Raymond Beadle Crash

[Racecarwrecks]

Great save, but he nearly gets hit by the marshals truck

[CSXer]

Ray and the Blue Max were my favorite team as a kid! Wish he was still racing!

[nostalgiafuelaltered]

he made it look easy to control, even when it was on it's roof!

[jmdebaun]

Great video! Thank you! It's a huge help for reference to build the Monogram Blue Max Ford EXP model kit (1/32).

[horespower]

what a ride ..can you tell me where i can view old time drag videos ..im with an alcohol funny car team out of vancouver canada and love it but i do like to watch the oldtime stuff them guys had balls

[quickman55]

Boy what a ride! They old fashioned staging lights back then. Do they use those kind of guardrails that Beadle's car rode on still? What happened to his Nascar team?

[FuelCoupe]

They dont use 'armco' gaurdrails any more due to the safety issue they presented, hitting the wrong edge of an armco rail can cut a car and driver up. all the International tracks are required to have concrete walls.

[quickman55]

Thanks. Anyone die because of that kind of guardrail?

[FuelCoupe]

There have been several deaths which the 'Armco' gaurd rail was a contributing factor and several racers recieved serious cuts to there arms and legs from the gaurd rails. There was also a group of spectators killed at a former US track due to the gaurd rails failing to stop an out of control race car. The number of deaths on public roads caused by people on motorbikes and cars hitting 'Armco' railing is now into the thousands.

[quickman55]

Thanks again? Do you know what happened to his nascar team though?

[FuelCoupe]

He had problems with his driver (Rusty Wallace) unfortunatly for Beadle the sponsorship he had at the time was tied to Wallace and not Beadle so when Wallace left around 1990 Beadle lost the sponsorship and basicaly just stopped racing.

[quickman55]

Thanks. Did the team just shut down, or did he sell it to someone like with King Racing and Kenny Bernstein? When did he retire from drag racing?

[FuelCoupe]

I think he just shut the team down. He actualy had the drag car and the nascar as well as a sprint car all running under the one team, making it difficult to sell the whole operation as one. Beadle retired from the funny car in 1984, got back in for a season in 1987 and I think he had a driver for the next couple of seasons, I beleive all of his racing teams were shut down around 1990 / 1991 and Beadle retired officialy from racing at that time.

[mbenoit08]

Decade of Thrills: Thunder of the 80s! Gotta love it!

[Jackamoo1]

Steve Evans is great, Paul Page ain't. Cars like the Blue Max have character, todays funny cars are amorphic. Just another sign of the times.

[whosnext166]

You gotta love that kinda stuff especially getting out of the car like that

[SnakeDoctorRacing]

I remember this one well, spectacular!!

[skoczzy]

It's interesting that they still wore open face helmets and gas masks this recently. Perhaps it just seems that way because I'm young.

[oldrustycars]

Actually, Beadle was one of the very few that still wore that type.

[TehG3A3]

Heh, it was funny when the chassis just flew off and he's sitting there lik, "What the heck?". Lol, good to see nobody is hurt though.

[mattsbs]

Got to love the old Decades of Thrills

[VanOstenMotorsports]

All time greatest!!