much snappier in that you get sideways you better be quick handed to recover.. drivers today would hang the cars out just the same if you gave them those tires again. today you need to be more precise or ya wreck.
I loved the 4th generation body style on those Monte Carlos.
It was actually harder back then driving the cars. You really had to be a real wheel man to drive those cars. The bias ply tires didn't grip as well as the radial but yes they were more forgiving you can get the car sideways and still save it vs the radials its much more difficult. But the trade off was the radial had proven to be faster and grip better over the bias ply. Problem is as you said if you over drive the car there's not much room for error. But back then when they were on bias ply they did have to drive harder than when they were driving the cars in 1990 and up when it became mandatory to use radials. Plus the steering gear ratio wasn't as great back then as it is now. They are full of shit when NASCAR America says today's racing is greater than its ever been...... I think that's Horseshit.
Steven, I totally agree. Anybody thinks a driver like Danica Patrick could turn even one fast lap in an old school car is crazy!
A part of the problem I think would be that the room the stock out of racing I mean nascar stands for “national association of stock car racing” and I hav haven’t seen a v8 Camry off the track ever
Miss Dale & Riverside...
Thanks For Posting!
Really miss Riverside. Loved the Busch race at 11:00 and the Bud 400 at 1:00. Then flipping a coin to see which of us would drive us back to Santa Ana. Always a great time.
love the tire marks on the fender and then again on the quarter panel
I watched Nascar for a couple years after Dale passed. It wasn't the same. This was cool to watch again on that track!
Back in the day when NASCAR was worth watching !!!!!
It still is worth watching, you just haven't given it the chance
"There are no guarantees out here but if you're between me and the checkered flag...you'll wish you weren't." Dale Earnhardt.
Still hard not to hear that #3 Earnhardt’s car running the track no matter how old ya are or how long it’s been won’t forget that 2000 race
The REAL pass in the grass
Execpt it was dirt not grass and it was actually a pass
Like they were the only 2 racing. Love it.
Now that is back when racing was great and nascar wasn't the sad little joke that it's become today.
Still got this on VHS tape... When it was worth watching
R.I.P NASCAR.. we miss you...
What do you mean? It's still around
@@magnusrylander nah, it isnt the same, it died in 2008
@@cdel4391 nah, it is the same, you just don't give it a chance.
@@magnusrylander nah the chase and competition yellows cheapen the sport, its not the same
@@cdel4391 nah just because its cheaper doesn't mean its dead
Once at a entertainment park the ticket holder at the can am cars slowed traffic enough for me to take the win on approaching the ticket holder after the win she whispered love your long sleeve Jersey which had Dale Earnhardts logo on it I'm a Dale Earnhardt fan also thanks for the upload of a legend.
such a bummer this track closed, soCal needs a real road course
Laguna seca not south enough? If so, what about long Beach street circut?
NASCAR in its heyday , from 1973-1992 it would never get any better than that.
No,just no
The late Dan Gurney's race track.
Sporty Smith Gurny was an awesome driver! So were Parnelli, A.J., Mario and all of the others that I'm old enough to remember lol!
Dale sure new how to aerate the lawn,! You loved or hated him racing has not been the same !!! RIP DALE.
Awesome course!
RIP Riverside, N. Wilkesboro, Texas World.
Also dont forget Nazareth and Rockingham
You might wanna remove North Wilkesboro cause thats comming back
Back when the races were as much fun for us to watch as it was for the drivers to do their thing!
There should be a project cars 3, It should include this track & the trademarked look of the old school late 80’s Monte Carlo.
I believe this was the 2nd to Last Nascar race @ Riverside raceway. And in 88 too, I was there for both.. Great memories thnx for revisiting🏁🏁💨
Sure looks better than the CRASH FEST !!! I saw today at Daytona!!!
How tf is the tv broadcasting better back then than now
Back when NASCAR were real
It still is, need some examples?
I wish Nascar was still like that
It still is, need some example s?
just watched the "pass in the grass" in the winston to come to this vid and see an actual pass in the grass lol
Starzcraft88 Actually Its not Grass its Dirt So instead Its the Pass in the Dirt
Dirt, grass, eh, all good...
Wow! I was at that race watching my brother in law driving the car #32. Reuben Garcia from Southern California. Great memories.
These were the days of racing. When Men decided things on the track and not micro -managed by officials. If anyone were to start a series like these races today, I'm sure the stands would be full again. It wouldn't hurt to try. jmho.
I was at that race. Saw Dale at the Dennys the next morning.