nascar essentially started when the moonshiners would upgrade their cars to outrun the police during prohibition. eventually they started racing each other and nascar was born.
Yes! Moonshine runners had to outrun the police so they boosted their cars to 200 horsepower and eventually 300hp. That was not enough because they had heavy loads. They built tough, flexible suspension systems and added wider tires. The police chased them for a bit and usually gave up. The police asked Chrysler for a squad car to handle this kind of speed and curves. The 300 horsepower Chrysler 300 was born, the old grandpappy of today's Bentley-looking sedan. By 1970 the 300 had up to 375bhp and could catch anything on a straight road at least. Moonshine runners started not only NASCAR but the American muscle car trend which exists to this day with Challenger Demon with 840 hp. Folks like Hennessey bring these and other cars up to 1000 horsepower.
This is the only reason I don't talk shit about it. My grand father had 2 identical cars but one had a raised rear suspension so the loaded trunk would look like the other. I love history.
@@citisoccer A lot of the Southern states still had dry counties and some still do. So, running shine meant making and transporting booze in those counties well into the 60s.
I really got into NASCAR pre the Chase, it's way more tactical than F1 once you understand it and very entertaining, especially short tracks. but they ruined it with the chase imo.
1979 Daytona 500 featured a fistfight between Donnie Allison and Cale Yarborough. That was actually the first NASCAR race to air on TV from beginning to end.
2:28 It's not all ovals, this incident took place at Watkins Glen, a classic road course they visit annually along with several others. Yes, the road course cars are neutral setups, not biased like the speedway cars.
@@thejestor9378 Well.. it's a newer tiny track on the bones of an old tiny track. The last vestiges of 'old tiny Bristol' are what ripped open Mike Harmon's car in this video, and Michael Waltrip's car earlier. If you can see out of the place at all, it's old Bristol.... should the horizon seem to be made entirely of seats, new Bristol :)
Agreed on this one. Jeff Gordon had one of the most sudden and vicious wrecks ever at the Glen. Link: ruclips.net/video/fCoO1-HHN3A/видео.html I always thought if he was driving the 2001 era Cup cars, pre-Earnhardt Sr death, this accident could very well have killed him.
Not to be that guy, but just to help prevent confusion the proper terms are symmetrical and asymmetrical, where as netrual would tend to be used to describe the balance of the car (oversteer vs understeer aka loose vs tight) Again I'm sure most nascar fans understand your comment how ever it's worded but then again this video targets a broader audience that may get confused if they watch a nascar race and the term netrual is used to describe the cars handling characteristics
Dale Earnhardt Jr. is one of the most famous drivers, but definitely not amongst the best. His father, Dale Earnhardt Sr., was one of the best (a 7x champion). He was tragically killed in a NASCAR race (the biggest one, the Daytona 500) back in 2001. His wreck looked nothing like these and was seemingly a simple collision into the wall but he didn't make it. As for the milk thing, that's only for the Indianapolis 500 which isn't a NASCAR race but an open wheel Indy Car race.
@Jim Clark I agree that they should not try to capitalize on what IndyCar does. Next year they are trying out the road course because the Brickyard 400 has been steadily declining in both viewership, and attendance. It's a wonderful facility. Just not built for NASCAR.
Also for Chance. By far one of the most insightful comments I've seen. Coming from a Earnhardt fan. His father was one of the best that's ever lived. Right up there with Petty, Yarbrough, Allison, and Pearson. His loss was tragic. However unfortunately I feel that if it were not for his death we may not have had the safety innovations that we have today.
@Jim Clark oldest united states racing event compared to Nascar, which has routes that are from America and ingrained into the south where it started, as well as with American car building deserves less than Indy.. yeah no, f that.
The milk celebration is not NASCAR. It is tradition at the Indianapolis 500. The winner drinks a bottle of milk. The tradition started in 1936 when the race winner Louis Meyer drank it because his mother told him it would refresh him on a hot day. He however drank buttermilk! They don't use buttermilk anymore because it is too difficult to produce.
I think nascar should start using the milk tradition at indy. Indy car drivers stole the tradition of kissing the bricks from nascar so i only think it fair nascar does the same
Before each Indy 500, all 33 drivers specify what kind of milk they would want should they win the race. Also, the only winning driver to shun the tradition was Emerson Fittipaldi who drank orange juice to promote his orange groves
The wreck at 6:30 gives me goosebumps every time I see it. Listen to the live audio from the commentators. You can hear it in their voice, they think he’s dead
@@MarkPentler From watching the race on RUclips, they don't show a replay for nearly 10 mins until they see him out of the car and moving on the stretcher.
10:24 That accident spooked NASCAR and finally made them realize that the cars were going too fast on the superspeedways. In reaction, they introduced the "restrictor plate," literally a flat sheet of metal that bolted between the carburetor and the intake manifold with small, regulated-sized holes for the engine to breathe through. It reduced horsepower by a bunch and slowed the cars down, but also bunched them more tightly into a pack, much like the peloton in bicycle racing.
Yeah, that was like the 1st year they raced the trucks at a plate track. Had no plates on cause they thought trucks would be slow enough. They were topping 200 & faster than the cup cars.
I was at the race at Talladega when Bobby Allison went into the fence. They had a red flag for almost four hours, in Alabama summer heat until they got the fence put back together. There were several fans injured, none life threatening. It's the clip that starts around 10:23.
There was a particularly nasty wreck at the Daytona 500 earlier this year. The driver, Ryan Newman, is an engineer and has worked with NASCAR on making their vehicles safer. One of his improvements, part of the roll cage assembly nicknamed the "Newman bar" is credited with helping save his life.
whats crazy is they don't see the fact that so many drivers walked away from these crashes. As a lifelong fans I can say i've seen almost all of these crashes numerous times, and most of these drives WALKED from their cars. Like the 00 at Texas,at qualifying, when he crashed by himself, everyone thought he would need a stretcher, but he walked out and waved to the fans. Now the older ones? Before the 2000s, not many walked away. Stretched away. Safety has come a loooong way. Also, Sr, not Jr (Earnhardt) was one of the best. Jr was a star, but he had a tough career. Also the milk is the Indy 500. Also Allison's crash at 10:40 changed a lot about the sport. We almost saw a Le Mans level of a disaster, if the car had not caught the top of the wall. Ristricter plates started becoming standard at super speedways (Daytona and Talladega) shortly after, and are still used today.
I have been to a few NASCAR races in my area and they are mind-bending loud and fast. 200 mph and no muffler They have a "post" with the positions displayed, but you need headphones dialed into the radio to know who is in the lead.
It doesn't matter how loud it is at the track. When 40 cars go by at speed it's the only thing you can hear for a few seconds. You can't even hear yourself think. It's so loud that you're not even sure you heard the sound correctly if that makes any sense.
4:44 Here’s a crazy fact: After Brad Keselowski turned Carl Edwards here, Carl Edwards later turned Brad into the fence in Atlanta, which he flipped but it wasn’t as bad. Revenge is awesome.
Following up on that comment the restrictor plates, perhaps ironically, led to more crashes at the superspeedways (though at slightly slower speeds). The plates restrict the air/fuel mixture to limit the car's top speed. So drivers found that closely following behind ("drafting") another car they could push the car in front faster, and ride in the slipstream. So the speeds were reduced but the cars started traveling in packs only inches apart.
@@pigs18 And then there's people like me that would love to see what happens if you put both the 1987 and the 2020 on the same exact tire and put them head to head. part of why the old cars sucked to drive was their tires. I don't have engine specs for those, but I'm really curious. We already know the new cars are FASTER than the 1987s, but the unrestricted 1987 was Faster than the 2020 car. 205 in the 2020 vs 215 in the 1987, but the 87 didn't have much power, whereas the 2020s have a lot more power (on the short tracks, anyway). That said, iRacing added the 1987 Monte and Thunderbird to the service. JUST driving them on a simulation/video game is nerve wracking. We tend to beg the question HOW THE HELL did these men drive these things?! They're fun, though. I'd like to put these two at Talledega just to see how that pans out, even though we would get the era-correct tire on each car.
@@morgfarm1 It would be interesting to see a race like that for sure, and tires play a huge part, but aerodynamics is another major factor that would likely give a new gen car an edge. Back when these legends were driving the old Montes and T-birds, they had to actually lift the throttle going through the turns at Talladega. Now that the new cars have splitters and vortex generators they stay more planted in high G situations. It may be close though because the old cars would win the drag races down the straights!
Michael Waltrip’s crash in Bristol is one of the worst...no tumbling to dissipate energy. Hit the wall and it gave way...car literally fell apart. His brother was announcing and thought he was dead. Amazing he wasn’t severely injured.
I was at Talladega for the crash at 4:34 I was in the section to the left of where he hit. When the said "no debris went into the grandstand" , that was 100% not true. They didn't show it on TV, but they had ambulances lined up on the track, and I witnessed people being rolled from that section with bloody towels on their faces. It was ugly, but NASCAR never publicly admitted that anybody was hurt. I used to have pics of the crash, and after math, but they were on an old laptop that bricked. Never had the pics recovered. It was one of the craziest things I have ever witnessed.
I watched that one live on TV, and even I could see debris flying thru the fence. And from what I recall reading, one woman ended having her jaw broken by the debris.
these cars are barebones, it's a tube chassis that acts as the rollcage with a fiberglass frame around it. They have a 4 speed H-pattern gearbox, and nothing in the way of assistance. The milk pouring is from the Indianapolis 500, and nascar does actually go to some "normal" racetracks
I’d say about 35% of the tracks are ovals 40% are Tri-Ovals and with the new schedule 30% Road Courses (10+ turns like tracks you would see in other motorsports)
For all that aren't familiar, Nascar is a motorsport where everyone has to drive cars with the same amount of horsepower, same tires, and etc. They weigh 3,400 pounds and very sturdy roll cage (which you saw in the video), so flipping the cars are very hard and as dangerous to do nowadays. The cars race at short tracks (1 mile or smaller), 1.5-mile tracks, superspeedway (2.5 miles), and road courses (yes they turn right). They have 40 drivers and 36 races, plus two races just for money races that don't count points. That's a very brief view of what the sport of Nascar is.
Few fun facts about nascar: - Though the oval track is the most common they come in sizes between 1 and 2.5 miles. As well as having road courses in the season. - There was a resent crash were everyone watching thought the driver died but after some check ups he left the hospital after a day, NASCAR has some serious safety. - the people you see standing there are actually viewers as they let people into the infield of the track with campers, all I can say is the people you meet there are either drunk or blackout drunk.
You guys should look into IndyCar. Your fellow countryman Graham Hill was the first person to win what he described as the "Triple Crown of Racing" which is 24 hours at Le Mans, Monaco Grand Prix and Indianapolis 500. There's always been British racers in the Indy 500 such as Nigel Mansell, Jackie Stewart and Jim Clark to name a few. This series has a much longer history than NASCAR
Its cool to see how people model movie crashes like those in old nascar. For example at 5:19 that crash is the same movements that lighting mcqueen did in Cars 3 when he crashed.
NASCAR was born during Prohibition, when we criminalized alcohol in the USA. No I'm not kidding, People started making their own liquor and the local tax man, called the "Revenure" used to hunt down the illegal liquor stills. The guys making the liquor needed to make their cars faster to outrun the COPS and Revenure's. This was before COPS has radios in all the cars. Eventually those guys would race each other to see who had the fastest "Moonshiners" car. The mechanics who used to work on the cars were the guys who started NASCAR. they used to be the Moonshine makers.
You know ... most of people doing reactions are reacting to the same videos. Some channel i enjoy, some i don't. I like the maturity side of these guys. But don't get me wrong sometimes I crack up with them too. That's why i subscribed.
You could make a compilation just as long of Davey Allison's crashes in the 1992 season (may he rest in peace). That man would either crash or win every race (except the one where he crashed AND won). He was injured several different times in several different places and still started every damn race of the season. No matter what you think about NASCAR or racing in general, that man's toughness should serve as inspiration to everyone.
Its not nascar, but there is great documentary called "rapid response" (I found on amazon prime) that talks about the evolution of the advanced medical care and the speed at which these drivers receive it. That response combined with the engineering and the ability to quickly redesign the cars when a flaw is found keeps the drivers alive through these horrific collisions.
7:06 arguably the hardest hit a car has had, and that’s the only shot of it wrecking. The aftermath included the engine, which had found its way out of the car, but the cameras were focused on a different wreck so there isn’t really a way to see what happened
They run “ovals” and road courses. They’ve been adding more road courses to the schedule. As for the transmission they run 4 speed gearboxes. Only two tracks they run wide open those being the super speedways Talladega and Daytona.
There are no backup cars for a race in NASCAR. If you wreck, you have a chance to make repairs in the pits, but you have to be able to maintain a minimum speed on the track afterwards, or you will be black flagged, and you'll be forced to retire from the race. If your car is too damaged to repair, you are out.
At 6:38 if you put it on the slowest playback speed you can see a chunk of the people in the crowd get covered in a cloud of smoke and flames as the car slides along the fence
Nascar transmissions are Jerico 4 speed straight cut H pattern shifter. Certain tracks they shift multiple times a lap. Pocono for instance. Also of course road course tracks as well.
I'm a huge NASCAR fan, a bit less so now than in the 1980s-early 2000s, and a Chevy Camaro SS owner and generally your "typical" American "car guy", so maybe I can clarify how NASCAR came to be the #1 American racing sport: It evolved out of illegal whiskey runners in the South Eastern states of the United States. The Appalachian Mountains run from Georgia up north through South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, and the southern part of Ohio just north of the Ohio River by Marietta. In those mountains, the water runs clean, pure, and cold. It's probably the freshest, cleanest water in America. It is PERFECT for making whiskey and bourbon. There are many legal distilleries that come from this part of the country, but also many unlicensed and illegal distilleries known in America as "moonshiners", since they try to operate in the dark, at night, under the moon, in the woods with homemade stills, away from view. The moonshiners have been making their own homemade whiskey and selling it around the towns since the beginning of America 300+ years ago and it's been passed down through generations and families. But when cars were invented and started to be mass produced for cheap, the moonshiners obviously used them for transporting their loads of shine to make it faster than a wagon or carriage. Of course the American federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies also had cars. Police cars have been souped up versions of regular American production cars from Ford, Chevy, and Chrysler since the 1930s. It was around that time that the moonshiners needed their own private cars to be faster to get away from the law as they'd chase them down and easily catch their less powerful civilian cars. So the moonshiners started souping up their regular production cars with better, bigger exhausts, carburetors, and fiddling with things like the camshaft, cylinder bore and stroke, intake manifolds, and cooling systems. Most of this stuff was homemade mind you. Not bought at what we know today as hot rod shops. These guys started out in their own sheds and worked on making their own cars faster. Then they made them lighter - removing seats, unneeded components and metal, they'd cut the springs down to make the car handle better. All in their own back yards with the little money they had. As these moonshiners got faster and faster, they started racing each other for fun to see whose souped up car was faster. First they were racing in the streets and the back woods roads until they kept getting busted by the law. It was around the 1940s when they realized they needed to take their racing off the public roads and build tracks. They did that, and it brought huge crowds to see the local moonshiners go racing against each other on Sundays. These guys were going to their normal jobs, running moonshine at night, and then racing on Sunday all with the same every day driver they picked up used or even if they did buy it new, at the local Ford, GM, or Chrysler dealer. A lot of different smaller racing bodies were formed throughout the 1940s and WWII but after the war they all came together to form what they called the National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing in 1948. By the late 1950s stock cars, as the term came to be because these cars were mandated to be production cars with a minimum of 500 of the said race car to be sold as passenger cars to the public, started already taking on their own chassis and components. Roll cages installed, entire car stripped down for pure racing. As they got more money and generated more interest throughout the 1950s they got more advertising and sponsorship revenue (all the stickers on the cars and patches on their uniforms) so they had the money to develop their own engines, transmissions, suspensions, and make these cars into faster and better handling race cars. The interest really took off in 1959 when Daytona Raceway was built in Daytona Beach Florida. The 1960s brought better and faster cars yet. By 1969 NASCAR stock cars were pushing 200 mph. And the crowds were getting bigger and bigger. But it was 1979 where NASCAR jumped from a regional sensation in the Southeast of America to become a hit all over the country. The 1979 Daytona 500 was the first race broadcast live on National American TV from start to finish. And the finish was about as exciting as it gets. Cale Yarborough and Donnie Allison were battling, literally nose to nose, on the last lap of the race for the win. When they wiped out and wrecked each other just before the finish line, enabling the guy was going to finish 3rd - Richard Petty - to win the race. Allison and Yarborough got out of their wrecked cars and started fighting and throwing serious fists, the national TV cameras catching all of it. It made the headlines at the New York Times and NASCAR leaped from "moonshiner" country to main stream popularity in America. Ever since then, the drivers have come from all different walks of life, although there are still a few drivers today whose Grandfathers or great-Grandfathers were old school shiners. At one point in the late 1990s, the Daytona 500 was getting Super Bowl ratings numbers for viewers. NASCAR's popularity has gone down a bit since then due to a number of reasons. That's about the extent of how NASCAR came to be.
3:21 Fun fact - The tires aren't actually deflated on the inside usually, they just run the smaller tire on the inside vs the larger outside to give the car a better stance.
Winner of the Indianapolis 500 drinks milk(that's open-wheel racing). We call it Indy Car in North America. You should react to ride-along crashes. It's the view from inside the racing vehicle.
You guys should check out the history of nascar. There's no sport with a more badass beginning. I'm not even a nascar fan, but the history is fascinating
So for those that don’t know, the crashes where the car flips a lot are actually easier on the drivers than the ones where they don’t. The reason being is because when the car is flipping in the air, the potential energy built up is able to disperse through the flip. When a car slams head on into a wall all that potential energy is turned into kinetic energy which goes right to the driver.
Historically, the Best Drivers are Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt Sr., and Jimmie Johnson, if you are looking specifically at championships, they have 7 each
In my opinion, Jeff Gordon is better than Johnson. Gordon won 93 Cup races, compared to Johnson's 84. Gordon was limited by the rules changing (as well as the Chase, but that is a whole other can of worms) in the late 2000s and early 2010s, and was extremely close to winning the championship three of those years.
@@country_flyboy that’s a really hard argument to make, but I understand, for me personally, I’d rather have the 4 extra championship rings, compared to Gordon’s 10 more wins, ya know what I mean? But u do see what ur sayin
NASCARs have 4-speed manual transmissions like in a normal car. They are moving to sequential transmissions in 2021. Most tracks they don’t shift out of 4th once they are there but some tracks they will. And they race on a few road courses throughout the year.
Correction, 2022. the human malware thing pushed the Gen7 car out until February 2022. And they're adding more road courses - I believe its either 4 or 6 road track events next year.
i was at the race when the 1:45 crash happened! it was insane! also nascar isn’t always on a oval track, in rare exceptions they would race on a wider track like sanoma raceway in cali, the last time someone died was in 2001
Just so you are aware, some of the absolute worst crashes WERE fatal. They were savage. If they are omitted from the video, you aren't seeing the worst of that the sport was over the years. There are several different "stages" of NASCAR competition, each dealing with types of cars, and power of cars. Each if them has had severe accidents, each of them has yad their share of fatal, as well as non-fatal accidents. Each of them has had some pretty intense "pile-ups" and "blow overs" (where cars get air-born). There are countless videos on youtube that you can watch, to get a full experience of that has happened.
There have been 28 driver deaths in NASCAR. The last was on 2001 Dale Earnhardt. It's a boring motorsport to watch, but I found a whole new respect for those drivers the first time I was able to take a car to that speed. Take into account the amount of time they race, it's insane. I hear they lose an average of 8 lbs in a race. Not as easy as it looks diving in a circle for hours at 200 mph.
I will say that it can be boring sometimes, but it really comes down to two things. The first is how passionate you are for the sport. If you just love NASCAR, and the tradition it's hard to get bored. The second is the track. It's kind of like someone who is watching Formula 1 for the first time. You have to have a certain type of love for that Motorsport. Not everybody wants to see Lewis Hamilton get out to a 7-second lead. That's coming from a fan of his. You just have to feel the rush.I myself would love to get a crack in both cars. Even if it's just a test drive. Some only get their entertainment from watching the crashes. I get that. However because I've improved upon my knowledge in the sport over the last few years I understand that it also hurts to watch those. Not only because of the dangers that it poses to the drivers, but because it is financial hell when you tear up one of those pieces of equipment. If you want entertainment though. I'd suggest watching the super speedways like Daytona, and Talladega. That's where a majority of these crashes take place in this video anyways. Not only are the crashes wild when they happen, but all the competition is close together. The short tracks like Richmond, Bristol, and Martinsville are also fun to watch. Where it's truly boring to watch NASCAR is at the mile and a halfs. I usually enjoy it, but I can't blame somebody for turning those off because usually once one guy gets out to the lead depending on the rules package they're in a league of their own. The road courses are great as well. Many may suggest that they're trying to do what Formula 1, and IndyCar are doing, but I can salute them for trying to grow the sport, and trying to get away from the more boring side by going to the tracks that require more skill.
they also have several road courses as well, you should check it out...the thing is, they race so close together that if you are paying attention you feel the stress, lol, I love it, is great fun and some truly amazing people
What you dont see: carl edwards (99 that hits the fence at talladega) getting out of his car and running across the line a la ricky bobby in talladega nights
was at that race and he hit the fence 70 feet left of me, was just waiting to see the cars come by then next thing you know there is debris everywhere. it also made them raise the fences since if the car was 3 ft higher then it would have killed alot of spectators. still remember the drunk earnhart fan with his wide eyes saying "that was awesome" as everyone is just quiet trying to comprehend what just happened and if edwards was dead or not.
@@jacksonblanks8038 damn. I will always say if newman didnt hit edwards, he wouldve not flown up like he did. You can see the rear of his car start to settle back down even at normal speed and he gets hit by newman and flies into the fence. I dont blame newman at all because it happend so fast he couldnt avoid it
@@Lcngopher yeah he def couldnt have, and what really screwed edwards over was the wing as it lifted it up then air caught under the car then it was game over. newman might have pushed it up another foot or two maybe. but i used to race sprint cars and the rolls are fine its those fence crashes and head on into concrete crashes that hurt the most.
4:00 that clip, it hit where the driver sat, and the driver was exposed after getting hit, he literally unbuckled and walked away, didn’t climb out, fuckin’ walked away because that’s how bad it was.
With far less downforce! An F1 car could ride up a sloped wall at 100 mph. At 150mph, any stock car that isn't driving straight is going to produce lift.
They go closer to 180 on most intermediates, I think you're confusing the speeds with IndyCar, which sticks to a range of 200-210, with 220-232 lap average in qualifying (topout at low 240s at Indy and the 2 milers for speed at a point)
I like stock car racing more. We have a couple of local tracks here in Oklahoma. They're raced on smaller dirt tracks, similar to the style of Nascar. I'm not sure exactly what the proper term is for the normal race cars that are used for that kind of racing. The fastest ones that they use in that kind of racing are called sprint cars. They have giant spoilers on top of them.. I've seen some crazy wrecks over the years. My dad's cousin used to run one of the local tracks and race in them when I was a teen, so I was there a lot.
NASCAR has two road courses they race on, Watkins Glen and Sonoma @ 2:28, that wreck was on a road course. NASCAR essentially races on 4 types of tracks. "short tracks" such as Bristol, "speedways" like Michigan, "super speedways" like Daytona or Talladega, and "road courses" like Sonoma. And yes, Jr was the son of Dale Earnhardt Sr. The movie "Days of Thunder" was said to be about Dale Earnhardt Sr. (played by Tom Cruise) and Tim Richmond. If you had ever seen Earnhardt Sr. race, you knew he lived by the quote from that movie. "He didn't hit ya son, he rubbed ya, and rubbing's racing!"
Dale Earnhardt Jr. only has 26 wins to date. Compare that to Jimmie Johnson with his 83 wins or Jeff Gordon with his 93 wins or the king Richard petty with his 200 wins as good as Dale Earnhardt Junior was he was not the best.
In the modern era there is always a backup car. However that is if someone is caught in a crash during practice, or qualifying. Someone can feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure back in the '50s to mid '90s they did not have backup cars. Nowadays it's expensive to own a Cup car. Somewhere in the $100,000 range just for one car. That's why NASCAR is changing their business model in 2022. Crashes are a part of every sport, but for some reason people enjoy watching NASCAR's the most. Nowadays I don't enjoy them as much because I know how much of a hit to the pocketbook it is despite never owning a race car myself. Fortunately the last fatal NASCAR incident was Dale Earnhardt Sr back in 2001 at the Daytona 500. NASCAR's biggest race of the year. Since then NASCAR has implemented many changes for driver safety. That's why Michael McDowell's practice crash at Texas was the first true test of how safe these cars really can be.
Daytona and Talladega are restrictor plate tracks so the cars are bunched together and are infamous for having a wreck called "The Big One" where if one car gets loose then all hell can break loose.
Austin Dillons wreck in 2015 at daytona was the worst and craziest wreck ive ever seen live in racing.. He was so lucky to walk away with no significant injuries.. Nascar is a very dangerous yet thrilling sport.. love it!!
9:13 the milk tradition is for IndyCar and winning the Indy 500. The tradition started way back in the day when a driver asked for a glass of milk after the race. Now after winning the Indy 500 every driver drinks some milk in victory lane.
NASCAR is developing a new restraint system. No more 5 point harnesses. Just install a 2" trailer ball in the driver seat. You will pucker down on it so tight that nothing will get you out of the car.
The crash at 4:03 with the 00 car, my dad and I watching that live. Same time we both said, he's dead. He walked away a bit dizzy. The crash at 4:53 with the 36 car, I was there and saw it. The video of it can't do it justice, I was in about the 21st row and still looking up at it. Still going as fast as leaders but upside down high in the air. It was pretty cool looking I have to admit.
1:43 yes the Jr is Dale Earnhardt Jr. However the guy going into the catch fence is Austin Dillon who ironically drives the #3 car. Oh and there's Martin Truex Jr and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 4:51 that one wasn't fatal but that was the race Dale Earnhardt Sr was later killed in. 5:44 and 7:02 are both Elliot Sadler The driver of the 38 car at 7:19 later died in a winged Sprint Car outside of NASCAR.
You DEFINITELY need to do a NASCAR fights video! You blokes would love it, I'm sure And most NASCAR events victory lane celebrations they spray beer. 🍻
The milk is actually not a Nascar thing. The winner of the Indy 500 gets milk. The Indy 500 is the crown jewel of American racing and the race the Indycar (American version of open wheel racing series) builds the entire series around. Winning the Indy 500 is a championship in itself while winning the series is cool too haha.
I’ve been to dozens of nascar races and my favorite one was watching in person Dale Earnhardts last win in Talladega (my favorite track and favorite driver!)
That celebrating with milk comment got me xD In the year that Jeff Gordon won his first championship he toasted with milk instead of champagne as a joke to Dale Earnhardt who would refer to him as 'The Kid,' but celebrations in victory lane are done with champagne
I got to see some of those wreck's in person at Talladega Superspeedway,here in Alabama. The wreck with the 99 and the 08 car's, I missed that one by 20 or 30 minutes. I felt bad and went to the car. When it happened, I could hear the crowd gasp. It was weird to hear the delay in the radio broadcast as opposed to when it was actually happening. Maybe 3 or 4 seconds difference.
All of these except a couple are on superspeed ways and this is all some people see and they don’t get to see the other short tracks and road coarses and 1.5 mile tracks and it’s nothing on these guys they don’t know anything about it but they gave it a try and I appreciate that so thanks
The Indianapolis 500 celebrates with milk. NASCAR (National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing) celebrates with whichever beverage sponsors you. Future videos: Hockey fights, funny sports moments, Bo Jackson highlights, just to name a few, and this gem from 2007. ruclips.net/video/yzWQ0C-gEcw/видео.html
This is the first episode I’m watching of this and thanks for showing all sides of nascar also the crash with Ricky Rudd at 5:37 the following week he showed up to race eyes practically swollen shut from the impact obviously nascar didn’t let him on track but still that’s nascar for ya racing at any cost
"In fence we trust" now thats a t-shirt idea hahaha
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@@evantaddy3 lol
That fence has like 2" thick steel cables weaved throughout it. Saw it up close. Been to Talledega 8 times.
All those pieces of twisted metal flying up in the crowd at 200 mph! Do they wear helmets too, if they are in the front rows??😊
Wait until I tell my Floridian cousins three Brits came up with the best NASCAR slogan of all time
“It’s amazing how many of them are called Ricky”...”that’s a proper nascar name isn’t it ?” 😂😂🤣🤣🤣
My mind immediately said "Ricky Bobby" lmfao
Dick Trickle is still the best NASCAR name ever.
@@McShaganpronouncedShaegen "That's a strong name."
Yes
Ricky Craven, Ricky Stenhouse, Ricky Hendrick
nascar essentially started when the moonshiners would upgrade their cars to outrun the police during prohibition. eventually they started racing each other and nascar was born.
Yes! Moonshine runners had to outrun the police so they boosted their cars to 200 horsepower and eventually 300hp. That was not enough because they had heavy loads. They built tough, flexible suspension systems and added wider tires. The police chased them for a bit and usually gave up. The police asked Chrysler for a squad car to handle this kind of speed and curves. The 300 horsepower Chrysler 300 was born, the old grandpappy of today's Bentley-looking sedan. By 1970 the 300 had up to 375bhp and could catch anything on a straight road at least. Moonshine runners started not only NASCAR but the American muscle car trend which exists to this day with Challenger Demon with 840 hp. Folks like Hennessey bring these and other cars up to 1000 horsepower.
This is the only reason I don't talk shit about it. My grand father had 2 identical cars but one had a raised rear suspension so the loaded trunk would look like the other. I love history.
@@LarryHatch So just some good ol' boys never meaning no harm.....
Actually started after prohibition ended, when the guys didn't have anything left to do with their cars.
@@citisoccer A lot of the Southern states still had dry counties and some still do. So, running shine meant making and transporting booze in those counties well into the 60s.
British people watching Nascar is so fun to watch. Me being from the center of the us, I love watching anyone who doesn't watch nascar react to it
The center of the us is basically New York 🤷🏽♂️
I really got into NASCAR pre the Chase, it's way more tactical than F1 once you understand it and very entertaining, especially short tracks.
but they ruined it with the chase imo.
@@liluzisquirt-3542 Do you not understand geography or are you intentionally being stupid?
@@Dr.Spatula I think he’s referring to where the most people are and where the most attention is in the us
@@Thunderbolt2396 doesn't make the comment any less stupid
"I'd like to see if there are NASCAR fights as well"
Well, aren't you in luck lol
Hold my beer.
1979 Daytona 500 featured a fistfight between Donnie Allison and Cale Yarborough. That was actually the first NASCAR race to air on TV from beginning to end.
Only when both drivers survive the crash
lol there might have been a few angry people over the years
*The Busch brothers have entered the chat*
2:28 It's not all ovals, this incident took place at Watkins Glen, a classic road course they visit annually along with several others. Yes, the road course cars are neutral setups, not biased like the speedway cars.
Yep, also most of the speedways aren’t perfect ovals. Such as Atlanta Motorspeedway. Then ya have Bristol, that is an old tiny track.
@@thejestor9378 Well.. it's a newer tiny track on the bones of an old tiny track. The last vestiges of 'old tiny Bristol' are what ripped open Mike Harmon's car in this video, and Michael Waltrip's car earlier. If you can see out of the place at all, it's old Bristol.... should the horizon seem to be made entirely of seats, new Bristol :)
@@thejestor9378 dont forget about the Tricky Triangle at Pocono.
Agreed on this one. Jeff Gordon had one of the most sudden and vicious wrecks ever at the Glen. Link: ruclips.net/video/fCoO1-HHN3A/видео.html I always thought if he was driving the 2001 era Cup cars, pre-Earnhardt Sr death, this accident could very well have killed him.
Not to be that guy, but just to help prevent confusion the proper terms are symmetrical and asymmetrical, where as netrual would tend to be used to describe the balance of the car (oversteer vs understeer aka loose vs tight)
Again I'm sure most nascar fans understand your comment how ever it's worded but then again this video targets a broader audience that may get confused if they watch a nascar race and the term netrual is used to describe the cars handling characteristics
NASCAR has had 28 fatalities. Dale Earnhardt Sr. was the late one in 2001. Thank God for the new safety features that it's been 19 years now.
Man.. That's mind blowing that it's been nearly 20 years since that happened.
Actually the last death in Cup were Adam Petty and Kenny Irwin Jr.
@@nolandavis9040 Those were in the the last deaths that were in the same weekend (2000) Earnhardt died in 2001
Last death in any NASCAR/NASCAR related series was in 2003.
Didnt Tony Stewart accidently kill somebody though? I may be remembering things wrong
Fun fact: spraying champagne after a win in F1 was first done by an American, Dan Gurney. He started the trend after winning Le Mans.
Dan Gurney was an underrated legend. I believe he was part of the 1-2-3 finish for Ford in Le Mans, or at the very least a part of that team.
@@captainfordgunz1995 Yes, it was the '67 24 Hours that he won with AJ Foyt driving the Mk VII GT40 that he started the champagne spraying tradition.
Dan Gurney also has 5 wins and 10 Top 10 out of 16 career NASCAR Cup level races. He was an ace at Riverside and pretty much any road course.
@@kacebox174 He's also the last person to build, own and drive a car that won an F1 race.
@@SAVikingSA He is easily one of the best to ever do it and more people should know him.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. is one of the most famous drivers, but definitely not amongst the best. His father, Dale Earnhardt Sr., was one of the best (a 7x champion). He was tragically killed in a NASCAR race (the biggest one, the Daytona 500) back in 2001. His wreck looked nothing like these and was seemingly a simple collision into the wall but he didn't make it.
As for the milk thing, that's only for the Indianapolis 500 which isn't a NASCAR race but an open wheel Indy Car race.
Actually NASCAR does run at the Brickyard (Indianapolis). And they do carry on the tradition of Milk for the celebration.
@Jim Clark OKEY DOKE! #preperationH
@Jim Clark I agree that they should not try to capitalize on what IndyCar does. Next year they are trying out the road course because the Brickyard 400 has been steadily declining in both viewership, and attendance. It's a wonderful facility. Just not built for NASCAR.
Also for Chance. By far one of the most insightful comments I've seen. Coming from a Earnhardt fan. His father was one of the best that's ever lived. Right up there with Petty, Yarbrough, Allison, and Pearson. His loss was tragic. However unfortunately I feel that if it were not for his death we may not have had the safety innovations that we have today.
@Jim Clark oldest united states racing event compared to Nascar, which has routes that are from America and ingrained into the south where it started, as well as with American car building deserves less than Indy.. yeah no, f that.
I love seeing Brits reacting to NASCAR related material. Always puts a smile to my face, coming from an American.
The milk celebration is not NASCAR. It is tradition at the Indianapolis 500. The winner drinks a bottle of milk. The tradition started in 1936 when the race winner Louis Meyer drank it because his mother told him it would refresh him on a hot day. He however drank buttermilk! They don't use buttermilk anymore because it is too difficult to produce.
I think nascar should start using the milk tradition at indy. Indy car drivers stole the tradition of kissing the bricks from nascar so i only think it fair nascar does the same
Before each Indy 500, all 33 drivers specify what kind of milk they would want should they win the race. Also, the only winning driver to shun the tradition was Emerson Fittipaldi who drank orange juice to promote his orange groves
NASCAR *does* follow the milk drinking tradition at their own Brickyard race at the same track.
@@maxh.3579 then why have they never shown it on camera?
@@Lcngopher Tradition
The wreck at 6:30 gives me goosebumps every time I see it. Listen to the live audio from the commentators. You can hear it in their voice, they think he’s dead
Yea seeing that truck disappear into flames and reappear as the bare frame, and then get smacked again. Crazy how that wasn’t a fatal crash.
@@chinqlinq89 agreed, by all accounts, he should have been
I believe there's video of the crash after they go to commercial with the commentators chatting
@@MarkPentler From watching the race on RUclips, they don't show a replay for nearly 10 mins until they see him out of the car and moving on the stretcher.
After Ricky Rudd's horrible crash his face was so swollen he had to tape his eyes open to race the next week at The Daytona 500
It was a scary crash. Kind of reminds me of Davey Allison's crash at Pocono back in '92. It was almost a similar situation for him.
He won the following race in Richmond.
Ricky Rudd doing that at the Daytona 500 is why they have mandatory check-ins at the infield care centers for crashes like that.
People be saying football and hockey are the toughest sport's, try driving 200mph for 500miles with your eyes taped open and a few broken bones😂
We’re just built different here in America
10:24 That accident spooked NASCAR and finally made them realize that the cars were going too fast on the superspeedways. In reaction, they introduced the "restrictor plate," literally a flat sheet of metal that bolted between the carburetor and the intake manifold with small, regulated-sized holes for the engine to breathe through. It reduced horsepower by a bunch and slowed the cars down, but also bunched them more tightly into a pack, much like the peloton in bicycle racing.
Yes. There is a NASCAR fight compilation
That wreck at 10:23 started not only took out a chunk of fence, but also started the restrictor plate in NASCAR, inhibiting horsepower.
6:39 I’ve seen Geoff Bodine’s Daytona wreck so many times and it never gets easier to watch, a legitimately chilling accident
Yeah, that was like the 1st year they raced the trucks at a plate track. Had no plates on cause they thought trucks would be slow enough. They were topping 200 & faster than the cup cars.
Yeah, that wreck is by far the worst NASCAR wreck I've seen.
I was at the race at Talladega when Bobby Allison went into the fence. They had a red flag for almost four hours, in Alabama summer heat until they got the fence put back together. There were several fans injured, none life threatening. It's the clip that starts around 10:23.
There was a particularly nasty wreck at the Daytona 500 earlier this year. The driver, Ryan Newman, is an engineer and has worked with NASCAR on making their vehicles safer. One of his improvements, part of the roll cage assembly nicknamed the "Newman bar" is credited with helping save his life.
whats crazy is they don't see the fact that so many drivers walked away from these crashes.
As a lifelong fans I can say i've seen almost all of these crashes numerous times, and most of these drives WALKED from their cars.
Like the 00 at Texas,at qualifying, when he crashed by himself, everyone thought he would need a stretcher, but he walked out and waved to the fans.
Now the older ones? Before the 2000s, not many walked away. Stretched away. Safety has come a loooong way.
Also, Sr, not Jr (Earnhardt) was one of the best. Jr was a star, but he had a tough career.
Also the milk is the Indy 500.
Also Allison's crash at 10:40 changed a lot about the sport. We almost saw a Le Mans level of a disaster, if the car had not caught the top of the wall.
Ristricter plates started becoming standard at super speedways (Daytona and Talladega) shortly after, and are still used today.
If you want to see how loud and fast they are going. Look up Nascar "Fly bys"
I have been to a few NASCAR races in my area and they are mind-bending loud and fast. 200 mph and no muffler
They have a "post" with the positions displayed, but you need headphones dialed into the radio to know who is in the lead.
It doesn't matter how loud it is at the track. When 40 cars go by at speed it's the only thing you can hear for a few seconds. You can't even hear yourself think. It's so loud that you're not even sure you heard the sound correctly if that makes any sense.
NASCAR is amazing but top fuel dragsters are in another world when it comes to pure mind bending power and speed
When the field comes by at Daytona, you don’t just hear the sound…you FEEL it in every cell of your body.
@@tb9579 Same with Dega
As an American who's been a NASCAR fan for 25 years... It's much safer to flip than to hit the wall.
Yeah, sudden stops from 150-200 mph are punishing!
Love your channel guys! Also FYI: NASCAR = National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing
That's not what nascar stands for
@@lancebudgeon2062 yes, it is... Look it up on Google.
@@lancebudgeon2062 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASCAR
4:44 Here’s a crazy fact: After Brad Keselowski turned Carl Edwards here, Carl Edwards later turned Brad into the fence in Atlanta, which he flipped but it wasn’t as bad. Revenge is awesome.
NASCAR still uses H-Pattern shifters btw they are 4-speed transmissions
Switching to sequential gearboxes in 2022 with the new cars. They looks and sound completely badass.
Wreck at 10:23 changed Nascar forever. Brought on restrictor plates.
Following up on that comment the restrictor plates, perhaps ironically, led to more crashes at the superspeedways (though at slightly slower speeds). The plates restrict the air/fuel mixture to limit the car's top speed. So drivers found that closely following behind ("drafting") another car they could push the car in front faster, and ride in the slipstream. So the speeds were reduced but the cars started traveling in packs only inches apart.
@@pigs18 And then there's people like me that would love to see what happens if you put both the 1987 and the 2020 on the same exact tire and put them head to head. part of why the old cars sucked to drive was their tires. I don't have engine specs for those, but I'm really curious. We already know the new cars are FASTER than the 1987s, but the unrestricted 1987 was Faster than the 2020 car. 205 in the 2020 vs 215 in the 1987, but the 87 didn't have much power, whereas the 2020s have a lot more power (on the short tracks, anyway).
That said, iRacing added the 1987 Monte and Thunderbird to the service. JUST driving them on a simulation/video game is nerve wracking. We tend to beg the question HOW THE HELL did these men drive these things?!
They're fun, though. I'd like to put these two at Talledega just to see how that pans out, even though we would get the era-correct tire on each car.
@@morgfarm1 It would be interesting to see a race like that for sure, and tires play a huge part, but aerodynamics is another major factor that would likely give a new gen car an edge. Back when these legends were driving the old Montes and T-birds, they had to actually lift the throttle going through the turns at Talladega. Now that the new cars have splitters and vortex generators they stay more planted in high G situations. It may be close though because the old cars would win the drag races down the straights!
Also in that wreck right before he hits The catch fences his car hits the wall in mid air and if that didn’t happen people could’ve died in the stands
We’re just built different here in America
4:22. That crash is the main inspiration for the “King” seen at the end of Cars.
Yeah and also a Richard petty crash as well who is the king
Michael Waltrip’s crash in Bristol is one of the worst...no tumbling to dissipate energy. Hit the wall and it gave way...car literally fell apart. His brother was announcing and thought he was dead. Amazing he wasn’t severely injured.
You should react to Top Fuel Crashes. 8000+ horse power machines going 0-320 mph in 4 seconds makes for some spectacular crashes!
I was at Talladega for the crash at 4:34 I was in the section to the left of where he hit. When the said "no debris went into the grandstand" , that was 100% not true. They didn't show it on TV, but they had ambulances lined up on the track, and I witnessed people being rolled from that section with bloody towels on their faces. It was ugly, but NASCAR never publicly admitted that anybody was hurt. I used to have pics of the crash, and after math, but they were on an old laptop that bricked. Never had the pics recovered. It was one of the craziest things I have ever witnessed.
I watched that one live on TV, and even I could see debris flying thru the fence. And from what I recall reading, one woman ended having her jaw broken by the debris.
“Sometime call a tow truck” 😂😂😂 I pissed myself
these cars are barebones, it's a tube chassis that acts as the rollcage with a fiberglass frame around it. They have a 4 speed H-pattern gearbox, and nothing in the way of assistance. The milk pouring is from the Indianapolis 500, and nascar does actually go to some "normal" racetracks
I’d say about 35% of the tracks are ovals 40% are Tri-Ovals and with the new schedule 30% Road Courses (10+ turns like tracks you would see in other motorsports)
@Drew2400
Yeah I know 😅 way to much of an exaggeration, anyway nice profile pic
Rovals
@Drew2400 7
Well we got eggshapes, trioval, quadovals, paperclips but not many pure ovals... Guess bristol and dover would be and a few others
At 1:50 the number 3 car was Dale Earnhardt SR,. Tat went into the fence.
That was Austin Dillon not Earnhardt
It was actually Austin Dillon
That's why the character in the comedy Talladega Nights was named Ricky Bobby.
For all that aren't familiar, Nascar is a motorsport where everyone has to drive cars with the same amount of horsepower, same tires, and etc. They weigh 3,400 pounds and very sturdy roll cage (which you saw in the video), so flipping the cars are very hard and as dangerous to do nowadays. The cars race at short tracks (1 mile or smaller), 1.5-mile tracks, superspeedway (2.5 miles), and road courses (yes they turn right). They have 40 drivers and 36 races, plus two races just for money races that don't count points.
That's a very brief view of what the sport of Nascar is.
And they have 4 shift manual gearboxes, the only time the downshift is under caution or when they’re going to Pitlane
@@tigerfire828 And of course the road courses.
@@nascarisawesome5018 yes them too
The milk thing is strictly an Indianapolis 500 tradition.
I thought everyone knew about the 500! I guess they're not huge race fans
Few fun facts about nascar:
- Though the oval track is the most common they come in sizes between 1 and 2.5 miles. As well as having road courses in the season.
- There was a resent crash were everyone watching thought the driver died but after some check ups he left the hospital after a day, NASCAR has some serious safety.
- the people you see standing there are actually viewers as they let people into the infield of the track with campers, all I can say is the people you meet there are either drunk or blackout drunk.
NASCAR introduced a new car in 07. Michael McDowell’s wreck @4:04 proved to a lot of people how much safer the new car was
You guys should look into IndyCar. Your fellow countryman Graham Hill was the first person to win what he described as the "Triple Crown of Racing" which is 24 hours at Le Mans, Monaco Grand Prix and Indianapolis 500. There's always been British racers in the Indy 500 such as Nigel Mansell, Jackie Stewart and Jim Clark to name a few. This series has a much longer history than NASCAR
"If you're not first you're last" ‐ Ricky Bobby
"Ricky seems like a perfect NASCAR name" lol
Technically it would be Reese Bobby, cause he said it first.
Its cool to see how people model movie crashes like those in old nascar. For example at 5:19 that crash is the same movements that lighting mcqueen did in Cars 3 when he crashed.
NASCAR was born during Prohibition, when we criminalized alcohol in the USA. No I'm not kidding, People started making their own liquor and the local tax man, called the "Revenure" used to hunt down the illegal liquor stills. The guys making the liquor needed to make their cars faster to outrun the COPS and Revenure's. This was before COPS has radios in all the cars. Eventually those guys would race each other to see who had the fastest "Moonshiners" car. The mechanics who used to work on the cars were the guys who started NASCAR. they used to be the Moonshine makers.
You know ... most of people doing reactions are reacting to the same videos. Some channel i enjoy, some i don't. I like the maturity side of these guys. But don't get me wrong sometimes I crack up with them too. That's why i subscribed.
You could make a compilation just as long of Davey Allison's crashes in the 1992 season (may he rest in peace). That man would either crash or win every race (except the one where he crashed AND won). He was injured several different times in several different places and still started every damn race of the season. No matter what you think about NASCAR or racing in general, that man's toughness should serve as inspiration to everyone.
Its not nascar, but there is great documentary called "rapid response" (I found on amazon prime) that talks about the evolution of the advanced medical care and the speed at which these drivers receive it. That response combined with the engineering and the ability to quickly redesign the cars when a flaw is found keeps the drivers alive through these horrific collisions.
7:06 arguably the hardest hit a car has had, and that’s the only shot of it wrecking. The aftermath included the engine, which had found its way out of the car, but the cameras were focused on a different wreck so there isn’t really a way to see what happened
You boys need to see it live . There is nothing quite like NASCAR .
They run “ovals” and road courses. They’ve been adding more road courses to the schedule. As for the transmission they run 4 speed gearboxes. Only two tracks they run wide open those being the super speedways Talladega and Daytona.
"That must be slowed down"...LOL!! Oh, Lord, you have no idea!😁😛
There are no backup cars for a race in NASCAR. If you wreck, you have a chance to make repairs in the pits, but you have to be able to maintain a minimum speed on the track afterwards, or you will be black flagged, and you'll be forced to retire from the race. If your car is too damaged to repair, you are out.
Like most series in the world
At 6:38 if you put it on the slowest playback speed you can see a chunk of the people in the crowd get covered in a cloud of smoke and flames as the car slides along the fence
Nascar transmissions are Jerico 4 speed straight cut H pattern shifter. Certain tracks they shift multiple times a lap. Pocono for instance. Also of course road course tracks as well.
I completely get it, but that sound so fucking funny. "Sometimes they shift"
Pocono is also notorious for destroying transmissions.
Be sequential gear boxes in 2021
I'm a huge NASCAR fan, a bit less so now than in the 1980s-early 2000s, and a Chevy Camaro SS owner and generally your "typical" American "car guy", so maybe I can clarify how NASCAR came to be the #1 American racing sport:
It evolved out of illegal whiskey runners in the South Eastern states of the United States. The Appalachian Mountains run from Georgia up north through South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, and the southern part of Ohio just north of the Ohio River by Marietta. In those mountains, the water runs clean, pure, and cold. It's probably the freshest, cleanest water in America. It is PERFECT for making whiskey and bourbon. There are many legal distilleries that come from this part of the country, but also many unlicensed and illegal distilleries known in America as "moonshiners", since they try to operate in the dark, at night, under the moon, in the woods with homemade stills, away from view.
The moonshiners have been making their own homemade whiskey and selling it around the towns since the beginning of America 300+ years ago and it's been passed down through generations and families. But when cars were invented and started to be mass produced for cheap, the moonshiners obviously used them for transporting their loads of shine to make it faster than a wagon or carriage.
Of course the American federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies also had cars. Police cars have been souped up versions of regular American production cars from Ford, Chevy, and Chrysler since the 1930s. It was around that time that the moonshiners needed their own private cars to be faster to get away from the law as they'd chase them down and easily catch their less powerful civilian cars.
So the moonshiners started souping up their regular production cars with better, bigger exhausts, carburetors, and fiddling with things like the camshaft, cylinder bore and stroke, intake manifolds, and cooling systems. Most of this stuff was homemade mind you. Not bought at what we know today as hot rod shops. These guys started out in their own sheds and worked on making their own cars faster. Then they made them lighter - removing seats, unneeded components and metal, they'd cut the springs down to make the car handle better. All in their own back yards with the little money they had.
As these moonshiners got faster and faster, they started racing each other for fun to see whose souped up car was faster. First they were racing in the streets and the back woods roads until they kept getting busted by the law. It was around the 1940s when they realized they needed to take their racing off the public roads and build tracks. They did that, and it brought huge crowds to see the local moonshiners go racing against each other on Sundays. These guys were going to their normal jobs, running moonshine at night, and then racing on Sunday all with the same every day driver they picked up used or even if they did buy it new, at the local Ford, GM, or Chrysler dealer.
A lot of different smaller racing bodies were formed throughout the 1940s and WWII but after the war they all came together to form what they called the National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing in 1948.
By the late 1950s stock cars, as the term came to be because these cars were mandated to be production cars with a minimum of 500 of the said race car to be sold as passenger cars to the public, started already taking on their own chassis and components. Roll cages installed, entire car stripped down for pure racing. As they got more money and generated more interest throughout the 1950s they got more advertising and sponsorship revenue (all the stickers on the cars and patches on their uniforms) so they had the money to develop their own engines, transmissions, suspensions, and make these cars into faster and better handling race cars. The interest really took off in 1959 when Daytona Raceway was built in Daytona Beach Florida.
The 1960s brought better and faster cars yet. By 1969 NASCAR stock cars were pushing 200 mph. And the crowds were getting bigger and bigger.
But it was 1979 where NASCAR jumped from a regional sensation in the Southeast of America to become a hit all over the country. The 1979 Daytona 500 was the first race broadcast live on National American TV from start to finish. And the finish was about as exciting as it gets. Cale Yarborough and Donnie Allison were battling, literally nose to nose, on the last lap of the race for the win. When they wiped out and wrecked each other just before the finish line, enabling the guy was going to finish 3rd - Richard Petty - to win the race. Allison and Yarborough got out of their wrecked cars and started fighting and throwing serious fists, the national TV cameras catching all of it. It made the headlines at the New York Times and NASCAR leaped from "moonshiner" country to main stream popularity in America.
Ever since then, the drivers have come from all different walks of life, although there are still a few drivers today whose Grandfathers or great-Grandfathers were old school shiners.
At one point in the late 1990s, the Daytona 500 was getting Super Bowl ratings numbers for viewers. NASCAR's popularity has gone down a bit since then due to a number of reasons.
That's about the extent of how NASCAR came to be.
Joe wow! Thanks Joe 👍🏻
It's important to understand they're going 200 mph.
Indeed. It's why they flip sooooo many times!
3:21 Fun fact - The tires aren't actually deflated on the inside usually, they just run the smaller tire on the inside vs the larger outside to give the car a better stance.
You should watch the tragic story of Dale Earnhardt Sr. It’s a longer one/ a serious, but an amazing story and worth the watch!
Have you seen the film "Blink of an eye" ?
It's pretty interesting about Dale Sr, and Michael Waltrip
Winner of the Indianapolis 500 drinks milk(that's open-wheel racing). We call it Indy Car in North America. You should react to ride-along crashes. It's the view from inside the racing vehicle.
Milk is used to celebrate victory in the Indy 500. Indycar is open wheel cars, it is American motorsport but its nothing like NASCAR
If you've ever seen CART/ChampCar, that's what it has become
Best NASCAR name ever: Dick Trickle.
Not even kidding...😂
Nope it's steve park for me
You guys should check out the history of nascar. There's no sport with a more badass beginning. I'm not even a nascar fan, but the history is fascinating
So for those that don’t know, the crashes where the car flips a lot are actually easier on the drivers than the ones where they don’t. The reason being is because when the car is flipping in the air, the potential energy built up is able to disperse through the flip. When a car slams head on into a wall all that potential energy is turned into kinetic energy which goes right to the driver.
Historically, the Best Drivers are Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt Sr., and Jimmie Johnson, if you are looking specifically at championships, they have 7 each
Jimmie Johnson had 5 consecutive championships btw.
In my opinion, Jeff Gordon is better than Johnson. Gordon won 93 Cup races, compared to Johnson's 84. Gordon was limited by the rules changing (as well as the Chase, but that is a whole other can of worms) in the late 2000s and early 2010s, and was extremely close to winning the championship three of those years.
@@country_flyboy that’s a really hard argument to make, but I understand, for me personally, I’d rather have the 4 extra championship rings, compared to Gordon’s 10 more wins, ya know what I mean? But u do see what ur sayin
dale is the greatest one
favorite saying "in fence we trust" haha!!! Cheers Gents!
NASCARs have 4-speed manual transmissions like in a normal car. They are moving to sequential transmissions in 2021. Most tracks they don’t shift out of 4th once they are there but some tracks they will. And they race on a few road courses throughout the year.
Correction, 2022. the human malware thing pushed the Gen7 car out until February 2022. And they're adding more road courses - I believe its either 4 or 6 road track events next year.
i was at the race when the 1:45 crash happened! it was insane! also nascar isn’t always on a oval track, in rare exceptions they would race on a wider track like sanoma raceway in cali, the last time someone died was in 2001
If you wanna see the craziest crash in NASCAR look up the 2 Bristol Crashes with Michael Waltrip and Mike Harmons Bristol Gate Feature Crash.
the Jeff Bodine daytona crash in this video was up there too if you see the pictures of the truck mid crash it would blow your mind he survived
Just so you are aware, some of the absolute worst crashes WERE fatal. They were savage. If they are omitted from the video, you aren't seeing the worst of that the sport was over the years. There are several different "stages" of NASCAR competition, each dealing with types of cars, and power of cars. Each if them has had severe accidents, each of them has yad their share of fatal, as well as non-fatal accidents. Each of them has had some pretty intense "pile-ups" and "blow overs" (where cars get air-born). There are countless videos on youtube that you can watch, to get a full experience of that has happened.
There have been 28 driver deaths in NASCAR. The last was on 2001 Dale Earnhardt. It's a boring motorsport to watch, but I found a whole new respect for those drivers the first time I was able to take a car to that speed. Take into account the amount of time they race, it's insane. I hear they lose an average of 8 lbs in a race. Not as easy as it looks diving in a circle for hours at 200 mph.
Also... those embankments are not easy to navigate.
I will say that it can be boring sometimes, but it really comes down to two things. The first is how passionate you are for the sport. If you just love NASCAR, and the tradition it's hard to get bored. The second is the track. It's kind of like someone who is watching Formula 1 for the first time. You have to have a certain type of love for that Motorsport. Not everybody wants to see Lewis Hamilton get out to a 7-second lead. That's coming from a fan of his. You just have to feel the rush.I myself would love to get a crack in both cars. Even if it's just a test drive. Some only get their entertainment from watching the crashes. I get that. However because I've improved upon my knowledge in the sport over the last few years I understand that it also hurts to watch those. Not only because of the dangers that it poses to the drivers, but because it is financial hell when you tear up one of those pieces of equipment. If you want entertainment though. I'd suggest watching the super speedways like Daytona, and Talladega. That's where a majority of these crashes take place in this video anyways. Not only are the crashes wild when they happen, but all the competition is close together. The short tracks like Richmond, Bristol, and Martinsville are also fun to watch. Where it's truly boring to watch NASCAR is at the mile and a halfs. I usually enjoy it, but I can't blame somebody for turning those off because usually once one guy gets out to the lead depending on the rules package they're in a league of their own. The road courses are great as well. Many may suggest that they're trying to do what Formula 1, and IndyCar are doing, but I can salute them for trying to grow the sport, and trying to get away from the more boring side by going to the tracks that require more skill.
they also have several road courses as well, you should check it out...the thing is, they race so close together that if you are paying attention you feel the stress, lol, I love it, is great fun and some truly amazing people
What you dont see: carl edwards (99 that hits the fence at talladega) getting out of his car and running across the line a la ricky bobby in talladega nights
was at that race and he hit the fence 70 feet left of me, was just waiting to see the cars come by then next thing you know there is debris everywhere. it also made them raise the fences since if the car was 3 ft higher then it would have killed alot of spectators. still remember the drunk earnhart fan with his wide eyes saying "that was awesome" as everyone is just quiet trying to comprehend what just happened and if edwards was dead or not.
@@jacksonblanks8038 damn. I will always say if newman didnt hit edwards, he wouldve not flown up like he did. You can see the rear of his car start to settle back down even at normal speed and he gets hit by newman and flies into the fence. I dont blame newman at all because it happend so fast he couldnt avoid it
@@Lcngopher yeah he def couldnt have, and what really screwed edwards over was the wing as it lifted it up then air caught under the car then it was game over. newman might have pushed it up another foot or two maybe. but i used to race sprint cars and the rolls are fine its those fence crashes and head on into concrete crashes that hurt the most.
4:00 that clip, it hit where the driver sat, and the driver was exposed after getting hit, he literally unbuckled and walked away, didn’t climb out, fuckin’ walked away because that’s how bad it was.
These cars are heavy unlike formula 1 and they go around 200 mph!
With far less downforce! An F1 car could ride up a sloped wall at 100 mph. At 150mph, any stock car that isn't driving straight is going to produce lift.
They go closer to 180 on most intermediates, I think you're confusing the speeds with IndyCar, which sticks to a range of 200-210, with 220-232 lap average in qualifying (topout at low 240s at Indy and the 2 milers for speed at a point)
@@insertcolorherehawk3761 the original post is correct. The cars can go beyond 200 at Daytona and Talladega.
I like stock car racing more. We have a couple of local tracks here in Oklahoma. They're raced on smaller dirt tracks, similar to the style of Nascar. I'm not sure exactly what the proper term is for the normal race cars that are used for that kind of racing. The fastest ones that they use in that kind of racing are called sprint cars. They have giant spoilers on top of them..
I've seen some crazy wrecks over the years. My dad's cousin used to run one of the local tracks and race in them when I was a teen, so I was there a lot.
The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR)
NASCAR has two road courses they race on, Watkins Glen and Sonoma @ 2:28, that wreck was on a road course. NASCAR essentially races on 4 types of tracks. "short tracks" such as Bristol, "speedways" like Michigan, "super speedways" like Daytona or Talladega, and "road courses" like Sonoma. And yes, Jr was the son of Dale Earnhardt Sr. The movie "Days of Thunder" was said to be about Dale Earnhardt Sr. (played by Tom Cruise) and Tim Richmond. If you had ever seen Earnhardt Sr. race, you knew he lived by the quote from that movie. "He didn't hit ya son, he rubbed ya, and rubbing's racing!"
“It’s lucky no one has died” right after the clip of Dale dying
There is no clip of Dale. You must be referring to Tony Stewart's wreck where he is flipping upside down. Same race, not the same wreck.
You guys should do an on board nascar crash reaction
Dale Earnhardt Jr. only has 26 wins to date. Compare that to Jimmie Johnson with his 83 wins or Jeff Gordon with his 93 wins or the king Richard petty with his 200 wins as good as Dale Earnhardt Junior was he was not the best.
Think he got Jr and sr missed up and I think it is sr and petty 1,2 on most people best of all time
Loved the Nascar reaction.. Great video.
@ 6:00- ''And the M&M car just had the Skittles knocked out of it!'' (Damn, I'm evil! Lol!)
The milk is in the Indy 500 which is an IndyCar event
In the modern era there is always a backup car. However that is if someone is caught in a crash during practice, or qualifying. Someone can feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure back in the '50s to mid '90s they did not have backup cars. Nowadays it's expensive to own a Cup car. Somewhere in the $100,000 range just for one car. That's why NASCAR is changing their business model in 2022. Crashes are a part of every sport, but for some reason people enjoy watching NASCAR's the most. Nowadays I don't enjoy them as much because I know how much of a hit to the pocketbook it is despite never owning a race car myself. Fortunately the last fatal NASCAR incident was Dale Earnhardt Sr back in 2001 at the Daytona 500. NASCAR's biggest race of the year. Since then NASCAR has implemented many changes for driver safety. That's why Michael McDowell's practice crash at Texas was the first true test of how safe these cars really can be.
Daytona and Talladega are restrictor plate tracks so the cars are bunched together and are infamous for having a wreck called "The Big One" where if one car gets loose then all hell can break loose.
Austin Dillons wreck in 2015 at daytona was the worst and craziest wreck ive ever seen live in racing.. He was so lucky to walk away with no significant injuries.. Nascar is a very dangerous yet thrilling sport.. love it!!
9:13 the milk tradition is for IndyCar and winning the Indy 500. The tradition started way back in the day when a driver asked for a glass of milk after the race. Now after winning the Indy 500 every driver drinks some milk in victory lane.
NASCAR is developing a new restraint system. No more 5 point harnesses. Just install a 2" trailer ball in the driver seat. You will pucker down on it so tight that nothing will get you out of the car.
The crash at 4:03 with the 00 car, my dad and I watching that live. Same time we both said, he's dead. He walked away a bit dizzy. The crash at 4:53 with the 36 car, I was there and saw it. The video of it can't do it justice, I was in about the 21st row and still looking up at it. Still going as fast as leaders but upside down high in the air. It was pretty cool looking I have to admit.
1:43 yes the Jr is Dale Earnhardt Jr. However the guy going into the catch fence is Austin Dillon who ironically drives the #3 car. Oh and there's Martin Truex Jr and Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
4:51 that one wasn't fatal but that was the race Dale Earnhardt Sr was later killed in.
5:44 and 7:02 are both Elliot Sadler
The driver of the 38 car at 7:19 later died in a winged Sprint Car outside of NASCAR.
You DEFINITELY need to do a NASCAR fights video! You blokes would love it, I'm sure
And most NASCAR events victory lane celebrations they spray beer. 🍻
The milk is actually not a Nascar thing. The winner of the Indy 500 gets milk. The Indy 500 is the crown jewel of American racing and the race the Indycar (American version of open wheel racing series) builds the entire series around. Winning the Indy 500 is a championship in itself while winning the series is cool too haha.
I’ve been to dozens of nascar races and my favorite one was watching in person Dale Earnhardts last win in Talladega (my favorite track and favorite driver!)
6:45 talk about a burn out
That celebrating with milk comment got me xD
In the year that Jeff Gordon won his first championship he toasted with milk instead of champagne as a joke to Dale Earnhardt who would refer to him as 'The Kid,' but celebrations in victory lane are done with champagne
I got to see some of those wreck's in person at Talladega Superspeedway,here in Alabama. The wreck with the 99 and the 08 car's, I missed that one by 20 or 30 minutes. I felt bad and went to the car. When it happened, I could hear the crowd gasp. It was weird to hear the delay in the radio broadcast as opposed to when it was actually happening. Maybe 3 or 4 seconds difference.
All of these except a couple are on superspeed ways and this is all some people see and they don’t get to see the other short tracks and road coarses and 1.5 mile tracks and it’s nothing on these guys they don’t know anything about it but they gave it a try and I appreciate that so thanks
The Indianapolis 500 celebrates with milk. NASCAR (National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing) celebrates with whichever beverage sponsors you.
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NASCAR = National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing
Actually we use a H pattern 4 speed manual transmission. Nice to see your guys reactions to these. Thanks for the video.
This is the first episode I’m watching of this and thanks for showing all sides of nascar also the crash with Ricky Rudd at 5:37 the following week he showed up to race eyes practically swollen shut from the impact obviously nascar didn’t let him on track but still that’s nascar for ya racing at any cost