Comments on: The First Daytona Night Race https://mrpitbox.com/2023/08/23/the-first-daytona-night-race/ Nascar videos for all Wed, 23 Aug 2023 17:44:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 By: Kevin Harvick is not happy https://mrpitbox.com/2023/08/23/the-first-daytona-night-race/#comment-76967 Wed, 23 Aug 2023 16:49:38 +0000 https://mrpitbox.com/?p=20342#comment-76967 In reply to Cito Browne.

@Ed Kell okay maybe a very rare scenario where the playoffs gave a deserving champion jeff gordon 1998 but harvick had a similar season but he never dnfed but unfortunately had 2 bad races and didnt make it to the final 4

]]> By: Anthony And The Machine https://mrpitbox.com/2023/08/23/the-first-daytona-night-race/#comment-76985 Wed, 23 Aug 2023 14:30:58 +0000 https://mrpitbox.com/?p=20342#comment-76985 I have such good memories watching this race! Sitting and drawing the cars and watching the race at the same time. The commentary crew for TNN from that time was my favorite. I was a new nascar fan and this race and the Winston from the same year is just pure Nostalgia for me. I can’t remember how I actually got into nascar but 97/98 was the perfect time to start watching cuz they were doing some cool stuff

]]> By: Ed Kell https://mrpitbox.com/2023/08/23/the-first-daytona-night-race/#comment-76966 Wed, 23 Aug 2023 14:13:09 +0000 https://mrpitbox.com/?p=20342#comment-76966 In reply to Cito Browne.

@Kevin Harvick is not happy he had 17 consecutive top 5s and 20 consecutive top 10s in that 1998 season, there’s no scenario where he wouldn’t have advanced to the championship 4 at Atlanta (a race he dominated and won)

]]> By: Razor https://mrpitbox.com/2023/08/23/the-first-daytona-night-race/#comment-76976 Wed, 23 Aug 2023 12:22:00 +0000 https://mrpitbox.com/?p=20342#comment-76976 In reply to cadillacjohn1994.

@Chris Guardiano Nelsinho Piquet , to be exact.

]]> By: Bailey Canterbury https://mrpitbox.com/2023/08/23/the-first-daytona-night-race/#comment-76979 Wed, 23 Aug 2023 10:41:25 +0000 https://mrpitbox.com/?p=20342#comment-76979 In reply to MICHAEL JENSEN.

Eli Gold was horribly boring to listen to when the race was just your average race at tracks like Pocono, Loudon, Rockingham etc…. However, Eli Gold was the voice of MRN radio. Some reason, listening to Eli Gold on MRN and never never had a dull moment but not so on TV broadcast

]]> By: The Well Rounded Warrior https://mrpitbox.com/2023/08/23/the-first-daytona-night-race/#comment-76962 Wed, 23 Aug 2023 06:51:21 +0000 https://mrpitbox.com/?p=20342#comment-76962 In reply to Chuck’s Pulling Videos.

Underrated comment right there.

]]> By: MICHAEL JENSEN https://mrpitbox.com/2023/08/23/the-first-daytona-night-race/#comment-76978 Wed, 23 Aug 2023 03:35:14 +0000 https://mrpitbox.com/?p=20342#comment-76978 When you talk about underrated announcers, Eli gold and buddy baker are right there. Their energy during this race was awesome, baker especially.

]]> By: cadillacjohn1994 https://mrpitbox.com/2023/08/23/the-first-daytona-night-race/#comment-76975 Wed, 23 Aug 2023 01:58:53 +0000 https://mrpitbox.com/?p=20342#comment-76975 In reply to cadillacjohn1994.

@Chris Guardiano absolutely true. That was disgraceful, disgusting, and despicable.

I also remember where Ferrari screwed Barrichello out of a win in 2002 by ordering him to move out of the way for Michael Schumacher, his own teammate, to win instead. Ferrari was punished heavily.

And of course there was everything that went on before and during the weekend of the infamous 2005 US Grand Prix at Indy, the WORST race in F1 history, and what ultimately killed F1 in the USA.

]]> By: Chris Guardiano https://mrpitbox.com/2023/08/23/the-first-daytona-night-race/#comment-76974 Wed, 23 Aug 2023 01:33:38 +0000 https://mrpitbox.com/?p=20342#comment-76974 In reply to cadillacjohn1994.

At least “tiregate” wasn’t as bad as “Crashgate” in F1 during their first night race in Singapore in 2008 where Nelson Piquet was told by Renault to crash on purpose so that teammate Fernando Alonso could win. It is one of the most disgraceful & infamous moments in not just F1 history but motorsports in general.

]]> By: Leahi84 https://mrpitbox.com/2023/08/23/the-first-daytona-night-race/#comment-76986 Wed, 23 Aug 2023 00:18:25 +0000 https://mrpitbox.com/?p=20342#comment-76986 I remember watching this race at 14 years old. It was so amazing seeing Daytona run at night, and having my favorite driver win it was even more special!

I grew up in North east Florida in St. Augustine, which is just 40 or minutes north of the Daytona area, and that summer was hellish. I can still see the reddish smoke filled sky outside my house to this day. It was so scary and I was so grateful that the fires didn’t get to my town. The race in October was finally when things felt like they were going back to normal.

I got to go with my dad to the 99 Pepsi 400. We were on the backstretch grandstands. My memory of that one isn’t so positive. It rained a ton, DJ won easily, and the walk to our car in a barely lit parking lot behind the track that was full of water filled holes and ditches was awful.

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