Daytona 500

[8675]

RacingAccidents channel had this...that is some gnarly shit man.

Do you know if anyone was hurt in the crowd?

There's a couple really old races over in like France/Italy area wayyy back in the day, and cars went into the crowd killing dozens of people...there were first hand accounts of people saying they had an actual human head or limb fly by them.

 

[Gutshot]

How good was your view?

That's one of the only modern crashes that really makes you wonder how the hell he even lived...i've watched all the real bad wrecks from the ''Bobby Allison era'' on youtube, and some of those are just putrid. Ricky's wreck was in that old school category

Great view!! We had tower seats right at the finish line which at talladega is past pit lane towards turn one. My favorite track. I had the next days local paper which had a great picture of Cravens car with cars going under him at close to 200 mph.

 

[SofaQueue2]

RacingAccidents channel had this...that is some gnarly shit man.

Do you know if anyone was hurt in the crowd?

There's a couple really old races over in like France/Italy area wayyy back in the day, and cars went into the crowd killing dozens of people...there were first hand accounts of people saying they had an actual human head or limb fly by them.

Cars have gone into the catch fences a bunch of times, I'm pretty sure every time someone has gotten hurt

Someone got hit with a tire years ago, fucked up good

 

[Gay Howard]

There's a couple really old races over in like France/Italy area wayyy back in the day, and cars went into the crowd killing dozens of people...there were first hand accounts of people saying they had an actual human head or limb fly by them.

I don’t watch nascar but you bring that kinda racing back and I’m in!

 

[SofaQueue2]

 

[SofaQueue2]

The guy who gets fucked up here is the guy who just won the race yesterday

 

[Gutshot]

Great view!! We had tower seats right at the finish line which at talladega is past pit lane towards turn one. My favorite track. I had the next days local paper which had a great picture of Cravens car with cars going under him at close to 200 mph.

Bill Elliott also wreaked on the backstretch that day and broke his hip.

 

[8675]

Great view!! We had tower seats right at the finish line which at talladega is past pit lane towards turn one. My favorite track. I had the next days local paper which had a great picture of Cravens car with cars going under him at close to 200 mph.

Those seats would be good, but sitting too close would make my neuroticisms go bonkers because i'd be worried about being the next "tire guy" like in the video @SofaQueue2 just posted

 

[Gutshot]

They have that car at the museum at talladega. What’s left of it!

 

[8675]

You know it's bad when the crew walks up visibly wondering where a human could possibly be amongst the mess. Incredible he walked out and was cool within minutes.

They really stepped up how those walls were built in the 5 or 6 years between that crash and when i watched, pretty sure the Earnhart wreck made them use padded walls but i could be wrong on that.

 

[SofaQueue2]

Those seats would be good

At some places like Daytona/Talladega, you would be better off high up so you can see the whole track

 

[8675]

At some places like Daytona/Talladega, you would be better off high up so you can see the whole track

As someone who's never been to a professional race, i did wonder how certain people can see...especially on the infield, it seems like if you could get perched up somewhere on the infield you'd get the best view and also could walk up closer to watch pit stops. I liked watching pit stops for some reason

 

[8675]

Ryan Newman had the fastest pit stops when i was watching...not sure why i remember that 15 years later but he had an awesome pit crew

 

[Gutshot]

As someone who's never been to a professional race, i did wonder how certain people can see...especially on the infield, it seems like if you could get perched up somewhere on the infield you'd get the best view and also could walk up closer to watch pit stops. I liked watching pit stops for some reason

Pretty much every track the higher the better. Bristol is pretty cool but you better not be scared of heights!! High and steep. Can’t hear a thing. But definitely worth seeing. I’d recommend Charlotte for a first race experience. Not really a bad seat there. Good racing too.

 

[8675]

Pretty much every track the higher the better. Bristol is pretty cool but you better not be scared of heights!! High and steep. Can’t hear a thing. But definitely worth seeing. I’d recommend Charlotte for a first race experience. Not really a bad seat there. Good racing too.

My cousins live in Cary, they often talked about how nice that was to see a race.

The Coca-Cola 600 was my favorite race aside from the Daytona night race. Loved the night racing on big tracks

 

[VictorVonDoom]

So I’m at the Daytona 500 today and was shocked to hear anounced during the pre-race speaches, “We would like to welcome from the Howard Stern Show , Ronnie the limo driver, Scott Salem, and Schuly Hagar”. No context from the anouncer and no mention of Sirius.

Was any one else there today and heard the same thing?

Anyway it was a good race.

Were people booing?

 

[Phil Leshioh]

Nascrap . Ronnie likes a stupid sport. Non Athletic Sport Centered Around Rednecks!

 

[Monkey]

Were people booing?

No reaction at all. I felt I was the only one who knew who they are.

 

[VictorVonDoom]

No reaction at all. I felt I was the only one who knew who they are.

I would have preferred outright hostility, but I'll settle for indifference.