1976 NASCAR Winston Cup Series Winston 500 at Talladega

[@leeroyholloway4277]

Gotta love that infield... it's manicured like a cow pasture.

[@STP43FAN1]

14:12 Petty and Donnie Allison are all at least one lap down; in a normal Talladega race they’d be leaders and the lead would be changing 50 or so times.

[@brettcooley6284]

I was there in the backstretch bleachers. Went for many years since it was our local track.

[@stevedudden6236]

Times have changed going from a 17 sec pit stop to a 9 sec pit stop

[@STP43FAN1]

Yep. The stops are faster and the depth of the fields is vastly better

[@douglasdixon524]

​@@STP43FAN1Bullshit!

[@Backwoods_870]

Back when stockcar drivers were balls to walls and foot to the floor drivers... no restrictor plates...just skill.

[@STP43FAN1]

They’d run restrictor plates at Talladega in 1970-71 and 1973. The 1974 Daytona 500 notably was a restrictor plate race.

[@Backwoods_870]

@@STP43FAN1 😲😲Holy shit I had no clue.. thanks 👍🏾👍🏾

[@STP43FAN1]

It should also be noted NASCAR went to smaller carburetors six races before this race.

[@douglasdixon524]

​​@@STP43FAN1That was one damn race. Restrictor plates weren't mandator on super speedways until 1988.

[@STP43FAN1]

Douglas restrictor plates were mandated for EVERY track starting at Michigan in August 1970. Both Daytona races ran restrictor plates in 1971; Talladega ran restrictor plates 1970-71. They switched to carburetor sleeves in September 1971 and ran them until reverting to restrictor plates at the Firecracker 400 in 1973. The Talladega 500 in 1973 and Daytona 500 in 1974 were restrictor plate races. So you’re flat wrong here

[@Brian.Senecal]

When fast was fast and needed big balls to man handle them Cadillacs.

[@STP43FAN1]

The cars were five to eight MPH slower than what they run in the draft circa 2024

[@douglasdixon524]

​@@STP43FAN1First of all NASCAR is shit these days. The second thing is cars were faster before restrictor plates. You just keep posting bullshit lies. Once again NASCAR is shit compared to what it was from 1947 til early 2000s.

[@michaelriffey1268]

Amazing track

[@STP43FAN1]

Buddy Baker qualified only twelfth; Bud Moore and his crew yanked out the engine, drove the four and half hours to their Spartanburg SC shop and redid the engine.

[@crockett_lee6605]

Back when horsepower took priority over aerodynamics.

[@STP43FAN1]

Wrong. Nobody who was capable of winning brought anything but their slickest cars. The draft pretty much neutralized horsepower

[@STP43FAN1]

BTW they ran I think 380 carbs instead of 830s in this race

[@crockett_lee6605]

@@STP43FAN1 i didn't say that there was no emphasis on aerodynamics. Horsepower took priority before NASCAR decided to make all cars more equal through fuel restrictions causing draft racing and in return causing aerodynamics to become more priority,especially on super speedways.

[@STP43FAN1]

Crockett NASCAR didn’t create that, competition evolution did that. All NASCAR did was return restrictor plates in 1988; people who blame NASCAR for common templates ignore form following function beat them to that punch.

[@crockett_lee6605]

@@STP43FAN1 you're right

[@chrisrhoads8256]

Ole way the best days 🏁🏎 that what track made for fast fast fast /👍👈🤙🤘🤟🤛👊🤜💪👌🇺🇲🏁

[@STP43FAN1]

Petty lost a lap on his pitstop gaffe.

[@STP43FAN1]

Is there film of the Talladega 500 that year?

[@AustinLaPlante]

Considered lost media.

[@ryanjones9881]

Back before woke democrats ruined it.

[@jessiehenry5405]

Dude, keep your Poiltical Opinion To Yourself This A Video About Nascar and not Republicans and Democrats