1972 Daytona 500
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A.J. Foyt driving for the Wood Brothers wins the 1972 Daytona 500. Richard Petty starts in the 32nd position after his car loses a fuel pump in the first qualifying race earlier in the week, the same race that took the life of Friday Hassler. Petty doesn't stay back there for very long and is able to lead a total of 31 laps before his engine expires halfway through the race. Foyt would retake the lead and go on to beat Charlie Glotzbach by nearly two laps.
Time of race: 3:05:42
Average Speed: 161.55 mph
Pole Speed: 186.632 mph
Cautions: 3 for 17 laps
Margin of Victory: 1 lap +
Attendance: 98,600
Purse: $44,600
This quality is insane for 1972!
Yep, pretty amazing video broadcast quality for 1972! I was 7 years old back then!
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Would’ve loved to see who else was in the field that year
This was my favorite era of stock car racing.
Ah, the good old days when you could get lapped 9 times and still finish 5th.
"BriNG bAcK oLd NaScaR"
Was that Ned Jarrett that won a race and the 2nd place car was 14 laps down? LOL
@@thud9797 Yep.
“The good old days.”
To be fair, second place Charlie Glotzbach was almost two laps down to Foyt, the largest margin of victory in race history, as far as I know.
@@VampireYoshi nope the largest is 14 laps or 19 miles
Keith Jackson was a pretty darn good announcer.
Never knew he did stock car racing.
Woah Nelly!! KJ was an all-time Great at his craft & hand's down (IMO of course) the Greatest college football announcer ever. I always enjoyed his calling the bigger race's on tv back then, just had an awesome voice 💪
@@Slinger43 Agreed
I grew up listening to him, he did a lot of races.
Him and Chris economacki and Jackie Stewart used to announce a lot of races
@@mikesmithey1892 What an awesome group those 3 were!
You never had to guess who was speaking with that ensemble either 😂👍
AJ wins driving a Mercury Cyclone. Coolest looking muscle car of the era in my opinion.
1972 was a year of much change and confusion for most teams. Responding to NASCARS new engine size mandate, Ford was prepared with their 351 Cleveland ..which was no slouch!
I agree that it was a real looker, but I wonder why more drivers didn’t drive it.
@@sludge8506 perhaps it was very difficult to drive. Like, it's the best if you're an exceptional driver, but if you're not an exceptional driver then it'll be slower than most cars. AJ Foyt was an exceptional driver, he's in the conversation for best driver of all time across the entire world. So of course if you give him a difficult car he'll have no problem whatsoever making it go fast. He's AJ Foyt.
@@duffman18 👍👍👍👍👍👍
By the time I was growing up seeing NASCAR in the 80's, Foyt was washed up, Petty too, so I never understood what all the hype was about. Now I can see these legends in their prime and see what I'd missed. The hype was real!
I love watching these old cars, this is when teams had to be innovative in the shop , not like today where every piece is available and identical for all teams , nascar has turned into who has the money and sponsors to get a ride
Go take your nap, champ.
You are so delusional, that it is almost unbelievable.
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However, if the hardware is identical, then driver skill becomes more important. I don't have a problem with the best driver winning. I do agree though that innovation at the track once led to improvements for the average road user, but that time has passed.
Ahh, the good old days when you could look at a car and instantly know if it's a Dodge or a Ford or a Chevy. Plus names like Buddy Baker, A.J. Foyt and Bobby Allison are a pleasant trip down memory lane.
Just nice distinctive kind names. And most people were actually handsome, and love their cars.
I grew up in Cocoa Beach and my Dad (who was an Engineer out at Cape Canaveral and a Ford guy) took us to either the Daytona 500 or the old Firecracker 400 (with the Paul Revere 250 the night before on the road race track) every year for several years in the late 60's/early 70's. We were at this race sitting towards the end of the front straight near the first turn. I was 15 at the time and was ecstatic that A.J. won in the woods brothers #21 Ford running a Boss 429.
#21 MERCURY!
I was there when Friday Hassler got killed. He and my dad raced together at the old Boyd Speedway in Chattanooga. My dad was watching through binoculars when they took Friday out of the car. He looked around at me and said."He's dead."..and that was all he said. Really tore him up too.
@@thewarwagon5649 still power by a ford motor
Petty's 426 Hemi blew up 'cause it couldn't hack the pace !!
Although he didn't specifically mention it in the interview after falling out of the '72 Daytona 500, one reason Richard Petty might have said about that month being a "bad omen" on him and his team was that, among all the other things that happened, Petty was also right in the middle of the mayhem of the 13-car wreck that took the life of Friday Hassler in the first qualifying race that year, though neither of the Petty Enterprises Dodges were involved in the crash itself. In fact, he may have been right behind Hassler when he spun out in that huge wreck.
I can’t imagine rolling back then.
Air, fuel, spark, and balls of fucking steel
The King of the Daytona 500 vs The King of the Indy 500.
AJ Foyt had 3 motor racing achievements under his belt just like Mario Andretti but different. He won the 1967 Le Man 24 hour endurance race in a Ford GT40, then the Indy 500, and then the Daytona 500 here in 1972.
AJ won the Indy 500 for the 3rd time in 1967, and then Le Mans only a few weeks later. Quite an accomplishment.
Great broadcast team. Great race. Thank you for posting!
loved those times . you could tell the brand car
Real races, real drivers and REAL CARS!
And real cheaters
I’d watch NASCAR, really any racing.., back then whenever it was broadcast. I loved it!
"Whoaaa Nelly...it's Richard Petty"...funny to hear Keith Jackson doing NASCAR commentary.
NOT if you grew up with it. ;-)
He was the very best of the best
Actually The Great Keith Jackson was a huge racing fan & his greatest racing love was Nascar. He was extremely disappointed when ABC pulled him from doing Nascar races.
He was a great race announcer, but in my opinion he was the GOAT of college football announcer's 💪🤠👍
Boss 429 under the hood of Foyt's Mercury
That same car - #21 Wood Brothers Mercury - was also driven by David Pearson.
I wish NASCAR would put up the full coverage ABC did, which would only be about 35-40 minutes total.
Those were heady days. The power these cars put out was insane. They were modified street cars not like today's tubular frames and custom sheet metal. Granted today's racers are a lot safer but Lordy the sound of an unleashed hemi is a fearsome sound.
1972 they were already using tube frames. They started that shizzy around 1968. You're def. right about the bodies though!
The sound Petty's hemi powered cars made at the end of the long back straightaway at Riverside International was "Other Worldly"
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@@drnoise they were still street cars just had full roll bars in them. The woods brothers still have that car and drive it on the road sometimes.
@@pyrodon5773 And it has the great Boss 429 in it. Still as cool as this is, the Elliots made more H P with a Cleveland.
The King wasn't kidding about the color comment. Racers are very superstitious & Richard was not happy about all the bad luck they had at Daytona after putting STP red on his beloved Petty-Blue racecar!
Happily for Richard & his legions of fans (like me 😁) the color combo ended up working out pretty good! 200-7-7 💪🤠👍
Richard could have painted the car all blue.
But it would have cost him a few bucks. 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪
@@sludge8506 No, actually the contract stated if he would paint it all STP Red, then STP would pay him $100,000, but if he refused to paint it at least 50% Red, then no deal & that now iconic paint job would have never been seen 🤷🏻♂️
@@Slinger43 👍👍👍👍👍
I watched this race on closed circuit television at the Murat Shrine Theater in Indianapolis.
Foyt - GOD
petty - little king.
Ah real race cars and tough drivers
Has anyone posted the rest of the ABC TV coverage of this race? I’d love to see that!
Unfortunately I haven't been able to find much before 79, just bit's and piece's. The 500 was usually shown on a closed circuit channel & only available for viewing in theaters of larger city's ☹️
@@Slinger43 yep, back when you got to see only the beginning and end of the race at the beginning and end of Wide World Of Sports ("we'll return later for the conclusion"...,lol). I remember those days well. Thanks for posting this little snippet of Dayton history.
I have not found it either
I sure do miss the days when you could tell a Chevy from a Dodge from a Ford from a Plymouth. Now there's the make of the car painted on the front otherwise you couldn't tell one race car from another as they all look the same.
Put Toyota’s side by side than the fords side by side,than the chevys you will see that the fords are 1/12 inches taller,spoilers are different also,nascars attempt to make the Toyota and chevy groups happy
Foyt won Daytona Indy,and Le Mans. I have heard that Dan Gurney tried to get AJ to stay in Europe for another week after the Le Mans win and drive The Eagle at Spa F1 event which Gurney won. AJ didnt want to spend much time in Europe was what I always heard
He didn't like them furreners none, nor they're food! 😄👍
In 1967, I'll bet AJ was only in Le Mans for a total of 25 hours...
Back when you could tell what kind of car they were driving ... Chevy... Ford... Plymouth.... Dodge... Mercury... not like todays cookie cutter cars.
Wow that's some great old footage there.
Wood Brothers had 'em covered that day.
I loved the Wood Brothers.
Ramo Stott was the jive turkey in the 9 car who blocked Richard Petty.
Hahaha ... those damn jive turkeys will get you every time.
Foyt was the Grand Champion
Does anyone know of any projects by NASCAR to get the films remastered in H.D. That would be unreal. I'd buy them all!
+ellisd2u stp
That's the only thing that I want from NASCAR.
For the record, NASCAR never ever does anything that costs them money pretty much. They will capitalize on driver popularity, but they sure as hell aren't gonna remaster anything.
Ahh, 6th grade and not a care in the world. The good ol days. Now I'm 61 and on dialysis with time short.
Ol' Petty ran out of cheat....and people say todays nascar is boring. AJ ran 115 laps by himself.
1:05-1:20 Looks like Richard Petty looks like he's going 20 MPH faster than the other cars. One thing about racing in more recent years if you never see that much of a disparity between cars.
He is going 20+ faster because his engine is literally better than everyone else's. I don't consider him the king of NASCAR for that and multiple other reasons.
@@vintageLEGOcollector Yeah better than everyone else's that's why it went kablooey 😏
man I love those cars
Oh Nelly! It's Chris Aconamackey
Real production cars not fabricated! That the real nascar.
Foyt.. the greatest
Damn hard to argue against Super-Tex.
To me Richard is the Greatest "Stockcar RACER" ever, but Greatest ever Racecar-Driver ever 🤔...AJ or Mario, flip a coin on that one cause you won't be wrong either way 💪🤠👍
Petty has said that if AJ Foyt raced NASCAR full time there's no way he(Petty) would have won 200 races.
This is racing. A lot better than today's crap. It wouldn't be crap if America starts making REAL cars again.
This is the closest we will ever get to the ABC Coverage of the 1972 Daytona 500
0:17 Boogity Boogity Boogity! Let's go racing, boys!
THE PACE CAR IS OFF AND THE RACE IS ONNNN
One thing not heard here is Bud Lindeman talking about "The Big Merc."
No script those days. Cars were real so were the drivers
Petty was a class act. A far cry from the whiny and crass Busch brothers.
Yep, never cheated once. 🤣
Really easy to see how out of hand things had gotten by the mid-80s, these cars look like they are racing at pace lap speeds by comparison.
+Zoomer30 tell me about this video
They were also using restrictor plates that were mandated midway through the 1970 season. In 1970, the pole speed for the Daytona 500 was 194.016 MPH (and the pole was nearly at 200 at Talladega in the spring), but they had trouble with tire and engine reliability at those high speeds, so at the drivers' behest, NASCAR used restrictor plates to slow the cars down, which it did. The pole speed for the 1971 Daytona 500, by the same car, was nearly 11.4 MPH slower than it was in 1971. And although the pole speed was back up to more than 186.632 MPH for this race, that was still nearly 7.5 MPH slower than they had qualified in 1970.
They weren't though. This was a time when speeds were up around 200 mph. Remember, the first 200 mph qualifying speed was a year or two earlier. It just doesn't look like they are going that fast. Most weren't. Race speeds did start picking up about this time though.
These cars individually were faster on the straightaway, but slower thru the turns. The tires of the day weren't nearly as good (or dependable) as the tires of the 80's & after.
@@cjs83172 Spot-on comment bud 👍
Deadly this is when cars were cars and men were men
Awesome
Back when the cars were gorgeous
R. Petty without moustache and hat!!!
Alvaro Ninguno The first time he grew out his facial hair was 1976 I think.
@@superbird4351 the year of the Fu Manchu!
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Today's drivers have to be happy that fire suits have evolved....
Aj was fast and cagey in any car
6:01 BIG GAME HUNTER!😂
Wood brothers were awesome
Whoa Nellie!
1:40 4 da flip
Life begins after hundred miles an hour
Real race cars.
That was when the make and model of the cars were easily identifiable....and was that Ernie from "My Three Sons" right behind Richard Petty?
I think that was indeed Ernie Douglas behind Petty in that interview. He looked the right age for that actor at the time of this event.
I not really a race fan, a tough sport no doubt, and good job camera man!
Seeing and hearing these fire-breathing NASCAR monsters in person was and remains the real treat. The "race" is just an excuse to see something so loud, fast, and crazy that it just looks and feels "illegal", and would otherwise be if not for the race.
Back when stock cars actually looked like something you could buy at a dealership.
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Old people…
Is this a good thing? Foyt just dominated
3:03, The King, Richard Petty
so young..he looks like a 70's hipster..long hair ...freaky shades..pork chop sideburns..awesomeness!
Was the announcer Chris Economaki?
The late Keith Jackson.
Welcome to the modern era.
High horsepower real drivers no downforce no cry babies this is what Nascar used to be
That’s why I never bought a mop ar always missing something. The end of the race most of the time.
Petty Polaroid Roadmaster glasses.
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After AJ won Daytona he got out n said he didn't know why people thought NASCAR was tough he called them taxi cabs and taxi drivers, love it n he totally right takes so much more skill to drive Indy cars n always a shame they let taxi cabs at Indy, never forget me n my dad went to one Nascar race at Michigan speedway and after being an Indy car fan n seein them race at Indy and Michigan looked like Nascar guys were the pace cars, slow n boring we left the race cause was boring like my dad said it was like watching traffic on i75 expressway, slow n boring n drafting is not racing, open wheel only way to go n true skill going to 225 230 wide open then driving 120 in a straight line til the last 3 laps when they start actually racing, like AJ said taxi cabs
Why is Foyt driving David Pearson's car ?
3:52 😄👍🏻Richard👍🏻😄
This is cool to watch... and wishing stock racing was still "stock"
It wouldn't be the same racing today's cars in a "stock" format. By 1972, the cars were mostly customized anyways, and "stock" wasn't and really possible then nor today with emission regulations. So-called "American" car brands today aren't even made in America for that matter.
Is this mike joy narrating this?
no, Mike's voice is not that deep
Rich!
That was real Racing baby you fuck up with one of them cars see what happens to you .I Wish Patrick was racing in those days . The Queen of Crash would of ended being The Queen of Gooo ! LOL
My cousin used to race in those days .You talk about strong I've seen him pick a big block up like a toy and put it on the motor mounts .He ended up being a crew chief for his drag racing team .he passed a couple of years ago .
Listen to how men commentated in a time when ear-splitting hysterics, non-stop babbling and NGO nudge-buzz weren't prioritised over a succinct description of the action and most relevant stats. No pre-menstrual screaming, not even during a crash, not a peep of personal gossip, no micro-regulation recitals, and barely a raised voice of emphasis when the winner crossed the line.
Some men are still around who can focus on the fun without trying to become the focus, control their voice, and cut to the chase, but they don't seem to rise to the nadir of racing in an age of passive regression.
Wow, no "big one," what a better race it is without a "big-one!"
I wonder if this error of racing has no one ever blown an engine in one race?
Before ridiculous NASCAR rules destroyed the sport
Oh yeah ( Huh )
Bobby Allison Coca-Cola Chevrolet Monte Carlo
It's strange not hearing the 21 car not being call a Wood's bro car but a Petty
They were referring to Buddy Baker's 11 car as the Petty Ent. second car. That 21 was still the Wood Bros.
Petty passing Detroit’s garbage like they weren’t even racing.
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Why is Nascar better than any of the other sports?? Football, baseball, soccer, all only take 1 ball......
what does ball sports have to do with NASCAR, even tho NASCAR tries to be like ball sports?
In a real car.
Richard Petty had a history of " truoble getting thru pre-race inspection " 50 years latter we all know why,, his team was the dirtiest cheating est racing team in history,, but he was very popular with the FANs,, do heads were turned in order to FILL the stands,, and the pockets of the sport
gee,,,, back then Nascar didn't have Black Drivers mistaking the garage door pull down rope for a Hangman's Noose.
more like a crew member from the 43 team found the handle, NASCAR jumped to conclusions and called the FBI, and have mainstream media stir the pot and make everything worse, but okay. I guess you refuse to accept that truth and just believing in fake news and accuse Wallace for something he had nothing to do with because republicans/conservatives and old heads say so lmao
нихуя не понял но лайк!)
Real cars, real drivers, real fans....today's NASCAR is a woke joke!!!
How is it woke? Bc u just can’t throw around the “N” word whenever it suits you
And people always say oh the racing was so much better then. What a snoozer.
competition in the motorsports world in general was way different comparing to nowadays. At the same time, not every race was "the best race ever".
(21, almost 22 y/o speaking, here)
Back when NASCAR raced actual stock cars and when you could get killed doing it. The safer cars have ruined racing in my opinion.
Yes safety is completely boring. Should make the drivers run without seatbelts and maybe have one eye covered as well. Bunch of safety nerds now.
I remember watching these races one of my favorites was when they raced riverside the good old days ,I dont like or watched the clone cars in Nascar they suck .
You could tell #43 had a cheating car everytime on the track Petty is only the king of cheating ...he's a old Jimmie Johnson
If all sports, was back to this state, it would be affordable, a great advocate for both manufacturers and physical activity. And family entertainment... Not like today, when all athletes are full of pills and needles, and have coach/trainer for each finger and toe. And you have a hard time, knowing what team/make, you actually support, since everybody look the same. Only paint tell them apart..
The same goes for cars, gadgets and equipment today.. expensive and complicated, because it's full of needless stuff