Added: Jan 20, 2012
From: cjs3872
Duration: 4:47
No copyright infringement is intended with this, or any other video I upload. The purpose of uploading this video is for the viewing pleasure for those that watch it.This is part five of the 1985 Daytona 500. This race, the 27th running of the Daytona 500, marked a major changing of the guard in the biggest race in the sport.Not much happens in this video. First, Cale Yarborough assumes the lead from Bill Elliott right after the first round of pit stops concludes with Terry Labonte's pit stop, sen at the end of the last video. However, the lead of Yarborough and Elliott over the rest of the field has grown from just a few seconds over David Pearson and Buddy Baker just before the pit stop, to more than one-third of a lap over Richard Petty, Bobby Allison, Terry Labonte, and Ron Bouchard, all of whom are battling for second place.Of note is the interview done with Dan Gurney, another racing legend who was Petty's engine builder in 1985. Gurney had teamed up with Mike Curb in IndyCar racing that year with drivers Tom Sneva and Ed Pimm, who drove for Curb in the 1988 Daytona 500. By the way, Sneva failed to qualify a sceond car for Mike Curb for the 1985 Daytona 500, which carried the #42, the same number that carried Lee Petty, Richard's father, to the win in the very first Daytona 500 in 1959.The pace of the race is still fast, but the average speed for the first 100 miles of 192.205 MPH did not set a record. The record for the first 100 miles of the Daytona 500 was 193.133 MPH set by Richard Petty in 1983. However, the hard pace begins to take it's toll, as Ron Bouchard becomes the first prominent driver to feel the effects, dropping out on lap 47 with a broken camshaft, the same problem that took both Richard Petty and Bobby Allison out of the 1984 race prior to the halfway mark. (Though Bouchard's was the first car officially out of the race, it was not placed last because two cars ran fewer laps than Bouchard's 45.)All credits go to SPEED, NASCAR, and CBS Sports, who originally broadcast this race on February 17, 1985.
Channel: Sports
Tags: 1985 daytona 500 speed nascar cbs sports cale yarborough bill elliott richard petty bobby allison terry labonte ron bouchard
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cjs3872 Says:
May 10, 2012 - Ironically, as fast as they were going, 192.205 MPH for the first 100 miles was NOT a record at that point in the race. Two years earlier in 1983, Richard Petty averaged 193.133 MPH for the first 100 miles. Bill Elliott broke that record by going 193.333 MPH for the first 100 miles in the 1987 race, the last run without restrictor plates.
newyorkcentrury Says:
May 10, 2012 - go bill