CBS cameras caught Donnie Allison and Cale Yarborough throwing punches and swinging helmets.
The 1979 Daytona 500 was the first live, start-to-finish superspeedway event televised by a major network.
has been NASCAR’s most important race since it was the first “national” stock car race. Others argue for the 1994 Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis since acceptance at the Speedway signaled that NASCAR finally had “arrived.” 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.• The year’s second race was the first live, start-to-finish superspeedway event televised by a major network. After years of spotty catch-as-catch-can coverage, stock car racing’s biggest show was going big time via CBS on Sunday afternoon.
• For NASCAR, the D-500 at Daytona International Speedway couldn’t have been better. On the last lap, entering the backstretch for the 200th time, leader Donnie Allison and second-running Cale Yarborough began wrecking each other. They banged side-to-side several times before hitting the Turn 3 wall and sliding down the banking together. Seconds later, Richard Petty drove past en route his seventh Daytona 500 victory, this one ahead of Darrell Waltrip and A.J. Foyt.
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