The Most Intriguing Buy-A-Ride Moments in NASCAR History 

Ok...bare with me. As a hauler driver for Front row Motorsports, at the time, I can recall SEVERAL times we sold our ride. One of particular note ended up with THREE drivers changing seats, and two cars rewrapped to make everybody happy. It was Talladega. Somebody else can research and figure what year it was. I dragged Her mie Saddler's Car into the track. Frontrow #34? After Q, Bobby Hamilton Jr.(32) was shopping for a car To keep the Tide Sponsorship alive. When the dust settled, Our car was wrapped as the Arrons Dream Machine with Mike Skinner driving...Bobby ended up in Mike's car, wrapped as the Tide Ride(because Bobby had to honor a contract with Cheverolet) and Hermie got to watch the race in the motorhome. I departed the track In my Frontrow Hauler With the Original Tide Ride in the wagon. Did this a couple times with Bobby. Maybe a couple times for Robby Gordon, as well.

No one Nas rush fueled: BIG MONEY

Paul Menard was better than just buying a ride but he was what would be in baseball terms a quad A player

What about the time when Joe Nemechek DNQ’d for the 1997 Daytona 500? He bought Phil Barkdoll’s #73 and Joe’s sponsor (Bellsouth) came along for the 39th annual Great American Race. He was part of the big one during the closing laps of the 1997 Daytona 500. So yeah, Joe Nemechek (a Sabco driver) bought a ride to race in the 1997 Daytona 500

In the 1989 Daytona 500, Kyle Petty jumped into Eddie and Don Bierschwale's car after 3 laps to drive in Eddie's place but Eddie still got the finishing money, that was an intriguing one as Kyle raced for virtually nothing. But he didn't mind, he just wanted to race and get Peak Antifreeze in the race. He did get the Bierschwales a top 10 in the 500 though so it was a good day. In the 1992 Daytona 500, A.J. Foyt bought out the Oldsmobile that the Bierschwales owned after he crashed his primary in practice and put 14 and Copenhagen colors on the side and finished 22nd with it. Those are a couple of interesting ones.

Richard Petty in a green 6 car?! *WUT?!*

They actually made a diecast of that #6 Petty, and I got one

What's even crazier about DW 2000's season is that Jimmy Spencer, DW's teammate, was somewhat competitive in the same equipment.

Underrated Opinion: MWR in the Dodge is the ugliest thing I’ve ever seen😷

When a team can't function on its own so they just buy there way out of it

12:52 SIR PLEASE CLOSE SOME TABS

I wouldn't really count Darrell's as a buy a ride. Carl Long voluntarily gave up the car so Darrell could drive in his final 600.

12:20 very kind to Jeff green to say he’s been riding around for only “a couple of years” it’s almost been a couple decades now lol

Interesting video! Never saw the STP #6, just before my time I guess. I've seen most of the others but think there are enough more of these stories for a part 2?

In the 1996 spring Atlanta race, Roush tried buying David Blair's #27 car since Jeff Burton's new #99 team had DNQed without previous year's owners points, and the current year's owner's points hadn't kicked in, yet. Blair's team refused to sell, but went part-time later that season and over the next season since they didn't have a full-time sponsor. I wonder if they had sold that spot if they would have caught a foothold and hung around in the sport longer.

Another video could be “shocking DNQ’s where they didn’t buy a ride”, which could include Roush’s disastrous fall off a cliff in 2014-15, including having Trevor Bayne and Ricky Stenhouse each DNQ in 2014.

Waltrip’s 2006 ride was not owned and fielded by Bawel (Jasper Engines), it was a Bill Davis Racing ride, Waltrip’s 55 was teammates with Dave Blaney in the 22. The new 55 ride had no points, so they bought Penske’s 77 points from the year before, which were officially still owned by Bawel despite his teams closure in 2003, as Jasper provided engine services for Penske. However Bawel was a paper owner with this operation, “Waltrip-Jasper Racing” was not a team it was basically just the points arrangement. The ride had nothing to do with Penske or Jasper (who continued as a partner with Penske even during the Waltrip venture), and was purely a Bill Davis Racing effort, like Blaney’s it had no Dodge support or logos as Davis was running Toyotas in trucks and both he and Waltrip were getting ready to field Toyotas in Cup the following year. Waltrip actually did this exact same arrangement at his own team the following year, when he bought Cal Wells’ PPI points (the 32 Tide Ride), and listed Wells as the owner for David Reutimann the entire 2007 season, with a similar “Waltrip-PPI Racing” title applied like with the Bawel deal.

That 6 car that petty drove looked so ugly

Jesse Iwuji's truck crash is still funny. It's like fucking lift my dude 😂

Ron Fellows at Watkins Glen in the 2000 CTS race. Brake pedal broke on his #87 truck during qualifying, so NEMCO bought out the Conley Racing #7 truck starting in the back, and he still drove the thing to a 3rd place finish. Impressive since he hadn’t taken a lap in the truck before the race.

The D.K. Ulrich STP race car is in a diecast in the NASCAR Classics Line. I actually own one. The only ride-buy that is in diecast form I think.

Richard Petty Darrell and Michael Waltrip Michael Annett Jesse Iwuji Justin Johnson Ross Chastain

When I first saw Kyle Busch in the #75, the only thought I had was: "Da fuq"

Maybe it was menard money but something has to be said for his ability to keep the car on the track He almost always finishes the race

Oh so that's what Chick Hicks from the Pixar Cars movie is based from, so basically two of Lightning Mcqueen's rivals are basically just cartoon manifestations of both Richard Petty's good and bad legacy, on The King's side its literally just Richard Petty and on Chick's side he's a money grubbing social climber (The Number 6 car).

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Donald Keith Ulrich, pronounced Ulrick Doug Bawel pronounced Bowl Ironically both Ulrich and Bawel would merge there respective teams together along with Ray and Ann DeWitt to for RaDiUs Racing with was eventually sold to Roger Penske and became the 77 Kodak car for Brendan Gaughan.

It's kinda sad that Michael Waltrip never won while Darrell was racing but he won the very next race after he retired

Idk if he bought the ride but Dale Jr. Drove Bobby Hamilton's 43 Ford re numbered to 3 for a race when his car broke... It was a late modle race if I remember

I disagree with the Jeff Green comment. The 10 has sponsorship for all 33 races. The 38 doesnt. Jeff Green's only chance to run full races is with sponsorship. And the sponsorship that Jeff has is for the plate races. And Kaulig had to ruin Jeff's chance to compete at Daytona cause they didnt build their car right like they should.

Curious, at 4:43 there you see on The list The current spotter for Kevin Harvick: Tim Fedewa.

How about the teams that, for lack of a better way of putting it, "bought" their way into the Daytona 500 in the days of the Top 35 Rule by somehow obtaining enough owners' points in the offseason?

I don’t think I heard how Richard Petty was doing in the race BEFORE dropping out with engine issues. Anyone know where he was running prior to leaving the race?

Almost everyone is buying rides. Are you kidding? Active Drivers paying for ride: Quinn Houff, Austin Dillon (family) Ty Dillon, Brennan Poole, Gray Gaulding, Josh Bilicki, Corey LaJoie, John Hunter Nemechek, Cole Custer (family) Joey Gase, Garrett Smithley, Bayley Curry, Daniel Suarez, Justin Hayley (family) Chad Finchum, Brendan Gaughan, Mike Wallace, Michael Annett, Jesse Little, Matt Mills, Ray Black Jr, Joe Graf Jr, Daniel Hemric (took investor money to buy ride) Noah Gragson, Robby Lyons, Colby Howard, Riley Herbst, Brandon Jones, Harrison Burton, Myatt Snider, Kaz Grala, Anthony Alfredo, Austin Cindric (family) Austin Hill, Vinnie Miller, Josh Williams, Mason Massey, Stefan Parsons, Angela Ruch, Tate Fogelman, Sheldon Creed, Raphael Lessard, Chistian Eckes, Derek Kraus, Zane Smith, Tyler Ankrum, Todd Gilliland, Ryan Truex, Natalie Decker, Ben Rhodes.... I DID NOT INCLUDE OWNER/DRIVERS or FAMILY TEAMS. ALL THESE DRIVERS ARE CUTTING A CHECK TO BE IN THEIR CARS. Get Real. NASCAR is pay to play.

During the ‘00 Coke 600, didn’t DW eventually get out of the car and Carl Long took over?

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Reed Sorenson 2005 Atlanta Sterling Marlin gave up his 40 car so Sorenson could race

Tim George Jr and Brennan Newberry are notable?

Did the #34 Truck not know how to break? Or was it a break failure. It looked pretty horrendous.

....was that not Alex Kennedy in the 33?

The same with Cole Custer

Ohhhh

Why are the first 3 or 4 happen at Charlotte speedway

The number change crap was confusing and a bit stupid

welp

The Most Intriguing Buy-A-Ride Moments in NASCAR History

I think you could have put more ads in the video.

5 mid roll ads? No thanks

Micheal Waltrip was a failure

Paul Menard was not the good

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