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  • And the engines never blow...

  • Crashes ARE a part of racing...the penalty for pushing the envelope, for riding that fine edge of control. Neil Bonnett was a one of the true greats and was not afraid to push that envelope...that's the quality winners are made from.

    R.I.P Neil Bonnett. In heaven the superspeedways are paved in gold and the drafts are always excellent!

  • i was at this race. i still have the hood off of Neil's car involved in this wreck.

  • Hate to say it but its like fate was trying to tell Neil to walk away that day. I wish he had.

  • This is almost the same way that A.J. got upside down at Talladega in 2010

  • @NascarFreak3 its actually quite similar to the carl edwards crash in 2009. just the way he hit the fence

  • 0:29 "your in neil bonnett's car" no actually right now im watching youtube at my computer

  • @bobalose3and88 Yep, and if you're going to be that critical, you could also say that you're not watching Youtube, you're watching a video on Youtube. But who cares.

  • I never thought they showed an in-car view of a car flip!!!

  • he was killed at daytona, but not testing for earnhardt. he was doing practise laps to qualify for the 500.

  • Neil was my favorite driver besides John Andretti. My ex and I were at a Racing Flea market when I was told he had just died at Daytona testing for Dale Earnhardt. Very sad. This flip could have been really bad If he would have gotten into the stands. The need for speed has killed so many great drivers. Rest In Peace Neil.

  • To go along with my comment man for a camera surviivng without losing a signal that proves alot what America used to be making their own things that lasted unlike now and today they aint handmade or made in America and break apart and shit

  • Man for once a inside car cam that stays alive the whole wreck lmao

  • Damn... the '93 DieHard 500 was a scary race... Horton flying over the wall, and Stanley Smith nearly gettin killed in the same crash, and then this wreck...

  • Guy in the yellow car was the luckiest fucker

  • he should have quit right then, he would still be alive.

  • This actual car is at the Talladega Museum at the track in its wrecked state. I had my picture taken by it. This is the coolest wreck ever.

  • Looks just like the Edwards crash.

  • thank god he hit the fence with the BOTTOM of the car.

  • its amazing how these guys survied these wrecks... WOW there is ZERO safe with that car besides a helmet and a seat belt

  • @RsIWfU yea right

  • @RsIWfU  are you an idiot?

  • @DriverPaulK are you, how could you possibly disagree with that... oh thats right, your the typical internet bully who loves to pick fights over nothing. Grow up and get a life...

  • i think that goodwrench black car is haunted it's had two deaths inside of it. now i see why nascar has retired that car now. so there won't be a third death.

  • Look at how much his head moves. Wont see that in todays races.

  • this was nasty inside camera view was wild

  • I was about twelve rows up from the hole in the fence....I can still close my eyes and see the bright red underside of Bonnett's car coming towards us.

  • @quiverful95 I was in the infield directly across from where he hit the fence.

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  • its hard to belive that dale and niel were friends who both drove a good wrench car who both died in crashes at daytona

  • @rebelsonofnc Neil was driving Dale's back up car that he had one with the year before I think. Dale won with it then it was destroyed in this awful crash. It is at the Talladega Museum if you ever wanted to see it.

  • And no one in the grandstands were hurt?

  • look at his head whip around, probaly the same video would have happened if you saw Earnhardts death.

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  • @LostHighwayFilms Dude, racing isn't about crashes. That's just wrong to ask for those sorts of accidents to happen now. People can and do die in these sorts of racing accidents and it's not cool at all to say 'I wish the crashes weren't boring'. If you want to see crashes, go watch a fucking demolition derby.

  • @LostHighwayFilms boring crashes mean less deaths which is fine with me... but in all honesty, you obviously haven't seen some of the worst crashes of the last decade. There's been bad crashes, but the cars are stronger so there's less damage which makes them LOOK less extreme. They also don't fly like airplanes every time they get turned backwards like they used to. Why would you ever WISH for that to come back? lol

  • If this would have happend at daytona they would have gone on and on about how it looks like Richard Pettys crash in 1988, they do that every time a car turns over there, ugh.

  • When did Neil drive for GoodWrench???

  • @superkryp13

    It was a one or two race deal as Dale Sr's teammate for Superspeedway races in the early 90's. That's why he is driving the number 31 - the same number Skinner would adopt a few years later.

    This was his first race since 1990. A year after this he tried to race at Daytona in a Country Time sponsored car. He was dead before the first race of the season.

    I hate Daytona for taking Earnhardt and Bonnett.

  • @AngerIsOurGift i agree with you competely

  • @AngerIsOurGift It was a pair of freak accidents. Not the track's fault. Just circumstance.

  • The car is(or was) on display at the RCR museum I've got pictures, same with Earnhardt's Talladega Flip in 1997.

  • I bet Neil shit bricks at 1:02

  • Something shoulda told Neil "Ok, time to retire." Unfortunately, he didnt listen :(

  • this crash looks wayyy closer to carl edwards flip than allison's. 

  • Was anyone in the stands hurt?

  • I must say great camera work...It is sad that Neil died at Daytona a year later. He would have won more, i bet he would have.

  • GEEZ...THESE FIRE AND RESCUE TEAMS ON THESE TRACKS ARE BETTER THAN MOST CITY SQUADS!

  • 1:04 Wow his car went upside down. Yea no duh

  • @14Mattt14 psh, what r u talking about, it was clearly on all 4 tires... haha

  • It's a good thing that restrictor plates put a stop to cars going airborne.

  • @primemover17 restrictor plates were added in 92 so this happened with restrictor plates

  • plates were added in 1988. How many billion times has that been said?

  • @primemover17

    sarcasm, right?

  • 3:04 I like how you can see Musgraves hood.

  • i like the shot at 1 30 now days they never show the inside of the cars when bad wrecks happen

  • @cookieacdc24 Yeah, in case there is a fatality. It's out of respect for the driver.

  • This race was one of the 1st were they had in car commentary, and ironically Bonnet was the guy. And as an added bonus to this race, thsi was the 1st race after the death of Davey Allison. And ..who..might you ask drove his car in this race ???? Robby Gordon.

  • @dickstraten and wasnt kenny wallace in that car between gordon and irvan?

  • @Satchfan10 It seems like he did, can't remember for sure. I tried to look it up, and all it says is they used several drivers, including Lake Speed, and Robby. I know Kenny did drive the car after Ernie got hurt.

  • @dickstraten thats right. I was only 8 when Davey died so I dont remember too much of that time period lol

  • Scary wreck. I can't believe how calm Mr. Bonnett was after this crash. So sad he is gone, he was truly one of the nicest guys in NASCAR, ever.

  • rip Neil Bonnet

  • rip Neil Bonnet

  • i saw the remains of this car at telladega

  • @BJFRacing88

    ...with the honorable mention given to Bobby Labonte's 'Dega wreck in '01, as he went off in an stupid/suicidal move

  • he did

  • Yes, that makes my remark sarcastic.

  • In terms of nastiness, I think you have the Bonnet crash overrated.

    Allison's 87 crash at #1 I can agree with

    Rusty Wallace's 93 crash is #2

    Ricky Craven's 96 crash is #3 (though if you want to make that 2, and Rusty's crash 3, I won't argue against it).

    Dale Earnhardt's 96 crash #4

    Carl Edward's 09 crash #5 (again, you want to switch 4 and 5 around, I won't argue against it)

  • Jimmy Horton going out of the ball park in like 93 or 94 has got to rate up there.

  • Jimmy still races too, but now he races BigBlock Modifies in Bridgeport Speedway in NJ

  • @cumptan69

    that one happened in '93 -and it was the craziest one of them all

  • @PYLrulz1984 Horton's 'home run' crash was wicked. Pretty easily one of the worst Talladega crashes ever.

  • That has to be the greatest shot an in-car camera has ever captured.

    RIP Neil...you were the best

  • Rusty had almost identical wrecks at both tracks

  • i like how they used to show the inside of the cars while there wrecking.now days they only show them on board

  • @BJFRacing88 hes not alive anymore

  • before they installed the flaps i think

  • @BJFRacing88 Phil Parsons had a horrific crash there in 1983. And there was a big one in the spring 1973 race.

  • scott riggs was bad too

  • oh geez that was like carls crash in April

  • @khevvin48 and allisons crash back in the 80s

  • RIP Neil bonnet.

    P.s must have scared the shit of fans

  • you do realize ricky craven was seriously injured in that 1996 Talladega wreck. I woudln't list any driver was seriously injured as my favorite wrecks....

  • who said they're my favorite? I thought we were talking about nasty wrecks.

  • nah... there's a ton worse wrecks than all of those, except for ricky craven.

  • you could see the crash at 0:00

  • How do you not have Rusty Wallace's flip in 93 on that list?

  • wasnt that rusty wallace wreck at daytona not dega?

  • @highway955 both at the daytona 500 and winston 500

  • He flipped at both tracks during the same year.

  • What a shame. If only the man had stayed in the booth after this one we might still have him with us.

  • great camera work by that one guy to focus on musgrave-yes, bonnett's wreck was more spectacular but musgrave was still moving and was going across the race track-not the choice i probably would have made in the shock of the moment but great awareness

    RIP Neil and Benny...and so many others from that era, unfortunately

  • why didnt you stay retired neil?

  • Talladega really should put 2 rows of catch fencing on the trioval. thats 3 cars that have went into the fence

  • They do, if you look at the Carl Edwards crash you can notice two rows of catch fencing. If anything, maybe they should have extended the wall height by about a foot or two...

  • 4 now..

  • Edit: srry Ricky Craven crashed 1996 not 93

  • @TeamAutoBots In this same race in '93 Jimmy Horton went over the wall in turn one...which is why they put up the fence there. If it hadn't been for that, Ricky Craven would have gone over the wall in '96.

  • RIP Benny Parsons

  • so with carl's crash just this april, this makes three races at this track where a car gets high into the fence in the tri oval.

  • One of the most dangerous spots for spectators in nascar,

    Talladega Tri-oval

  • rip neil

  • the fans were prob like omfg im gonna get my 4head signed by neil bonnets tire

  • @drerrito lol

  • talladega has a history of people hitting that catch fence

  • The other two races I know of involving wrecks with the fence is Bobby Allison's 1987 wreck and Carl Edwards' 2009 wreck.

  • The truck race at daytona a few years ago when Geoff Bodine got crushed into the fence by 2 other trucks going through the tri-oval.

  • that truck race at Daytona when Geoff Bodine near fatal crash on the tri-oval but he survived from that crash so now he's doin bobsled n is the owner for bobsled

  • don't forget Craven crashed 1993 at turn 1 fence in talladega so its Bobby(87),Neil(93),Ricky(93 sec race at talladega), n Carl(09),

  • 96 actually for Craven, not 93

  • Almost like Carl Edwards crash

  • so you wont thank him for working for NASCAR for MANY years, and helped make it to live flag flag coverage we have today? Wow

  • Indeed I won't.If he didn't,someone else would have.Someone who didn't try to make everything so poetic and historical...but at the same do it with the lousiest sense of humor,and cloudiest memory bank.Yeah,yeah..I know he's been there forever,and DW is a little much at times,but Ken Squier couldn't hold a candle to announcers like BP or Gentleman Ned,and don't forget Neil Bonnett taking his turn in the booth.He was great.Never in a million years.

  • so who would be that someone else??Dick Bergeren? Wide World Of Sports? Who and what company?

  • I'd absolutely have taken Keith Jackson or Jim McKay over him anyday.Hell,in '79 it was either going to be CBS,NBC,or ABC,right?Who could've moved up from MRN radio?Barney Hall?I'm just saying,the dude is no kind of national treasure.

  • Ken Squire was the man who brought on-board cameras to NASCAR! Top that!!!

  • ...and I've been watching coverage for almost twenty years now,so I'm no fair-weather fan waiting for the next dumbass Digger cartoon,wearing my bootleg "Gordon sucks!" t-shirt from sometime in the late 90's.Not trying to have a pissing contest,just that I'm not uninformed.

  • My dad has been watching racing since pretty much the first Daytona 500 and he knows alot, but i'll drop it, and i may be Gordon fan, but i will agree, Digger is fucking stupid. Today's coverage sucks, 1979-2000 were the best years of coverage. and i believe the next time they're changing coverage again will be 2015. Hopefully good coverage will come back, but for now, we're stuck

  • this car belonged to Dale Earnhardt. The actual car that was wrecked here is in the Talladega museum right at the track. I know because I had my picture taken by it back in like 01'. I was excited to find it when visiting the track.

  • I love this wreck. Best wreck ever. There was another serious wreck in this race where a car went over the wall.

  • You can hear neil breathing 0:23-0:30.

  • Wow yea you could, he was trying to catch his breath, kinda scary listening to that.

  • I would never ever EVER take seats in the first few rows of the trioval at 'Dega or Daytona!!! It's an invitation for a free shower of fence and car parts. No thanks.

  • Excellent Point

  • rACING IS MISSING A GREAT FRIEND

  • the great part is after this crash he went and helped to commentary for the rest of the race

  • Yeah! i remember that now. I was a kid and remember he went and announced the rest of this race.

  • That looked like Edwards flip

  • Talladega & Daytona - The most dangerous tracks in the world when shit goes wrong.

  • thats why they so popular lol

  • did you see how far his head moved? thank god for the hans device today. saving lives one crash at a time.

  • wtf that looked just like edwards

  • Holy shit this is worse than edwards crash...

  • Neil Bonnett should have stayed retired.

  • @munchkinthecat

    at least he died doin what he loved

  • @munchkinthecat give me a break he died doing what he loved

  • this crash is really similar to the edwards crash. Or I should say visa versa

  • That poor Talladega trioval fence has seen some wild crashes.

  • lol no kidding

  • Amazing on the in-car of Neil's of how much his head moved around while he was turning over. Compare that to today's crashes, where the driver's head almost never moves at all.

  • When they first came out with the Hans, Rusty Wallace said that he didn't like it because he liked to put his head between his legs when the car started to flip.

  • So you're saying the HANS came out way before 2001? Like around the time of this incident ('93)? That's interesting, as I thought the HANS device was relatively new in 2001.

  • No, the Hans in Nascar wasn't til 2001 I think. Rusty was just commenting on what he would do during a flip.

  • Actually I thought that there was a type of HANS device out....not HANS but there was a head and neck device because I remember Earnhardt and several others considered it as a noose.

  • The hutchins device i think.

  • That sounds about right, thanks

  • WHY THE HELL is your username dog feces!? LOL.

  • Yeah this is very similar to Carl Edwards's flip.

  • Not even close. The only similarty is that they both hit the fence. This car did not have roof flaps and it wasn't hit by another car to make it launch. Edwards got hit. If he didn't get he he would have just hit the wall.

  • Well yeah but that's if you get technical.

  • True, Neil was lucky that the bottom of the car hit the fence and wall.

  • Neil was lucky to be alive after this. That I think is the biggest difference.

  • Fue un accidente muy similar al de Edwards en Talladega 2009

  • I saw this race n TV & it sticks in my mind as one of the worse days ever in NASCAR. This was just after Davey had died & they had a pre-race tribute & everything was gloomy as hell. There was an interview w. Robt Yates & he was about incoherent w. grief. Then there was that crash w. Jimmy Horton where he went over the wall, wasn't hurt, but Stanley Smith was about killed. I don't think he's ever come back. You saw his kinfolks led into the helicopter in tears. & then this. All on the same day.

  • One other thing I remember thinking, about Neil Bonnet. I thought—that man won't be satisfied until he kills himself in a racecar. And a few months later he was dead. I thought it was a terrible waste. I'm no race driver so maybe I have no right to talk about it, and of course I didn't know Bonnett, but there's a time when a guy's friends should take away the keys. He was a great announcer & could still be with us on TV, but he was determined to kill himself in a race car.

  • It WAS a bad day... Probably the most depressing race ever would be the 1973 Indy 500, but This Talladega race was pretty bad... actually the whole '93 season was tough, and '94 didn't start out any better..

  • i was there it took over a hour to fix the fence. when i saw carls wreck this is i thought about.

  • every one is talking about the allison crash in 1987 but this was one that was similar too carl crash too no metion of this one thanks for post it I remeber this latter jimmy horton goes out of the track during his wreck and walked away if you have that video post that one too just so people can see yes racing is dangerous but stock cars are more safe than IRL cars. so stop bad mouthing nascar.

  • I also posted on another video showing Carl's crash, how similar this crash was to Carl's both cars were hit by other cars launching them into the catch fence.

  • I actually think this crash was a lot worse than Carl's. Neil rolled on the track  a few times while Carl only went into the fence after Newman plowed into him. Hope yesterday's fans are doing ok.

  • Yesterdays wreck was very close to this wreck. All three wrecks like this: Bobby Allison, Neil Bonnett, and Carl Edwards have all three hit in nearly the same place. It was an awesome race yesterday, I was there. No one could figure out who won for about 3 minutes. Then, Keselowski starts doing burnouts and it was made quite apparent. Things like this just happen.

  • Also remember, this crash happened in 1993. Roof flaps weren't instituted until the next season.

  • wow after watching the talladega race, carl edwards crash reminiscence from neil bonnets....by the way can't believe it was sixteen-years ago.

  • yeah me too but they said i was more like allisons which i dissagree

  • wow! Carl Edwards had a carbon copy of that wreck man thats messed up

  • I thought the exact same thing today as well!

  • scarry view from the inside of the car... I would crap myself....definetly...

    I love nascar since kid but anyone can tell me WHY the bottom of the #31 car is RED? oo

  • Just a preference at RCR. Dale Srs interior was always red.

  • incar camera did a pretty good job giving the view

  • neils crash here reminds me of the way earnhardt took off in the same place when he broke his sternum and clavicle

  • i am suprised that dale earnhardt didnt try to make neil race somewhere else. cause u know how much earnhardt liked talladega

  • I'm talking about Ned's announcing. I mentioned that twice in my comment you clueless fucktards. I never said a word about his driving.

  • Ned Jarrett has forgotten more abnout stock car racing than you'll ever know! I guess you prefer Darrell Waltrip and all his queer boogity crap! Give me a break!~