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"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: czcams.com/video/fCoO1-HHN3A/video.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.
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.
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
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.
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 CZcams, they don't show a replay for nearly 10 mins until they see him out of the car and moving on the stretcher.
I love seeing Brits reacting to NASCAR related material. Always puts a smile to my face, coming from an American.
Yes. There is a NASCAR fight compilation
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
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.
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!
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.
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
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
You should react to Top Fuel Crashes. 8000+ horse power machines going 0-320 mph in 4 seconds makes for some spectacular crashes!
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.
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
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.
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
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
That's why the character in the comedy Talladega Nights was named Ricky Bobby.
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.
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
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.
"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.
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.
“Sometime call a tow truck” 😂😂😂 I pissed myself
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.
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.
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.
The milk thing is strictly an Indianapolis 500 tradition.
I thought everyone knew about the 500! I guess they're not huge race fans
You boys need to see it live . There is nothing quite like NASCAR .
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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 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.
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!😁😛
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
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
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
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
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
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!!
It's important to understand they're going 200 mph.
Indeed. It's why they flip sooooo many times!
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
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
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
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
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
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.
A few points.
1. The Jr they were referring to was Dale Earnhardt Jr
2. NASCAR runs 4 speed manual transmission with shifting patterns similar to what you drive in a normal car
3. NASCAR runs at least 2 road courses every year.
4. Most of the crashes you witnessed the driver walked away with no or just minor injuries.
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.
favorite saying "in fence we trust" haha!!! Cheers Gents!
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.
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
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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.
“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.
Talledega has some of the worst wrecks. They usually don’t stop the race but call out the yellow flag which signals no passing on the track and to slow down. You stay in your current position. Occasionally they will have to stop the cars but everyone stops in their position and stays like that until the race resumes.
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
The milk is for IndyCar and only at Indianapolis. They look more like F1 cars. They use ovals, street, and road courses.
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.
To answer a few of your questions, nascars are fully manual vehicles with a 4-speed H-pattern shifter. Also, when you wreck the car, you do not get a back up. You will have your opportunity to try and fix the car under yellow but if it is to the point where it’s way too damaged to run then you retire from the race.
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!"
The centrifugal force is so strong when the cars begin to tumble and spin at 180 mph that their arms tend to fly away from the center of their bodies, so they have to grip the steering wheel as hard as they can to keep their arms inside the car. They drive with open windows.
They use 4 speed H pattern gearboxes. They also have a few races on the calendar that are on normal circuits like Watkins Glen and Sonoma
Dale Earnhardt Sr once said, "second place is the first loser." He drove with the mindset of a beast. Always pushing to be the winner. He was killed in the NASCAR series first and greatest race each year, The Daytona 500. He was running in 2nd behind only his son, Dale Jr. In the final lap he was being threatened with a pass by Sterling Marlin. Their cars got mixed up and Dale Sr. went head on into a wall at a ridiculous rate of speed killing him almost instantly. His death was largely attributed to his lack of use of a safety system that was optional at the time, and since has become mandatory, called the HANS system (Head And Neck Support).
A great driver was lost on that day, but due to the implementation of the HANS system many more lives have been saved since.
Actually we use a H pattern 4 speed manual transmission. Nice to see your guys reactions to these. Thanks for the video.
i wanna say that i go to bristol motor speedway when we are visiting family . but at Christmas time they have lights inside the stands and you can drive half the track to the infeild . one of the best experiance i ever had . cant wait til next christmas to visit if i can .
As a NASCAR fan, I am glad you enjoyed it. Have you seen "Bangers 2021" is the newest I have found. They are from the Netherlands. As I don't understand anything they say, the only rule I can figure out is "whoever crosses the finish line first wins". They also do trucks or cars pulling boats, camping trailers or with school buses.
Just found a new one "Biggest crashes so far 2021! (Banger racing)"
Crazy how much people don't know about Nascar, interesting to see it from different view points. Nascar does race on ovals a lot, but they also race on Road Courses. As far as safety, Roll Cages, HANS devices, and all kinds of technical advancements allow these drivers to walk away without a scratch.
The milk celebration is famous at the Indy 500 which is open wheel cars, not NASCAR. They usually celebrate with beer or at least they used to, haven't watched in probably a decade
We LOVE racing in America! NASCAR, Trucks, Winged Sprint cars, Boats, ATVs, Go-Carts, Drag Races....asphalt track, dirt track and any size race track.
The milk celebration is for the Indianapolis 500. In NASCAR, the victory drink is usually a sponsor of the driver who wins the race.
@ 6:00- ''And the M&M car just had the Skittles knocked out of it!'' (Damn, I'm evil! Lol!)
If y'all did a video of best NASCAR win celebrations, I think ya'd find it entertaining
NASCAR = National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing
The most awesome track to watch a NASCAR race is Daytona International Raceway in Florida. My wife and I used to work the race and the whole weekend is an experience. A comment you made about the speed is right at that track. Once they get up to speed it's foot to the floor from then on. The track is 2 1/2 miles around. The ends of each oval are banked so much that when the cars are on the banking, all you can see are their tops. It's like they are literally driving on a wall. The banking is so steep that you can't walk up the track, you have to crawl. Going around the outside, the ends of the track are several stories tall.
One thing you don't realize watching a race is the amount of wind generated by that many cars.
I worked as an usher at a NASCAR race a few times. My first race I was right by the fence at the start of the straightaway.
They told me I would need to either hold on to the fence or at least brace myself by putting my legs apart when the cars come by or I would fall over.
I thought they were messing with me so I ignored their advice.
They weren't!!
When you have 40 cars going nearly 200 miles an hour less than 10 feet away from you, you better hang on to something! lol
Also, after the race I noticed all these small black peices of rubber embedded in my shirt. It was from the tires lol
Good times.
Tractor Pull explosions, wrecks, and fires will not disappoint
Daytona Feb 18, 2000
"After the Bobby Allison crash, NASCAR made restrictor plates mandatory for race cars - but not for trucks, which typically did not reach such high speeds. A notable exception was the accident in Daytona during the premiere of the NASCAR Truck Series. Driver Geoffrey Bodine flipped his racing truck, sending debris and flames into the grandstands. The debris ripped a section of the safety fence - tearing down about 50 feet of wire mesh - and badly injured five fans. Medical records indicate a broken arm, a head injury, and cuts and bruises. The truck burst into flames and the driver also sustained injuries."
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.
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
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
Craziest finishes in NASCAR history is another one to check out. There have been some wild finishes through the years. Next year NASCAR's top series will be running on 6 road courses next year, Sonoma, Watkins Glen, Charlotte Roval (Infield road course at Charlotte), Indy Road Course, Road America and Circuit of the Americas. Also in 2021 NASCAR's top series will be running a race on a dirt track for the first time in 50 years.
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.
H Shifter in most NASCAR sanctioned race cars. Nascar Series include: NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, NASCAR Xfinity Series, and NASCAR Cup Series. Dale Earnhardt Senior was considered the best, but he is in a 3 way tie for most Cup Series championships(7x) with Jimmie Johnson and Richard Petty. Indycar is a completely different type of racing (Open-Wheel), and when a driver wins the Indianapolis 500 in Indycar they spray milk on themselves. In NASCAR they celebrate with a Burnout and usually a few cans of beer. There has not been a fatality since 2001. NASCAR stands for National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing. You should react to NASCAR Fights, NASCAR Flips, Indycar Flips, and Indycar Best Finishes if you would like to learn about more motorsport.
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