The Devastating 1961 World 600 Crash
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- Опубликовано: 14 янв 2024
- The 2nd running of the World 600 was a NASCAR race everyone wanted to win. The race had already established itself as prestigious by being the longest race on the schedule and the earnings for winning. But the race was marred by one wreck involving Reds Kagle - a horrific wreck in which the driver lost his left leg. Little did anyone think at the time, but a monumental comeback was on the horizon for the driver, one that would take almost 16 years.
The Devastating 1961 World 600 Crash
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My uncle Reds never gave up. I remember this well. I was 6 and I remember our family was told he was fatally injured. He went on to Md and Virginia champion.
Any relation to Will Kagle ? Thanks !
Reds was my racing hero when I was a kid (I'm 59 now). Beltsville was a Friday night tradition for several years with my family. I even got to ride with him around the track in his orange 69' Chevelle one night. RIP Reds.
I actually got my uptight Dad to take us kids to Beltsville several times in the early 70s. I'm sure we saw Reds.
Getting out of the track on to that 2-lane road: What a chore!
We always sat in the stands over at turn 4@@jimstrict-998
A NASCAR pioneer member named Red Byron had a leg mangled in WWII, but raced for years using a shoe bolted to the clutch pedal to support his leg.
Men sure were tough back then😊
He also is a NASCAR Cup Series champion
@@cohengamertv6548the first champion
Kagle was kind of baby-faced but clearly a tough guy on the inside. Surviving that crash, then battling NASCAR, then still being a dominant driver with only one leg. Gotta tip your cap to him. Safety in those days was almost nonexistent. Watching some of these videos, I'm surprised there weren't a lot more fatalities.
You do some great stuff...as a brit NASCAR is a bit out of my comfort zone but you give me some real knowledge....and I love the madness of American racers....keep at it I'm A fan for life
Horrible accident, ina way similar to Robert Kubica's rally crash from 2011. Very good video, as always
God, those guard rails.....
It's only recently they got rid of those on the roads, and even then not everywhere.
I always wanted a '61 Starliner. Such cool looking cars.
Ford did a good job of styling that roofline.
What an amazing story . Good for Mr. Kagle , he didn,t let the awful incident take away his dream !!!! 🏁🏁🏁
Dude whoever did the graphics for 61' was about 30 to 40 years ahead of their time. That stuff looks just like 80s, 90s and early 00s graphics.
Pretty sure those were done in 1998, there's a copyright there under the logo
@@hootowl2112 you're absolutely right, didn't even notice the subtext.
Bro that is the ESPN Classic logo and graphics... 🥴🤣 You've been hitting my dab pen, huh? Haha
@@SHarrell42069 was it really that funny?
@@SHarrell42069 bro ur not tuff for having a dab pen bro no one gaf
One of my all time favorite drivers! Somehow, I don't recall many boos for him, he was a fan favorite.
Bro if a guy with a prostethic can best like 30 something other guys then hes just the goat.
Reds was also Clifford Allison's crew chief in 1992 when Clifford crashed fatally at Michigan 😢
What a great video!!! Classic scenes of when Daytona was just started!!! Richard Petty and Joe Weatherly joking in the Pits !!! David Pearson, Reds Kagle, Fireball Roberts!!! Those Early Classic Cars!!! Riverside Raceway!!! Ascot- (Where the Harbor, The San Diego, and the 91 Freeways COLLIDE!!!) Wow!!! Classic scenes that are like GOLD!!! Pure Gold !!! Keep Them Coming Brother!!!
Thanks for making these great videos ! Also could you at some point cover the lives and tragic accidents of Late Model driver Charlie Jarzombek and F1 driver Riccardo Paletti ?
5:27 My father always swore the reason Reds Kagle got hurt was that the guardrail at Charlotte was lapped incorrectly, with the following piece on top of the piece before it as you drove around the track. Can't remember if he was at that race as that was about the time he was drafted into the Army and served in NM. That meant if you hit it right, it would split and impale the car. There have been instances of this happening on the highway, too when construction workers get careless.
I know what ur saying, if them rails aren't overlapped correctly, could be really bad. There's a man on you tube who has been showing rails incorrectly installed on publish roads. Idk know his name or channel, But you made a really good statement 😊
Love stories like this I was born 1962 and went to beltsville speedway most Friday nights tell they close the track and that sucked
I had a book about 50 years ago, on the history of auto racing. There was a photo in there of a nearly identical wreck, at Darlington in 1957. The driver, Eddie Pagan, survived but never raced again.
Pagan went on to form Hutcherson Pagan with Dick Hutcherson.
@@blpadge2 Oh, thanks. What did they do? Hutcherson sounds familiar.
@JeffKopis they were car builders like Banjo Matthews
Tose same type of guard rails at MIS here in Michigan is what tore A.J. Foyts arm up back in the Mid 70's.
Winning a race 4 laps ahead of second place is unheard of anymore. Sad what happened but that’s what helped them improve safety over the years. He came back a winner in the end. 🏁🇺🇸
I was a regular fan as a kid at Beltsville Speedway in Maryland and Old Dominion Speedway in Manassas VA. Reds was the hottest driver at both of those tracks back in the 70's. He used to make the kids like me laugh by sticking his finger through his pants where his knee should have been. Once in the late 70's my Dad took us to Charlotte to see the Winston Cup race . I think he got the tickets from someone at Beltsville, but when we got to our seats, Reds was in the grandstands right next to us! I was so thrilled to watch a race sitting next to one of my heroes!
reds kagle lost a leg, then raced with a prosthetic leg
Back in the 1960s a race-driver used to die in an accident somewhere in the world ever week.
Reds Cagle was a hell of a race car driver. He won a lot of races at Old Dominion Speedway in Manassas Va also.
great video too.
Back then, the drivers had to possess upper body strength to manhandle these manual-steering race cars for 4+ hour races. Few could make the cut. I remember seeing David Pearson years later, long after he had retired, and I could see he possessed that natural physique to meet the challenge.
We had a local dirt racer with only one leg,, his right leg was prosthetic! He did ok and won occasionally. He owned and drove a tip truck for a living.
2:53 Dave's car looks amazing!
Looks like penny loafers equal a hot shoe. The King wears em!
A video on Russell Philips would be interesting
This was before they named the race the coke 600
It was called the World 600 for first 25 years.
Davif Person had a kinda (thing)
would try to lead any first lap of any race he could ...
kinda like ....big dog coming through play to the crowd ego ....which is why he is a legend.
How have I never heard of this??
Did I just hear him say that one driver won by a margin of OVER FOUR LAPS??
Correct me if I’m wrong, but that has to be the largest margin of victory every recorded in professional motor sports, and if it is, surely that incredible feat of driving deserves a story of its own??
Hi. That's actually not the largest margin of victory in NASCAR Cup Series competition. In 1965, at the Southern 500 in Darlington SC, Ned Jarrett won the race, by an astonishing margin of 14 laps, over the second place finishing Buck Baker! That particular record still stands to this day, and will never be broken. Back then, there was a lot of disparity through the field, between the top leading teams, and the mid pack and back marker teams. No stage breaks or competition cautions back then either, and naturally this led to some races getting strung out pretty good. It was actually not that uncommon at all back during the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, to see races where the winners were one or more laps ahead of the rest of the field. We won't ever see that again, with the modern rules and race formats. That day in 1965 at Darlington, it was brutally hot, and there was simply so much attrition, cars falling out and or going multiple laps down. Ned Jarrett was a top driver with a top notch team, and they simply out classed and out lasted the rest of the field🏁🏆😎
Even if he did lose his right leg he could still drive, I lost my right leg above the knee in a motorcycle accident and I just use my left leg instead, all be it I only drive an automatic now , it doesn't take long to get used to it, hours its not the throttle you need to get used to it's the brake, you tend to brake to hard at first but get used to it very quickly.
We lost Joe Weatherly not long after in 1964 in Riverside.
.......and Fireball Roberts, and Billy Wade - all in 1964.
As someone who lived a few miles from the speedway as a teen, Concord NC is pronounced differently than Concord NH. In the South, it's pronounced ' con chord ' as in you play a chord on a musical instrument.
Kagle's lawsuit was thrown out by the Judge. The Judge said he didn't have a leg to stand on. That Judge was brutal.
So not only did the negligence of the very wealthy France Family lead to the needless loss of a young man’s leg, but that wasn’t enough. When he sued, they Banned him from the only game in town, which was also his lively hood. A perfect example of Billionaires looking out for the little guy.
Or did I mis the part that said that his medical expenses were pick up by the France’s? Or how they offered him employment as part of his rehabilitation?
Saw him at beltville many times
Damn! It's hard to say Reds was "lucky," but he was! That rail head hit the motor, deflecting the car to the right, while the guardrail went to the left. If anything else happened, it would have much, MUCH worse. What I never get is, how these dudes fit in those old cars with brass nuts the size of wrecking balls!
Man, that was nasty.
Turn left! Turn left!
Back when they embraced wrecks and death on tv
My father in law was on Joe lees pit crew. Joe lee a Chattanooga Tn boy
A race that everyone wanted to win?? Eyes rolling emoji here
39 sec !
David Pearson won that race, his first of 105
Hard to look at that crash
Wonder what these guys would think about stage racing?
Was Kagle cross-eyed? No disrespect intended. He was obviously an American bad-ass.
I really miss real stock cars being on the track.
Terrible crash, incredible spirit!
Nowadays in the snowflake age, the race would be stopped, incredible to think they kept the race open while they pulled an impaled car off a guard rail, redrilled and wired a new one, helicoptered the driver off to hospital was hella negligent alright?
8 years to sue NASCAR, sounds about alright, but what a comeback.
He was so successful that the crowds had no qualms about barracking a one legged driver!
HOABL
Christ Almighty 😳
Now thats when stock car racing was good. Crashes, great cars and drivers who knew how to drive. Now its all about nobody having an advantage so they all drive bumper to bumper. Ho hum. Cant believe people pay to see it.
Crash 4:05
To me this was the worst crash ever, it seemed like slow motion the chain of events, horrible, it bothers me 63 years later, to have watched it.
were they saying "Boo" or "Boo-urns"?
As international as the baseball world series.....
4:32 both his eyes aren’t facing forward no wonder he couldn’t see. 😂
Too Scary. Coulda took off his dick 'just below the knee'
I love how virtually all of the Nascar youtube channels are turning into clickbait factories.
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Dude ... rail (ale) not rell, ... wheei (eel) not well, ... field (eel) not feld, ... steel (eel) not stell, where do people talk like this?
also it's impaled not impelled
@@richardrice8076 seriously, where do people talk like this?
@@michaelannen4168 not where I come from(Chicago suburbs).
@@richardrice8076 poor guy was lmpelled by a still rell
oh no, regional accents - the horror!
World 600 only it was American? Go figure.