So many good things about this time in NASCAR. The racing itself, the TV coverage, lots of good NASCAR commercials that make watching commercials bearable, etc.
I've been watching this bit by bit over the last day or two and OMG thanks so much for leaving the commercials in this! :D Lots of classics, lovin the Jr/Waltrip commercials :D
The one and only race I've ever attended. I Live in Utah and had a buddy that worked at the Weather Channel in Atlanta. I can still hear the race in my head. We were standing the whole race.
This is one of my all-time favorite Talladega races. It had everything: calm racing in the first half, drivers with adversity (e.g. Dale Jr. & Michael Waltrip), frequent passes for the lead, frantic racing the last 50 laps, crazy wreck, thrilling last lap & the BIG ONE after the checked flag. What more can u ask for? Gotta love 'Dega!
Man I've been following NASCAR since 2011 because I'm from Europe and NASCAR isn't covered on TV, yesterday I watched the 2003 Aaron's 499 and man.. It would be nice to see that kinda racing again. These last 20 laps were absolutely mind-blowing.
Back when they were putting more horsepower in the cars. Now they are taking it out. I can't remember a time other than this race when a crash happened after the race was over.
Jr. should've won this race 6 times in a row if not for Waltrip this race... He had won 4 in a row up till this race. Then he won the first race here at Talladega again in 2004. So that would've been 6 times in a row.
I loved Ned and Benny. Brad Daugherty is not even a commentator, he's really a fan masquerading as one, he even said himself that he is the voice of the fans and
It seems like the weather is always nice in Alabama on race day. Since I started watching racing back in 1991, I've only seen like three talladega races involved rain. An the race was never rained shortened.
Michigan was a one groove track. That was the best part of Michigan of how wide thre track was.. Also, Darlington, Vegas, Bristol and Indy have been recently repaved as well.
True that. I actually thought that JG, along with Sadler and McMurray were the 3 best cars in this race. I actually thought he was going to win or run 2nd, but Michael did a spectacular block on him and the whole field. He EARNED that win with a car that was mostly junk. But this race was a sign that JG and Hendrick were catching up to DEI.
what? only 6 out of 22 tracks have been repaved, Talladega, Charlotte, Michigan, Pocono, Phoenix, and Daytona, and all of them have had some great racing, speeds at Michigan ranged from 190 in the corners to 220 on the straights, how is that not exciting?
The reason today's races sucked is because of the repaving. It removes the bumps in track that break up the draft. Nowadays its too easy to draft up on a car and they all tap their brakes to stay off the car in front of them at times. Plus, this year with the overheating..
Yeah, I'm watching every race now, thus I can say that the pack racing in 2011 and 2012 wasn't nearly as exiting as this one here. With the exception of the finish of last fall's Talladega race and Johnson's win in 2011 at Dega. In 2011, only the last couple of laps were great to watch.
Well, it was just an opinion, sir... xD And, I was just trying to capture in my mind how bad it was. This crash is one of the last BAD modern day flips.
Johnson never really sucked back then but in my mind, but he really should not have been successful as he has been had cars stuck to form. Once the COT came in, the rich got richer and educated themselves. Johnson is a product of that more than anything else. I consider his 2006 title pretty deserving and 2007 but the others were a product of what team he was with.
2003 race = OMG LOLOLOL THOSE COMMERCIALS ARE SO FUNNY I LOVE THEM 2012 race = OMG MORE FRAKKING COMMERCIALS I HATE THIS GRRRR Goes to show how much times have changed. Sadly.
Geez i miss this so much! Like why don't they go back to the older body styles, but make them just as safe as the Gen6 car. To me still all the Gen6 Cars look all the same minus the decals. I can guarantee that if NASCAR did this, the stand would be full once again
His wreck was but it was by no means the worst in the history of the the sport. Hell this isn't even Sadler's worst flip, the one he had at Michigan in 2000 was worse than this.
Even though I'm a Junior fan, this is one of my favorite finishes because Michael Waltrip was somehow blocking 4 lanes of cars off of Turn 4. BTW, do the cars seem faster in the turns than the COT and Gen-6 cars?
well, the two car tango was boring, but I like this years pack racing, they are 2 and 3 wide going 205 mph, in this race they were bunched up, but the top speed was around 193, I like the faster speeds better.
It's AMAZING that NBC had the speed telemetry when Elliot flipped. You could really capture in your mind how fast Sadler was going when he was in the air... Still the worst flip in NASCAR History.
