1974 Daytona 500 from Daytona International Speedway | NASCAR Classic Full Race Replay

[@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT]

the Daytona 450! The only Daytona 500 race that was scheduled to race under 500 miles

[@DanArnets1492]

Would've made a whole lot more sense to force teams to use 10% less fuel, might've improved American fuel efficiency a lot

[@devin26508]

The Daytona 450, started on lap 21 to preserve the 500 name, and the first race under a peculiar points system that led to the Winston Cup Points system we all know and wish hadnt been changed

[@bloqk16]

That was marvelous of you to provide those details. I recall that era well, the end of bargain-priced gasoline. I miss the old points system in NASCAR, there were many seasons where there was high-drama on whom would be champ at season's end. That points system change in the 21st century transitioned me from an avid race fan to a casual one; whereupon if I missed a televised race, no biggie for me.

[@RobertDetert]

Yep. Energy crisis. But later in the year races went back to being their normal distance.

[@AmericanFlyOnTheWall]

I definitely wish they had left the points like they were and never started stage racing. I haven't attended a race since 2015 or watched one on TV since 2018. By the way, bring back Rockingham!

[@jamison59]

Riverside had the first race, not Daytona

[@jimmyj422]

I like the old school racing better than the pack racing of today. Generally the best car won the race, not like today where the lucky one wins because the good cars get crashed out. Keith Jackson could call a stock car race as good as he could a football game.

[@johnriggle8576]

Donnie Allison had it balls to the wall , thats one badass

[@beeemm2578]

Always liked him. Non nonsense, straight forward. He'd put ya through the wall if need be..lol

[@TimRobinson-hc7mt]

These races are so much fun to watch Jackson and Stewart make a great team together but who names their kid COO COO?😀😀😀

[@larrytannas8257]

The flag guy getting a smoke at 1:03:45 ...the good old days (-:

[@MichaelWilliams-vb6wr]

Is it a Tire or a Macanical Malfunction 😂 dude and Keith Jackson were Point 👉 on

[@howardrader3416]

So much air under Pettys car looked like a jacked up hot rod

[@randylucas2458]

Believe it or not that's how we used to set cars up on the street too we would Jack the back ends up to preload the front

[@alzaidi7739]

not really racing , but watching the results of Bill Frances's handicapping handiwork.

[@markwatkinshield2914]

Was PETTY using the HEMI or the WEDGE?

[@randylucas2458]

Dodge only has one 7 L motor that would be the 426 Hemi

[@markwatkinshield2914]

@@randylucas2458 Due to the restrictions NASCAR put on the HEMI, the MOPAR teams used the 426 wedge head engine at some races.

[@randylucas2458]

@@markwatkinshield2914 I don't think I've ever seen one of those did they put wedge heads on the 426?

[@markwatkinshield2914]

@@randylucas2458 Yes there was the 426 Max Wedge and 426 Street Wedge produced in 1964. Then as NASCAR restricted the 426 HEMI engine, Chrysler went back to the Wedge at some tracks. I have a vintage Stock Car Racing magazine that wrote about it.

[@randylucas2458]

@@markwatkinshield2914 yeah I know about that one I was just wondering about in 1974 what they were doing? The only Max wedge is I remember was the 440

[@MrChristopherHaas]

1. Why did the late caution come out? 2. How was Petty a lap up on everyone after Donnie Allison malady? Foyt and Cale should have been on same lap. Not that it mattered, Petty was going 10 mph BY HIMSELF than ANYONE ELSE could go drafting one another lol.

[@cjs83172]

The last caution came out due to Bob Burcham's blown engine right at the start-finish line, and it was running over parts from that engine that blew Donnie Allison's tires out. (Burcham had also brought out the race's fourth caution when he spun wildly through the tri-oval grass and into the pit area.) The second point is one of the stranger ones because you'd have thought that Foyt (who would've been a non-factor in the closing laps due to a shattered windshield), Cale Yarborough, Coo Coo Marlin, Ramo Stott, and Dick Brooks (who went out near the end with a broken left from wheel) would all have been able to make up a lap, since the field had not been formed behind the pace car. Another thing not mentioned at the end is the goof-up that occurred that changed the second, third, and fourth place finishers, because while Marlin was, in fact, in front of Stott and Yarborough when Petty took the checkered flag just behind them, but then lifted, allowing Stott and Yarborough to blow right past him, and them when Yarborough made his patented last-lap slingshot pass on Stott, it allowed Yarborough to get second place, while Stott took third and Marlin had to settle for fourth.

[@MrChristopherHaas]

@@cjs83172 thank you. I always kind of figured that Allison ran over whatever it was that caused the caution but there was no mention of it in this…or any other…broadcast.

[@cjs83172]

@@MrChristopherHaas And as sometimes happens, Burcham's blown engine may have had something to do with his earlier spin, because sometimes when you spin out like he did that one time (Burcham's spin is documented in the Car & Track version of this race, which by the way, has a lot of NFL Films music in it), you can damage the engine, leading to the possibility that the spin through the grass and into the pits helped lead to the blown engine later. But nowhere is it mentioned who it was that blew the engine that led to Allison blowing both front tires, but it was Burcham's silver #57.

[@STP43FAN1]

I think Cale, Ramo Stott, and Marlin were scored as on the tail end of the lead lap and thus couldn’t pass the pacecar; Donnie best then back to the flag (shown in the CAR & TRACK film) before his spin off Burcham’s engine failure.

[@cjs83172]

@@STP43FAN1 There's no question about the fact that Donnie beat the other cars that were one lap down (Cale, Foyt, Ramo Stott, Coo Coo Marlin, and Dick Brooks) to the start-finish line. But there has always been a question regarding the fact that, with Donnie having spun out, the pace car not having gone out onto the track, and Richard Petty being three-quarters of a lap behind when all that started (and the other five all likely being on the same lap as Richard, given their track positioning), whether those other cars should also have had an opportunity to move up. As things turned out, Foyt had a windshield broken so badly he had to drive the last five laps one-handed and Brooks broke a left front wheel, leaving the other three to battle for second place behind (or just in front of) Petty, which led to the day's single-biggest mistake, which the broadcast makes no mention of, which would have been Coo Coo Marlin backing off, allowing both Stott and Yarborough to fly by, and then Yarborough to execute his patented slingshot entering turn three to grab second place from Stott. And while it didn't affect any finishing position, one minor scoring mess-up did occur, because NASCAR scoring showed Darrell Waltrip as finishing one lap behind, but when Richard Petty drafted by him at the start-finish line, it actually put him two laps behind at the finish.

[@THROTTLEPOWER]

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[@jodykeepers8376]

KING...STP & 43

[@HardCore69Davod]

Yes sir "THE KING" 43, A lot people say Dale Earndhart was but 200 wins, Petty Will always be THE KING, EARNDHART IS A JESTER,.

[@louisevillebrun3854]

Nascar sucks today haven't watched it since the early 80s

[@beeemm2578]

I mean, look at these cars? completely bad ass. Nascar didn't evolve naturally...they forced too many wholesale changes, like format and rule changes, ect. Its a shame.