Product Details

• Actors: Daytona 500-50 Years-Great American Race 2008
• Directors: n, a
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 5
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Team Marketing
• DVD Release Date: March 18, 2008
• Run Time: 600 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000V683TS
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #150,670 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Own 50 years of the Great American Race, the Daytona 500, on this 5 DVD set! Travel back in time to experience history in the making with never-before released footage of the early years. Each DVD is a collection of 10** individual videos, which have been created to showcase the Daytona 500 races, year by year. This special collector's DVD set includes the races, the drivers, the crashes, and the stories that made them great.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Release!!!, March 25, 2008

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L. Richard Houston (Hamptonville, NC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Daytona 500: 50 Years — The Greatest American Race 2008 (DVD)

What you're getting here is 7-9 minutes or so of highlights from every Daytona 500 to date, including the 2008 edition run just a few weeks ago. The vast majority of the footage is stuff you've never seen.

Check out the amazing color video of Pete Hamilton's win in 1970. Those Superbirds were truly beautiful machines.

Image quality varies from year to year, but overall, it is superb. This is a must-have for any NASCAR fan. One correction should be noted, however. This five-disc set contains just over six hours of material, not the 10 noted in Amazon.com's product infomation for this title.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Could have been a lot better., December 2, 2009

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Mr. Mark A. Allan "Buddha" (Adelaide, South Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Daytona 500: 50 Years — The Greatest American Race 2008 (DVD)

While this is an attractive looking package containing some marvelous old footage it is let down in many areas. Firstly I wonder whether anyone actually bothered to try and restore the early film and video footage or did that involve too much effort? On several occasions I found myself reaching for the tracking adjustment until of course I realized it was on DVD. Surely this could have been fixed before the final product was offered for sale.

Secondly the awful mind-numbing musical soundtrack that runs throughout is not only distracting but just plain irritating. Why was it even considered necessary to subject the viewer to this, what was wrong with the original commentary already in place? I was tempted to mute the sound altogether and just watch the action but this would result in too much valuable information being lost.

Thirdly and most alarmingly, why was the footage of Dale Earnhardt's fatal crash completely left out of the 2001 race highlights? This was screened repeatedly on television news services and sports shows around the world at the time and can still be seen on multiple websites. I fail to see how they could be seeking to protect sensitive viewers among us from the trauma or in fact paying homage to a dead champion. The crash itself looked tame in comparison to many already featured on these DVD's where drivers walked away unscathed. I in no way wish to diminish the memory of this great man but this is intended to be a historical document. This accident was the catalyst for massive changes in the way cars and driver aids such as neck restraints were utilized. For the incident to be completely omitted and the only reference to it being the commentators referring to it as if we had just seen it is an insult to not only his memory but to the people viewing these DVD's.

As for the packaging, it looks good but the copy I got will barely hold the discs in place and you have to be extremely careful each time you pull it out of the box that one does not end up on the floor.

All in all though if you are wanting to see all this footage compiled into one package and in the absence of an alternative then it is a good buy.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Correcting a misconception, October 10, 2008

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James Pernikoff (Marietta, Georgia USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Daytona 500: 50 Years — The Greatest American Race 2008 (DVD)

Aurele Vanier's comment is not quite correct. Lest anyone think that the 1969 coverage is missing altogether, it IS there on disc 2, but the chapter access for 1969 is indeed incorrect and takes you to 1973. But if you select "Play All" you do get 1969, and fortunately it is the first year covered on the disc, so no real inconvenience.