Richard Petty in car number 43 grab. Here comes
Petty. Richard Petty begins to close in from second
place for racing fans. This is such sweet thunder
. CBS. Come on and said, ok,
we're gonna go flag to flag which has never been
done in NASCAR racing. This is CBS. Richard
Petty in an Oldsmobile car number 43 for racing fans
. This is such sweet thunder. It wound up
. There was a big snowstorm on the east coast
back then. It was just ABC CBS, NBC
TV. Everybody up and down the east coast tuned
into it because it was something different. We're just
gonna have to run and try to keep up with
the crowd and just hope that we get the good
breaks and somebody else gets the bad good Donnie and
Cale was, they've spun out a couple of times
and I got a couple of laps behind and still
was able to get back to the front of the
race as they come to the tri oval. The
leader is Donnie Allison Bunny. We was in 3rd
, 4th and 5th with, for me and Darryl
, we was racing for third place. It came
down to the very last lap and yeah, I
got to run and start on Donnie a shallow lead
for Donnie Allison. Stays there and Donnie down determined
he wouldn't pass him, run him in the infield
and they crashed Allison Cale, he, him,
well, we don't know that we're like 20 seconds
behind. Backstreets couldn't see, nothing, looked in
the mirror, didn't see no smoke or not.
So, just as we got to the gate going
in, number three, we looked down there in
L A is number one and two playing on the
film. So we're not racing for third. We're
racing for first down Richard Petty is now pulling out
in front at the line. How do you at
the same time? They got off of this and
they got on the fight. There's a fight between
Kelly Ybor and Donnie Allison, the tepper overflowing.
Never have another race that exciting. But the whole
deal was that it was something different. So everybody
got to see the speed, they got to see
the wreck, they got to see a fight and
then you got to see somebody that wasn't supposed to
win the race when the rain, you know,
so they got to see everything that happens in NASCAR
. He had a perfect storm basically for the first
TV deal. It couldn't happen at a better time
and a better part for national