One that is being overlooked is that Chase Elliott could beat Jeff Gordon's 2007 record of 33 top twenties. As of the Bristol race Chase Elliott has 27 top twenties.
@@doomusrlc I guess I did, Paul Menard was in cup part time with DEI, Gilliland was promoted to cup mid season to replace Elliott Sadler in the #38, But still.
To be fair, Gilliland’s win was in 2006 and Kevin Harvick won the 2006 Busch Series title by 824 points. Not a lot want to remember that year for the Busch Series.
That Riverside race also used to be 500 miles. Not 500 kilometers, a 500-mile road course race in NASCAR. Same with the other Riverside race being 400 miles.
What makes Gilliland's win even more special. Tyler Ankrum won his first (and only) truck series race, AT KENTUCKY, racing for David Gilliland Racing. (Now TRICON).
I expect him to leave RCR eventually. He’s still got the talent but in the last 2 years all the late 2000’s gen drivers are starting to show the age exception being hamlin who I hope continues to biff and miss the final 4.
In the words of Phil Parsons in 2006 when he called David Gilliland's win at Kentucky, David has truly beat the Goliath. Then the commentator botch "DAVID (Studder) GILLILAND, Wins at Kentucky!!"
Similar to David Gilliland's sole win, Boris Said won a race at Montreal in 2010, no one saw that coming and a lotta road course racers had motives for winning the race, from revenge to constant disappointment to being the home town hero to even a Cuo regular trying to continue his dominance at Montreal, and Said was barely mentioned. At the end he won in a photo finish, it was one of only two wins he ever had. Even Bestwick said this win was long overdue because he knew he had it in him. I'd love for the newer fans to hear this story. Also there was a race in Xfinity that ran the restrictor plate at Michigan in 2018, before they were gonna use it this year.
I like learning about some of the more unusual cars that were entered. Like how Jaguar has a single Nascar win. Or how people have entered everything from Austin Mini's to Tucker 48s back in the early years. They even had special races where European cars could go head to head with cup cars.
There was this one time in 2001 NASCAR sued the Speedway to get down the safer barriers after the Indy 500. Oh, and they lost.... Ford's 32 wins was crazy to think, because Chevy had so many more championships by the late 90's. Like, they practically owned the Cup in the 80's and 90's.
The fun little factoid that I always remember is that for the 2001 season, the Nascar Cup cars were the slowest of all the series around the plate tracks. Even the Arca series was putting down a faster pole lap and the Busch cars were nearly turning 190 average; faster than anything else.
