The Fight
Cale Yarborough, on the right of the image, was coming off three straight seasons of winning the Winston Cup – a feat no one had ever accomplished before and only Jimmie Johnson has accomplished since. Tensions were high amongst all the drivers to knock off the champ. Well, at the Daytona 500 in the 1979 season, those tensions overflowed. Yarborough and Donnie Allison were bumping cars all race long, with Yarborough intending to slingshot him at the end. But neither racer won, and both drivers (alongside Donnie’s brother, Bobby) took matters into their own hands, literally. That fight did a lot of the popularity of NASCAR in homes across America.