1965 Nascar Daytona 500

[@twiconnor643]

I'm so grateful that I was able to meet and spend time with Fred earlier this month! I honestly might be his youngest fan (I'm turning 19 at the end of August)

[@MrMrliamo]

You are a lucky man, best wishes, from the west of Ireland

[@twiconnor643]

Thank you. Now I’ve started on a project to try to get him inducted into the Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame. Hope it works.

[@MrMrliamo]

@@twiconnor643 that's great, can you let me know? From liam

[@twiconnor643]

I’ll try to remember.

[@peterdoucet7974]

If there was one notable face that wasn't in that year's Daytona 500, it was Glenn 'Fireball' Roberts. During the previous year's World 600 at Charlotte, NC, Roberts' purple Ford was avoiding an incident involving Ned Jarrett & Junior Johnson on Lap 7. Then, disaster struck. Robert's car, in the midst of a spin, slammed into the gate opening along the backstretch wall...flipping the car...ripping the fuel tank...& causing an explosion. Ned went to his fellow driver's aid. Roberts was hanging upside down...& then, came the words: "My God, Ned! Help Me! I'm On Fire!!!" Jarrett freed Roberts from his harness, & removed the burning clothing from Robert's body. It was way too late. 'Fireball' Roberts was severely burned...over 80% of his body. Six weeks later, at Daytona Beach, FL., as the drivers were getting ready for the Firecracker 400, sad news came through every stall in the garage: 'Fireball' Roberts was dead. His funeral was held after the race was done. Following Roberts' death, NASCAR implemented a very important piece of equipment for all stock cars...& has been standard to this very day: Self-Sealing Rubber-Lined Fuel Cells. That was Fireball Roberts' enduring legacy...& many drivers owed their lives to it.

[@m42037]

Holman and Moody were also big in NHRA back in the 60s & 70s. And love the 65-66 Galaxies. I raced a 66 in NHRA ran best of 13:79 @ 98mph with 375 hp, not spectacular no but pretty peppy for a driver , i miss that car

[@lolbr6818]

It was on in 65. Very dangerous & exciting period for our entire country...

[@asd36f]

The huge crash at 6:52 was during the 2nd qualifying race. Rod Eulenfeld in the 71 car blew an engine in turns 3 & 4 and slid up the track, flipped over, and slid into the grass flipping over and on fire while other cars got into his oil and spun/crashed out. Luckily all drivers were not seriously injured. #daytona500 #nascar

[@brianglennon1546]

This vid has amazing quality for 1965

[@MichaelBarrJr]

Your welcome...glad to bring these great races to other racing enthusiasts.

[@79tazman]

At least you got this awesome stuff even if it's not perfect it's still cool as hell

[@alvingriggs6932]

He passed away today R.I.P. Champion

[@marknc9616]

0:35 Skip the initial background interference noise.

[@altfactor]

Old school NASCAR!

[@greatestbrand5191]

thanks very much for the video

[@lancehurley9743]

Fast Freddys secret for 1965?...The Great Waddell Wilson...

[@Tmerkley01]

THANK YOU!!!!

[@cjs83172]

For those wondering, that noise was probably from the fact that the VHS was likely originally recorded on a Hi-Fi Stereo VCR. That's probably what the excess noise was, especially if it was the beginning of the tape. I know because that's happened to me many times since I started using such VCRs in 2005. But this may be the most complete record of what was one of the worst Daytona 500s ever run. In fact, in just the first six laps, 14 cars of the 43 that originally started, dropped out of the race. That's nearly one car dropping out for each of the first 15 miles of the race. Of course, this race was the first big race after the Hemi was outlawed, which answers for the shallow field for the '65 Daytona 500. Still, a great win for Fred Lorenzen, and it was certainly a case of a reversal of fortune for Fred. Two years earlier, he had dominated the Daytona 500, but lost to the Wood Brothers car, then driven by Tiny Lund, because of fuel mileage. Then on top of that, he had been leading his qualifying race two days before the Daytona 500 when he mistook the white flag for the checkered, slowed down, and Junior Johnson beat him. And of course, it had to be an emotional win for Fred, as this was the first Daytona 500 since the death of his idol, Fireball Roberts, the 1962 winner. This was also the crown jewel of a career in the Daytona 500 that included second place finishes in 1963 and '67, fourths in 1961 and '66, fifth place finishes in 1962 and '71.

[@m42037]

If you're still around, yes true but these were really good looking cars in 65 unlike modern jellybeans

[@cjs83172]

@@m42037 The cars were likely better back then, mainly because of the fact that they were the cars that people drove, and so they could identify with. But because of the boycott by the Chrysler teams, and then the huge crash in the second qualifying race, there were many start-and-parks in that Daytona, as fully one-third of the field (14 of the 43 cars) completed six or fewer laps. Strangely, only five more cars dropped out before the race was stopped at 133 laps due to rain. Now, since that post was made a decade ago, the full WWOS broadcast of this race has been re-discovered and posted by the NASCAR Classics channel, so this upload is no longer the most complete record of this race.

[@CuchoDeCucho]

The Rod Eulenfeld Flip 6:48

[@almattei88]

12:00 that manual scoreboard, tho.

[@wedgenstein]

That Petty crash at 2:21 looked like it knocked him out for a second or 2, judging from the position of his head

[@MichaelBarrJr]

Sorry about the 1st 30 seconds of audio..the original vhs I have of this race has done that for years...so I couldn't do much when converting this to dvd.

[@sillygoose2508]

Michael Barr Jr. it's all good I'm enjoying the hell out of this thanks for posting big time

[@OriginalAnonymous1]

Awesome video, totally enjoy watching these old races.....but I have to say the the sound effects are distracting.

[@sillygoose2508]

wow pit row was a wild and crazy place back then

[@noviranger88]

"He won everything" - HE DIDN'T WIN A TITLE!!

[@noviranger88]

Didn't realize... he never tried.

[@jimbosc]

Man what a Ford FE party! Woo hoo!

[@Seanni68]

real hellraiser

[@davidrobinette3834]

Gotta love the cheesy sound effects.

[@toddbob55]

Ford always winning

[@welllsaiddddd]

this is when there was REAL racers on the track

[@SomeUsernameSomeoneElseTookIt]

and there still is

[@bretttocco5761]

😃

[@invisiblepuppet3437]

10:00

[@lermadomingo9020]

1961 Daytona 500 please

[@attilafitzpatrick6881]

politics (aka$$) has Always been part and parcel of nascar

[@walterharp1773]

Hemi engine was banned,

[@ronniewatkins]

The stands are nowhere near full!!!

[@randallmckinney-739]

weatherly fireball pardue wade died in 64 bad year for racing

[@wallyfronzaglio372]

Where are the c body plymouths I'm sick of looking at fords

[@dylanbrod429]

I think this was the year that all chrysler products boycotted nascar because their hemi was banned

[@sillygoose2508]

didn't Freddie have some suspicious financial support I don't know just asking should I have changed my user name ? lol please don't kill me I know not what I've done yeah I'm an ass hole