Opening laps, Bristol, August 2002. This is the real Night Race

Legendary booth of Allen, Wally and Benny too

Not just nostalgia talking, I was barely even alive for this. It really was better.

I'll never be able to witness 160k fans at a track again but my goodness it looks so electric. Was this the bump n run race?

Yep!

No PJ1 bull shit used in that race. No stages. Just a fuckin race from start to finish.

Pure, badass racing as God intended

I know it’s easy to be nostalgic about this but we literally have the recipe for success here no progressive banking, no sports cars posing as stock cars, etc

The spirit of older NASCAR; man it just had a different feel to it. I don't think it's just nostalgia. Maybe it is to an extent. But man, NASCAR just had a different feeling back then.

Cars look so much better, were they still being painted then?

Yep, still paint. The first wrapped cars started showing up around 04-05