ESPN Speedweek August 17, 1989 - Death of Tim Richmond
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- This segment of ESPN's Speedweek takes a look back at the life and career of Tim Richmond. At the time, details surrounding Tim's health were unknown and a controversial topic among the racing community. It was not until over a week later that his family held a press conference to acknowledge Tim's battle with AIDS.
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Also one of the few who could beat Earnhardt toe to toe in that 1986-1987 span. If Richmond runs a full 1987, Dale Sr doesn't get his record 11 win season that's a fact.
Chip Williams is a creep he went to prison for sick crimes against kids
It's a travesty what many in the racing community did to Tim Richmond.
No it's not. He did it to himself.
@@johncalla2151 doesn't matter he still had more talent and did more in a few short years than you will do your whole life.
@@badmonkey2222 Well I can say that I've never given anyone HIV. If being semi-famous for having 13 Winston Cup wins is how you judge somebody's life, then I'm not going to worry much about your criticism.
@@johncalla2151 you see that's the difference between me and you, I don't judge anyone that I've never met, regardless if they have some disease.
@@johncalla2151 🤡
Met Tim in 84 at Rockingham, was riding a scooter around the infield campground and stopped and had couple beers and a hamburger with my dad and his friends i was 14, i thought that was the coolest shit ever will never forget it, funny seeing this i just was showing a friend my Winston cup trucker hat he signed. Just shows you the talent he had in 86 out of 12 races, he won 6 and finished second in the other 4, that's total domination right there, nobody else has come close to that. And fk NASCAR for what they did to Tim, they set him up and lied and falsified drug test results, then tried to sabotage his career, bastards.
Wow...you are SO blind. Watch the ESPN 30 for 30 on this pos.
Yeah that's way worse then knowing you got aids and chasing women anyway. But yeah bad Nascar.
Nascar was dirty in this situation but Tim brought a lot of it on himself also. So there a lot of guilty parties in what happened.
@@ragingbull154 exactly. Whenever somebody says NASCAR screwed tim, they always assume that we're blaming NASCAR for him getting aids. It's Tim's on fault for me and a responsible and not wearing protection, in terms of them getting AIDS and dying. But from a NASCAR standpoint, the 30 for 30 makes it fairly evident that NASCAR thought that he had AIDS, an instituted the drug policy as a backdoor way to get rid of him. I'm only 42, but I can remember how big the stigma of AIDS was before magic announced he had it.
There's a difference between feeling sorry for Tim Richmond and expressing the fact that NASCAR dicked him over. I don't feel extremely sorry for Tim richmond, but that doesn't mean that NASCAR didn't screw him over. Honestly, I feel bad for the woman that he was dating that still has aids, as well as the lady I saw on 60 minutes that believes Tim gave it to her on purpose. Now, if you were to tell me that NASCAR knew that Tim Richmond was giving AIDS to women but they somehow or without AIDS before December of 1986, then at least it's understandable. The fact that they asked Tim Richmond for his medical records even after that drug test shows that that was the real reason drug policy in the first place
Just like they did to Jeremy Mayfield
One hell of a driver!!! Nascar did him dirty!!
How?? He wouldn't submit his medical records in 1988 after passing his drug test
@@davidford3968 because those drugs were for the aids he had.back then they never thought anyone would get it in sports. he tried to hide it but the walls were closing in on him sad to say
@@davidford3968the only reason they wanted him to release his re it’s was because they probably knew he had AIDS. He was trying to keep it private. They wanted to expose it and embarrass him.
I miss Bob Jenkins.
I do as well. He had the ability to draw you into the race by being himself without having to resort to gimmicks or silly antics.
Larry Nuber died young also. I think it was a brain aneurysm.
@@ragingbull154 back when the OP's comment was written, Bob was still alivr
Larry had cancer!😢
The voice of my youth. His voice is one of my first nascar memories at age 3 watching with my dad in 1990. By 1992 at 5 I was at my first of 16 races with my dad decked in Dale sr. gear back then, this year will be at my 17th with my dad at Dover, 31 years later.
I really wish a movie would come out based on his life, not Days of Thunder. It would be epic, a Top Gun of Racing.
im pretty sure days of thunder is as close as you'll get to the top gun of racing movies
The Days of Thunder was verly loosely based on his racing career, but not his full life (i.e. his promiscuity, HIV/AIDS diagnosis and him injecting multiple women).
Jonny Rutherford classic moment!!
I was setting in the stands on the inside right where Johnny picked Tim up for that famous ride.
Tim Richmond could imagine going to be Hollywood actor ☺️
1:25 Holy shit, tell me you don't see Ryan Gosling playing him in a biopic
he is too old now.
He was one the best clean driver alot better than dale Earnhardt
Imagine if the 90s boom happens with Hendrick with Hendrick labonte and richmond...holy cow
I still have that copy of Road and Track
My god, it was 89? Incredible.
Do you have one with adam petty?
Where did this announcer go ?He was better than the clowns we have now!
I've read he's battling cancer. I think brain cancer, but Im not 100% on that. Bob Jenkins is the best! I hope whatever is going on, he gets better.
@@jamiedoughty6703 Thanks Jamie ,Wow thats very sad news indeed . I really liked his style ,kind of a dry type of announcing and he worked well with his partners in the booth esp Benny. He didnt try to be funny the like waltrips ,and of course mike joy . I ll pray for him to pull thru . These clowns we have in the booth now should mention Bob and ask people to pray for him and if need be ,help raise money for his med bills .Thanks DBB.
@@downtownbobbybrown6237 No problem and I agree.
RIP Bob Jenkins, Larry Nuber and Tim Richmond
@@ragingbull154 thank you buddy nobody ever talks about nuber but I thought it was the best with him as announcer. If they do say something about him it's talking crap.i recon ESPN jus used him getting into that argument with Steve chasis on air to get rid of him cause they had picked Benny up an wanted to get rid of him an get a crew chief is what I heard .he is the one who put Nascar an ESPN on the map. As far as I'm concerned an rightfully should be called the voice of. Nascar. It's his voice you hear anytime they show 80s Nascar flashbacks or replays along with CBS Ken squire..he made some of the greatest calls in our sport like Elliott winning the Winston million in 85
Just imagine what he could’ve did in Hendricks cars from 88-93…imagine that…
I know right I bet Dale Sr. wouldn’t have been so dominant if Tim hadn’t of died.
@@nibora7953 from 88 through 93, Rick Hendricks cars got better and better every year..bet your ass, Tim would’ve won his fair share of races
@lancehurley9743 same with Davey and Robert Yates racing. Epic battles for sure.
Richmond and Gordon conquer NASCAR in ways you wouldn't believe
They set him up like they did Mayfield
Watch the POD CAST Rick Huston D.K. Ulrich tells about Tim!! Hollywood Tim fit him perfectly,
He had crossover appeal. He could have been the rival that Earnhardt never had until years later with Gordon.
NASCAR didn't do him wrong. He didn't wrap his pecker and paid the price.
He was the greatest nascar driver .
Women chased him. All adults that made a decision to sleep with him. Feel bad for everyone.
NASCAR did him wrong, just another reason I stopped watching long ago
Is it just me or does he look like Hank Williams Jr. at 5:48 😂 I watched the 30 for 30 about him and according to that he was out in Hollywood filming his cameo in the Burt Reynolds movie Stroker Ace, went to a Hollywood party, where Dan Ackroyd and John Belushi was also, and that’s where he hooked up with the woman that gave him Aids.
Shouda kept his pecker in his pocket n baled hay with his close friend earnhardt instead of partying. What a unreal talent gone way2soon
He may have been the most dominant driver ever
What is happening here? Back then it was big news he died in a car wreck leaving a race. Did they lie then or are they lieing now.
Sounds like you have Tim Richmond confused with Rob Moroso.
You must be confused with someone else. Tim Richmond died of HIV/Aids in 1989. That's always been the story of his death. Not sure where you got the car accident story?
There was a story out there that he died in a motorcycle crash.
@@keithwendl8328 when Tim went in hospital the last time essenntually to die he was supposed to hospitalized cause a car hit him an a motorcycle but it was a fabricated story
So he died of an overdose?
Which tim doin short films reckon he was talking about porn