Looking back it's INSANE that these guys were going 200 MPH plus with no neck restraints, plain seatbelts, open face helmets.

21:12 The very instant that the era of 210 MPH ended.

The race that changed nascar forever

People can talk about the F1 turbo era but nothing can equal this. 41 pushrod V8s running wide open at 210mph. The sound at the end of lap one is godly

What would NASCAR give to have 135,000 people in stands today.

Funny thing is, they slowed the cars down and they kept going into the catch fence even more while pretending like they've fixed the problems for almost 40 years. Almost like bunching the cars up does nothing except cause more crashes.

the integrity of that catch fencing saved many lives...

My late grandfather was sitting near where Allison hit the fence. Said it was the scariest racing incident he witnessed until a member of Bill Elliott's pit crew got ran over and k*lled by Ricky Rudd at Atlanta in 1990

The race that changed everything. Still miss Davey to this day.

Those Thunder Chickens were hell..Davey Allison was one helluva cool customer

Thinking back on this era, it's amazing the tires held together, lap after lap, at 210 miles per hour.

This was back when it was still real.

This race is 1 of my favorites all time.  The amazing comment that astounds me is when Bob Jenkins said on lap 2 "  the pace is 209.82 mph"  , I loved Larry's comment nobody wanted to go 209 mph, and yet qualifying was 212- 210 ( top 20) and that was single car qualifying.

When racing was actually racing with no gimmicks. Bring what you brung and let the best car and driver win.

Love these vintage races!!!!!!!!    🏁🏁

What a great young man great race car driver and the true definition of checkers or wreckers so sad what happened to him he will always be missed man what this sport could have been R.I.P Davey

thats me lookin thru the destroyed fence on the right. bobby bout got me. i got smacked with a a big chunk of orange bondo off darrells car. dident no he got damage from it till i got home. bobs harmonic balancer hit his rollbar rite above his head knockin out the windshield. few more inches an he wouldent have had a head.

Idc what anyone says about the boom tubes of the 90’s and 2000’s, you can’t beat the roar of the old h-pipe exhaust coming by ya at over 200mph! Pure balls to the wall American speed.

NASCAR was never the same after this race. Safety tech just wasn’t advanced enough to securely protect the drivers and more importantly the fans at these kinds of speeds. It was unfortunate that engine power had to be restricted after this, but it was necessary.

"It's rare that the fences work and actually catch the cars..."
And ever since, they have worked as intended...well...for the most part.