Holy smokes I never missed a race on tv back then and would turn it up loud as I could, even now in 2023 watching the start got my heart pumpin! Awesome!
I don’t miss the injuries but I sure do miss the 80s & early 90s in NASCAR. I haven’t watched NASCAR in the last few years. Just can’t stomach the PC garbage.
It's not PC. Just people woke up and realized it's a dumb sport. Just driving In circles and turning left. Doesnt take talent to do it. Anybody given a little practice can do it cause the equipment does the work. It's why it's a hick sport and hick drivers are in it cause they cant make it in superior racing divisions. Soon Nascar will be dead for good and I say good riddance. I love how people complain about commercials and advertising but have no problem watching a sport that the cars are covered In it. But if they did that to football jerseys you would all bitch. Hypocrites much.
Thomas C. You really have never sat in a car that’s going 190-210 mph, has no grip really and has all their wheels at different camber/toe angles, have you. Your ignorance is showing mate.
That particular #3 Goodwrench Chevrolet is by far one of the elite restrictor plate cars ever built. He won three of the four plate races in 1990 with that car. He ran that car in all four races, but unfortunately and it still hurts that he didn't win the Daytona 500 after leading 155 of the 199 laps before that tire went flat, UGH Man that still hurts! Back then, if you won the 500 they didn't take your car away, you could win it and bring the car to both races at Talladega and bring it back to the Pepsi 400 at Daytona.
Matthew Kowal Exactly. This one . This particular car in my opinion is one of the most dominantng individual cars Ever. The Best restrictor plate car by far. It should have been undefeated .
@@ProfessorNewollah No it was a piece of bell-housing from Rick Wilson's car. I think it landed at the beginning of the backstretch. At least Cope though won a non-plate race later in 1990 that went the distance, the Budweiser 500 at Dover back when the Monster Mile's races were 500 miles/laps. He dominated the race too.
during this race you could put Dale & Greg in the back of the entire pack & they would STILL make it to the top 2...what AMAZING driving with those 2 at this track on this day.
Look at the stands. It's PACKED!!!! Not like that anymore these days. Not even close. Nascar was f**king amazing those days and beyond. I wish it was still like that. The cars were so damn beautiful too and look like real racing stock cars. Now it all sucks!!
The Hendrick/Paul Newman "R&D" team was sold to Joe Gibbs, JGR was a Pontiac team with Hendrick Engines. The first HMS R&D team was sold to Felix Sabotas to start SABCO racing and is now Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabotas.
Every bit of nascar was uniquely American 🇺🇸. The sponsors, manufacturers, engines and most important it was about racing that was entertaining not entertaining masquerading as racing
Sacks did a great job at daytona in 85. No doubt but what is failed to be ever mentioned is he won that race cause bill Elliott has yo pit with about 5 to go an sacks stretched his fuel but either way he won but I saw him on TV acting like he out run bill an he did not
@@brianbooher7318 ... Sacks passed Elliot on the track.. Elliot passed Sacks in the pits.. The race can be seen right here on youtube and which car was best that day was plain to see.
My daily driver is a '97 T-Bird. I love the 'Birds....any year is great. I was a huge Dale Jarrett fan from '93 until he retired. Someday mine will be painted up like his Quality Care ride lol
SMIFF TV I had a 98 t bird my sophomore year in high school so we had a common interest lol. I miss that car it felt so smooth and flew fast on trips on the interstate.
I was AT this race. For 350 laps, it was a three-way shootout among Earnhardt, Kenny Schrader in the #25 Kodiak Chevy, and Greg Sacks in the #18 Slim-Fast in its first head-on competition, having been used previously as the 'camera car' for "Days Of Thunder", which was still in production. Schrader's car eventually crapped out, leaving Earnhardt and Sacks to duke it out. No one else was even close. Sacks definitely stole the show, charging to the front time after time, only to be sidelined by lousy pit work by a grass-green crew. If it hadn't been for that, Sacks would have won this race going away. All that aside, it was one of the most electrifying races I have ever attended.
Won going away? Sacks was right there at the end behind Dale & could not get past, the fuck did he do let him win? His car was good, yes BUT not better than Dale's car...
restrictor plate racing at Talladega is a shame .i went in 87 the pole speed was 212 mph i went the next year 1988 the pole speed was 189. ,i stopped going down there in 1984 i seen Buddy Baker do 220 down the badkstrist
All the problems Dale Sr had trying to win pts paying Cup races at Daytona, never had any issue's at Dega... The last great run for Greg Sacks in Winston Cup...
Sacks had a car that could have won. He was one of those guys that never really got a shot in good equipment for more than a few races. 1990 running part time for hendrick was probably his best shot and he did well but nothing really came of it long term with another team.
I remember this race all to well. I was pulling for sacks so hard and I still believe he would have won if his pit crew wasnt so terrible. TBF it seemed like they were all volunteers so Im certainly not craping on them but it certainly showed how important a good team can be. I grew up watching sacks and the rest of the modified drivers and thought for sure that Sacks was gonna be a contender after that race. Boy was I wrong : (. I felt the same way when ron Bouchard won but The modified guys could never really get it going. Geoff had a good run for awhile but the rest were real hit and miss.
Something I always found ironic is that Earnhardt hated restrictor plates and talked shit about them at like every interview at the restrictor plate tracks but he actually did better on Daytona and Talladega in the 90s after restrictor plates than he did in the 80s without them.
I wish back in the day that would be the half-time break like Arca has been doing lately and Nascar Cup Series should try that to avoid green flag pit stops so that time there would be more pack racing in a sprint race often.
1:31:49 What are the chances that Ned Jarrett and Benny Parsons would do a bit the museum and wrecks and when they come back to live action Ned's son Dale and Benny's brother Phil would be involved in a wreck?
It’s a shame that #18 team didn’t work out. I just read where Sacks had signed a contract extension with HMS to continue running that 18 car for the 91 and 92 seasons, but Slim Fast pulled out which caused the team to fold and Sacks was released. I feel like Sacks would have gotten several more wins with this team had Slim Fast not pulled out.
What happened to that car did they put in the museum? I know they kept the tire that cost him the Daytona 500 on the last lap. This Black Goodwrench car 3 is the best car ever run on the restrictors plates won em all in 1990 exception being the Dayton 500 blown tire on last lap and that's Goodyears fault while dominating
If im not mistaken that race car was Kurt Shelmerdines black bullet Dales first crew chief I remember reading they started on that car months before they normally would have..tweeked on it anytime they had extra time with the only intent to win the Daytona 500.
And yes that was a piece of clutch from another car that cut the tire not only did cope say he couldn't believe Dale saved that car from wrecking but the RCR guys gathered up that clutch piece mounted it on a piece of wood and gave it to Copes team to mess with them...hehe
And remember Derick Cope needed to be 2nd to win that race that was no fluke with Buddy Parrot as the crew chief and not Copes only win...not Bad for a GQ baseball player
Yes, the car is in the RCR Museum. I visited it a few years ago. If you ever get a chance to go to the museum, do it! Kind of emotional too so be prepared.
Sponsors got more bang for their buck back then! "The Citgo Ford, car #21 Dale Jarrett" instead of "the Wood bros 21". They mentioned sponsors a lot, crew and track workers often. I don't know any crew besides Crew Chiefs now. I damn sure dont know the pace car driver or flag man! I've heard Elmo Langley and Harold Kinder a lot!
Testing. 'it is not right", come down to pit road. "the engine is off". You have the best.... not right....the engine is off. Larry Mac, found a push rod bent and rocker arm broken.
Wow NASCAR has definitely made changes for safety sake over the years. Pit crews not wearing helmets or fire retardant suits, no speed limits on pit lane, cars that cannot maintain speed allowed on the track...it’s crazy!
