1.9:Wrong Guys With The Wrong Car: How Two Drag Racers Set The Closed Course Speed Record At Daytona 

I gather you're doing a Podcast. I came across this just by chance. My son and daughter are Osiecki grandchildren. I forwarded your post. I'm sure they are going to enjoy hearing this. Thanks.

Makes you wonder what that car could do with some good modern tires... And a decent roll cage.

Thats a driver has to have balls of steel I hope he got recognized for his effort and amazing skill 180 mph to drive sideways for so long breaking the record even today standards at 180 to drive sideways is almost impossible lap lap after lap pushing that type of car to its limit past its limit really that's amazing thank you for that story!!

Interesting car..looks like no cage and minimal windscreen.

I like your story telling at least have a slide show pls. now I want more, good job Dud from Texas

Can’t wait for the next one!

pod cast OH, I listened to it all very good job

His production reminds me of "the price is right" during the 80's Bob Barker days. As Bob would introduce different prizes.

Ray Harroun would like a word about tail fins...

I was told the car had the power to run waaaaaayy above the average MPH in the straits , and the curves were just a compromise to get back to the straits ,,, !

I saw that car in the Garlits Museum, but had forgotten many details of its story. The most interesting thing is Art Malone was broadsliding the car through Daytona's banked turns for seconds at a time. This is NOT the way that cars with downforce are supposed to be driven. A sliding tire has less grip than a rolling tire and will burn up from the friction of the rubber sliding on the pavement. And with close to 1000 pounds of downforce, Art had to slide the car? I blame the primitive suspension and tires of the time. Neutral speed on the Daytona high banks is ~135mph. You could drive with your hands off the steering wheel at that speed and the car would track neatly around the turns with no net cornering required from the tires. He should have easily been able to steer through the turns at 160mph without sliding the car. But maybe race drivers back then felt they weren't doing their jobs unless they were pitching the cars sideways. It looks fast, but isn't.

Well, I read about this when it happened. Nice to have somebody tell how they did it.

Art drove stock cars on a 1/4 mile asphalt track, Philips Field, in the late '50's, too.

Just found this video, and agree with AAron: it really would be enhanced if you didn't have One Shot of the Mad Dog as your only graphic. That's not the only picture of the car, at Daytona or in its previous incarnations, and seeing pictures of Osieki and "Colonel" Art would also have greatly improved it. A few other things, though: George Amick is pronounced A-mik, not Ammick; he was a damn fine driver whose career was cut far too short. And Marshall Teague was killed in the full-bodied Sumar Special that they tried to run at Indy in...'56? 57? (the car was streamlined--kind of--and was a sled, so they had to run it open wheel at Indy; the Offy didn't have enough juice to push that much air; there's pictures of that out there) Also the HP number for that 413 seemed awfully high. You have any source for that? But a good presentation.

Dork-O-Motive----------------------nice Brian-----------knew some of this/now the whole story/thanks

Sir this is my first video of your to see. You have 40sec of dead tape at the beginning of your video! People don't have the attention span to wait to wait that long. Just trying to help!...from Wyoming USA 🇺🇸 👋🤠

the Original and only? Superspeedway Super-Modified.

Ray Nichels was from Highland, Indiana near Chicago. Not Ohio.

I can tell you’re a Midwestern guy just by the fact of you saying a couple 2-3 years lol

18:10 The Fritz von Opel rocket car was one of the first with wings in 1928. although some people have questioned whether some of these early examples had true inverted wings. Arguably the first with a true inverted wing creating downforce on a car on a closed circuit, would be the Porsche 550 spyder of German engineer Michael May, which ran at the 1000km of Nürburgring in 1956, where apparently it lapped faster than the Porsche factory’s own 550 Spyders. The car ran in practice, but the race officials did not permit the car to run with the wing in the race. The system used on the Michael May Porsche 550 spyder, was driver adjustable. The first person to use an inverted wing in an actual race might be Jim Hall, who fitted a wing to his Chaparral sports cars in the mid 1960s, before the idea spread to Formula 1 and other classes.

Mark Donohue broke the record at Talladega driving a Porsche 917-30, not a 911-30.

It doesn't need to be pretty to go stupid fast.

I thought Darlington was the smallest track in the Nascar circuit ...