1969 Motor Trend 500 @ Riverside
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- Richard Petty wins the 1969 Motor Trend 500 NASCAR Grand National race at Riverside International Raceway held on February 1, 1969.
NASCAR Grand National race number 3 of 54
Saturday, February 1, 1969 at Riverside International Raceway, Riverside, CA
186 laps on a 2.700 mile road course (502.2 miles)
Time of race: 4:45:37
Average speed: 105.498 mph
Pole speed: 110.323 mph Cautions: none
Margin of victory: 25 sec
Attendance: 46,300
Lead changes: 9
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1:11 I love how Andretti's Torino sounds like a lion roaring to warn the people off.
2:11, omg that’s amazing driving! Lol.
Beautiful. I loved NASCAR back when the cars looked like stock cars and actually sounded like stock cars. Not like the crap they have today.
Wow "The Kings" winning Ford.
That would be interesting to see on an auction block.
GREAT footage!! 👍🏁👍🏁
This race took three weeks to get in due to torrential rains. It was delayed a week and then another week. My family made the drive from Phoenix each weekend. My parents wouldn't take me out of school a third week so I missed the actual race. They went. Bad parenting!
More proof that road course racing has been and always will be good for NASCAR. Great stuff and I’m glad we are acknowledging this more and it’s in our roots! This is amazing ! Was just watching the 83’ race
2:11 Richard driving like his girlfriend just told him the parents left for the evening!
If those were modern-day NASCARs they would fold up hitting stuff
This was the race that shocked me. I learned that Petty really could drive a road course. I was glad he drove that knock out beautiful Torino.
That's when he went to Ford because Plymouth wouldn't give him a wing car
The winged wonder wouldn't handle worth crap at this race anyway.
This is a piece of an Episode of”Car and Track”. The Falstaff piece I guess lol LOVE those BOWSHER FORDS
1969 was the first and last year Petty drove a Ford.
Every time I see or think about the king in a ford cyclone semi hemi 429 I crap my pants a little bit
Not in this race, as Petty had a 427 FE engine under the hood. The 429 wasn't legal to race until the spring Atlanta 500 race which Cale Yarborough won in the Wood Brothers #21 Mercury Spoiler 2 Cyclone.
And the name of the Ford was Torino, the Cyclone came from Mercury.
Watch at 1:07 you see the 121 Wood Brothers Mercury, it has a different front to Foyts and Pettys Fords👍
The Ford teams were using the regular Torino for the 1969 Motor Trend 500 at Riverside. For the next race, all the Ford teams were running the more aerodynamic Torino Talladega, and the Mercury teams were running the more aerodynamic Cyclone Spoiler 2. They featured an extended front with a drop nose.
Absolutely love this ❤️ thanks for sharing 👍 making us Boomers proud!!! 🏁🏁🏁
Nice footage!
The amount of gasoline they so casually threw around during that pit stop was mildly terrifying
USAC was racing against NASCAR here. I’ll bet my LIFE that Petty had an illegal car
No , because Hollman Moody built that car and they did not cheat . Petty didn't get the car until practice unless they did some last min. cheating on their own , That car was race ready and built by Ralph Moody to win .A turn key operation for Richard .
Ralph Moody set up the Petty car to win at Riverside and would not deliver the car early because he didn't want the Petty engineers to change everything in the suspension or engine and the Petty's still complained to Ford about getting the car too late . Ralph Moody also set up Bobby Allison's Daytona Charger for a win the first time out in 1969.
A problem those race cars had back then was with brake fade in the latter part of the race; as those drum brakes would overheat and be worn out way before the finish; so the drivers were more prone to losing control late in the race than in the early part.
The Riverside 500 of that era was unique in that given the running of it early in the year, it featured the combination of USAC and NASCAR drivers in the same event. As while AJ Foyt was known in NASCAR, he ran the full-circuit in the USAC stock car circuit, becoming the champ in the 1968; 1978 & '79 seasons.
Dan Gurney nearly knocked the wall down and not a scratch on his car lol
jmissle that shows how the cars have changed since then. The cars back then were built like tanks.
Today's cars would have been totaled. Gurney's sheet metal was all still fine too, ha ha.
@@OverlandOne This is incredible - I had to watch the clip a few times to check and you're right - not even a dent! I remember seeing Ford rolling one of the 50s cars on its roof to show how tough it was too. How thick was that metal?! The metal on my car flexes just from pushing on it (and this is a car from the late 80s, not even now!).
Where do you guys find this footage?
2:11 how was that not a penalty?
Knight Racing League different, more flexible rules back then.
Running wide was common at Riverside. Almost everyone did it at least once a race. If Petty could do it and still win, its wasn’t an uncommon thing.