I remember, it may have been Cale but not sure who said it, but they said something like "I'm working my butt off trying to drive my car and Bill just flies by me, laid back with one arm hanging out the window like he just out for a cruise!"
Nascar, has went from Bill Elliot, thanking the lord! To, Bubba Wallace, talking about a noose hung in his garage stall. Which, was a finger hole, in a garage door pull down cord. What, in the world?!
Every time they show the camera angle from the rear with #9 crossing the start/finish line and bouncing into turn one with the oil stained bumper, it just looks like the video is on 1.2x speed. I wish they had the full video of this race on RU-vid.
I am from VA, grew up 15 miles from Richmond fairgrounds, we went to every race. We also a few times went to martinsville and Bristol which are all short tracks. My dad drove Tractor trailer and occasionally I would go with him. My dad decided we was going to Talladega race. I never forget walking into dega and seeing how big, I was a chevy fan back then more than a driver fan. To watch them cars go that fast I will never forget but my god when that #9 Ford came out of the pits he was 2 laps down and you had to be there to understand, but he was running that thing, it sounded like a jet coming by, he was running 223mph down the back straight away. He was actually sliding the car through the corners. Yes as a 54 year old man now. I love to sit and watch that ford again because all I can't really put into words what i seen that day. And they say that ford was built in little garage in Georgia
This is the sort of thing that you will never see on a superspeedway ever again. The restrictor plate prevents just this sort of astonishing comeback drive from 2.5 laps down to win, while the race remains under green.
Man I wish NASCAR still had racing like this. It might as well be the IROC series in the 90's. Would have loved to seen ol' Million dollar Bill dominate in the Mid 80's!!
