NASCAR's Worst Weather Moments

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• BU

  @Busch22Fan · 3 years ago

  As Mike Joy once joked way back in 2003, if you're having a drought, just invite NASCAR to your town. It'll rain all weekend.

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• BR

  @brazilnut8898 · 3 years ago

  I was at that Bristol 2006 race and took part in the snowball fight between fans and crew members on pit road.  I watched a 6'6" dude in a Gordon jacket nail an official right in the neck with a snowball, taking him down.

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• CH

  @ChucksPullingVideos · 3 years ago

  One of my favorite NASCAR vs Weather memories was when the Tropicana inflatable orange disrupted qualifying in 2004.

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• DA

  @danielbeesley1326 · 3 years ago

  The "IT'S CALLED WATER YOU IDIOT" TwistedToe clip got me, that was amazing.

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• BI

  @Bill-McKinney · 3 years ago

  Reminds me of Chicago's street race this year (2023). The Midwest was in a drought. NASCAR rolls into town, and the track almost floods. The preliminary race gets canceled before halfway, concerts canceled, and tires on pit road were floating away. It was absolutely mental!

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• HE

  @HeyItsAJOmega · 3 years ago

  To be fair, never mind weather delaying a race by a week - try over TWO AND A HALF MONTHS. The 2016 Indycar Firestone 600 at Texas Motor Speedway originally ran on June 12th, before being rain delayed at lap 71, and given a) the fact the race was nowhere near half distance, but b) more rain was scheduled for the rest of the weekend and the Monday after and c) many drivers were needed elsewhere that next week including many going to Le Mans, Indycar elected to resume the race on August 27th - presumably the next free weekend they had on the calendar to make it work. They ran a couple of practice sessions that afternoon, any drivers who had dropped out of the race pre-lap 71 weren&apos;t allowed to resume, and the race rolled off <b>again</b> in the running order they were in back in June. <br><br>I&apos;m sure I remember reading that James Hinchcliffe set a new record for amount of time spent in the lead of a race because of all this, given he was leading at the postponement and effectively led the race for over ten weeks xD

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• WO

  @WolfThatTurnsLeft · 3 years ago

  Seeing the snowcapped mountains at Auto Club during the race went so hard.

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• PA

  @patrickroden4481 · 3 years ago

  A note on the Vortex Theory. A moment that always stick with me was the 2019 Spring Xfinity race at Richmond. It rained at my house, within 10 miles of the speedway for the entire 250 lap race. The broadcast crew kept showing the radar, and the rain cell kept heading straight for the track but kept parting just as it should&apos;ve been reaching the track. Sure enough. Cole Custer took the checkered flag, and before he&apos;d even made it back around to grab the flag, it started raining over the track. I don&apos;t know if there&apos;s any meteorological explanation for that other than the Vortex Theory

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• JU

  @justinturley7071 · 3 years ago

  I’m really surprised you didn’t mention the rain delay at Bristol in 1973, they delayed the race for 2 weeks, at lap 52 is when the red flag came out due to rain, but because it continued to rain, they had to race at Rockingham the next week, and they did, then they headed back to Bristol to finish it. Cale Yarborough wound up winning it, leading all 500 laps.

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• EL

  @EllyProductions49 · 3 years ago

  I swear if we get one more rain delay this year, imma go fight mother nature

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• WE

  @weatherguy8380 · 3 years ago

  The 2010 Aarons 312 was delayed a day by a level 5/5 high risk for a tornado outbreak. There were three EF3s and an EF4 in Northern Alabama.<br><br>Talladega was also hit by an F2 in late November of 2004. Thankfully nowhere near as damaging as the Atlanta F2.<br><br>Also flashback to that several day mist mess at Texas in 2020.

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• SI

  @SiVlog1989 · 3 years ago

  Speaking of cold weather, the first F1 race held at the track that later became known as the Giles Villeneuve Circuit, in Montreal, Canada, saw the coldest temperature ever recorded for a race day in F1 history. Many F1 fans wonder why the Canadian Grand Prix takes place in June, what&apos;s in theory the European part of the F1 season. Part of the reason can stem from this race. October in Quebec is a very cold time of year, and that day in 1978, the temperature was only 5°C (41°F). To give an idea of how cold it was that day, the race winner, appropriately enough, Giles Villeneuve, wore a very thick coat and his team mate, Carlos Reutemann, wore a beanie hat to keep his ears and head warm on that cold day

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