NASCAR's history with Mother Nature 

Riverside International Raceway 1983 Bill Elliott winning his first win will always be my favorite rain short and race keep up the good work have a good one and God bless

The first NASCAR race i was able to go to was Portland 2022 and it rained all day so im pretty grateful for the rain package and that NASCAR decided to come back.

8:01 Joey Loganos win at New Hampshire in 2009 also broke a record in the cup series with the youngest winner at 19 years old, one month and four days.

its wild to think how aric's first and last victories came in shortened races. one by rain, the other due to light

The fact that Dover hasn’t gotten a shortened race is crazy. Especially since we haven’t gotten a full Sunday race in the next gen car

Here’s A Honorable Mention Someone Forgot To Mention 2006 NASCAR Nationwide Series Race At Bristol Was Delayed Because Of Snow

Honorable mention although not shortened but the 2018 spring martinsville race

Another one I haven’t seen talked about is Texas in 2020 I believe when it was rained out all the way to Wednesday and Kyle Busch would get his one and only win of 2020 in the zombies skittles car I was in attendance for Sunday they made it 4-5 laps in and Kevin Harvick slid up into the wall when the rain started we went to bass pro across the street to wait out the rain and we wouldn’t go back to the track to finish it. Pretty wild race

The 1993 Blizzard of the Century was interesting. The Cup race was held a week or so later. The Busch race ended up moving to November as thr season finale. I believe the Busch series wad racing at Hickory the following weekend. 1987 Spring Richmond race wad also moved back a couple weeks from its original date because of snow.

Very interesting content lately. Really thinking outside the box, and that is so respectable. As always, great stuff, killer voice.

How about the 1998 Daytona summer race, which was postponed due to wildfire? Should be mentioned next time. And was won by surprise, Jeff Gordon.

dover never being rain shorted is the biggest suprise, i swear in 2018 or something they would have a rain shorted race

1987 Winston 500 was not shortened due to weather, but due to darkness. Bobby Allison’s crash into the catchfence caused a 2 1/2 hour red flag to repair the catchfence,

I guess you could say that the drivers in these situations were a bit… under the weather.

On the weather side (meteorologist here)… Darlington gets a LOT of pop-up thunderstorms as does Daytona for the summer race. Pocono deals with storm systems tracking through the region that can cause trouble in the mountainous spots there. The Daytona 500 gets bad luck with cold fronts that stall in Central FL. I can go on and on lol

12:26 thank you Matt to say my name arriving to my birthday on Sunday December 10 at age 14.

I wonder if or when there is/will be a snow out. Yes, snow has interrupted or postponed but not shortened to my knowledge.

still a new track but gateway has zero rainouts/postponements.

It was really nice to see SVG win at Chicago. I knew he was gonna be pretty tough to beat, but didn’t think he was gonna win

Chicago was shortened because of the city imposed curfew on the park

richmond changed their logo again? crazy to think that Kyle Busch never won a rain shortened race tho

The reason for shortening Chicago was that the streets were to be reopened the next day. They could have run on Monday but the city wanted the streets back earlier.

I'm more of a theorizest (if there is such a thing) I think part of the reason why some tracks are hit more then others may just be the timing of El Nino and the geography. I'll elaborate. When El Nino is on our side of the hemisphere, the panhandle of Texas gets almost flooded out. But when it isn't Rain in our area is it rarity. Traffic pollution may also be a factors but i'm not entirely sold on that one

By the way, Phoenix and rain are not uncommon. In the 1970s or 1980s, I don't have the exact season, the first race of the IndyCar series season was canceled due to flooding.

12:48 Very real Tulsa Speedway photo and absolutely not Beamng Drive!

Weird that Dover has never had a shortened race even though its had like a quarter of races in the previous like 15 year has had a washout

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I've been to 7 Michigan races and I stayed to the end of TWO of them

Chicago's street lights weren't sufficient, especially with the already limited field of view the drivers had.

Michigan International Speedway had a rain shortened race in 2018 so it's 3rd

You should do a follow up video with how many tracks/how many times have had their races delayed to the next day and which drivers benefitted the most from those races Example: Monday MTJ 😂

12:16 sadly a fan would be killed in that race in 2012 when he was Struck by lighting in that storm.

The 2001 Dover race was moved to September 22 due to terrorist attacks of 9/11

you forgot gateway and iowa in the zero and you forgot north wilksboro wherver it is.

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Mistake Sonoma was rain shortened when she was known as Sears Point when i was a kid in 1994

Technically Almirola would have 2 weather shorted wins bc they shortned the new Hampshire race in 21 due to darkness after a rain shower early in the event

I feel odd putting SVG on this list, because lets be honest he was going to win regardless

If I remember right. Although not for Cup didn't the Xfinity Series, then known as Busch Series have a delay or shortened race that ended at night due to snow during the day?

My favorite moment was Chase Elliott gapping the field by a second a lap during the deluge right before they threw the caution at COTA.

Due to the not having enough light

Sonoma never rain because is in the desert

I'm going to guess that you are a Capricorn.

Jesus must really hate NASCAR