man did anybody else see how completely empty that place was for that race...they've been bitching that attendance the past few years was bad but that looked as though the grandstands immediately surrounding the start/finish line were good and full but that the rest of the place was pretty much dead...FANTASTICAL CRASH THOUGH..god i miss that kind of racing
To save people time, here's what caused the crash: DW describes in his book that the engine had a "floating block in the manifold that sat under the restrictor plate." This wasn't illegal, but it wasn't approved by NASCAR. NASCAR forced Hendrick and other teams to weld the blocks into place. This resulted in the pole car of Greg Sacks being a sitting duck, which caused the big one seen here.
I was 6 when I saw this. First time I had ever watched a race and after the first lap crash, I was hooked for the next few years. Then Davey died followed by Irvan nearly dieing put me off watching religiously. In January 2001 I decided to try and keep up with the following season. Then the 500 took place... O_o
IMO, Petty shouldn't have pushed the 3 wide on the 1st lap but at least he gave plenty of room. This is totally Derrike Cope's fault, he pinned the hell out of Sacks, Greg was an innocent bystander. Cope gave entirely no room whatsoever, no patients, goes to show how much of a fail Cope is
@RyDogRidesTheBus During a practice session, Darrell Waltrip spun coming off of turn 4 on to the tri-oval. His Tide Chevrolet stopped in the middle of the track and Dave Marcis T-boned Waltrip on the driver's side, the most vulnerable place for a driver to take an impact as evident during the legends race at Bristol between Larry Pearson and Charlie Glotzbach. As a result, Waltrip suffered a broken leg, two broken arms, and possibly rib injuries and would not have been able to run the Pepsi 400.
These guys really don't know the meaning of the word patience. At least wait until the race got under way and then go crazy. A product of restrictor plate racing since 1988, nobody can get away from each other and this is the result. One wrong move and everything goes blooey, literally. This is an example of drivers making mistakes or getting in the wrong line. A true product of restrictor plate racing.
These guys really don't know the meaning of the word patience. At least wait until the race got under way and then go crazy. A product of restrictor plate racing since 1988, nobody can get away from each other and this is the result. One wrong move and everything goes blooey, literally. This is an example of drivers making mistakes or getting in the wrong line. A true product of restrictor plate racing.
@Reddaytonadog Yea but a race should not be defined as the final 25 laps being exiting. The whole race should be intersting. Just look at Pocono this year and Talladega last year they were quite boring until the last 10 to 15 laps to go, they should have been intersting the whole way through.
@3intimid8or Unlike last year at Talladega, Carl Edwards did the same thing Bobby Allison did 1987 and tore up the fence and Rocket Man Ryan Newman flipped all because the rear wing was on those cars. The use of restrictor plates reduced speeds, but back then no car could break away from one another. Talladega in 1991 was worse than those two and a massive crash took out several cars in 1973 and 1979. Pocono, on the other hand would have been exciting if Denny Hamlin didn't stink up the show.
Derrick Cope and Greg Sacks... 2 no-talent steering wheel holders. Cope had a huge fluke when he won the 500 but I don't Sacks ever showed much promise.
This makes the big one look like a fender bender, lmao. 1:25, the whole track was blocked, there's no way you're getting through that unless you just stop on the track. You can see Buddy Baker shit himself at 1;24, lol he just said "Oh shit...".Man, Sacks just singlehandledly took out 3/4ths of the field in less than 5 laps.
I wouldnt blame the wreck fully on Sacks. Derrike Cope was really getting on Sacks, and with Richard Petty down below, there just wasnt much room for Sacks to operate in.
They weren't sure about the terminology then, since the term "The Big One" wasn't used much until the late 90s (but nowadays used for all such crashes including in the old days).
Correct. "The Big One" started being used after these huge crashes became more commonplace at the restrictor plate tracks. However, the term "pile-up" was used quite often.
I was at this race. I was a few rows up at the start/finnish line. It was all smoke, I could'nt see any cars. We got pelted with debris & we could hear tires screetching, cars hitting each other. It wasnt till I got home that night & watched the video tape that I realized what had really happened. It was a hour & a half red flag.
I was looking through some of my grandpa's tapes from the early 90's last month, and I found this bargain bin tape of just ... crashes (boats, NASCAR, Funny Car, etc...) set to techno music, and this crash is on it. All I could think of was, "in this day in age, I can't imagine a Slim Fast car being in the races." And that's how I found this video, looking up who drove the ol' Slim Fast car.
That's what happens with an 18-year-old VHS recording :P.
Massive crash too... kinda cool how a guy went right through the middle. He was mentioned as Jimmy Horton in other comments here, and I'm not sure but was he a relief driver for one of the Waltrips that weekend?
You know, with an 18 year old VHS I would said to make it repair because... This kind of model start to be old and they still have a good look... And a VHS still useful sometime.
I remember this race. I was watching it live on ESPN when this happened. Yeah, Waltrip was out and Horton was driving for him. Waltrip broke his leg and was unable to drive. It was also the first time Waltrip won most popular driver of the year. Bill Elliot had that locked up for several years until '90.
Actually it was in 1989 when Elliott's streak broke, then Waltrip won "Most Popular" in 1989 and 1990, then Elliott went on another streak from 1991 to 2000, then won it again in 2002.
@joeyskierdrummer it's still just as exciting, but a lot of the fans of today are big crybabies about everything and to me that lowers the enjoyment of the sport than anything else that's going on. I like where the COT is headed in the next couple years. PS i know your comment is from 2 years ago, but figured I'd comment back anyway
Jimmy Horton in Waltrip's #17 just makes it through the wreck. Watch the replays for the bright orange car. He does get tagged in the door but keep on going. Good job of threading the needle.
Jimmy subbed for Darrell? How long? When? He's always remembered for that Talladega car crash that sent his car over the wall and outside the track and the car was nothing but a metal skeleton and he was covered in dirt.
Search for DW's Pepsi 400 practice crash, it was the day before this race. I think he was in it for a week or two. I bet DW's glad he missed the race. Horton's worst crash in the Arca race at Daytona a few years after his Dega wreck. That one finished his cup/arca career, he flipped and got drilled underneath the car. Again like the Dega wreck, wrong place at the wrong time.
"and were gonna have a terrific wreck here" haha thats great now a days its all boring the commentators just blab sayin oh thank god for safer barriers.
Sacks was slowed down considerably because NASCAR found an illegal part in his car. He was one of my favorite drivers and I would have loved to see him lead the first lap and get wrecked. But I guess you gotta play by the rules.
ummm sorry bro, this IS 1990, they had a Bigone in 1991 at Talladega, the 91 Pepsi 400 saw darrell waltrip flip, believe me this is the 1990 Pepsi 400
Horton was tapped to fill for Waltrip at Daytona and Pocono.
As a result of Waltrip's crash, NASCAR inspected Waltrip's car. Waltrip describes in his book,that the engine had a "floating block in the manifold that sat under the restrictor plate." This was not illegal, but it wasn't approved by NASCAR. NASCAR forced Hendrick and other teams to weld the blocks into place. This resulted in the pole car of Sacks being a sitting duck, which caused the big one at the end of the 1st lap.
Is there any way you can get the rst of the coverage of the red flag with the driver intrviews cause i would have liked to see what all those driver jerry punch had with him a the very end had to say. i love how you have this up this used to be my favorite race on tape but my parents accidently taped over it when i was a kid and lost the tape. do you have any other races from 1990 cause i would love to see maybe the winston 500 from that year at talladega
Would of worked out fine if not for good ol' Derrick Dope driving down and slamming into Sacks at the 1:15 mark. Sacks was damn loose in Turn 4 but had it gathered up until then. Guess Dope got too cocky from his lucky win at the 500 a few months earlier.
good video. I HATE when the camera moves from side-to-side. It bothers me so badly because you are looking at the inside wall of the car and not viewing whats outside.
it was ashame to see "The King" crash on the first lap he started the race in the first three rows (i forgot) but he qualified really well and everyone thought he had a chance to win the race but Gregg Sacks couldn't hold it in the tri-oval and took out 25 cars.
man did anybody else see how completely empty that place was for that race...they've been bitching that attendance the past few years was bad but that looked as though the grandstands immediately surrounding the start/finish line were good and full but that the rest of the place was pretty much dead...FANTASTICAL CRASH THOUGH..god i miss that kind of racing
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To save people time, here's what caused the crash: DW describes in his book that the engine had a "floating block in the manifold that sat under the restrictor plate." This wasn't illegal, but it wasn't approved by NASCAR. NASCAR forced Hendrick and other teams to weld the blocks into place. This resulted in the pole car of Greg Sacks being a sitting duck, which caused the big one seen here.
Busch22Fan 2 months ago
I was 6 when I saw this. First time I had ever watched a race and after the first lap crash, I was hooked for the next few years. Then Davey died followed by Irvan nearly dieing put me off watching religiously. In January 2001 I decided to try and keep up with the following season. Then the 500 took place... O_o
mahalaps3 3 months ago
Derrick Cope should have gave Greg Sacks some room instead of dropping down and getting Sacks loose and this would have never happened.
allstarchris1 4 months ago
@dthornton313 Wasn't fatal, wasn't 1990. A simple wikipedia search can help you
blackjack21211 5 months ago
First off GREAT Pass by Dale in the beginning, but that Crash made it his race to lose.
AngryGundamGamer 6 months ago
Involved in crash: Sacks, Petty, P. Parsons, Allison, Cope, B. Bodine, G. Bodine, Horton, Martin, Alexander, Foyt, Shephard, and Baker.
MCJimmie48 7 months ago
THAT SHOULD BE THE LARGEST NASCAR CRASH IN HISTORY!
TheReturnoflee 7 months ago
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dansing763 8 months ago
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dansing763 8 months ago
WHO THE F*CK WAS THE ORANGE CAR? God damn, thats luck.
MidniteHaze1 8 months ago
@MidniteHaze1 I think it was Darrell Waltrip in the 17 Tide Chevy.
MonacoLager1 8 months ago
@MonacoLager1 Jimmy Horton was in the 17 that day. DW was hurt in a practice crash.
blackjack21211 5 months ago
@MonacoLager1 No it isnt. DW was hurt in practice. Im pretty sure they mention it during the video.
blackjack21211 5 months ago
I saw 6 cars ahead of the wreck, 5 beside the wreck, and 2 cars that made it through. Big crash.
MidniteHaze1 8 months ago
Was that Jimmy Horton at 1:28 in the Orange Car speeding through?
ToroRosso20 9 months ago
How did Jimmy Spencer get through that?
Porygonseizureman 10 months ago
Derricke Cope was the Robby Gordon of his day.
Mrpracticaltactical 11 months ago
@Mrpracticaltactical More like Ward Burton or Michael Waltrip.
Porygonseizureman 10 months ago
1:28 ARCA brakes!!
mailmeonline 11 months ago
NASCAR sucks now, to corporate now
dw1985 1 year ago
Wow, look at those stands. They're small and half empty!
Willby2 1 year ago
Had to be a great race with about 15 people still on pace.
TrueDarkHadou 1 year ago
ricky bobby help im on FIREEE
HilaryHaylieRocks08 1 year ago
i don't think that one guy likes the guy in the middle
storm24awesome 1 year ago
IMO, Petty shouldn't have pushed the 3 wide on the 1st lap but at least he gave plenty of room. This is totally Derrike Cope's fault, he pinned the hell out of Sacks, Greg was an innocent bystander. Cope gave entirely no room whatsoever, no patients, goes to show how much of a fail Cope is
pepsibottleq 1 year ago
petty was on it...sacks was stupid and took petty with him. and several millon dollars worth of race cars were wiped out. thats why sacks suck sacks
twofastnWV 1 year ago
@twofastnWV Sacks does suck, but Cope CLEARLY caused that accident by pinching in and side swiping Sacks.
snappy452 1 year ago
Surprised wrecks don't happen more often exiting the tri-oval.
dolphinmagic24fan 1 year ago
Why was Jimmy Horton driving Darrel Waltrip's car? Was he injured previously?
RyDogRidesTheBus 1 year ago
@RyDogRidesTheBus During a practice session, Darrell Waltrip spun coming off of turn 4 on to the tri-oval. His Tide Chevrolet stopped in the middle of the track and Dave Marcis T-boned Waltrip on the driver's side, the most vulnerable place for a driver to take an impact as evident during the legends race at Bristol between Larry Pearson and Charlie Glotzbach. As a result, Waltrip suffered a broken leg, two broken arms, and possibly rib injuries and would not have been able to run the Pepsi 400.
Reddaytonadog 1 year ago
@Reddaytonadog m'kay
RyDogRidesTheBus 1 year ago
These guys really don't know the meaning of the word patience. At least wait until the race got under way and then go crazy. A product of restrictor plate racing since 1988, nobody can get away from each other and this is the result. One wrong move and everything goes blooey, literally. This is an example of drivers making mistakes or getting in the wrong line. A true product of restrictor plate racing.
Reddaytonadog 1 year ago
These guys really don't know the meaning of the word patience. At least wait until the race got under way and then go crazy. A product of restrictor plate racing since 1988, nobody can get away from each other and this is the result. One wrong move and everything goes blooey, literally. This is an example of drivers making mistakes or getting in the wrong line. A true product of restrictor plate racing.
Reddaytonadog 1 year ago
@Reddaytonadog Yea but a race should not be defined as the final 25 laps being exiting. The whole race should be intersting. Just look at Pocono this year and Talladega last year they were quite boring until the last 10 to 15 laps to go, they should have been intersting the whole way through.
3intimid8or 1 year ago
@3intimid8or Unlike last year at Talladega, Carl Edwards did the same thing Bobby Allison did 1987 and tore up the fence and Rocket Man Ryan Newman flipped all because the rear wing was on those cars. The use of restrictor plates reduced speeds, but back then no car could break away from one another. Talladega in 1991 was worse than those two and a massive crash took out several cars in 1973 and 1979. Pocono, on the other hand would have been exciting if Denny Hamlin didn't stink up the show.
Reddaytonadog 1 year ago
how many cars were involved
evan06kirk 1 year ago
Derrick Cope and Greg Sacks... 2 no-talent steering wheel holders. Cope had a huge fluke when he won the 500 but I don't Sacks ever showed much promise.
bigreddrummer99 1 year ago
#17 is darrrel waltrip
jjjones64 1 year ago
@jjjones64 He was hurt in practice. DId any of you watch the video?
blackjack21211 5 months ago
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nascar is gay!!!
matthewisstrange 2 years ago
@matthewisstrange
it aint as gay as you cocksucker, if you think its gay why r u watching it then
dimerules88 2 years ago
matthewisstrange got owned
Chihuahuaman2 1 year ago
who was that orange-ish car at 0:53 that flew through the accident, was that Jimmy Horton in the 17 they mentioned later??
unbelievable shot from Bakers car in the accident!
wildbeemer 2 years ago
Ahh, restrictor plates....
Blamed1 2 years ago
Wow!! That is the largest crash I've ever seen. Thank you for posting this.
Derby14 2 years ago
there was like, only 10 people in the stands
bucknut248 2 years ago
brutal
chickasmith 2 years ago
That's real Nascar
tomateiro 2 years ago 13
@tomateiro ok so real nascar is having everyone wrecking on the first lap and having 10 cars left to run the other 159 laps.....?
H3RL 1 year ago
@tomateiro UR an idiot!!! So real NASCAR is a bunch of fucking cars crashing???
xJohnx228x 7 months ago
@xJohnx228x Not telling about the crash, but the whole nascar at that era.
tomateiro 7 months ago
Wow I cant believe that alot of cars got in a wreck like this.
bboxman2049 2 years ago
I remember this race. Dale R.I.P.
gaotu 2 years ago
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This makes the big one look like a fender bender, lmao. 1:25, the whole track was blocked, there's no way you're getting through that unless you just stop on the track. You can see Buddy Baker shit himself at 1;24, lol he just said "Oh shit...".Man, Sacks just singlehandledly took out 3/4ths of the field in less than 5 laps.
Here's your sign..
pepsibottleq 2 years ago
5:24, oops
pepsibottleq 2 years ago
I wouldnt blame the wreck fully on Sacks. Derrike Cope was really getting on Sacks, and with Richard Petty down below, there just wasnt much room for Sacks to operate in.
PYLrulz1984 2 years ago
Well done petty... wreck the whole field on the first lap
tubeyou443 2 years ago
Yea petty wreaked the field, considering sacks is the one who didn't have the ability to race 3 wide.
ImEastonianBitch 2 years ago
To n0vaca1n3: opps
Montoya42Fan 2 years ago
nascars awsume
Thisisroto 2 years ago
The term "The Big One," was first used in 2000 in a forum, and first used on air in the 2001 Daytona 500 when Tony Stewart flips by Darrell Waltrip.
Montoya42Fan 2 years ago
No, Bob Jenkins used it in 1998 at Talladega.
n0vaca1n3 2 years ago
1:15 what a dumbass.
DBHT1D 2 years ago 2
that is more like a BIG ASS one LOL
joeluvshynas 2 years ago 2
Great Vid Steve, some guys plowed through there ARCA Style
dolphinmagic24fan 2 years ago 2
3:00
lee5866 2 years ago
man petty had somthing to proove that day 2
snowddoogg 3 years ago
i'm pretty sure mohawk1020
evan06kirk 3 years ago
a terrific crash LOL
rob24fan 3 years ago
They weren't sure about the terminology then, since the term "The Big One" wasn't used much until the late 90s (but nowadays used for all such crashes including in the old days).
itsalleternal 2 years ago
Correct. "The Big One" started being used after these huge crashes became more commonplace at the restrictor plate tracks. However, the term "pile-up" was used quite often.
lpdoby 2 years ago 2
i never knew they used to run that race in the morning, i wish they still did that
robrulz23 3 years ago 4
@robrulz23
Night is better IMO.
dolphinmagic24fan 1 year ago
@robrulz23 Well with fans on the west coast watching that would kinda hard to get the ratings up.
AngryGundamGamer 6 months ago
thats where dale won the race
wvsd1966 3 years ago
1:28 did he actualy make it through?
mohawk1020 3 years ago 2
that was horton wasnt it?
kingofrunescapepking 2 years ago
hahaha half the drivers going through probably closed their eyes,punched it, and braced them self for impact
lintels123 3 years ago 3
I was at this race. I was a few rows up at the start/finnish line. It was all smoke, I could'nt see any cars. We got pelted with debris & we could hear tires screetching, cars hitting each other. It wasnt till I got home that night & watched the video tape that I realized what had really happened. It was a hour & a half red flag.
KevinFL 3 years ago
Friggin retards!
MVPVDO 3 years ago
Does anybody know if mark martin was in the wreck
Cosby2004 3 years ago
BIGGER one.
mightycowhero 3 years ago
lol love how people just floored it through the wreck
floppyfish24 3 years ago 2
LOL ohhh a terrfiic crash!!! LOL
18carNASCAR 3 years ago
"come on king wat r u doin down there??
TheUBFunkeys 3 years ago
oh god i cant hear da commentary very well
TheUBFunkeys 3 years ago
LOL Terrific Crash.
ToroRosso20 3 years ago 3
omg big crash, derrike cope, the defending daytona 500 winner from that year, tapped greg sacks and got loose.
tehdragonz 3 years ago
holy hell i dont think i ever saw this before.
e521soediv 3 years ago
Greg Sacks loose going 3 wide...
MacedoMS 3 years ago
Looked like Cope tapped him
pepsibottleq 3 years ago
Derrike cope is my dads cousin....i have never met him though.I wish i could though that would be cool.
rmmc4life 3 years ago
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@rmmc4life no he isnt.
blackjack21211 5 months ago
I was at this race, but I had never seen the crash on TV. I was sitting in turn 4 and only saw smoke. Thanks for posting this.
texn14 3 years ago
that looked like the daytona crash on days of thunder
ssidepei 3 years ago 3
Which came out ten days prior to this lol
freshgeek89 3 years ago 3
Is it just me or does this wreck remind you of that wreck in the begining of Cars? Maybe they did it on purpose
theryanstorm 3 years ago
is it jus me or are there less crashes with the COT?
codyy123 3 years ago 2
what do you mean? the cot is only in its first full season. of course there are less crashes there have only been like 30 races total so far.
jrfan07 3 years ago
I was looking through some of my grandpa's tapes from the early 90's last month, and I found this bargain bin tape of just ... crashes (boats, NASCAR, Funny Car, etc...) set to techno music, and this crash is on it. All I could think of was, "in this day in age, I can't imagine a Slim Fast car being in the races." And that's how I found this video, looking up who drove the ol' Slim Fast car.
mst3kanita 3 years ago
Big D, Dale Earnhardt leads as usual, GO DALE!!!
ilovetogofast88 3 years ago
derick cope aka derick dope
snowddoogg 3 years ago
What irony.
Derrick Cope wins the Daytona 500 that year, only to barely complete a lap in the other race there in July.
chrisuncleahmad 3 years ago
Whoa.
willybnms 3 years ago
Holy shit, what a crash.
n0vaca1n3 3 years ago
read the book "DW". it's an autobiography, and it mentions this crash.
joeyskierdrummer 3 years ago
DAMN How many cars were involved?!?!?!? And look at all that smoke at 2:27!!!!
Monkeyball480 3 years ago
24 cars were involved in this crash
racingformusic 3 years ago
Boy the sound... The sound is bad... Luckily, I got a mute somewhere...
therrydicule 4 years ago
That's what happens with an 18-year-old VHS recording :P.
Massive crash too... kinda cool how a guy went right through the middle. He was mentioned as Jimmy Horton in other comments here, and I'm not sure but was he a relief driver for one of the Waltrips that weekend?
1GeeProductions1 3 years ago
You know, with an 18 year old VHS I would said to make it repair because... This kind of model start to be old and they still have a good look... And a VHS still useful sometime.
therrydicule 3 years ago
I still use VHS :)
1GeeProductions1 3 years ago
I remember this race. I was watching it live on ESPN when this happened. Yeah, Waltrip was out and Horton was driving for him. Waltrip broke his leg and was unable to drive. It was also the first time Waltrip won most popular driver of the year. Bill Elliot had that locked up for several years until '90.
kposton123 4 years ago
Actually it was in 1989 when Elliott's streak broke, then Waltrip won "Most Popular" in 1989 and 1990, then Elliott went on another streak from 1991 to 2000, then won it again in 2002.
racingformusic 4 years ago
i wish nascar was still like this today - exciting!
joeyskierdrummer 3 years ago 12
DANGEROUS!!!
ekmad 3 years ago
@joeyskierdrummer it's still just as exciting, but a lot of the fans of today are big crybabies about everything and to me that lowers the enjoyment of the sport than anything else that's going on. I like where the COT is headed in the next couple years. PS i know your comment is from 2 years ago, but figured I'd comment back anyway
erasetoimprove 1 year ago
Rob Moroso's best finish
jmoney11 4 years ago 4
is Joe Ruttman invilod in this accident
jmoney11 4 years ago
he wasnt in the race
battalionfan888 4 years ago
You can see Jimmy Horton has damage on the door in Darell Waltrip's car in the Tide car
jmoney11 4 years ago
Jimmy Horton in Waltrip's #17 just makes it through the wreck. Watch the replays for the bright orange car. He does get tagged in the door but keep on going. Good job of threading the needle.
raceway24 4 years ago 2
Jimmy subbed for Darrell? How long? When? He's always remembered for that Talladega car crash that sent his car over the wall and outside the track and the car was nothing but a metal skeleton and he was covered in dirt.
vidEvWill 4 years ago
Search for DW's Pepsi 400 practice crash, it was the day before this race. I think he was in it for a week or two. I bet DW's glad he missed the race. Horton's worst crash in the Arca race at Daytona a few years after his Dega wreck. That one finished his cup/arca career, he flipped and got drilled underneath the car. Again like the Dega wreck, wrong place at the wrong time.
mintedllama 4 years ago
Yes, some South African filled in for Waltrip at Watkins Glen as well.
IllinoisHighwayMan 3 years ago
Err, I mean Horton's wreck at Atlanta, not Daytona.
mintedllama 3 years ago
who was the bulls eye car?
jmoney11 4 years ago
chad little
puttyjr666 4 years ago
how many were in this crash?
timlinisabeast 4 years ago
bout 20
puttyjr666 4 years ago
24.
thebiff16 4 years ago
the sound sucks
nascarman1 4 years ago
The sound sucks today anyway, I take this one. I wasn't even born yet when this happened! Classic!
BengtsonJ 4 years ago
"and were gonna have a terrific wreck here" haha thats great now a days its all boring the commentators just blab sayin oh thank god for safer barriers.
ruxer24 4 years ago 3
I love the Daytona and talladega Races!! And also the big ones!!
Johnsonfan45 4 years ago
DEMOLITION DERBY!
zzfan1 4 years ago 2
I remember when Kyle was awesome, Richard still raced, and The Intimidator was alive.
zzfan1 4 years ago 8
Those were the days. :)
bicostp 4 years ago 3
did you see that guy go right through the middle?
geetarbass 4 years ago 7
holy shit that was cool!
lolinternets1 4 years ago 6
Take a look at the junkyard!
ejs1978 4 years ago 2
that was Jimmy Hornton.
lolinternets1 4 years ago 2
That wreck looks like it was the fault of Derricke Cope. That just looked like too much bumping and banging.
PYLrulz1984 4 years ago
Look at the front of Petty's car before the wreck. Looks like the COT doesn't it?
straightj23 4 years ago
more like the car of yesterday
evilwatermelon 4 years ago 2
wow. Was that the first "BIG ONE"
jediredneck 4 years ago
no they had them before this, they just werent as frequent
battalionfan888 4 years ago
Sacks was slowed down considerably because NASCAR found an illegal part in his car. He was one of my favorite drivers and I would have loved to see him lead the first lap and get wrecked. But I guess you gotta play by the rules.
meatmarket 4 years ago
I've been waiting for this Nascar clip, thanks battalionfan888, You Rule!
racingformusic 4 years ago
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uh correction this is the 1991 crash my mom was there
nascarfan48and29 4 years ago
ummm sorry bro, this IS 1990, they had a Bigone in 1991 at Talladega, the 91 Pepsi 400 saw darrell waltrip flip, believe me this is the 1990 Pepsi 400
battalionfan888 4 years ago
According to Wikipedia, this is the 1990 Pepsi 400.
StingrayZO6427 4 years ago
Horton was tapped to fill for Waltrip at Daytona and Pocono.
As a result of Waltrip's crash, NASCAR inspected Waltrip's car. Waltrip describes in his book,that the engine had a "floating block in the manifold that sat under the restrictor plate." This was not illegal, but it wasn't approved by NASCAR. NASCAR forced Hendrick and other teams to weld the blocks into place. This resulted in the pole car of Sacks being a sitting duck, which caused the big one at the end of the 1st lap.
StingrayZO6427 4 years ago
You're an idiot, it was 1990.
wolves16 3 years ago
@nascarfan48and29 Fail
blackjack21211 5 months ago
how many cars finished this race?
biglowrida22490 4 years ago
I'll never forget that. "Come on King, whata ya doing down there" BP :) always remember, still have this race on tape(vhs).
dat6mail 4 years ago 3
Is there any way you can get the rst of the coverage of the red flag with the driver intrviews cause i would have liked to see what all those driver jerry punch had with him a the very end had to say. i love how you have this up this used to be my favorite race on tape but my parents accidently taped over it when i was a kid and lost the tape. do you have any other races from 1990 cause i would love to see maybe the winston 500 from that year at talladega
rclpre85 4 years ago
ill see what i can do bout the interviews, but as for other races this and the Daytona 500 are the only races i have from 1990 :(
battalionfan888 4 years ago
How many cars came out of that one undamaged?
ShyteKreek46 4 years ago
bout 15-20
battalionfan888 4 years ago
Would of worked out fine if not for good ol' Derrick Dope driving down and slamming into Sacks at the 1:15 mark. Sacks was damn loose in Turn 4 but had it gathered up until then. Guess Dope got too cocky from his lucky win at the 500 a few months earlier.
DoucheBagalow 4 years ago
why did the race start so early and why were there like no one sittin down in turn one?
JRracing0116 4 years ago
it started so early because they wanted to avoid the afternoon heat that daytona gets, as for the lack of a crowd, not sure
battalionfan888 4 years ago
If I recall, wasn't the race rained out on Sunday and run at 11am on Monday?
DoucheBagalow 4 years ago
The race was run on a Saturday as originally scheduled.
IllinoisHighwayMan 4 years ago
good video. I HATE when the camera moves from side-to-side. It bothers me so badly because you are looking at the inside wall of the car and not viewing whats outside.
joe24chevy 4 years ago
Thanks for posting this. Love that in-car shot of Chad Little losing his sh*t at the end lol. I miss that over the shoulder angle.
mdhsyracuse 4 years ago
it was ashame to see "The King" crash on the first lap he started the race in the first three rows (i forgot) but he qualified really well and everyone thought he had a chance to win the race but Gregg Sacks couldn't hold it in the tri-oval and took out 25 cars.
allstarchris1 4 years ago
I remember seeing this long ago. The Tide Car comes FLYING through that pile-up!
toomuchtoomuch 4 years ago
great stuff, my vhs tape of this race was eaten by the player ;(
JIAFFI 4 years ago
it was a not non-points event the winston in '01; great vid here i have never seen it b4
smarti20067 4 years ago