How Lee and Richard Petty Nearly Died In The Same Race
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- Опубликовано: 19 фев 2024
- During the first Daytona qualifier in the 1961 NASCAR Grand National Speedweeks, Richard Petty was involved in a multi-car crash. As his car went up the track, he used the guardrail as a ramp to flip out of the track and miraculously escaped with little injury. As he was leaving the infield care center, he got word that his father, Lee, had suffered an eerily similar crash - although it was much worse. Despite these being horrific incidents, it just scratches the surface of the carnage of the 1961 NASCAR Daytona Speedweeks.
How Lee and Richard Petty Nearly Died In The Same Race
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I find it Crazy/ironic that the reason most oval races are counter clockwise is so the passenger side takes most of the impact yet they didn’t even have walls or very few at speedways at the time kinda made it a moot point
It still helped
My thoughts are that they're counterclockwise is because that's how horse racing is
why is richard petty crash in daytona qualifying 61 forgotten? why did i not know about this until right now of this video being uploaded?
I have so much respect for their courage , to just wear a helmet and shirt, Pants, no seat harness , no fire suit, I can go on , you have to wonder why anyone would with so much danger. Those were serious wrecks with very little protection
Because it was something extraordinary that pretty much anyone could do as long as you could drive a car
@@anncase8673 I agree with that. Nothing safe no rules.
A crazy crash indeed. Incredible that Lee and Richard were able to survive.
Especially Lee thankfully both did survive.
Severe injury and death were common occurrences in that era. Hard to believe how many guys were willing to take the risks to make an average living. You had to be a true daredevil back then.
this almost happened again in 2001 with Jr at Rockingham the week after Daytona
Run the roval in reverse? That's a great idea! Just switch the bus stop to the other side of the backstretch right before turn 1 and suddenly you have a completely different track, putting the heaviest braking zone on the backstretch with an even longer high speed run going into it!
Wow, I don't think I've ever seen onboard footage of a crash at Daytona from that era before! Nice find and thanks for including it. So many little details are crazy to me, with the main one being his "race suit" of a short sleeve shirt and no gloves. Probably still had the cigarette lighter in the car too and did a Dick Trickle smoking during the cautions! lol
According to Richie, Mark and Timmy Petty, Lee told Richard to climb into the 42 car and try to get that car into the show.
Man, the Plymouth Iron Butterfly Petty drove was a beast. I love in those days all the crazy styled cars you could buy at the dealers was beefed up and run like the devil at Daytona. True stock cars, and the bravest to race them.
Great video; but Beauchamp is pronounced BO-Champ! Johnny a forgotten ace of the early days
Bowchamp not Biuchamp
Man this reminds me of the fabulous Hutson hornet
These accidents were not in the same race as the title states. Richard was in the 1st qualifying race while Lee was in the 2nd.
You would of thought with all of "Big" Bill's knowledge that he would of put up a WALL around that giant racetrack. He had to know the speeds were going to be a lot faster than anywhere else. Yet he chose a single guardrail........to me, that was just asking for what was to happen.
but what about banjo matthews, the guy that led the race on the final lap but he crashed given joe weatherly the win?
Seven hundred thousand in attendance??
“Minor spinal injury”… how is any spinal injury MINOR?!
These guys were TOUGH!!! A small Bell helmet, Polo shirt and a pack of cigarettes and race for 200 laps at a 150 miles per hour on bias ply tires and no power steering and drum brakes, too much
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