Richmond 400 Feb 23, 1986

WTBS coverage of the Richmond 400 Winston Cup race run on February 23, 1986. It's exactly as my cable company carried it, including commercials. I hope you enjoy it. Be sure to watch the end of the race as it set the tone for many races for many seasons to come.
The Richmond track was rebuilt shortly after this. In this era Richmond was the first race after the Daytona 500 and was often cold, and even got snowed out once or twice.
NASCAR Cup racing has changed dramatically since this race was run. This was near the end of the "good ol' boy" era. Soon all the races were televised, the sponsorships increased dramatically and the money started flowing.
This was dubbed from a VHS tape recorded at the ELP speed so the quality is not up today's digital DVR standards. But it's what we had available then. And without major expense real time analog copying is the only way to convert it so you lose a generation. Apologies for any audio problem. It was fine on the tape, and during the conversion process. But seems to gack periodically.

[@evil14life]

My home track, from the year I was born. Crazy how much Richmond has grown/changed over the years.

[@33skoalbandit]

Fantastic quality! Thank you!

[@cheesyvideo]

You are welcome

[@mpachinko4069]

Is there anything that resembles this kind of racing any more? NASCAR today is absolutely nothing like this.

[@cheesyvideo]

Not that I've found. It's why my interest in NASCAR has dropped to near zero. This was definitely a more exciting "rubbing is racing" kind of era.

[@NY32986]

the best is the commercials for Champion, Gillette Brush Plus & Cavalier Z-24

[@wethepeople7961]

Thank You

[@cheesyvideo]

You're welcome

[@AustinLaPlante]

Disclaimer: Actual title for this race: 1986 Miller High Life 400

[@CJODell12]

2:59. Geoff Bodine was the first NASCAR driver to regularly wear a full face helmet IIRC

[@CountryCarReviews]

3:03 Gibbs, selling beer before he was solving crimes.

[@drstupid4366]

Lets call it like we see it . Darrell Waltrip and Dale Earnhardt was racing as hard as they could to win the race ...........but the final wreck wasn't racing . There was no way that Earnhardt was gonna make that pass without wrecking Waltrip .............Earnhardt was hoping he would save his car because he knew Waltrip couldn't save his . Somewhere in all this Sterling Marlin is blaming Ernie Irvan for the wreck even though they wasn't racing that day . Good job Kyle Petty .

[@donaldkey8379]

Only place find this type of racing is local track now days

[@matthewblake3562]

Why wasn't Benny Parsons racing was he retire then in 1986 or hurt

[@cheesyvideo]

IIRC Benny was only racing a partial schedule at that point. Semi-retired.

[@randyjohnson6845]

Rusty won his first in 86 and one a race every year till 2002.....55 total

[@CountryCarReviews]

Damon wayens at 26:31

[@dirtybirdsrise]

This reminded me how damn corny 80s commercials were

[@randyjohnson6845]

Any driver that will unbuckle and set on the window and clean his windshield right beside the emergency safety crew at yellow flag pace car speed just might unbuckle on his last lap at Daytona

[@EstebanRapido]

Wild