Glorious days. Watched this race while in intermediate school. Buddy Baker talking about Daytona, "I will get into a car until i can't anymore. I know i can beat this track". AJ Foyt racing NASCAR, the Wood Brothers. Glad i appreciated these days.
This race saw a bit of everything, from the wildest cars ever to race in the Daytona 500, to record speeds, some of which weren't challenged for a decade or more, to tragedy, as one driver was killed trying to qualify for this race, to unpredictable events happening in the 500 itself. As for the speeds, Cale Yarborough won the pole with a speed of 194.016 MPH, a record that wasn't broken until the end of the decade, when Buddy Baker qualified at over 196 on a newly repaved track for the 1979 Daytona 500. Cale also set a qualifying race speed record of over 183 MPH in his qualifying race win, setting a record that wouldn't be broken until Terry Labonte broke it in 1989. Sadly, while the first qualifying race was run green all the way, tragedy struck in the second qualifying race as rookie Talmadge Prince lost his life in a crash off turn two when he spun and was t-boned by Bill Seifert. That race was won by Charlie Glotzbach, who as mentioned in the broadcast (at about 18:10), was lucky to even be alive, as he'd been shot during the off-season, and was still carrying a bullet in one of his shoulders during the race. The race itself saw some unusual happenings, beginning when Richard Petty blew after seven laps, the same number of laps he completed 11 years earlier, when he drove a convertible in the first Daytona 500. One thing we don't see is Jim Vandiver losing his engine in Ray Fox's #3 car, bringing out the second caution, then while dominating the race, Cale's the next to go. Then Donnie Allison (at about 100 miles) and A.J. Foyt also lose engines (Foyt's blown engine brought out the fourth caution on lap 61). And when LeeRoy Yarbrough had electrical problems (dropping him seven laps behind on the way to finishing ninth), David Pearson became Ford's lone hope against the Superbirds and Dodge Daytonas, and eventually, the only non-winged car to finish in the top six, which included not only Hamilton as the winner in the most distinct car ever to win at Daytona, but also Bobby Allison, Charlie Glotzbach, Bobby Isaac, all of whom were in Dodges, and Richard Brickhouse (the first winner at Talladega), who like Hamilton and Petty, was in a Superbird. After Pearson, the next Ford finisher was long-time fan favorite Jim Hurtubise, who was seventh.
@@goldenltd1970 That's where Richard Petty, who was acting as Hamilton's crew chief after he went out on lap 8, snookered the Holman-Moody team. With Hamilton the only other driver on the lead lap with Pearson, he knew that he could afford to make a second stop for left side tires and not lose anything on that very brief final caution period (only three laps were run under caution during that last caution period, laps 187-189), because the rules allowed Hamilton to close up right behind Pearson for that final restart. Pearson's team probably didn't want to gamble on losing the lead, even though he had the best car that day after Cale went out, having driven from 31st and leading a total of 82 laps (and it would have been more if not for that 20-lap caution for Buddy Arrington's crash, during which Charlie Glotzbach led the race). And the last caution was so brief that, even if the Holman-Moody wanted to bring Pearson back into the pits to get the other two tires changed, they couldn't.
When you're 2nd and noone else on the lead lap, you can try and gamble as the possibility of loosing that place was almost nonexistent. when you're up front it is a different story It's a little sad, that - like you said - he had the best car on the track at the end and traction was the factor that took his win But I'm still impressed how fast those Fords and Mercury's were going, while the winged Mopars get all the fanfare
@@goldenltd1970 And even if the Holman-Moody team wanted to counter the move Petty made by changing the tires on the other side, they couldn't, because of how brief that final caution was. Otherwise, they might have brought Pearson into the pits for those other two tires to counter Petty's move, even though it would have dropped Pearson to second place, which actually was the more advantageous position in those days. And one reason why the Fords and Mercurys were as fast as they were (and they were faster than the Chrysler cars) was because they didn't have the big wing dragging them down the straightaways, but except for Pearson's #17, they were also fragile, because except for Pearson, every other prominent Ford in the race had major trouble in the race's first 200 miles, and most of them had engine problems (LeeRoy Yarbrough's issue was electrical, resulting in a pit stop that cost him 8 laps), so from lap 75 on, it was Pearson, and Pearson alone that carried the Ford banner in that race. The next highest finishing Ford was that of long-time fan favorite Jim Hurtubise, who brought Tom Pistone's #59 Ford home in seventh place.
@@goldenltd1970 While that may be true, that's just how things ended up happening. Look at the 1969 500, Charlie Glotzbach clearly had the horsepower advantage that day but yet Leroy was able to slip by and take the win. I also understand the winged Dodges and Plymouths are overrated, but the reason the Super Bird and Daytona get more fan fair isn't because they were "winners" heck, I'm a Mopar guy and I can say the Fords aero cars were definitely SUPERIOR on the big tracks, but its because they're different and unique. The Fords were definitely slick but they weren't "outrageous" like the winged cars.
Quick thinking on the Pettys part, Pete certainly earned this win! I could watch this race over a million times and never get bored. Where's my time machine when you need it??
One reason Isaac was as underrated as he was had to do with his rotten luck in NASCAR's biggest events, particularly the Daytona 500, because from 1970-'72, he had cars capable of winning, but had tire trouble in both 1970 and '71, either while leading or contending for the lead, and then in '72, never really got a chance to compete after being the fastest qualifier by a wide margin. His engine was missing from the get go and he was out after 17 laps. On the other hand, Allison wasn't underrated as much as he's been forgotten about among the legends of the sport. After all, not only is Allison the fourth-winning driver in NASCAR history with 85 wins, but until Jeff Gordon came along, no driver won more big races than Allison, who was the first driver to win each of NASCAR's crown jewels at least three times. And his record in the Daytona 500 speaks to that, because this race in 1970 marked the second time in three years that he finished third, and a few years later, he finished second in an AMC Matador, and his 8 top 3 finishes in the Daytona 500 (3 wins, 3 2nds, and 2 3rds) rank him behind only Richard Petty and ties him with Cale Yarborough in that department. Even at the end of his career, his best performances came in the biggest races, as he won the Winston 500 in 1986, and finished second in the Southern 500 later that year, and followed that up with a dramatic win in the 1987 Firecracker 400, and the unforgettable 1988 Daytona 500, as well as a runner-up finish in the Winston 500 in his final start at Talladega later that year.
Imagine those people who attended the 1969 Talladega race who were told that if they bought the ticket they could use that ticket to attend the Daytona 500 the next year.
Wow, I was around a year old. Time flies!❤👍I grew up and still live in Spartanburg S.C.. Used to live around the corner from Bud Moores shop. You could here them testing the Engines. So cool! Hub City has a rich history of Nascar drivers. God Bless all.
To bad i didn't buy neither a Daytona or Superbird, i could have retired at an early age. But who knew at the time where dealerships couldn't give them away. Bad To The Bone.
The days when you could only catch a few segments of the race on The Wide World of Sports which aired on Saturdays. I still remember watching the first flag-to-flag coverage of the Daytona 500 and Petty winning after Yarbourogh and D. Allison took each other out in the finale lap. I would watch every year and stopped watching when it went to the stages. It is hard to even watch the replays which I very rarely do.
to many rules and all the cars are the same , and that's what sucks . way less rules high speed pits no restrictors that's racing best car wins . Any driver with a better car wins .
Wow that's when stock car racing was the real deal, no Toyotas.or restrictor plates and you had ford and Chevy and dodge and Plymouth mercury, even some AMC,.this is fabulous. 😊😊😊
@@scale_model_apprentice Not a thing wrong with Toyota, they're the best car built today and forever now, im.talking about when nascar was all-American brand cars, before Toyota and all the bullshit rules.
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Possibly the wildest Daytona 500 in history. Certainly the most high-powered one.
I agree
So powerful engines were blowing left and right
These cars are worth hanging around for. The old stuff will always be the best.
Glorious days. Watched this race while in intermediate school. Buddy Baker talking about Daytona, "I will get into a car until i can't anymore. I know i can beat this track". AJ Foyt racing NASCAR, the Wood Brothers. Glad i appreciated these days.
This race saw a bit of everything, from the wildest cars ever to race in the Daytona 500, to record speeds, some of which weren't challenged for a decade or more, to tragedy, as one driver was killed trying to qualify for this race, to unpredictable events happening in the 500 itself.
As for the speeds, Cale Yarborough won the pole with a speed of 194.016 MPH, a record that wasn't broken until the end of the decade, when Buddy Baker qualified at over 196 on a newly repaved track for the 1979 Daytona 500. Cale also set a qualifying race speed record of over 183 MPH in his qualifying race win, setting a record that wouldn't be broken until Terry Labonte broke it in 1989.
Sadly, while the first qualifying race was run green all the way, tragedy struck in the second qualifying race as rookie Talmadge Prince lost his life in a crash off turn two when he spun and was t-boned by Bill Seifert. That race was won by Charlie Glotzbach, who as mentioned in the broadcast (at about 18:10), was lucky to even be alive, as he'd been shot during the off-season, and was still carrying a bullet in one of his shoulders during the race.
The race itself saw some unusual happenings, beginning when Richard Petty blew after seven laps, the same number of laps he completed 11 years earlier, when he drove a convertible in the first Daytona 500. One thing we don't see is Jim Vandiver losing his engine in Ray Fox's #3 car, bringing out the second caution, then while dominating the race, Cale's the next to go. Then Donnie Allison (at about 100 miles) and A.J. Foyt also lose engines (Foyt's blown engine brought out the fourth caution on lap 61). And when LeeRoy Yarbrough had electrical problems (dropping him seven laps behind on the way to finishing ninth), David Pearson became Ford's lone hope against the Superbirds and Dodge Daytonas, and eventually, the only non-winged car to finish in the top six, which included not only Hamilton as the winner in the most distinct car ever to win at Daytona, but also Bobby Allison, Charlie Glotzbach, Bobby Isaac, all of whom were in Dodges, and Richard Brickhouse (the first winner at Talladega), who like Hamilton and Petty, was in a Superbird. After Pearson, the next Ford finisher was long-time fan favorite Jim Hurtubise, who was seventh.
And David had a shot at winning, if they would've given him four more tires, like Hamilton. It all came down to traction in the end
@@goldenltd1970 That's where Richard Petty, who was acting as Hamilton's crew chief after he went out on lap 8, snookered the Holman-Moody team. With Hamilton the only other driver on the lead lap with Pearson, he knew that he could afford to make a second stop for left side tires and not lose anything on that very brief final caution period (only three laps were run under caution during that last caution period, laps 187-189), because the rules allowed Hamilton to close up right behind Pearson for that final restart. Pearson's team probably didn't want to gamble on losing the lead, even though he had the best car that day after Cale went out, having driven from 31st and leading a total of 82 laps (and it would have been more if not for that 20-lap caution for Buddy Arrington's crash, during which Charlie Glotzbach led the race). And the last caution was so brief that, even if the Holman-Moody wanted to bring Pearson back into the pits to get the other two tires changed, they couldn't.
When you're 2nd and noone else on the lead lap, you can try and gamble as the possibility of loosing that place was almost nonexistent.
when you're up front it is a different story
It's a little sad, that - like you said - he had the best car on the track at the end and traction was the factor that took his win
But I'm still impressed how fast those Fords and Mercury's were going, while the winged Mopars get all the fanfare
@@goldenltd1970 And even if the Holman-Moody team wanted to counter the move Petty made by changing the tires on the other side, they couldn't, because of how brief that final caution was. Otherwise, they might have brought Pearson into the pits for those other two tires to counter Petty's move, even though it would have dropped Pearson to second place, which actually was the more advantageous position in those days.
And one reason why the Fords and Mercurys were as fast as they were (and they were faster than the Chrysler cars) was because they didn't have the big wing dragging them down the straightaways, but except for Pearson's #17, they were also fragile, because except for Pearson, every other prominent Ford in the race had major trouble in the race's first 200 miles, and most of them had engine problems (LeeRoy Yarbrough's issue was electrical, resulting in a pit stop that cost him 8 laps), so from lap 75 on, it was Pearson, and Pearson alone that carried the Ford banner in that race. The next highest finishing Ford was that of long-time fan favorite Jim Hurtubise, who brought Tom Pistone's #59 Ford home in seventh place.
@@goldenltd1970 While that may be true, that's just how things ended up happening. Look at the 1969 500, Charlie Glotzbach clearly had the horsepower advantage that day but yet Leroy was able to slip by and take the win. I also understand the winged Dodges and Plymouths are overrated, but the reason the Super Bird and Daytona get more fan fair isn't because they were "winners" heck, I'm a Mopar guy and I can say the Fords aero cars were definitely SUPERIOR on the big tracks, but its because they're different and unique. The Fords were definitely slick but they weren't "outrageous" like the winged cars.
Quick thinking on the Pettys part, Pete certainly earned this win! I could watch this race over a million times and never get bored. Where's my time machine when you need it??
Bobby Allison and Bobby Isaac both are very underrated
One reason Isaac was as underrated as he was had to do with his rotten luck in NASCAR's biggest events, particularly the Daytona 500, because from 1970-'72, he had cars capable of winning, but had tire trouble in both 1970 and '71, either while leading or contending for the lead, and then in '72, never really got a chance to compete after being the fastest qualifier by a wide margin. His engine was missing from the get go and he was out after 17 laps.
On the other hand, Allison wasn't underrated as much as he's been forgotten about among the legends of the sport. After all, not only is Allison the fourth-winning driver in NASCAR history with 85 wins, but until Jeff Gordon came along, no driver won more big races than Allison, who was the first driver to win each of NASCAR's crown jewels at least three times. And his record in the Daytona 500 speaks to that, because this race in 1970 marked the second time in three years that he finished third, and a few years later, he finished second in an AMC Matador, and his 8 top 3 finishes in the Daytona 500 (3 wins, 3 2nds, and 2 3rds) rank him behind only Richard Petty and ties him with Cale Yarborough in that department. Even at the end of his career, his best performances came in the biggest races, as he won the Winston 500 in 1986, and finished second in the Southern 500 later that year, and followed that up with a dramatic win in the 1987 Firecracker 400, and the unforgettable 1988 Daytona 500, as well as a runner-up finish in the Winston 500 in his final start at Talladega later that year.
Loved watching Bobby race and hearing his interviews.
Imagine those people who attended the 1969 Talladega race who were told that if they bought the ticket they could use that ticket to attend the Daytona 500 the next year.
Wow, I was around a year old. Time flies!❤👍I grew up and still live in Spartanburg S.C.. Used to live around the corner from Bud Moores shop. You could here them testing the Engines. So cool! Hub City has a rich history of Nascar drivers. God Bless all.
That had to be really cool.
@@D2RCRIt really was. His shop was located in a Mill Village called Beaumont. ❤👍
Remember this race well. Superbirds in a class all their own. Great race!!!
🏁Love the High Wing cars, really enjoyed!!!! 🏁
ahhh the good old days 426 hemi vs boss 429
yeah , Ford 427 428 & 429
To bad i didn't buy neither a Daytona or Superbird, i could have retired at an early age.
But who knew at the time where dealerships couldn't give them away.
Bad To The Bone.
These were the days when so may engines blew. Love it.
The essence of performance perfection👌 That's a milestone.
This was the first time that Plymouth has shown the Superbird to the fans.
Nope. The Superbird's first race was Riverside, a month earlier.
Did they have radios in these cars of this era???
The days when you could only catch a few segments of the race on The Wide World of Sports which aired on Saturdays.
I still remember watching the first flag-to-flag coverage of the Daytona 500 and Petty winning after Yarbourogh and D. Allison took each other out in the finale lap.
I would watch every year and stopped watching when it went to the stages. It is hard to even watch the replays which I very rarely do.
How is this a "Full Race Replay" if the video is 32 minutes long but the race took 3 hours 20 minutes to run?
Charlie Glotzbach was shot twice by a former employee. THAT'S better than running shine on back narrow tar&gravel crooked mountain roads.
Notice n this era that age 27 is young for Big League racers.
Gee remember when they actually raced on super speedways? Not a three wide parking lot waiting for "the big one".
YAY SUPERBIRDS!
So cool.........................
Not a Full Race Replay, but close.
Dr 12-24
Pete dumped his ass
to many rules and all the cars are the same , and that's what sucks . way less rules high speed pits no restrictors that's racing best car wins . Any driver with a better car wins .
that's why nasscar sucks today
Wow that's when stock car racing was the real deal, no Toyotas.or restrictor plates and you had ford and Chevy and dodge and Plymouth mercury, even some AMC,.this is fabulous. 😊😊😊
What's wrong with Toyota? Nowadays, they make just as many cars in the US as Ford Chevrolet or Chrysler.
@@scale_model_apprentice Not a thing wrong with Toyota, they're the best car built today and forever now, im.talking about when nascar was all-American brand cars, before Toyota and all the bullshit rules.