Classic Full Race Replay: 1981 Carolina 500 at Rockingham
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- Relive the NASCAR Cup Series race from Rockingham in the spring of 1981 that saw Darrell Waltrip win driving the No. 11 for Junior Johnson.
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Bob Jenkins’ first NASCAR race he ever called on TV. Something he did for 19 years, and now he’s not with us no more 😔🙏🏻🏁 R.I.P. Bob.
On a Sunday afternoon at Rockingham in 1981, the magic began.
But today, Jerry Nadeau wins the final race on ESPN!
@@toyotafan7881 no, Kevin Harvick did.
@@racermac1988 I was referring to 2000 Napa 500
@@racermac1988 14 Years Later
Boogity, boogity, boogity
Ok NASCAR it's time to go back to Rockingham next year please we need more short tracks.
North Wilkesboro South Boston Nazareth and Milwaukee Mile
Rockingham isn't a short track though
@@evannuh-koo-la4054 But Nashville is
With 500 miles, not this 300 or 400 BS!!!!
@@evannuh-koo-la4054 Close enough. It's about the same as Phoenix only banked.
Bring this track back! I'd love to see my, and many other's home track return!
Now this is what I'm talking about NASCAR! This is what we all want to see more of.
Nashville, The Rock and North Wilks need to come back asap. And also build a couple more under 1 mile tracks!!!!!! Also get rid of stages, playoffs and green white checkered.
Eric Weatherholtz Nashville’s my home track. I’d buy a ticket to every race I could afford to
I remember going there with my dad as a kid in the early 90s. We'd camp there with his friends, line up the campers and basically spend the night at the track. I remember waking up in the morning and playing around outside while the cars did the early pre-race practice and/or qualifying, before the fans showed up. I miss it. Waking up to an empty track with the only noise you can hear for miles is the sound of stock cars running on the track one-by-one is something special I don't think anyone is allowed to experience unless they're on the pit crew or TV crew.
1st, Sorry for my bad english.
Its a real pleasure to have these "vintage" videos. Thats REAL Nascar !!!
I am afraid about the next season rules. I heard about many changes for 2021 like 1 central nut instead 5. and more.
For my french point of view, the Nascar will lose slowly what it's interesting for. It will look more and more like the Australian V8 supercar. Not too bad but its not Nascar.
Forgot that Eli Gold did color alongside Bob Jenkins for ESPN NASCAR race #1
This is so freaking awesome OLD SCHOOL
If I'm not mistaken this also marks ESPN's first ever NASCAR (and possibly racing) broadcast.
Not racing. They had aired USAC racing, Indycars, and go karts by 1981.
It's first live flag to flag broadcast was on Sunday November 8,1981 with Atlanta Journal 500
@@joshuadodginsatgoogle4116 which in a weird sub-note I believe was the only race Mike Joy ever called for the network!
@@stevenkilsdonk2046 F1 IndyCar Usac Asa And Little Bit of Nhra
ESPN's first telecast of NASCAR! What a damn surprises!
Bob Jenkins and Dr. Jerry Punch were always there
jd mcduffie my hero
Darrell Waltrip wins the first NASCAR race on ESPN in 1981.
Kevin Harvick wins the final race on ESPN in 2014.
Hi
Whatup
If there is ANY NASCAR Cup Series races from 1981 that need to be posted on this NASCAR channel, the 1981 Gabriel 400 and the 1981 Champion Spark Plug 400 are the ones!!! Both races took place at Michigan International Speedway that year. The 1981 Gabriel 400 had 50 lead changes in the event, but the 1981 Champion Spark Plug 400 had an astounding 65 lead changes!!! Both races absolutely have to be posted on this channel!!!!
I really hope nascar is working on bringing back rockingham hopefully within the next year or two. I wanna see these drivers nowadays showcase their talents more and a track like this would definitely make them be able to do that.
Love those Buick Regals! Window nets optional, no pit road speed, Classic!
Third Gear Speed Shop why is optional window nets good?
And put road speed is safer for the pit crew members
@@bigfuckingcheese I didn't say it was good, it's just cool to see the old stuff and see how the sport has evolved.
please let this be a sign
Wow the quality of this is amazing! Please upload more of these early ESPN races if you can. They are fun to watch but the quality hasn't been the best on some of them. The Jody Ridley won race definitely needs a HD master.
Darrell Waltrip was the Man (1981-82) You didn't want to Fuck with him he won 24 Races in his 2 consecutive Championships
Driving the "company car" with blatant cheating never being stopped by nascar. Bobby Allison still talks about it today. Top gm team was the France family company car with Jr., RCR, Hendrick always getting special treatment. And it has hurt nascar's reputation too. Look at the loss of interest in nascar now.
I'd rather watch these ol' races from the 80s than what they turned it into today, with all these kids that still live at home with mama (referring to the "top 3" NASCAR divisions) that are considered the world's best ???????
I spend a lot more time watching INDY Car and NHRA nowadays. F1 pulling for the Haas team too.
Back to this... I miss the 80s so much, last year I bought the complete years of Stock Car Racing Magazine (80 & 81) just to relive the transition from the "old" cars to the new "downsized " Cup cars.
So fascinating to read what they wrote back then. I was 13 and couldn't get enough of it. Paper route money going to the newsstand to but SCR and Grand National Scene.
Good times!!!
NoEZRider ok
This was a surprise. Good on you NASCAR. Come back to the Rock. This was a very entertaining and high quality race.
Nascar, good night! I'm from Brazil and I'm a big fan of your races, I watch you on UA-cam for 5 years I would like to watch the 2020 season but your videos of the complete races are not unlocked for my country, I would like you to release the videos so that I can continue to follow you guys, thank you for your attention and good afternoon.
VPN is your answer for your problem.
Thanks for uploading these great classic races NASCAR!!
Rebuild and reopen Rockingham! We need more unique and classic tracks, not 1.5 mile cookie cutters.
Thank you NASCAR for uploading these classic races
the quality of this video is ridiculously good.
Please upload ever race you have. Keep them coming till you run out.
A Mazda RX-7 as the pace car. That’s certainly something you wouldn’t see today
Bring it back!
I saw some articles a while back saying that Nascar was in talks to bring back The Rock. Is this a sign that said talks were successful?
The new drivers couldn't handle the pressure this track holds
Never saw those races - great to see them
1981 Carolina 500 at North Carolina motor speedway in Rockingham North Carolina won by Darrell Waltrip number 11 Mountain Dew Buick Regal brand new generation 3 car 110 inch wheelbase replace large taxi cab 115 inch wheelbase generation 2 car also the very first ESPN speedworld NASCAR telecast with Bob Jenkins and Eli Gold really awesome race
Cool cool, let’s get The Rock back on the schedule now....
Please NASCAR please bring Rockingham back!?
I hope the rockingham restoration finish shortly
Young investors from Raleigh, North Carolina bought the track a few years ago. They had the track looking good. When the Rock Concert Carolina Rebellion came to the track in 2019, those investors lost over $3 million because it was poorly planned. Since then, nothing has happened at the track. Nothing has been posted on the track’s social media accounts in over a year.
What a great track left to rot same with northwilkesboro damn shame. Now we have places like Texas and Chicagoland land or Vegas instead yawn.
I am 1 of 1 of all NASCAR fans that never liked Richard Petty. I started watching races at 3 years old who's was in 1987. My first race was the 1987 The Winston. I still remember seeing Dale turn himself off the front bumper of Bill Elliott and go into the grass and come still with the race car intact. But more impressively to me was, HE STILL HAD THE LEAD! Obviously Bill could have passed Dale by staying on the throttle when Dale went into the grass and go around him possibly on the outside of turn 1. After that, it was no holds barred racing from both driver's. Dale won't letting Bill by, and Bill tried to spin Dale out without it looking to obvious. Then I felt the tire after deciding to go after Dale of turn 4 on lap 9 of 10.
Cale was the man at this time in racing. Watch him lay his head against the window net when in the corners.
NASCAR does a lot of things wrong, but uploading old races and being lax about others uploading old races is a good move. Other sports should take note.
Had bleachers on the backstretch!! Place was packed
Another fantastic upload. Thanks NASCAR.
I have nothing against NASCAR cars and security of nowadays, I prefer to watch a safe race, my complaints are the rules, my gosh the Playoff s an insult to racing... look at this race, they are amazing, no bullshit, no show, everything is beautiful.
i say put lights and move the sll star race to THE ROCK
You look back at these old races and knowing what we know today you have to think that everyone in the cars and in the pits were just plain nuts.
Pit procedures look almost alien
High speed entry, nearly full throttle exit, no fire suits or helmets, over the wall long before the car is even near the pit box, fueling the car sideways outside the box blocking the whole pit lane because the driver came in hot and spun
Just plain crazy
AND that's why Nascar isn't what it used to be. Took away the mystique and danger, put everybody in a "plastic bubble" with rubber walls, in "IROC" cars, BS cautions, competition cautions and stages, to keep all the cars on the lead lap, and call it the most competitive it's ever been. ??????
Well, they lost me as a fan. That's why I'm here. I'll take any of these old races any day. Been done with what crap they turned it into. Won't go into the difference of men, and little boys or the "attitude" era that began in 2001 (Kurt Busch) that respect for the sport, it's history and predecessors went out the window.
A damn clown show today. Sooo glad I got experience THIS Nascar as a kid. Couldn't get enough. So glad to re-live it though UA-cam.
@@sbmcvp4525 I agree. And I just have to point out - the "exciting finish" the announcer talked about at the end, would never have happened if they had thrown a BS "debris caution" like the same idiot ESPN announcer had asked for a few minutes earlier. Thankfully NASCAR didn't do that back in 1981.
Instead we had the uncertainty and nail biting over whether Petty had enough fuel (turns out he didn't), and several cars racing through their last minute pit stops, one of them sliding sideways and losing time as a result. A race track is for racing, and for people who know what they're doing when they decide to step out on the pavement. The race played itself out naturally and the result felt legitimate and satisfying.
Today it would all be very orderly, safe, predictable, and boring, followed by a gimmicky finish that insults the viewer's intelligence.
Every generation wants to bang the safety drum louder than the one before it. Unfortunately there comes a point where the sport becomes more of a parade than a competition, and as less people bother to watch, the danger that still remains has become pointless.
People often marvel about participants in dangerous endeavors of the past. It comes from passion. People had more fulfillment and enthusiasm for those activities when the events had more notoriety, uncertainty, and entertainment value.
There is a middle ground somewhere, and modern racing has overshot it.
Nascar go back to racing at the Rock
NASCAR on ESPN debut.
Please ... Remake Daytona 1981, 1982, 1983 e 1984 !!! 🙏🇧🇷
The good old days, drivers had nuts & guts, little prize money or sponsorship, they loved it !
Little sponsorship? Every car in this field was sponsored, a lot of them by major corporations.
Collin McNaught Lowe’s , Home Depot , Pfizer , Goodwrench, Coors Light , Budweiser , all gone , Big Sponsors with deep pockets are spending advertisement money elsewhere !
Clint Studt why is the lack of sponsorship an inherently “good” thing?
Big Cheese I wasn’t implying it was , just making the point there was not a lot of money in it then , they loved the sport ,
There most certainly was "big money" involved in NASCAR at this time... That trend actually started in the mid 70s and accelerated in the late 70s into the early 80s... And that trend only continued to escalate from this time frame going forward.
Looking at race winnings from the races on the driver's racing page information page tells the story... At first the money increased a lot at Daytona, Charlotte and Talladega... That phenomena explained why some drivers in the late 70s through the mid 80s ran partial schedules... Benny Parsons, David Pearson, Cale Yarborough all ran partial schedules to win the bigger money events from that time period... It was also the last time period from the late 70s through the mid 80s where a partial schedule driver would ever win any races... By the late 1980s going forward only full time driver's won on the NASCAR race schedule. Eventually even shorter tracks like Richmond, Bristol and North Wilkesboro started paying good money to win by the late 1980s and early 1990s...
The problem in my opinion is that NASCAR became way too much like big government... Getting way too involved in rules making and trying to make everything so "equal"... This led to the teams having to spend more and more money into finding ways to make more speed in smaller and smaller increments/ways... That's .. what got things very expensive... Spending HUGE money into parts like the heads or exhaust system, wind tunnel aerodynamic testing etc etc... Plus the teams got bigger and bigger with specialized "pit crews" who just pitted the cars and did not actually work on the cars. That problem was noted by Donnie Allison in the 1998 NASCAR 50th anniversary get together with many older drivers and team owners. Watch that 4 part special and you will hear him talk about that...
In the end as the huge money continued to be brought into the sport it corrupted certain people in the sport... Which explains why tracks were bought to just shut them down.... North Wilkesboro and Rockingham.. Remember even Darlington almost lost BOTH of the races there... And was not too far from being shut down. Those individuals wanted to take those racrs away and take races to "new and bigger" venues... Because those money hungry hounds wanted more and more money... But those corrupt individuals forgot something...
North Wilkesboro, Rockingham and Darlington helped build the sport. And NASCAR in those places greatly helped those small towns economies. Eventually those people who's towns who got shut down race tracks remembered what had been done to them. This is a big reason why Charlotte motorspeedway has lost so much in attendance... And why other tracks lost so much in attendance. NASCAR had walked away from their own fan base. Thinking the fans from large sprawling cities in "suburbia" would replace the real orginal race fans and increase their fan base as well... Well NASCAR guessed wrong.. and badly so.
Time for NASCAR to get back to basics...
Cut the race schedule down.. too long to begin with.
Acknowledge they screwed up and reinvest in places like North Wilkesboro and Rockingham... Get those race tracks back up and running...
Close down Texas motorspeedway, close down California, close down Chicago...
NASCAR needs to stop acting like big government... Cut those stupid rules by like 80 percent... If not more... Quit trying to make NASCAR like IROC... No one like Marxist racing....
Start allowing real fans back into the infields of the race track.. Watch those old races... You will see exactly what I am saying here...
Make the races better by having associated events along with the races.... Great food events/contests... And country music artist being there as well. . Combine all of that... People love good food... Allow for that and have contests for best BBQ etc and allow many people to make food for those race fans. A win win there... And by having real country music artist there it could help a new artist potentially has well. Make a race weekend a bigger "event" by adding those other two parts.
The big money that started coming in bit by bit in the mid 70s and that increased from there was greatly helpful to NASCAR growth... But eventually that same big money also led to it's own downfall. . Through greed and out right bad decision making...
This isn't the full race at all. There were at least 200 laps that were skipped over. 75 car brought out a caution with 205 to go and a few seconds later there was just 39 to go.
This Was Tape-Delayed
#ESPNSPEEDWORLD
Threw me off because there was no premiere lol
Hello...720p60?
Guess I shouldn’t have looked at info first. Talk about spoiler alert!!!!! 😂
This the whole broadcast? Feel like it’s kinda short to be the whole thing
It was tape delayed not live so they probably edited a bunch out before it aired.
Please don't ruin the finish in the thumbnail
@@JJA1987 I watch it anyway, most of these races I haven't seen before, or don't remember who wins. Just be cool to watch it without knowing sometimes.
I was there and waltrip got booed out of NC
"Yellow Flag situation"
Folks love to complain about the broadcast now but good lord was that line annoying. Every time a yellow comes out the announcer says "Yellow Flag situation" at least 3 times.
miss Bob Jenkins & (although he's not here) Benny Parsons.
Hmmm, why did they say Bobby's car was "controversial"?
Lol, and got my answer at 47:00 . Man, they must have been pissed when the Aerocoupe Monte Carlo and Grand Prix 2+2 came out!
give us something to look forward too already, we need a new short track that's not trash like ISM
Bring it back! Get rid of some of the 1.5 mile boring tracks and bring it back!
Go back to Rockingham NASCAR
Darrell waltrip won the race
11k views in 3 days, interesting...
Only 33 cars in the race
Dale sr. In a ford Thunderbird
It's a Pontiac. Dale Sr. did drive a Ford until 1982 for Bud Moore. This is still Rod Odsterland ride
Ahh before the wussies took over. Good times.
get rid of the 800 1.5 triovals and go back to here, stop talking about the good old days and give us those tracks
NASCAR were absolute fools to leave this track, and North Wilkesboro. And what did they do go to a useless track like New Hampshire. That's the worst racing I've ever seen in my life.
You should really be ashamed of yourself for the crappy stunt you pulled with the Daytona race. I’ve been loyal to you for a while and you let us all down
What are you even talking about?
Why can’t the good old shit box race cars come back with more hp and revamped a little bit still hard asf to drive like cmon.
33:44 Ned’s a hologram, you can see through him
Probably a visual glitch that happened when NASCAR remastered the original footage...
Randy Dubin no he’s just from space