TALLADEGA: Nascar's Most Feared Track

The Miccosukee car was being chased by the Army and National Guard tandem and was forced to stand its ground against the leading car to ultimately win the race, absolutely surreal

“I don’t know about the whole Seminole analogy, it feels a bit out of the blue.” Last few minutes of the video happen: “Holy fucking shit.”

Man, I know Emp was punching the air after writing that last line, “The funny thing about NASCAR is that if you watch long enough, everything comes full circle.” Masterpiece of a video as a whole.

The absolute pure poetic justice of the Miccouskee car in it’s first ever cup race standing his ground against all odds and beating the Army and National Guard in the final lap left me in complete awe. It’s stuff like this that makes it so much harder to believe in just coincidences, it sounds straight out of an over-the-top Hollywood blockbuster. The entire situation almost makes you see the souls of the Seminole warriors themselves riding alongside Keselowski, pushing him on to symbolically relive their legacy and to forever cement their immortal, unconquered legacies

"To this day, Tiny Lund remains the last driver to lose his life at a NASCAR race at Talladega" Me: "Oh well that's good at least, glad we're through the worst tragedies now." 20 seconds later "The nearby pressurized water tank exploded, launching Owens 15 feet in the air and killing him instantly"

How the hell have you gotten me to watch three Nascar videos to completion despite me not caring about nascar, and yet I enjoy each one more than the last. I might be a Nascar fan now. What the fuck

30:00 "the number 38 M&M's Ford must have covered the length of a football field without touching the ground" oh. my. god.

I watched a video about Nascar and learned that the Seminole tribe was formed out of runaways, rebels, and rogues. That's pretty badass.

"The Micosukke car is being pursued by the Army and National Guard cars" "You know its like poetry, it rhymes" -George Lucas

This is easily the best thing about NASCAR to come out. EmpLemon did what NASCAR couldn't. Made the awesome auto sport actually interesting to new folks.

It’s actually really crazy to see representation of the tribe in such a weird context I’m from a Seminole rez in the Everglades and never even knew about the involvement in nascar what a great video :)

The story telling here was impeccable. Maintaining two parallel story lines that are almost always somehow related when you switch, only for the two to converge suddenly at the last moment. Well done sir.

I still can’t get over that emplemon, the guy that did an incredible YTP has now done three nascar videos. what a ride

"The Miccosukee car has only one driver in its way to glory. The tandem is pursued by the Army and the National Guard cars, but they are not gonna catch'em." Holy shit man, what a great line. I am glad to see Jon Bois school of story-telling flourish.

23:40 "The track would produce an incident so ominous, that it would fundamentally alter the future of stock car racing" That sent chills down my spine

"it's amazing what can happen if you leave someone just a little more room to run..." that line is so beautiful, you have a way with words and visuals. This has got to be one of the best pieces of documentary on the site for real.

I'm not from the US and have never watched a single Nascar race, but I absolutely love hearing Emp telling these stories, damn

"Produces no winners only survivors." Fucking great line

I now have a morbid curiosity to try to become a Nascar driver and race on Talladega.

The thing I recently found out (and now love it to bits) is that in the end, every feature Emp ever told about the track (the favorable rookie instance, the fence crash, the double yellow line and the natives' NASCAR team) all came together in that race's finish.