1976 Firecracker 400 from Daytona International Speedway | NASCAR Classic Full Race Replay

[@shanew.williams]

Another great one NASCAR Classics. I attended nearly every event on the 1976 NASCAR GN schedule. This season was DOMINATED by 2 drivers. Cale (with his unique sounding, bulletproof chevy with 180 degree headers) & Pearson winning the Daytona 500 & most of the superspeedways.

[@RobbinsJoe]

Love all of these classic videos.

[@cjs83172]

This win for Cale Yarborough and Junior Johnson had to have been sweet retribution after what can only be described as a disastrous SpeedWeeks, when the #11 Chevrolet struggled with a McLaren engine, and after being lapped twice in it's qualifying race, changed engine suppliers, and then blew an engine on the very first lap of the Daytona 500, resulting in Cale becoming the first driver ever to finish last in the Daytona 500 twice (he'd also finished last in a 48-car field in the 1962 Daytona 500). So this win, Cale's third in the Firecracker 400, had to have been one of the sweetest of Cale's career, given what had happened earlier that year during SpeedWeeks and the Daytona 500.

[@OccasionalNASCARRaces]

Cale in 76 and Tony Stewart in 2002 are the only two drivers ever to win the championship after starting the year finishing dead last in Daytona

[@cjs83172]

@@OccasionalNASCARRaces Of course, one significant difference was that, in 1976, the Daytona 500 was not the first race of the season. In fact, Cale had finished second to David Pearson at that year's season-opening race at Riverside, so he had quite a number of points in the bank heading to the Daytona 500 (in fact, since Pearson wasn't running the full schedule, Cale was the defacto championship leader entering the Daytona 500 that year), while in Stewart's case, his last place finish in the 2002 Daytona 500 was the first last place finish by an eventual champion in a season opener.

[@beeemm2578]

Cale Yarborough and AJ Foyt goin at it.....a race fans dream 👍

[@beeemm2578]

11:43 what a grown ass man save by Buddy Baker. He just manhandled that car back straight.

[@johncalla2151]

Nice camera shots in this broadcast.

[@stealthbomber2127]

The Mercs were at a disadvantage with that flat nose when leading or running alone against those Laguna S3's.

[@MichaelWilliams-vb6wr]

Donnie Allison Bobby Allison Neil Bonett ALABAMA GANG 4-LIFE R.I.P CLIFFORD AND DAVEY #28

[@AustinLaPlante]

Lost Media Found!

[@muhammadwahyuhidayat21498]

Yes

[@THROTTLEPOWER]

Enjoyed!!!!! 👍 🏁🏁 👍🧨

[@michaeledwards8267]

NASCAR PRESENTS THE 1976 FIRECRACKER 400 1776-1976 200 YEARS OF AMERICA

[@michaeledwards8267]

@@raysmith4052 4th of July 1976 was america's 200th birthday

[@beeemm2578]

'Murica!!!