I absolutely love Boris Said and was a huge fan back then. I didn’t realize Junior and Boris are such good friends but I’m not surprised. Two great guys!
I remember this! I was a big ALMS fan, watched every race and hit Sebring every year. I remember this and where was so little info on it. Glad to hear you discuss it and with the legend BORIS!.
I love the stories with Boris, he has been one of my favorite driver since the Trans-Am series in Detroit way back in the day. Him and Pual Gentilozzi would go at it. I even did the graphics on Paul’s jaguar but was cheering for Boris.
I witnessed a CH-53 crash in 1984 at Camp Lejeune and we couldn’t get any closer then what seemed like 100 yards due to the incredibly intense heat. Horrible feeling not being able to help my fellow Marines but like they said the heat was hotter than anything you could imagine.
I was at the go kart track at the top of the hill above turn 3-4 I remember seeing the black smoke in the distance as we were getting ready for morning practice, and it took 30 mins or so for everyone to realize that was Jr. We were all going to sit on the edge of the hill to watch the race, instead we all watched the helicopter take off with Jr in it.
I always hated people criticizing Junior for not winning more races, not winning a champtionship, etc., and not stopping to comprehend the traumatic experiences he'd been through, not to mention the horrifying incident with his family in the aircraft accident. I will always be a Junior fan for the person that he is, not his accomplishments on the race track. I'm grateful that he's still with us to tell these stories.
I remember watching Jr's fire on TV. But this is the first time I've heard both Jr. and Boris talk about it. The wife and I, as well as some friends) thought that how he got out of the car was really unnatural. After watching it many many times from the different angles the network had of the crash and fire. I'm convinced that he had help getting out of that car. There's a camera angle that's looking at the back of the car. From that angle it looks as if someone picked him up from under both arms, pulled him through the door and dropped him just outside the car. Crazy!!
Having crewed on a number of race cars, including a Daytona Prototype, I can only imagine the awful feeling that crew must've had when that incident happened. Whether a crew mistake or just a manufacturing defect or something, that's gotta be a horrifying feeling, especially given how this was a pretty uniquely huge fire, when there is the rare fire these top level race cars just tend to not go up in a giant ball of flame like that.
I watched this the first time it was uploaded, and this time I had anxiety the same exact way, Heck with Fire!!! Thank the lord that during my whole racing career I never had to deal with any of that…
I’ve been following nascar for 30 plus years but one never learned all these little nuances till the recent years with utube,and podcast such as yours coming out and available to the general public. Now,I’ve been in fires as a volunteer fireman so I know exactly what you mean about the intensity that a fire can burn. Keep up the good work….all of you. Monty
If you watch Jr come out of the car, its super awkward. Like he doesn't use his upper body at all. It really looks like an invisible person is pulling him out.
I remember him saying that he was yelling at the medical personnel to find whoever it was that helped him get out. They repeatedly told him that no one helped him.
Had nothing to do with it. Jr had a great 04. He was poised to win championship the next year in 05 but the car and team swap with the 15 cost him his best shot.
Wasn’t this posted a while back? Those two do a damn good impression on how gasoline explosions sound. I remember Jr’s crash and thought to myself that wasn’t that hard of a hit for it to flame up, but also realized simultaneously that don’t have any facts about it to make that assumption. Boris experience makes me wonder if there was a design/assembly flaw in the car
What is it with Corvette fuel systems? I put out a substantial fire aboard the #4 Corvette being driven by Tom Milner at the Roar before the 24 several years ago. First day, first lap. I believe it turned out to be a bad check valve. As an aside, we corner marshals had-45 minutes earlier-been told in no uncertain terms not to do so, unless the driver was trapped. Fortunately, Tom knew where to stop and was ready to bail before he got to us at T7. Yeah, we got in trouble...
"When I wrecked in the Corvette in 2004 at Sonoma and it caught fire, somebody pulled me out of that car. And I thought that it was a corner worker because I felt somebody put their hands under my armpits and pull me out of the car. I didn’t get out. I don’t have any memory of myself climbing out of the car. And I remember sort of moving like in motion, like going to lean forward and try to climb out of the car, and then something grabbed me under the armpits, pulled me up over the door bars and then let go of me. "And I fell to the ground, and there’s pictures of me laying on the ground next to the car. I know that when I got to the hospital, I was like, 'Who pulled me out of the car? I gotta say thanks to this person,' because it was a hand! It was physical hands grabbing me! I felt it. And there was nobody there."
My uncle Tom worked on imsa cars, he said back then they had multiple corvettes for what ever reason used these weird steel connectors and they used to get kinked for some reason on the lines and would leak,, In the back and he middle of the car.. he's been saying this since I was little
DALE JR. JUST WANTED TO TELL YOU THIS. I was leaving the master tourney in Augusta in 2007 i believe on Monday, tiger and Phil played together it was there and tiger's last real tourney. BUT i was going thru Statesboro i believe and stopped at a Wendy, i let someone in in front of me in drive thur line. COOL VET WITH USA 1 i believe hope i didn't dox you . BUT I WAS BEHIND YOU AND i like dude this guy i recognize and i staring and staring ...and you looked in your mirror and laughed at my gawking. So anyway you get to the window and get your food and you pull up. THERE WERE THREE GIRLS ACTING LIKE THE BEATLES JUST PERFORMED in the drive thur. and finally after this moment calmed down. I ASKED THE OLDER LADY WAS THAT...? SHE SAID YES THE WAS DALE JR. i got down the road and reached in the bag and had like three doubles and three fries, and i only order one. SO I GUESS I OWN YOU TWO WENDY SINGLES WITH FRYES...you're like a rock star....good for you... thanks for the funny moment.
I'm a crew chief and it suprises me that so many drivers forget to pull the FIRE handle...... it all happens so fast I know..... it's why I yell at drivers that don't put the visor all the way down..........
We took this car this year to a few events Belle isle Rolex reunion at Laguna and velocity at Laguna. Would be cool to get dale back in the car. No fires this time though.
I always believed some supernatural forced helped Jr out of the car during that fire. After hear Boris saying he later had a fire wearing the firesuit he wore that day not only confirms it to me, but I now believe somehow those 2 suits were cursed some way.
this is crazy. i always take a chance to watch one of these corvette videos specifically, probably since i have one. been considering the idea of putting the Rolex24 livery on my C5 but after hearing these 2 stories i think ill reconsider
Dale I know your Daddy was your Guardian Angel that day and I know Mr. Said had a Guardian Angel too. Who knows BUT GOD ,your precious Daddy may have saved you both along with GOD🙏🙏🙏 SO
I fully believe your Daddy helped get you out of that car. 🙏💞🙏 There are human ANGEL'S among us and I know this is true because one saved me in a wreck where I had been unconscious and was trapped in the car as the frame bent and the driver door would not open ,yet a little female with an orange reflective vest came over, she may have been 5ft. 2 or 3 inches tall and possibly weighed 90 pounds soaking wet, came over and she snatched the door once and and thr squeaking and creaking of metal rubbing together seemed so loud but it didn't open, so she reset her hands and when she snatched the 2nd time, the door miraculously opened. She told me to put my arms around her neck and she slid her left arm under my legs and her right arm around my back and she lifted me up like I was a feather and she carried me singlehandedly to the gurney for the paramedics and she disappeared as quickly as she appeared. It still blows my mind that she was able to open the door of that car as the firetruck with the jaws of life hadn't arrived yet. GOD IS GREAT AND I KNOW THERE ARE ANGEL'S AMONG US. THIS VIDEO WHILE SCARY WAS INSPIRATIONAL BECAUSE Y'ALL BOTH SURVIVED 🙏😇🙏💞🤗💞🙏🙏🙏
I had a bad accident with black powder and fireworks couple years ago and my entire body was engulfed in flames. My hands and arms got it the worst and all the skin from my finger tips to me elbows was falling off like a melting candle. Just huge pieces of my arm skin falling off and so i stuck my arms in bread sacks full of dirty pond water because that's all we had at the time. My arms felt like they were still on fire for a week. I refused to go to the hospital so we went to Walmart instead and bought every tube of burn cream they had and covered my arms in the cream then wrapped them with plastic wrap and put socks over that. We changed the wrap everyday and started mixing in this pain relief spray in with the creams and wrap and after a couple of weeks I started growing new skin and believe it or not my arms completely healed with no scars. I showed the pictures of my arms to my dr and he couldn't believe the arms in the pictures were my arms because there's no scarring or signs i was burnt. My full beard protected my face from burning up but it melted my beard down to my skin and i could just wash my beard off in the shower like washing off dirt.
One thing I noticed 25 years ago as a kid, is that NASCAR is horrible at crash response. They take forever to help anyone. Watch an Indy race and notice the difference. Obviously this video is not NASCAR.
I absolutely love Boris Said and was a huge fan back then. I didn’t realize Junior and Boris are such good friends but I’m not surprised. Two great guys!
Boris is not just a great Driver but he is a straight shooter guy as well!
I remember this! I was a big ALMS fan, watched every race and hit Sebring every year. I remember this and where was so little info on it. Glad to hear you discuss it and with the legend BORIS!.
I love the stories with Boris, he has been one of my favorite driver since the Trans-Am series in Detroit way back in the day. Him and Pual Gentilozzi would go at it. I even did the graphics on Paul’s jaguar but was cheering for Boris.
I witnessed a CH-53 crash in 1984 at Camp Lejeune and we couldn’t get any closer then what seemed like 100 yards due to the incredibly intense heat. Horrible feeling not being able to help my fellow Marines but like they said the heat was hotter than anything you could imagine.
Thank you for your service ..and thoughts for fallen comrades,
Random question but have you seen those commercials for the lawsuit for the water at camp lejeune?
I was at the go kart track at the top of the hill above turn 3-4 I remember seeing the black smoke in the distance as we were getting ready for morning practice, and it took 30 mins or so for everyone to realize that was Jr. We were all going to sit on the edge of the hill to watch the race, instead we all watched the helicopter take off with Jr in it.
I always hated people criticizing Junior for not winning more races, not winning a champtionship, etc., and not stopping to comprehend the traumatic experiences he'd been through, not to mention the horrifying incident with his family in the aircraft accident. I will always be a Junior fan for the person that he is, not his accomplishments on the race track. I'm grateful that he's still with us to tell these stories.
Dale, Mike and whoever their guest (Boris Said) is always entertaining!
I met Boris once and did a ride along at a track. He was a super cool dude.
Yes he is... I met him at Talladega.
I remember watching Jr's fire on TV. But this is the first time I've heard both Jr. and Boris talk about it.
The wife and I, as well as some friends) thought that how he got out of the car was really unnatural.
After watching it many many times from the different angles the network had of the crash and fire.
I'm convinced that he had help getting out of that car. There's a camera angle that's looking at the back of the car. From that angle it looks as if someone picked him up from under both arms, pulled him through the door and dropped him just outside the car. Crazy!!
I saw & thought the same thing . very eerie .
Having crewed on a number of race cars, including a Daytona Prototype, I can only imagine the awful feeling that crew must've had when that incident happened. Whether a crew mistake or just a manufacturing defect or something, that's gotta be a horrifying feeling, especially given how this was a pretty uniquely huge fire, when there is the rare fire these top level race cars just tend to not go up in a giant ball of flame like that.
Same here... it's amazing how many consious driver don't pull the fire handle... but that's not part of the "egress test"
I watched this the first time it was uploaded, and this time I had anxiety the same exact way, Heck with Fire!!! Thank the lord that during my whole racing career I never had to deal with any of that…
You guys were very lucky! God blessed ya!
I’ve been following nascar for 30 plus years but one never learned all these little nuances till the recent years with utube,and podcast such as yours coming out and available to the general public.
Now,I’ve been in fires as a volunteer fireman so I know exactly what you mean about the intensity that a fire can burn.
Keep up the good work….all of you.
Monty
Dale stated once that he felt his dad helped him get out of that car.
If you watch Jr come out of the car, its super awkward. Like he doesn't use his upper body at all. It really looks like an invisible person is pulling him out.
It was an article in People Magazine. I still have it.
I remember him saying that he was yelling at the medical personnel to find whoever it was that helped him get out. They repeatedly told him that no one helped him.
@@leslieisgrig5443 Lol he's told this story many times, not just in People magazine.
I believe that.
What a really cool guy!
That would very traumatic I was so glad to Dale Jr was OK
Junior, so glad you are alright,, that was bad explosion.
I have a friend that is a HUGE dale jr. fan .... he INSISTS that this crash was the beginning of the end for Dale jr's career.
Had nothing to do with it. Jr had a great 04. He was poised to win championship the next year in 05 but the car and team swap with the 15 cost him his best shot.
I Always thought the same thing. there is no doubt about it.
He still would've won in 04 the one thing that killed it was the edwards incident in atlanta and the dega slip up
Best episode!!!
Wasn’t this posted a while back? Those two do a damn good impression on how gasoline explosions sound. I remember Jr’s crash and thought to myself that wasn’t that hard of a hit for it to flame up, but also realized simultaneously that don’t have any facts about it to make that assumption. Boris experience makes me wonder if there was a design/assembly flaw in the car
What is it with Corvette fuel systems? I put out a substantial fire aboard the #4 Corvette being driven by Tom Milner at the Roar before the 24 several years ago. First day, first lap. I believe it turned out to be a bad check valve. As an aside, we corner marshals had-45 minutes earlier-been told in no uncertain terms not to do so, unless the driver was trapped. Fortunately, Tom knew where to stop and was ready to bail before he got to us at T7. Yeah, we got in trouble...
"When I wrecked in the Corvette in 2004 at Sonoma and it caught fire, somebody pulled me out of that car. And I thought that it was a corner worker because I felt somebody put their hands under my armpits and pull me out of the car. I didn’t get out. I don’t have any memory of myself climbing out of the car. And I remember sort of moving like in motion, like going to lean forward and try to climb out of the car, and then something grabbed me under the armpits, pulled me up over the door bars and then let go of me.
"And I fell to the ground, and there’s pictures of me laying on the ground next to the car. I know that when I got to the hospital, I was like, 'Who pulled me out of the car? I gotta say thanks to this person,' because it was a hand! It was physical hands grabbing me! I felt it. And there was nobody there."
I can’t help but wonder was there a fuel leak in Dales Corvette to cause it to spin out at low speeds, then ignite the fuel.
Had to be leak in back to explode like that.
Had to be a leak !
My uncle Tom worked on imsa cars, he said back then they had multiple corvettes for what ever reason used these weird steel connectors and they used to get kinked for some reason on the lines and would leak,, In the back and he middle of the car.. he's been saying this since I was little
Nurses in burn unit with airbrush flame tshirts 😂😂😂😂 that's dark af but funny
My lesson: go to k1 speed the Thursday before the Long Beach Grand Prix
yikes, the firesuits clearly weren't prepared for that level of heat and flames
DALE JR. JUST WANTED TO TELL YOU THIS. I was leaving the master tourney in Augusta in 2007 i believe on Monday, tiger and Phil played together it was there and tiger's last real tourney. BUT i was going thru Statesboro i believe and stopped at a Wendy, i let someone in in front of me in drive thur line. COOL VET WITH USA 1 i believe hope i didn't dox you . BUT I WAS BEHIND YOU AND i like dude this guy i recognize and i staring and staring ...and you looked in your mirror and laughed at my gawking. So anyway you get to the window and get your food and you pull up. THERE WERE THREE GIRLS ACTING LIKE THE BEATLES JUST PERFORMED in the drive thur. and finally after this moment calmed down. I ASKED THE OLDER LADY WAS THAT...? SHE SAID YES THE WAS DALE JR. i got down the road and reached in the bag and had like three doubles and three fries, and i only order one. SO I GUESS I OWN YOU TWO WENDY SINGLES WITH FRYES...you're like a rock star....good for you... thanks for the funny moment.
Dale! Please help Cleetus McFarland save his race track in Florida!!!!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Everytime I see Boris, I think of him calling Biffle a chump. Boris said, what?
still cant find the story abut his dad on youtube would love to hear the whole interview
I'm a crew chief and it suprises me that so many drivers forget to pull the FIRE handle...... it all happens so fast I know..... it's why I yell at drivers that don't put the visor all the way down..........
We took this car this year to a few events Belle isle Rolex reunion at Laguna and velocity at Laguna. Would be cool to get dale back in the car. No fires this time though.
I had 2nd and 3rd degree burns when I got burnt they are so lucky.
I miss Boris.
Fuel fire vs Oil or brake fire. Fuel is HOTTEST!
So I always heard that Dale Jr thought that someone had pulled him from the car during this crash. Is that a true statement that Jr made?
That is true, he was convinced that someone lifted him out of the racecar...
I always believed some supernatural forced helped Jr out of the car during that fire. After hear Boris saying he later had a fire wearing the firesuit he wore that day not only confirms it to me, but I now believe somehow those 2 suits were cursed some way.
I ALWAYS LIKED BORIS SAID
Crazy that the refer a nascar as a race car but not a gt3 spec corvette
Why was nobody on track pulling him out immediately?
this is crazy.
i always take a chance to watch one of these corvette videos specifically, probably since i have one.
been considering the idea of putting the Rolex24 livery on my C5 but after hearing these 2 stories i think ill reconsider
This was accurately portrayed in the Talladega Night movie when Ricky Bobby was on fire.
What was the cause of Dale’s fire? You said your crew worked on the fuel system overnight but never said what happened.
Dale I know your Daddy was your Guardian Angel that day and I know Mr. Said had a Guardian Angel too. Who knows BUT GOD ,your precious Daddy may have saved you both along with GOD🙏🙏🙏 SO
And they both had similar outcomes
What’s with the reposts of old clips?
Off for the holidays….best of the year clips.
End of the year recaps?
Full video title...
"Dale Jr. and Boris Said React to Fiery Corvette Crash from 2004 | Dale Jr. Download Top 10 Moments"
...note the last phrase
My belief- Dale Jr. Had help from some one in heaven to get out of that car.
And it was his Dad thats my Belief
I think they based Ricky Bobby’s fire scenes off this
Imagine what Lauda went through. They didn't even have these suits back then, and he went back to racing still wearing bandages over his head.
I fully believe your Daddy helped get you out of that car. 🙏💞🙏 There are human ANGEL'S among us and I know this is true because one saved me in a wreck where I had been unconscious and was trapped in the car as the frame bent and the driver door would not open ,yet a little female with an orange reflective vest came over, she may have been 5ft. 2 or 3 inches tall and possibly weighed 90 pounds soaking wet, came over and she snatched the door once and and thr squeaking and creaking of metal rubbing together seemed so loud but it didn't open, so she reset her hands and when she snatched the 2nd time, the door miraculously opened. She told me to put my arms around her neck and she slid her left arm under my legs and her right arm around my back and she lifted me up like I was a feather and she carried me singlehandedly to the gurney for the paramedics and she disappeared as quickly as she appeared. It still blows my mind that she was able to open the door of that car as the firetruck with the jaws of life hadn't arrived yet. GOD IS GREAT AND I KNOW THERE ARE ANGEL'S AMONG US. THIS VIDEO WHILE SCARY WAS INSPIRATIONAL BECAUSE Y'ALL BOTH SURVIVED 🙏😇🙏💞🤗💞🙏🙏🙏
Boris..next time go to the hospital!=)..
I had a bad accident with black powder and fireworks couple years ago and my entire body was engulfed in flames. My hands and arms got it the worst and all the skin from my finger tips to me elbows was falling off like a melting candle. Just huge pieces of my arm skin falling off and so i stuck my arms in bread sacks full of dirty pond water because that's all we had at the time. My arms felt like they were still on fire for a week. I refused to go to the hospital so we went to Walmart instead and bought every tube of burn cream they had and covered my arms in the cream then wrapped them with plastic wrap and put socks over that. We changed the wrap everyday and started mixing in this pain relief spray in with the creams and wrap and after a couple of weeks I started growing new skin and believe it or not my arms completely healed with no scars. I showed the pictures of my arms to my dr and he couldn't believe the arms in the pictures were my arms because there's no scarring or signs i was burnt. My full beard protected my face from burning up but it melted my beard down to my skin and i could just wash my beard off in the shower like washing off dirt.
Why recycle all these videos?
To keep the algorithms humming while they take a holiday break (same as everybody else's year in review or "best of" list)
"Dale Jr. and Boris Said React to Fiery Corvette Crash from 2004 | Dale Jr. Download Top 10 Moments"
...the last part of the title...
And that was the day that he lost his nerve in a racecar. He never ran the same in a cup car again after that.
Now, folks should understand why people were jumping out of the Twin Towers on 911… !!!!
Man theses fires sound like a hit job. Just doesn't sound right.
I hate swearing.
Bury your head in the sand
And you do realize that they were on fire 🔥,,,right? The f'n Pope would cuss...
One thing I noticed 25 years ago as a kid, is that NASCAR is horrible at crash response. They take forever to help anyone. Watch an Indy race and notice the difference. Obviously this video is not NASCAR.
The way Boris put Bickle out. In that truck race was a joke , Hope ( For Boris sake ) he never sees Bickle , cuz Bickle WILL Whup his Butt