Geoff Bodine Survives Horrific Daytona Wreck 

That, Rickey Rudd, Richard Petty

@@toyman81 Micheal Waltrip and Mike Harman.

@@johncarter1137 *harmon

@@toyman81 Which race was the Rudd one? I'm unfamiliar with it?>

Michael Waltrip at Bristol

I love reading stories like these!

Geoff was the nicer one

@@DanArnets1492 While I can’t see any of the Bodine brothers being straight up mean, I totally believe you on this.

I was there. Nimitz?

@@abledog9462 vinson

I’ll second this. I find these very interesting.

Me too

ill share a story, dale sr and bodine were buddies, dale got mad at him and they started wreckin all the time, jr was always lookin for his daddys attention, usually by getting in trouble, jr built model cars, his favorite was his driver geoff bodine..sr came home one night and saw the model, he flipped, said why you have his car?hes my fav driver dad, sr took him out by lake, took model and blew it up with fireworks.. true story..lol..jr was too young to understand..but didnt build his car anymore.

me too

I haven’t dreamed of my dad in years now, man I’d love to..

@@robertwitcher5113 It only happens to me maybe once or twice a year now but it's a blessing when it happens

@@SonOfAdolf amen 🙏

Absolutely true, it's Aug. 24th, 2023, YEARS later. It is so awesome. THANK you Lord for this testimony..❤

It’s not refreshing, it’s disappointing…

I get what youre saying, and what you mean, and I mean this as humble and dignified as can be, ...and I"m not trying to be "nit-picky", but Geoff did not say he "used that as motivation to be a better PERSON", he "used that as motivation to be a better CHRISTIAN!" I thank God for his testimony! What a strong man of faith.

@@kidwave1 True, I misworded that, but that all aside that was a great interview

I grew up in Chemung, and went to his father Eli Bodine's race track. Geoff became the man he is for sure, and thankfully so. Geoff in this interview, and from his personal growth and growth in faith, is a hundred percent better man than he was in the 1970s.

hall of fame didnt exist until 2010

Exactly why do you find it inspiring???

I think a lot of drivers are men of faith honestly.

Hey, I know what you mean. I never liked the Bodine brothers.( I always pronounced his name Gee-Off) It wasn't personal. In any sport you have guys you root for and then you have guys you don't like. I disliked Jeff Gordon too. Didn't care much for DW either until he went up to the booth. I would shake all their hands today if I met them. It was what made the sport so enjoyable back in those days.

He was supposed to race Dale hard, they raced hard back then.

He’s probably told it many times

@Luke Skyballer he was saying that he won four races at Martinsville, three races at Pocono, and won on all three major road courses (Riverside, Sears Point, Watkins Glen)

@Davi Clar Thanks for mentioning the bobsled. I forgot about that. :)

GOD BLESS YOU ED AND GEOFF.

@ImThatVintageNASCARNerd I'm nobody other than someone who just got back up every time...:-)

Well said moparedtn. Im saying a prayer for you right now, ...of healing, health, mercy, peace, love, ...and continued strong faith. God bless you brother.

God Bless you Ed on the Ridge.

@@kidwave1 How very kind of you! As I keep telling Him though, I'm fine - I'd rather He look after others. Of course, He's capable of caring for all of us simultaneously, so I don't know why I say that. :-)

Watched him at Stafford and Thompson in the Mods also. Geoff and Richie Evans had some epic battles. I thought what he did to help the Olympic Bob Sled team was pretty special also

Loved watching that little Pinto kick ass!

I'm not much of a religious person but his story touched me.

Amen

Religion has no bearing on civilization as a whole.

@@tcmusic6429 it has an awful big impact where I live. Sorry it doesn't in your neck of the woods.

@@jeffreyroth7517 have you ever heard of separation of church and state? Religion itself is not as prominent as you think 😉

I remember that race All that we was left of that truck was the roll cage with Geoff in it

To say that I am a Earnhardt fan would be an understatement. I loved watching them but I believe that Jr has truly found his "Groove". He's better than anyone who did interviews for 60 minutes!!! This is where he is supposed to be.

Yea, 100% thought he had .... been in a situation incompatible with human life.

💯

Same here. Every once in a while I’ll start to read an article about something involving NASCAR and I no longer even recognize any of the drivers names.

God’s plan doesn’t make any sense.

my son bought his 1st car @15, we lived 5 miles south of Pocono, it was a 6 cyl 86 camaro w/ one owner, 78,000, We agreed to swap out the plugs since We assumed be the original, the car belonged to a flourist in town who delivered flowers in it and ran it a few times a year to Atlantic City, my sonTodd had a tough life growing up w/ his Dad a long distance mover, Todd earned his money for his car by sacrifices for the moving business which then presented more social and school difficulties, anyways He was doing his 1st tuneup to a car trying be gentle with a seized plug, low and behold it snapped clean off in the block, I was a believer from another time his sister was born, so I pleaded and prayed hard immediately with our beholder we had no xtra money to send the car to a mechanic, so I took the broken end of the plug and put the cap back on and placed it back on top of the seized broken bottom half for some crazy reason told Todd to get in and turn the engine over thinking possibly driving to a shop for repair but when the sound from the engine was a unearthly growl for about 2-3 seconds, I told Todd turn off the key , now when I looked on the ground under the engine there was the bottom broken end of the plug on the ground - no hole in the block or the pan just the bottom half of the plug on the ground, we threaded up the new plug engine ran perfectly no stripping,no hole in the block , all the other 5 plugs came out and went in normally car ran perfectly. God is amazing,

Then he came out with the Pinto, looked like a spaceship!

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@@happyjohn8256 I was an earnhardt fan before it was fashionable

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