Full Race Replay: 1979 Daytona 500

There you see Buddy Baker in the front row in the number 28 car who has been trying to win this

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since 1961. He was so close in 1973 a year ago in 78, now when 79 will change and there is his arch nemesis in the front row of the gang of Alabama Donnie Allison, he's been here since 1967, he's never won this

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, although he did win the Firecracker 400 on the 4th of July and there you see row 2 with Cale Yarborough, the first man to win the national title three times in a row. years with a Johnson junior car and next to it car number 88, the extravagant and colorful Franklin Tennessee, which joined the million dollar club last year.

Darrell Waltrip then in the number five position, car number 27 rolling down pit road with our CBS race view camera aboard the 1975. winner of this event Benny Parsons flanking Parsons in that row the man four time champion of Indianapolis 1972 Daytona 500 Champion from Houston Texas AJ Foyt moving to row 4 in the 7th starting position leader of the Alabama gang defending Daytona 500 champion Bobby Allison and car number 15 and with he dick Brooks in car number o8 will be Richard Brooks starting in 8th position from Porterville California moving to 9th position today the Silver Fox David Pearson from Spartanburg South Carolina Italy Pearson in car number has won this race one of the most finishes dramatic events in history, can he do it again today?

David Pearson in car number 21 starts inside row number five flanking him he will be the sensation of yesterday's sports race this kid was behind two cars as they grew inches apart at 190 miles per hour, then they cut a tire, kwame finished in sixth place, but Mark Dale Earnhardt in the number 2 car started tenth as a rookie to watch in this race, 11th is former Rookie of the Year Ricky Rudd of Chesapeake Virginia in the Dunlevy junior. car today, he will start 11th and move up to 12th position from Wausau Wisconsin. Dave Marcus is coming, he will drive car number Oh, to a car that he entered and prepared and then to him, to the starting position 13, the name of the all-time champion at Daytona. five time winner of this event Richard Petty in a number 43 Oldsmobile car in that same row with him in 14th position is Harry Gant another rookie who qualified very well and here is the rest of the 40th beer as they go up the For the first time Behind the pace car, the field for the Daytona 500 is dotted this year with a host of rookie drivers.

I'm hoping to see Dale Earnhardt do extremely well in this race. He has done some fantastic work this week in other races. ro8 Arrington's friend from Martinsville Virginia and Bellingham Massachusetts Geoff Bodine row nine is Bruce from Topeka Kansas and Louisiana jumper Manning in row 1 is row 10 as young Texan Terry Labonte and next to him is another pilot from Alabama's Neil Bonnett won the LA Times 500 for the year. Back then, in line number 11, Troopers Grant had Cox and Johnny Huntsman from Tennessee. Row 12 is Paul best in the veteran Frank Warren in the number 79 car in row 13 again to look after Dave Watson and the time to come and is flanked by Rob.

Jones row 14 is the boy who used to destroy it running Pennsylvania Gary Balu and next to him from Portland Oregon Chuck Bown the son of a great driver and his father of course his father lies the great Marcelin grip row 50 and Bobby Warwick Ken the Stout They are giving them a lap to go down here, it seems incredible, it seems that they are going to let them go on this slightly wet track. Now you see the rest of the viola grow and Jim Vandiver back here in row 20 running. Thomas, last year's Rookie of the Year, while the follower is in the shotgun position, the officials are moving back and what they are seeing now starts to lock in on the live footage of Benny Parsons' car, we'll come back to that In just a moment, the field starts to build up as they go down that 3100 foot structure back we saw the disaster that happened yesterday in a terrible seven car accident, the field rolled down there at about 75 80 miles per hour Baker in the pole at 190 6.0 for nine miles per hour stopping Cale Yarborough's record that had stood for seven years, this time they are going to be green and yellow, which means they will maintain positions, it will allow them to increase their speed with a safety car off the track, dry, off this track, depending on again eight, maybe ten laps with a pretty good foot and then you'll get a completely green condition.

You're now watching the 21st annual Daytona 500 live here on CBS today. You see that first row that is our speed shot and let me tell you what it is. friendly head over 190 miles per hour Damon 11 inches of that camera as you say head over 190 miles per hour and during the race we'll see some good shots from that camera it's pretty interesting the way NASCAR does this green business and Yellow makes it pretty fast but of course they don't allow them to change positions at all until they get

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green which should be 10 laps in this race.

One of the circumstances that spectators need to be aware of now is the fact that everyone inside the track, that safety platform is extremely wet, so if a car slides, it will take off like on a skating rink, let's go. to Brock. The pit flag can't take a nap with me, the crew chief in Buddy Baker's Paul's winning car. The phrase is perfect, but sometimes you get a little nervous at the beginning of these things, how do you feel today? Well, that's the best thing I've ever seen, man, in my racing career, he was caught walking so high most of the time that Specter owned the constructors' races. they are good and Indian performance is good and everything we use is better, how about humidity?

He's had some changes in the weather right before the start, made some corrections on this engine, set up my engine. He made changes for climate change and I mean that's something that makes him so good. I mean, what else is one of the best things that you, man in the business, we change for the temperature that the tire uses? They will think it will be good. They have been up. all week that team is so excited that they didn't come with a new sponsorship this year there's a Penny Parsons car there's a chance you're the passenger riding for Daytona champion Benny Parsons and that will give you a slight sense of what it's going to be like when they step on the pedal to the metal ops, that's what they'll do in about ten laps, of course, as you say, the infield is terribly wet now, so if someone sleds down and slides onto the grass, Come on accelerating terribly to about sixty miles an hour right now as they pass.

He's done an incredible job all week. The baker, as I have seen him over the years, is always tense. He's been relaxing for the past few days. But how can someone be relaxed when they know they are going to travel 500 miles? Here is this two and a half mile track. Earlier we spoke with the man who won this race a year ago, leader of the Alabama gang, Bobby Allison, about his strategy. For today's 500, this is just another race. I've won some and lost some and I'd like to win this one again and I know we'd need a little luck to win it this time. and I had a little look last year and maybe it can happen again Bobby Allison hoping to make it two years in a row after coming here and fighting for so many years this track always beat him and it was the track that year after year worked there like a shadow over Bobby Allison and then last year driving, but more now we would like to make it two in a row, not only come home winners because they came home when it's close to the back of the group that they started with last year. in 33rd place under advertising skies live from the world speed center you are watching the time lapse, they just completed lap four, they are working on lap five right now with a caution condition due to the rain.

Darrell Waltrip is right up there at the front of the field, what is his strategy in the first part of the race for the 88 car? The first two and three laps of any race are the most hectic parts. Guys are jockeying for positions and moving around a lot. The racetrack and the guys at the back are trying to race to the front and of course everyone tries once they get chained up, it's not that bad but it seems like in the first few laps you're worried about whether the car will hold . Okay, is the engine running good, that kind of thing and if you're going to try to stay out of trouble and not have anything bad go wrong, you're going to be taken out of the race right away, the grades are going to be even worse?

Darrell and the rest of these dollars on this meal because the track has changed a lot since the last time they drove here on Friday afternoon, all the tires have been washed from the groove and everyone is going to try to see the settings, of course, even engine configurations. will be changed because it's today, it's been all week, the drivers report is that the track is still very wet, of course they lean to their pit crew, then the pit crews can talk to NASCAR officials to that we know exactly what is happening. When NASCAR officials are in the pits of his friend Baker, he reports that it is very humid.

They've radioed for Donnie Allison or Darrell Waltrip to come out and run with their rabbits and they're not very enthusiastic. to go out and test the track right now, those are another thing that Darrell said were the worst first laps in the race because, for some reason, race drivers are so excited all the time that they always want to win on the first lap. lap but of course on a track like this it is absolutely essential to keep contact with the fast car so there is a lot of fighting but once you lose contact you may never get it back again even on the first lap . 500 miles, so there is a fight for the automotive position, we have a change of drivers in position 35 at the last moment.

DK is already out of the car and Dick May from Watertown New York has started bar number 40. Okay, everything is wrong. the wheel at the last moment chose dr. Ron and dick may of Watertown New York, a veteran driver who holds the record in a race, drove five different cars years ago at Darlington dick may is now on the track in car number 40. veal returns to turn number one and remembers They go very slow here, they go about 90, the last lap was 98 miles per hour, they barely move. Five laps, twelve and a half miles have been completed in the Daytona 500 and they are racing if you're just joining us live here on CBS Arthur, watch out, there's Benny Parsons' car and there you are in the passenger seat right next to AJ Foyt on the 3100 foot stretch and you won't have to imagine today, folks, what it's like when he's chasing around there at over 190 miles an hour we put that little monitor there so he can position himself on the track properly so that you get the

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effect of the drawing on the wall and so that that week the right emotion, the 88 car is a rabbit, they say in one lap we are going to a point from Richard Petty about the strategy for this race, it seems that to win them we will have I have to run wide open every lap on this, no, but I can keep up, Ned, we're not really running that well.

We're not really running that bad, it's just the kind of deal where there are so many people running at basically the same speed we were running, so we'll just have to run and try to keep up with the crowd and just hope so. . we have two good breaks and someone else is left with the bad Richard Petty, who is looking for a good break after going for the first time in his career an entire season without an unprecedented victory in the great head control he has always achieved, but no last year, except for a race in the western nascar Joran Phoenix Arizona at the end of the year, but in the big national competition the 30 races that are run for about five million dollars a year he came out without a score in 1978 he actually had 45 races no scoring unless you include the Phoenix runners, you don't seem to want to include it, don't you today?

Ken, we're in the Haas Ellington pits, you've been in contact with Donnie Allison with his radio all over the place. Donnie reports that he is still wet. out of four and there's some moisture on the backstretch, figure maybe 10 or 12 laps will be ready to go under full green, but in the meantime it looks like Darrell Waltrip is going to go out and run some tough laps in front of the Panel up here is Waltrip. He's been told to go out and test the track. Donnie Allison put a new rear end on car number one this morning.

What will they do if Donald Walsch explodes? Who sues who? Well, that's exactly what happened to Buddy. Baker here a few years ago 1973 light rain condition they sent him like a rabbit and in the end with eight laps to go the engine evaporated why are you going to say if it doesn't warm up I'm in laps in about six laps to The end of the race, that thing inspires me. Rather I am saying, as I said, that the problem ofclue here is that the bank card dries out very quickly, but coming out of turn four the track flattens out to just five degrees on the banking because the water can stay there and of course you can sit in the back Immediately, once again, you're in Betty Parsons' car, you get a little sensation of thirty-one degrees tilting the G's pulling down on your stomach, and then you start to spin. number two and at 190 miles per hour your vision is quite limited and when you leave here there are seven cars turning like you saw yesterday you have less than a second to make a decision and the camera better be positioned lower than the drivers head, One of the things you get when you drive on the banking here is, of course, that you can't see around the corner.

Waltrip pulls out, his pit crew has accepted, and the dye guard is racing. The crew sent car number 88 out of Racine, the car speeding for the first time. This is a double edged sword, it can hurt you and you will discover a secret on how to set up your car on the new track before everyone else. yeah, that's the tradeoff, yeah, if you have any knowledge of the other Stoneham and I think he was pretty reluctant to do it and I can tell you that he doesn't have his food, that doesn't seem as fast as a hundred and fifty hundred. sixty miles an hour, well, put your foot right when we run here in the 24 hour race, man, it's raining, we're going to run here in the rain, while your tires are different, the tires on these cars are slippery, very slippery in select waters. here you go to Waltrip to get some speed at least there is no water rooster tail because it is quite a dry pace.

I think this is slippery coming out of turn four there while the road flattens out coming into the trioval here still a bit. down but only the sun would come out, I would really try to climb this place real quick because it's pretty hot out there, it's probably 75 degrees, very humid now Waltrip, believe me, you're not getting an advantage, these are called turns, it will fall back to its natural state . starting position, he is in radio communication with his lost parrot friend 50, let's go to that Jarret right now. Hanuman depends on Glenwood, who started the first Daytona 500 as a driver, now it's a car for her for David Pearson when you have a slight problem with the windshield of that car number 21 photos a crack up but I don't think he'll give it in professional because of three tie rods right there where it is and I don't think it's a problem what they told us to break so before the low speeds are working now Oh, more than another or something we had clashes with - he laughs, like this which has some plays I don't think it makes it bother what you plan to do about it, well can we smear please the tape on one will stop the first time.

Did you give David any particular instructions before he left? As for strategies, no, he hated using it, even though we have a radio. and we'll take you there, okay, that's Grant Wood's story back to you, Waltrip's car is stopped on pit road, he's talking to the crew chief, parrot friend, right now and there's a thought NASCAR official on the ground: Is Nene coming down the car, yeah, there are easy years, he will be, they say it's about five laps, we could change things up, that windshield is a little scary, you know, when you go around here At 195 miles per hour, there's a lot of pressure trying to push that. windshield on the car, that's why these NASCAR cars have bars inside the cockpit.

You can see that in Benny's car, in fact, they say five laps and they will be under grade in the 21st annual edition, they showed a 500 live today on CBS the Sun from playing hide and seek with over 100,000 people gathered to watch the running of the Daytona 500 about three and a half more laps and they will be released and sent hurtling into the control tower you see Bill Gassaway controlling. all the ambulances, all the emergency equipment, the fire trucks and around his route, our observation points and he is in constant contact with those observation points, finding out what the exact conditions are because we may have a bright day and sunny for a man, you have these two. and a half mile of track I ain't got no rain on the other, let's go to Brock Yates there Darrell Waltrip hit Ken I got a parrot friend with me Darrell Waltrip screw boss, you just ran a couple of brothers brisk one hundred and sixty miles an hour laps of an hour, what did you discover on those trips?

He's talking to Dell right now. Okay, Darryl just got off the phone. Timmy Turn...it's still slippery and he's going to clean it up because he can read it. He could wreck a lot of cars. and all so they can feel confident that NASCAR will do the right thing and test the track so we can give the fans a good race. Jed Lane looks a little slick and could be a little adventurous in the first round of pits. He stops, that's right, here we go, late word, late word, okay, okay, we'll send it back to you.

Can we keep in touch with friend? Well, you see friend parrot, they are actually talking to his driver. radiates Waltrip having a busy day, you try to talk to Brock and Daryl at the same time-laughs, there's a lot of psyche down here, they're trying to conspire with each other to get the best advantage possible, but you heard that they feel like that's what he became. Still a little slippery, well the adrenaline will start flowing now because this is a very, very important race for these men. We've already heard that Ned Jarrett, who couldn't win this one, there's a lot of money on the line this year. 65, so when the safety car passes, they show two laps and they are going to release them. 13 laps completed 32 and a half miles.

Baker alaikum waves frantically at the officers. I think he's trying to fire them. He was waving his hand out the window and certainly wasn't waving at anyone. I really think he was telling them no, there was a lap or two left, let's leave it a little longer, we have three cars coming out of the pits, idiot. may comes in Jim Bamberger's car also fits and Terry makes fun of Florida putting his car in the pits here maybe filling the tanks they are making a final adjustment to the cars the countdown continues we are working on lap 15 like when the chip warned caution flag in hand now he's shaking his head Is anyone telling him something different?

If you're just joining us, it rained all night into the morning and cleared about an hour before departure time. They have been frantically trying to get off the track to begin with. Now we have run 14 laps. officially in the

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Daytona 500, there you see the survey. Well, we just got a message from the control center that Baker from turn two is too skilled and so is Alison. Bobby Allison and I noticed that UNESCO officials are returning here. on the side of the track and there will be a few more laps before they release them in this event, well maybe they'll just say: I'm going to give you more, standing next to the track chef, Warren, looking towards the control center to see what's the last word that gives them the signal that there's one turn left, look buddy, begging, I'll tell them they'll try to let them go this time, although of course that's not the point, you know you can bite it and say okay.

They're racing drivers, they're just going to have to go through the corner a little bit slower and you know, they're going to play by the rules, it's not like when it's a little bit lower KooKoo Marlin is going to return his car to the control tower. Switch in hand, Lance Childress and Ernie Moore, who had moved to the side of the track, are now slowing down like cars. Sorry, the lights at the base, you see it off and that tells the drivers that there is only one turn left. indicative of an exit 15 laps have been completed 37 and a half miles, this time they will turn green Ken Baker did it, only one driver won the pole position in the 125 mile qualifying race and entered and won the Fireball 500 Roberts and Baker made the new record, the 125 he ran almost as an experiment to make sure the car did all the things they wanted to do under racing pressure and it certainly did, that friend Bake has looked incredibly strong all week, but, of course, 500. miles is a long way to go at 190 miles per hour the pressure is really high here they come out of turn number four getting ready to start the cars wanted to say goodbye to a few laps more conditions reported from the spotter tower on shift two , it's okay to run, let's see what happens, look at that switch to activate the only race starter, all yours, go ahead, I can't let you out, there's the word Donnie Allison comes out front, the manufacturer goes down to the second second turn .

Allison likes the harbor car. the backstretch, everyone's fine, that's what you call a multi-car draft, if you imagine the wind is now trying to drop the luggage in third place. Allyson is in front, here they come to complete from the fin one under green the sixteenth lap of the race when they reach the tri-oval the leader is Donnie Allison Buddy Baker Darrell Waltrip wives in v HJ the point is in six Bobby Allison back there in seven Donnie Allison tried to separate from the field universe 1 and 2 behind immediately Alice and walking away is Parsons, you can see the windshield is already splattered as he flies out the back immediately hey comes in the slingshot who is Amanda's slingshot then it stops it seems that his friend Baker's car is directly in front of him in turns 3 and 4 at over 195 miles per hour that you're driving with Benny Parsons how turning 4 is Allison in front, that let me take care of one of these things of release, she came, this is going to be a controversial manufacturer second and look at that race across Oklahoma land there, word forward all the kibble.

Donnie Allison is doing an incredible job here, moving away from a multi-card draft, which is almost impossible to do in his career. If he could make enough room and really escape, he would be in very, very, very good shape, number three, Allisyn, maintains the lead. by six car lights from the Goodyear blimp there you see the field on the third and fourth burn hello Bank Daytona Speedway here they come down the tri-oval directly below us now it's Donnie Allison on the first CBS camera on any squat Parsons karjala 30 Bobby Allison is on the court, there you see the leader Allison first, Cale Yarborough and second, Benny Parsons, in thirds.

Parsons almost won this race for the second time, he won it in '75. Donny Adelson goes for his first win, the most prestigious auto race of them all first. 16 laps today under yellow flag due to rainy conditions before Taliaferro in second place this ice for the positions arriving at the tri-oval running fourth is Bobby Allison going fifth and at night these Neyman-Pearson Pearson ears moving under a funny grenade by Baker I can only think about that, friend friend here he's just biding his time on not the kind of thing he's been doing all week Yarbrough closest terrain to Allison cale yarborough two-time Daytona 500 winner is approaching to Donnie Allison back immediately goes to the inside with his nose down through the slingshot cale yarborough takes a delayed turn four inches away at 190 miles per hour first Donnie Allison second number 27 Parsons in third here they come screaming I've been on the bench they go first seven cars they have taken a big advantage seven cards raffle the lead there you see them coming down the back immediately here there is a slingshot it's Benny Parsons falling in they stacked them almost three deep that he Parsons in number 27 is going to take second while Donnie Allison surrounds him Bobby Allison goes next to his brother for third place Bobby Allison so Donnie Allison has turned four and Bobby takes third place from Donnie AJ ​​Foyt who now goes next to Neil Bottom and Loggins in a position David Pearson is leading in this leading group, Richard Petty is hotly pursuing them in Cale Yarborough stuff. still in first Benny Parsons in second Allison and Tommy Imani in Burt Allison Donnie imported sweeping out the back immediately talks about a choo-choo train Parsons pressing first second drank too much when in his senior year 605 cale yarborough falling 2/ 3 Donnie Allison ahead of Waltrip in fifth position as they lapped Waltrip in fifth Dave Marcus in six the red car behind HJ points to the front for Parsons in front second Bobby Allison second his brother younger brother ganni Allison and third we will be We're back with more live coverage of the Daytona 500 after this news from your local station, it's 3 and 1/10 seconds between the first and the thirteenth card David, just three seconds from the first, back to the 13 miles, Vandiver Limpy, it's not a pit field that comes fighting for the The Allison brothers are going to do it, it's Bobby Allison low, Donnie Allison high, side by side in turn one at over 190 miles per hour and Cale, yeah bro, taking a good knockdown from both of them, the man Donnie Allison spins around, gets hit by his brother. all the way around Cale Yarborough on the grass that turned to grass now incredibly slippery Donnie andBobby Allison I'm off the track spinning splashing their yellow road this will bring out a caution flag and Cale Yarborough desperately trying to get that car back on track now because they might get stuck in the mud that might be the simple thing that rules them out of this race tag each other the caution flag is on they will run back to the line they are running back to the strip as a surprise The medians have been first, Benny Parsons will be second.

I think these guys are just stuck in the mud because Cale didn't really hit anyone well. It's been an incredible start to the Daytona 500. We are on lap 31 and let's look. Again, David, ha, I think what happens here is Cale walks up to his No, Bobby Allison, he just attacks his brother Donny, that's all, he just runs up the left rear fender and almost turns him upside down there. himself and Darrell Waltrip is left with the jaws. He slides through that gap and the person is right with him, he sees that Kale hasn't touched anyone yet, but he just heads into the infield at about 200 miles per hour, a wet and muddy infield, in fact, not even He even turns the car on its side, tremendous control of the car, Bobby on the left of the image is sliding towards the shore protecting them from going to Lake Lloyd.

Donnie is lapping but no one has touched anyone hard yet so those cars are probably in perfect race condition, just a matter of getting them out of the mud Cale Yarborough getting the bath of the year in car number 11. You could see him splashing to the platform. Donnie Allison trying to come back. Here's another view of the field coming out of the turn. Looks like Donnie started coming. down Bobby started moving up and those are the front cars that Donnie's car left the flat, that bear spun on just the left front wheel and that's right where the disaster happened yesterday coming out of turn two, it's definitely the creepiest place on your track, people pit now, of course, while I will. chassis changes sorry Waltrip and car number 88 is in the net Jerry we will have a report on Brockie eight from the pits in just a moment from the drivers on their feelings about the track the number one car is moving on Donnie Allison is turning around, we are under yellow now we are working on the 30 second lap of the race, Cal's car is back on the track 168 laps to go, Kayla's start, what a wonderful job driving Yarber Waltrip, but Richard Petty came out ahead of him, well, you're Talking about an eventful race, this is David Dave Marcus.

Go, brother, Buddy Baker, running on seven cylinders today as the bad luck continues and Dale Earnhardt, the rookie, is on the hood, climbs into his car for this twenty-first Daytona. 500 from the control tower listening to the commands driven around the track now they come in and change tires, most of them are changing all four tires, we are sitting in the pits of Buddy Baker who is having trouble running on only seven cylinders, they lift the hood. on the car but they didn't make any changes, they were planning on changing the spark plug, they will bring it back and see if they can find that problem.

Now let's go with Brock eight, Johnny Ellison again and only a second stop in as many laps. You will have to go on the right side. He has had problems on the right side. Now they are going to change the tires on the left side. As you can see, the cars are badly dented. Justin took a hard hit in front of the left rear fender. to hold on to his side of the mud covered cars he has some real problems the car doesn't sound very loud we wonder how long he can last with you again Ken I think what happened here is running through all that water has Bob like his brother right in front of him, Bobby Allison's number 15 car coming onto the track, well they're very lucky to be there because we saw before what happened when they had cracks at that same spot yesterday and here they are both coming in and changing tires yeah nothing happens so they are both extremely lucky to be in the race because this is just what Buddy Baker needed a yellow from the start to try and keep the average down while he can fix his engine issue, unfortunately for Cale, still stands out, I think all that pushing with the frenetic truck action, the pin scale just hit the pit road area, now Kelly Armor in Johnson's junior car, kale, two time winner here in 1968 and again at 77, hitting the car number. 11 has to be frantic, but what a fantastic job he did driving, he kept the car straight while crossing a skating rink with a 600 horsepower car.

There absolutely is a look of Cale Yarborough, but he doesn't look like that now. I bet he absolutely is. furious there because he had nothing to do with that accident really car number 28 Buddy Baker is also back and they evoke the hood up and they have the trunk lid up here is Ned Jarrett they are changing the spark plugs in the chamber of the car this is Something they thought they'd have to do, dude, what happened. I don't know. Nana has something broken in the engine that doesn't work. You can see that she is a very disappointed gentleman.

Now back to Brock Jake, where Bobby Ellison is Petty like you. I can see that the left side of his car did it too. They didn't change the tire. I only made one stop for fuel, but we'll all have to wait and find out what kind of damage occurs below after that turn. on lap 34 the car that started 20th at the Neil Bonnett field in Hueytown Alabama plagued with problems all week took over the first position in these pit stops hood number five is now up front in the gym Stacy Harry hello brother at the gym Stacy the car listens to car number five Neil Bonnett, a young driver from Hueytown, Alabama, of the same mold as the Allisons.

They brought this child. He got fired up at the short tracks in Alabama, Birmingham International Raceway and those tracks, well, we talked. Buddy Baker's Daytona Lumpur over Neil Bonnett just hasn't had much luck in racing, generally he keeps joining teams and then breaking up and it's good to see him doing so well today. Donnie Allison is back on pit road and there's Benny Parsons' car again and you can Look, that's the kind of mission a driver has. Windshield wipers at 190 miles an hour are not very effective, they are certainly not very efficient and that's oil, it's from someone's car in a little bit of water and you can see the kind of problems they have as the race goes on and it gives you an idea. of the type of pressure of these pilots.

They are under the only pit stop, the only time after the pit stop, as we are seeing now, other than they are on deck all the time, there is no defensive unit. there is no offensive unit taxi squad to post here, it's the first point AJ. The violent 1972 Daytona champion came in second place. Remember that a year ago the point was turned six seven times here and it can be turned from one side to the other. He has come back just as hard, just as strong. as cool as ever, probably the best driver of our time in America, now we'll see in slow motion another time what happened here, they turn the tables on Donnie Allison, who enters.

Bobby Allison just hits his brother at 190 miles an hour. Donnie's car. he crouches on the platform, the rear end kicks and they start that wild slide. Yarborough chooses where to go, he had like an eighth of a second and he went to the only place he could go to escape the disaster, yes, watching that tape again, Yarborough could have done it. I just touched Bobby Allison's back before Allison Bobby touched Allison Donny. Let's take a look again if we can in a moment. We'd like to see it again on that

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and see the number 11 car, so that's what happens when you're doing it. 190 miles per hour around a 31-degree curve, it's very, very difficult, not impossible, to keep these cars within inches of each other without touching each other from time to time.

I heard it's not again. I see Cal has the shake advantage of both. and it's approaching real fast there, might have even taken the back of the car out, never exactly had to pull, went into the draft that just touched the corner of car 15. Donny and 15th appear on the bumper at 195 miles per hour. hour and here you can see the results, luckily, everyone is absolutely fine. Buddy Baker is back in the pits again working frantically on his car. What a terrible break, but this man who has worked so hard in this race means more to him than any other race.

He has earned almost $70,000 so far from the pole position with the 125 mile victory with the Busch race that we saw yesterday here on CBS, but the race he wants continues to elude him and Donnie Allison wins it again now. I wouldn't be surprised. These guys because when they took that wild ride through the mud, all that mud water slid under the hood because the electrical system might have failed, which is not the kind of thing these guys normally have to worry too much about. Donnie Allison's number one car. convalescing here on pit road Compass is the Buddy Baker, wow, buddy Baker, you know this is really the main race all the way for these guys, we're still under caution, Bobby Allison won this race a year ago, we had the opportunity to fly to Daytona with him.

While preparing for this great racing classic, defending Daytona champion Bobby Allison loves racing and should have won more than $2 million on the track, but while other drivers use fishing trips and hunting expeditions to Escaping the pressures of power and speed, Allison uses her plane for all the relaxation she desires. I really enjoy flying and everything seems to be going well. Flying allows me to do more races. Hi Allison, when you were a kid, did you want to be a pilot or did you want to be a racing driver? Actually both. I got really interested in flying when I was 14, 15, and 16, but I was also interested in racing, and eventually my interest in racing took me away from flying when you're here in this twin-engine airplane.

Think about the old days when you and Judy used to fight and launch those cars from Miami across the country. I think of many of those times when we would spend all night after a race coming home all night before qualifying. to the racetrack and the times when I really would have loved to stop at a motel and I couldn't because we didn't have the money or I couldn't because we didn't have the time, I wouldn't be able to prepare the car for the next race if I took a night off while We get through Daytona and you get ready to sit down.

What are your feelings about Daytona Speedway? I feel like it can be one of the best tracks and it can be. one of the worst tracks, it's a track that hasn't been my friend for a long time and now it's one of the places I feel good at. I would like to come back and win the Daytona 500 again for many years. Daytona It was a very sinister place because you weren't much luckier than last year. You changed when you came back here this year. Is he a friend or is he as sinister as he used to be?

Well, in a different way, as sinister as ever. It's been a place where you know that disaster can happen in just a fraction of a second and you have to be aware of that, I think you have to be totally aware that you know that you are in a big and fast Speedway and although Now that I have been successful here I still have to be as careful and on guard as I have always been here, stable and on guard as always today, victim of a spin outside turn two, Bobby Allison, defending champion at Warner. Hoxton's car is two laps down and on this track five miles is a long way to get David Hart back, yeah well as I said before he's lucky to be only two laps down but of course it's almost impossible to get him back unless tremendous problems arise elsewhere. and his brother is back in the pits with his hood up, he reports that one lap down he was able to turn around and come back here.

I think Cale Yarborough is also reported as two laps down Yarborough two time champion here now two laps down here's Brock Kicks Kandice Donnie Allison's team is having a great time here. If they've been working hard for the last four or five laps, it's the right front toe that was damaged in that collision with his brother. and they can't seem to get it right, hopefully they have it so he can turn properly now, but we have some problems down here. Donnie Allison now reported his three laps down and let's see the classification joins in his first point his second Richard Petty his third Waltrip fourth Markus runs in fifth while in six is ​​ty Scott seventh is Ricky Rudd Benny Parsons in eighth Geoff Bodine for the night David Pearson is intense live coverage of the Daytona 500 now running on its 39th lap 161 remaining ninety-seven and a half miles to the control tower.

The control tower sign is far away. NASCAR race director Chuck Nagle returns immediately if I give him one to go. Can everyone go home? There's the command.There's one lap left and they'll be racing, let's Jerry and I are standing in the jr. pits. Johnson, who has Cale Yarborough's car, what kind of condition is he in? In very good shape, except baby, when he has fun, if he had gotten into the water and could be a winter cleaner, he goes better for a while, but we've already seen it, where are we going to leave him alone.

Jennsen can feel the dirt track coming into stock. She remembers anyone having to change a car's air filter and going through a lot of water there when he did. that stretch back and a long way, but junior Johnson, the latest American hero, hopes to bring this one home, but he's two laps away from a lap and Chip Warren will drop the flag once again, now Parsons is running in eighth position, We mention the summit. The rookie in the race is Geoff Bodine of Bellingham Mass and ninth David Pearson is in tenth place while Bruce Hill is in eleventh as we look further back in the field one lap and they will get the green once again.

It has been a great burden. at the front, tremendous pressure on the leaders, no one can escape, the race average has dropped around 130 miles per hour due to the spins and due to that very slow start, the first 15 16 laps were run under yellow flag while They were trying to dry themselves. off the track, his friend Baker's car is still on pit road as they prepare for the green, there's his field going down the backstretch and out on pit road, his friend Baker's hopes in the car number 28 to be the first man since Roberts' Fireball to win all three. the pole, qualifying race number twenty-fifth of this and it seems that this race is going to restart without Baker here, now they are at the end of the track, they are the cars that have gone back, the slower cars, well, the height, the sailors are all up on the outside in you Nagar on the switch yes, they are like we did, but go on, I'll get rid of the alert, come on, all yours, sir.

Starr gives the green light, oh, and here comes a charge over the green flag at the end of the track trying to make up about four places, which he successfully did before crossing the start/finish line. The Cale Yarborough story, do it, he's the one Neil is on. Bonnett in front, hey J, boy, hiding in second place, hey J, the guy running back, looks like one car from that angle, they're running so close together in the draft trying to separate themselves from Richard Petty and the third naejay going towards the internal muscles. Also in first place is Richard Petty gaining ground on Neil Bonnett live the Daytona 500 on CBS with AJ poisoned late thunder in the number shift wife the internal waltrip working darrell waltrip the driver from franklin tennessee moves to second place leaving Boyden behind third now dropping to fourth place now coming up to fifth and Dale Earnhardt the rookie closing in on the inside now might be a lap down, Hank's blue and yellow number two car, Waltrip going for the lead, Scot the driver from Pen Argyl of Pennsylvania.

Thai Scot mixing it up with the Giants here nervous about it, oh he's close, he's too small but a lot stays out of the draft right up front, number five back up front, Neal back in the lane, look at those position shifts and swaps after. the fall there it's awfully easy to gossip something floating around the whole spa bed Neil Bonnett currently it's nice to see him there because he's had that bad company he's in that second position trying to make up a lap like Bobby Allison here's Bobby Allison towards the inside while pushing the car in front of a yellow flag, there is the boy to watch California, North Carolina drivers, the second generation of the driver are drivers in the history of the United States, 12, no, Ralph Earnhardt, his son Dale had fantastic week here, he really has fo

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Barnett challenged on the inside by Earnhardt. Now we're checking to see if Earnhardt is here. that lap down he still wields a wheel and right in the middle of the confusion outside is number 30, ty Scott, only a few of those cars are moving, that can cause five to be narrator number 2, he's one lap down, They told us he was down a lap and now they're rechecking the score, hey, he sure runs like a champ today with Alice's car full of potholes, old banged up in the front, but he still goes, just kidding. Oh, I can't believe the problems there will be.

Here at the front they are so tight, so close, and no one gives an inch, no one gives at all, like you said, covering a city block for a second in rush hour traffic, look the LNR guys have three of wide to ty Scott Baker back. In the pits, once again, Ernhardt is again at the head of this group. Earnhardt is the leader. Earnhardt reported as later, let's go to that Jerry, they already changed, oh, and they didn't fix the problem, the head, now they're going to other parts of the ignition to hopefully find the problem here on the carpet and now they're too far down to go back and have a chance to win this race dozen number two cars here is the front here is Bobby Allison drawing wood and trying to make up for it Meanwhile, a turn in Betty Parsons in the number 27 doing her own personal to take the lead again , then Parsons has moved into second place, leaving Ty Scott in third place.

Waltrip has moved to port, there is Earnhardt, his leader has to turn four cars less. that the second apartment thank God a good dozen bakers ernhardt at the beginning the wrinkled piece number 15 riding right behind him still trying to make up a lap Earnhardt is not intimidated and Putty Baker is coming out what a disappointed man he must be this is the race biggest of the year on the NASCAR circuit, which is like the Indianapolis of the USAC, scenes of these men and what a terrible disappointment it must be the friend who had such a fantastic week until just 47 laps ago, 1961, when it started for him, his father arrived. here his dad couldn't win this race, man, Las Vegas, he has a reputation for wrecking cars, people say he drives really hard, but there's no way to tell he shakes hard, a yellow light always comes on, let's go with Ned Jarrett as soon as that.

The car ran all week and then today on race day I don't know when they dropped the green flag it was hip hop it was so bad I couldn't keep up and it got worse to the point it wouldn't turn but around 6000. rpm where they turned 75 to make it look like I'll be back next year trying to make the first one, they're both disappointed, well you can see it on their face, how disappointed they are? He was so high for this race, he thought it was going to be his first Daytona 500 victory after everything had gone so well Buddy Baker, a spectator watching this meal wishing to be a part of it at 90 miles an hour storming the high banks of Daytona, that's the luck of racing Betty Parsons in front Parsons leading second Earnhardt there's your leader as he flies you immediately get some of the feeling that you're racing a car in the lane here at Daytona he is trying to hold on to the lead and they are starting to close in on him again as he enters the tri-oval, that messy speed on the screen gives you so many things to be had it was like a giant ballet for these three bucks, Kars pinches me wrong of calculation, one mistake and you've seen what can happen, Baker seems to be drying up and the reason is that the second place car Earnhardt runs next to Allison and if they run next to each other now they slow down on the inside, a couple of grams right behind Betty Parsons says you got in there with your fingernails.

Then I would like you to come for the trial. It's God, what a race the guy from the Waltrip commercial trying to stay in fourth place and oppai, let's not rule out the chances of Oh five, today he's starting to shoot Richard Brook, who supports the California books, in a terrible accident. at Talladega four years ago he rolled over 217 times here he is racing one of his testaments now in fourth position white car round trip ty Scott number 30 right in front of him then the blue and yellow car Bernard and Benny Parsons are in front since in This moment they come to complete the 52 black miles, but on the starting grid and this is a new carbon, you team up with an idiot Parsons in front while a seagull is tied up over the Speedway.

Earnhardt ties in second. Oh, wall sticker, turn four. we have an accident in turn number four, as you can see several cars just when we lose control again and in turn four we are sliding sliding towards the wall bouncing towards the field nobody seems upside down line number 50 Brutus just arriving at the break we have In some replays of this incident, Bruce Hills' car is seen sliding with the 87, Ballou's car into the infield and then, behind him, all hell broke loose from another vantage point in turn four down the bank of 31 degrees. You see them spinning sliding trying to relieve the cars even here Samba 21 there for Pearson's cars they crashed in the front they crashed in the back we have a destroyed car on the wall this is happening on the fifty-fifth lap an accident spread in the Daytona 500 this is going to bring up a very, very long warning, obviously they're going to have to move these cars and then they're going to have to leave.

He's catching the fine to come pick up all the debris these guys loved. Seven cars become damaged goods here. Turn the number 135 cars at $65,000 here at the Daytona 500 and there's David Pearson's car, standing next to the machine, already free of it. I know the red car doesn't have any J-point cars, right? Oh, it's not, that's the car number. 50 no, the other red car, the one in the middle of the track. Bruce Hills Automobile. There's one in the middle of the track, a red car, but we can't see the number from here and I wonder if that's AJ Foyt's car, Bruce.

Hill gets out of his car Bruce Hill has walked away from his car and there you see the two wrecked cars, a wedding for verification, the two cars in the accident are felt getting closer and apparently the drivers are fine, you see the safety teams there down and They are indicating the third thing: there will be a pretty massive entry into the pits at this stage of the game. David Pearson, the former winner will not be a winner today, chewing gum, he is always a silver fox, no matter how bad he looks a little. relaxed hello Scott adjusting his car most of the leaders are now coming to the pits but the Wood Brothers car that has been won so many times here at Daytona will not be a winner today from the start.

The Wood Brothers have been so formidable here in this race, they won this race with AJ Point, of course they wanted to with Cale Yarborough in 1968, they won it with David and now you see the security teams taking away one of the drivers of those cars destroyed, well, there's a kid coming out of the hole, so that's not his car that's stuck in the middle of the track, it could be Joe Milliken. I think it's Joe. It must be Joe Milliken, which is very unfortunate. He was a man. If you had asked me to pick an outsider, it would have been Dale Earnhardt or Joe Milliken, both rookies, showing tremendous form this week.

Joe Miller can, in fact, drive Benny, last year's fastest car, the number 72, owned by L Jean, to win from a lobby. 56 laps have been completed. A serious accident in turn four. We've had one and two, one and four, we'll see it again, a repeat as they pick up the debris from these two cars that hit the wall. I think it started with 50 and 87 and then behind them they all get into a David Pearson right in the middle sliding into the infield and almost hitting another car on the infield because this is what happens when you have these fantastic multiple drafts when something goes wrong, I mean, everyone's right and there's just no I really didn't avoid it in any way and here are cars number 50 and 87 splashing around inside.

It happened way up on the bank and I think it started with these two cars when they stopped on the inside of the track and you can see how wet everyone is from all the rain we had last night. Does that have any effect? That's what's creating the problem here. Well, I think we are having a very special fast race and the track is green. It rained last night, so once again caution is in effect, the yellow flag is flying in our live coverage of the 21st annual Daytona 500. 56 complete laps with only one identification on the two crashed cars.

Butch Mach was one Millican and the other, the NBA regional games to be held later. today Washington vs. Seattle Chicago vs. Kansas City playing the next day check your local listings for the game and weather in your area here at the Daytona 500 we are on lap 56 of the race we are down 140 miles you have a multiple accident and while we have a moment, let's go to one of the rooms here at Daytona Speedway with Mary Ann's group. I'm in the VIP suite above the start/finish line with me, it's mr. bill France senior, the founder ofNASCAR bill, this is not the usual Daytona 500, this is rain and the weather we've had has some effect on this, well it hasn't had any effect on the crowd because most of the tickets were sold in In fact, all of the Reserved seat tickets were sold in advance, so the only problem we had was trying to dry the track because it stopped raining around 12:00 and we wanted the cars to run the next quarter.

That didn't give us enough time, but there was another time where we had to do what we did today, we started under the yellow flag and I think we counted the first 15 laps under the yellow flag, we gave it the green flag and they're gone, now we've had a big crash and I don't know, we'll probably take another five or six laps maybe to clear the track, but yeah, yesterday we had bad weather, we had to shorten the time. event yesterday due to bad weather it rained this morning but by no means has our weather here been as bad as up north can you tell me these are the fastest speeds that have been spinning here last week all the time? and qualifying, do you think the combination of speed plus possibly some water on the track is causing the race and what happened today?

No I dont think so. I think well, the speed of the cars, what happens is that the cars are all driving pretty close to the same speed and there were probably 15 or 18 cars running in large numbers and when the cars are driving at 180 miles per hour and there are so many in a big high-speed traffic jam, you're I'm often lucky if someone sees that that doesn't even turn or something right in the middle and that's what apparently happened. I didn't see the beginning of the accident up there. I don't think anyone was hurt in the accident, but it was a great crash by NASCAR mentor Ken, thanks Mary Ann, here's Darrell Waltrip, coming in a number 88 car, one of the main contenders to win it, and You see Benny Parsons' car and it sure looks pretty tough for a lot of the guys considered favorites in this race, David now raising the hood, the hood, I would say, on Darrell's car sounded tough when it happened last time, let's go down to the Brock gates in the pits, now Betty Parsons just made her stop down here. yellow and he saw me standing here and he gestured about how the camera was working and I gave him a big thumbs up and told him everything was working well and he gave me a big smile back and he is very happy to be contributing to our show and delete this race right now interesting point Benny, stop, did you know that under the caution flag everyone, I'm sure, was watching this race?

They wonder why everyone jumps into the pits as soon as the yellow flag goes out, obviously when you come in. under a green flag here at Daytona, the cars on the track going 190 miles an hour, they go away, they move away from you in a matter of 1 mile every 20 seconds, so you spend 20 seconds from the pit you already had your candy covered a mile, so the secret will come in everyone being nice and slow and you can get there, get your fuel on board and get going without missing a lap, that's the secret, that's why everyone is here, that's why we .

It's up to you here too Richard Petty is now in the lead with all these pit stops on lap 59, number forty-three, Petty is first Terry Labonte runs second, he's a rookie running second and another rookie , Jeff Bowtie. His third teammate, Baker, is back on the track right now, he's only scoring four points for the NASCAR championship this year, he's well out of contention. Hunt, we've received a report that the silence in turn four It started when Kerry Ballou, another rookie, crashed into the wall and started spinning and Carna 487, you saw the results, came jumping in front of car number 50 and from there there was a total Holocaust for about six or seven cars.

All drivers are reported to be OK, but the former winner of this event, David Pearson, is out of the race. A terrible break for a man who has tried with all his might to win. Silver Fox often lives less than three miles from where he was born, but it's a lifestyle far removed from the beginning for the son of Whitney's Mills mill workers, along with a new house, an airport attached to a new lake. of five acres. David Pearson has perhaps the most unusual trophy room in a Country Store sports store, oh yeah, what are you going to store a bit of everything in?

Wow, let's take a look, okay, my goodness, it's not the easiest place to find hardware in a general store. I don't know, I guess there's no tenant here, but this is probably three quarters of the coolers, oh, I probably got about third place, so many more, David, do any of these trophies mean more to you than another? ? I would probably say the first thing I got was the world. There is a 604 stock car, but I forgot one somewhere, that river was the first one I had, which is just a small car that sits on top of the truck, yeah, that was a sport.

Do you want to stand here among all these victory symbols? How do you feel? You know, I haven't really thought about it that way since you said that, but I enjoyed going in and looking at the trophies and it reminds you of some of the first trophies. Reminds you of Becca, you know the old days. As I start, David Pearson is out of this race and here's one of the men he's raced with all those years, Richard Petty, who now has a chance to lead the event. The question is whether petit can stay there. It's been a long lean streak for Richard Petty. who has won 185 races in his career but has gone more than a season without a win has changed everything has changed the cars has changed the engine suspension settings all week David you look so cool and relaxed after having been through a that guy's accident well I don't I don't need to cry about it you know it's over now but I just hated you know running into Leonard and Glen if you're lighter because the car was a new car and it's pretty tense so I just hope we can fix it. runs in his hand again like he's Ken, he's disappointed but he's taking it in stride, that's the mark of a true champion now one of the greatest champions in American stock car racing David Pearson, the winner of Savannah 1976, won't honor victory Lane today David Hobbs should have been interesting to put an EKG on him and see what he'll do his heart rate probably hasn't changed at all.

He looked pretty. He'll be calm considering he just bounced off the wall with a couple other cars. and about 200 miles per hour for old Darrell Waltrip pitting again. Hectic activity at Waltrip spits carnivore 88 has been in and out a few times and we noticed earlier that the engine was starting to gargle a little on carnivore 88 let's get to Brock help okay we're here in the Darrell Waltrip pit Darrell, what's the problem? Oh, we race so long in the dirt, the caution flag is damaged, all the spark plugs, everyone has the same problem, is it a matter of the race track fans being slippery? or just a lot of crashes, what's the problem? too many warnings, we find all the spark plugs or warnings.

A very, very upset young man on this race card is having problems as crew chief and engine man, Robert Yates, is changing the spark plugs on his car and it's obvious. Very lucky they are here under a yellow flag or they would be totally out of contention all the way to your camera. 62 laps is 155 miles and the warnings have actually counted here and there is David Pearson's car and while they count and they. This is going to change the whole aspect of this race for some of those leaders. You heard what Waltrip said. He is starting to have some ramifications in the engine department.

We are seeing O-5 come in one more round and they will compete with Richard Brooks. is returning to the track officially out of the race now he Pearson Gary Balu butch Mach Joe Milliken are officially out of the event the cars are recovering one lap and will be racing and this is the situation up front Richard Petty number 43 is leading Terry Labonte , a young Texan is driving in second, Jeff Bodine is in third, Ricky Rudd is in and fourth, Dale Earnhardt is in this grandpa Cox is in 6zo bada-bing Jody and seven cars over getting ready to start once again here. at Daytona International Speedway, when they arrive, they will be working on lap 65 when they take the green, they are working on lap 64 at the present moment, there you see them lining up to restart this race.

Darrell Waltrip is right below. this and there you see the shot of Denny Larson's car and he has a lot of traffic to clear. Parsons is way off the leaders now with these pit stops and will just come out attacking to catch those leaders while Donnie Allison tries to scrape the leader Darrell Waltrip managed to get out of the pits without losing another lap so now he's running behind this field to try to catch up with him, so he stopped at the same turn. Great shots today from that old Goodyear blimp floating around. here at the speedway and about 100,000 racing enthusiasts on a gray day here at Daytona Speedway for the 21st Daytona 500 live today on CBS David Hobbs Brigades Ned Jarrett Mary's Group I'm Ken Squier, we're ready for a flag green, cautions, boy, we I've had some of all those cars that you see in the bottom lane that are two lanes of traffic, there's supposed to be two lanes of traffic there, all the people that are at least one lap down, so that the right lane towards them was empty. on green light it's on yellow light it goes off Carson is trying to make his way up a car hits the wall at the exit you could see him moving along the wall for a moment just running against the law for a second and now he's off. back and rolling, but that will change the aerodynamics of that car.

Now Donnie Allison slides in front. He's trying to make up some time. Another warning here would make him lose control. They have been invented. These more experienced drivers, like the Allison brothers, can of course work together. Fly to your advantage and win a lap on the course if you do it right, if the safety car comes out in the right place. I will tell you that with so many rookies mixed into the Masters, so many of the best cars have fallen by the wayside. At first things could get very difficult from here Richard Petty leading this race for the sixth time, a car that lapped right in front of him Donnie Allison in the test during the winter, this track has been completely repaved, which It's one of the reasons why the speeds have increased so much this year that it also makes it if you can call Racing 190 easy, it makes it a little bit easier, that's why you have inexperienced people mixing in there.

I also think it's a course that contributes to some of the incredible accents we've had here this week people are just trying too hard and the other thing now is that the track is completely green, it was bathed all night with constant rain, fifthly the asphalt is gone, there you see Penny first. Earnhardt ran in second position with the number two car and Labonte number 44 yesterday, unfortunately a player got tired right near the end of qualifying, but he has been driving very well, although he is a rookie in the Grand National race, there he sees Neil Bonnett moving inside.

Bond in number five trying to pick up a car, Labonte's car and here goes number two, Earnhardt, working with Richard Petty for the lead, who drops down curled up right on the rear bumper, below Richard Peddie here in the Daytona 500, trying to make it. here's petit in first place, Earnhardt is in second, young Dale Earnhardt hitches his car to Richard Petty's star as he tries to win the Daytona 500. Rookie Dale Earnhardt simply slides under Richard Petty dragging Donnie Allison with him. Car number 50 Bruce Hill has re-entered the race, was officially eliminated, took it back to the garage area, looked at it and decided to give it to him.

Here's Parsons trying to move toward the body exploding in Terminal 1 and here comes the body right next to him. side by side for fifth position, now on the inside goes Benny Parsons under car number five, he moves to fourth place and when Richard Petty right in front of him, centimeters away on the outside of Benny Parsons, his car number five Neil Bonnett and here you see them looking from the outside now what a picture five the inside is booming the second one falls Earnhardt 2/3 here's Benny Parsons will be gone about 1/5 let's Ned Jarrett in the pits sure we did hello oh, He's a very brave guy, he's very dedicated and he's got that little natural instinct that you know about Ned right now.

I think he feels like it... well, he's doing a good job. Did you give him any special instructions? He's doing it alone. I think it's pretty much a team effort at this point, okay, that's the worst thing that brought us to the owner, that car number two, they're very proud of the work that theyDale Earnhardt is doing, here now, back, you can see, secondly, with Neil Bonnett in front, what's up, nobody. is getting a lead, there's no room for error, there's no room for pressure, 24 cars here and that's a three-second backtrack sound covering the first 24 cars before we have a significant gap in the field and Donnie Allison is just a lap back among the carnivores, you could see it. the tear in the side to get back on that lead lap look at him, go number one Alison trying to get that lap back if she could get to the front and then if there was an incident she could go around the track and she would be Right back Marcin goes for in and number 27, there you see, is moving right next to number 2, Earnhardt, for second position.

Now on to the leading cars coming out of turn four. Check out this jam session. Good Ally, this is just amazing. of mobile racing with no gear and no speed limit, well, this is all a result of the resurfacing here, it has made it a little easier and, as you can see, absolutely everyone is hanging on it, car number 27, pulling out of the Car number one, Benny. Parsons is in the lead, he's drafting behind, watching them rock back and forth on the backstretch, going into second place, passing under Neil, back into turns three and four, working lap, no crashes in the turn four, try five asanas, spend Harry, get out of control, hello.

The worst circumstances can happen in NASCAR. He hit the end of that pit bull and threw it back onto the track and everyone ignored him. Harry Gant in Kenny Childers' number 12 car destroyed Gant trying to get out of the car, I think Neal. Bannen may have had a tire blow out because just as the last image went out of frame, I noticed him very, very high on the track, we have to replay the shot of the Goodyear blimp, now look what happens here , the number 5 gets away, it could have been a tire and look at that field just touching each other pushing bumpers and look at that number 12 car, the black car of rookie Harry Gant, former national modified champion, out of control at 180 miles per hour heading into the wall, crashes into the wall and shoots 300 feet into traffic returning across the runway, one car misses it, another car misses it and crashes into the concrete retainer on the outside.

I've never seen a race like this, what a lucky man, Harry Gant was there and heard Donnie Allison. The number 1 car when the yellow flag came out passed and Donnie Allison, they say, got the lap back from him, so Allison will be back in the hunt, he will try to win this Daytona 500 ticket. Gaza waivers talk to 28. Show car number one coming up behind. He already knows what he said, lady, I'm red, let me pick you up here. I'm going to need you to help me clean something back there: there's a car with steel hoods, let's go to Brock, uh, I was, I'm at Neil.

Bonnett Smith, the car got here, it's a rolling disaster, three of the four tires were flat, they changed them, the hood shook, the trunk lid was up, the car just narrowed and buckled at all the corners and I wouldn't be surprised. If he comes back here and someone else laughs for more work, it's up to you Ken, there's Richard Petty out front, but the story right now is the resurgence of Donnie Allison, he never won this race and here you see Bobby Allison's car looking even more sullen, more bruised to come. Back on pit road number 15, the Water Huntsman car defending Daytona 500 champion Allyson, let's take another look at that accident.

David jumps, there's a bullet falling from above and he was hit by Labonte at number 44, who is Harry's little hottie. Rookie Terry Labonte handled it very, very well to touch that car in a bad mood for longer than advertised at about 175 miles per hour and not lose his cool and control was pretty impressive, especially for a rookie trying hard. today and in the fourth shift a wild accident is reported. He's okay, cocky, oh, rookie who's had a pretty good week this week. In slow motion, he looks at the 40 for the red and white Carney inside the number five.

He looked like he could have slashed a tire and he got ahead of her. He just rolls. The front of his car didn't even faze him and the Perry Gant passes by the entire group there, what an incredible sight it hurts, you just wouldn't believe so many cars could go unnoticed in such a short time. Gant took the brunt of that on the driver's door and that's fine he never speaks highly of the safety of these cars Neil Bonnett the scar five is back working more on it emma has a man addsSo many, we'll be back with more live coverage of the Daytona 500 after this news from your local stations, the driver of JW Hunt's number 12 car, Kenny Childers, who saw that terrible sock hit the wall, is waiting with Ned Jarrett Harry, what happened when you arrived home for that curve?

The cars in front of Richard and Alison have already turned, who was very funny, they fell and we backed up or they backed up and he got back up in front of them. and they blocked it more and I was right behind. Alison flipped it in the back and I never touched it with my car it started to slip and I think someone hit me in the back then I missed and then you crashed into the wall. from a sudden stop, yeah, what does it feel like to hit a wall at about 190 miles per hour? It looks like you're doing 200 correctly.

The last competition in the entire country. This is his first full year of competition in the Grand National Division and his efforts here today were not what he expected, they sure weren't right at the moment. What about this one? The rookie won 56 races in the NASCAR modified ranks a year ago from Bellingham, Massachusetts. Geoff Bodine, his father, the owner of Chipmunks Speedway for years. In New York, with car number 47 up front, we have a rookie leading this race. I don't think the rookies won the Daytona 500 that Pete Hamilton wanted in 1970, but Emily Mead had a great experience at the national level the year before, in fact she had in 1969, but here's a look and this guy in Modifieds has been phenomenally successful for two or three years.

He has the patience and prudence to be a Grand National driver. He is in front and there is a black flag that says he is leaving by car. number 50 that is Bruce Hill a car from Topeka Kansas who is told to come for a consultation that is not a disqualification that is what the inspectors will not have a small talk with him about one thing or another I think so because the cars are already hit the wall once you're half full, it sounds better to just check if you're really fit to compete, take a look at these rankings, rookie Jeff Bodean of New England is up front Benny Parsons, the former taxi driver from Detroit, who runs second Scott, the Pennsylvania driver, third AJ Foyt's position returns to fourth place, Richard Petty and fifth, and this start will be just as difficult, just as close and tight, that's all we've seen before.

There is going to be frenetic activity throughout the day today. Close the positions in these NASCAR races that change everything. The time we've had, I don't know how many small lap leaders so far, but of course the only lap that really counts is lap 200. Maryanne's group is waiting with the honorary starter for the Daytona 500 from today. I'm with Ben. Gazzara so, is this your first race and what's your opinion so far? Well, it's the most exciting thing I've ever seen in my life. It's my first race. I came here because Richard Petty Cale Yarborough Darrell and Bobby Allison have become honorary presidents of a foundation. which I'm the national president of and that's retinitis pigmentosa, they did it because a friend of theirs has it, you know, it's a genetic disease that usually blinds young children and young adults and let's see if we can lick it.

I started a foundation eight years ago and they have done excellent research. These men are involved in seeing knowledge and that's part of the careers and it's up to you Ken, in fact they are and the guys like to cut young or there are other types of people actually. work on stuff like that here's car number 47 Bruce Hill the leader there you see Benny Parsons in second place Parsons is running in second place hi Scott running for geoff bodine Zelena there you see Benny Parsons watching the leaders races I see penny bastards Of course he could be a sleeper in this race, he's been complaining all week that he's been a little off the pace, but he's showing no signs of that at the moment, sitting just behind leader Geoff Bodine, one lap and they'll start to play with a lead once again here in Daytona it will be lap number 80 when they arrive at this time lap number 81 the green will be displayed.

I'll tell you this, it must be in honor of our first time here for the flight-by-flight deck to have the The slowest race in Daytona history today certainly won't be the record-breaking race for all the new speeds. This has to be the slowest race ever. Had Reis' view camera in car number 27. Parsons in second. There he is looking for leader Geoff Bodine, who moved. Outside of the modified ranks, he drove for a man called Nick Armstrong with a car from Massachusetts for the last three or four years he had fantastic success and chose this year to give it a try and Armstrong, who was not ready to move up to Grand National, did not did.

I don't want to run full page ads a couple of weeks ago congratulating this Bodine guy and wishing him the best for the season, there were a lot of feelings and the modified ranks they could have left weren't in the best relationship, not true at all. the cost was 54 wins, it's hard to imagine it as a cookie, but you're not used to running in these super speed races, all those things, all those wins came in half-miles in America's third mile, so All of this writing is new to him, ultra high speed is new to him and of course these huge cars that move him at about 200 miles per hour are new to him too and we should point out that he said trouble twice here last week. passed and got out of control twice. over 180 miles, but it hasn't been on any of the walls, the car was running well and here it is at the front, ready to take on the Masters as we go down to restart, when they pass they will have completed two hundred and two and a half miles the field will be recovers once again it has been the most wrecked Daytona 500 I can remember here is Bruce Hill in number 50 on pit road for consultation there you see the leader here is Benny Parsons right behind him as they come off the bank and head to the trioval area that race view camera in Benny Parsons' car may have a chance right at the start Rena is in the bow having dinner in the lead Benny Parsons in second here they come in turn one right behind many bosses there you see dad Parsons going to the lead approaches Jeff bodean pulls in Bodine is in front of the back immediately here comes Benny Parsons first you were with him as he takes the lead again.

Richard places the wrong second place Brooks has shown a lap down I don't know where Dick Brooks lost that would be one thrown somewhere and the second tie Scott running in third there is a Richard Brook sandwich right between the first and second place car Bobby Allison is still here today, we'll give you a capsule version of what's happened so far with all the action we've seen, it shouldn't take more than 20 minutes, it's been an incredible run back now, here's Richard Roach. The inside of Betty Parsons there you saw in the booth and then Benny jumped back behind him to pick up that job.

What images appear? Parsons goes again and marked the fender of him on the tri-oval that was hit on both sides of his car's run. speed Bobby Allison has led a lovely life today because in the accident a few minutes ago with Mary Gondii he realizes that Ghin crossed that he actually touched Allison and pushed Allison towards Petty and he just kept going straight. These have been tagged three times today, but the resurgent Allison is still here, still trying to gain ground away from a car decelerating very slowly on the backstretch as the field faces poverty hurdles for deluded Plenty pod leaders who return for the oval trio to the original finish line.

Betty Parsons Detroit Michigan Parsons back in line so pray the New England boy stays he wanted to erase me Parsons walks away to like cars What else can happen here today here's Bodine after Parsons in the back , immediately with bow tie, I push, you see? they come back and say through that quick shot you kind of get a sense of what it's about Cale Yarborough is coming out of the draft very well some of that Johnson junior power here's the rankings you see them there his bow tied in front of the second place directly behind his Benny Parsons, then in third place is number 30, Ty Scott, who runs fourth overall in the field, running in thefourth position, car number 51, hey boy, a leader falling into turn three up on the 31 degree bank, just in front. managing to keep that car pretty low through turns three and four, which is an important part of the race strategy here, if you can run low, uh, standing next to one of the drivers who didn't make it today, we're in the hole of the pond Lenny, what's the problem?

Engine problem Lenny isn't talking right now, he's had a lot of problems, a lot of stops, as you can see his team is just hovering over that engine, it looks like they're trying to change the wedge and the right front side, the cars aren't They have been driving. He's not as dead as some of them here, Ken, that's amazing, but he's pressing towards you. Donnie Allison, now seventh, has recovered the lap and Donnie Allison there you see him behind that search for the first position. Donnie Allison is. Getting back to the point, I've never seen anxiety, there's just no margin for error here today oh, we can't escape, we've proven it three or four times this week, there's no margin for error and the tremendous responsibilities placed on it. about all these returning drivers immediately keep trading them here's Cale Yarborough try again old age with David Hobbs at the start/finish line at Daytona Speedway we're watching perhaps the most incredible race we've ever seen Benny Parsons You see it Cale Yarborough Baylin on actually in second is Jeff Bodean tied Scott running third Richard Petty is in fourth Dale Earnhardt running up to fifth position they come to the tri-oval to complete lap 91.

We have 16 cars. running less than three seconds of 516 cars with three seconds difference the head area was not that Jared, we are waiting with Neil Bonnett that he just had to park his car well. I got too high in turn four and I'm going to lose things and a car at the exit. around, you know, I've been bouncing across the field, I crossed that road and I think a nice wheel into the chase, you've got another car trying to come back, you were running in front, did the car surprise you today? Yes, there is no doubt about it.

I know we had a lot of problems all week and it turned out that if I worked really hard today there, whether I was as strong as the draft, I could keep up with the guys and when the time came, we would have a lot of fun with a car. Everyone made a mistake, see the pit stops in green because there have been a lot of warnings here in the race, but they are also adjusting the pit stops for the time they enter pit road, the entire time they exit and to continue teaching . accumulates times Parsons has made three pit stops in the race total time in pit road two minutes twenty-five and seven seconds the tie scott-carr is surprisingly doing very well in pit road J has been the fastest in the pit row to the The time he headed to the limbo of the 90s three times 2 minutes 21 and 88 seconds let me see the two leaders while we see the leader Benny Parsons being followed by caviar, but doing the classic puts Cale Yarborough away of his opposition and Kenny taking it all out. that just look at them, the perfect raft of two cars moving away from the rest of the food remember that Yarborough is a lap or two away from car number 11 Kaylee number two today with Dottie and Bobby Allison that there is Donnie Allison, Allison is making up time has come from way back one lap down he's back and currently in the top five his car is badly mangled on the left side the driver's side is still here he's going to lose right behind Dale Earnhardt for fourth place Earnhardt is important Back with a leader, there you see Benny Parsons and here you see second third fourth fifth back to tenth fall into a pack as they progressed in the test backing up to 120 passes in Cale Yarborough made the NASCAR drivers dream come true two perfect cars The draft is moving away from the field, this is helping Benny who is leading and of course he could bring Kay in at once and right behind him, AJ Foyt and the number 51 car, AJ starts to get in there, now that You've waited, now you've shown a lot of patience, you're starting to make tissues, now these people are getting a little desperate and if they would just calm down with a signal to go faster, but of course, that's like, I see, and It can break if you are new to motorsports, two cars racing.

Since these two cars are there, you will see that the leader number 27 goes to Parsons to wait, mr. Cole's invisible waiting car in second receives good resistance and runs at about half throttle as do Bobby Allison and the white number 15 with his brother Allison, the number one black car later goes to the beginning of the fall , it's actually quite simple, but the hole in the air as well as in the round then the second car runs in that hole Donnie Allison now in the second number two is the Allison brothers, the Alabama gang back together as Donnie and Bobby try join in his own two raft cars and run over the leader Benny Parsons Parsons laughs behind and stays with him more and more Ajay: he looks formidable as we move towards the halfway point of the race and one thing one can't forget is that he is Benny Parsons' car in front, lashing out at the rear. immediately his brother one lap down for 15 years third place his point right here that fourth place number two Earnhardt and fifth is Richard Petty net Jeff can a week ago this young man was behind the wheel these were engaged Kyle how are things going, dad ? out there everything good they are going good right now we have been changing tires and we are a little behind on the tire so we have to prepare them here he is not going as well as you did last Sunday although the race was a little bit shorter last Sunday than this is something we could probably be stronger than the tires here for your father, what does what story there?

Richard Petty was overtaken by Dave Marcus at the o2, no cheapskate fights him 18 years old. -Old young man, you start talking about the first place he drove a week ago at this track and, in the great Petty tradition, he came home a winner that was incredible. The first Daytona 500, Richards won five times and Kyle Petty at age 18 in the first race. he once scored wins at Daytona Speedway Benny Parsons continues to lead looking for his second 500 victory we'll be halfway through the race and one of the basic axioms of motorsports is that if Richard makes it halfway, you better pack up the tools and Go home because from there he has been champion so many times that he is running fifth right now by the halfway point.

Chip Warren crosses flags midway through the event, the slowest first 250 miles in history, the Daytona 500, but you've seen some of the most incredible ones. Incredible action we've never seen in a motorsport here at Daytona. Well, these two are driving a race that is very reminiscent of Buddy Baker and Darrell Walter from last week in the bush: he runs away from the rest of the field hooked like these. Aside from Richard Petty, Richard Petty is obviously running very hard on this name until the halfway point, as these two have to consider Liz, Donnie Allison, and of course AJ, sitting there in third place, hasn't really made a move serious still, but there is a man to watch. probably the most formidable racing driver of the 47 Jeff Bodine running in seventh place slowing down Jeff brother Dinah is not a great driver but his talents are in inverse order to his physical size he is having children meanwhile the safe that his brother tries is here keep Those cars bunching up because they can go a lot faster when they're running side by side, there, halfway there, Parsons and Cale Yarborough call themselves Parsons and I guess you'll just have to let him do that.

There we see the image from inside. the car now or on the blimp, the thing is you can't just follow these guys forever because the engine is very happy to let Hale guide them, obviously, pretty evenly matched. Ghazi keeps the scales cool, yes that's the big problem with traffic. The indicators turn red and pink, you have to keep an eye on them all the time, watching the bumper of the car in front of you because you can burn out an engine very easily in a situation like this. There are two cars here, we've had a rash. of yellow fever here today caution flag number five is over so far from Bluff City Tennessee watching a replay Johnny Huntsman throws hand grenades into the engine right at the start/finish line fifth yellow flag of the afternoon as Johnny Excellent's hopes they fade into the The car goes down in turn one, bringing up the middle and imagine this: We're better than halfway through the race and 19 cars are running on the lead lap.

I'm afraid it will be a long yellow flag as the oil streak through the tribe on the straightaway and into turn one was modified and they will have to clean that all up, how about this when the yellow flag came out? Cale Yarborough, leader, Parsons lapped the track first and is recovering a question on the lap. put Yarborough back on illegal no he was three laps down hit a bull on the left Cale Yarborough has now made up a full lap and it is now known that Benny Parsons is showing some smoke as this story unfolds in the pit here it comes our pit leader David if the crew chief is ready to put in 22 gallons of fuel he will stop in 25 lives here he is the fastest cameraman in the world the windshield is clean this car is becoming like the rest of them about four miles per gallon and generally It can go about 35 laps before it stops at 25, but obviously it is taking advantage of the yellow flag to put two chains on the tires on the right side, now they will do it on the left side as well.

This very new surface on this track is definitely taking its place. Very tired, these guys will probably end up changing around 16 tires before this race is over. They sense what they plan to do before the windshield is clear again. Every good little pit stop, but it will be a bit tricky because of the four tire changes there. he goes in another direction the tires the car stalled but he started it again quickly Becky you can move the doors if you get a chance we have a report there have been signals from the observation towers around the track that the lead car Benny Parsons is starting to show some signs of smoke coming from the rear of the machine.

I wonder if he can talk to his crew chief, David, if he confirms that story. Here the 106 laps are being completed right now. There will only be 93 laps left. We arrived with 19 cars on the lead lap more than halfway through the race, David jumps, that's kind of a story, well of course we haven't had many races, unfortunately, we've had so many yellow flags that have kept the united group, but wow. Are you in that race together? He's had these 22 and 24 car drafts, absolutely the most spectacular race you'd ever want to see anywhere, it might get a little more spectacular than this whole stage, he goes down and drops his powder and sucks up the oil. and of course the powder itself can be a little slippery.

They are trying to get Monto back to green, but they are checking this area of ​​the track. If you're just joining us, the race is kind of on. I hope the bail. down dry chemical they put on the track a little further up the track to dry the double Cyril lost his engine Parsons is back in the hood he's up let's hunt for Brock eh J is warming up they have a water line in Cana The top tank, that's the problem certainly in that tight draft is Cale Yarborough, they made things heat up a little bit, fortunately he's under yellow flag again, so this is going to hurt him a lot, but it's not something that they like to do, team leader, David.

It's definitely very serious right now Parsons is pretty calm, very good considering the situation, the process is slow to put water on these things, it's just a normal garden hose that goes in here, I'm almost done, kami. I was pretty bad. sign if you start putting water in a race halfway through a 500 mile race is not very promising. I'm afraid Parsons is behind the track, let's review the midway classification in depth. Parsons was in first place in second position. Donnie Allison in third place AJ plus running fourth rookie Dale Earnhardt running fifth point AJ running sixth high Scott running in seventh of that juncture was number 47 bo time in eighth position was Grant Adcox running in ninth was cuco marlin and in tenth position held Dave Watson's car while in eleventh was Richard Childress in twelfth was Darrell Waltrip Richard Petty in the pits in position 13 was Labonte 14 was carnauba nineteen bill Dennis 15 was DK Ulrich's car as petty fits with dick may driving 16 was JD McDuffie 17 was 39 Blackie Wang Gruen's car 18 was Frank Warren 19 was number 98 and remember all those cars date back to 98 Ralph Jones of Upton Kentucky are all in Pattythrew out Waltrip full on under the hood tone problem Parsons is once again back at Brock Yates They are putting their radiator sealant in this school system, which doesn't bode well for this engine, as you know, a Once you start to leak, you may not be able to avoid a lot of problems down here in many places. inspector, you can check out our battlefield conditions here today at the Daytona 500 later today, NBA competition, National Basketball Association with Washington vs.

Seattle, Chicago versus Kansas City next up here on CBS, check your local listings for the game and weather in your area here today on the 21st running the Daytona 500 at the start/finish line with David Hobbs I'm Ken Squier, we're one lap away from the race resumption with 19 cars running on the lead lap incredibly halfway through the race, well it's been a pretty incredible race, all together we started under yellow in the first 10 laps, then we had some green runs and the track was a little wet. Allison Brothers, who had a tremendous shot at the lead, crashed into each other coming out of Turn 2.

A little gutted for them at Cale Yarborough, they dropped Donnie Allison is now back on the lead lap, his brother still He is one lap behind and Kale has also won one of his laps. Meanwhile, as you say, there are 19 cars left running. this leading lap and every time they pass it at 195 miles per hour they are on top of each other one more lap and they will run 100 91 to go 272 miles have been completed but these 588 thousand have become a bus stop today in a derby over and over again we saw wrecked cars because one of the most consistent racers today is a man who has had a tremendous week here and that is rookie Dale Earnhardt in a yellow and blue number two car who is currently second behind by Donnie Allison and Car number 11, they say, is in the bottom lane up there and turns one and two.

Car number 11 is three-time national champion Cale Yarborough, previous winner of this race. Donnie Allison in front. Remember he was one of those puddle jumpers here today. and his brother and Cale Yarborough slid and spun for a thousand feet today and he fought his way back to the front, there you see Waltrip falling in, he wants to make up another lap, make no mistake, he goes up to have a chat with Donnie Allison who was saying a lot thanks, I'd appreciate it, who stays where he belongs here, this is Cale Yarborough, right down there, and right next to him is Bobby Allison in the middle of that sandwich and rookie Dale.

Earnhardt holds up beautifully on the outside to go to Trent three, that's Chuck Bown on the bottom of the inside, he's one lap back, he's the former Western champion from Portland, Oregon, his father-in-law, the famous Hershel McGriffin, here you see to Manny. parsons car Parsons is in eighth position after these pit stops getting ready to start moving through traffic gaining speed here low to start gaining speed pulled by Richard Childress here they come for the stock the one behind returns charges towards the block of curve Donnie Allison in praat Dale Earnhardt is in second third Richard Petty losing a place or two here in that stock immediately behind Bobby Allison number 15 remember it's later, he's a lap or two back first and second place in front Numbers one and two, Donnie Allison Taylor and Arnold, would be in second place, coming to the test, right there, the driver from Tennessee, as bad as his crew chief, straightened up there today, what it cost to run the third bank of 31 degrees of Immediate, ryo-san Donnie.

Allison, this is my most incredible Midway coughs Langford cuckoo Marla in fourth place with a rookie Dale Earnhardt pulled in a very, very strong second there you see that speech coming out of turn four ernhardt goes for the lead aah a guy stops him there in the package third For the two car lead lap, Donna Mobile is right in front, they are using the two lap cars behind Earnhardt's blue and yellow car and going down the backstretch is h8 4451, their third place machine, although towards the Dave Marcus's blue car. is a working labradoodle ready to just want to go for a spin we don't we just have 1841 grant dicots in the back of this race train behind those backing up just a little J coid and the third Dale Earnhardt running second Donnie Allison on the hot streak of his career is in front Kenny, stay there, his car rumbled and broke on the left side, but the driver who simply put the machine on the track stays in front in this surprisingly great possession of the 500 Miles from Daytona, Ernhardt right there in second and you. see AJ boy holding on in third place and waiting for the concession in the Cox phase and ahead Richard Petty is back in fifth position and going seventh, Betty Parsons needs to tie Scottie and tonight advances Darryl Waltrip 116 laps 290 miles in the nose of the Daytona 500.

Willie Earnhardt moving back Donnie Allison commanding the event again the leader continues to come and go Donnie Allison second Fred Adcox in third Earnhardt back in fourth take a look at what it's like when they enter the tri-oval just barely turning the wheel at 190 miles per hour, turn that wheel about two inches and across the tri-oval, turn it three and you could finish the season and you can see you and that wheel working away that we were these 37. hundred pound cars and they put people up to 500 miles, the draft It has a tremendous effect on these guys, not only do the cars move around the wind of the other cars, they eventually move these cars using a Holloway track.

Allison rolls out and continues trying to do Laps up now remember Yarborough is probably one of the smartest and smartest drivers here. He has won the national championship three years in a row. Nobody has ever done it. Here's a report from Ned Jarrett. I'm in the pits with one of the tires that I'll be putting on a car later Richard Petty just did a 15 second pit stop last time and one way they were able to do it was the lug nuts were already glued to the wheel and they put a furry that used to have to do it when they would be taken off with a love reaching for tires and gas in 15 seconds pit crew Alison up front here he is on the backstretch look at him as he goes through turns three and four there's Benny Parsons attacking once again to Parsons in first position moving around AJ boy, he's going to second, he's slowing down dramatically hey, the pointers are off the pace, he's slowing down and turned 3, here comes Donny Alice now to turn 4, watch him go right into the wall and use that wall as a handrail along the main straight coming up, hey J boy, bringing Jim Gilmore's number 51 car on the way to the pits let's rock huh here comes AJ whistling in the pits his team is ready obviously they're going to check the right side up no AJ didn't want to stop another move from AJ Foyt we're not really sure what he did but he just came to tell someone something or what but he went after you again Ken 39 Blackie Windgren looks like he's running out taking the engine apart you saw it there, it crashed I've done three involving our leading group Richard Petty, his leader going down Donnie Allison coming for Blackie whining little smoke guzzler there's caution in the track report there's trouble in turn three I think, man, Bazan is coming slowly now Parsons is coming very slowly when he meets the strike oh, they were both in trouble, there was a good There's a good chance that if Blackie Wagner's motor comes loose, which it looks like happened because of the smoke, there is a good chance that the leading group consumed that oil on the track.

Dave Marcus of Wausau Wisconsin is having problems and Cale Yarborough, they say, is another one. the lap is that correct, we have a report now that Yarborough is still fighting his way back and these warnings, we have yet to see anyone come in and make a green flag pit stop in this race where they go over the wall and do it in 15 seconds. I think we're going to have to see it, even so, we're 121 laps into this race and at this pace we'll never see a green. Wow, they only have to do another 80 yard laps and they can do almost 50 anyway.

We'll be lucky to see the brutal and wild 507 at Daytona in this 21st edition, as the purse has risen to almost $600,000. The leaders are in the pits. Donnie Allison is on pit road. A lone safety car waiting for someone to join it. Rocky angel hips. Johnny with right side tires. Look carefully, the left side, possibly both tires on the left side will be changed; They just told me that the car is wearing the tires well and everything seems to be fun. Oh well, it looks like he spent about 20 years under Harper Free White. He comes back up, right, Ken?

It certainly doesn't look like a proper stock car, it does it well, it actually looks like a proper short track car, with that side, all in Kimball, there's the Earnhardt car coming back with a swirl engine, the number 2 car is back . on the track we are working in the lab 122 ladies and gentlemen AJ Foyt is now in the pits they have completed 305 miles only 78 laps left there are 11 cars still on the lead lap of this the most unpredictable Daytona 500 there has ever been racing. I can understand why AJ made that pit stop to slow down before slowing down, he got in and then just got out again.

The most peculiar thing is that Brock Yates is trying to get a report right now on why AJ came in; it may have been a lost signal down there. Gilmore's car returned to the track, but suddenly slowed as it passed three and four. I mean, it seemed like he had some kind of problem, maybe he thought of a tired gun or something and he walked in while he was there and there. number o2 Dave Marcus, we saw that car under construction about a month ago, that Matthews banjo in North Carolina, back to Brock Yates in the pits, can we find out why AJ made that mysterious stop to his crew chief, Nick Cons, and how do you know? a racing veteran saw the yellow flag come out, but just as he stopped and started once again, it will come in when we have a little quieter place for the manufacturer, so he came out again with a quick stop a few times to It wasn't a mistake, it was just a quick maneuver on the part of the team leader.

There you see one of the cars in the race built by one of the most amazing stories in auto racing, the story of a man in North Carolina, this piece of frozen surface behind me is Buncombe County, North Carolina North, and those mountains are the Great Smokies. They hunt and fish a lot around here, grow some tomatoes and some apples, but they also build Grand National Stock cars inside this building every 1978. The Grand National winner was the work of this banjo man Matthews, as is the case with most of the members of the banjo fraternity of southern automobiles, the pace is deceptively relaxed with long hours spent chatting about racing, but in the shop the work schedule is fast and determined here a small A skilled team of craftsmen joins together a stack of pipes of steel to the rigid, incredibly safe chassis and roll cage combination that forms the backbone of Grand National stock cars.

Internally, the machines are the same whether they are ultimately covered in sheet metal from a General Motors Ford or Chrysler brand automobile, the technique a distillation of years of trial and error, failures and horrendous crashes from these. evidence. Men like Banjo Matthews will create for you, for about sixty thousand dollars, one of the safest and most reliable racing cars known to man in most of the world. The great cars of Grand National racing began their lives here at Banjo Matthews, a good percentage of them in their lives here too, in this million-dollar pile of bent iron and steel that stands as a tombstone to most of the big accidents in Grand National racing. they will be able to add a few more after today David Hobbs there you see Marquez's car hooked Marcos hopes have evaporated today there have been problems for Dale Earnhardt Ned Jarrett has the story the rookie has been running at the front all afternoon Ken, but in his last pit stop to change the four tires, this is one of the tires that came off the left side and has been rubbing the fender.

We have Roland Melodica, who is the crew chief on that car. Roland, that's a problem, not really. He was there too on a full pit stop, so he had to take it off anyway, but the tire feels extremely hot, they were hot. We've included a right front tire in 30 laps before so we did a four tire stop this time to get some scrapes again if there's nothing you can do to fix the fender rub, no it's not a problem it does everything time and he's not going to blow out a tire, that's fine, it seems to me that his problem is, but he knows much more. about that getting a flat tire famous last words we are back under yellow flag for the sixth time today at the 21st annual edition of theDaytona 500 live with more action in a moment from the Goodyear blimp, you can see some of the more than 100,000 gathered here at the two and a half mile world speed center in Daytona Beach, Florida, and maybe the 500 most unpredictable miles ever run here when they come down for a green flag Donnie Allison in first place Richard Petty and second Dale Earnhardt in third theis Scott is fourth Terry Labonte in fifth Darrell Waltrip appears in sixth position, so he got three of the first six are rookies in this race Dale Earnhardt and Scott Terry Labonte and Scott isn't really a rookie, but he's not.

You'd be there with the leaders Yarbrough number 11 two laps now 75 laps to go, let's hear Bill gasp as they prepare to resume it 41 all yours mr. Today he starts for the seventh time, sixty-eight Chuck Bown, he is now in second place on the road three laps behind the leaders and there you see Yarborough trying to get back in front to make up another lap, since he knows there are 11 cars In race. the lead lap is less than two and a half seconds apart, there you see Richard Petty, there's Jonathan Livingston Seagull comes in to see what is increasingly the factor running just ahead of Dale Earnhardt in third and make a decision brave.

The man who bets on Richard Peddie did pretty well in the Daytona 500 54 any five-time national champion five-time Daytona winner 59 has won it, but once dodging and weaving continues in any race anyway the form where they keep going in and out of the drop, it's just a few steps to the east, it's really hot, really, it comes out of those turns like a dancing puppet, they're flying down the backstretch at almost 200 miles an hour, there's a tight ship for the second place leader, they are two laps behind, we notice that he looks like Cale Yarborough. to have the ability to get away from the current race leader and put it in the card ROM all the way, attract the passers, the layup and pour, we look at these positions, Cale Yarborough hooked up with Donnie Allison and can they get away from Richard if they can? and there is another yellow flag Oldtown Yarbrough would have taken another lap of the three he was down, a master tactician, now Yarbrough is just one lap down.

I doubt if he can pick this up again, he's already done it twice, he could be back there in the lead with Donnie Allison, who also has a shallow lead for the number one car. Donnie Allison is the eyes that Yarbrough stares at him at full speed and they have a nice Donnie Allison maintains that forward position. Richard Petty starts to close in from second place in the old 43. I'll be back with more live coverage of the Daytona 500 after this news from your local station as they're 131 laps in, three hundred and twenty-seven and a half miles, just 69 laps to go.

Donnie Allison trying to hold on to his battered and battered car so far in the race he is 20 car lengths over the number 43 Richard Petty in second place keeping the third tie Scott is stabilized at Port Darrell Waltrip is still in fifth Labonte is in six Parsons is at 7,000 sit all afternoon as the race continues to shake, ramble and roar, 11 cars are standing still and only fighting three and a half seconds apart when you watch these two leading cars come down the backstretch. Cale Yarborough is going to collide with Donnie Allison, who you imagine the next time you stop at the light.

The car in front like that for him at one hundred ninety-five to two moved back a little as they enter the curve. There you see Donnie Allison in second place. Here's to Edwards to win a second Daytona 500. Rolls wanted like him. he spun with his brother in Korea Donnie Allison and brought here comes petty more than one season without winning his car always seems to work better in the last part of a race when the other cars are very slippery and oily until the track Patty's car He just Screams, bites it and starts approaching the leaders and that's what Patty number 43 is doing right now.

We have seen it so far today here she is in second place. Richard Petty trying to break a 45-game losing streak and getting close. leader Donnie Allison Allisyn leading the Cale Yarborough station just one lap down trying to retrieve that lamb Richard Petty and second here you see them on the 31 degree bank at the East End of the Daytona International Speedway two and a half mile with Richard Petty second Earnhardt third Scott fourth Parsons with Waltrip in sixth position Walter for the one who is among the leaders Carson remains in front look this looks like a little smoke coming out of the number 15 car Bobby Allison now looks at the entire course, each lap has to be exactly correct one engine another car goes up in smoke I think he is giving a loose car car number 82 falling on the inside rail we are all trying to make up the lap this is what if Gayle can lead he will stop on his line he is I picked up that lap warning, here's Kayla, make up a lap, if Donnie Allison gets back in front of him she'll put him down a lap, they must run, slide, cale yarborough, here's Donnie Allison trying to make up the lap in a game of slingshot. above, he's back on the lap with the leading 12 cars now, as we move towards the end, hook this, totally use the word awesome David, here's Ned with jr.

Johnson was elated when Cale Yarborough crossed the start/finish line to return to the same lap with the junior leader. that God never gives up, we could have a chance to win, you have to make a lot of adjustments in that rich man fully made accessory, so we have a lot to do, I just hope to stay together in the big national championship, they were several laps down, but they They always want some of those races, well, he's the old grandmaster, the last American hero, his name is Junior Johnson, who only has one instruction for Cale Yarborough, go to the front and, in fact, he's put himself back in the front turn and there.

There will be ten cars racing for the number one lead Donnie Allison is back in the pits neighbor 1 and we go to Brock's gates here comes Donny it's a routine stop right side tires this time everything is going normally Donnie very cool incredibly cool and both Alison Never appear upset, no matter what, stop quickly. Ken Top Trump's number one car, Donnie Allison, is probably losing the lead now, I've reported 10 cars on the lead lap, there will be 10 cars, hear on CBS, next Saturday and the next. Sunday from Los Angeles, Los Angeles at Glen Capel, don't miss it here on CBS Marianne Budge has a report for us now.

I'm in the starting and finishing stands with some of the fans and I have someone here. I would like to ask a question. I ask you, how long have you been coming to the Daytona 500 since about 1962? What is your name Louise Vermilya? and you said you left her in Florida. We live in Armen Beach. What do you think of the 21st? Daytona 500 I think it's fantastic. I regret the accident until now. I'm very happy that no one was hurt. Thanks so much Ken, again to you die-hard racing fan. There are 62 die-hard racing fans who pay the money for the seats to keep us racing. employed pilots, so I can see that I'm not employed here much longer.

Dale Earnhardt didn't pit on that lap and when everyone else did, I wonder if that put him a lap ahead by taking a risk like that. He has gone around twice. Now everyone else is supporting, that's why I'm going to throw myself out there, the safety cars took the field and there's Cale Yarborough's Pitts net, Jarrett Cale Yarborough in the pits, he made that lamp, now they're going for a ride, sighs, tire chain, tailgates, I'm cool. He drinks and has a smile on his face now he is a little happier than before in the race now they go to the left side to do a four tire change they can do this in about 35 seconds it takes about 15 to 18 seconds when the only change two tires with only five hands allowed over the wall when my pants change four tires and Cale Yarborough is out, he's back with the leaders and we could have a three-time winner.

Benny Parsons is there. See, the hood is up. Yes, Benny is having some problems under the hood. He remains on the lead lap. He's fine, he's holding on. a good place the car runs well when it is outside it is overheating there is water coming out from under the car good certainly he and his team David IFFT have given their best attempt today good team working on that car there you can see all the visibility These drivers have Talking about pressure and working well, visibility definitely decreases, there is a lot of sin because one of them goes half a turn to reach the grade, like when I racino, the sand rises and scrapes the screen until it is clean at home.

It gets a little dirty due to very hard sandpaper and the race progresses, there are almost no green flies. That catalyst to get these 11 drivers together again for another outing is about to unfold with Dale Earnhardt, the rookie, leading a lap and they will be running a lap in Dale Earnhardt of Kannapolis, North Carolina, will lead the field with Donnie Allison of Hueytown Alabama at second point AJ of Houston, Texas, running third with 140 laps completed, only 60 laps to go, seven cautions today, slowest 500 in history, perhaps most eventful pit. It has certainly been what one would describe as an action-packed afternoon.

I will say that I can't get over Alice about this. Donnie, he's just gotten enough sleep. Well, Bobby's had a fantastically wild ride. He has been running at least three times. tough and he's still in the race. Donnie has run into kales at least once, he's been up to his axles in the mud and then with David, we've seen a lot of tumultuous endings here at Daytona, but I have a feeling we're in for one today like we've never seen before, we've never had ten cars running together this late in the race on the same lap and they're reconfirming right now we're talking about scoring that Cale Yarborough is actually on that lead lap so this is it and you can hear the crowd maybe behind from us, as they just announced in the public speech that Yarborough is back on the lead lap and they love him.

I think with the bat in the next 10 minutes we will see Kayaba. take the lead in this race for the first time this afternoon Cale Yarborough, one of the most incredible characters I have ever met, still enjoys Sunday afternoon duck hunting, fishing, or catching water moccasins with his bare hands. He was originally on the Washington Redskins farm team. in football we're going to listen to Bill Gassaway as we go down to start we're back at the control tower you're listening to the signals being given green flag the flag spinning the bars tailor bobby allison with come on ha, could we have five six seven cards stuck to the finish on this today we could have a rookie win the race the most important race of all the Daytona 500 could be won by Dale Earnhardt no, if Donnie Allison has his way, take it away from the kid Donnie Allison press it's a cliché, kill me, that's totally right this afternoon, his married feet through that firewall look at his Dale on high, hello boy, Jeff, hello, Scott station port, and that It's an amazing story, Hi Scott, still young drivers, sophomore, coming back. to the pits with lockouts, can we hear MC Anderson in the pits with David, if the crew chief or Benny Parsons, David, you have some problems related to the cooling system, the exact cooling system will be exactly what we do ?

I'm not sure if we have a blown head or head gasket or anything like that. We've been trying to seal it up and we're just hoping that we can continue to get some precautions and continue to seal it up, because when we run about 30 or 32 laps, the temperature goes up about 30 or 32 laps. 260 270 so we're holding up well thank you the camera doesn't work as well as we expected but it's still there after you can. I will say that there are still areas drawn right behind Richard Petty now that we're at it. Seeing the other thing Richard Petty was saying, he gets drunk late in the rain, the other thing he does at the end of races, he goes incredibly high, let's look at them from all angles from a single camera to give you an idea of ​​what faces a pilot. no cuts here just watch as they curl like beads down the backstretch at 200 miles per hour now up the 31 degree bank at the East End, Daytona Speedway, you're looking at Donnie Allison facing Dale Earnhardt and second here They are going through that 1600 foot straight to the test here they reach the 1600 feet leading to turn one, there is no room for the rock crusher of Bastille, except for those few free seconds on pit road and notice how they are going up the slope. since it's getting very slippery, this is what it looks like in every way, one time he makes a mistake, a slight error in judgment and in this year of history, except for the fact that Donnie Allison, Cale Yarborough and Bobby Allisonare here, the donkey companion is back on the hunt.

It might be interesting to buy Cale Yarborough and see if he can close out some honorable meals here while trying to hunt down leader Donnie Allison 47 seconds 10 cars on lap six off the lead Only 54 laps left and we could have a group finish Here today, I remember that In 1959 Lee Petty won this race. The race was so close that it took three days to decide the winner. Now they have electronic cameras solving the test. The final round of this epic $528,000 battle. Donnie stays in front. Bernhard second. AJ Foyt in third place. tied Scott a surprise for fourth Richard Petty remains in fifth Cale Yarborough moving Betty Parsons Detroit Michigan LLB North Carolina in a long time and this will put him out of the hunt this will put him in fact when the leaders come right now that put it down two laps please, a 10 car draft, nine of them racing for the lead, there's Parsons' car, the hood is down and he's back on the track, a valiant effort is worthless except the Temperature inside the cabin is approximately 120 degrees.

The whole day, it was a cool day. Go back to turn three. The third place car you imagine, remember, is a couple of laps behind, but Donnie Allison is the leader. Earnhardt is in second place. AJ's red car, boy, there's no room to put your. hand between the bumpers there is absolutely in total published sixty-four thousand five hundred and four first about 41,000 per second that is in the total of published awards we are back with David, come on, stop more diagnosis yes, we have a crackhead or something like that , series? If it doesn't rain so well, I'll tell you, a very disappointed crew chief, without a doubt, a very disappointed Benny.

He won this race in 1975. Baby, this race continues. Every race counts toward the NASCAR Cup points pool and you just have to keep our voice up. If you want to make all that money back in the end, can you imagine the mental stress of these drivers at inches of this tremendous speed and there has been no chance except in these cautionary areas in the countryside when they are here? there just hasn't been room to breathe all afternoon David Lee, this is one of the closest races I've ever seen, anyway when you say you couldn't put your hand between Chuck Bown, it just fell a lot, all nine of our cars were going in head. turn like Richard, as always, and if anyone runs away from the leaders in that short chair, it almost marks the wallet.

I don't think he's very happy, that's definitely scratching a thing that really knows where it is, so it's Donnie Allison and first. On training day they are deployed in second position and then Mom pats them as the caravan gathers on the home stretch at top speed. The car in third place is a June boy. It's Richard Petty being challenged. The main challenge is getting around. Kaylie. I broke right behind Hetty. Is Cale Yarborough going for fifth place? Remember that Yarborough came from three laps down to fight his way back behind Petty in six. His Darrell Waltrip is still lurking in seventh place with a lot of people.

He was the favorite for today's race. He won the first event of the year. Riverside California. Donnie Allison at the front continues to fend off Dale Earnhardt's advances from first to eighth position 154 laps into the event who's going to win nine contenders are all here together at the end of the race Benny Parsons winning again it's over for Parsons, maybe just keep going for Betty Parsons, how fast that Donny Allison car goes with that big gash on the side. They put us in Parsons' car. I'm afraid she doesn't have water problems in the car. Morris says you've had it.

You know it's lonely. No, he looks, now he's four laps behind, now the engine is tortured in car number 27 and starting to give up. The heart of the car starts to work. It's over for any Parsons, but nine others are still in the thick of it. the side that won't be decided until the fourth burn live from Daytona Beach, then tie Scott, now Kayleigh ah Poirot, for fourth place and you're looking at, hey, Jenny, boy, holding that red car right behind the leader and there you see Donnie Allison around the Speedway at top speed holding on like a heavyweight champion the last few rounds of a world champion not only an opponent, eight others tried to take first place from him here are out of turn number two Donnie Allison who closed out when he made a thousand foot spin out of turn two before with his brother in Cale Yarborough holding on to the right in qualifying Earnhardt, the great unknown product, the breakout from Kannapolis, North Carolina and there's Darrell Waltrip closing out Richard Petty Waltrip in 7th place and six don't fire them Darrell Waltz has been running incredibly well all week his engine paddle 1 the spark plugs they had to change the plugs and areas back to position 6 another very deserving man and his young Scott started in 33rd place, very strong fabric and is I'm really not used to breeding these guys, he must have very good equipment, probably the first time he had it so good, of course, as a rookie running in restaurants, but he has been showing a tremendous form all week, so it's no real surprise to us here a Novelas press out of turn four, we might see a few more laps.

You can see what the teams were really like. The man could be the car. Donnie Allison from this vantage point, you can see how the left side of car number one is a little bit warmer. He almost fell on his side. one hundred miles to go his car left that point where we just saw him now his car left at about a speed, he himself was under that type of stress again and coming out here in the race is the mark of the professional falls inside here Dale Earnhardt is slowing down Earnhardt comes in will watch him for his pit stop this is a stop under the green place balls on pit road those curves now just a curved package of diesel cement let's go to the pits programmed pit stop burner, no They stopped during the last precautionary period.

I really questioned why the rest of the hero message 20 laps and they had a problem, they didn't go down, but the other competitors have about 20 laps on Earnhardt now to work with. and hopefully they'll get a warning to stop, the field is coming out of turn number 4 as Earnhardt is rolling down pit road Earnhardt is on the track down here, here comes Donnie Allison's leader as they say Ln, how's he going to be a return? Down here we come to turn two, they are trying to lap Dale Earnhardt, who has been running second behind the rookie, let's see if the strategy is going to work.

He pulls back immediately. There's a lot of momentum coming towards Ernhardt, but. the strategy, how can he go home from here, he doesn't have to click again, we'll see if that strategy works, I highly doubt it. Well, I thought it was kind of funny the last time we were together that the team that Dale Earnhardt drives for AJ Foyt didn't put it in. He spits, that's the story now here's Brock Gates can we send Dick Country to the builder of AJ Foyt's car here Dick what does it look like out there? Well there are a lot of cars racing for the lead right now but we are in second place at the moment we only have one more pit stop to make so I think we have a chance to make it.

He's running pretty hard. Can he run stronger? We've had our problem this week and it's been keeping its nose clean and we'll try to do a race board at the end which put me 51k in front of your number 51 car right in there, this tight little group, so what's that number eleven nine? seven tenths of a second apart nine cars less than a second apart eight of them are now competing for first place Bobby Allison no doubt hello hoping you can lead just for a moment get a yellow and take off pee one lap left behind and You'd wonder if the Alison siblings could work together to bring Bobby over.

They saw Bobby win a year ago. Donnie is second here a couple of times before. Emo yells as Cale Yarborough begins to continue lifting. Yarbrough takes. second place away AJ point three laps to second place a quick stop to see this perfected racing finesse that marks Cale Yarborough is one of racing's greatest champions in second position Cale Yarborough is about to attack Donnie in first place in Daytona 500 live, you are watching the Daytona 500 that will be contested later this afternoon on CBS NBA and Chicago competing against Kansas City, which will be next year, only God knows nine competitors are competing for the lead here, They calmed down and there is still another moment to complete.

With a mile to go, it will be a rush to decide that they taught 500 distances by running less than a second apart in what could be the most surprising finish we've ever seen since the first. Cale Yarborough completed three notable laps in second. The place Bobby Allison is still running straight to at the beginning of this race isn't exactly that scenario, let's hope it doesn't happen again spot AJ hiding right behind you Dale Earnhardt is running furiously with ties Scott and Kaylie darrell waltrip right behind the You have to keep face with your group because if you fall when everyone stops next time you will have to try and lap them to have any chance of winning this race.

There is Benny Parsons' car, which is the beauty that no driver likes to see. the viola marker had no one chasing the leaders screaming for Betty Parsons and all he can do is hold on. and now it's starting to hurt, it's starting to hurt, there's no chance for him today, 13 race leaders, 29 lead changes so far, 20 cars left. Hi Scott, in the morning, outside the base, there he will be stuck behind if he really needs to be up there with the leaders, preferably. leading the race predicts there is a yellow flag Donnie Allison who in that controversial race at the end of last season Atlanta Georgia stay together laughs marking 117 laps now completed 75 atrocious the pressure top speed and there is simply no room for error here they are all here you have some of the best Cale Yarborough in seconds Boyden in third and you know the story that they never win in Indianapolis, LeMond won, he can win in anything he puts his foot in, now he's out, there's a big 75 call miles. the pressure is off the banana as traffic has calmed down on the track through many cars left running these men could possibly run like this until the end of the race Wow Gauri Allyson jogs down Gauri Allyson Floyd and Bobby Allison are entering , they're on pit road Donnie Allison's leader Bobby Allison goes in first remember he's a couple of laps back directly behind him car number one is n let's go to Brock Gates this is the last one here's where it's really serious look at this job group letters the two outside tires are being changed the right side tires are being put 22 gallons of fuel on board a very, very quick stop looks like it's underway how about 12 seconds for two tires and fuel 12 and three tenths of a second Donnie Allison is back on track? the track AJ boy is now the leader of the Daytona 500 super tech slides on a level in turn four committed cale yarborough the will man is out of car number two that's Dale Earnhardt and I can see the hood is in fact in the right corner in your photo of the front of Dale Earnhardt, the Saudis' own Richard Petty is facing off, petty has entered here, you saw the battle for the lead, it's AJ, the star car, they are side by side coming off the field, petty is getting up for three spell wielders. well, Cale Yarborough Yarbrough is going for his third win, AJ is going for his second no h8 rot from the inside and for over 100 racing enthusiasts, this is Magic, this is what it's all about from Houston, Texas, and with it, Cale Yarborough, the king of Timmonsville, South Carolina, leads the duel for supremacy, the boy has saved him, he has waited for the driver, he waits for you, he works with you, he will tap and he loves to come here and during Jim Gilmore's colors in the curve Number Three.

Junior Johnson's number 11 car because it's a point. he is a ranger place because he won the race witnessed again, carolien, at the head of this race. Yarborough's second place, which Jared is waiting for at the junior pizza, is the most crucial thing he did all day he could understand the trend when he passed by. A very quick right-side tire change pit stop for Cale Yarborough 13 at a speed of 9:10 seconds, while there were problems for the good gun when he started to leave his road drives. God, unfortunately, fell directly into the trap, he also entered the pits. fast and slid on his brake, his right front tire locked up, which will cost him a precious five-man pick for just 14 seconds, that's all a CH gets, a city youth car number 51, we'll be back with morevivid colors.

A news story just came in from the local station about him and he made a pit stop in five seconds, just added 22 gallons of fuel and sent it to Waltrip Bank. We're trying to figure out what the strategy is at Waltrip. There he sees that Kaylee was unofficially showing him off. Secondly now, since all these cars that can be stopped, Pastor Walter, then what is happening? What is their weight? KLR relative to each other, who made a pit stop, all the leaders made pit stops, Darrell Waltrip's car when he led the bosses into the grandstand. Here he sounded harsh to me again, like he did at the beginning of the race.

The engine may be going bad. Waltrip's car crashed and spun for a thousand feet on the backstretch and here they are, we keep talking about the speed, but that's over 195 miles per hour. she saw it live from Daytona Beach, Florida with David Hobbs. I'm Ken Squier, here at the start/finish line, which was the longest race I've ever witnessed. Yarbrough is an absolute master tactician. He is exactly where he wants to be. with only 21 short laps to go the race is starting in rainy conditions they are together now Waltrip maybe backing off Waltrip is heavy thinks uncommon harmonious sounds Ellison and Cale Yarborough now and a 2 car draft or are these two the best champions remember that AJ is one more race in the United States Auto Club than any driver in its history, the same in NASCAR they are the leaders again Donnie Allison Hearst AJ and fifth are reported that is the battle support double checking the camera end They expected us to finish today at the end of five hundred miles your Brock can use with Buddy Parrot and Darrell Waltrip, spent friend hanging around bewildered while you didn't change tires at that last stop, well you know we're running out of clothes.

That's a spark plug and it runs halfway, but it runs well in the draft, so we're just betting, you know, the tires look good and everything, so we came here to win the race anyway, we're good and it's that's why That's why we did it there, thanks man, Mik took a chance on a piece of Darrell Waltrip on his team. Back to you, Ken Richard Petty made pit stops today. Hey, Jake Lloyd has made eight stops and there's Petty, remember they're struggling to close on fourth down. As for the leaders, we'll stay there and run after AJ in that draft and try to get close.

We may have five cars charging toward the finish line at the end of this race. Well, they are about nine seconds behind the two leaders. of which are racing in identical situations, Donnie Allison and Cale Yarborough together as a good couple period and Penny is another couple, they both make the most of their cars respectively, but unfortunately they are able to make up nine seconds in less than 20 laps. Be very lucky not to forget that NBA action is coming up next. The excitement of basketball is professional. The best is next on CBS this afternoon. What a battle here.

We continue to fight for the horse's position. Dahlia Cale Yarborough. That's the biggest lead anyone has had in a 500. Miles so far today, one hundred and eighty-two full laps to be specific, Donnie Allison and Cale Yarborough lapped Ty Scott, who had a very good afternoon, probably the best of his life, but unfortunately his inexperience in this really tough race came to light in the end. they're closing in on Waltrip for third place Waltrip can barely hold on to a third hey Jay boy he's inches away from the seatbelt a little tighter put out those tough old Texas teeth and go after Waltrip had a Waltrip will know he's in a fight now that Jay is within striking distance of a checkered flag average speed 183 laughs my guardian and cale yarborough in a draft at one hundred ninety-three point nine miles per hour 500 will be remembered as the bat'leth surgeons a rien here today both Donnie Allison and Caylee are now in a tight boat, two cars rafting, two cars together, front to tail, running faster than one car alone, huh, huh, that's the third place car.

AJ Foyt Richard Petty Wagner Oh, Walter Wallen, it's 15 for those leaders, the two leaders have made it again. The perfect situation is just the two card draft and they are moving away pretty quickly, almost a second for every lab they are doing in that second group. Well, we might have to leave and come back today with this final photo. I'll tell you. may be so close that Jared in the jr. Johnson pitch net Jr kale seems to be happy running right on Donnie Alison's bumper, well I think he'll stay private until the last lap, then he'll try to finish, either, no, it's a big worry, he can set it up and come out ahead. him and that's where you'll try, he might get to them, okay that's jr's strategy.

Johnson on Cale Yarborough are going to wait. Donnie Allison must be a nervous man now wondering what's going on in that same brain, but one of the master tacticians said, "Look at him weaving it, he's got to drop that draft once in a while." then the engine remembers that it is $64,000 the second now it seems that it will be decided between this couple Donnie Allison who has tried to win this race since 1967 leaves that trail with Richard and ahead Darrell Waltrip and fifth and for the moment 15 seconds behind unless there is a warning by playing with the dice to decide at the finish line to return to the rock eggs.

Can we hurry up with Donnie Allison? We just heard that jr. Johnson said Kill will probably wait and try to make a shot in the final lap. What is Donnie going to do to Connor? We would ask Providence to bring him Celeste and if we had known the truth a while ago during the race when he said it was three laps down at some point he told me who has five so and you know, I just hope I hold back. I really do, thank you doctor, can you, okay, we're in it, ten laps left to decide $88,000 21st Daytona 500 between a non-winner. error and two-time champion cale yarborough lead by 18 seconds and now the strategy begins they have slowed him down event thinking about how they will run the last lap that will decide everything is going to be maybe just a roll of the dice, you have to be absolutely right or second place so that no one remembers the second place.

David was sent to talk, he's the game, but a lot depends and where the traffic is in those last few laps and there's nothing you can do about it. They know that between the second place car and you see here, they merge back into the third place car as they go through the tri-oval and from this massive crowd of 1000 here they come, they are moving away fast, they really are a successful duo together I think one of the things that's holding these three back is that Boyd and Penny are dragging Darrell Waltrip, who has engine trouble with less than nine laps left to decide the 21st annual Daytona 500, any Daytona 500 above with six laps to go. the final photo posted Donnie Allison stays ahead Cale Yarborough five hundred and thirty thousand dollars last year they have a 22 second lead over Richard Petty AJ remembered point is also running this race there are the leaders going to slap me Watertown Bay New York, five laps to go the end of the countdown that continues until the end of the Daytona 500, noticeably back in the race, were larger and completely out of it, as if there were seven back to the church, three and four spoke of a shadow avenger, just imagine having it floating. out there behind with 20 laps right on your no, the last lap will make it smooth taking pasta and leaving a trail on the only lap that really tells how it will eat God Alison snuck up on top of cale yarborough and this race is coming up next on CBS today don't miss it the NBA Thanks for four times they had a respite as it evaporates making them retreat in this Daily Opera now let's see that battle for the third quarter there it's petty, well, it drew Waltrip to the fourth AJ points to the fifth Chuck Bown drafting along with his last lap strategy for Alison.

Well, I'll do it down the stretch because I don't think we'll have enough room from turn four to the finish line to be whatever the cars are. everything is the same for that, you have to do the same Donnie Allison job as if you have to throw the block and you have to be absolutely perfectly nice or you're going to be able to have solid time and you have to use the remaining traffic that there is to your advantage and really There's not much traffic out there 100,000 people standing around watching these two cars galvanized through them looking for any signs of danger for either car a black friend Arrington at the tri-oval stands there looking down at that rear view mirror has an Allison, uh superficially for Donnie Allison stays there, hit it again to be one of the toughest drivers and drive a car in the first place.

Fantastic, you never get paid of course, this has tremendous value as you get closer to the career here. We have to make some pretty big mental decisions if you are physically, physical losses don't affect you and you can really think clearly, there is no doubt that Kale Java, the white flag, is one turn away from this jool, the best. fiddling here fiddling with first place last lap trying to get him home it all comes down to this from her to Donnie Allison and first where will Cal make her move third place come for the finish between a kid and rich the backstretch come the leaders now two cars are out on the homestretch they are the leaders looking at the leaders towards Kirstin turns to him to get off Richard Petty Walter tried to throw Richard Petty like one it's six eight hundred five hundred and a crowd here well there it is after a full year no win as the two leaders tangle in the back immediately throw the block, it didn't work AJ Foyt stops to congratulate Eddie, no matter how hard a J fights when it's over, he's the gentleman, come on Look again that accident here it's there at the end of the turn already spinning sliding Donnie Allison's hopes were dashed cale yarborough trying to win his third place he's out of it it's a sad time for these people but for Richard Petty he got hurt all last year Driving most of the year with a broken and battered body, today he returns home winner after 45 races in a row.losses, if we can, we should be on pit road, tell the people in the truck for a moment that there will be a scene at one point, Richard Petty's 18-year-old son Kyle, waiting for his father, they have both. both have tasted success here is the goal again ladies and gentlemen Richard Petty Darrell Waltrip absolutely fighting with that car he got his left wheels on the flat side of the bank and was really out of control and here comes a $60,000 car which converts into a 22-passenger school bus. to take his team to Victory Lane Richard Petty, the grandmaster, has just recorded his 186th career and there is a fight between Cale Yarborough and Donnie Allison, tempers boil over, they are angry, they know they have lost and what a bitter defeat , a couple of very tough ones.

The men are barely bothered and Bobby Allison has stopped by his brother to help him. There's Bobby Allison's number 15 car. They are taking them away. Darrell Cale Yarborough. They are very upset. Very annoying. It's hard to tell from here, but whatever happened, it shouldn't have happened. it happened come on we'll see that again a replay in just a moment we're in victory lane it's absolute ecstasy Hetty is level in North Carolina as the second Caucasian gets ready to get out of the car let's go to Brock uh he says they're trying of removing Richard Petty from his car.

There is absolute chaos down here. There seem to be about 300 people in the puny uniform. I don't know where they all came from. Richard still in the car having a glass. of milk obviously he is very happy ecstatic Kari comes could you believe it? Have you been to many races? There was something about what I say. I'll miss the clothes too, but this is the first time I can remember winning one in a long time. that's good, I'm telling you it's just amazing, you know, you came here last week and Kyle won and we came here and looked up and won this, hey Steve, what's your doctor going to say?

No, I'm not worried about the dogs. I feel good, no matter what it is, I guess Richard, did you really feel like you had a chance? Well, I'll tell you what I had a very good feeling, they say as they advance down the pit road, that we had a super good opportunity today and we all ran. day and we were very close to everything, we kept overcoming all the mistakes and things that they were making and you know, I said okay, you know, maybe this is the day and then when Donny came out and headed towards the last one, I said okay.

You know, I found Salvage the third. It's going to be a good day and I could see Paulson's plague coming out of a third corner there in the corner of the jacket. My heart just skipped a beat. Congratulations again, pandemonium here in victory lane. Back to you, Ken, one hundred thousand. people can't believe what they just saw, let's see the accident again and, analyzing what happened down here, Richard Petty has returned home as the winner in the 21st annual edition, on Monday 100,000people just gave a standing ovation. Richard Petty and victory lane here today Toto Speedway let's take a look again at the incident that made him a winner today immediately there you see Cale Yarborough coming in to make his pass Donnie Allison moves down to try to pass him, they touch Cale Yarborough gets out of control he crashes into the side of Donnie Allison's car they both start to slide it looks like they are going to slide to the bottom of the track they reach the bank they crash again now they are completely out of control Cale keeps fighting and trying to take control, but the car spins.

The worst that can happen is that these arms come in. They're really trying to shake the wheels to keep the car under control, but there's no hope against the wall at over 190. MPH a thousand feet slide, scrape and bump along the wall, down inward and then the track opens for this truly incredible finish Richard Petty and the number 43 car fighting Darrell Waltrip here they come to the line, the finished camera was at the checkered flag and by a Waltrip who fell directly to the apron while fighting with Richard Petty for first place, but there was nothing that could stop Petty from his sixth victory, a man who has lost 40% of his stomach in the last two or three. months he drove injured all of last year who hasn't won in a long time returns home the winner of the 21st annual Daytona 500 next on CBS today the NBA for David Hobbs Brock Yates Ned Jarrett Mary Anne Bunch Can't Squire, we're thrilled to bring you flag-to-flag coverage of perhaps the most amazing Daytona 500 in history.