This Televised Brawl Helped Racing - Past Gas

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Join us as we dive into the story of a pivotal moment for NASCAR: a televised broadcast of the 1979 Daytona 500. How did a blizzard and a fistfight boost NASCAR from a hillbilly sport to near-legendary status? Find out this week on Past Gas!

00:00 Intro
00:25 Snowed in at Daytona
01:48 Host intros
03:07 BTS of our PT Cruiser video
08:53 Daytona and the birth of NASCAR
21:19 NASCAR's place in the world in the late 1970s
24:05 Reading is good
26:12 Rating road trip snacks
33:49 Snowed in
46:01 The Fallout
52:21 Conclusion & takeaways
53:55 Listener mail

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Ric Feld | Associated Press
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