Talladega Bill Elliott 1985

In 1985, Bill Elliott makes up two laps under green and wins at 'Dega.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Nascar

[mtdewandal]

That was when NASCAR was worth watching.

[pittsky]

Brought a tear to my eye.

[svo65]

was it legal? bull shit, nascar would have loved to park that damn car but it was legal all year, nascar changed the rules so many times because of one car. that why nascar sucks. bill was the man and never received his due from nascar. that was the most incredible car in nascar history because no other car ever made nascar change the rules so much. go bill!

[lenoirwrestlingfan]

@aquariex24...I disagree, Gordon waxed everybody in '98. Bill waxed everybody in '85...same difference. Also, the only serious competitor Gordon had for most of '98 was Mark Martin...just as Bill's only serious competitor for the bulk of 1985 was Darrell Waltrip. For what that's worth, I'll take Darrell over Mark any day. That Talladega race included Darrell Waltrip, Cale Yarborough, Richard Petty, Bobby Allison...just to name a few...a weak and non-competive field, it was not.

[aquariex24]

@lenoirwrestlingfan That's good but don't forget racing 13 years later it was way more competitive and harder to win than it was during Elliot's prime. Just as it's more competitive and harder to win now than it was when Gordon won those 13. I mean the simple fact that Elliot was actually able to come back from 2 full laps down and win shows you how unfair the level of competition was back then.

[lenoirwrestlingfan]

@lenoirwrestlingfan sorry for typing errors...that and than

[lenoirwrestlingfan]

@aquariex24 ...gordon won 13...out of 33, Bill won 11...out of 28. It's more tahn reasonable to say that had NASCAR had the same bloated schedule taht they have now...BIll would have won a total of 13 or 14...Bill was almost unbeatable at the big tracks then, and there are way more big tracks now...and there were more big tracks in '98 tahn '85.

[lenoirwrestlingfan]

With all due respect to Dale Earnhardt, this should have been #1 on that list...amazing. I was not quite 5 years old that day, but I vaguely remember parts of that race. My bias is on the table.  I'm a Bill Elliott fan and have been since...you guessed it...1985. That was the greatest race anybody ever run anywhere, period...hope to watch the whole thing again sometime.

[aquariex24]

"They were unbeatable. I've never seen anything like it." Because he forgot about Jeff Gordon winning 13 races in 1998 (that's about 1 out of 3 folks). Forget that though, what Tony Stewart did during the Chase last year was ridiculous.

[pittsky]

Fasted race car in history.

[PennyWisee14]

God i loved Elliot, Fuck Earnhardt