Now that’s seat of your pants racing. I really enjoyed that.

Back from the days of run-what-ya-brung. Wrench, race, wreck, repeat. Thanks for sharing, Jen.

the old school nascar racing was good but now what is the point on going around in a circle over and over its just GAY…GAY

Thank YOU a lot for this video. Its best racing-video I viewed!!!!! It was THE racing ant it were THE cars… I am hurt, it will never be same again…

Dufik.

Improvements in racing safety came up from many lessons learned in accidents through the years. Too many to mention here. But hey, the excitement level has been the same ever since. Great vid, Jen.

WOW… WOW… they were real cars. real turn signals and bezels to be knocked off when contact is made with the wall… no crumple zones (other than the driver’s bodies)… actual doors on the cars although welded shut so that they wouldn’t become flying debris and to shave weight from these massive beasts… no fire suits… no simple oval track… noticeably fewer and more rudimentary barriers… brakes that FAIL…
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A lot has happened in 43 years. I’ve gone from newborn to over-the-hill and NASCAR has evolved into something completely different. Not a matter of better or worse, simply a matter of inevitability… for both NASCAR and myself.

That way better than today
Its so cool how even if they go off the track they keep going like if nothing

That must have been exhausting driving those boats like that. And to think, some fo the current drivers complain about driving the road courses…

thats very cool, but very dangerous too… and it looks like drift gp

That is fun to watch – I could really get into a NASCAR race that looked like that. Its nice that the drivers are in much less danger these days, but danger makes things exciting!

What are those guys wearing, by the way? I’d be more surprised that those guys are dressed to race cars than if they showed up to paint my house in those white jumpsuits.