1998 DieHard 500 (RAW SATELLITE FEED)

NASCAR Winston Cup Series
Talladega Superspeedway
April 26th, 1998

[@WastdTrashPanda]

God I miss that generation of cars

[@editorodriguez6554]

Me to this was the generation i really grew up watching and I just love this generations of cars. Those Chevy Monty Carlos were such beautiful machines

[@94nolo]

I miss the look. Not the safety. These cars took Dale's life.

[@stormcerj]

Those sb2 engines screamed!

[@badmonkey2222]

@@stormcerj 850hp ...that's what i miss, just listen to how much better the cars sound, even though there running plates here and with them they still had around 650HP, the engines still sounded better even with restrictor plates, and now they've castrated the cars down to 500HP without plates!!!, pathetic!!! Not only that, used to be men, with personalities, not these spoiled kids who are like cold fish with no personality, boring and sterile, goody two shoes corporate hacks with no appeal whatsoever, hell i can't even find a driver to pull for anymore, not that it matters because i quit watching every Sunday since 2016 when they went to the new shit no power engines, that was just like the last straw for me, and I'm glad i did because they havn't stopped destroying everything that made NASCAR what it once was, all these rediculous rules, stage racing, ( what ever happend to endurance), shortening most of the races from 5 to 400 miles, the cars look horrible and now with those carbon fiber bodies just a little contact and the caris destroyed, you can't beat the dents out like metal and most of the time there is nothing left to beat out because the body is disintegrated all over the back stretch, and glowlights, like some lowrider thug!? Really??? That's the furthest thing from what NASCAR was, i mean you know the greats are rolling over in their graves, just sad what they've done and continue to do, you think the cars look like shit now, wait until next year when that hideous Gen7 car comes out, all it's missing is big 22 inch chrome rims, and wouldn't surprise me if that's next.

[@chrisshockey5845]

The drivers, the cars, the personalities, the fans and the old points system. Not a thing I don't like about it. It's been ruined since the inception of THE CHASE!

[@usachristmas5433]

Holy crap Elliott had angels with him, full bore into the wall and slapped on his driver side door at 200MPH, no HANS or soft wall. Brutal crash, Bill must have a spine made of steel I beam.

[@74SD455TA]

He was just loose

[@rumaabba8875]

Taladega was more dangerous than nowadays texas motor speedway. How the heck v8 fans forgot that ?

[@joshuabranson74]

He had Ronald McDonald watching over him

[@vapinbachelor289]

Bill was tougher than hearty pine. Tougher than he's given credit. Unlike these puss's of today.

[@PaulBoss351]

My Dad called me during the commercial break and we both wondered if Bill survived that one.

[@breezyb606]

2:40:11. I completely forgot they got Earnhardts car back out there with Kyle Petty driving. And listen to the fan appreciation seeing the 3 back out there no hood or fenders. What an awesome time in NASCAR

[@de31168]

The clarity of this video is beautiful. Thanks or sharing!

[@SMIFFTV]

Hey, it's my pleasure lol

[@jonathan_tong93]

Congrats SMIFF TV For posting full NASCAR Races

[@belowthemasondixisonline4098]

It's great to watch "real stock car racing". The 90's was the best era for NASCAR. I use to be a die hard NASCAR fan for long time. I'd watch qualifying on Friday afternoons, Bush race on Saturday's and Winston Cup on Sunday's. Also had season tickets to Darlington. But those days are gone...

[@pedrochevez2090]

The 90s sure had the most distinguishable car schemes. Especially the late 90s. But to me, the 80s had the best and most intense racing in nascar history. The fastest and craziest matches were seen. There were no restrictor plates until the late 80s so you didn't see a lot of "big ones" happening due to several dozen cars bunched up together. Back then the fastest cars won.

[@NickyD]

literally the same now

[@murrij]

This satellite raw feed is the best way to watch race (other than being there of course)!

[@joshuabranson74]

Satellites is the only way and the best way you get to see the entire race. In person sucks you only get to see one very small part of the race and have to be deaf for 3 straight hours surrounded by drunk incest hillbillys that haven't showered in weeks the only thing that beats satellite is actually driving in the race

[@six-pack1332]

I miss the LaBonte's, good clean racers. The Iceman was my favorite.

[@joshuabranson74]

Yeah well Terry was better he wasn't a backstabbing snake like Bobby imagine stabbing you're brother in the back with two laps to go you're brother has led the last 30 laps and all of a sudden you back stab him hang him out to dry so you can pass him and win the race at the last minute. Bobby was a coward for what he did to terry

[@vapinbachelor289]

U never listened to in car radio's? Lol

[@PaulBoss351]

The one and only restrictor plate win for Pontiac.

[@usachristmas5433]

The 1990’s races at Talladega were absolutely the best NASCAR product EVER. Man do I miss the sounds of those cars.

[@reverendrasheemstewart3744]

This was a good Talladega race and the big one was a very hard crash for my all time favorite driver Bill Elliott

[@dmaxie115]

@nascar if you bring back this type of racing I'll start watching and attending racing again

[@ChrisJ926]

Problem is, they can never bring back the character of drivers like this.

[@pepylepew1961]

I was there that day ,we were sitting so close to wreck we got hot radiator spray on us & a got a few red pop rivets from Bill Elliots 9 car Im guessing ....so much smoke we couldnt see much ,but we could still hear cars screeching & crashing very hard into each other, most violent thing Ive ever heard & witnessed. Earnhart was lucky that day .

[@daviclar867]

Dale always qualified well at Talladega. That was his track! But that man took a hellava lick at this race!

[@4fanintexas]

Almost identical to the crash 2 years earlier when Irvan got into Sterling Marlin in the trioval and turn Marlin and Earnhardt head-on into the wall.

[@nascage]

Yes, I always thought so, too.

[@jonathan_tong93]

Bill Elliott's Massive crash was more severe than what happened to Earnhardt

[@nascage]

@@jonathan_tong93 How so? I would say they were equally as bad. One involved fire, while the other took a hit on the roof from another car with the occupant inside.

[@SubmissionGrappler83]

@@jonathan_tong93 Earnhardt just about had to be cut out of his car after the '96 crash. He never was the same after that. That's a pretty severe crash!

[@exoticbutters4154]

@@jonathan_tong93 look at you causing controversy

[@levipayne801]

NASCAR was so much better in the 90s

[@MarkoFavre]

2:21:18 This is something that's hard to get across to the fans today. The superspeedway racing of today produces tight pack racing, but as Dale said, "It's not good racing though. Y'all can talk about it all you want, it ain't good racing."

[@fatpatlives1998]

Dale loved the unplated racing of the mid 80s pre Bobby Allison accident

[@donaldwoodcock832]

I miss Dale Earnhardt senior

[@plantfeeder6677]

@@donaldwoodcock832 I don't. RIP

[@knobdikker]

One of the very few things that I agree with that Earnhardt said.

[@mgtowoutlaw6950]

@@plantfeeder6677 we do

[@danielsummey4144]

I miss the old big satellites. When we got ours, my dad had “a dude” who spent all day programming it. But getting to watch the raw feed of everything was awesome

[@JamesSmith-uc8tk]

I started watching this yesterday. This morning, I read that John Andretti died. One of the first names I heard when I started watching again today was John Andretti. RIP.

[@TheOriginalDarsidion]

Best quote: "folks he didn't even hit his head in that accident. He's fine, that's just Michael Waltrip!"

[@joshuabranson74]

Yeah Michael Waltrip was always kind of fruity he def knows what another man Pee Pee taste like

[@tnwhiskey68]

What a feeling that must be when you are just cruising, feeling out your car and listening intently for the spotter, then you're facing the inside wall!

[@BengtsonJ]

A full 500 mile race without stages and cautions for dead flies on the track.

[@adalbertogomesmacedofilho2919]

on the best track ✓

[@badmonkey2222]

And cars that had over 800hp not these pathetic 550hp cars today.

[@badmonkey2222]

@Dan N yes that's true although their using (unleaded) racing gas it's like 112 octane, we have one gas station in my city that sells it, I used to put it in my Trans Am, last time I looked it was 7$ a gal.

[@evannuh-koo-la4054]

@@badmonkey2222 except these cars have restrictor plates on superspeedways unlike the cars today.

[@Chad-wu4ij]

Good call

[@tylerstooksbury3050]

I was at this race as a kid. I remember seeing Bill Elliott's hood fly out of a cloud of smoke from the grandstands. You can see it at 2:08:50

[@dracer555]

I was 19, this was one of 4 cup races I went to at dega. 2 dale won

[@vapinbachelor289]

I thougt Ward Burton had took out two of the greatest to ever drive that day.

[@HarpoSpoke]

The other drivers did NOT want to help Gordon at all unless they just had no other option. If he pulled out of line, it was over. Pretty amazing he ever won any of those plate races.

[@srvfan25]

I bet it was because they hated him

[@JackTheripper911]

Well 1998 is the season Jeff won 13 races, i imagine that had a part to play in it.

[@apointtomake1517]

You know ALL those drivers in the lead draft were laughing when they heard Gordon lost the draft.

[@keenenbenton9843]

I can understand that not wanting to help a fast car but I ever could understand why in the early 00’s every driver wanted to help junior I mean I get he wasn’t an asshole but he clearly was th e fastest car at the plate races at the time and still no one would ever leave him out to dry to go to the back especially not in the late closing laps it never made sense to me from a competitive sense

[@gfoursux9]

I was at this race. You ain't seen fast until you've been track-side when these boys get rolling at full song. Whew.

[@dchawk81]

Someone obviously has never commuted in New Jersey. 😄

[@daviclar867]

If you ask me this was the best plate racing, EVER! If we can somehow go back to this with new car I'm in!

[@dannydevito9056]

Crazy that Dale had two similar crashes at talladega two years apart

[@jockejocke1]

Bob Jenkins and Benny Parsons, good old days

[@deanwilliams9332]

This is "Holy Shit Racing Yes !!!!!"

[@Chad-wu4ij]

Them along with Ned Jarrett created a weekend soundtrack to my childhood. Such nostalgia watching these races.

[@joeyjohnson4826]

@@Chad-wu4ij my childhood bp would be in the booth and the race car, he could wheel an old school stock car...😁

[@Chad-wu4ij]

@@joeyjohnson4826 Ole BP was a helluva Wheelman. He's really under rated as a driver in my opinion.

[@plantfeeder6677]

The Ford Taurus made a lousy restrictor plate car. It produced so much down force it hindered them at the big 4 RP races but made for an awesome unrestricted car on the shorter tracks.

[@purwantiallan5089]

I miss these classic 1998 NASCAR cars.

[@MrRock4evr]

2:09:54 Wish they had an onboard view of Rusty Wallace (#2 car top right) How he got through that was incredible!

[@charleswronge4743]

Amazing

[@darren.plateroti]

2:24:09 Truly amazing. Nearly rear-ended Michael Waltrip, but did woe up quick enough to miss it!

[@DaltonHastings1]

2:08:52 HARD IN THE WALL!

[@jonathan_tong93]

2:08:53 Bob Jenkins said this race when Awsome Bill crashed his #94 Ford Taurus

[@michaelwightman4358]

I remember this Great/Fast race.. Spencer had Best car all day! If only One more laps for him/#23,

[@raptorstrike87]

Man they are so stacked up on top of each other today compared to back then

[@daviclar867]

Yes!

[@masterofjustice1984]

Man, the sound of those engines coming up to speed at 4:35 gives me goosebumps

[@jg772006]

FUN FACT: Bill Elliott's wrecked racecar from this race, is on permanent display at the Georgia Racing Hall of Fame.

[@bradydicarlo9143]

A race Jack Roush would like to forget. Burton, Musgrave, and Benson all blew engines while Martin and Little were caught up in the big one.

[@redcastle12b31]

I've got into building model race cars from these classic days of thunder!

[@plantfeeder6677]

Funny....classic in my book are nothing from the '90s. Go back another 3 decades for that.

[@jamesjones536]

Now this is a race!

[@melvinmatthews1208]

loved the green pontiac!!!

[@magyare10]

Damn... Remember this big one vividly... I was 11 years old...

[@EarlofCrawford]

"what did that policeman want?"...lol

[@skeleguns10oooooo10]

The big one at 2:08:50. Happened when Ward Burton got into Dale Earnhardt, turning him into Bill Elliott sending both cars into the wall. Elliott and Earnhardt got on their side.

[@nerradnosnhoj5122]

Burton appeared to be running ok then turned into the 3 car ...hmmmm watching it a person would like to see how Burtons car was handling the previous 2 laps there ,

[@salvatoreshurott9475]

2:01:57 Green! Green! Green! Green!!

[@BikerBenny]

That was some mighty fine flag waving 👋🏁

[@andyleblanc1564]

Haven’t watch a race from this era in a while…. Man do I miss it! The contrast from today’s racing is unbelievable. Makes me sad.

[@bendps9425]

Thank you from Paris

[@sametozkan9175]

Last front row start of Dale Earnhardt

[@SamBrickell]

The part when the chicken flew out onto the track and all of the drivers were petting it was hilarious!!

[@sean55719]

helluva come back for Kenny Wallace man I was such a big fan back then. I was 10 or 11yr old

[@RC.41]

Matt Kenseth fails to qualify in his first ever Cup attempt in the #60 Roush Racing Peterbilt car

[@TheRacingGenius88]

His only DNQ.

[@cablepupp]

Oh how I miss these days ! What was not to like and these REAL FLAG TO FLAG COVERAGE commercial free feeds are the jam! Days of the old satellite 🛰

[@JuhaKankkunenn]

Love the look of those old pontiacs and chevys with the different rear spoiler.

[@zackhamblen]

That underneath the car camera was so damn cool

[@Rusty2FTW]

Remember back in the day, One Big One per restrictor plate race. Now they have 2-4 little big ones per restrictor plate race lol

[@StudioDaVeed]

This wreck, the one when Earnhardt went in nose first (year before or after?) and the 125 where Schrader went from bottom lane straight up head on in turns one and two at Daytona are three wrecks I saw live that I thought we just witnessed a fatality. Amazingly; all three 'walked away' and this was pre- Hans device and safer barriers.

[@JustinNYCode3.]

It was the same year 1998

[@StudioDaVeed]

@@JustinNYCode3. 10-4!

[@wilwiener]

Wow! Cope starting in the top ten.

[@gloriaannopperman2734]

God we miss Dale Earnhardt Sr racing! We have not watched since Dale went to Heaven!

[@tnwhiskey68]

2:18:20 Jerry Punch talking about Michael Waltrip. That was clever!

[@diethersantos6404]

Jeez that thumbnail when I saw Dale in that crash too 😯

[@Cypher3882]

Love how they said Burton just made a little contact with Earnhardt, and clearly, he came up and spun him out big time, full-on left rear, and turned him right into Elliot. Wonder what he was doing there. Made no sense.

[@cleasanna05]

He got a run on Elliot going into the trioval, but instead of checking up he looked low and caught the apron with his left side tires. That kicks the car back up on the track, and into Earnhardt. If burton would have just touched the brake and stayed in line the wreck would not have happend.

[@MSC-Songwriter]

That was my first Talladega race. Had shit seats row 2 turn 4..the Earnhardt Elliot crash was a mile away

[@purdyquibb]

Loved the video but honestly this is about where NASCAR stopped being NASCAR. In the quest for competitiveness they lost the very thing that brought fans to the track. My opinion only but I did enjoy seeing some of my hero’s from yesterday year.

[@djschu116]

I miss that interstate batteries Pontiac

[@thelegendchrisb]

Last race for Wally Dallenbach in the #46 car Matt Kenseth's DNQ was the only one in his Cup Series career

[@stevenwolford3754]

The starting lineup music reminds me of The Beautiful People by Marilyn Manson lol

[@fuckcensorship69]

Same thing with a few extra notes. Lol. Glad someone else noticed

[@disfunctionalmorons1324]

I wish we could have gotten a chassis view from Elliott of the crash, even if it cut out it would've been interesting to see the beginning

[@karenvalle7312]

2:08:47 near flip

[@jonathan_tong93]

Ouch! That Huts!

[@usefultuber1608]

Bro, what u talking about, he totally was upside down.

[@adventuresonic4675]

Everything about those monte carlos is beautiful. The body, height, the liveries.❤

[@FallenAnvilForge]

I know this is an old post but I just want to say thank you for uploading these races. This is what I grew up on, this is when racing was at it's best.

[@plantfeeder6677]

Says everyone about their youth. Try growing up in the '60s bud....that was real 'stockcar' racing with GM and DE nowhere in sight. The Best of Times.

[@richardmurray6240]

Liked how he drove down pit road and to victory lane and not do donuts

[@jaysalazar107]

Man these old roof cam cars never lost signal.

[@NotSteveCook]

They did whenever the cars passed under the pedestrian bridge at Dover, Phoenix, or any other track that had one.

[@chrisshockey5845]

Man Gordon doesn't have any friends. Can't say I blame them. He was on somewhat of a tear for a few years. 33 wins in 3 years. I love the old days...

[@jcford33]

Pre soft wall and HANS...Bill was fortunate here.

[@damienalicea8696]

2:11:51 What a wreck and near flip onboard camera.

[@coreybaldwin7563]

I was there that day. I hated Mark Martin was caught up in it.

[@rcnut5112]

What did you think of Bill Elliott before getting into the wreck.

[@fredflintstone505]

I was there that day. It all happened before they got to where I was sitting.

[@dannyblock5267]

I do believe rick mast had apart in the wreck too I know there was 20-21 of them in this one. yeah I know racing reference listed mast but not Standridge he was involved too and Billy Standridge drove a car with Phillips on it in this cause Geoff Bodine didn't make this race that weekend.

[@budamania1989]

nice video

[@bobdole4432]

The one time Bobby had luck in a plate race lol

[@lutherjennings6565]

This crash was just like what happened to Earnhardt in 1996 at Dega! The different was Earnhardt was in S.Marlin position when he got into Ellioit Ward Burton got down on apron of track and washed up into Earnhardt.

[@Adamwinters]

Get Wild! Get McRib!

[@jimeagle5509]

Bill hit that wall so hard.... Jesus.

[@badbooking3221]

To think he did that a week later at Fontana. Incredible he didn't get more injured than he was.

[@SDRacing88]

Identical to Earnhardts crash in '96

[@lordmatthewanunnahybrid1356]

Exactly the same hit yes. This looked worse than Dale’s fatal wreck. I remember seeing this thinking the worse just like Ryan Newman’s recent Daytona Wreck. Glad Bill made it out alright. He was always my second favorite driver after 3.

[@roadbeef]

Anyone else notice the bassline playing during the starting grid is a still-very-identifiable knock-off of marilyn mansons the beautiful people?

[@kevinashcroft2028]

Thought the visual coverage of this race gave an added enjoyment to the view of it ,

[@murraylindsay6880]

This is what nascar needs to go back to. No more stages. No more green white checkers either, if the race ends under caution it ends under caution. Oh yeah we need a talladega night race in July or august or anywhere from July to September.

[@anthonym310]

What a race

[@raymondhillhouse8678]

“It’s not good racing, y’all can talk about it all y’all want. It ain’t good racing” -Dale Sr. I think it’s interesting how long drivers have not wanted to race at super speed ways. Dale was the best at Dega and he still makes the comment. He thought he killed Rusty in 1993 and before that in 93 I believe, Stan Smith suffers the the same injury that Dale would die from. Every year we see driver saying stuff like “this is what the fans want” should we have been playing with their lives in such a way? Very interesting.

[@user-gu1hl2kx2k]

stupid white knight. he said that because he lost the race

[@WhoopityDoo]

Earnhardt always was a hypocrite. Bitched about something unless he benefited from it, then it was alright in his book. Same shit with him dumping other drivers to win. When it happened to him, he cried and whined like a bitch.

[@DM0407]

@@user-gu1hl2kx2k I think he was dangerously competitive at times and caused many of these wrecks, but I don't think he ever wanted to see his competitors get injured. Once out of the car I'm sure hes pissed about losing but I I think he's also concerned for other drivers. At that point he doesn't know everyone's status.

[@robertanderson2898]

Heh, I love the parts where the race is supposed to be at commercial and you can hear them talking.......

[@robertanderson2898]

Trying to find the Talladega race where Jeff Burton's car smokes heavily when he goes slow, but is fine when at speed. Maybe it's one of the '99 races...... i'll get there eventually.

[@22LIGHTNING4]

1999 Diehard 500 (Same track and race just a year later)

[@twistedaxles9126]

2:08:51 that was a hard impact.

[@Redwood-vi8ho]

Yea Ward straight up turned Earnhardt smh

[@kennethsheriff1385]

How do you get these raw satellite feed's?

[@ralphhbernstein6798]

Unscrambled "C" band Satellite feed, golf is / was really funny to listen to during commercials !

[@cablepupp]

Days of real satellite 🛰 📺 you can still do it today if you run a blackbird system and keep up with the configuration of those things floating around up in space satcom capcom starlight F4-f9

[@melmiller9507]

WHERE THAT POLICE MAN GO

[@oldsouth31]

God I miss that McDonald's Ford.....

[@JasonVoorhees997]

Man I hate the wreck in this race I've seen it in wreck replace so many times and watching it for the first time in this race oh my God it's going to f****** scare me

[@kevinreilly5846]

Where was Mike Skinner during this time. That Morgan Shepherd was driving his car?

[@SMIFFTV]

Mike was still hurt from his ugly wreck at Texas two weeks earlier. Shepherd stepped in and ran the car at Martinsville and Talladega, Mike Dillon ran the car the following week at Fontana, and then Skinner was back in the car for the Coke 600

[@jaredkinneyjr]

Correct by Smiff TV. I think he broke his right shoulder or shoulder blade.

[@RC.41]

Morgan shoulda won! Would have been awesome

[@geec5636]

Back in the days of Chevy, Pontiac, Ford and Dodge, the auto company races

[@GH32143]

Gee C, Dodge wasn't around till 2001

[@geec5636]

@@GH32143 really? I guess Petty was driving a 1970 Pontiac Daytona then.

[@TimyD]

3:00 are they really playing Manson for the pole readings?

[@TheMeshort]

What exactly did Ward think he was doing ? Don't wanna say it but that looked very intentional.

[@SMIFFTV]

It was a brain fart lol. Ward touched the apron and that made the car drift up into Earnhardt. Same exact thing Irvan did in '96

[@MorrWorm8]

Are there any available short track races? Old Bristol or Martinsville or Nashville speedway races?

[@robloxgamer2463]

2:08:50 bill Elliott and dale sr flip