Final 3 Laps - 1989 Holly Farms 400 

I love how geoff bodine didn't have to wait for the network to get back from a five minute commercial break. He just pulled into victory lane and got of the car. Ahhhh the good ole days

One of the best things about then was the cautions weren't put out for everything- The car was in the wall and they stayed green because he re fired the engine. Compare to now where they throw the caution if there is a cigarette butt on the track.

Ricky Rudd, what an under rated, under valued driver with a solid career!

I swear, I miss this track. There was some great racing there.

Bob Jenkins “the voice of Winston Cup” May he Rest In Peace; haven’t watched NASCAR since about 2004;but followed closely from 79 until then. Had to come listen to this after hearing of his passing. Maybe I’ll go watch a VHS tape of one of Terry Labontes wins and reminisce some more. Feel like I just lost a friend I never actually met.

As Ned said, “Wow! Short track racing!” Gotta love it; .625 mile track.

Every time I see a race from the 80's and 90's (some 70's), Dale Earnhardt is up front 99% of the time. What a legend.

Old fashioned NASCAR. Hillin spins and they don't throw a bogus yellow to "set up" a good finish and get a good finish anyway. A car wins carrying tobacco sponsorship-Chewing tobacco! A driver in victory lane with no shirt on. Imagine that happening now. Earnhardt tries to be the intimidator, coming down on Rudd, expecting Rudd to get scared and back off, but Rudd don't chicken out. Earnhardt whines, bitches & curses on TV & doesn't get fined. And-get this folks-a FULL HOUSE!

I hated Earnhardt back in the day but I sure miss him. Miss B.P. Bob and Ned too.

Buick Regal Chevrolet Lumina Ford Thunderbird Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme Pontiac Grand Prix I miss those days.

I love how Bob called the end of this one.

Bob Jenkins is one of the most underrated NASCAR broadcasters ever.

damn i miss those days when racing was racing

They should make all the spoiled brat sissy drivers of today watch what the sport should look like and maybe the stands wouldn't be empty and the ratings in the tank.

Dale would have been an 8 time Champ if Dale would have just let him go on this day...Dale should could dish it out but he couldn't take it....

I don't know why Earnhardt got so pissed, he spun himself out. If you watch the lines on the track it isn't hard to tell Earnhardt moved down on Rudd. Plus how many people did he wreck in his career anyway? Taste of his own medicine if Rudd did turn him.

"AND BOTH OF THEM SPIN!!!"

Earnhardt never liked his own medicine.

I started rooting for Rudd when I was 14yrs. It was towards the end of his career. He's the reason I started following nascar

At this race Earnhardt had a dash panel held in place with screws as opposed to being welded as per the rules. No penalty. Also, please proof read your posts. Your spelling and grammar are pitiful.

{2 octave higher voice} AND BOTH OF THEM SPIN!!! One of the most memorable calls in racing :-D

Gotta Love Bob's Recation! In my opinion...Bob Jenkins, Allen Bestwick, Ken Squier, and Paul Page are the best at that. But Jenkins top them all.

Honestly, the best part of this for me was the fact that Geoff Bodine won. I live 15 minutes from Bodine's hometown and I root for any drivers that are from the northeast.

Miss this era of Nascar now i no longer watch .Thanx France

Ricky was one of those drivers who spoke with his tough driving style rather than his words. Thats why you gotta love the guy!

Earnhardt was a thug.

two of my favorite drivers. so its hard to say whos fault but watching the painted lines on the track it looks like ricky held his line and dale came down.

I know this racing was great, but im a relatively new fan and todays racing is all i know. I just wish that all these comments about how racing sucks now wouldn't ruin it for me every time i look at a youtube nascar video.

Earnhardt may have come out on the short end of this one and lost the 89 Championship as a result, but that's how he raced. He wasn't going to play it safe just to secure points. He went out to win every race like it was his last. That's real racing. He lost this title, but he wound up winning 4 Cups in the next 5 years. So you win some and lose some. This was the prime era of Nascar. There was no need to have Chase to the Cup. The Cups were already tightly contested as shown in this race or in 1992. Can't beat this era.

WOW these 3 laps were more exciting than any race I've watched in the past 10 years... nice to see them actually racing!

I love the call Bob Jenkins gave when they both spun out.

Eat your hearts out....I was at this race, still got the ticket stub too. The track had wooden bleachers to sit in. Incredible race.

They don't make racing like that anymore

Damn I loved Dale and loved how he was always so passionate about racing. He just hated to lose and was a sore looser, but that's what made him the man he was. Loved his interviews when he was mad and Smoke was just like him and the last to be cut from the same mold as hard nose racers like Dale. Miss you Dale, and Nascar will never be the same without guys like you and Tony

he definitly came down on rudd...Ricky had him in that turn, and would have won the race. But it was what? 18 years ago? I wasn't even alive then.

I remember that race, regardless of who you feel was at fault THAT WAS NASCAR! Racing just seemed so much better back then with less "high dollar" corporate sponsors, great short tracks {North Wilkesboro), packed stands. Nascar needs to get back to it's roots!

Dale cut Ricky off plain as day, and then he cried about it. Proof on film of why I could not stand Dale Earnhardt. What a dope.

Amen to that! Never thought I'd pull for a Chevy. Martin is the best driver never to win a Cup

They may have both won 7 Cups, but the big difference in Earnhardt & Petty is simple really, y'all just saw & heard it in Dale's interview. Senior was the walking-talking definition of "Could dish it out, but could NOT take it" 🤷🏻‍♂️ As for this legendary crash, I've watched it at least a hundred times & I still can't say who's responsible for it. Just two driver's racing really hard & ran out of space 😉

wow look at those stands... so many fans. I love nascar but its nothing like that anymore

Back when racing was real, even though I was a kid back then Im glad I was there, because what you have now in NASCAR just totally sucks.

They should have never left North Wikesboro.

well Earnhardt has been bumping people in his entire career and he got what was coming to him

Such a shame Nascar got away from great short tracks like these some much great racing !!

Earnhardt's fault

thats awesome - gotta love parsons and jenkins

Awesome clip Matt.

"Candid comments from Dale Earnhardt" LOL...imagine the overreaction and uproar if a driver said "he knocked the shit outta me" these days...(at 4:38 BTW).

It's a little surreal seeing Ricky Rudd in the Quaker State car instead of the Tide or even Texaco car

Dale Earnhardt was last generations Tony Stewart. Wrecking everyone and blaming everyone but himself.

Damn Chocolate gonna take on all of them by himself.

Ahh back when was NASCAR kicked ass.

Dale said they should find that S.O.B. lol

god damn dale can change out of his jump suit fast

Oh, the connections: Dale's most hated rival *Geoff Bodine* ends up winning the race in the car that *Ricky* would drive the following year. Ricky drove the #3 for a time before he and Dale swapped and Ricky's crew chief here *Larry Mac* later became Dale's crew chief! And Geoff's brother *Brett* got his only "win" in that *#26 Quaker State Buick*

That was a good video. Thanks for sharing

This is one of the reasons I couldn't stand Ironhead. Obviously Rudd couldn't go any lower on the track. Earnhardt was the biggest crybaby.

Bob Jenkins is the best commentator ever with Allen Bestwick a close second!

Back at this time, the lead lap cars lined up on the outside and cars a lap down were on the inside. This was all race, not after a specific lap or anything either. They didn't do the free pass like they do now so the idea was that the lap cars could possible race their way in getting their lap back.

That's when racing was racing

Ha ha ha! I remember watching this race. Ironhead got a taste of his own medicine that day and didn't like it!! 😂

Always could dish it out, but couldn't take it.

Ricky Rudd was the last driver not afraid of Dale Earnhardt

Oh bullshit Rudd had the faster car and Dale came down on him.

Earnhardt drove down into Rudd....

dang I did not know they were doing ride alongs 30 years ago

For Ricky's Rudd take on what happened ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5DDsESz1m5U.html

I'm here in 2018 - won't ever forget this race... Earnhardt lost the championship to Wallace by 12 points. If he had finished second at Wilkesboro, he would have been the champion at Atlanta.

Mr. Brian France watch this and see what NASCAR use to be before you ruined it

bodine got wrecked a lot by people and number 3 // he wasn't stupid he let them wipe out instead of taking lead getting wiped out ... Bodine was great driver ... good old days .. they really raced ... slight bumping and grinding then out of control little to much.. but they raced .. couldnt watch it after these days ... lol. wasnt the same , to boring ...

NASCAR's pet bully causes yet another wreck, except this one doesn't work out in his favor. True to form, he gets mad, blames the target, and cries his way home.

When I saw the Tyler Reddick Chase Briscoe Bristol dirt finish i did my Bob Jenkins impression from this spontaneously lol😂

Rudd had the lane. Earnhardt squeezed down then claimed he gave the whole lane and Rudd “knocked the shit out of him”. Swearin on Live TV .. nice.

I was at this race, in the infield, earnhardt started the car after he spun, race was over and come wide open after they was arguing on front straightaway,. I never forget that thing sounded awesome by itself. By the way. The rudd crew wanted no parts of chocolate myers. He was ready to put it on all of them and they dam sure was apologizing for rudd. Lol

Go to any highway and pass someone while driving in the right lane. Now slowly swerve over to the left lane. Who's fault is it when you both crash?

Five people were given the bottom lane and then got the shit knocked out of them.

I was at this race with my dad. We were sitting below the tv camera tower in turn one. Went back over there last night to the CARS tour race and took my boys. It was the first time I had been back to a race there since 1989.

Amen to that!

its a shame nascar dos'nt run north wilksboro anymore. its a better track than california ever will be.

and you call kyle busch a crybaby for not talking when he this is a real crybaby dale sr should not have been mad he did that same old crap so how was it ok for him to do this crap but its drity when it was done to him

Amen brother! None of that "We apologize for the language" kind of shit we always get today. You would think people could find something else to be so uptight about other then some stupid words. lol

And Bob Jenkins's famous call makes it that much more memorable

Sure do miss the old days

Dale was gunning for the championship. Rudd was gunning for the race. Rudd recently told a story about how there was a near riot in the crowd with DE fans vs Everyone else (50/50). On the drive out of the track he laid down in the back of the car he was riding covered up by a blanket!

Looked like neither gave and you want to hold the bottom line down tight and Rudd wasn't having it.

Ricky Rudd was one you didnt mess with ,always liked him ,Dale said he should be suspended !

I was there.Just Hard Raceing.Two cars raceing for the win.

Or how about the time he wrecked Terry Labonte after Labonte passed him clean with a couple of laps to go at Bristol. He was one of the worst sports Nascar ever had. Now, Tony Stewart carries that banner proudly.

I was there that day. Earnhardt fans were throwing beer cans out onto the track after Dale got spun on the final lap!

What so many people seem to forget, is that, Earnhardt's graciousness; Earnhardt was driving defensively, by blocking for Michael Waltrip and Little E; is what ended up costing him his life. If he hadn't driven on the defensive, he would still be alive today. His unselfishness, led to his own mortality. If he had been driving to to win that Daytona 500, in 2001, he probably could've done it, but NO; he knew that, both Michael and Jr., had more to gain by winning that race than he did. I know he wanted to win an 8th championship; but after watching him for so many years, as I had, I could easily tell; with about 10-laps to go, he was going to be perfectly content running 3rd that day.

I remember this race like yesterday. I was maybe about 8 years old. I tried to recreate the crash with my matchbox toy cars on my bed lol

Dale Earnhardt loved to lay a bumper to people but he was such a fu**ing baby when things didn't go his way. Anolther good example of that was when Mayfield nudged him out of the way at Pocono in the late 90s. He flipped Mayfield off after that. Such a class act that guy was.

I miss this Nascar

Dale Earnhardt never tried to kill Rusty Wallace. There's a video on here somewhere of the aftermath of Wallace's wreck in 1993 at Talladega. Earnhardt drove down to the scene of the accident, got out of his car, and went over to Rusty's car to ask Rusty if he was okay and see if he could be of any help to the rescue workers. I swear, some people are idiotic!

Won't argue that Dale isn't great but to say all he had to beat is other drivers is false. Petty outspent many teams but so did Dale. RCR was a premiere team back then and was spending tons for technology, best parts and crew. You make it sound like he took a two year old car laying out in the woods and won the Daytona 500 with it. Many people think Pearson was the best driver in NASCAR. He didn't win 7 titles but didn't run for titles much. Many years he only ran half the season.

Earnhardt and favortism? Noooooooooooooo. LOL

if they did they should haved fined dale sr every time he did it also

exactly. and the section of pavement below Rudd is actually the flat apron. he's on the very bottom line

Oh yeah, god forbid anyone ever challenge the great Dale Earnhardt. But like I said before, it was ok for him to intentionally wreck someone. Darrell Waltrip was far from a stroker and he didn't respect him enough to race him clean. He had to wreck Terry Labonte at Bristol for a win too. But again, it's ok for Dale to do it, right?

This kind of gives me Kyle Busch vs. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. vibes from the North Wilkesboro All-Star Race 35 years later. Earnhardt in '89, Kyle Busch in '24, the one common denominator is, that they were both driving for RCR, 35 years apart from one another.