NASCAR Classics: 1979 Daytona 500 full replay Donnie Allison became a villain who tied fair damsels to railroad tracks. Each driver blamed the other for their final-lap collision, but my ...

Icon Sports Wire//Getty Images Dale Earnhardt celebrates the first of his 76 NASCAR Cup Series wins. “In 1979 we won that first race at Bristol, and it was like, ‘Whoa,’ ” Richert remembered.

bloody slugfest in the 1979 Daytona 500 that turned the highly anticipated first live flag-to-flag broadcast of a race into a spectacle that stamped NASCAR on the national sports map. Who were ...

All have merit, but don’t measure up to the 1979 Daytona 500. Among those who study the sport, the ’79 “Great American Race” is generally accepted as NASCAR’s most important moment.

A week before Squier and Hobbs helped bring perhaps the most important race in NASCAR history — the 1979 Daytona 500 — to life, a 50-mile event was set to be an appetizer. The original ...

bloody slugfest in the 1979 Daytona 500 that turned the highly anticipated first live flag-to-flag broadcast of a race into a spectacle that stamped NASCAR on the national sports map. Who were ...