This looks great and it also looks like a bit a tear jerker.
Blink of An Eye...
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I honestly haven’t cared too much for NASCAR since we lost The Intimidator.
I will definitely check this one out.
I will definitely check this one out.
When NASCAR goes back to putting a a cage inside a true production body and running production based engines, I would be interested in that. The cookie cutters they run now are boring as hell.
Do not even have to go that far. Just do away with the stupid countdown and three segment races. Sheeesh.
Hasn't been the same since Sr. was lost.
Pretty much all racing now. Its a driver/team sport in almost all sanctioning bodies.
This exactly. Film looks great too.
I'll see this. I remember watching this live and telling my, at the time wife, that this is not good. To me, it's like watching the space shuttle Challenger explosion, Shock and Awe or Hillary losing the 2016 election...you'll remember it for the rest of yer life.
DE was a genuine badass.
DE was a genuine badass.
That era was the last time I really watched NASCAR - Bill Elliott, Mark Martin, and Davey Allison were my favorites.
I remember specifically watching this race and actually cheering as Dale hit the wall - I know that sounds bad, but he was a master at doing the same to others. I always thought he was too aggressive, so I was glad he got knocked out of contention. I happened to turn off the TV right after the race and I didn't learn he died until the morning after. Besides feeling really bad about cheering and thinking it didn't seem like that big of hit, I knew NASCAR lost an icon and that would change the sport forever.
I'd love to see this when it comes out but I might wait until I can watch it at home as I really don't want to get teary-eyed in the theater.
I remember specifically watching this race and actually cheering as Dale hit the wall - I know that sounds bad, but he was a master at doing the same to others. I always thought he was too aggressive, so I was glad he got knocked out of contention. I happened to turn off the TV right after the race and I didn't learn he died until the morning after. Besides feeling really bad about cheering and thinking it didn't seem like that big of hit, I knew NASCAR lost an icon and that would change the sport forever.
I'd love to see this when it comes out but I might wait until I can watch it at home as I really don't want to get teary-eyed in the theater.
Looks good
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I remember watching that race and Darrel Waltrip going on about how it was a hard hit. It didn't any harder than any other hit. A few years after that I stopped caring. The Race to the Chase Playoff style crap, The Car of Tomorrow, Cookie cutter tracks no one cares about, and it just went all down hill from there.
Give me Cale Yarbourgh puffing on a Winston in a full body stock car banging hotties & punching hippies in the face any day. I wish they'd replay those old races.
Hell give me Terry Labonte, Rusty Wallace & Dale Earnhardt at any 90's era track and I'd watch that. The cars, the tracks, the drivers, were of a different caliber.
Today, all of it is just major gay.
Give me Cale Yarbourgh puffing on a Winston in a full body stock car banging hotties & punching hippies in the face any day. I wish they'd replay those old races.
Hell give me Terry Labonte, Rusty Wallace & Dale Earnhardt at any 90's era track and I'd watch that. The cars, the tracks, the drivers, were of a different caliber.
Today, all of it is just major gay.
1000% agree. I was an avid fan starting around 1994. Dale Earnhardt was my absolute favorite. I once owned Action/RCCA diecast models of pretty much every car he drove. Kept them displayed right here in my office in special wall displays. And then the unthinkable happened. I watched that race, smiled when Michael won it (my wife's favorite driver) and then in a split second, my joy turned to heartache when they shifted to the infamous wreck that took Dale's life. My interest started to die that day, and within 3 years of his death, I lost all interest in Nascar racing. Losing Dale took a big toll on Nascar racing IMO, and the silly rules changes since (their attempt to keep fan interest) further destroyed what was once a supreme motor sport. JMHO!
I can't wait to see this film!!
The bygone days when real men were in NASCAR, DE was definitely a part of that old guard, his passing seemed to mark the beginning of the end. Now we gotta bunch of pretty boys with squeaky clean images. **** that....I want a racer I can relate too, possible drinking problems and other bad habbits
With Top Guns return... Maybe we'll get another Days of Thunder.
I am not ashamed to say I'd watch that shit too.
I'd definitely check out a DOT 2.
I am a big Dale Earnhardt fan and I remember watching that race and the wreck thinking that he would walk away from it. There are so many drivers that died from basal skull fractures, including his buddy Neil Bonnet. When he died it felt like I lost a family member. I do believe he was on his way to an 8th championship if that didn’t happen.
I was a deputy sheriff working on the day Dale died. Our 911 center had over 500 911 domestic calls in the span of 90 minutes. A normal day was about 12. Drunk rednecks were beating the living shit out of their wives that day. On one of the calls, a womans eye was swoll shut. Missing a front tooth and her nose was where her ear should be. We went to arrest her husband and while we're fighting him, she gets a cast iron skillet and a rolling pin and starting beating us while arresting him. I still have a knot on the top of my skull from where she clocked me with a skillet.
That was a rough day.
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Same. I wasn't even a fan of him and it crushed me. I was just a kid.
*Dale dies*
Welp, better go beat my wife.
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