|| *Comments on the 1970 Nashville 420:* View the most recent comment <#11> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. spotty posted: 03.15.2008 - 2:50 pm Rate this comment: (3) (0) LeeRoy Yarbrough's last career pole. 2. petty43 posted: 03.11.2010 - 10:05 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) ABC showed the finish live oops bad idea. 3. rob posted: 02.08.2011 - 10:34 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) friday hssler led the race shortly before the ABC coverage began. after dropping out with ignition problems, hassler was summoned for an interview by pit announcer dr. don tarr. however, the broadcast director never called for the interview to begin. thus it never took place depriving hassler of a well deserved moment in the sun just a year and a half before his tragic death at daytona. 4. Anonymous posted: 04.07.2013 - 3:17 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ray Williams relieved Cecil Gordon. The Spartanburg Herald Journal reported that Lee Roy Carrigg actually drove Lee Gordon's car in this race. 5. rob posted: 01.23.2015 - 8:54 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Video from the race telecast is now on YouTube. 6. Rob posted: 08.11.2017 - 10:46 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Nearly two thirds of the field was gone by halfway. 7. JSPorts posted: 08.11.2017 - 11:07 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) You'll never see this kind of attrition (at least mechanical) in a race now. This race was only 250 miles, yet there were 17 mechanical DNFs, 7 crash DNFs and 3 drivers who just parked their cars. In races today, the cars are much more reliable, the drivers crash a lot less, and (at least in Cup) there is no starting and parking. It's crazy how the 11th-place car in this race finished 102 laps down. 8. Seb posted: 08.19.2019 - 1:26 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) #22 B Allison and #71 Isaac were 1970 model, not '69. #22 B Allison sponsor was "Dodge", not Coca Cola. #43 Petty sponsor was "Plymouth by Petty" 9. RaceFanX posted: 12.18.2020 - 4:43 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) ABC's broadcast didn't start until the second half of the race. By that point Isaac had already taken the lead for good and was headed for victory with only 15 cars left in the race. As you would expect for a day race at Nashville in July this one was a real broiler temperature wise. 10. RaceFanX posted: 12.20.2020 - 5:41 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) There was a lot of hype coming into this race since it was the first NASCAR Cup race at Nashville after the track was rebuilt. The 1969-1970 offseason saw the Music City's popular fairgrounds short track completely redone from a half-mile oval into a longer, faster 0.596-mile oval with 35 degree banked corners; the highest in NASCAR at the time. The high banks ultimately proved too hard to maintain and too fast so they would be shaved down to 18 degrees just three years later but the 0.596-mile layout proved popular and Nashville remains at that length to this day. The new layout played a big role in ABC's decision to televise this race on "Wide World of Sports." IIRC this was one of the very few NASCAR Cup races at Nashville was televised (wonder if it often being a rare night race in this era played into that?) before the track left the schedule in 1984 just as the series was increasing its television presence. I don't know if ABC ever returned to Nashville after this one but some of the last Cup races here in the early 1980s would get TV coverage from TBS and the recently launched The Nashville Network (with TNN regularly televising NASCAR events of literally all levels right down to the local short trackers here later on while ESPN covered a few events here too). 11. Rob posted: 02.17.2021 - 9:15 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) @10. This race was run entirely in daylight with the televised portion fitting nicely into the ABC Wide World of Sports 5-6:30 p.m. eastern time slot. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: