Rewatching an old NASCAR race from 1999

Winston 500. We really had no idea how good we had it. Miss me some cowboy killers.

Probably 200000 people in the stands too.

I've watched the the 1995 Winston 2000 Winston 2000 Diehard, 1999 Daytona 500 and 98 Pepsi 400 in the last 3 days.

The old races are cool and some of the satellite ones are even commercial free. Young Gordon was more a terror at these tracks than I remembered. That move in 1999 was insane.

Probably will go back to the Middle 2000s to see how Gordon and Jr dominated.

That makes sense

Winston 25th Nascar anniversary 1999 Daytona





Fan Question: RCR-058 can you tell us the history on this chassis? Was it new when it had the Taz paint scheme on it or was it was it an older chassis?


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Ok, I’ll answer that question!

Chassis RCR-058 is kind of an interesting car to say the least as it is actually two different famous Dale Earnhardt driven race cars!

This car is perhaps best known as being the No Bull Million Dollar winner and the last car Dale ever won in, coming from 18th to 1st at Talladega in just a handful of laps for the million dollar win, but it is also the vastly popular ‘Taz’ themed red car from the 2000 Daytona 5oo.

That’s right, Chassis RCR-058 is both the last win car and the Taz car.

Chassis RCR-058 first rolled out of the RCR race shop in October of 1999 and was in service as a super speedway car for just over a year before it was retired and has been pretty much a show car at RCR since Dale died in February 2001.

Here is a brief history of Chassis RCR-058:

-October 1999: Talladega (Testing)

-November 1999: Talladega (Testing)

-January 2000: Talladega (Testing)

-January 2000: Daytona (Testing)

-February 2000: Daytona Twin 125’s

-February 2000: Daytona 500 – Started 21st, finished 21st (Had best Chevy until got in a wreck with Jimmy Spencer with less than 10 laps left)

-February/March 2000: Taz body cut off car to be shipped out and cut into little pieces (The Dale Earnhardt Archive is the number one source of everything Dale) to be used as race metal inserts for 1:64 die-cast ‘Taz’ car blister packs

-April 2000: Talladega (Testing)

-April 2000: Talladega (DieHard 500) – Started 4th, finished 3rd

-July 2000: Daytona (Pepsi 400) – started 18th, finished 8th

-August 2000: Daytona (Test for NASCAR)

-October 2000: Talladega (Winston 500) – Started 20th, finished 1st (No Bull Million Dollar Winner)

-January 2001: Daytona (Testing)

-February 2001: Daytona 500 (Back-up Car)

-Some time shortly after February 2001 Chassis RCR-058 was retired, restored back to the No Bull Million Dollar Winston 500 winning paint scheme, and placed into the RCR show car division and then later into the RCR museum.

I couple years back I watched half of the 2001 Winston Cup Series. That was a fantastic season despite Dale’s death.

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Winston 500. We really had no idea how good we had it. Miss me some cowboy killers.

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I've heard that they used to give out cartons of cigarettes at these events when it was still sponsored by Winston.

Yes and Jimmy Johnson would only have 3. Nascar changed their racing history with the Chase. Bell would have 2 in a row too.

Gordon would have 7. Jimmie 3. Kenseth and Smoke 2 each. Bell would be a B2B defending champ.

Logano would have zero. Interesting

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Logano would have zero. Interesting

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Logano 3 titles is the weakest ones ever in the sport. He solely got them due to chase and lucking into the chase twice at last minute. His last title he missed the chase but some late Nascar “after the race” decisions allowed him to sneak in. His titles were all gifts.

I hate the chase and how it ruined the history of what shoulda been.