Great Release!!!
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.
Could have been a lot better.
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...
Correcting a misconception
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.
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