I was a 16 year old kid who had been through it as a Ward Burton fan for 5 years. Over 20 years later, as I type this reply after watching this video, I STILL can't stop crying. That was THE greatest day of my life as a sports fan. As a born and bred Alabama boy, I've been through the worst of times for Alabama football, and I've seen success beyond comprehension, but NONE of it compares to watching that 22 Caterpillar Dodge take that checkered flag that day.
@@daytonamike242 they used an X-pipe style design exhaust called a "boom tube" and it only exited out one side of the car, that's what made the exhaust note sound like that back in 99-2005ish
@@ryanjamieson8779 not true it ran out of both sides and it was only the x pipes not the boom tube or anything else cause iroc had the same sound and those exhaust pipes were round. There is a whole video explaining why they had that but it was basically the 90 degree kinked x pipe and they had that sound from 1995 with sterling marlin at first clear till the last superspeedway race in 2007. Iroc had the same dude that made them put them on the cars cause they thought they sounded cool and a few of the xfinity cars at superspeedways run them again but not all of them.
I think its been watered-down down a bit, but mostly by the media. Ateast in the last decade. It also doesn't help. We have had more repeat winners, and younger winners. Who haven't spent a whole career winning one race. To me as a racing fan. This is one of the big four races. That most drivers dream of winning. The other three are Monaco, lemans, and the Indy 500.
Stages and Giant Ass Spoilers, it's a death trap race now. 2 Years in a row I thought I saw guys get killed, Newman in 20 and Brad and Kyle in 21. McDowell is a joke of a driver and got lucky he slipped past the wreck. And what a winner Trevor Bayne became. This used to be the race even the best struggled to win or never won, DW and Dale tried for most of their career to finally get it. Tony Stewart never did and Mark Martin either. Now I think I could go win it...
from 95 (with Steling Marlin especially) until the last year of Gen4 in 2007 the sound in plate racing was incredible. The first 500 with the Gen6 in 2013 came close to this sound as well.
I remember this race as a kid.Ward was my favorite, and I was literally jumping off the walls when I saw him win.One of the happiest moments of my childhood.
if he won that would be a story and a half to tell... pretty much his first race in full form since that horrendous crash he had in the first truck series race in Daytona two years before (he returned during the 2000 season, but was even fired from his cup team because of his struggles and ran two cup races in 2001)
In a nutshell, between 2001-06 Fox and NBC swap Daytona coverage. In the odd years, Fox did the 500, NBC did the 400. Even years, it was NBC that did the Daytona 500. The then called Pepsi 400 was on FOX. Starting in 2007, the Daytona 500 was exclusive to Fox. Just like it was with CBS from 1979-2000.
It was cool to see Marlin pull up and congratulate him even though he was probably a little upset about what happened. I was rooting for Marlin in this race, he had it in the bag.
He, BP and Wally were a fantastic combo! Never understand why they replaced him with Bill Weber in 05-06, Weber sounded like a window salesman and could kill the enthusiasm of a race quicker than Jerry Punch.
They didn't get rid of him. NBC lost the rights to do NASCAR races in 2006, and he went to ESPN. But you're absolutely right, that man can call a race.
