Rusty Wallace's 1983 Daytona Flip

In one of the qualifying races for the Daytona 500, Rusty gets tapped from behind. While spinning onto the backstretch grass, air gets under the car and sends it tumbling wildly before coming to a stop on its wheels.

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[OldSchoolNascar]

very bad day. 2 flips. 1 fatal.

R.I.P. Bruce Jacobi

[e521soediv]

loved that old big ass daytona leaderboard

[racefan32]

@BTBattlefronTV he was the worst

[BTBattlefronTV]

@JACOBACKLEY1997 David Hobbs.

[JACOBACKLEY1997]

who is the british commentator

[Porygonseizureman]

@Jnmcda0 Clint Bowyer finished upside-down and Jimmy Spencer finished a race after going in the air.

[jazzbo1974]

Sad to say that slick is one of many to have been killed at daytona ....

[skaterelement1000]

damn look how old that is thas krazy

[LetMrAL1]

I would love to get digitally remastered DVD's of every single Nascar Cup series only races in 1983 (The year I was born lol)

[BSNFabricating]

@freshgeek89

If I remember right he DID win the Bud Shootout in 1998...but he never won a points-counting race at a plate track. Anyway, this was a few years before the plates...

[erasetoimprove]

@wwetnaecw he had a few years in the late 90s where he had one of the cars to beat at Daytona, just never could get the win

[supahdadd]

This was 1983 - pe-restrictor plate days. Cars were hitting well over 200 mph in those days; Elliott qualified on the pole at Daytona in '85 at over 210 and at Talladega at over 212 mph. Rusty was just never very good - or lucky - at Daytona and Talladega.