1990 Pontiac Excitement 400 (RAW SATELLITE FEED)

NASCAR Winston Cup Series
Richmond International Raceway
February 25th, 1990

[@derekrichards1076]

Coldest NASCAR race in history

[@Joshua-b3k]

What was the temperature they never said

[@cool3865]

@@Joshua-b3k temperature in the mid-20s and winds gusting to 41 MPH, generating a wind chill of about 5 degrees.

[@Spike-sk7ql]

Back when Nascar was worth watching. God, I miss these days.

[@b4il3ytrpt]

Another great race. Never leave us dude, and we all appreciate what you do.

[@hoopsheavenpa]

God, I miss Dale Earnhardt. Love or hate him, NASCAR was never the same after he passed away.

[@knobdikker]

🙄🙄🙄 No different than Petty, Allison, Yarborough, Pearson, etc. no longer racing. Here's a clue, Earnhardt wasn't God. Another Earnhardt fan with an IQ equal to his car number--3.

[@gary24fan]

@@knobdikker I never understood the appeal of Earnhardt. He wasn't some sort of "self-made" racer. When his Dad died he basically had a competitive, ready-made team sitting there for him to learn his trade on the short tracks. And believe me when I say this: the guy hired a PR man very early on. Watch the 1979 Daytona 500 on NASCAR's channel: they were pumping his tires before he ever won a damned thing in Cup.

[@LT1HILLINGHOE]

@@gary24fan I never understood the appeal of gordon. She was a silver spooned pansy that had the absolute best equipment, from day 1, and she could only win 4 cups. No wonder she drove that multi colored car.

[@LT1HILLINGHOE]

W.B. Jones...Earnhardt was the best driver there ever was in Nascar. I watched him his whole career and he had no equal.

[@MatildaH82]

@@gary24fan shut up. Dale worked his ass off to get where he was. He was the working man’s racer

[@brendanwilliams7291]

If it was any colder during the day, you would have seen snowmen everywhere around the track, great stuff.

[@samcater7768]

Smiff I really appreciate you not putting the winners in the thumbnail or description. Can watch these without knowing the winner.

[@rodneyrhonemus3197]

SMIFF, dude you are legendary. I keep typing in specific races i wanna go watch and its always you with the upload. youre doing a great service to the sport man. thank you so much

[@Holden308]

The good thing about these videos for someone like myself who was growing up in Australia at the time (we didn't get cable TV until the mid-90s) is that I can now watch the races, even if it is a bit late lol. We had started to get more NASCAR highlights shown in Australia thanks to having our own series which started up in 1988 after the opening of the Calder Park Thunderdome, but apart from a tape delayed, late night showing of the Daytona 500 the only full races we got on television was the local series, the level of which was around that of the Winston West Series (our best drivers would have struggled in the Busch Series, let alone the Winston Cup). Thanks SMIFF TV, much appreciated.

[@GBAmerica1781]

I'm going through the NASCAR seasons starting with 1990. I just got into NASCAR and I really appreciate the races you have uploaded. Subscribed!

[@pickitup7008]

Have you watched every race for the decade???

[@hollenhammer]

Wow, this is far better quality than the version of this race I just finished watching. Dammit.

[@DaltonHastings1]

Definitely the coldest race in NASCAR history. 30 degrees, but with high winds, the wind chill made it to 5 degrees

[@knobdikker]

Races in the fall of 1976 were colder.

[@jeffreyherman9477]

@@knobdikker numbers please

[@nullname0]

​@@knobdikker which ones

[@pickitup7008]

I can’t get enough of this!!!

[@johnmunro7548]

I remember in 2007 I went to the then Labor Day at CA Speedway... 110 degrees... I’ll take the cold since you can actually combat the cold.

[@skeleguns10oooooo10]

Controversy, Mark Martin was penalized 46 points for a spacer which was actually not illegal, (It was bolted on instead of welded on). This would be a turning point of the 1990 championship. Dale Earnhardt Protested the penalty.

[@TonyWud]

Who protested it?

[@Spike-sk7ql]

@@TonyWud he told you who did.

[@cnking27]

The rule was new, I think because Schrader’s carb at Daytona allowed air to be sucked in around the spacer, underneath the restrictor plate, for extra power. A welded spacer prevented that. Not only was the ruling against Mark ticky tack, it was for something that provided him no advantage whatsoever on a non-restricted track.

[@sandrahunter5749]

I love the old races ! I love Michael Waltrip 💗💋

[@Carolinian4372]

Always liked Mark Martin. I was at the race in Rockingham when he got his first career win.

[@iopiop670]

15:49 spin during formarion lap

[@TanDawg58]

Butch Miller. He spun when it was turn to be mentioned in the lineup

[@oscarjimenezsr.716]

Mark Martin will always be the True Champion of 1990

[@chadhenderson9732]

Lol.okay. Earnhardt led 6 times more laps. 3 times more wins. More top 5s. Mark is right where his is suppose to be....second.

[@johnharris6655]

Back when cars looked like actual street cars.

[@cool3865]

i wouldnt say that, after 1988 they stopped looking like their street cars, they look like them more than say the past 15 years of Nascar but yeah.

[@nascarvintage17]

best season for me 1990

[@Fetterkuss1983]

The race that in hindsight determined the 1990 championship.

[@RooneyMac]

Yeah and Mark won it. Second race of the season was the difference. Can't say that today

[@Joshua-b3k]

32 degrees at the start of the race

[@landon8590]

The coldest nascar race in history

[@williamshultz4620]

What was NASCAR thinking back then scheduling a Richmond race in late February?

[@JJA1987]

Richmond was always the 2nd race for years till The Rock was

[@MRosati5000]

They we stupid still are. They sould stay down south early in the season.

[@jessiehenry3597]

Last Time Tbs Used The 1985 Intro

[@victorgoizueta2993]

What's the name of that song?

[@MrChristopherHaas]

Thank goodness for that

[@jacasoasheland6815]

2:49:10 Chris Economacki "Do we know why the yellow is out?" lmao. "Why is the yellow out?"

[@Holden308]

The track announcer sounds like Eli Gold......

[@gaffneyrailroading1982]

Back in the day, Eli Gold did play by play on NASCAR for the Motor Racing Network (MRN), which is the NASCAR radio broadcast.

[@austinmorris274]

Man...why on earth did they used to race in Northern Virginia that early in the year?

[@trecooledge1326]

Got to love how even the TV stations showed the Confederate flag and nobody had their mouth running about it

[@NotSteveCook]

Drivers or crew guys could drop an audible F-bomb, and the announcers didn't have to apologise for it.

[@knobdikker]

Libterds will have a cardiogram heart attack if they watch this! Glad I lived in this era where it still was a non "woke" sport!

[@gary24fan]

If you love it so much why don't you start a new secession movement. Believe me, the rest of the country will be better off without you inbred mouth-breathers.

[@josephscott6388]

Squier gets snippy with the producer during the break @2:03:00

[@johnhenryNC]

I don't know why Rusty was mad at Dale there at the end; Wallace came down on him in turn one.

[@johnday6434]

remember it well , we were there on Saturday & froze, on the way back to the car I told my gf lets sell our Sunday tickets & took a loss at least we got some money back

[@patrickbrannon1325]

I can only imagine how it felt in the grandstands. It feels so cold sitting up there for some reason

[@MyKittyPercy]

This is the only sport I can think of where the camera often cuts to a random shot of the crowd while something important is happening on the track. Just why?

[@jeffreyherman9477]

I noticed that was a big problem in the late 80s early 90s, best example was 86 at Richmond Dale and Darrell were v racing for the win and they kept cutting to this girl in the stands

[@Spike-sk7ql]

Watch a modern F1 race. Anytime something happens, they always give the TV audience a shot of the fans reacting to it, and miss the actual thing that was happening. Hell.... they even missed the winner crossing the finish line this year, to show some people who probably have no idea about the sport, because for some reason, F1 actually invites "celebrities" to the races, and let's them walk the paddock, AND the starting grid!

[@gtrdriver27]

18:05 Race Start

[@Fetterkuss1983]

Shame what happened to Alan in this one.

[@WaldiNASCAR]

2:48:23

[@NotSteveCook]

"Today's racing is so much better than the 80s and 90s"🙄

[@MrChristopherHaas]

Youre joking, right.

[@NotSteveCook]

@@MrChristopherHaas No. I'm quoting no-nothings and apparatchiks who seem to be unaware of how good stock car racing used to be, and giving that opinion an eyeroll.

[@MrChristopherHaas]

GOOD. I thought as much lol. Its really, REALLY hard to buy into 15-18 year old rich peoples kids as professional drivers. Wait until you see what they do next year.

[@Spike-sk7ql]

Can't even bring myself to watch Nascar anymore. There's no true champion anymore, and what's even worse is they started doing that dumb shit in NHRA too🤬 Until this BS "playoffs" bullshit is gone, there will be no true champion, as the championship should be about who put in the best whole season. Not the best last 10 races. You want to do that dumb shit, do it on your own time. Make it a special event, and crown the Nascar champion before the chase, or playoffs, or buttfuckery starts.

[@LT1HILLINGHOE]

Rusty, it was your fault. You pulled down on Earnhardt. Your fault.

[@gary24fan]

LT1HILLINGHOE it was 32 years ago...get over it!

[@LT1HILLINGHOE]

@@gary24fan It was 1 year ago...get over it!

[@MrChristopherHaas]

Economacki was the man. Squier was senile. Squier made ENDLESS mistakes as usual. Cudos to all of those rebels that braved the weather to be theee like i wish i could have been

[@gary24fan]

Economaki was a putz. That clown just strung pretty words together and basically said nothing.

[@TanDawg58]

You're both wrong

[@jessiehenry5405]

3:42:37