I watched this video a few days a go, I really like his style that hour just flew by.
Dale really was a talented driver, and incredibly charismatic, and a genuinely nice dude. Besides Nascar, he also did other racing like trans-am.
This guy's editing style is amazing. I'd only ever heard of Earnhardt; I didn't know about him or much about NASCAR in general, but I sat and watched this slack-jawed for an hour, such was the visual feast.
Seriously great video - enlightened me on a whole bunch I never knew about the sport. Who knew Earnhardt was like NASCAR's Ayrton Senna?
I remember when Dale passed away, my dad was so sad. Like legit he is the biggest fan of the Earnhardt family. He has so many die-cast collectables from #3 car and #8 car. He basically grew up watching that stuff and loved it. Both Sr and Jr were basically like heros to him.
Just finished the video. That was the absolute best documentary of Nascar I have ever seen. That was incredible.
I was planning on only watching the first 5 minutes, but ended up watching the whole thing. It's really a great documentary.
When I was a kid (mid to late 90s) I was really into NASCAR, mostly because of the racing games, but fell off of it over time. That said, through racing sims I have a huge respect for NASCAR drivers. They make it look easy, but these cars are sloppy and heavy. They do not handle gracefully like a GT or Formula type car. It takes a lot of skill and focus to drive at speeds approaching 200mph, literally inches away from other cars, for over an hour. There is so little margin for error. I feel even less so than in GT racing. The slightest slip up can mean losing several places, or worse bumping into somebody and causing a crash. It is hard work that is difficult to appreciate without trying to do it yourself, even in just a racing sim.
I find it a little annoying that he explains the entire backstory of Nascar only to randomly drop "owners" and "teams" like that's a concept I'm supposed to understand. I shouldn't have to do research in order to follow along with a video essay.
hot damn that was a good documentary. the editing was superb, i was glued to my seat the whole time.
I remember when Dale died, I was at an Outback Steakhouse with my family. It was on a distant TV and I glanced up from my meal in time to catch the crash and the end of the race. Didn't think anything of it because it seemed like a regular old NASCAR crash. Then we got home and saw the news and were shocked. I was always a Jeff Gordon fan when I was a kid but it's hard to deny the legend status of Dale Earnhardt.
The 1980s through 1990s were amazing for NASCAR and almost felt magical in how they played out. So much genuine personality and raw talent with Dale Earnhardt and Jeff Gordon contrasting the mostly-Southern older guard vs the new, younger drivers popping up in the mid-90s.
Sad that the sport is run by a completely incompetent dumbass at the moment who inherited running it from his father [who put the sport on the map in the 70s all the way up until the 21st century], he took over in 2003 and has driven down the popularity to record lows after basically getting a golden goose for free, and the sport is inundated with rich snobby children who literally have their daddies pay for them to get in with big bucks while the CEO fantasizes about simultaneously trying to be a Pixar film and the NFL at the same time and watching the sport burn around him.
If people want to feel something similar to the kind of sport that NASCAR was at the time of Dale, support your local races, they're full of talent and grassroot drivers.
If you're curious enough about Dale Earnhardt or NASCAR to get what, halfway? though the video, It's presumed that you're a human being from Earth, who has some level of knowledge of... sport. Not even NASCAR. Just like, a sport. Somewhere out there. With... teams. And owners. And... sport stuff.
Real talk though, this video was a bunch of weird feelings for me. My father passed away when I was young, but he religiously watched NASCAR with his mother, and thinking back on it, the Dale Earnhardt race cars he would gift me probably meant a lot to him that didn't really connect with me. I never understood it or sat down to watch the races with him. I didn't "get" it. I even realize my dad's mustache was cut with eerie similarity to Earnhardt's, but that's... probably coincidental.
It all just sort of winds me, trying to process the fact that I didn't know this stuff that was probably incredibly, vitally important to my dad, and never thought to, you know, check.
I still remember the Bristol races where Earnhardt wrecked Terry Labonte just before crossing the finish line, mad because he wasn't going to win, and then a few years later Terry Labonte passed him on the last lap and Earnhardt wrecked him again so that he could win. Even Earnhardt fans were booing Earnhardt. He was a good driver but after those incidents, he was just a bully and a dirty driver in my eyes
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