Rusty Wallace's flip at Daytona

[TheJimmy2880]

Man, I miss Ned Jarrett calling races!

[veeaitch]

check out his talladega crash a month later, scary

[chicks123]

2:06. Damn.

[LostHighwayFilms]

Was this the same Daytona 500 that Dale Sr lost to Derrick Cope?

[bluetaurus6]

@LostHighwayFilms That was 1990.

[chicks123]

How the fuck did he survive that with no hans device?

[fastfortress]

@chicks123 The hans device keeps the head from moving yes, but it is mostly designed to stop if from moving forward and I'd imagine his head was going in all types of directions.

[chicks123]

@fastfortress I know but they didn't use Hans devices back then did they?

[CGSmij08]

Rusty Wallace is one tough sonofabitch

[reverenfender]

rustys car apperently liked 2 flip alot tht yr

[b00mYou]

LOL... "Rusty Wallace twenty feet in the air." I love how commentators exaggerate sometimes.

[mynightmarexxx1000]

@b00mYou

I don't think that is exactly an exaggeration. Pause it at about :26 or :27 seconds into the video and he definately has some air time. Maybe not quite 20 feet but he is probably 15 feet in the air.

[Ray666Magini]

@b00mYou That was pretty close to 20 feet.

[WLFP80]

@ huskerfan50 If it wasn't for Safety Some of the Drivers wouldn't be Doing their Jobs Right Now & they wouldn't Recommend the Job to anyone who doesn't wanna Make a Dummy outta themselves by Racingin unsafe Conditions! & @ the Same Time the Fan's safety is Just as Important as the Drivers' Safety!

[BrodieBruce16]

@huskerfan50

What are you talking about? They have double-file restarts now vs. the lapped car parade they used to have. They offer 3 chances to finish races under green vs. a 55 mph parade to the finish. The fact of the matter is that racing icons now are from all over instead of just the backwoods of Tennessee and North Carolina. And that pisses off people who fear any kind of change whatsoever. Nascar is better now than it ever was and I've been watching since the early 90s.

[TAH2719]

Rusty never ages... :P

[TheMagiclaker32]

nasca is a dangerous sport, much more dangerous then we think and the saftey is better, but they have ruined the sport and the drivers say its good, but ill race in the old cars and at 200 mph for a paycheck that i can live on, athletes dont know how good they have it

[Blackout690]

lol at the guy riding in the car on the wrecker, waving to the fans like a boss

[Ebohannon1]

the final lap got me crying who wrecked my driver in the 2 car :(

[NASCARWWEclubpenguin]

Rusty flips.. again.

[Ebohannon1]

@NASCARWWEclubpenguin man that was my driver and i was crying that year my mom had 2 calm me down several times ehat this happened

[NASCARFAN160]

Wow, a flip at Dega, and a flip at Daytona. In the SAME CAR. Idk this, but if if it's the same year....

[NASCARFAN160]

Oh my goodness, they had SPEED all the way back then? Literally, I think that logo looks (or in this case I guess, looked) too futuristic for that time! :/ That's kewl nonetheless.

[Rcrby525]

@NASCARFAN160 they didn't., it was being re-aired on speed.

[allsmurfedup]

i remember this, this is the very first race i ever saw on tv in a movie theatre



[rotaxint8]

@ilovetogofast88 He had a way of making things sound really exciting and dramatic without having to shout, like they do now.

[kcrofoo]

I was thinking the same thing. LOL. Racing back to the line...Whats he talking about? They used to do that?

[nadeau1064]

Never noticed this before, but when Rusty turns over, watch how his windshield flies across all three lanes of traffic and smacks against the outside wall. Things were crazy back when the windshield wasn't strapped in quite as well.

[crazynate73]

that was high, but no 20 feet

[Im2xteme]

@crazynate73 I bet if you measured the tip of the nose at 2:07 to the ground its about 20ft

[dan1986ist]

remember watching this back in '93

[collinsworth1982]

This wasnt a blow over like the anconcer said. This car just dug and rolled over.

[collinsworth1982]

I like how he thinks that was a blow over. This car just dug and rolled. It didnt take off..

[collinsworth1982]

I like how he thinks that was a blow over. This car just dug and rolled. It didnt take off..

[Sk8BoardTrucker]

@collinsworth1982 it was a blowover dude the air was rushing under the driver side of the car and lifting up the right side of the car...when the car turned sideways it was still moving down the track the sam direction as the other cars but it was turned sideways so it had hardly any downforce

[collinsworth1982]

@Sk8BoardTrucker No it wasnt. That car turned left the left rear tire dug and with the way these cars are built it just rolled over. Just like a SUV would. A blowover is when a car takes off. This is a roll over. NOT A BLOW OVER. If you watch the Febuary Daytona of this year we had to wrecks the same way. One was Jr and the not sure of the other. But still not a blowover.

[Wambonater]

2:06 "weeeeeeeeeeee!"

[Budsmoker72]

lmao haha

[iluvxsandos]

im a huge rusty wallace fan. He must feel like ricky bobby being up in the air all the time lol

[MurphyMonster]

:10 Is that the 24 Dupont i see

[HarvestmanMan]

@MurphyMonster Probably.

[jazzbo1974]

He fliped almost the same spot 10 years earler

[brollan91]

88,888 views =D

[fwayndo1]

haha i remember when the announcers would actually tell you whats happening, not just go OH MAH GOD thirty times when a car flips

[lewshas]

I remember this like it was yesterday.

[Keselowski88]

rusty wallace was just like elliot sadler today, a flip magnet

[Jesant13]

Rusty had one wild career. Glad he was okay.

[Crisgo3d]

Hes taken a wild ride back in 1983 at Daytona, he just does not have much luck at superspeedways.

[twinstickpete]

I believe this car was "Midnight" Rustys favorite car .

[blueangel0394]

i miss neil bonnett. rest in peace

[MegaNucka]

u wanna talk about rusty's flip at daytona? try watchin his talladega tumble he took about 3 months after his daytona roll over

[huskerfan50]

What! Racing back to the start finish line to bad we don't see that any more. Nascar is to chicken to let them do in any more. I used to love Nascar but now I hate it they've taken all the fun out in the name of safety. Toooo bad!

[ilovetogofast88]

Well, safety doesn't hurt (no pun intended)

[Wambonater]

@huskerfan50 it's a good thing we don't see racing back to the line, I mean you can't get rescue trucks out there when you still have cars wizin' by at 170 180

[Im2xteme]

@huskerfan50 Dont blame nascar on that one, Dale Jarret helped take that away because one race i think Dover, DJ wrecked and his car was sitting a little before the start/finish line, and they raced back and DJ is sitting there with 30 cars coming to him going about 160, one mistake it could have ended like Eric Martin. So thats why they took that away.

[killpeople20]

@huskerfan50 you're an idiot. pack yourself into a racecar and let 43 cars come haulin ass towards you while you're sittin still in the middle of the track. most of these rules are made because of someones death. I'm so sick of hearing all of you retards talking about how nascar sucks now because of all the rule changes. shut up. it's still the best racing series. these guys still race hard.

[clammax]

@huskerfan50 Dude thats not cool people can and have been killed from this i know ur humor in that but still that mean

[jaqua524]

@huskerfan50 to quote tony stewart..." i dont think fans who watch nascar, will want to watch their drivers get hurt"

[DavidOrtiz36]

@huskerfan50 this is an old comment, but i can still agree to it... racing back to the line and safer barriers are about the only thing i think they should have changed. changing the cars, dulling the horsepower, penalizing any stupid move, was all dumb moves by nascar. they should race the '96 car again, no restrictor plates...

[michaelwaltrip55]

@huskerfan50 They did it so if sombody is crashed at the line, they could be hit and killed. Do you want to se sombody be killed?

[F1V1]

@michaelwaltrip55 Nobody's ever going to get killed in that tank of a car known as the COT. They should let them do whatever they want. Elliot Sadler's Pocono crash proves my point, because he would have certainly been dead in the old car, and he emerged virtually uninjured.

[dot350]

@F1V1 Every single racing series in every part of the world says the same thing everytime they punch out a new car. I guarantee more than one person was thinking "Wow, these cars must be the safest" after Stewart's crash at Daytona in '01 hours before Earnhardt's fatal one. There will never be a perfect car.

[F1V1]

@dot350 Bud I don't think you've paid enough attention to what the COT is really capable of. Elliot Sadler, Michael McDowell, and Brad Keselowski would have all been dead on arrival if they were using old car when their crashes occurred, and they all walked away unharmed. The only way someone could potentially be injured or killed in the COT is if it's roof got smashed at a high rate of speed because thats it's weak point, which is a given anyhow. Aside from that, drivers are fully protected.

[dot350]

@F1V1 Yes they are safer than every other car that has been raced in NASCAR, but you can say that about just any generation of cars compared to the past generation. The drivers are safer, but they will never be completely safe.

You also forgot about Carl Edwards in the list.

[F1V1]

@dot350 Carl Edwards just flipped, it wasn't anything major. People flipped into the catchfence in the 70s and 80s and emerged unscathed. People such as Sadler and McDowell took blows at the fastest those cars can possibly travel, and they were fine, whereas 10 years ago they would have been dead. If anyone, Keselowski and Ryan Newman were in the greatest danger because the roofs of their cars were smashed, which is the only weak point of the vehicle.

[superdevins]

@F1V1 don't forget Ryan Newman. who also flipped in fall of 2009.

[youlox123456789]

@huskerfan50 It's for safety! Safety always comes first, and now drivers are still risking their lives goin in those things

[jonjoy1999]

@huskerfan50 bitch all you want, but you can't have NASCAR if all your damn racers are dead. just, thought you should know

[nmalueg1990]

@huskerfan50 so u would rather have the drivers risk serious injury or death just so u can be entertained?

[tiddynezz]

rusty has been in some nasty wrecks! he's even rolled his car at bristol! like not just a small flips, barrel roll!

[kuhndog52]

ken squire is the best so dramatic...come back into the booth man

[otacon1000]

i counted 9

[wilber44]

I miss the black #2 car

[kidleativy]

they replaced it with a gold car that that races only in the all star race

[ghostfan84]

I got this car...all sponsors, 1:64 scale, for like 5 bucks. My most prized possession.

Kurt needs to don the black and gold miller lite car for once.

[cybershot102]

yea kurt busch should run a retro car since he has the same number and sponcer

[michoppy183]

i miss the black #2 car too and I miss rusty so much!!!!!!!!!! nascar isnt the same without him

[mreed91]

@michoppy183 NASCAR's perfectly fine without that hotheaded punk

[guitargod9000]

My aunt was on Rusty's Motor home when this happenend! Just found out!

[SAMMYJS991]

16 years later???????

[swittlesworld]

There are great Rusty Wallace autographed goods on eBay for cheap.

[tiki2188]

My god that car is messed up.

[mekuades]

sick!

[Sterling60]

Talk about different times. How 'bout the lack of preparedness. At :58 you see this chick run out in jeans and reflector vest run to his aid. How would that have worked with a car in flames?

[schmeer885]

Cars don't just burst into flames like in the movies. If the car was going to catch fire, it would have already.

[gth804f]

Hut Stricklin was such a beast.

[RDarth]

Michael Waltrip is the all-time clown prince of nascar. And that's not a compliment.

[CooterPuppet]

- RDarth

if nascar were wresling MW would be sabu

if the ecw and nwa title equal daytona 500's

and all his scars equal all of michaels fuck ups

and the barbed wire brachial artery incident equals michaels 1990 bristol crash

... it goes on and on

[RDarth]

Ah, racing back to the flag. That's what I'm talking about.

[iRacerMatt]

I like how the first person on the scene was some fat hick - might have even been a woman cause at least had the man boobs.

[grassy04]

man rusty wallace was my favorite driver as a kid. that old school gold and black mgd looks so badass lol

[evidencebasedliving]

until not long ago, safety was not a series issue in nascar... it was left in the hands of each team. there was no official safety team. now its all different, in nascar safety is first.

[Dunnybrusher]

0:28 - Yup, I'm flying through the air. This is not good.

[Katlyne0918]

hes flipped a few times.... i think the other one was bristol

[jeffrey678]

i know of one at bristol and talladega..... it seams every time i have seen him wreck he is flipping

[xsanteenx]

them were the good ol days

[carsme3]

i love the good old days of nascar

[RoudyBusch18]

id say thats a bit more than 20 feet. more like 35 or 40, these cars r like 15 feet long and it was like twice its length in the air

[PYLrulz1984]

And to think, if they were just a slight bit faster, they could of clipped the car ahead of them, and Rusty could of avoided all of that.

[Astrofamous1]

Did anyone notice the fan picking his nose when Earnhart took the yellow flag... lol diggin!

[Dunnybrusher]

lol...on national TV.

[stewarthass14]

my exwife went in into labor just after this wreck and my son was born the next day. hard to belive this febuary it will be 16 years.the #3 was good but rusty will always be the MAN!!!!!!!!!!!

[mgospeed31]

From about 2:06 to 2:09 is a weird shot. I was only 7 or 8 when this happened, but this was the day I became a fan of Rusty. I'm 22 now, and I still am a fan!

[zongobongo12]

whwen you think of it, if u just grab the wheel and sit up straight (i know its hard probably to), ur just flipin, and he landed on all fours

[ilovetogofast88]

Personally, I think Ken Squier was THE best announcer in NASCAR.

[TheJer1963]

@ilovetogofast88 My vote goes to Neil Bonnett. What a funny guy he could be.

[TarheelTad64]

@ilovetogofast88 I agree Ken Squier is the best!

[29sucks]

i met rusty wallace hes a good guy and this crash is scary

[e521soediv]

were those tears offs that came from rustys windsheild or somethin else?

[THEkingjaymz]

I'm not sure. I thought Rudd was the first to use those around 94 or 95 but I could be wrong. I can't tell where his windshield flies off at

[quickman55]

It was the whole windshield that flew off & hit Bodine.

[renewii]

he no died wow

[Battlefield2Lvr]

No he didnt die, but hes quite lucky.

[mjbyars]

15th anniversary of this race today.

[focusFR200]

I've seen this very footage on "How they do that" well over 10 years ago-complete with a FULL tour of its now-defunct Roush Racing North Carolina workshops including its so-called "skeleton car"(which is basically the racecar's roller frame)and a FULL class on "NASCAR driver safety 101"-and it just chills me off;but our man(Wallace)survived to RACE ANOTHER DAY

[e521soediv]

he always flip on the backstretch

[wewin32]

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[fanofkasey]

I have one up in Jersey......I think.

[AaronTheBear]

Does anyone got a copy of the finish of this race?

[e521soediv]

yea just type 1993 daytona 500 finish and you'll find it, its on youtube i saw it

[tonystewartisgod]

you gotta wonder what rusty is thinking in the car when this is happening

[sethcorn]

Sorry man but that is 20ft

[daveni2]

I had this race tapped but can't find it.

[OA276]

that had to hurt

[ryr28]

thats easily 20 ft.

[BigEOT3]

They both are bad.

[butthole99]

Gotta love Ken Squiers overdramaticism. "TWENTY FEET in the air". Uh, no, Ken.

[singingkicker]

uh, yeah, that was pretty close to 20 ft.

[JokaPlaya]

wasn't this the accident that got him a broken arm/shoulder or was that @ talladega?

[cerberus1981]

He was okay in this wreck, but suffered a fracture in his left wrist at Talladega.

[insertusernamehere9]

that got some major air,the landing must have hurt

[jaqua99]

Nice crash, ya it was almost as bad as dega but i think talladega was worse

[G4RAWZONE]

Brutal crash, almost as bad as the one the same year where Earnhardt tried to kill Rusty at Talladega

[girlcandream]

I'm a big Rusty fan, but I will say it again...Earnhardt did NOT try to kill him. He was a bit too aggressive, but not homicidal.

[cerberus1981]

Wow, that brings back memories. Very good clip, but a spelling correction for an announcer's name: it's Ken Squier. Again, thanks for the clip!