Furniture Row Racing - The Rise and Fall 

Furniture Row was always one of those teams I didn’t particularly pull for every week, but I wouldn’t be upset if they won. I’m Team Penske all the way but it was very satisfying to see them win the championship.

“It would be the only Cup Series victory for Regan Smith.” Don’t remind me… 😢

This hits home for me so much since I live in Colorado. I got to say “I have a hometown NASCAR team and they won a championship!” Still pisses me off that this town only cared about the Broncos the day after Truex won the championship. The Broncos, who got killed by the Bengals. The day he won, got the front page of the paper, while he was shoved to the 2nd page. FRR will always hold a special place in Colorado sports history!

I was there at the Darlington race that day Regan won, I loved the simple design of the 78 and seeing that race that day at the race, it made me quite the fan of the little team that could. They were my favourite team all the way through MTJ's era. They showed a team didn't have to be from Charlotte to be successful. They were my fave team on the track and it still is heartbreaking that it was collapsed by Gibbs the way it did go. I wish it lived on, but one thing's for certain, the team will go down in the history books as one great team, the little team that could.

One of my favorite paint schemes when I first started watching NASCAR was Regan Smith's black Furniture Row car and it was fun to see it get more and more TV time over the years as it ran closer to the front every year

5:48 The Ricky Bobby paint scheme. Priceless!

Was at the 2017 final race at Homestead Miami and witnessed the Truex win and championship. This is our home race. Being Truex fans my boys and I got to see history as a start up one car team defeated the giants. Glad to see Truex picking up where he left off at Gibbs.

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Unlike past teams, FRR went out on a high. Better off than where Richard Petty Motorsports is right now.

"This team's story is truly the definition of rise and fall". Couldn't agree with you more

There was no fall. Just a sudden drop

I don't care what anybody else says, Kurt made this team into a Championship contender. Pearn was already an engineer at the time in the team's history. Truex did terrible with Kurt's CC in 2014, imagine Kurt with Pearn. Kurt does this to every team he goes to, Penske got better when he went there, he made Phoenix Racing and Furniture Row Racing into contenders, and SHR has fallen a bit this year since Kurt's departure, also, one of the #78's lead engineers is at CGR now with Kurt, that's why CGR is getting a bit better.

Being from Colorado, September 4 2018 was a pretty sad day. They gave us all in this state something to identify with and root for in NASCAR, and it felt like it was all taken away overnight. Due to this I say screw 5 hour energy for leaving at a point in the year when they wouldn't be able to find a sponsor in time. And don't give me that "Joe Gibbs put them out of business" crap, all y'all in the comments. Visser denied it. Plus if that really happened I can guarantee you Cole Pearn wouldn't have gone over to JGR

More like "The rise, maintain, and folding" of Furniture Row.

They were my favorite team and truex my favorite dude

Again, I'm late to this one, too (pesky job & wife)... but, I'm impressed. Awesome video. Awesome content. 👍🇺🇲

I really really enjoyed those guys, at the 78 team, real Cinderella story

The story of Furniture Row Racing closing after winning a Championship is a obvious sign that NASCAR's business model is broken

You should do the Rise and fall of Roush

great coverage of a unique story, they say single car teams don't have a chance, the 78 showed that isn't always the way

this team holds a very special place in my heart due to the fact that the one nascar cup event i have attended was the 2011 Southern 500 and from that day on, I was a big fan of the team. I was already a fan of Regans by then and that was a very happy day for me~ (And ironically enough, eleven years after that, a few weeks before Darlington 2 this year, I visited the track again and lo and behold, another underdog wins the race in Erik Jones' 43. ...maybe i should head there more often)

Great show DannyB! Thank you

Im bingewatching you now! Great content man.

Thats not a "rise and fall". Thats a rise, and retire when you were *THE BEST* .

Could you do a “Rise and Fall” on Junior Johnson’s team?

As any racer knows ya got know when to hold em know when to fold em Know when to walk away..... No way JGR was gonna let them beat them every week so the raised the cost to furniture row. They said " well we proved we can win win championships etc time to walk with our heads held high

thank you for your service mr. visser!

truly inspiring

What made them the most successful? They were located right in the center of the Cup Series Map. They had less average travel miles over a total season... One edge many do not think about, but gave them a little more rest and budget.

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Evernham Motorsports The Rise & fall?

Robert Yates Racing - The Rise and Fall? It may be a longer one but it’d be a nice one

You should do a rise and fall of yates racing

The Rise and Fall of MB2 Motorsports. (The team that once owned that #01 U.S. Army car in the 2000s.)

This team was a great team in the cup series ever and had great drivers the two best driver's for them was Martin truex Jr and Regan smith.

These guys did alright

It still blows my mind that a team struggling to make races with guys like Kenny Wallace and Joe Nemechek became Cup champions.

Wish we could more rise and fall videos.

Biggest team in nascar for one year

Y’all can’t say Joe Gibbs put FRR out of business. When they got the alliance and switched to toyota, it changed their performance. They won way more and won a championship with Toyota and JGR. And tech got more expensive, and no sponsorship takes a toll on an expensive sport

I miss furniture row

Petty Enterprises/ Evernham

There back!

You should do the Raise and Fall of Bobby Hamilton Racing

You should do one on Roush Fenway's Xfinity team.

I actually went to the 2018 Ford Ecoboost 400. It was really emotional seeing Truex get passed by Logano with like 20 to go. Even though I wanted Harvick to win, Truex was my second pick if Harvick didn't.

They shut down after nascar’s 70th season. What a shame. R.I.P. Furniture Row Racing.

Love this series. Id like to see a rise and fall on Roush racing, Jeremy Mayfield and Robert Yates racing in the future!

Hope Spire Motorsports would bring #78 as 3rd car team in 2024.

I was at the 600 that truex dominated!! And the won he won this year too

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Spire Motorsports' #77 has the same font

Called it. I knew it'd be this when you said it was a Truex video (One of the community posts for evidence). That being said, this story sucks in the latter run. The fact that Gibbs was a major factor is just as upsetting because of what JGR has become in terms of the respect category (Which for the most part is null). In addition, Truex has seemingly... changed... since it was announced FRR was shutting down & he was going to JGR. I wonder what will happen first; A Rise & Fall video on JGR, or Truex himself... It's kinda sad to think about since the latter is most likely, but I've seen things like this before where a driver gets corrupted after moving to a team with a bad reputation & low respect level, like JGR is now. It was like that with most of the Roush guys in the 2000's. Yeah some survived, but most of those guys because they weren't in Cup or they were there since the early 90's when things weren't as bad before the main crop of guys starting in Cup in the 2000's.

I was by no means a Truex fan, and I’m still not, but during 2017 when Logano was doing awful, Biffle was out, and all the other Ford drivers I liked were irrelevant, I was rooting for Truex and FRR.

Did I just race with you in NASCAR Heat 3?!

I LEGIT went to the same high school as Barney. Not even joking same state and city.

They never had a fall. They went out on top

Need to do Bk racing

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And now we're probably gonna have MTJ as Champion again in Gibbs equipment.

Do bk racing next please!

As a guy from Colorado living 10 minutes away from they're shop and working 5 mins away. And racing at Colorado national speedway. Everybody was saddened to see FRR go and was really hoping they would've been able to show they're true potential

Why not do the rise and fall of hendrick?

Phoenix Racing Fallout?

Joe Gibbs Racing got tired of getting beat by they're own equipment, so they raised the price out of reach for Barney Vissor to afford. Joe Gibbs calls himself a christian yet what they did was not a very "christian like" thing to do. For the sake of staying in racing LFR should know what to expect if the beat JGR. IMO this was a real shitty thing to do by Joe Gibbs Racing and they should be ashamed.

A man who decided to to something, and he did.

Furniture Row didn’t fall. It had its legs cut out from under it.

Wow did not no a lot about them

Gibbs raised the partnership price because they got tired of being beaten.

do Red Bull Racing

The rise and fall of Roush Fenway Motorsports.

I disagree...that Darlington race where they got their first win, it was no fluke. Regan was in the top ten all night

Joe Gibbs is at fault here, here raised the price so furniture row wanted to raise the price for the sponsors, causing 5 hour energy to leave

Alright Danny if you see this please respond do you not think it's kind of funny how they won the championship the the year before was in the running to win the championship that year and all of a sudden they cannot find a sponsor they went to Gibbs and they didn't have no problem finding a sponsor I think it was Barney's health want to let you go out what do you think

FRR ghost still today as SPIRE MOTORSPORTS.

Forgot Kurt Busch was with them

Egos on the 78 killed them. They forgot that minus JGR they would not be in the position they were in.

This team was the _definition_ of standing back up after every fall. Shame they died a final death after Homestead.

I was an employee of Furniture Row when things in the economy went crazy in 2008-2009. Of course they laid me off with hundreds more, but Barney kept putting millions into his racing team. I was 59 years old and this was financially devastating to me. So when Furniture Row folded, I was truly happy! Barney Visser can go on a honeymoon with himself.

This is going to be Richard Petty Motorsports in a couple yesrs

The should have made one side of the car matel black and the other side showing were they’re at now

First comment.good video

Furniture Row sells furniture?

more like rise, rise, R I S E, fall

It was more like rise and stop

The thing I don’t get is the cost of NASCAR has gone down these last few years from my understanding. Furniture Row struggled for so many years and yet financially they were fine when costs were higher? Then once they hit success they couldn’t afford it? Leave the Gibbs alliance if it’s costing that much. Just hate seeing less than 40 car fields.

Basically Gibbs wanted the driver and the sponsors and simply priced Furniture Row out of business

Stage winner M.T.J

Another team Gibbs ran into bankruptcy, such a shame.

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They absolutely sucked until Truex came in 2014. Regan Smith was the only other driver to win, winning his "only" race, although he should've been credited with that 2007 win.

If NASCAR don’t want you there no matter how hard a team owner tries to please NASCAR if they don’t want you there a team will not make it, just like Bill Davis and others,I we would lose Jack Roush, Rick Hendricks, Joe Gibbs and Richard Childress the sport would be over forever.

Kevin Harvicks team rise and fall pls

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And this was the downward trend of NASCAR started when a championship team couldn't get a major sponsor while NASCAR was pulling in the big buck sponsors! They lost site of the teams and became seriously greedy! Then they continue to ruin the sport in 2022! Way to go NASCAR! I haven't watched or been to a race since those days! I just follow results now!

Martin hasn’t won yet this season neither have his teammates

JGR was getting its arse handed to them, so they screwed over the team from Denver by jacking up the price. I hope JGR folds soon. Truex should've put that POS logano into the wall the teams final year at Miami.

Gibbs hated them

Stage Winner: MTJ

So, in 2016 Martin Truex Jr. has a strong season, but a single bad race at Crashadega and he's out of contention for the championship. More than anything else, this ongoing playoffs idiocy is what has ruined NASCAR for me and a lot of other fans. Now that Drunk Brian France is out, why have they not reverted to a season-long championship fight, something that not only made every race equal but also saw the sport to its greatest success? Is there a single smart brain cell left among any of the Frances?