This NASCAR Driver QUIT After Hearing Voices at Talladega 

So that's what the Bobby Isaac memorial race at hickory is for

Wow! I never knew how he died. He was one of my favorite all-time stock car drivers back in the 70s.

The man who worked on him during that race was Jerry Punch who sent him to the hospital where he later died.

Damn, I didn't know you could die from heat exhaustion BEFORE you have a heat stroke.

I remember watching Bobby Isaac racing 🏁🏆🏁

Bobby Isaac was a great driver. Loved watching him in the K&K Insurance Dodge.

The Talladega curse…………

Listen to the voice, and decide who is talking. Good or evil, both can talk to you.

I was an official at Hickory MS 1 year. Between the temperature and humidity, I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often. Race cars are hot in low humidity. "Sweltering" is a word that comes to mind.

This story was referenced in Days of Thunder.

Rumor has it that it was Bud Moore.

We had some terribly hot days back then, I remember several summers with 4 and 5 105F consecutive days, here in NC.

1969 = 197 mph qualifying speed by Bobby Issac. A boycott by all other drivers except Tiny Lund and Issac. The tires were suspect , drivers wanted to wait till better tires were available. First race at Talladega. Bias ply tires , no power steering , no AC and driving 500 miles at speed with no pee breaks. This is the Nascar i remember. Guys were filthy after a race. They would take goggles off and that would be the only clean spot on their faces. Those guys were tough. I grew up by Rockingham back then and my dad would take us to both circle track and dragstrip. RIP Bobby ,that K&K Dodge.

If y’all are wondering: The reason people believe that Talladega is cursed is because a Native American shaman apparently cursed the land after their land was taken. Edit: I just learned that some claim that it’s a Native American burial ground. Man, this place is so creepy!

RIP to the wheelmen

They didn't announce racing deaths until the race was over. So its likely knew nothing about Smith during the race

Bobby Issac was amazing... He set several records at Bonneville with the '69 Charger Daytona... After it was banned from NASCAR because no other cars could keep up with them, and the '70 Superbirds especially on the Super-speedways , when equipped with the 426 Hemi's... I'm now thinking that the cool water circulated through the helmets of the drivers , was brought forth by the death of Bobby Issac, as they found out what caused his death...

bobby should’ve talked to the voice he let it fuck him up

No. He said “something told me to get out of the car.” It was a hunch apparently brought on when he saw how severely damaged Larry Smith’s car was in his fatal accident. Media foolishly thought he was hearing voices

i belive that voice was god telling bobby to stop or he died

I remember doing an autocross event in my early 20s. We were bombing down this hill into a blind, flat right and I swear I heard someone tell me right in my ear through my helmet to check way up. I did and as we rounded the bend there was 6 cars in a wad across the track. We didn't use radios or anything back then. It was just guys with flags. They were way late that day. I quit racing for awhile after that. Now my oldest daughter races late model dirt stuff.

I wonder if anyone ever heard Dale Earnhardt Sr?

Look. This guy wasn't crazy. Bobby was a the definition of a good Ole boy racer. He was a product of his raising. He had been wanting to quit driving because he didn't understood or like that he had to write those big checks to the IRS. He was self educated. Not dumb. He was very intelligent & full of common sense. He just didn't have all the book knowledge that others might have had because he had to work as a boy to help support his family. He just didn't understand that the more money you make, the bigger check you write to the irs. That us according to his crew cheif, Harry Hyde. Also, the race he supposedly heard a voice ......it was nothing more than a feeling or the little voice we all have in our heads that tells us when something isn't right. Bobby rode around under caution after that wreck & all the other drivers could see the carnage & the injured driver as the safety crew got him out of the crashed car. That bothered Bobby. So, he told his car owner at the time, bud Moore for a relief driver because something told him to get out of the car.

Always listen to that still small voice because if its trying to help you it’s the Lord.

Reminds me of the Sugar Ray Robinson vs Jimmy Doyle fight. Ray had a dream that Doyle would die in the ring with him and pulled out of the fight. Boxing officials, clergymen, Ray's corner and promoter, Doyle and his crew all approached Ray and convinced him to make the fight. With a thunderous knockout, Ray dropped Doyle, successfully defending his championship for the first time, but there was little celebration, as Doyle slipped into a coma later that night and never regained consciousness. Of course, everyone promptly began clamoring for "justice" and there was talk of homicide charges for Ray that never materialized.

Davey Allison's helicopter crashed at talladega race track

I read an article in The San Fernando Valley paper called the green It wasn't just voices Bobby heard but the sickle man he seen in the rear view mirror I didn't realize he was driving for Bud Moore I thought he was driving the K&K Insurance Dodge at the time

Bobby Isaac was my second-favorite next to Richard Petty.

Larry's seat broke and his helmet hit a roll bar splitting it like a walnut. My father was a crew member for Neil Bonnett. Nascar covered the car trying to hide the fact his seat broke. My father looked under the sheet and was almost reprimanded by Nascar.

Larry Smith lol

Just like the 27 club. There is no curse. If you drive for hours and hours in a cocoon in Florida weather. You might drop dead.

That’s just the Indian ghosts. Talladega was built on a burial ground. But I guess that can be said for everything in America

Losing "conscious?" Shouldn't that be "consciousness?"

Smart man

*Racing Lagoon's [Voice] story arc intensifies*

The word is "consciousness"

Rob Ciesielski

Spoiler alert: nobody makes it out alive.

Damn

🙏🙏🙏

EERIE

I wrote a song called “Smell It”.

I miss Ricky Bobby. 😢

I can't wait for nascar to disapear...

Talladega 🏎🏁 yup it get yea / its indians 👻☠️/ 😞😓😣

Jesus Christ was telling him to quit NASCAR but didn't listen to anyone

You got to listen to your voices in your head and ask your. Self would God talk that way! Know your angels that are of Lord!

Your facts are wrong. NASCAR cars back in the day did not go 180. They can barely do 180 today

Back then cars didn’t go 180

Hickory, been there N.C

I'm trying to find the point of the story?