Dale Earnhardt REFUSED to w3ear the brand New HANS Device that would have kept his head stable during an accident like this. This was brand new device that was an Option too Wear that year and he refused to wear it. The HANS Device is a Must Wear Item in today's Racing Sports all the Way down too Go Karts.
for me the most haunting thing is all the similarities to the Race and Dale himself Dale was 49 years old when he died, the 2001 Daytona 500 had 49 lead changes, on that final lap he was battling for third, Dales number is 3 and his final moments were in turn 3, Dale started the 2001 Daytona 500 in 7th, he had 7 Championships
EmpLemon just put out another Nascar video, this time about the topic of Revenge in Nascar. It covers a large chunk of the history of the sport. I'd love to see you watch that one too!
I love that McDowell got his first career win in the Daytona 500, almost 20 years to the day after Dale Sr's death. The fact that someone that likely survived a crash thanks to the safety improvements made in the wake of Dale's death got his first win at Daytona is just an amazing thing.
@@brysonturner6019not only that but he also got it in his 300-and-somethingth start which was second only to Michael Waltrip for starts before first win
I watched the race with my dad. I remember thinking it wasn't that bad. First time I ever saw my dad cry was when they announced his passing. He was an everyman, a working mans hero.
The mentioned Neil Bonnet dying in a crash. He was a legend in racing, who had been retired for a few years. He got the itch to run the 500 again. The crash that killed him was in practice laps, a week before the race.
4:56 There is a documentary called "Blink of an Eye" and it goes in depth on Micheal Waltrip's career. Don't know if you can find it on RUclips but it is on the Motor Trend app. It also plays on TV on FS1. It is really good if you can find a place to watch it.
Saw Earnhardt race many times. At the beginning of the race I’d be blowing him, but then at the end of most races I would be applauding him because of what he did on the track. No one can pull off the moves that he did!
I too disagree with EmpLemon about the danger. I feel like all the safety improvements have given drivers license to play dirtier, leaning into the scrappy spirit of NASCAR. I agree with you, I just feel like a lot of older media has simply become overshadowed by new media. Despite all that, I view NASCAR as an art, it's a performance of speed, and ruthless driving, something that new media just doesn't have. As cathartic as seeing a sick knife kill in CSGO, or a victory royale is, none of that compares to seeing things like Kenseth starching Logano, or Dale Jr. channeling the spirit of his dad on victory lane.
Sweet cut, and the ads in the video, even their Dollar Shave Club sponsorship was fun, it parodied the Daytona USA arcade game and the famed 1984 Mac ad. Also, Earnhardt dumping Labonte was 99 at Bristol.
To be fair, hes not entirely wrong with his reasoning for the decline of Nascar, people have been inherently drawn to death throughout history. Why else would people have to to the gladiatorial fights in arenas with their bloodshed, or civilians going to the first battle of the civil war for a picnic to watch it unfold.
very true. and nascar isnt the only sport affected by that. literelly any sport where they start to care more about safety sees fans grow more distaste for it.
Dale's legacy will live on forever both as one of the best all time and being the person who saved countless other lives in the future of the sport shortly after.
One of the best moments in NASCAR history, almost instantly became the worst moment in NASCAR history. Brother commentating his brother's huge win, turned to "Big Bro" worried for his former competitor. What's worse, this was Fox's first race with NASCAR _________________________________________ There's a silver lining, though. NASCAR banned open-faced helmets, and added more safety implications.
Finally caught one of these. The last 2 didn't appear in my sub box. About the last question.... about the danger. The answer came out extremely long, so I'd appreciate if you read it all. I think it's worth it. The danger of NASCAR until about 2004 was the fact that a driver could get injured at any time. A tire could fail, the engine could blow up and the impact without a SAFER barrier could be costly... I think I know what EMP was trying to say. The appeal of NASCAR from those days was the same appeal he pointed out earlier in the video - the fight with the danger, physics ans nature itself. That made the drivers like astronauts. Something bad could happen at any moment and these brave, talented individuals knew what these dangers were and risked their health and well being to do what they loved. Nowadays however... The danger is fabricated in a way. Like most things in NASCAR. The close finishes are fabricated by artificially bunching the cars together by decreasing the power from 900 to 550 HP and giving the cars higher downforce and atleast 3 mandatory cautions throughout the race... The close championship battle is artificially fabricated by the playoffs and an idiotic points system. The same way with the danger. The danger now isn't the car, it isn't the wall, it isn't the physics and engineering. It's the reckless behavior of some drivers that is often encouraged by NASCAR and the rules. A good example of it is the 2020 Daytona 500 finish, when Ryan Newman nearly passed away after flipping after contact with Ryan Blaney, when they were coming to the finish. Why did that crash happen? It wasn't anyone's fault. It was the fault of NASCAR executives that made the leader at Daytona and Talladega be at a constant disadvantage. The closing speeds in the draft are too big, because the leading car, out of the draft, gets affected by the drag so much that it loses speed dramatically, much more than in previous years. Something like that happened again in 2021 Daytona 500. It's become acceptable to crash a driver at 200 MPH. Like Austin Dillon did in 2018, when he crashed Aric Almirola entering turn 3 at Daytona on the last lap to win the race, instead of finishing in 2nd. Joey Logano crashed Denny Hamlin at California in 2013, because they had a disagreement at Bristol earlier that year. In post race interviews he (Logano) says that this crash was revenge for what happened at Bristol. Denny ends up with a broken BACK. Logano then changes his mind and says that it was an accident. He never got penalized for wrecking a driver on purpose at 200MPH, because he wanted to retaliate for something that happened at a track where speeds don't exceed 130. The last example of this dangerous driving I will bring up is Ross Chastain at Daytona on 2 separate occasions. One was in xFinity, the other was in Cup. In the xFinity race he drove straight through his teammate, who was leading at the time, when his team was running 1-2-3. Both crashed hard. He tried to fit his car in a gap that was going to disappear. After the race he said "What was I going to do? Run 2nd?" He wrecked his teammate at 200 to not finish 2nd... And finished waaay down the order. Earlier that same year I believe, he went on the apron of turn 1 (which is out of bounds) and crashed multiple cars. He wasn't penalized. NASCAR and the young "nothing will ever happen to me" drivers are using the safety innovations and advancements made after Earnhardt's death to produce more crashes and spice up the show. It seems like everytime they go to Daytona or Talladega the leader gets crashed. Which is in my opinion absolutely horrible and shouldn't happen. The cars on NASCAR trscks are the safest they have ever been. It's a great thing, but that safety shouldn't be exploited to make the races "MoRe EnTeRtAiNiNg" by producing more crashes. After the new car came out in 2007 the racing product on the track suffered and now NASCAR is trying to fill in the holes that they made themselves with crashes, crashes and crashes. Because they think that drivers can't get hurt anymore... They can. It's still dangerous. The danger itself is different than it was earlier.
Thank you for giving us these insights. Makes sense. One question, I think the crashes make the sport unwatchable because of all the delays and anticlimactic finishes after restarts. Do you think this is part of the problem with low viewership?
@@tracyfrazier7440 quite possibly. Imagine if a football game was stopped because the players kept powerbombing eachother every few minutes because it wasn't explicitly against the rules and they weren't punished for doing so. People would lose thier patience quite quickly.
The thing that gets me is how innocent his accident is like it's a relativly benign hit compairatively to what you saw guys walking away from on a weekly basis but yet the one you expect anyone to walk away from is the one that got him.
I was a Darrell Waltrip fan so I hated Earnhardt. Funny thing is when DW retired I picked up Tony Stewart (was already a fan of his via Indy and sprint cars) and Tony was basically the next best thing to Earnhardt.
Also it's worth pointing out that a 4th driver, Blaise Alexander, was killed in October of 2001 driving in an ARCA race. ARCA wasn't owned by NASCAR then, but still closely affiliated. Eerily, the other driver involved in the crash was Kerry Earnhardt, Dale Jr's brother.
Those cheeky jokes were awesome. But I also somewhat understand "British" humor, and so that dry whit... hilarious... and that's from a NASCAR fan that's 37 now and has been watching since I was like ... 4 or 5 years of age. That kind of joke might not go down great with others down here, but yea man funny by me. 🤣
This the reason why nascar is not as popular to me. We lost Dale Earnhardt, he was such a polarizing figure. If you loved him or hated him you booed or cheered but we went to races or you would watch him on TV. Kyle Larson has reinvigorated my watching nascar but his exploits on dirt peek my interest more. Larson is a badass . Earnhardt was superman . Beasley your enthusiasm and knowledge are impressive great job on videos
poor Micky (Waltrip) he never got have his first win :( there is a moment where during the pepsi 400 ( at Daytona ) where Dale JR and him got to celebrate together. Darrel Waltrips reaction breaks my heart every time
I did watch constantly or go watch. Haven't done either in years. Its lost its nerve really. All of the cars are literally identical, the lost art of experience and know how are gone. Its needs to go back to how it started, you run what you bring. But still have the safety measures. Let the crews and driver set the car up how they want. Not by Nascar specifications.
Hey Came on the radio in the red flag and said to Richard "Richard if they don't something to these cars it's going end up killing somebody " chilling words
I'm in agreement that there's not been another driver to compete w/what Dale was, but I do disagree that the much overdue safery measures are what is causing NASCAR's downward trend. It's not like drivers still aren't at risk for serious injury (see: Newman, Ryan) or potentially death. One thing not mentioned is how NASCAR's rise coincided with Indycar's decision to set themselves on fire & blow themselves up in 1995. That made NASCAR a lot more attractive to sponsors, drivers, & teams & created a bit of a positive feedback loop. Only in the last decade has Indycar started to get its act together again, culmination in the Hulman-Georges selling their interests to Penske. NASCAR has been facing ever stiffer competiti3from the former king of U.S. auto racing. I would argue what we're seeing is more of a regression to the mean.
We were watching it and you just knew he wasn't okay. It was awful. He walked away from so many crashes, but this was different. There was a new harness that wasn't required for the drivers to wear. If he had worn it, he would be here today.
I have a couple of uncles who worked fire and safety at the 2001 Daytona 500 so we all knew within minutes that Dale was gone. One of them called us and said he was looking at Dale sitting in his car, obviously dead. It was one of those days ya never forget.
@JJHen crazy and true. My uncle said that he could see, through his binoculars, that Dale hadn't survived the impact. He said that all of the white on his uniform was red because it was covered in blood. A terrible scene.
the final straw for me and made me stop watching Nascar was when they let Toyota in. I also seen the writing on the wall when they removed "Winston" from winston cup because people thought kids would start smoking if they watched the races.
It's not so much that NASCAR lost fans. They had a big peak for a while and expanded racetrack capacity to match. It was a temporary peak and retracted to where they were before. 60,000 fans at Bristol with a capacity of 60,000 is a sell out. 60,000 at Bristol with a capacity of 150,000 looks like disaster. Their ratings drop is comparable to all other televised programming. A standard race still outrates a regular season NBA or MLB game or a regular golf tournament.
yeah I think people forget that that era was a peak not the norm, well more people are realizing that now even if NASCAR is trying to get their numbers back to that peak it just wont happen any time soon until we get another round of amazing drivers and personalities.
@@cheeseninja1115 I don't think it's going to at all. The move to electric cars is going to force nascar to reinvent itself. The rumble you feel in your whole body when they race past you, and the noise of the engines, will disappear. I think when that happens nascar will die completely. I don't think people will go to a race just to feel the wind when they pass. Maybe it's just me, but motorsports across the globe is about to lose a lot of their attraction.
Ok, gonna give u a little bit of history as well. Steve Parks, the driver of the #1 car that won the race after Earnhardt died was the 1st driver for that team before Jr started driving for his dads team. In 1998 Parks was injured and another driver had to take his place for a few races. The driver of the #1 was DW, Darrell Waltrip. So both Waltrip brothers drove for Dale Earnhardt.
Life is pretty crazy dale hated the plates but was the best with them he hated the hanzs device saying “it’ll keep drivers stuck and it’s a death trap”…and that’s what got him if he had one he would stil be here careful what you wish for
i disagree with the fan base dropping because it is safer. I stopped going due to the new rules not the ones to keep drivers safer, the ones that messed with scoring, the chase is awful. Now they added in commercial breaks, aka required pit stops. Nascar has come down hard on drivers that have spoke out about anything they do not like about the rules. we call it the shut up and drive rule. In the past drivers always spoke their mind,
My family fell in love with NASCAR in 1982 and Dale was my driver. I did everything I could not to miss a race and I saw the tragic end to his final race. I will never forget those days of watching the races with my family, but I never enjoyed watching them after that and completely lost interest by the time I moved to Colorado in 2004. The economy tanked in 2008 and a lot of teams lost sponsorships that were mainstays of NASCAR for decades. Now that the Biden administration has decided to end gasoline-powered vehicles by the 2030s, how will NASCAR continue? In electric cars?
Just look at the numbers man like it being at like 6 mil is down from 10 mil a few years prior but that 10 mil is higher than the 8 mil only a couple years before that. Yes it dropped but it hasn't continued
It's a sad indictment of NASCAR that it took the death of their greatest driver to finally motivate them to improve safety regulations. There have been no deaths in NASCAR since Earnhardt due to the improved safety rules. If they had made those changes a few years earlier, so many deaths could have been avoided.
19:56 I never knew about that.. That seems low and disrespectful to me. Gives me the impression of a spoiled child, because his grandfather was the president. Low on his grandfather's part too.
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When an engine can breathe it performs when you restrict it it won't!... Risk or living on the razor's edge is exciting and all in the name of safety they have taken the fun out of everything and NASCAR has become a casualty of that!... 35 years ago these cars were going 210 plus miles an hour and they should have built stronger fences and let the men race because they know the risks and the rewards of the sport.
There is something that I will never understand about these "there will never be another ______" race car heroes who died in racecar accidents. I hope there will never be another... the first one died after lady luck failed them.
I can tell you exactly why there is a decline in viewers. People are tired of Nascars gimmicks and went to watch Indycar. You have to understand those statistics that everyone is talking about happened during the pandemic. Nascar was the first major sport to come back and was the only sport on for a little bit. The Iracing with Nascar drivers helped get viewers before the sport came back. The other thing is that it is a comparison to how much viewers the sport usually gets compared to how much they got during the pandemic. Nascar was one of the few sports that saw about the same viewers as previous years but that doesn't mean it has near the amount of viewers that the NBA, MLB, NFL, etc. has. Even though those sports saw 15% - 30% decrease in viewers, some of them still had almost twice the amount of viewers that Nascar got.
I strongly disagree with this guys assessment of the decline of NASCAR. There are still as many crashes. They are just safer crashes. The rules have evened the ability of the cars. So, it keeps them bunched up more.
I stopped watching it because of the idiotic "chase" and "stages" of the races those ruined it for me it should always be the best driver from start to finish of the season and if they never started the chase I don't believe Jimmie Johnson would be a 7 time champion
MotoGp is more dangerouse then NASCAR. Way more dangerouse actually. So Nascar never set irself apart in racing because of that. That's what I think. And RIP Dale
Nascar lost around 75% of it's audience from it's high point in 2005 from there it's opinions on why. For Me it's the chase took away the best driver winning the championship which usually was the driver with the best average finish for the season. Another reason Jimmy Johnson will never be a 7 time champion to me he only had 3 best average finish not 7 Mandatory cautious No long runs no pit strategy Sucky racing Lucky dog You go a lap down you should make it up the hard way The Horrible racing of the cars of tomorrow.
Sterling Marlin, from Columbia Tenn., who had a pretty good career, winner of the Daytona 500, will go down as the man who killed Dale Earnhardt, trying to get him out of the way.
NASCAR's decline has everything to do with the way they handled Dale's death. Not because they took steps to make racing safer but because it took the death of an icon to get them off their asses. They tried to blame the wreck on Sterling Marlin and then on Bill Simpson, who made and installed the safety harness in Earnhardt's car, then they tried to blame it on his open faced helmet. They tried throwing anyone and everyone under the bus for the death until they finally had to improve driver safety. The sport is dying because of NASCAR's greed. They're so concerned about revenue that they've killed racing. No one wants to watch a bunch of whiney man child, paid spokes models ride around a track. If there are any men left in the sport they're in the pits not behind the wheel. That's why no one cares anymore. It's all show and no go.
no doubt nascar died with dale. i gave up with the chase and stage racing combined with taking on politics. bubba wallace was the final nail in nascars coffin for me.
Grew up watching nascar. I haven't watched it in 10years. Not because it's safer, but because it's stupid. Between the playoffs and stage racing along with the boring tracks, simply lost interest, as most of the core audience did. You can be in demi with nascar. But they ran off the tradition fan. And it's in decline. 😁
no, not that many people watch it i mean my family was a nascar family, it is no longer talked about you dont get to disagree, nascar is no longer interesting because its not dangerous anymore
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Dale Earnhardt REFUSED to w3ear the brand New HANS Device that would have kept his head stable during an accident like this. This was brand new device that was an Option too Wear that year and he refused to wear it.
The HANS Device is a Must Wear Item in today's Racing Sports all the Way down too Go Karts.
for me the most haunting thing is all the similarities to the Race and Dale himself
Dale was 49 years old when he died, the 2001 Daytona 500 had 49 lead changes,
on that final lap he was battling for third, Dales number is 3 and his final moments were in turn 3,
Dale started the 2001 Daytona 500 in 7th, he had 7 Championships
7 is also the square root of 49...*dons tinfoil hat*
@@Solidaritas1 I'm not making a joke out of this, it is just earie that there are so many similarities between Dale and the the day he died.
@@erika_itsumi5141 its not eerie, people who use numerology are dumb as a stick
EmpLemon just put out another Nascar video, this time about the topic of Revenge in Nascar. It covers a large chunk of the history of the sport. I'd love to see you watch that one too!
This still needs to happen
The crash they showed towards the end where the driver got out was Michael McDowell
I love that McDowell got his first career win in the Daytona 500, almost 20 years to the day after Dale Sr's death. The fact that someone that likely survived a crash thanks to the safety improvements made in the wake of Dale's death got his first win at Daytona is just an amazing thing.
That was the first real test of the Car of Tomorrow/Today. It was also the first dead-on wreck that anybody survived, or was unhurt in.
@@brysonturner6019not only that but he also got it in his 300-and-somethingth start which was second only to Michael Waltrip for starts before first win
They completely skipped the mid-to-late 90s where do Earnhardt vs. Jeff Gordon was a huge part of bringing in a fans to NASCAR
I watched the race with my dad. I remember thinking it wasn't that bad. First time I ever saw my dad cry was when they announced his passing. He was an everyman, a working mans hero.
The mentioned Neil Bonnet dying in a crash. He was a legend in racing, who had been retired for a few years. He got the itch to run the 500 again. The crash that killed him was in practice laps, a week before the race.
4:56 There is a documentary called "Blink of an Eye" and it goes in depth on Micheal Waltrip's career. Don't know if you can find it on RUclips but it is on the Motor Trend app. It also plays on TV on FS1. It is really good if you can find a place to watch it.
Saw Earnhardt race many times. At the beginning of the race I’d be blowing him, but then at the end of most races I would be applauding him because of what he did on the track. No one can pull off the moves that he did!
I too disagree with EmpLemon about the danger. I feel like all the safety improvements have given drivers license to play dirtier, leaning into the scrappy spirit of NASCAR. I agree with you, I just feel like a lot of older media has simply become overshadowed by new media. Despite all that, I view NASCAR as an art, it's a performance of speed, and ruthless driving, something that new media just doesn't have. As cathartic as seeing a sick knife kill in CSGO, or a victory royale is, none of that compares to seeing things like Kenseth starching Logano, or Dale Jr. channeling the spirit of his dad on victory lane.
Sweet cut, and the ads in the video, even their Dollar Shave Club sponsorship was fun, it parodied the Daytona USA arcade game and the famed 1984 Mac ad. Also, Earnhardt dumping Labonte was 99 at Bristol.
To be fair, hes not entirely wrong with his reasoning for the decline of Nascar, people have been inherently drawn to death throughout history. Why else would people have to to the gladiatorial fights in arenas with their bloodshed, or civilians going to the first battle of the civil war for a picnic to watch it unfold.
Sanitization and loss of edge is a part of the decline of many forms of entertainment.
very true. and nascar isnt the only sport affected by that. literelly any sport where they start to care more about safety sees fans grow more distaste for it.
Dale's legacy will live on forever both as one of the best all time and being the person who saved countless other lives in the future of the sport shortly after.
Finally part 3! Suggesting, do NASCAR's best sportsmanship moments
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One of the best moments in NASCAR history, almost instantly became the worst moment in NASCAR history. Brother commentating his brother's huge win, turned to "Big Bro" worried for his former competitor.
What's worse, this was Fox's first race with NASCAR
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There's a silver lining, though. NASCAR banned open-faced helmets, and added more safety implications.
17:57 It's true. When I went to these parties, many attending would watch for the crashes.
Dale Earnhardt is the reason why I love NASCAR he's the Intimidator he did what he had to do to win races to be as good as his dad was
Finally caught one of these. The last 2 didn't appear in my sub box.
About the last question.... about the danger. The answer came out extremely long, so I'd appreciate if you read it all. I think it's worth it.
The danger of NASCAR until about 2004 was the fact that a driver could get injured at any time. A tire could fail, the engine could blow up and the impact without a SAFER barrier could be costly...
I think I know what EMP was trying to say.
The appeal of NASCAR from those days was the same appeal he pointed out earlier in the video - the fight with the danger, physics ans nature itself. That made the drivers like astronauts. Something bad could happen at any moment and these brave, talented individuals knew what these dangers were and risked their health and well being to do what they loved.
Nowadays however... The danger is fabricated in a way. Like most things in NASCAR. The close finishes are fabricated by artificially bunching the cars together by decreasing the power from 900 to 550 HP and giving the cars higher downforce and atleast 3 mandatory cautions throughout the race... The close championship battle is artificially fabricated by the playoffs and an idiotic points system.
The same way with the danger. The danger now isn't the car, it isn't the wall, it isn't the physics and engineering.
It's the reckless behavior of some drivers that is often encouraged by NASCAR and the rules.
A good example of it is the 2020 Daytona 500 finish, when Ryan Newman nearly passed away after flipping after contact with Ryan Blaney, when they were coming to the finish.
Why did that crash happen?
It wasn't anyone's fault. It was the fault of NASCAR executives that made the leader at Daytona and Talladega be at a constant disadvantage.
The closing speeds in the draft are too big, because the leading car, out of the draft, gets affected by the drag so much that it loses speed dramatically, much more than in previous years. Something like that happened again in 2021 Daytona 500. It's become acceptable to crash a driver at 200 MPH.
Like Austin Dillon did in 2018, when he crashed Aric Almirola entering turn 3 at Daytona on the last lap to win the race, instead of finishing in 2nd.
Joey Logano crashed Denny Hamlin at California in 2013, because they had a disagreement at Bristol earlier that year. In post race interviews he (Logano) says that this crash was revenge for what happened at Bristol. Denny ends up with a broken BACK. Logano then changes his mind and says that it was an accident. He never got penalized for wrecking a driver on purpose at 200MPH, because he wanted to retaliate for something that happened at a track where speeds don't exceed 130.
The last example of this dangerous driving I will bring up is Ross Chastain at Daytona on 2 separate occasions.
One was in xFinity, the other was in Cup.
In the xFinity race he drove straight through his teammate, who was leading at the time, when his team was running 1-2-3. Both crashed hard.
He tried to fit his car in a gap that was going to disappear. After the race he said "What was I going to do? Run 2nd?" He wrecked his teammate at 200 to not finish 2nd... And finished waaay down the order.
Earlier that same year I believe, he went on the apron of turn 1 (which is out of bounds) and crashed multiple cars.
He wasn't penalized.
NASCAR and the young "nothing will ever happen to me" drivers are using the safety innovations and advancements made after Earnhardt's death to produce more crashes and spice up the show. It seems like everytime they go to Daytona or Talladega the leader gets crashed.
Which is in my opinion absolutely horrible and shouldn't happen.
The cars on NASCAR trscks are the safest they have ever been. It's a great thing, but that safety shouldn't be exploited to make the races "MoRe EnTeRtAiNiNg" by producing more crashes.
After the new car came out in 2007 the racing product on the track suffered and now NASCAR is trying to fill in the holes that they made themselves with crashes, crashes and crashes. Because they think that drivers can't get hurt anymore...
They can. It's still dangerous. The danger itself is different than it was earlier.
Thank you for giving us these insights. Makes sense. One question, I think the crashes make the sport unwatchable because of all the delays and anticlimactic finishes after restarts. Do you think this is part of the problem with low viewership?
@@tracyfrazier7440 quite possibly. Imagine if a football game was stopped because the players kept powerbombing eachother every few minutes because it wasn't explicitly against the rules and they weren't punished for doing so. People would lose thier patience quite quickly.
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I never paid attention to races, but I do remember after that crash the drivers stood with Earnhardt flags in their hands during the national anthem.
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Dale drove like he stole it. Today's drivers drive like they just leased it.
The thing that gets me is how innocent his accident is like it's a relativly benign hit compairatively to what you saw guys walking away from on a weekly basis but yet the one you expect anyone to walk away from is the one that got him.
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I got teary eyed too and knew absolutely nothing of this hahaha
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That gran turismo menu music lol can't help but here it
I was a Darrell Waltrip fan so I hated Earnhardt. Funny thing is when DW retired I picked up Tony Stewart (was already a fan of his via Indy and sprint cars) and Tony was basically the next best thing to Earnhardt.
Also it's worth pointing out that a 4th driver, Blaise Alexander, was killed in October of 2001 driving in an ARCA race. ARCA wasn't owned by NASCAR then, but still closely affiliated. Eerily, the other driver involved in the crash was Kerry Earnhardt, Dale Jr's brother.
Jeremiah is hearing something I’m not…. Through all 3 videos, I’ve heard you pronounce it correctly the entire time.
There was one more driver killed in nascar after Dale Sr. The safety devices were actually put in place after the death in October of 2001.
I was at that race that night in the truck race Tony Roper died. It started right in front of me where I was sitting.
Those cheeky jokes were awesome. But I also somewhat understand "British" humor, and so that dry whit... hilarious... and that's from a NASCAR fan that's 37 now and has been watching since I was like ... 4 or 5 years of age. That kind of joke might not go down great with others down here, but yea man funny by me. 🤣
Yea part 3
I remember this day. I was attending a Daytona 500 party. We were all in disbelief.
This the reason why nascar is not as popular to me. We lost Dale Earnhardt, he was such a polarizing figure. If you loved him or hated him you booed or cheered but we went to races or you would watch him on TV.
Kyle Larson has reinvigorated my watching nascar but his exploits on dirt peek my interest more. Larson is a badass . Earnhardt was superman .
Beasley your enthusiasm and knowledge are impressive great job on videos
The number 8 car that Jr won Daytona 500 in was a BEAST! Hate that the cars are nothing like the cars were back then!
poor Micky (Waltrip) he never got have his first win :( there is a moment where during the pepsi 400 ( at Daytona ) where Dale JR and him got to celebrate together. Darrel Waltrips reaction breaks my heart every time
Racing has gotten better now and these cars are perhaps the safest in the world.
Apparently he was planning to go for the 8th Championship that year too, so many what-if's
Cameras did not cut away the person who put the video on youtube cause they did not want to get demonitized i have seen this on tv after the accident
I did watch constantly or go watch. Haven't done either in years. Its lost its nerve really. All of the cars are literally identical, the lost art of experience and know how are gone. Its needs to go back to how it started, you run what you bring. But still have the safety measures. Let the crews and driver set the car up how they want. Not by Nascar specifications.
Hey Came on the radio in the red flag and said to Richard "Richard if they don't something to these cars it's going end up killing somebody " chilling words
I like to think he was supposed to go in the first one, but was given a chance to see them off to victory…
I'm in agreement that there's not been another driver to compete w/what Dale was, but I do disagree that the much overdue safery measures are what is causing NASCAR's downward trend. It's not like drivers still aren't at risk for serious injury (see: Newman, Ryan) or potentially death.
One thing not mentioned is how NASCAR's rise coincided with Indycar's decision to set themselves on fire & blow themselves up in 1995. That made NASCAR a lot more attractive to sponsors, drivers, & teams & created a bit of a positive feedback loop. Only in the last decade has Indycar started to get its act together again, culmination in the Hulman-Georges selling their interests to Penske. NASCAR has been facing ever stiffer competiti3from the former king of U.S. auto racing. I would argue what we're seeing is more of a regression to the mean.
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We were watching it and you just knew he wasn't okay. It was awful. He walked away from so many crashes, but this was different. There was a new harness that wasn't required for the drivers to wear. If he had worn it, he would be here today.
I have a couple of uncles who worked fire and safety at the 2001 Daytona 500 so we all knew within minutes that Dale was gone. One of them called us and said he was looking at Dale sitting in his car, obviously dead. It was one of those days ya never forget.
@JJHen crazy and true. My uncle said that he could see, through his binoculars, that Dale hadn't survived the impact. He said that all of the white on his uniform was red because it was covered in blood. A terrible scene.
I do not think the Hans device would have helped the force of ompact may have caused him to break his neck
Highly recommend listening to dale jrs podcast with Kenny shrader
I always pulled for Jeff Gordon.
I miss being able to say :look a dodge is leading
the final straw for me and made me stop watching Nascar was when they let Toyota in. I also seen the writing on the wall when they removed "Winston" from winston cup because people thought kids would start smoking if they watched the races.
Maybe we just need to start televising NASCAR in the land of british peoples?
It's not so much that NASCAR lost fans. They had a big peak for a while and expanded racetrack capacity to match. It was a temporary peak and retracted to where they were before. 60,000 fans at Bristol with a capacity of 60,000 is a sell out. 60,000 at Bristol with a capacity of 150,000 looks like disaster. Their ratings drop is comparable to all other televised programming. A standard race still outrates a regular season NBA or MLB game or a regular golf tournament.
yeah I think people forget that that era was a peak not the norm, well more people are realizing that now even if NASCAR is trying to get their numbers back to that peak it just wont happen any time soon until we get another round of amazing drivers and personalities.
Yeah that makes a lot of sense! Well said!
@@cheeseninja1115 I don't think it's going to at all. The move to electric cars is going to force nascar to reinvent itself. The rumble you feel in your whole body when they race past you, and the noise of the engines, will disappear. I think when that happens nascar will die completely. I don't think people will go to a race just to feel the wind when they pass. Maybe it's just me, but motorsports across the globe is about to lose a lot of their attraction.
Ok, gonna give u a little bit of history as well. Steve Parks, the driver of the #1 car that won the race after Earnhardt died was the 1st driver for that team before Jr started driving for his dads team. In 1998 Parks was injured and another driver had to take his place for a few races. The driver of the #1 was DW, Darrell Waltrip. So both Waltrip brothers drove for Dale Earnhardt.
Life is pretty crazy dale hated the plates but was the best with them he hated the hanzs device saying “it’ll keep drivers stuck and it’s a death trap”…and that’s what got him if he had one he would stil be here careful what you wish for
To say their name just space out the 3rd letter from the rest so it’s Emp-Lemon
You should react to the Nascar revenge video that emplemon posted, it's pretty good.
Commenting from 2024 NASCAR is on its way back its got some struggles but its on the up
i disagree with the fan base dropping because it is safer. I stopped going due to the new rules not the ones to keep drivers safer, the ones that messed with scoring, the chase is awful. Now they added in commercial breaks, aka required pit stops. Nascar has come down hard on drivers that have spoke out about anything they do not like about the rules. we call it the shut up and drive rule. In the past drivers always spoke their mind,
Won't be another #3. But Beesley hoops there it is hoops there it is hoops there it is. Ready mate
No matter what it is a dangerous sport.
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My family fell in love with NASCAR in 1982 and Dale was my driver. I did everything I could not to miss a race and I saw the tragic end to his final race. I will never forget those days of watching the races with my family, but I never enjoyed watching them after that and completely lost interest by the time I moved to Colorado in 2004. The economy tanked in 2008 and a lot of teams lost sponsorships that were mainstays of NASCAR for decades. Now that the Biden administration has decided to end gasoline-powered vehicles by the 2030s, how will NASCAR continue? In electric cars?
16:20 and the 00 was owned by Michael Waltrip
Earnhardt never dumb no one he just rattled their cage to let them know he was there...
Just look at the numbers man like it being at like 6 mil is down from 10 mil a few years prior but that 10 mil is higher than the 8 mil only a couple years before that. Yes it dropped but it hasn't continued
It's a sad indictment of NASCAR that it took the death of their greatest driver to finally motivate them to improve safety regulations. There have been no deaths in NASCAR since Earnhardt due to the improved safety rules. If they had made those changes a few years earlier, so many deaths could have been avoided.
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19:56 I never knew about that.. That seems low and disrespectful to me. Gives me the impression of a spoiled child, because his grandfather was the president. Low on his grandfather's part too.
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When an engine can breathe it performs when you restrict it it won't!... Risk or living on the razor's edge is exciting and all in the name of safety they have taken the fun out of everything and NASCAR has become a casualty of that!... 35 years ago these cars were going 210 plus miles an hour and they should have built stronger fences and let the men race because they know the risks and the rewards of the sport.
But there is another
As a nascar fan the races got boring because of bad tracks and unappealing drivers
The only people allowed to throw shade at nascar are nascar fans. So Emplemon is good
are you going to watch the truck race tonight itd be pretty late for you, or the cup race tomorrow
Hopefully tomorrows cup race if no rain or delay
There is something that I will never understand about these "there will never be another ______" race car heroes who died in racecar accidents. I hope there will never be another... the first one died after lady luck failed them.
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I can tell you exactly why there is a decline in viewers. People are tired of Nascars gimmicks and went to watch Indycar.
You have to understand those statistics that everyone is talking about happened during the pandemic. Nascar was the first major sport to come back and was the only sport on for a little bit. The Iracing with Nascar drivers helped get viewers before the sport came back.
The other thing is that it is a comparison to how much viewers the sport usually gets compared to how much they got during the pandemic. Nascar was one of the few sports that saw about the same viewers as previous years but that doesn't mean it has near the amount of viewers that the NBA, MLB, NFL, etc. has. Even though those sports saw 15% - 30% decrease in viewers, some of them still had almost twice the amount of viewers that Nascar got.
Sorry to say it but Kyle Busch is the next Dale. I don't even like Kyle but it is what it is.
I strongly disagree with this guys assessment of the decline of NASCAR. There are still as many crashes. They are just safer crashes. The rules have evened the ability of the cars. So, it keeps them bunched up more.
I stopped watching it because of the idiotic "chase" and "stages" of the races those ruined it for me it should always be the best driver from start to finish of the season and if they never started the chase I don't believe Jimmie Johnson would be a 7 time champion
MotoGp is more dangerouse then NASCAR. Way more dangerouse actually. So Nascar never set irself apart in racing because of that. That's what I think. And RIP Dale
Really lost interest with the stupid chase like he said and the stage racing and with the drivers I really liked started to retire.
Nascar lost around 75% of it's audience from it's high point in 2005 from there it's opinions on why.
For Me it's the chase took away the best driver winning the championship which usually was the driver with the best average finish for the season.
Another reason Jimmy Johnson will never be a 7 time champion to me he only had 3 best average finish not 7
Mandatory cautious
No long runs
no pit strategy
Sucky racing
Lucky dog
You go a lap down you should make it up the hard way
The Horrible racing of the cars of tomorrow.
Sterling Marlin, from Columbia Tenn., who had a pretty good career, winner of the Daytona 500, will go down as the man who killed Dale Earnhardt, trying to get him out of the way.
NASCAR's decline has everything to do with the way they handled Dale's death. Not because they took steps to make racing safer but because it took the death of an icon to get them off their asses. They tried to blame the wreck on Sterling Marlin and then on Bill Simpson, who made and installed the safety harness in Earnhardt's car, then they tried to blame it on his open faced helmet. They tried throwing anyone and everyone under the bus for the death until they finally had to improve driver safety. The sport is dying because of NASCAR's greed. They're so concerned about revenue that they've killed racing. No one wants to watch a bunch of whiney man child, paid spokes models ride around a track. If there are any men left in the sport they're in the pits not behind the wheel. That's why no one cares anymore. It's all show and no go.
no doubt nascar died with dale. i gave up with the chase and stage racing combined with taking on politics. bubba wallace was the final nail in nascars coffin for me.
Grew up watching nascar. I haven't watched it in 10years. Not because it's safer, but because it's stupid. Between the playoffs and stage racing along with the boring tracks, simply lost interest, as most of the core audience did. You can be in demi with nascar. But they ran off the tradition fan. And it's in decline. 😁
Please he is not the greatest. I’m sorry but his fans kill me with this crap.......he is one of the greats but not the greatest
no, not that many people watch it
i mean my family was a nascar family, it is no longer talked about
you dont get to disagree, nascar is no longer interesting because its not dangerous anymore