Scott K. .....Sterling Marlin could of kept winning if this car didn't crash into Dale Earnhardt at the next Talladega race of 1996 that broke a couple of Dale Earnhardt's bones. .....This was the same #4 car that won the 1994 Daytona 500, 1995 Daytona 500, 1995 Talladega race, this Talladega race in 1996, and the 2nd Daytona race in 1996. Sterling Marlin never won another points paying Restrictor Plate race in his career after wrecking this car at the 2nd Talladega race of 1996. Sterling Marlin's next points paying win didn't take place until 2001.
Anthony The Plain your good buddy I was just putting that out there. It's just nice to see that some people like you actually see that Marlin was a good restrictor plate driver.
I loved Ned at the point when the tension was getting thick, people standing and screaming, and then he is looking at a roof cam when suddenly........ "Oh, there's a big bug ". Lol
Awesome radio chatter between Morgan Shepherd's crew haha "Morgan you got any Oil Pressure" "I doubt it there's oil all over the windshield, can see nuthin"
1:49:24 when I was in elementary school each time we went to the library I would always checkout this NASCAR Book that had the Famous Shot of Cravens car and I would look through and imagine in my mind what it was like so it's cool to actually see it ( Knowing he is ok)
@@jacasoasheland6815 - And I'm 32, yet you seem to hold more contempt for the men of your own generation & of the younger generation than I do. As they say, boomer isn't an age necessarily, it's a mindset - one of old-fashioned thinking and out-of-touch mindsets; of thinking things were better in an imagined Good Old Days than they are now. Just remember that the other boomers who upvote & agree with you likely think the same of _you_ as they do of other millennials.
If you think Any Dega Race is Dull you dont Appreciate Racing and What it Really takes to Wheel one of those bad hoys in Traffic on that Bumpy ass track. RIP a Bong and Watch you'll see.....
What i remember about this particular race was the controversy surrounding the dyno tests involving the cars of Ernie Irvan and Sterling Marlin. Irvans car was put on it first, got the RPMs up, and promptly blew the engine! Marlins car was not dynoed because Gary Nelson called the whole thing off. Irvans crew chief Larry McReynolds absolutely threw a fit over his cars race engine being destroyed by the test. And Irvan was pretty much a non factor in the race with a backup engine.
If these wrecks happened today you would be hearing " should changes be made" " remove pack racing". At this time, high flying wrecks were part of the deal.
80s and 90s nascar races were the best. Here I am watching this instead of a 2017 race. Nascar today just doesnt interest me like it used too in these days.
Luis Jr it’s still interesting now, it’s just different. My favourite driver now is Truex, but Sterling Marlin was my favourite driver in the 90s and 00s
Luis Jr Brother you are so right. I remember this race. My uninterested uncle became fixated after the Craven flip. I don't watch much of the new races either but the library is full of stuff for guys like you and me. Cheers from a #3 fan forever.
Watching the Craven crash, it looked like Craven actually ramped a car to get him rolling, not getting jacked dead to the right, and had the weight of the car shift him over.
Waltrip should never had started his own race team. He was driving for Hendricks, the best team in Nascar. He was still winning and would have kept on winning. Had a great sponsor and great looking car. He even showed flashes of brilliance up to his last year, barely being edged out for the pole at Indy at age 50. Was shuffled back into 34th place before hustling back to 11th for that awful Kmart team. Finished 10th in the 1997 Daytona 500. Came in 5th at California driving for DEI. I think he would have won a race every year at least if he hadn't started DarWal Inc. Losing Hammond as his crew chief was a major factor but he just couldn't afford to replace his cars. Started off pretty good but when he got involved in other people's wrecks he couldn't replace the car with an equally good car. King of Bristol and nobody will ever be better on that track and it's a tough one. 7 in a row there is unbelievable and 12 overall is too.
Back when racing was truly racing.... drivers willingly bent the sheet metal to win a race......nobody got mad like the sissies do today... the men back then just got even.... I miss old time racing.
Good thing they installed the "outside wheel fence", otherwise Ricky Craven's car would have cleared the wall and left the track, like Jimmy Horton did in the same exact area just a few years prior.
@@treyfurrow9929 Both Ricky Craven and Jimmy Horton lived to race another day. Jimmy received a new nickname for his crash - Jimmy "Air" Horton. Remember, Michael Jordan was popular at the time of his crash.
This was back when the draft was so inconsistent one year to the next - even one plate race to the next. Nowadays Sterling would have passed 40 cars in three laps. ;)
They're running new exhaust pipes - Morgan-McClure found out the year before that fusing the pipes together made slightly more power and also the higher pitch.
This race reminds me of the really snowy night coming home from work all the lake road cars spinning all over and all of a sudden this huge Buck with a gigantic rack jumps off a high berm along the side road goes over my car. All I saw was huge balls and hooves..
My aging eyesight coupled with an increasingly infantile mind saw "huge Buick with a gigantic rack" and immediately conjured an Electra with a monster roof rack...wait, what? Lol.
@@ssbn6175 Well usually when any of us that have that aging eyesight thing going on we appreciate a Huge Rack in a bikini top more so than any other racks in the world. The bigger the better the more the wobbles all the better... Your turn now...
@@thekingsilverado9004 much more easily spotted from a distance, true enough. A lot to be said for art appreciation...so long as the better half remains innocent of my sightlines.
They simply couldnt touch that 4 car from 95 to 96 it was almost unbeatable same chassis won back to back Daytona 500's and a few more 1995 daytona 500 1995 Talladega 1996 Daytona 500 1996 Talladega 500 1996 Daytona 400 Crashed hard and never raced again in the 1996 fall Talladega race when he crashed with Earnhardt running in 2nd That 4 was dominating almaost like the 8 from 2001 to 2004 1996 Daytona 400
36:00 John Kernan screws it up totally - never mind PxP of Marlin taking the lead, finish the point you were trying to make about the 14:1 compression helping with passing.
I'd rather them find a way to be able for them to go around unrestricted, yet not have them run around in packs, and have the field break up some to prevent the massive wrecks, but the thing is, if that happened at Talladega and Daytona, people would whine that they would become mega-sized California's
The 1996 Winston Select 500 at the Talladega Superspeedway was the cornerstone of the 16th Year of NASCAR Racing on Philippine Television as NASCAR Fans witnessed the feed of Ricky Craven's wild ride caused by the Big One that wrecked his #41 Kodiak Chevrolet Monte Carlo and also involved Derrike Cope, who drove the #12 Mane N'Tail Ford Thunderbird. The most brutal moment of the 1996 NASCAR Winston Cup Series in Winston America season that was won by Sterling Marlin of Morgan McClure Motorsports was jointly produced by Television and Production Exponents, Inc. and SilverStar Communications, Inc. and aired live, nationwide, and via-satellite on GMA Network and Citynet Television 27 on April 29, 1996 with a radio simulcast on DZBB 594 Radyo Bisig Bayan and Campus Radio 97.1 WLS FM
+Krazie Jedi Is this the same exact car that won the 1994 and 1995 Daytona 500s, as well as the 1995 Diehard 500? (And the one that met it's sad demise in the 1996 Diehard 500?)
Actually, those crashes were vastly different. Spencer's crash started in the middle of the track. Earnhardt's car was down near the apron and came all the way back across the track, getting "a run" toward the wall, if you will. Spencer's impact was far less severe, which is evident when you consider how little damage there was to Spencer's car when compared to Earnhardt's.
More championships than big ones caused. I dont think he did anything wrong. Martin moved up into him, same thing when he wrecked the pepsi car in turn 3. Kenseth came up into him
The #4 car was a freaking beast on restrictor plate tracks
I drive by their old shop everyday when I go to work. Such a shame they couldn't keep it going.
Scott K. .....Sterling Marlin could of kept winning if this car didn't crash into Dale Earnhardt at the next Talladega race of 1996 that broke a couple of Dale Earnhardt's bones.
.....This was the same #4 car that won the 1994 Daytona 500, 1995 Daytona 500, 1995 Talladega race, this Talladega race in 1996, and the 2nd Daytona race in 1996. Sterling Marlin never won another points paying Restrictor Plate race in his career after wrecking this car at the 2nd Talladega race of 1996. Sterling Marlin's next points paying win didn't take place until 2001.
Anthony The Plain the 1994 car was a chevy Lumina
RickMrSkin .....I did do research on this, but did I still screw it up somehow anyway? If I did please tell me so I can change my original comment.
Anthony The Plain your good buddy I was just putting that out there. It's just nice to see that some people like you actually see that Marlin was a good restrictor plate driver.
Love the way these cars sounded back then.
weren't they just incredible ? honestly i enjoy all eras of nascar even the new
Jason Roberts
Dr. Gas !
The Shizzle !
@@jaymcdowell9788 what?
they sound great in every era to me!
That's what 850hp sounds like, compared to the pathetic 550hp they have today.
Oh that glorious sound of these cars! It's my symphony.
That crash at 1:44:00 is a very historic crash and a photographer got a perfect shot of that.
Just brutal. It happens so fast its unreal.
Those were REAL NASCARs. Beast engines wide open. I could fall asleep to that sound. And check out the stands...packed full!
I loved Ned at the point when the tension was getting thick, people standing and screaming, and then he is looking at a roof cam when suddenly........ "Oh, there's a big bug ". Lol
Awesome radio chatter between Morgan Shepherd's crew haha
"Morgan you got any Oil Pressure"
"I doubt it there's oil all over the windshield, can see nuthin"
Nascar was awesome in these years.
1:49:24 when I was in elementary school each time we went to the library I would always checkout this NASCAR Book that had the Famous Shot of Cravens car and I would look through and imagine in my mind what it was like so it's cool to actually see it ( Knowing he is ok)
This was my first NASCAR race I went to, I was 5. I'll never forget.
Mine too, except I was 23
1:03:55 for Elliott's airtime, 1:43:30 for Craven's flip
talladegajunkie1439 Thank you.
1:03:55
1:43:50
How is it that both big crashes happened during commercials?
I was there.....I was 12 years old.....never forget it!
I wasn't born yet
nate smith I was born on 6/1/96 when the trucks had the race in Colorado but at night at 9:26pm
I truly miss the excitement that went with NASCAR back in those days.
Godspeed, Bob 🏁🎙
Just watching this real loud on headphones 🎧 its awesome it's like being there. The cars sounded so good then. Especially the in car cameras.
1:13:30 Ward Burton story. In the 90's, men plowed fields, cut wood, and cleared brush. 2010's, men vlog and post on twitter.
Back in the day men were honest, smart, and hardworking. Today men who aren't mindless thugs are considered to be weak.
ok boomers
@@mcj88 im 26
@@jacasoasheland6815 - And I'm 32, yet you seem to hold more contempt for the men of your own generation & of the younger generation than I do.
As they say, boomer isn't an age necessarily, it's a mindset - one of old-fashioned thinking and out-of-touch mindsets; of thinking things were better in an imagined Good Old Days than they are now.
Just remember that the other boomers who upvote & agree with you likely think the same of _you_ as they do of other millennials.
This is a weird thread
This is when NASCAR race cars were real and they had real sound
"Never a dull moment at Talladega."
Yeah right. Just watch the fall version of this race 20 years later. That race was duller than a pencil!
Without those races....it's as good as dead.....*cough cough*
If you think Any Dega Race is Dull you dont Appreciate Racing and What it Really takes to Wheel one of those bad hoys in Traffic on that Bumpy ass track. RIP a Bong and Watch you'll see.....
there would never be any plate races if Bill France Sr's ego wasn't so large and these tracks were never built
@@skippingrhyme4386 idk who you are but you're my new favorite person 😂
@@AlonsoRules Darlington is a better track than Daytona or Darlington, and it takes driver skill to win there instead of just surviving the big ones.
That was a shame Craven was having a good year that year too
What i remember about this particular race was the controversy surrounding the dyno tests involving the cars of Ernie Irvan and Sterling Marlin. Irvans car was put on it first, got the RPMs up, and promptly blew the engine! Marlins car was not dynoed because Gary Nelson called the whole thing off. Irvans crew chief Larry McReynolds absolutely threw a fit over his cars race engine being destroyed by the test. And Irvan was pretty much a non factor in the race with a backup engine.
My Sky blue caddy was in the background shot on the final lap parked in the infield against the fence.
If these wrecks happened today you would be hearing " should changes be made" " remove pack racing". At this time, high flying wrecks were part of the deal.
Amazing how Earnhardt pulled back up on those guys at the end.
That’s restrictor plate prowess if it ever existed.
I was at this race.
First time at Talladega.
Hard to see the other end of the track.
Absolutely awesome!
80s and 90s nascar races were the best. Here I am watching this instead of a 2017 race. Nascar today just doesnt interest me like it used too in these days.
Luis Jr it’s still interesting now, it’s just different. My favourite driver now is Truex, but Sterling Marlin was my favourite driver in the 90s and 00s
Luis Jr
Aye mate, I agree
Luis Jr Brother you are so right. I remember this race. My uninterested uncle became fixated after the Craven flip. I don't watch much of the new races either but the library is full of stuff for guys like you and me. Cheers from a #3 fan forever.
Nascar starting going downhill when the engineers replaced the mechanics.
Back then NASCAR had great drivers who were distinct characters in their own way, sadly, that era of NASCAR is now gone.
Watching the Craven crash, it looked like Craven actually ramped a car to get him rolling, not getting jacked dead to the right, and had the weight of the car shift him over.
I was born three years after the passing of Dale. Sr I wish I could have seen him race
Same
You guys missed a good era of Nascar..the 90s. It's honestly shit now.
You would have liked it he'd make you mad at times but other times it was wow he was bad ass driver
Waltrip should never had started his own race team. He was driving for Hendricks, the best team in Nascar. He was still winning and would have kept on winning. Had a great sponsor and great looking car. He even showed flashes of brilliance up to his last year, barely being edged out for the pole at Indy at age 50. Was shuffled back into 34th place before hustling back to 11th for that awful Kmart team. Finished 10th in the 1997 Daytona 500. Came in 5th at California driving for DEI. I think he would have won a race every year at least if he hadn't started DarWal Inc. Losing Hammond as his crew chief was a major factor but he just couldn't afford to replace his cars. Started off pretty good but when he got involved in other people's wrecks he couldn't replace the car with an equally good car. King of Bristol and nobody will ever be better on that track and it's a tough one. 7 in a row there is unbelievable and 12 overall is too.
I was there! What a day.
Back when racing was truly racing.... drivers willingly bent the sheet metal to win a race......nobody got mad like the sissies do today... the men back then just got even.... I miss old time racing.
**OK BOOMER intensifies**
The thumbnail is crazy
I was at this race that was a 4 hour delay to fix the catch fence
Yep, me too.
I was as well
1:43:30 for those of you looking for the Ricky Craven wreck
They need to go back to northwilkesboro and rockingham and maybe Iowa and gateway
Never gonna happen, But Iowa will get a race at somepoint
I was there in the backstretch stands, saw Craven crash up close.
well we did get a race at northwilkesboro.
But in iracing
Good thing they installed the "outside wheel fence", otherwise Ricky Craven's car would have cleared the wall and left the track, like Jimmy Horton did in the same exact area just a few years prior.
Yep, and Ricky can thank Jimmy for that, since it was Jimmy's crash that impelled NASCAR to install a catch fence around the entire racetrack.
Did he die?
@@treyfurrow9929 Both Ricky Craven and Jimmy Horton lived to race another day. Jimmy received a new nickname for his crash - Jimmy "Air" Horton. Remember, Michael Jordan was popular at the time of his crash.
@@nascage no because i was not born at that time
@@treyfurrow9929 Oh, I see.
What a great race. Also a great save by DJ early on getting turned going into turn 3 early.
@19:50 so cool to see Earnhardt and Gordon 1 & 2 at Talledega
Great Race, glad I could see the whole thing, finally
1:43:30 BIG ONE
Man Bill Eillott had a very hard crash.
Was this after bill Elliott had his accident?
This was back when the draft was so inconsistent one year to the next - even one plate race to the next. Nowadays Sterling would have passed 40 cars in three laps. ;)
18:56 ....that sounds so good.
1:46:25 Craven can thank Jimmy Horton for that catch fence being there. I thought Jimmy had died when he went over in ‘93.
What made some of the cars have a higher pitch to the note of their cars than others?
They're running new exhaust pipes - Morgan-McClure found out the year before that fusing the pipes together made slightly more power and also the higher pitch.
Make me your student! Do they still do this today?
Jonathan - they have different pipes now plus higher RPMs. It isn't the same now as it was then.
Michael Daly make me your student! So do all cars run fused pipes now?
+Jonathan Walker Not sure. I think so.
hard to believe this is over 20 years ago . NASCAR today sucks big time!
1:48:20 rusty Wallace being interviewed after getting wrecked out and tons of fans behind him. You’d never see that with the drivers of today.
This race reminds me of the really snowy night coming home from work all the lake road cars spinning all over and all of a sudden this huge Buck with a gigantic rack jumps off a high berm along the side road goes over my car. All I saw was huge balls and hooves..
My aging eyesight coupled with an increasingly infantile mind saw "huge Buick with a gigantic rack" and immediately conjured an Electra with a monster roof rack...wait, what? Lol.
@@ssbn6175 Well usually when any of us that have that aging eyesight thing going on we appreciate a Huge Rack in a bikini top more so than any other racks in the world. The bigger the better the more the wobbles all the better... Your turn now...
@@thekingsilverado9004 much more easily spotted from a distance, true enough. A lot to be said for art appreciation...so long as the better half remains innocent of my sightlines.
@@ssbn6175 Yeah I agree ducking flying kitchen utensils can be a real problem at our age. We get slower and the old ladies aim gets better it seems
I'm standing next to Bill's car. It's in a museum in Pennsylvania
1:50:45 that's my favoirte shot from turn one
Philippine Airdate: April 29, 1996
TV Networks: GMA Network and Citynet Television 27
Telecast Producers: TAPE Inc. and SilverStar Sports
©1996 Republic Broadcasting System, Inc., Television and Production Exponents, Inc., SilverStar Communications, Inc., and National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, Inc.
ESPN in Canada we didnt get it 100^
Did they do an interview with Craven?
They did a couple of days after the wreck. He had a black eye.
They simply couldnt touch that 4 car from 95 to 96 it was almost unbeatable same chassis won back to back Daytona 500's and a few more
1995 daytona 500
1995 Talladega
1996 Daytona 500
1996 Talladega 500
1996 Daytona 400
Crashed hard and never raced again in the 1996 fall Talladega race when he crashed with Earnhardt running in 2nd
That 4 was dominating almaost like the 8 from 2001 to 2004
1996 Daytona 400
The irony of Mayfield's CC talking about no respect for his driver... look at Jeremy now.
Ed Kell could I ask what CC stands for?
@@matthewkent6258 Crew Chief
36:00 John Kernan screws it up totally - never mind PxP of Marlin taking the lead, finish the point you were trying to make about the 14:1 compression helping with passing.
Didn't Elliot break his leg in his wreck?
No his hip
nascar always misses all the wrecks i want to see for commercials *facepalm
nascar always misses all the wrecks?
I'd rather them find a way to be able for them to go around unrestricted, yet not have them run around in packs, and have the field break up some to prevent the massive wrecks, but the thing is, if that happened at Talladega and Daytona, people would whine that they would become mega-sized California's
The 1996 Winston Select 500 at the Talladega Superspeedway was the cornerstone of the 16th Year of NASCAR Racing on Philippine Television as NASCAR Fans witnessed the feed of Ricky Craven's wild ride caused by the Big One that wrecked his #41 Kodiak Chevrolet Monte Carlo and also involved Derrike Cope, who drove the #12 Mane N'Tail Ford Thunderbird. The most brutal moment of the 1996 NASCAR Winston Cup Series in Winston America season that was won by Sterling Marlin of Morgan McClure Motorsports was jointly produced by Television and Production Exponents, Inc. and SilverStar Communications, Inc. and aired live, nationwide, and via-satellite on GMA Network and Citynet Television 27 on April 29, 1996 with a radio simulcast on DZBB 594 Radyo Bisig Bayan and Campus Radio 97.1 WLS FM
And the irony remains they hit MUCH harder on unrestricted tracks - and generally see more injuries - than they do on plate tracks.
#4 was the best car,
+Krazie Jedi Is this the same exact car that won the 1994 and 1995 Daytona 500s, as well as the 1995 Diehard 500? (And the one that met it's sad demise in the 1996 Diehard 500?)
suckLmydick yes, same car.
1994 car was a chevy Lumina
1:43:30
im prayering i get to race the season in the 8 Pontiac
Was it just me or did Bob Jenkins have a cold or something? His voice was so much lower this race
If Craven didn’t start rolling up the bank he could have hit the wall almost straight on, who knows if he survives that back then
They sound just about like that now if you actually went to a race instead of complaining and looking at your cellphone.
Did anyone notice that the jimmy spencer crash looked idinacl to the crash that killed dale ernhartd
Yeah but Eaernhart hit 10 times as hard
Learn your grammar
Actually, those crashes were vastly different. Spencer's crash started in the middle of the track. Earnhardt's car was down near the apron and came all the way back across the track, getting "a run" toward the wall, if you will. Spencer's impact was far less severe, which is evident when you consider how little damage there was to Spencer's car when compared to Earnhardt's.
BOOGITY BOOGITY BOOGITY BOOGITY
Man the 29 scheme is awsome BC of FLINTSONTE
1:43:30 Ricky Craven Crash
1:52:52 I don't remember Coke ever being on the 24
Sterling was playing the game on easy mode
200 mph traffic jam.
Rut could build a fast engine.
Around a quarter of a century later, still one of the worst "Big Ones".
2:23:48
Jeff Gordon causing the Big One. He was really good At doing that.
More championships than big ones caused. I dont think he did anything wrong. Martin moved up into him, same thing when he wrecked the pepsi car in turn 3. Kenseth came up into him
01:43:30
And I thought Austin Dillon crash was bad and nasty.
Detta är at sport i mte idrottt
No.
1:43:30