Rich Vogler was my Sprint Car racing hero! He was fast everywhere and won everywhere. I was watching his final race at Salem Speedway while on vacation in Tennessee. My girlfriend was waiting for me to go out and I was making her wait to watch the race...lol Once Vogler took the lead in the final laps, we left. Then I get a call from my mother a couple hours later asking me if I saw the Vogler crash, I said no, he took the lead and set sail for the win didn't he? Then she told me that he wrecked on the last lap and didn't survive, I was crushed! I knew how dangerous Salem Speedway was but I knew he was how good he was, I just couldn't believe it! Rich Vogler will always be the best Sprint Car driver of all time to me...rip
Keith Jackson is the All-American announcer he can do it all did a great job calling this race for ABC Wide World of Sports along with his National Championship college football stuff he always knows the right thing to say at the right time I love listening to Keith Jackson rest in peace Keith thanks you too for allowing me to watch this and go back in time
Dave Peperak is still racing sprint cars!!! I am almost positive that he raced a few times this year. I know he was a year or two ago! Very impressive, and a very nice guy too!
Keith, Jim, Bill Fleming and Al Michaels ALL did "Auto Racing" for ABC from 1961-about 1989. Even Chris Schenkel filled in once or twice. Seems like in 1989 the announcing "Team" for most auto racing events were set. Keith did his last race in abt 1988, Jim in 1987 (as host), Bill Fleming in 1985.
Jim Lampley also pitched in, beginning in 1980 and lasting through the remainder of his tenure at ABC Sports not long after the 1987 Indianapolis 500, including their first live flag-to-flag 500 mile races, starting with the spring NASCAR race at Atlanta in 1986.
Unbelievable - they are bragging on Steve Chassis coming up from the back but ignore Jack Hewitt who finished 4th. We love you JH! Wish we could go back to those good old days and see all that racing all over again!
in the days of the giants and ledgends, dave pepperak as of this year still races in 2024 though usually seems just one or 2 silvercrown races though many are still alive its unfortunate rich isn't
And many NASCAR races, including the Daytona 500 annually from 1970-'75, except for 1973, and his voice is even associated with the most famous incident in the history of NASCAR's All-Star Race, the wrongly named "Pass in the Grass" in 1987. In fact, Keith Jackson was the Grand Marshall for the All-Star Race in 2013 and gave the command to start engines.
Well he was on this occasion. The looser, that is, and I know you couldn't say that very often about old "rapid Rich", but being an Australian, and having seen the man wheel a Midget around more than just one of our tracks, I must say that, NO he did NOT win "everything he was in", not did his American team members "win anything that he didn't win". Look, to be perfectly honest, that year I think it was about 1980 - 81,, your American Midget driver's shit all over us, most of the time, but certainly NOT all the time. So why someone as talented and as loved down under as he is back home would feel the need to blow his, and America's performance up into something everybody knows it wasn't, is beyond me.
Rich Vogler was my Sprint Car racing hero! He was fast everywhere and won everywhere. I was watching his final race at Salem Speedway while on vacation in Tennessee. My girlfriend was waiting for me to go out and I was making her wait to watch the race...lol
Once Vogler took the lead in the final laps, we left. Then I get a call from my mother a couple hours later asking me if I saw the Vogler crash, I said no, he took the lead and set sail for the win didn't he? Then she told me that he wrecked on the last lap and didn't survive, I was crushed! I knew how dangerous Salem Speedway was but I knew he was how good he was, I just couldn't believe it! Rich Vogler will always be the best Sprint Car driver of all time to me...rip
Wow! Keith Jackson does it all. I couldn't believe it either. Keith does a great job too.
Keith Jackson is the All-American announcer he can do it all did a great job calling this race for ABC Wide World of Sports along with his National Championship college football stuff he always knows the right thing to say at the right time I love listening to Keith Jackson rest in peace Keith thanks you too for allowing me to watch this and go back in time
Back when the infield wasn't filled with semi trailers that blocked the backstretch...
@racermac1988 Come on, Keith Jackson announcing a sprint car race at Eldora. Who knew? Whoa nellie!!
Dave Peperak is still racing sprint cars!!! I am almost positive that he raced a few times this year. I know he was a year or two ago! Very impressive, and a very nice guy too!
Really love this ❤
Keith, Jim, Bill Fleming and Al Michaels ALL did "Auto Racing" for ABC from 1961-about 1989. Even Chris Schenkel filled in once or twice. Seems like in 1989 the announcing "Team" for most auto racing events were set. Keith did his last race in abt 1988, Jim in 1987 (as host), Bill Fleming in 1985.
Jim Lampley also pitched in, beginning in 1980 and lasting through the remainder of his tenure at ABC Sports not long after the 1987 Indianapolis 500, including their first live flag-to-flag 500 mile races, starting with the spring NASCAR race at Atlanta in 1986.
Sammy loved the Non-downtube cars. He built his own from the ground up and was winning races.
Unbelievable - they are bragging on Steve Chassis coming up from the back but ignore Jack Hewitt who finished 4th. We love you JH! Wish we could go back to those good old days and see all that racing all over again!
Good ride Dave.
Just plan cool to watch
1:28 is there any way I can purchase this DVD or any others of usac sprint cars on dirt from the 70s and 80s. TIA....,
1981, the year of the zoomie.. and my wife wonders why I can't hear worth a darn !! those are a big part of it !!! LOL
I believe that was Dave Peperak's one and only USAC sprint win.
in the days of the giants and ledgends, dave pepperak as of this year still races in 2024 though usually seems just one or 2 silvercrown races though many are still alive its unfortunate rich isn't
Looks like more real drivers
keith Jackson calling racing. COOL never knew he did races
Yeah, he also called the 1975 Indy 500.
And many NASCAR races, including the Daytona 500 annually from 1970-'75, except for 1973, and his voice is even associated with the most famous incident in the history of NASCAR's All-Star Race, the wrongly named "Pass in the Grass" in 1987. In fact, Keith Jackson was the Grand Marshall for the All-Star Race in 2013 and gave the command to start engines.
@@cjs83172 Yep, it was the "save in the grass", even though "pass in the grass" sounds so much better.
Editors were not invented until ...later, apparently. "Rich Vogler, the loser." If you say so, interviewer guy.
Well he was on this occasion. The looser, that is, and I know you couldn't say that very often about old "rapid Rich", but being an Australian, and having seen the man wheel a Midget around more than just one of our tracks, I must say that, NO he did NOT win "everything he was in", not did his American team members "win anything that he didn't win". Look, to be perfectly honest, that year I think it was about 1980 - 81,, your American Midget driver's shit all over us, most of the time, but certainly NOT all the time. So why someone as talented and as loved down under as he is back
home would feel the need to blow his, and America's performance up into something everybody knows it wasn't, is beyond me.
@@frenzalrhomb6919 Good Grief.
I'm sorry if this seems like an inappropriate question, but is Greg Leffler related to the late Jason Leffler?
Nope, not related.
That right rear looks like a left rear in today's world, no wonder tracks get dusty quickly
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The only reason this guy won is that Steve Kinser was somewhere else.
Why is Keith Jackson screaming. ?
@racermac1988 Sad but true, by 1981 ABC was losing it's grip on auto racing coverage.
Oh by the way Nelly
ABC Always Bad Coverage