The drivers were all badasses , hard working blue collar racers who earned there ways into the cars the drove. So much different these says . Racings dog shit now, political , boring and most of the drivers are spoiled Dbags.
@@myburner8241 yeah, real NASCAR drivers died together with the middle class in America.. Only poor or spoilt rich people are left these days.. The last real middle class/upper middle class people got their jobs at least 20 years ago and are going to retire and die out.. It’s very sad that the children still generation will be much poorer than their parents, when usually the opposite was the case in the past, because of new great inventions and technologies in the free western world! Now that we gave all our technologies to China and the few rich sold them our big companies there’s not much left for us and the free western world will sadly die out if we don’t do anything against it.. I don’t ever want to live under a Chinese led world!
Don't forget that just 5 weeks prior to this race Dale Earnhardt broke a bone in his neck in a wreck at Atlanta and raced the rest of the 1999 season injured with the right side of his body usually going numb in the race. He could have chosen not to race the rest of this series schedule and protect himself for his Cup sponsors he raced the rest of this series and kicked ass.
Actually his neck injury, I believe, was a series of his crashes from 1996 to 1999. There was a video that one his crew or DEI employees said he raced for multiple seasons, until the 2000 season, with one hand because his one arm would go numb. He had neck surgery either between the 98 and 99 or 99 and 2000 season.
Larry McReynolds used to be a TBS pit reporter, even a color commentator for a few races around 95. One race both he and waltrip were in the booth together before fox started hosting nascar races.
It's interesting how the announcers know that Dale knows something about the draft that others don't, but haven't figured out what it is. Nowadays we know about side draft but back then I remember being just baffled.
Legemd says why he liked open face helmet, legend says he could feel the wind... of course, you wanna tell tal tales, legend says he could see it... was the master of making you loose his without touching you as well... just legend 😁
Earnhardt Sr was the BEST at the bump and run...when he did it, he would just barely move a car out of the way. When other driver attempted it they would either put the car in the grandstands or wreck all of the other cars.
@@TheWoodcutter34 hell I not even close, past couple of years stands at every race were about half full at most, NASCAR as what it was when everyone loved it is dead, the cars are crap have no HP the so called drivers are a bunch of whiny spoiled brats, all the lame rule changes and stage racing, what ever happened to endurance, could go on and on it's pathetic and sad to be honest.
@@wrldchamps04 that's true but hell 90k for a Busch race was amazing probably the combination of the 2 like you said but didn't matter back then there were always almost as many people on Saturday as Sunday.
I didn't watch much Nascar after the late 80s, early 90s but this, this I was glued to and the Craftsman Truck series. I split my viewing between LeMans series, Moto Cross, and Formula 1.
Nothing like hearing those engines screaming. I miss watching this era of NASCAR. I loved all of the IROC events and I would always watch them on TV as a kid while eating ketchup chips and drinking cream soda. Great times.
Always my belief that had ESPN not lost out on the massive TV contract by FOX/NBC, DW would have replaced Ned Jarrett heading into 2001... So Benny, Darrell and Bob in the booth.
90,000 fans at Talladega for an IROC race and upwards of 170,000 plus for the Cup Race. The 90's was a great time for Nascar. Today's Nascar doesn't even come close to this!
Rusty going in to victory lane to give dale a pat on the back was cool. I always liked Rusty , being a die hard Dale fan I m glad we still can watch these moments. Racing was such a great sport when all these guysb raced. can t even watch Nascar anymore.
I really liked it when the “IROC Series” raced the Dodge Daytona’s in the early to mid 90’s because as many Nascar Fans know Dodge was not in the Nascar Cup or Busch Series for over two decades & then came back in 2001 & all us die~hard Mopar fans were ecstatic about Dodge’s return to Nascar & they were very strong right out of the gate for some Nascar Cup Series drivers/teams such as Sterlin Marlin & Ward Burton who won a Daytona 500 in his Caterpillar Dodge Intrepid & Sterlin Marling was kicking absolutely everyone’s ass in his #40 Coors Lite Dodge Intrepid & was on pace for his first Nascar Cup Series Championship & had won a handful of races as well as top 5’s & 3’s & then unfortunately Sterlin Marling got into a bad crash & broke his collar bone if I remember correctly? & a young up & comer driver Jamie McMurray who won the Charlotte race, I can’t remember if Jamie won the big “Coca~Cola” 600 or if it was the other Charlotte race that year? But none the less that was a major boost to Jamie’s Nascar career & confidence.
That Dodge Intrepid still is a sharp-looking car, 19 years later. My town even used them as police cruisers instead of Crown Vics, but they're all retired now. My favorite paint schemes to ever grace the Intrepid were: Dave Blaney's BP car from Martinsville 2001 Bill Elliott's Swedish Chef car from Chicago 2002 Bill Elliott's Viper car from 2002 Jeremy Mayfield's Mountain Dew cars from 2003 Casey Mears' Microsoft car from Charlotte 2003 (Busch) and Jamie McMurray's Davey Allison tribute car from Talladega 2003 For Christmas in 2007, my uncle gave me an autographed 1:64 2002 Bill Elliott Intrepid. I also have a checkered flag from Atlanta Motor Speedway signed by him. Jamie Mac's first Cup win was not the Coke 600, but the UAW-GM Quality 500 held in the fall of 2002.
I never watched this race back then I didn’t know who was going to win it. Dale Earnhardt was my favorite driver and at the end when he got on the outside of Rusty I said side draft him side draft him. Dale Earnhardt made that side drafting move for all other drivers to notice and copy. He was a bad ass behind the wheel of a race car!! 😁
Boy I miss that sound! Boom tubes and the X-pipe what a beautiful sound. If they sounded like that today I might go to some races. Also if you remember that smell of the race fuel was fantastic. Now with ethanol nothing.
Look at the grand stands, lol. This is entertainment. No dummies wreck some one else so far.... at 17:50. Gota go, but thanks for the video. I will watch the rest later.
With NASCAR pretty much circling the drain could they sponsor an IROC series? I’d go watch at Phoenix, Vegas and Fontana (and maybe Sonoma on the road course). God I miss the road course at Riverside, CA.
Dale totally stole rusty day. Stole the win then his interview lolol how can you be mad at him though. It's clear that even for guys like rusty the respect for big E was undeniable. He was the man
No Ford's. Back then they started out with Porsche's for the road courses and then they started racing on the high banks at Daytona with the late 70's to early 80' models of the Chevy Camaro z28 and the newer Camaro the IROC-Z 83 to 89 then the 90 to 94 it was the Dodge Daytona's and then from 95 to sort of late 2000's it was the Pontiac Trans Am Firebird's.
