Andretti was in his fourth full year of Cup racing and was three years removed from being the first driver to compete in the Indianapolis 500 and Coke 600 in the same day.Īs the field came to the green, Andretti was 27 th in the points and had only one top-10 finish through 15 races, a fourth-place finish at Talladega.īy Lap 3, Andretti was in the lead after having led only 20 laps the whole season – 19 at Talladega and one at Pocono. 98 RCA Ford owned by Cale Yarborough, who himself won at Daytona nine times in his racing career. In none of the storylines set up by those montages was Andretti’s name mentioned. The songs of choice are in included in the below Spotify playlist. To get the audience up to speed, ESPN featured a series of four musical montages to recap the season to date. The latter was in the midst of his first winless season since 1981. He was next to Gordon and behind the Richard Childress Racing front row of Mike Skinner and Dale Earnhardt. When ESPN began its broadcast of the race, Andretti was third on the grid. In music, the top song was “I’ll Be Missing You” by Puff Daddy … I mean P. That weekend Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones were exterminating space bugs in theaters in Men in Black. On July 5, 1997, the 34-year-old Andretti won his first Cup race, what was then the Pepsi 400. Thirty years after Mario Andretti won his only Daytona 500, his nephew John Andretti put his name in the history books by winning the 1997 Firecr … I mean, the Pepsi … wait, the Coke Zero 400 powered by Coca-Cola.
However, do you remember what happened 20 years ago this week?
98 Ford, was Yarborough’s first and only NASCAR Cup Series victory as a car owner. John Andretti, driving Cale Yarborough’s No. Or you’ve been reminded recently thanks to regular airings of the abridged broadcast on Fox Sports 1 or the network’s (really good) documentary about the race.
Twenty years ago, Jeff Gordon won his first Daytona 500.
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