TERROR in Turn Four at Daytona

Daytona’s Turn Four was always treacherous, but in 1984, it turned into something far more sinister. A hidden bump at the turn and a dangerously angled wall created a recipe for disaster. Speedweeks that year delivered wrecks that drivers would never forget… if they were lucky enough to remember them.

• Ricky Rudd’s brutal crash knocked him out mid-air; he doesn’t recall the impact, but he does remember waking up sore and racing again just two weeks later.
• His joke about pain relief? Let’s say it wouldn’t fly today, and it left reporters speechless.
• Rookie Randy LaJoie knew exactly what was coming… and still couldn’t stop it. The advice he’d gotten from Richard Petty was all he had to hang on to.
• What he inhaled during that wreck almost killed him, and what a fireman pulled from his mouth might be the most disturbing part of this story.

These weren’t just crashes; they were violent, career-threatening wake-up calls, proof that Turn Four in Daytona was a trap. Want to know what happened in those terrifying seconds—and what it took to survive? Watch the complete breakdown of these legendary wrecks, the near-death escapes, and why this corner changed everything for NASCAR’s veterans and rookies.

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