Adam Petty's Tragedy at New Hampshire
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- Опубликовано: 12 июн 2024
- On May 12th, 2000, NASCAR’s most famous driving family experienced its most heartbreaking moment. Just a month after making his debut in NASCAR’s Winston Cup Series, Adam Petty was practicing for a Busch Series race at New Hampshire International Speedway. He was making a routine practice run whenever his throttle stuck entering turn 3, resulting in a near head-on impact with the outside wall. At the ripe age of just 19, Adam Petty lost his life in the devastating crash. Today we’re going to cover the early life of Adam, his terrible accident, the fallout of the wreck, and pay tribute to a young man taken far too soon.
Adam Petty's Tragedy at New Hampshire
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That line from Kyle really cuts deep. "Richard finally got the son he never had." Kyle recognizing that relationship between his father and son is really something. Losing a child is the hardest thing a parent can experience.
That sounds like he hated Kyle
@@Dark-ql7knyeah, I don’t see that as recognizing a special relationship, I see that as a statement that he he felt, he was never good enough for his father, that his father was always disappointed in him, that he was never a son that his father could be proud of, but that Adam could be. It’s a very sad statement…
I was there when Adam died. I was working on a Busch north team and getting ready for qualifying when I heard the news. I tried to shield my drive from finding out before qualifying, but wasn't able to.
Sorry to hear that i hope you are okay
I was also there working on a Busch North team. I will never forget the sound of the impact. I was also there when Kenneth Dale Irwin Jr. died.
I was there in the stands as a 10 year old and saw it. Crazy
RIP Adam Petty, always in our hearts ❤
The legend of the 45 car continues strong today for 23XI Racing. As Kurt Busch won at Kansas in 2022 on the very weekend that Adam lost his life 22 years prior, then Bubba Wallace would do the same thing in the Fall Kansas event. Now Tyler Reddick is keeping that 45 car in good hands as he won 3 times in that car (2 times in 2023, 1 so far in the Duels).
RIP Adam Petty
Would be amazing to get a Petty lineup of throwbacks at Daytona or something.
You have the 42 and 43 of Legacy Motorclub, the 44 of NY Racing Team and the 45 of 23XI. Would be amazing to see the generations of the Petty family represented, especially if Thad Moffitt brings the 46 to Cup...
I had met Lee and Richard when I was a young child. They had come to Detroit for a meeting with Chrysler. My father and uncle were both engineers with Chrysler at the time. Many years later I met Adam at an asa race that he had won at the I-70 speedway in Odessa Missouri. This family till this day appreciates their fans. Just like Richard, Adam wouldn't leave the track until every person who wanted an autograph got one. A laugh, a smile, a handshake, he loved the fans. I still have the hero cards that he autographed for my daughters that day. He even spelled one of their names wrong. Lol. We so miss him.
This AI is getting out of hand 😂😂
During Adam Petty’s only Winston Cup start, it was said that his dad, Kyle, did not make the show for that race. However, Kyle Petty did take part in this race driving in relief for another driver but by that time, Adam had already dropped out of the race with an engine failure. It’s kind of sad that Kyle and Adam never raced alongside each other in the same race knowing what would happen to Adam a month later.
I had an opportunity to meet Kyle at a personal appearance/autograph meeting. Kyle's popularity was almost at its height and I had to wait in a long line. I didn't know it at the time, but I had a long conversation with Adam at the time. He had a deep knowledge of racing, but was unknown at the time. He had that Petty trait of being fan-friendly. I only wish I knew the potential he had as a driver.
Adam had all the potential to be a great race car driver. That tragedy is sad.
He would have had 8 trophys I think
@@jamesholcombe435He would've been the guy who would give Dodge their first win of 2001.
@@jamestaylor4480Not for Petty Enterprises he wouldn’t.
@@TheOfficialRandomGuy That would be a big victory for Adam Petty, Sprint PCs, Petty Enterprises and Dodge.
@@jamestaylor4480 Petty Enterprises wasn’t competitive at all in the late 90s early 2000s, and Adam Petty wouldn’t have changed that. I believe if Adam was talented he would’ve eventually moved on.
I lost 2 friends to that track. I just want to say that Adam was a great kid, we used to run around IRP together and just be kids. Kyle his dad was great always really caring to me.
You missed what the King said in Petty Blue. "Don't put a question mark where God puts a period." He got that quote in a letter from a fan. It sucks that we lost Adam. I could see greatness in him, and he had that Petty grin and for the most part, the talent to back it up. RIP 45.
Kyle Petty was my favorite driver while I was growing up. It makes me so sad that Adam was taken so early. He had so much potential and was such a great person. Having Adam would've been really good for the sport.
I said it before, i’ll say it again, adam petty will forever be the biggest “what if” driver in NASCAR history, he had talent and potential, but he never got to show it in cup, such a tragedy
I would argue Davey Allison.
But i definitely agree, just thought Davey deserved mention
@@Dougie1969 i can definitely see a case for davey, i just feel like adam had alot less time than davey did, both died way too soon though
I believe he would’ve left Petty Enterprises eventually. If he really did have the talent, Petty Enterprises would’ve held him back.
I'll never forget Adam Petty when I heard about his tragedy.
I'm from Chile 🇨🇱 ‚ i huge motorsport fan and Adam Petty is one of my heros of motorsport. If he still alive he could be the face of Chrysler and Dodge until this day.
PD: my first tattoo is gonna be the 45 in memory of Adam Petty (sorry my english i still learning)
Your English is really good!
Your english is way better than my spanish
Your English is better that most USA citizens.
Your English is good!
Adam Petty,Davey Allison, Allen Kulwicki, Kenny Irwin. What might have been? I still get pissed two on the track and two from aircraft.
What a sad day..I felt so bad for the family...especially Kyle..I realize Adam was a member of the Petty racing legend, but 19 yrs old is to young to become just a memory....what a shame.
Kyle i feel suffered the hardest from this loss. He finally gave his dad what he had dreamed of but he himself had lost a son and link to his father. RIP Adam your family loved u more than most love their own
Adam Petty definitely would have been one of the greatest in this era of NASCAR… He probably would have been one of those drivers that wasn’t that good in the Busch Series but would have mastered the Cup Series. Kinda like Jimmie Johnson. Unfortunately we will never know…
I just got done watching Brock Beard's Three Before February. And this video is posted.
And NASCAR did not do a think about improving safety until Dale Sr. died in the 2001 Daytona 500
@@shaunstrasser1 They didn't even make the HANS device mandatory until the passing of Blaise Alexander
A.K.A. One of the greatest NASCAR documentaries of all time
I was there working on a Busch North team. I will never forget the sound of the impact.
So you know tom lesniak?
Because he said the same thing
Can't believe how Lee Petty is overlooked as being merely Richard Petty's father. 3-time Grand National (current Cup Series) champion despite having his first start at age 35 and, above all, has at a staggering Top10 finish ratio of 77,8% out of his starts.
To make a point out of this stat, the Top10 finish of those considered among the best ever are:
Richard Petty - 60,1% (would need to finish an extra 208 Top10's among his races to match Lee Petty)
Dave Pearson - 63,8% (would need to finish an extra 80 Top10's among his races to match Lee Petty)
Cale Yarborough - 57,0% (would need to finish an extra 116 Top10's among his races to match Lee Petty)
Dale Earnhardt - 63,3% (would need to finish an extra 97 Top10's among his races to match Lee Petty)
Jeff Gordon - 59,3% (would need to finish an extra 148 Top10's among his races to match Lee Petty)
As a camper for the first 5 years of VJ, Adam changed my life.
24 years ago. Adam Petty could still be racing today at age 43 or have moved to the broadcast booth.
It broke my heart when he died. I loved Richard and Kyle and I truly believed that Adam was the future of Petty Enterprises.
Still have quite a few big an small Adam petty diecasts ..an one day I go to a flee market an see a broken 100 car hot wheels case .
The middle plastic piece with a car on it is gone ..an I'm like what can I fix this with ....BOOM ..the wonderful thought came to mind ...aH HELL were is it ..
I know I still have it ......found it .
Mint perfect Adam Petty bumper sticker ..had to modify it cut some of it ...but now I have a custom made Adam Petty Hot Wheels car case ...looks so awesome. ..now sitting with the many many other cases that mostly all have his father Kyles .ol Pontiac hot wheels sponsored car on the front .
Shame on Nascar for allowing so many deaths to happen and even after Earnhardt's death we still had to lose Blaise Alexander for them to FINALLY make the HANS device mandatory. Even if there were no soft walls installed yet, if the HANS device was made mandatory immediately after the death of J.D. McDuffie (cause of death was the same as Adam Petty) it would have saved so many lives .
NASCAR didn't own ARCA the series that Blaise Alexander lost his live in, at the time. They had an alliance with them if anything.
It would've saved Neil Bonnett and Rodney Orr's lives certainly. John Nemechek's life also.
I’ve been a fan since 99.. that’s my biggest gripe with nascar more so than any other rule change or point’s system etc etc… I don’t care how much of a legend dale sr was and I loved him too still his life wasn’t worth more than the countless lives lost for decades in racing.. every time they would just shrug their shoulders and keep going even other drivers but the minute a man dies that you never think would die that happen to be a 7 time champ the nascar world stopped.. it just never made sense to me…
Racing has gotten exponentially safer since and has been for so long most of you misremember the thinking at the time. You've completely memory holed how looked down on it was by the majority of people, drivers included
No one was keeping drivers from wearing them and there was a lot of talk about them for some time yet 5/43 drivers had them on in 2001 Daytona 500. No one took it seriously until Earnhardt died
@brandynhenry7107 Expect Mark Martin 1 week later said that he wasn't going to wear the HANS Device. He probably used the Hutchens Device instead. Besides it wasn't til October after the ARCA race that Blaise was killed in was when NASCAR made it mandatory. Sure some drivers before and afterwards wore it or the Hutchens Device til 2005 when NASCAR just mandated the HANS Device. But nonetheless yes the drivers became more aware and was more willing to use either one of them but not necessarily NASCAR at that point.
I was there working on a Busch grandnation North team! It was such a sad day!! We heard it over reving and then nothing
Always in my heart❤️❤️
I have a press pass signed by him. Never got to meet him
NASCAR 2001 and Heat on PlayStation were dedicated to him and Kenny Irwin Jr
On a TV interview he said my Mondays depends on my Dads Sunday. It was quite funny in the context of the interview and he was laughing
Too bad they didn't learn from the 3 deaths in 2000 and made Hans device mandatory before the 2001 season
Too bad Nascar didn’t learn in the early 90s. Hans may have been made mandatory by 2000. Though France might’ve been persuaded by Earnhardt himself not to take to those measures.
Adam Petty and Dale Earnhardt will forever be legend rest in peace to both of them😢❤
I like the clip of Adam racing against Jimmy Johnson in the 44. Saw that and got both of their autographs in 98. Really weird
He’d be roughly Denny Hamlin’s age right now. Could see him as a journeyman driver like McDowell who got a win here and there
I think if he had the talent he would’ve eventually left Petty Enterprises. He wouldn’t have accomplished much for them.
@@TheOfficialRandomGuy its a 50/50. maybe he don't accomplish much at rpm. but maybe he takes meh equipment and gets good finishes out of it which leads to some company noticing and spending money at rpm which gets better equipment which equals wins and maybe championships.
How would guys like JJ or Gordon have done if they would been stuck in some back marker teams vs what they got at HMS?
There’s a great documentary three before February that it’s very interesting into more deeper looks into these careers of the three drivers that were killed in 2000
his mother didn't deserve this
she's been forgotten
That’s the most damage I’ve seen on the right side of a car in NASCAR.
Hey this is my home track i live about a hour from it.
same i live in massachusetts
@@axe561me as well
Image of Adam Petty fans rival against Jr, Gordon, Johnson, & Elloitt
Adam was a nice kid
Dale Junior got his first win in that race Adam started in Texas in 2000
Had potential. Such a shame
I was there when kenny died😢
this was so unfortunate and preventable. So were the rest until Dale. This incident and the rest of the fatal crashes led to an improvement in technology and strictness in the rules that made the sport extremely safer. Their martyrdom have saved countless lives not just NASCAR, but the sport as a whole.
Adam Petty had everything good going for him career wise. He had proven he wasnt in NASCAR merely because of his name. He very well coulda been the guy that kept Petty Enterprises going in their time of misfortune. Like you said, unlike Kyle, Adam was far more focused on being a driver which would have easily led to some success in Cup. It's an unfortunate thing to think about when looking at what we could have had in NASCAR
where u find the news clips of Adam's crash? :/
RIP Adam
That’s the day I was born!
Fun fact
A couple sidenotes I feel should have been mentioned....Why was a full blooded son of the south born in New Jersey, of all places? I expect it was because his family was in DOVER, for some reason? Also, Kyle won HIS first ARCA race, as well. I was there...got the T shirt, etc.
ALTHOUGH I REALLY LIKE HIS MAJESTY KING RICHARD PETTY I DONT APPRECIATE THE WAY HE TREATED HIS SON KYLE PETTY
Dark day
I was a wild child. As a 6 year old, my parents asked me to pick my favorite drivers. I said adam first because he was the youngest and cutest probably, after his death.....my parents said i chose kenny irwin jr. as my favorite driver. they still have a kenny irwin shirt from when i was young hanging in their bar room. denny hamlin is now my favorite driver....since 2006..
but wild i didnt know how they died the same year same track....
I can't believe its been 24 years since Adam s death ....just not right....rest in peace
So much potential wasted.
Did the wreck happen in a cup car or Busch car?
Busch car
I feel lucky that i got to meet the kid in 99 or 2000 in milwaukee for the asa race. Had the longest line of everyone for autographs. Super nice guy, really tall like richard lol. After i sat thru his line for an hour i looked for any drivers with nobody in line. Found some dude driving a white and black 44 car i never heard of (apparentely noone else had either). That was jimmie johnson lol still my 2 fav autographs ive ever gotten besides max papis lol
I met JJ at Anderson Speedway in 98. same track in the mid 80s met guys like Mark Martin, Dick Trickle. ASA was great back then. went to the ASA Anderson 400 every year from 1986 to 1998
24 years later that day still burns in the pit of my stomach. Honestly as far as "Where were you when," it ranks right with the Challenger and 9/11. I was so looking forward to a Petty putting a Dodge back in Victory Lane. Over the years I have learned things concerning the business side in terms of sponsorship dollars and revenue streams that was lost because of the event. I have no doubt Petty Enterprises would still exist today.
You have to admire a driver that keeps on going full speed even though the hood is flipped backwards blocking his vision.
This was pretty much the end of Petty Enterprises although the team was already on the decline
I mean honestly, how's actually surprised to see "The Kings" grandson behind a race car. 😂🤔 Yeah, just imagine what he could have become if he wasn't taken so early. 🤔😢
I forget about the engine kill switch being there. Why didn’t Jimmie Johnson use it in that 2017 crash
You’re talking about that big Pocono crash that some say marked the downturn of his career?
The answer would be because the kill switch is very useful if your throttle sticks open, but it’s not there to deal with brake failures. When his brakes failed, he dropped it into third gear to try to slow the car down.
One of the biggest tragedies in NASCAR history. Adam could've become the modern day Richard petty
Wouldn't have done well in the sub par petty enterprises equipment but certainly better than Kyle in it.
Just a terrible tragedy he would have been a star still can't imagine what Kyle and his wife have went through seems like quite a few of nascars families of great achievements have been hit hard with tragedy. Earnhardt Pettys Allisons Hendricks racing can be so good and so cruel too
Joe nimcheck didn't try for rookie of the year in cup until 1994. In which he lost to Jeff Burton. CHECK YOUR STATS!!
What about Jeffrey Earnhardt?He ran in the Cup Series as a 4th generation driver behind Ralph,Dale Sr,Dale jr and his dad Kerry...
As a Richard Petty fan I was wondering who would take the reigns, while Kyle had a good run in the early 90s he had slowed down, and Hamilton was okay but other than a few good races not much to watch. I was only 13 and he was moving up just like Earnhardt Jr. I finally had my driver and was ready for some real racing. It was a sad day, to look back now I think he would have taken a lot from Jimmy and Jr. And would have definitely been just as popular.
Adam and many others died from the same injuries as Earnhardt, but NASCAR did absolutely nothing regarding safety until their cashcow was killed on Feb 18, 2001
Base of skull deadly sad
Anyone know what happened?
Doesn't look bad.
Tragic.
Anyone else disgusted that the kings grandson didn't mean jack when he died yet dale sr dies the same way and omg we must have Hans devices safer barrier walls and the car of tomorrow
100 percent agree had this been Dale Jr they'd stopped the sport till they had a solution
I wonder why he didn't turn the ignition off when he knew the throttle stuck.
? Because he didn’t have time.
Emergency kill switches on the steering wheel weren’t implemented until _after_ Adam Petty and Kenny Irwin Jr were killed, when NASCAR finally realized it had to do something about throttles sticking open.
Even with the emergency kill switch on the steering wheel, when literally all the driver has to do is flick his thumb across it, they can still end up hitting the wall, though not as hard, because identifying and reacting to a stuck throttle takes time.
Think about it: they are pushing the envelope in order to be as fast as possible, they are not letting off the throttle until they absolutely have to in order to make the corner. If the throttle is stuck, when they lift off the throttle, it will take a moment for them to recognize that the throttle has stuck - and by the time they recognize it, an incident is unavoidable, it’s just a question of the severity. Sure, it may take less than a second for the electrical impulses from the sounds and feelings of the throttle stuck open to make their way into the brain, for the brain to process them, recognize that the throttle is stuck, determine the action needed, and send the electrical impulses down to the muscles to react, but in that time, the trajectory towards the wall at full speed has already been determined. When the switch isn’t on the steering wheel, when the driver must actually take their hand off the steering wheel, reach for and hit the kill switch, it takes even more time.
When not whenever
Look as Black Flags Matter said 18 years old. With a team that sometimes wins but he's not going to win races out of the gate
"RAISE HELL! PRAISE DALE "🙏
I’m early
while we have his nephew to look forord to
No soft walls adam petty dale earnhardt kenny irwin tony roper alan kuwiki
Alan kulwiki died in a plane crash
John nemachek was the other driver around that same time killed in a NASCAR truck race at homestead fla.
Soft walls yes.
But sadly, with a closed helmet, and or the hans system, dale could possibly still be around today..
What about Alan kuwiki? He died in a plane crash.
Dale senior seat belt broke.
kyle petty definitely should have been a farmer. not his dad, but kyle just looks like a farmer not a racer. he looks like an environmentalist.
Restrictor plates at New Hampshire was an asinine knee jerk reaction by NASCAR. You have 2 drivers killed by stuck throttles, so let's put a device on the car that forces them to hold the throttle open longer, deeper into the turn. That plus let's have a race with 0 lead changes.
First, they used the restrictor plates in that instance as a temporary measure until more permanent solution was found - which it was, with the steering wheel kill switch.
Second, throughout the history of the use of restrictor plates in NASCAR, the races with restrictor plates have had *more* lead changes.
Third, restrictor plates aren’t being used to deal with throttle sticking, they are used to control the top speeds, and the only alternative to using restrictor plates, tapered spacers, or other limiters would be to mandate smaller, less powerful engines. There would be just no way to maintain a minimum level of safety without restricting the horsepower of the modern cars - not just the safety of the drivers, but the safety of the spectators, as well. Racing is always inherently dangerous, but there’s a tolerance limit, especially when it comes to the safety of spectators (more specifically, those in charge are well aware of the lawsuits that would come from deaths and injuries resulting from a car going through a catch fence when they “knew or ought to have known” of the dangers inherent in allowing cars to race at the speeds they would be able to if they were unrestricted restrict)
@@valerierodger You are talking apples and oranges. A restrictor plate at a 1 mile flat track is less about reducing top speed, and the lack of throttle response off the corner made passing impossible vs Daytona and Talladega where the goal is to keep the cars under 200 mph.
Yes, there are more lead changes post plate, but that is only because 30+ cars car run in a single 3 wide pack because even the lowest buck teams have the same horsepower as the top teams. Prior to plates, rarely did more than 10 cars run together in the lead pack after a few laps. The Big One was a rare event, not something that happens every race, sometimes twice.
Actually, the most lead changes in a single races was 75 at Talladega in 1984 (pre-plate) that stood until 88 changes were set in 2010 and 2011.
I've followed NASCAR since 1980 when the cars were 115" wheelbase. My dad was at Talladega the day Allison launched into the grandstand. After that NASCAR should have switched to 311 ci (5.1L) engines with a 2bbl carb because that was the standard production car engine, not 358 (5.9L) and GM's were switching to FWD V6's that maxed at 3.1L, but NASCAR had just had an expensive/divisive switch from 7L big blocks a decade before. And BTW they used restrictor plates from 71 to 74 to keep the the speeds below 200 and allow the unrestricted small blocks to run equal to the restricted big blocks after the aero cars (Dodge Daytona, Plymouth Superbird, Ford Talladega, Mercury Cyclone Spoiler) were approaching 200 at Talladega and shredding tires.
Rusty Wallace ran probably the last unrestricted laps at Talladega in 2004, hitting 228 for the entire lap and claimed to be doing 242 across the finish line. During COVID when there were no fans in attendance an unrestricted race at Daytona or Talladega would have been interesting.
Dumbas* 😨😨😨
a lot of people say he was gay
You're literally the first I've heard. He had a girlfriend too. So f*ck off
Richard was not the best ever. He had the only factory sponsor for years that's why he won so uch not to mention the few he was illegal and still giving the win charlotte and Daytona... do better.
You got no right to run that, Just shows you what kind of person you are, You know how the family feels about that but you're just gonna go ahead and do it anyway just for a bunch of likes, You got no right, In RUclips should have known better on this one. Karma's A,,BI Tc h , What goes around comes around body remember that..
😂
Let me explain this to u. This is a free country and he can make a video on whatever he wants. Deal with it. Karma isn't real. Stop trying to be a badass. U aren't. U look and sound weak af tbh. U would never say what u say here to someone's face.
This is the lamest comment I've ever read
The constant reporting on death made me unsub.
We don't care
Weak
Bye
he was not experienced, stop saying he was,.6yrs old DON'T mean anything, awards, all that.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂