The drivers were all badasses , hard working blue collar racers who earned there ways into the cars the drove. So much different these says . Racings dog shit now, political , boring and most of the drivers are spoiled Dbags.
@@myburner8241 yeah, real NASCAR drivers died together with the middle class in America.. Only poor or spoilt rich people are left these days.. The last real middle class/upper middle class people got their jobs at least 20 years ago and are going to retire and die out.. It’s very sad that the children still generation will be much poorer than their parents, when usually the opposite was the case in the past, because of new great inventions and technologies in the free western world! Now that we gave all our technologies to China and the few rich sold them our big companies there’s not much left for us and the free western world will sadly die out if we don’t do anything against it.. I don’t ever want to live under a Chinese led world!
90,000 fans at Talladega for an IROC race and upwards of 170,000 plus for the Cup Race. The 90's was a great time for Nascar. Today's Nascar doesn't even come close to this!
Nothing like hearing those engines screaming. I miss watching this era of NASCAR. I loved all of the IROC events and I would always watch them on TV as a kid while eating ketchup chips and drinking cream soda. Great times.
Don't forget that just 5 weeks prior to this race Dale Earnhardt broke a bone in his neck in a wreck at Atlanta and raced the rest of the 1999 season injured with the right side of his body usually going numb in the race. He could have chosen not to race the rest of this series schedule and protect himself for his Cup sponsors he raced the rest of this series and kicked ass.
Actually his neck injury, I believe, was a series of his crashes from 1996 to 1999. There was a video that one his crew or DEI employees said he raced for multiple seasons, until the 2000 season, with one hand because his one arm would go numb. He had neck surgery either between the 98 and 99 or 99 and 2000 season.
I never watched this race back then I didn’t know who was going to win it. Dale Earnhardt was my favorite driver and at the end when he got on the outside of Rusty I said side draft him side draft him. Dale Earnhardt made that side drafting move for all other drivers to notice and copy. He was a bad ass behind the wheel of a race car!! 😁
Larry McReynolds used to be a TBS pit reporter, even a color commentator for a few races around 95. One race both he and waltrip were in the booth together before fox started hosting nascar races.
It's interesting how the announcers know that Dale knows something about the draft that others don't, but haven't figured out what it is. Nowadays we know about side draft but back then I remember being just baffled.
Legemd says why he liked open face helmet, legend says he could feel the wind... of course, you wanna tell tal tales, legend says he could see it... was the master of making you loose his without touching you as well... just legend 😁
Earnhardt Sr was the BEST at the bump and run...when he did it, he would just barely move a car out of the way. When other driver attempted it they would either put the car in the grandstands or wreck all of the other cars.
I was at Lime Rock recently for an IROC reunion race. Mark Martin, Al Unser Jr., Danny Sullivan, Bobby Labonte, Geoff Bodine and others had an exhibition race of IROC cars from many different years in the past. It was great. Ray Evernham was running the whole show.
@@TheWoodcutter34 hell I not even close, past couple of years stands at every race were about half full at most, NASCAR as what it was when everyone loved it is dead, the cars are crap have no HP the so called drivers are a bunch of whiny spoiled brats, all the lame rule changes and stage racing, what ever happened to endurance, could go on and on it's pathetic and sad to be honest.
@@wrldchamps04 that's true but hell 90k for a Busch race was amazing probably the combination of the 2 like you said but didn't matter back then there were always almost as many people on Saturday as Sunday.
I didn't watch much Nascar after the late 80s, early 90s but this, this I was glued to and the Craftsman Truck series. I split my viewing between LeMans series, Moto Cross, and Formula 1.
The voices and sounds are like a warm blanket , dreaming about the times..... What a time to witness true sport. 9 year Nascar veteran (the working side). If you are an Earnhardt fan, you get a treat for paying attention. You can see a picture of Dale & I 2 days before we lost him. Its posted on my CZcams page. For the racefans.
Rusty going in to victory lane to give dale a pat on the back was cool. I always liked Rusty , being a die hard Dale fan I m glad we still can watch these moments. Racing was such a great sport when all these guysb raced. can t even watch Nascar anymore.
Always my belief that had ESPN not lost out on the massive TV contract by FOX/NBC, DW would have replaced Ned Jarrett heading into 2001... So Benny, Darrell and Bob in the booth.
These Trans Am's are the best looking race cars of any kind at any time in history, I sure would love to get my hands on one of them, I am heavy into road racing, I've been racing a 93 Camaro for 31 years nearly 300 thousand miles of pure road racing, I would retire it for one of these, these cars, as production cars are among the best cars ever produced.
I really liked it when the “IROC Series” raced the Dodge Daytona’s in the early to mid 90’s because as many Nascar Fans know Dodge was not in the Nascar Cup or Busch Series for over two decades & then came back in 2001 & all us die~hard Mopar fans were ecstatic about Dodge’s return to Nascar & they were very strong right out of the gate for some Nascar Cup Series drivers/teams such as Sterlin Marlin & Ward Burton who won a Daytona 500 in his Caterpillar Dodge Intrepid & Sterlin Marling was kicking absolutely everyone’s ass in his #40 Coors Lite Dodge Intrepid & was on pace for his first Nascar Cup Series Championship & had won a handful of races as well as top 5’s & 3’s & then unfortunately Sterlin Marling got into a bad crash & broke his collar bone if I remember correctly? & a young up & comer driver Jamie McMurray who won the Charlotte race, I can’t remember if Jamie won the big “Coca~Cola” 600 or if it was the other Charlotte race that year? But none the less that was a major boost to Jamie’s Nascar career & confidence.
That Dodge Intrepid still is a sharp-looking car, 19 years later. My town even used them as police cruisers instead of Crown Vics, but they're all retired now. My favorite paint schemes to ever grace the Intrepid were: Dave Blaney's BP car from Martinsville 2001 Bill Elliott's Swedish Chef car from Chicago 2002 Bill Elliott's Viper car from 2002 Jeremy Mayfield's Mountain Dew cars from 2003 Casey Mears' Microsoft car from Charlotte 2003 (Busch) and Jamie McMurray's Davey Allison tribute car from Talladega 2003 For Christmas in 2007, my uncle gave me an autographed 1:64 2002 Bill Elliott Intrepid. I also have a checkered flag from Atlanta Motor Speedway signed by him. Jamie Mac's first Cup win was not the Coke 600, but the UAW-GM Quality 500 held in the fall of 2002.
I loved these IROC races all types of drivers and was good fun racing i saw a video where Earnhardt said who don't like racing and winning 🥇 money 💵 and have fun
Boy I miss that sound! Boom tubes and the X-pipe what a beautiful sound. If they sounded like that today I might go to some races. Also if you remember that smell of the race fuel was fantastic. Now with ethanol nothing.
Look at the grand stands, lol. This is entertainment. No dummies wreck some one else so far.... at 17:50. Gota go, but thanks for the video. I will watch the rest later.
With NASCAR pretty much circling the drain could they sponsor an IROC series? I’d go watch at Phoenix, Vegas and Fontana (and maybe Sonoma on the road course). God I miss the road course at Riverside, CA.
Dale totally stole rusty day. Stole the win then his interview lolol how can you be mad at him though. It's clear that even for guys like rusty the respect for big E was undeniable. He was the man
No Ford's. Back then they started out with Porsche's for the road courses and then they started racing on the high banks at Daytona with the late 70's to early 80' models of the Chevy Camaro z28 and the newer Camaro the IROC-Z 83 to 89 then the 90 to 94 it was the Dodge Daytona's and then from 95 to sort of late 2000's it was the Pontiac Trans Am Firebird's.
Me and my dad were at this race (weekend). Didn't know it at the time but this era was the peak of NASCAR.
No doubt about it. #truewords
Yup. Was great
The drivers were all badasses , hard working blue collar racers who earned there ways into the cars the drove. So much different these says . Racings dog shit now, political , boring and most of the drivers are spoiled Dbags.
Definitely
@@myburner8241 yeah, real NASCAR drivers died together with the middle class in America..
Only poor or spoilt rich people are left these days..
The last real middle class/upper middle class people got their jobs at least 20 years ago and are going to retire and die out..
It’s very sad that the children still generation will be much poorer than their parents, when usually the opposite was the case in the past, because of new great inventions and technologies in the free western world!
Now that we gave all our technologies to China and the few rich sold them our big companies there’s not much left for us and the free western world will sadly die out if we don’t do anything against it..
I don’t ever want to live under a Chinese led world!
90,000 fans at Talladega for an IROC race and upwards of 170,000 plus for the Cup Race. The 90's was a great time for Nascar. Today's Nascar doesn't even come close to this!
Race fans are smart and can see how contrived NASCAR has become.
I do agree sir.
Ladies and Gentlemen, This is Dale Earnhardt painting yet another masterpiece in racing.
Dale Earnhardt IS the master.
...WHOOP DO!... 38 × 4 LEFT TURNS... Very Michael Schumacher... 🏁🏴🥳 15:14
DW and Benny Parsons is the most all star commentary you'll get 🤙
Benny Parsons, Ned Jarrett and Buddy Baker were iconic and yeah, who doesn’t love Jaws.
Ned Jarrent was great too.
Nah, Darrell gets old listening to em.
@@myburner8241yeah have to have Ned in there for sure!👍
@@themanfromcabowabo1559back when it was a good sport not like today
Nothing like hearing those engines screaming. I miss watching this era of NASCAR. I loved all of the IROC events and I would always watch them on TV as a kid while eating ketchup chips and drinking cream soda. Great times.
Must be Canadian .
Don't forget that just 5 weeks prior to this race Dale Earnhardt broke a bone in his neck in a wreck at Atlanta and raced the rest of the 1999 season injured with the right side of his body usually going numb in the race. He could have chosen not to race the rest of this series schedule and protect himself for his Cup sponsors he raced the rest of this series and kicked ass.
Actually his neck injury, I believe, was a series of his crashes from 1996 to 1999. There was a video that one his crew or DEI employees said he raced for multiple seasons, until the 2000 season, with one hand because his one arm would go numb. He had neck surgery either between the 98 and 99 or 99 and 2000 season.
He definitely didn't kick no ass
And still won 3 race in 1999!
@@nohbody85 of course they'd make up shit to glorify the no talent asshole
@@thegreattreon0177 big shit
I wish that IROC would come back
Ray Evernham brought it back for a minute!
You had some of the greatest drivers ever race in this series I enjoyed watching the races they where fun
I miss RPM Tonight...it was a great way to watch sprint car racing and see the potential up and comers in racing...
Two of the most passionate people in NASCAR history, Benny Parsons and Darrell Waltrip.
RIP Greg Moore
@@jonathan_m_racing lol what
Dale was the man love to see him win
Yup.
We miss you. 🐐
I never watched this race back then I didn’t know who was going to win it. Dale Earnhardt was my favorite driver and at the end when he got on the outside of Rusty I said side draft him side draft him. Dale Earnhardt made that side drafting move for all other drivers to notice and copy. He was a bad ass behind the wheel of a race car!! 😁
What a finish! 🏁
RIP Benny Parsons dale Earnhardt Sr and Greg Moore
Matt Daugherty I was at the race in California when Greg Moore lost his life. Terrible. He had a great future ahead of him
They were the good MD
1s
Funny to see DW being a commentator/broadcaster in the 90s, and on ESPN lol
Larry McReynolds used to be a TBS pit reporter, even a color commentator for a few races around 95. One race both he and waltrip were in the booth together before fox started hosting nascar races.
That's great.
I am not from america, what’s so funny about that?
@@rolux4853 he rarely commentated back in the 90s. When he retired from racing, he commentated full times on Fox starting in 2001.
@@MarkMeadows90 thanks for the quick reply man!
It's interesting how the announcers know that Dale knows something about the draft that others don't, but haven't figured out what it is. Nowadays we know about side draft but back then I remember being just baffled.
Legemd says why he liked open face helmet, legend says he could feel the wind... of course, you wanna tell tal tales, legend says he could see it... was the master of making you loose his without touching you as well... just legend 😁
@@joeyjohnson4826 It’s not a legend, he said the open face helmet let him feel the shift in air pressure better inside the car at a plate track.
@@ethanweeter2732 😂 yep and Ruth called his shot
Earnhardt Sr was the BEST at the bump and run...when he did it, he would just barely move a car out of the way. When other driver attempted it they would either put the car in the grandstands or wreck all of the other cars.
Dale is my all time favorite driver, but that isn't true. Jeff Gordan was better at the "bump-and-run".
Nope Dale was - He was The Master
I was at Lime Rock recently for an IROC reunion race. Mark Martin, Al Unser Jr., Danny Sullivan, Bobby Labonte, Geoff Bodine and others had an exhibition race of IROC cars from many different years in the past. It was great. Ray Evernham was running the whole show.
I'm in Maine and would've made the trek down for it, but couldn't get the time off from work.
Rusty getting Dale in Victory Lane with The Water was PRICELESS
90k fans for an IROC race, my how times have changed ...
Now they cant get 90000 for a cup race
@@TheWoodcutter34 hell I not even close, past couple of years stands at every race were about half full at most, NASCAR as what it was when everyone loved it is dead, the cars are crap have no HP the so called drivers are a bunch of whiny spoiled brats, all the lame rule changes and stage racing, what ever happened to endurance, could go on and on it's pathetic and sad to be honest.
Yeah by the end of this season NASCAR will be #1 watched sport now that BLM ANTIFA put the death
"knee" on the NFL...
Yes there was, but the Busch race was after the IROC race, so that helped
@@wrldchamps04 that's true but hell 90k for a Busch race was amazing probably the combination of the 2 like you said but didn't matter back then there were always almost as many people on Saturday as Sunday.
"You know it's a bad year if you blow up and IROC engine."
I didn't watch much Nascar after the late 80s, early 90s but this, this I was glued to and the Craftsman Truck series. I split my viewing between LeMans series, Moto Cross, and Formula 1.
The voices and sounds are like a warm blanket , dreaming about the times..... What a time to witness true sport. 9 year Nascar veteran (the working side). If you are an Earnhardt fan, you get a treat for paying attention. You can see a picture of Dale & I 2 days before we lost him. Its posted on my CZcams page. For the racefans.
Benny Parsons Goat of announcers, very good driver also, and Dale Earnhardt, the Greatest of all time, my favorites of all time here.
@@user-Dr. nice!
This sound always give me chills its so good 🔥🔥
Rusty going in to victory lane to give dale a pat on the back was cool. I always liked Rusty , being a die hard Dale fan I m glad we still can watch these moments. Racing was such a great sport when all these guysb raced. can t even watch Nascar anymore.
When the drivers had worked on their cars and knew what was being done to them.
Always my belief that had ESPN not lost out on the massive TV contract by FOX/NBC, DW would have replaced Ned Jarrett heading into 2001... So Benny, Darrell and Bob in the booth.
But then we never get Benny, Allen, and Wally at NBC/TNT. Or Larry and Mike Joy.
90k for a Saturday afternoon.I miss the good ole days. Wish the tracks and cars were safer back then.
I loved these races !!
I loved those IROC races at Talladega. Got to see 9 of them. Great to see Rusty come in Victory lane and hug Dale's neck. This was Nascar at its peak.
One person you don’t want to see behind you on the last lap Dale
Miss you Greg Moore :(
RIP Greg Moore. Kenny Brack would survive an "unsurvivable" crash at Texas a few years later of 214 g peak intensity.
Oh veio monstro! Dale Earnhardt is a real legend!
90,000 at an iroc race- not that many that come to the whole nascar season today, lol
They had a Busch race after. Could be why. But I do agree
Too bad that this series is gone, some great drivers
Love the way that they kept cheever out to dry.
These Trans Am's are the best looking race cars of any kind at any time in history, I sure would love to get my hands on one of them, I am heavy into road racing, I've been racing a 93 Camaro for 31 years nearly 300 thousand miles of pure road racing, I would retire it for one of these, these cars, as production cars are among the best cars ever produced.
Earnhardt brought me to NASCAR and took me out
I can definitely see CBS Sports Network broadcasting a newer version of IROC.
I want to see one in person so bad!
SRX.
39:53 Earnhardt with the side draft. He was years ahead of his time when it came to superspeedway racing.
the best , EVER.......
The old Small Block Chevy, not only the best engine in automotive history, but the best sounding in history.
Great race. Thank you.
I miss real racing! Bunch of babies now!
I really liked it when the “IROC Series” raced the Dodge Daytona’s in the early to mid 90’s because as many Nascar Fans know Dodge was not in the Nascar Cup or Busch Series for over two decades & then came back in 2001 & all us die~hard Mopar fans were ecstatic about Dodge’s return to Nascar & they were very strong right out of the gate for some Nascar Cup Series drivers/teams such as Sterlin Marlin & Ward Burton who won a Daytona 500 in his Caterpillar Dodge Intrepid & Sterlin Marling was kicking absolutely everyone’s ass in his #40 Coors Lite Dodge Intrepid & was on pace for his first Nascar Cup Series Championship & had won a handful of races as well as top 5’s & 3’s & then unfortunately Sterlin Marling got into a bad crash & broke his collar bone if I remember correctly? & a young up & comer driver Jamie McMurray who won the Charlotte race, I can’t remember if Jamie won the big “Coca~Cola” 600 or if it was the other Charlotte race that year? But none the less that was a major boost to Jamie’s Nascar career & confidence.
That Dodge Intrepid still is a sharp-looking car, 19 years later. My town even used them as police cruisers instead of Crown Vics, but they're all retired now. My favorite paint schemes to ever grace the Intrepid were:
Dave Blaney's BP car from Martinsville 2001
Bill Elliott's Swedish Chef car from Chicago 2002
Bill Elliott's Viper car from 2002
Jeremy Mayfield's Mountain Dew cars from 2003
Casey Mears' Microsoft car from Charlotte 2003 (Busch)
and Jamie McMurray's Davey Allison tribute car from Talladega 2003
For Christmas in 2007, my uncle gave me an autographed 1:64 2002 Bill Elliott Intrepid. I also have a checkered flag from Atlanta Motor Speedway signed by him.
Jamie Mac's first Cup win was not the Coke 600, but the UAW-GM Quality 500 held in the fall of 2002.
Sterling broke his vertebrae at his neck.
the commentary is just classic gold
Dale was a God Tier Driver!
I loved these IROC races all types of drivers and was good fun racing i saw a video where Earnhardt said who don't like racing and winning 🥇 money 💵 and have fun
Boy I miss that sound! Boom tubes and the X-pipe what a beautiful sound. If they sounded like that today I might go to some races. Also if you remember that smell of the race fuel was fantastic. Now with ethanol nothing.
i miss watching dale drive
The best of all time.
Thanks!
AIn't it great when the announcer says "We'll be right back" and they really are right back?
I was there for that race great race.
Back when CART and IRL were 2 separate series due to the split.
RIP Greg Moore.
I forgot Greg Moore drove in IROC. . .R.I.P. Died in Fontana 6 months after this race.
You're the best wife ever. I love you too beautiful
You gotta wonder...maybe he really could see the air. That was amazing!
He did great doing BGN races on TNN starting in 94 as did Larry Mac. (Think Larry started in 96/97)
Great cars a with real guages and great sound. The cars now are lame.
The old cars sounded better and those trans am were bad ass looking also.
IROC needs to return. I know Ray Everningham is trying to return the series. He also has quite the collection of old IROC cars
Look at the grand stands, lol. This is entertainment. No dummies wreck some one else so far.... at 17:50. Gota go, but thanks for the video. I will watch the rest later.
Just a little reminder of how good Earnhardt was in the draft.
I miss the King Dale Earnhardt everyday.
Not enough wins or starts, or Daytonas to be called the king🤣 loser died trying though
@@Elandycamino
Nascar called him the King of Racers. Your life must (Suck) in every way. Sucks to be you...Loser
I really enjoyed it.nascar driver's had a huge advantage too
With NASCAR pretty much circling the drain could they sponsor an IROC series? I’d go watch at Phoenix, Vegas and Fontana (and maybe Sonoma on the road course). God I miss the road course at Riverside, CA.
I never got to see that, I started watching the year after it went away
With SRX starting up this Saturday, it should be some good short track racing that is similar to IROC
They need to bring IROC BACK.
Love this! Thank you!!! :)
Good stuff Maynard
18:14 DW foreshadowing nascar’s switch to the double file restart 😂
Could Earnhardt see the air? You bet he could, just proved it again!
Look a real race
EARNHARDT. IS. THE. MAN !!!!!!!
Dale totally stole rusty day. Stole the win then his interview lolol how can you be mad at him though. It's clear that even for guys like rusty the respect for big E was undeniable. He was the man
Imagine seeing the SRX race at Dega... that would be nuts...
Probably.
Though they may have to remove those rear wings unless they want airbourne crashes
The "MAN" enough said
we just gonna forget that SRX was kinda of a big deal the past 2 years, it was kinda neat
Bring back IROC.
LOVE. IT!
Side draft before it was a thing
The real sound of thunder
If there was a track that ever needed safer walls it was Talladega.
These make a nice sound compared to normal stock car racing. Aerodynamic maybe
It's the X pipe.
so did they have the same crews like there regular races or did they use a different crews for these races?
all the same guys worked on all the cars all the time, a crew of approx 25 to 30 people.
BRING back IROC
Dale and Dale showed dale
Wow, nobody but Earnhardt could have pulled off that move to win.
"in the Roooooossssseee colored car". lol
The first two are now passed due to wrecks..Kenny
18:15 Bro DW was a Prophet lol
26:55
Earnhardt always finds a way what a bad ass
The Howl...🐺
He steals the race from RW and the interview 😂
Dale Jr. did nothing to deserve a spot in this series . Only because of his name
Didn't he win three championships in a row in Xfinity, Bush series at the time.
41:08 Side drafting before it had a name
Yo my car is a nascar
The Gen 7 car is going to be very similar to IROC cars especially with spec chassis.
The gen 7 and an Iroc chassis wil have nothing in common except they are made out of steel.
Ben Davis you have reading comprehension problems.
@@bendavis2652 correct!
BP
Did iroc ever race 'fords? Bring them back!
No Ford's. Back then they started out with Porsche's for the road courses and then they started racing on the high banks at Daytona with the late 70's to early 80' models of the Chevy Camaro z28 and the newer Camaro the IROC-Z 83 to 89 then the 90 to 94 it was the Dodge Daytona's and then from 95 to sort of late 2000's it was the Pontiac Trans Am Firebird's.