Love Gary grew up watching him kick ass at ocfs ,# 73 car and I get to see him every year at nostalgia night @ocfs in Middletown NY #savethetrack !!!!!
Sure, let's glorify yet another criminal. Stock car racing is full of drug and child sex trafficking. We don't need dumbasses like you making these felons into gods.
I watched Gary Balough kick everybody's ass twice in one night at a Twin 100 All Pro event on the 1/4 mile short track known as Sunshine Speedway, St Petersburg, FL. Man he was good.
He was just hanging around with wrong crowd of people rather than working for things that could've given him better shot of having better career but this was great video. 👍
Gary's story was more complicated than that. "The wrong crowd" you are referring to, was indeed, other race car drivers as well as others directly involved with stock car racing in one way or another. Now how could he "avoid" them? He was around them at nearly every race. Everyone knew Gary possessed the talent as one of the very best drivers, and that struggle to finally make it into Cup racing made the temptation of joining several other drivers & guys involved in the sport, to smuggle tons of marijuana was just too hard for him to turn down. He never smuggled any other type of drug. He also made the rather good point that NASCAR was created off of moonshine runners, and contends that smuggling marijuana is really no different. Several of our nation's founding Fathers were smugglers too ya know, such as Thomas Jefferson. He was a rum runner. When you consider we have a terribly corrupt government, a "federal" banking system that was fraudulent from the get-go and is privately operated from off-shore scammers, not to mention all of the federal alphabet agencies that are scams too, even big pharma.......and how NONE of those wicked people in power are ever charged & convicted of a crime........smuggling marijuana is small potatoes. I don't condone what he did.........but the man wasn't a criminal who was stealing, harming, or even killing We the people the way our own government & all the aforementioned agencies & entities do on a regular ongoing basis.
@@therealnynetynyne360. Junior Johnson smuggled booz to survive before he became a racer. Balough smuggled weed during his racing career to inject more money than anyone ever could to compete with him. Big, big difference. I know Gary. He’s broke now.
Great stuff thanks for posting this! When they were finally arrested, their bail was sky high. I suppose guys that drive routinely at 175 mph would be considered flight risks! 😉
Thanks for telling this story, was curious when he was on dale jr download, how did Jr get to know him? Why was he picked to be on the Dale jr download
Dale is a nascar historian. If he didn't know about this guy I would have been shocked. Why did he bring him on the show? Oh idk maybe cuz nascar was built on moonshine running. Get off your high horse the guy has a hell of a story to tell, he is the modern day version. Junior Johnson did prison time for illegal shit, and he is one of nascars greatest
Gary was a racecar driver he drove so God damn fast. Honestly junior Johnson was a moonshiner whats the fuckin difference. Yes I know it was Jerry. And primus sux
You need to do a story on Kenny Weld It's old news now but Kenny was involved with the very people you talk about in this video and for much of the same reasons as Gary describes - nothing beats the thrill of driving a race car but ----- BTW - Great work on the tune of the video and your research is impeccable --- I watched Gary drive many races, and there were none better - when he had Pete Hamilton helping he was unbeatable
yea and both had marks for inventivness in race car design, at least as far as the video on gary making a new style of modified in the 80's and lead by several seconds in the 200 at syracuse
HOW PC have we become just 30 years! Balough races NASCAR immediately upon released from Bond. Kyle Larson has to be reinstated after a year long suspension over a 'SLUR". Ridiculous
so that means we should just accept people using that word or others like it? It took him months to acknowledge and accept responsibility, not really indicitive of someone who mistakingly used a word that has no place in normal conversation to begin with.
@@rjmidwest6911 it did not take months.. he acknowledged it immediate. It is a bad habit that needs to be ridden and best we can tell has been. Get your facts correct. Cancel culture is bad not matter what side of the isle you are on. Not debatable
Larsons sponser's ran away from him. If you had a business would you want to piss off 15% of your customers? Not 1 business wants to be associated with someone that spouts negativity....Not a business that wants to survive anyway
@@reginaldhall6871 Okay. This is why a Bitcoin company named itself LGBCOIN and was wanting to sponsor 10 million just to get into the sport for exposure. Cigs and alcohol sponsors have alienated at least that same % of people for years just being on the cars. Don't be ridiculous. Was this level of PC going on in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, early 2k? NO it was not. Also Finley Farms, Circle B among many others did not run away, granted they are smaller companies.
Grew up in Miami in the late 60s early 70s. Every Saturday night the place to be was Hialeah Speedway hanging out in the pits till 4am with the Barnwells. Watched Gary and PeeWee win many times. Exciting days gone by.
Oh there is another great Gary Balough story dealing with his time at dirt. He showed up to Super Dirt Week with a can that was completely unconventional at the time that actually used aerodynamics to pin the car to the clay. He comfortably won the race. The car was nicknamed the called the Batmobile and he more then likely single handedly pulled Northeast Modified dirt racing forward but several years because of it.
the intro coulda had sports car racer john paul sr. drugs, money laundering, allegedly murdered his girlfriend. got his son involved, jp jr. would go to slammer for his dad
Gary was one of the most out of control drivers of that era. And what I mean is that he had a nasty temper and a foul mouth . We watched him from a selected distance when he would race at the East Windsor speedway in N.J. He always was a volcano ready to blow his stack Talented on the track ? Absolutely, but Gary destroyed his own future all by himself …. Several times !
This aged horribly. Also shows you what is wrong with society 30 years later and the Problems with WOKE & PC CULTURE that is literally ruining everything it touches. Thankfully it wound up being an "Upgrade" for Kyle who Hendrick has stated he planned to sign him the entire time even prior to the Slur upon Jimmie Johnson's retirement. As he should have been trying to when Jeff Gordon told him to prior and kyle wound up signing with CHIP. Valuable years lost.
Gary's true life story make 1 great movie. Gary if reading this. Please pretty please put it on legal paperwork. No Tom Cruise in your movie at all he not even be able to watch it.. It would turn your great true story into a huge Joke. As he did Barry Seal & # other great true stories. Its to good of a story to be wasted like that.
With out the dominate cars with better engines from drug money nobody would’ve ever heard of him , he Came to New Smyrna speedway with cars and equipment Worth hundreds of thousands of dollars this is back in the 70s and 80s
How many races did Gary win because he had the drug money to out cheat or spend the other guys. No way to know. Would he have won all those races without the drug money? We will never know.
Are you forgetting the 1980 Syracuse dirt race where he was 2 seconds faster than any other car because they were cheating any he wasn't a dominant race car driver he was a dominant cheater
Gary Balough was one of the best stock car drivers of all time..
😂
And a drug smuggler. Fuck him & his whole career.
Love Gary grew up watching him kick ass at ocfs ,# 73 car and I get to see him every year at nostalgia night @ocfs in Middletown NY #savethetrack !!!!!
Gary Balough IS one of the greatest stockcar drivers of ALL TIME. Period.
Excellent video 📹 👏 good sir.
I'd like to see one about Scott Bloomquist & his drug problems also. Could be interesting 🤔
Sure, let's glorify yet another criminal. Stock car racing is full of drug and child sex trafficking. We don't need dumbasses like you making these felons into gods.
😢😢
Remember Gary from Hialeah racing with mark and he called us the perrot patrol was great times GREAT driver
I've read the book I couldn't stop reading it!!! He ****** up . Very talented. Should've of could've
I had the opportunity to meet him at Orlando years ago. He was dominant.
Keep up the great work bro
I remember when I was a kid at Georgia international speedway, his car had the hood up in the pits! under the hood it read money grows on trees!!
The absolute king of Palm Beach Fairgrounds Speedway. Thank you Allison brothers, Bobby Brack, Dickie Anderson for all the great memories. 🤘
I watched Gary Balough kick everybody's ass twice in one night at a Twin 100 All Pro event on the 1/4 mile short track known as Sunshine Speedway, St Petersburg, FL. Man he was good.
Awesome video u are on ur way to greatness
He was just hanging around with wrong crowd of people rather than working for things that could've given him better shot of having better career but this was great video. 👍
Gary's story was more complicated than that. "The wrong crowd" you are referring to, was indeed, other race car drivers as well as others directly involved with stock car racing in one way or another. Now how could he "avoid" them? He was around them at nearly every race. Everyone knew Gary possessed the talent as one of the very best drivers, and that struggle to finally make it into Cup racing made the temptation of joining several other drivers & guys involved in the sport, to smuggle tons of marijuana was just too hard for him to turn down. He never smuggled any other type of drug. He also made the rather good point that NASCAR was created off of moonshine runners, and contends that smuggling marijuana is really no different. Several of our nation's founding Fathers were smugglers too ya know, such as Thomas Jefferson. He was a rum runner. When you consider we have a terribly corrupt government, a "federal" banking system that was fraudulent from the get-go and is privately operated from off-shore scammers, not to mention all of the federal alphabet agencies that are scams too, even big pharma.......and how NONE of those wicked people in power are ever charged & convicted of a crime........smuggling marijuana is small potatoes. I don't condone what he did.........but the man wasn't a criminal who was stealing, harming, or even killing We the people the way our own government & all the aforementioned agencies & entities do on a regular ongoing basis.
I'm sure you know about junior Johnson and his smuggling past and disapprove of it too right
@@therealnynetynyne360. Junior Johnson smuggled booz to survive before he became a racer. Balough smuggled weed during his racing career to inject more money than anyone ever could to compete with him. Big, big difference. I know Gary. He’s broke now.
Thank You for this Jesse.
Hot Shoe! A Checkered Past.........Awesome book about Gary's life!!
Nice video and interesting story. Keep it up.
So the Wittington brothers raced a car from drug profits in a sport built on money from bootlegging? Did I hear that right?
The Whittington Bros deserve a movie.
Be a very good movie.
Don is married to a friend of mine's sister.
Great stuff thanks for posting this! When they were finally arrested, their bail was sky high. I suppose guys that drive routinely at 175 mph would be considered flight risks! 😉
No matter what..He is one of the all time greatest.The man could just flat out drive.
Thanks for telling this story, was curious when he was on dale jr download, how did Jr get to know him? Why was he picked to be on the Dale jr download
Dale had read his book, if I recall correctly, and that’s why he asked Gary to be on.
Dale is a nascar historian. If he didn't know about this guy I would have been shocked. Why did he bring him on the show? Oh idk maybe cuz nascar was built on moonshine running. Get off your high horse the guy has a hell of a story to tell, he is the modern day version. Junior Johnson did prison time for illegal shit, and he is one of nascars greatest
who was Gary Balough had not seeing him or seeing him before ,
Gary was a racecar driver he drove so God damn fast. Honestly junior Johnson was a moonshiner whats the fuckin difference. Yes I know it was Jerry. And primus sux
You need to do a story on Kenny Weld
It's old news now but Kenny was involved with the very people you talk about in this video and for much of the same reasons as Gary describes - nothing beats the thrill of driving a race car but -----
BTW - Great work on the tune of the video and your research is impeccable ---
I watched Gary drive many races, and there were none better - when he had Pete Hamilton helping he was unbeatable
yea and both had marks for inventivness in race car design, at least as far as the video on gary making a new style of modified in the 80's and lead by several seconds in the 200 at syracuse
Say what you want about Gary Balough, he's a bad ass and living legend! He served his time and paid his debt to "society".
And nowadays selling weed is a legit business! Thoug they did mention he smuggled some crack....not nearly as harmless..
Its the lure of easy money...
HOW PC have we become just 30 years! Balough races NASCAR immediately upon released from Bond. Kyle Larson has to be reinstated after a year long suspension over a 'SLUR". Ridiculous
so that means we should just accept people using that word or others like it? It took him months to acknowledge and accept responsibility, not really indicitive of someone who mistakingly used a word that has no place in normal conversation to begin with.
@@rjmidwest6911 it did not take months.. he acknowledged it immediate. It is a bad habit that needs to be ridden and best we can tell has been. Get your facts correct. Cancel culture is bad not matter what side of the isle you are on. Not debatable
Larsons sponser's ran away from him. If you had a business would you want to piss off 15% of your customers? Not 1 business wants to be associated with someone that spouts negativity....Not a business that wants to survive anyway
@@reginaldhall6871 Okay. This is why a Bitcoin company named itself LGBCOIN and was wanting to sponsor 10 million just to get into the sport for exposure. Cigs and alcohol sponsors have alienated at least that same % of people for years just being on the cars. Don't be ridiculous. Was this level of PC going on in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, early 2k? NO it was not. Also Finley Farms, Circle B among many others did not run away, granted they are smaller companies.
How about McDonald's @@reginaldhall6871
One Toke Over The Line, Sweet Jesus….
Arrested the Same day Dale Died 19 years later crazy. The one stock car driver Dale SR said was better then him was Gary.
i'll never forget in 1974 Gary B showed up at Fonda Speedway for the first time and won!
Nice video you should come back to NA
Why don't Gary Balough tell the truth about what happened to Mario Rossi?
Yes
i remember watching him, bobby brack, dick anderson, bob hamke, etc. duke it out at hialeah. great times then.
What could’ve been:
Ricky Hendrick
James Buescher
Cale Gale
Joey Coulter
Matt Carter
Grew up in Miami in the late 60s early 70s. Every Saturday night the place to be was Hialeah Speedway hanging out in the pits till 4am with the Barnwells. Watched Gary and PeeWee win many times. Exciting days gone by.
Oh there is another great Gary Balough story dealing with his time at dirt. He showed up to Super Dirt Week with a can that was completely unconventional at the time that actually used aerodynamics to pin the car to the clay. He comfortably won the race. The car was nicknamed the called the Batmobile and he more then likely single handedly pulled Northeast Modified dirt racing forward but several years because of it.
That car was built by Kenny Weld engine By Mario Rossie
MY GREAT FRIEND "BUZZY" CROWE USE TO WORK FOR GARY. SURE MISS BUZZY.
Wait did this say Pete Pistone? Like the Sirius XM/MRN Pete Pistone?
Different Pete Pistone
If he went to prison in 87 and got out six years later then how was he racing in 90 and 91?
Good behavior maybe?
the intro coulda had sports car racer john paul sr. drugs, money laundering, allegedly murdered his girlfriend. got his son involved, jp jr. would go to slammer for his dad
WE do realize the $$$ has much to do with "how you run" in auto racing. It always takes both Driver & equipment. Rarely just one of those variables.
What could have been: Rocky Boyd NASCAR Amino
Dude, I haven’t seen you in forever
Question Marc wassup man
Not much man
He was a stout wheelman. One of the best.
Gary still races today.
It was the times nobody had money
Absolutely nothing about one of his biggest wins.. super dirt week ...or the vast amount of big block modified wins .... disappointing
Used to watch him every Saturday night at Orange County Fair Speedway. As a diehard Buzzie Reutimann fan, I hated his guts.
Yeah this was more like a DARE psa from the 80s
I remember in 1974 Gary B showed up at Fonda Speedway for the first time and won i said to myself Who's this guy became a fan instantly!
just say "nope to dope-and ugh to drugs" (somebody better check those diecast cars on that table...
1000 Feature Wins ? OMG lol , Noooooooo Way 😂
Gary was one of the most out of control drivers of that era. And what I mean is that he had a nasty temper and a foul mouth .
We watched him from a selected distance when he would race at the East Windsor speedway in N.J. He always was a volcano ready to blow his stack
Talented on the track ? Absolutely, but Gary destroyed his own future all by himself …. Several times !
What Could Have Been: Kyle Larson
Looking back on this 6 months later, lmao, he just had one of the all-time best years in sprint cars and he's getting a Cup ride back.
#5 baby!!
This aged horribly. Also shows you what is wrong with society 30 years later and the Problems with WOKE & PC CULTURE that is literally ruining everything it touches. Thankfully it wound up being an "Upgrade" for Kyle who Hendrick has stated he planned to sign him the entire time even prior to the Slur upon Jimmie Johnson's retirement. As he should have been trying to when Jeff Gordon told him to prior and kyle wound up signing with CHIP. Valuable years lost.
@@SAVikingSA #SLICEDBREAD
Plus he won at least at Las Vegas in his 1st season back in NASCAR Rather or not he'll win more races this year is up in the air right now.
I met them, Billie PeeWee and Gary out on a freighter in the Bahamas.
Oh my marijuana. Such bad bad boys.
Gary's true life story make 1 great movie. Gary if reading this. Please pretty please put it on legal paperwork. No Tom Cruise in your movie at all he not even be able to watch it.. It would turn your great true story into a huge Joke. As he did Barry Seal & # other great true stories. Its to good of a story to be wasted like that.
With out the dominate cars with better engines from drug money nobody would’ve ever heard of him , he Came to New Smyrna speedway with cars and equipment Worth hundreds of thousands of dollars this is back in the 70s and 80s
How many races did Gary win because he had the drug money to out cheat or spend the other guys. No way to know. Would he have won all those races without the drug money? We will never know.
I see nothing wrong and what he did. I bet you none of that marijuana he smuggled ever killed a person.
Cut into govment$ bu$$ine$$, & they'll get ya.
Are you forgetting the 1980 Syracuse dirt race where he was 2 seconds faster than any other car because they were cheating any he wasn't a dominant race car driver he was a dominant cheater
Who cares? He's a dope dealer!