Dale Earnhardt vs Geoff Bodine, Riverside 1987. High Quality 

This is seriously some of the best racing I've ever seen.

I would watch nascar every week if the racing was still like this

You young ones missed those great days. Bodine, Rudd, Wallace, Jaws, awesome Bill, and Ol Iron Head on track, and Buddy Baker calling the race. It really was a better show then.

Boy they manhandled those cars back then.

"They say you cut the course..." -iRacing

I miss the 80/90s of NASCAR. Harry Gant, Rusty, Bodine, D.W., Dale, Kulwicki, Davey, Ricky, Terry, Mark, Bill, Swirvin Irvin, etc. Those guys made the sport. They all had personality.

Hangin' the ass out on every turn ! I really miss the 80's and 90's Nascar. I thought I just remembered it being great because that's when I started watching.

Brian France, if you are watching, you can still fix your horrible tenure at Nascar. This is racing.

I saw Dale Earnhardt 9 times at Talladega & treasure every moment!!! He truly was the GOAT of NASCAR!!!! RIP #3❤ u are missed

What beautiful driving. The Golden years.

Bodine definitely had more horsepower, but Earnhardt had more Earnhardt, meaning it was a helluva race...

im not even a giant nascar fan but this is just beautiful racing

Earnhardt didn't care about saving tires or gas. That cost him some races, but it was fun to watch. Ol' Ironhead driving like he's late for supper 😅

Thanks very much for sharing this wonderful record of two of the hardest-nosed racers in the series duking it out -- without crashing the heck out of each other! That takes some serious skill on both drivers' parts. I didn't begin watching NASCAR until 1993, so I missed out on seeing Riverside races live, but this course seems really neat. I'm so sad that it didn't survive.

The commentary at the beginning makes the whole video. If only commentators today showed that much emotion.

I miss the 80`s. Less rules, more racing and not everyone won a trophy.

I was fortunate to have grown up in the 80s, my dad took us to Michigan in 84 and 85, I miss the cars and drivers.

When they actually looked just like the car in your driveway

Sure do miss this track. Used to sit in the Esses for the Bud 400 and the Winston girls, oh my!!

Great memories of that track. I was at the race at the end of 1983 (There were two races at Riverside that year. I believe the first one was in May or June). I remember watching the cars slithering through the Esses in double file right off the green flag. It was one of the most awesome visual and auditory experiences I've ever had. It was like watching a giant sidewinder snake moving through the desert with the roar of all those engines. Bill Elliott won the day and the biggest payday of the year.

this is what racing should be and id give anything to take a time machine and watch this live

Back in the day when NASCAR was worth watching !!!!!

I watched this Riverside race live. How I wish Nascar would return to it's roots.

love the tire marks on the fender and then again on the quarter panel

This is how NASCAR should film there road course races these days, the long tracking shots from low camera angles make them seem like they are just flying!

I watched Nascar for a couple years after Dale passed. It wasn't the same. This was cool to watch again on that track!

Riverside, the best road course NASCAR ever had.

Them G body monte Carlos were the best

Awesome course! RIP Riverside, N. Wilkesboro, Texas World.

The good ole days of racing. Miss those years.

I wish Nascar was still like that

Still got this on VHS tape... When it was worth watching

"There are no guarantees out here but if you're between me and the checkered flag...you'll wish you weren't." Dale Earnhardt.

Back when the races were as much fun for us to watch as it was for the drivers to do their thing!

I grew up going to Riverside as a kid. Then progress came

Yeah ditto I had 5 monte SS trying to find one to paint like Dale's wrangler car but never got the chance....this was a race I watched lived and being a moto GP racer I became a Dale Earnhardt fan on this day...I never knew dale could turn his steering wheel to the right too....man he put on a display of driving on a road course.....unless this was his stand in... Nope it was Dale hah hah jk what a race.thanks

Wide open racing with loose cars on a roomy road course. This is what we want as fans. We want to believe we're watching Steve McQueen. Great camera angles as well.

such a bummer this track closed, soCal needs a real road course

Good old days of NASCAR

Saw a few Trans Am races at Riverside. Saw Paul Newman Racing his 280zx there back in 85. He was a really good driver. A friend of mine also did a SCCA race there. Me and his roommate at the time saw a bunch of trucks going around the track at the time and we were in the infield so we hopped in his truck and just kind of blended in and drove the course too. Nobody said squat, still can't believe we didn't get kicked out of there for that stunt.

I was there that day, Earnhardt was fun to watch, But faded later on. Sadly Riverside didn’t last and was torn up to make way for development.

I lived at that place!.. and Petty used the dirt plenty of times, They may not remember . I raced there on motorbikes a lot. The trans am and stock cars were fast as hell there!

Sure looks better than the CRASH FEST !!! I saw today at Daytona!!!

Some people say theirs an alternate universe where dale isn’t dead. Wish I was there instead

Wish racing was like this now

That’s racing!!! Swerving around the corners and givin’ ‘er.

Now that’s racing.

That was a bit cheeky chopping the corner. I wonder if that's where Verstappen got the idea to overtake Kimi at COTA 2018. So many motorsports looked awesome back in the 80s drivers using hands and thier right foot to steer around corners

I turned 30 several months earlier and had bought my house Dec26 1986 a few miles from the track A Honda CR500 and 88 Camaro IROC would be bought soon. At time of race my fun-car was a 70 Camaro Z-28 replica with blown , dual-quad 454 with pro-stock hood scoop. : )

The beauty of sliding those cars is a result of racing on bias belt tires back then.....which had a more flexible give to the tread/sidewall construction............when they switched to radials that flexibility ratio tighten up ........the result was you could drive a tire with better side bite but when it started to flex little power sliding could be done but when they did brake loose and you spun out...................the bias belted tires allow you to reach the lateral release point of the side grip on the tread in a more gradual fashion.........hence the driver could control the car in a power slide easier without loosing the handle..................short track late models, modifieds and other divisions running pavement still use bias belted tires (cost factor in part has them still running those) and you will see them power slide on local short track racing still......... but not so much in Nascar upper echelon national series divisions these days where they are running radials...........

How tf is the tv broadcasting better back then than now

That's how you drive, from now on that's how you drive.

Bodine has been a favorite of mine since he drove modifieds!

Best racing I've seen in 30 years; I think Biden is running MNASCAR now.

That’s the longest windyest pit lane road I’ve ever seen. They been going down it forever! Oh. That’s the race track. Damn, that seems slow.

Love the cars.

Best lookin NASCAR cars

When racing was great

That’s some good cooking there

I loved those Monte Carlos back then. They actually looked liked the street cars.

Man them cars look awesome

Miss. Those. Days.

Bodine and Dale chasing the ghost of Tim Richmond.

This is what NASCAR lacks today.

I think I was at this race as a kid.

When racing was racing !!!

“In the only days”

Rusty Wallace and Earnhardt are my 2 favorites. Yes I know Richard Petty and his dad Lee Petty go back to the first ever NASCAR Race.

That was when NASCAR was worth watching with cars that were worth racing with drivers that knew how to drive those ridiculous cars on race tracks that could handle it all.

Dale Sr is actually best driver in NASCAR history (even though my favourite driver is Jeff Gordon) I would actually say that Dale was better than Richard Petty because he didn’t have a proper downfall to his career considering he finished 2nd in 2000 which was his last ever full season, Richard Petty on the other hand was barely winning races during the last several years of his career, R.I.P Dale Earnhardt Sr (1951-2001)

You look at NASCAR back then and you think what the hell is this crap that is shown today.

I love love love drifting this track on Assetto corsa!!!

And people say Bodine sucks, dude is one hell of a wheel man.

Geoff was such a talented driver.

Geoff Bodine is the first Nascar driver I remember having power steering

The was probably the biggest fued in Nascar ever

Al Davis : "Just win baby!" Dale Earnhardt : "Win, no matter rules"

They tore this track down to build a shopping mall.

That was Dales real “pass in the grass” Charlotte gets called that but it wasn’t really a pass and he just maintained his position on the track

1987 BC Before Cellphones

Now THAT'S a pass in the grass!

i don't think going in the dirt was fair....he should have been disqualified or put a lap back or something.....but just my opinion

Bring back right turns in NASCAR

Notice th SMOG ! Last stage 2 alert was 88.

Stunned by betamax quality

The real drift Kings.

I hear four announcers talking; two are definitely Ken Squier and Buddy Baker. Who are the other two? One sounds like Darrel Waltrip at first, but obviously it isn't DW. I am guessing Johnny Hayes and Dave Despain. Can anyone confirm or know better?

I’ve seen the car at canepa design near Santa Cruz!

Bodine was the man! Earnhardt's #1 nemesis

I watched bodine dominate east Coast short tracks in small block modifieds from 74 till 79 he was untouchable in the nu style number 1 pinto I never liked him but this is the one guy the intimidator couldn’t intimidate

Nascar did not have a rule that you had to stay on the marked course to advance the position?

If you need more of an argument to get rid of that damn splitter and the rest of the aero this is it. Cars up off the ground and look at them slide through the turns. Great driver's showcasing their stuff

All these SISSYFIED "officials and SO CALLED drivers" should be required to sit and watch HOURS of these classic , old racers to be REMINDED what racing is all about , HOW/WHO started it and what it's ROOTS ARE !!!!!!!

Could you imagine if we had more road courses in NASCAR during the 80s, 90s, and so on??? That would have been amazing! NASCAR adding a bunch of road courses is a dream come true, but overdue! I love seeing more road courses in NASCAR :) But imagine if there were more road courses back then? That would’ve been even more amazing! :)

I was at this race

Are you crazy Dale Earnhardt????????

Why do NASCAR drivers have such bad ass names?

Damn shame this track doesn't exist anymore.

Why is nascar dead Answer: they don't race like this anymore

This is so awesome. Guys today whine incessantly if the car slides an inch. These two slid through every turn. This is driving. This blew me away. No wonder no one goes or watches anymore.