Blood money being used to fund a NASCAR team is a recipe for a geopolitical disaster. Case in point, what Adam Stern reported about one of the latest Charter agreement drafts.
Lol thats not even the least bit surprising. If you were a fan during dales time at hendrick youd know that. The guy didnt win a single race for like 4 yrs straight
One driver retired with a statistical average of 1.0 - Marvin Burke. He won a race at Oakland in the 50s and never competed again. The driver with the worst career average is Lee Connell - he started the 1951 Southern 500 and finished 80th of 82. He never started another race.
Yes, but he didn't even finish that race. He just got credited because he started the car for that Bristol race.John Utsmam finished the race for Benny and got to the finish line 1st.
@@zt55471973 averaged 1.5 cars on the lead lap, the lowest average of any year in NASCAR history. Half the races had just one car on the lead lap. Only eight drivers had even a single lead lap finish, and three of them only did so in a race they won (Parsons, Dick Brooks and Mark Donahue.) Most races were between Cale Yarborough in the Howard-Johnson car, Richard Petty, Buddy Baker in the K&K Insurance Dodge and occasionally Bobby Allison's independent Chevy. And of course David Pearson when he showed up. Parsons was consistently the sixth fastest, but he was good at finishing races, so running third four laps down or so was pretty common for him.
@@zt5547 1973 set the all-time record for lowest average number of cars on the lead lap. An average of 1.5. Half the races saw the entire field lapped, and no race had more than three cars on the lead lap.
In Kevin Harvick's first start in 2001, the 24 (Jeff Gordon) won the pole, and the 1 (Steve Park) won the race. In Kevin Harvick's last start in 2023, the 24 (William Byron) won the pole, and the 1 (Ross Chastain) won the race. Coincidence?? I think NOT
At one point in the 1993 Spring Darlington Race (which was Alan Kulwicki's last race), Rusty in the 2 was running 2nd, Dale Sr in the 3 was running 3rd, Ernie in the 4 was running 4th, Ricky Rudd in the 5 was in 5th, Mark Martin in the 6 was in 6th, and Alan Kulwicki, in the 7, was running 7th.
The only two drivers to win in F1, Indycar and the Cup Series are Mario Andretti and Juan Pablo Montoya. JPM is also the only driver to win multiple races in each of those series.
dillon never had another full time truck season after 2013, with 2014 being his first full time xfinity season. His last full time xfinity season was 2016. His first full time cup season was 2017. He has never competed full time in all 3 series
Dick Hutcherson could be an underrated pick for the Hall of Fame. And it could kinda be like when Waddell Wilson was in 2020 when Tony Stewart and Bobby Labonte got inducted.
Something glossed over in that Dick Hutcherson comment is that he holds the all-time record for wins by a rookie driver, scoring 9 wins in 1965. Additionally, he holds the record for best points finish by a rookie as well, as he finished 2nd in points that season to Ned Jarrett.
@@StanTheManExtraMore specifically, he had won the championship for IMCA a few years earlier, which according to NASCAR meant you weren't really a rookie. Benny Parsons didn't get ROTY five years later because he'd won an ARCA championship. At the time, ARCA, IMCA and the USAC stock car series were considered "big league" series on par with NASCAR, so having experience in them makes you too good for a rookie stripe. I think that rule changed around '75 or so.
At the Coke 400 from 2019 to 2022 Joey Logano won at least one stage in all 4 races (sweeping the first two stages in 2020), while also being involved in a wreck in all of them
One of my favorite crazy stats/facts is that in the 2010 Craftsman Truck Series season, Jason White drove all four makes of truck in the series at the time (Ford, Chevrolet, Dodge, and Toyota) in four consecutive races and finished on the lead lap in all four races!
Here's one: Ryan Newman beat Jimmie Johnson for the Rookie of the Year honors in 2002 despite Johnson finishing 5th with 3 wins in the final standings to Ryan Newman finishing 6th with 1 win.
@@whoasked9500 He also had more poles than Johnson if I’m not mistaken. There is actually a different points system for the Rookie of the Year award. (Or at least there was)
@@whoasked9500 It's actually a little bit different as to how they crowned the Rookie of the Year back then. You see, how they ruled it was based on your 15 best races. And considering Ryan Newman got 14 Top-5s to Jimmie Johnson's 6, that played a major factor. Granted, you are right that Newman also scored one more top-10 than JJ, but the point is that back then, ROTY wasn't determined by points position. Still, I still think it seems messed up.
@@President_Grover_Cleveland Yes. Back then, it was based on your 15 best races. Today, it's simply who finishes highest in points. Although it is simpler today, I think the Playoffs Ultimately take the meritocracy out of it. Cole Custer proved that in 2020.
Yes but Newman was only seven points behind Johnson and 70 points short of finishing second to Stewart in the final points. 208 points short of beating Stewart in an era when that was less than two races.
That final stat about Curtis Turner reminded me of something Scott Dixon was able to accomplish en route to his first championship in his debut IRL season. from his website: "Became the first driver in IndyCar Series history to lead consecutive laps over the course of three races.Led the final 84 laps en route to a victory at Pikes Peak and led all 206 laps of the rain-shortened event Richmond. Led the first 53 laps at Kansas for a total of 343 consecutive laps led."
8:17 I believe that's true for most of, if not every racing discipline. That reminds me of Nelson Piquet losing his driver's license in 2007 due to multiple parking infractions, which is pretty funny and 100% on-brand for him
2 truck facts about Mike Skinner 1. He lost at Colorado in 1995 to Butch Miller by .0001 seconds, the closest finish in any racing series (until this year at Atlanta) Miller also did the first ever burnout in NASCAR. 2.Mike’s 2007 campaign in trucks saw him score 11 poles and and average start of 2.5 with their worst qualifying attempt being 9th. It was statistically his best season after leaving RCR.
One fact I find interesting is that the Indy Road Course is the only track besides COTA to have hosted races for NASCAR, Indycar, F1 & MotoGP. While we are on the subject of tracks, it should be pointed out that thanks to their inclusion on the Xfinity & Truck Series schedules over the years, Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, Montreal & Mexico City are the only tracks outside of the US to have held points paying races so far though this will likely change if NASCAR adds more international races for the Cup Series.
Jeffrey Earnhardt has also competed in mixed martial arts (MMA). He fought one time and won. Probably the last guy you want to have a fight with on pit road.
Stacey Compton has more poles in cup than top ten finishes. Geoff bodine and Brett bodine have cup series wins. Brother Todd doesn’t. While Todd is the only brother of the 3 with truck series wins
In 1992, jeff gordon made his first start for hendrick motorsports at Altana. Bill Elliot was fighting for the championship that day against alan kulwicki hooters car. In 2016 chase Elliot took over jeff gordons' car. In 2017 hooters sponsor chase Elliot after beating his dad 25 years earlier
Just saw this one today, Daniel Surez is the only NASCAR driver to win a race in 6 NASCAR Series the six being NASCAR ARCA series, Truck series, Xfinity Series, NASCAR Cup Series, NASCAR Mexico Series, and most recently NASCAR Brazil Series over the weekend
Both next gen championships (2022 & 2023) were won by Team Penske drivers. Both had less than 5 wins In the 2023 Championship 4 for the Cup series, Xfinity series, and Truck Series, each group had 2 chevy drivers, 1 ford driver, and 1 toyota. Ford also won all 3 championships that year. (Cup: Ryan Blaney - Xfinity: Cole Custer - Truck: Ben Rhodes)
In 1979, Joe Millikan finished 2nd to Dale Earnhardt in the Rookie of the Year standings. Terry Labonte was 3rd, Harry Gant was 4th. Millikan finished 6th in series points with 20 top 10s, 5 top 5s, and a 12.6 average finish. He never ran another full time season and never won a race in 79 career starts.
@@nachoalvarez7171Admittedly, only in driver points. In owner points the #2 was fifth and the #72 was seventh. Joe only beat Dale in driver points because of the four races he missed due to injury.
Being at the 2015 Martinsville race was awesome. We sat in the middle of turns 1 & 2, and all the drama happened right there at us. Never was the biggest Gordon fan, but that was such a special race.
Over a span of 7 months, from Nov 10, 2018 to June 9, 2019, Ross Chastain managed to start 41 consecutive national series races, recording 9 top 10s and a win in the Truck series as well as a 10th place finish in the Daytona 500 in a Premium Motorsports car. I'm not sure how this streak stacks up with some of the guys in the Buschwhacker era but it sure is a damn impressive stat in modern NASCAR.
At pocono in 2012, a fan was struck by lightning and passed away which is what led to most major sports adopting the 8 mile lightning strike weather delay that we see today.
• From 2005 to 2013, Tony Stewart won 7/9 season opening Xfinity races at Daytona. This was done for 4 separate teams (Kevin Harvick Inc, Joe Gibbs, Hendrick, and RCR). • The two races he didn’t win, 2007 and 2012, he finished 8th both times. • In the same time span, Bobby Gerhart won 6/9 season opening ARCA races at Daytona. • From 1982 to 2024, General Motors won 38/43 Daytona 300s in the Xfinity series.
To add with the NASCAR drivers not needing or even not having a drivers license to drive a race car, fun fact this is something across other motorsports. There’s actually some F1 drivers that don’t have a drivers license nor have even driven a road car. Ya just need a racing license and that’s it. Another fun fact too is ya actually need an entirely separate racing license to run the 24 hours of the Nurburgring. Drivers like Chase Elliott, Michael McDowell, Max Verstappen, Lando Norris, Scott Dixon, Joseph Newgarden, Ben Keating, or Sebastian Bourdais can’t just go over to Germany and run the famous endurance race with any team in any car like a GT3. They have to race in the NLS Series, which is Nurburgring Nordschleife’s track series like how in short track racing ya race all the races at one track in one series for the track championship, running in slower classes like the Production Car classes to gain experience and points to get the license to race the N24 cause of the different discipline ya need to race the 15.77 mile long track. Especially when ya have cars from GT3s and GT4s to touring cars to street legal cars with 15+ classes making up 130-150 total cars on track and having to obey the Code 60 zones and race while there r also safety vehicles driving around heading to or after completing attending to a crash car on the course.
Mine is regarding Herman Beam. He held the record for most races completed without a DNF, 84 starts, in a streak that went from 1961 Martinsville to 1963 Atlanta and it lasted for over 50 years. It wasn't beaten until 2014 by Greg Biffle.
I didn't check to see if any of these had already been mentioned, but here are some: - Bill Elliott and Chase Elliott both finished second eight times before winning their first NASCAR Cup Series race. - Bobby Allison won Cup Series races for 13 different car owners in his career. - Bill Rexford had as many NASCAR Cup Series championships as he did victories - one of each. - In Cale Yarborough’s 1977 championship season, he had an average finish of 4.5 and finished in the top-5 in 25 out of 30 races. - Four drivers have gotten their only Cup Series win at Darlington Raceway: Johnny Mantz, Larry Frank, Lake Speed, and Regan Smith. - In the 24-year span between Richard Petty’s first Cup Series win and his 200th, he won 22% of the races he entered (200/909).
If you want to really twist the knife, Mario Andretti has won as many Daytona 500s as Dale Sr did. Mario owns wins in some of the largest races the world has to offer: the Daytona 500, Indy 500, Monaco GP, and 24 hrs of Daytona. That's a great no one is going to repeat.
Wait, Curtis turner won a race just a half hour out of my home town in Monroe county? I never knew we even had a racetrack here outside of a small speed way in buffycalled Lancaster, and the Glen.
Hershel McGriff is the oldest driver to compete in a nascar event at 90 years old (in 2018). He has ran races with Red Byron (first ever nascar champion) and Hallie Deegan
Ok so this is from the community post but I’m gonna add a few things: Jimmie Johnson, despite racing for JR motorsports _and_ Hendricks motorsports in the xfinity series, he only has one xfinity win. And it wasn’t even with those _top tier_ teams, it was with a small team randomly in 2001. Another fact that *_I_* came up with this time is the fact that DiGard racing won with drivers like Darrell waltrip and Bobby Allison, even winning the 1983 championship with Allison. Then went winless in ‘84 *_Somehow_* won with *_Greg Sacks_* in 85. Allison left to join the Stavola brothers, taking miller with him. And after 1987, *_Less than 5 years after a championship might I add,_* they shut down.
Despite Smoke winning many many races as a driver over the years he has only won one of the 4 crown jewel races, the Brickyard 400 twice (05 and 07). Also of all of the Memorial Day Doubles attempted, he is the only driver to finish both the Indy 500 and Coke 600 on the lead lap in the same year (01). That year he also got a Top 10 in both (6th and 3rd, respectively) and he also is the only driver with titles in Indy (1) and Cup (3 as a driver, 2 more as an owner).
I’m a diehard Gordon fan and I can admit that he definitely could’ve had 7 championships, but it’s a little bit of stretch, you can’t deny the absolute robbery that was 2007, 2014 was robbed too but there was more competition that year. Gordon was by far the best driver in 2007
2014 he won it every way but the way the fought for the championship also got remember they didn't get bonus points for a win in the rounds gordon would been in by 15 points over Newman with the updated format and wouldn't have pited at homestead and won championship in every format
Curtis Turner and Darian Grubb are both from the same town of Floyd, Va which is only 30 minutes from my house. A man we used to go to church with was really good friends with Curtis Turner and they say he could almost out drive Curtis on the roads.
There are a lot of things you can attribute Jeff Gordon's lack of titles after 2001 to, but the really simple explanation is the fantastic influx of talent NASCAR saw from about 2000-2006, guys who could win right away and didn't take 3 years to put it all together like we see a lot now. He was mostly racing older guys in the 90s, and some of them were still in their prime, but many weren't.
4:42 as a Tulsan I never knew nascar even touched much less looked at our fairgrounds track, (not the best just like our dragstrip 🤣) I've always known about Tony Stewart and the chili bowl but damn that's wild..
The oldest NASCAR driver to run in a Cup race is good ole Morgan Shepherd at the age of 72 years 9 months and 1 day. This guy has 1027 total starts and had raced in the cup series from 1977-2014 (he does have 3 start in 1970). His spread in all series was 1977-2019! An underrated NASCAR driver.
Nascar was the 2nd most watched sport in part of the 2000s only behind the NFL. That is just crazy to think abt with how little I think it’s talked abt outside of just the racing community now
@@grbhighlights9401 I mean say what you will about the gen 7 but at least it does help nascar get into the mainstream in a more positive light so there is that things are hopefully turning around
@@grbhighlights9401 nascar had that in the 2000s and quite frankly I don't think it's gonna happen again for a while plus I'd rather Indycar get that at this point considering the state it's in right now
Lets not forget jr got the 25 car at hendrick. It was the development car they just rebranded it to the 88. Thats oart of the reason why i think dale jr wasnt as good at hendrick. But to this day it grinds my gears terribly when u think sbout it. Jr kind of doomed himself
I guess you need to look up the actual history of the 25. Ricky craven had a few solid runs in it. Dominant in a rockingham race and unfortunately a late caution gave dale jarrett the chance needed to snag the win. Plus a few other races. Wally dallenbach was in it next… wasn’t good. I remember Jerry nadeau had it. Won a race. He was good in it and i felt he deserved a longer opportunity with hendrick. Joe nemechek had the 25 also. He won races in the 25. But like nadeau, had bad luck in it. Then vickers. Also had some bad luck. Then it became a part time ride.
Ward Burton, Trevor Bayne, Ricky Stenhouse, Jr and Austin Cindric have 4 more Daytona 500 victories than Rusty Wallace, Tony Stewart, Carl Edwards and Kyle Busch have combined.
If you use the 1975-2003 distribution of points and don’t count playoffs, Matt Kenseth wins the 2006 championship over Jimmie Johnson by a single point! Johnson still wins with the 5 extra points given to winners starting in 2006.
Chris Buescher has the most wins among all active Cup drivers to have never won a race called by Mike Joy. the active standings are as follows: Buescher 5 Jones 3 Allmendinger 3 Wallace 2 Haley 1 SVG 1 also about this list, Allmendinger is the only one to have won a race called by someone other than Rick Allen, with his first win coming with Allen Bestwick on the call in 2014
Fun fact- there are 5 pairs of dale Earnhardt Srs shoes sealed in concrete at 5 nascar tracks, which only 4 of the tracks are on the current nascar schedule...they were placed by into the foundations on the turn 1 seats (bleachers) on all 5 tracks...i know because the company i worked for at that time did concrete work on one of the tracks...i only heard about the other 4 tracks, but can confirm they are at the old AutoClub Speedway in Southern California. Take a guess about the other 4 tracks!
Correction on 1963: Weatherly won the Rebal 300 at Darlington, not the Southern 500. Fireball Roberts won that. Due to how the point distribution went, the really important thing is your average finish in the "event" races: Daytona, Charlotte, Darlington, Atlanta and Riverside. Weatherly had a win, five top fives and eight top tens in those ten races, with a worst finish of 24th. Petty had one top five, five top tens and three finishes of 36th or worse in those ten races. That's a swing of thousands of points that no amount of wins in 400 point-races could make up for. Oddly enough, the Wood Brothers managed to win the owner's championship while only running 25 races. They did this by winning the Daytona 500, and getting eight top fives and nine top tens in the event races.
Michael McDowell completed more laps than any other driver in 2017, and then did it again in 2022. Guess he was making up for all those start and parks in the early 2010s
Under the Winston Cup points standings the following are changes to the champions Jeff Gordon has 7. His last coming in 2014, which would then make his retirement in his defending season more odd Kevin Harvick has 4 Jimmie Johnson has 3 or 4 Joey Logano and Kurt Busch have none Carl Edwards has 2
Going strictly by the original Latford system, Johnson would have three titles. 2008, 2009, and 2013. Edwards would lose '08 by four points thanks to the penalty he got early in the year for his oil lid at Las Vegas. '06 meanwhile would go to Kenseth by one point. Yes, I know Racing-Reference gives '06 to Johnson and '08 to Edwards, but they're factoring in the extra bonus points for wins that weren't in the original system.
No Cup or Xfinity driver has won the championship racing in the number 1 car. And only one driver has won the Truck Series championship in the 1 car being the 2005 season where Ted Musgrave won.
Ricky craven is the only driver to race the 32 car number to pole position and race wins. He also has more poles than wins in the the 32 car. Also has more poles than wins in his career.
Speaking of Curtis Turner, ole' Pops won a NASCAR Convertible race at Asheville-Weaverville in 1956 in which a huge wreck occurred that collected every other car in the field to which no one else could continue. The race was called, marking the only time it's ever happened in NASCAR.
More cup drivers have won on their first career start (7) than they have on their second career start.(6). As well as have the same amount of winners won on their first start compared to drivers that won after making 200+ starts
