The Worst Way To Lose 

The worst way to lose is when you are winning by 100 points and your teacher says whoever scores the next point wins.

Man got so upset about Truex's loss that he made an entire video about NASCAR losses as a therapy of sorts. That's dedication!

The chart you have made undoubtedly promotes you officially to "NASCAR Jon Bois"

Kasey Kahne’s entire rookie season could’ve been on this list

"I don't know what Kyle did to piss off the racing gods." Historically, he did a lot.

if you want to win, here’s a list of things you should stay clear: - greg biffle’s left rear quarter panel - grille tape - chase elliott’s bumper - homestead turn 2 wall

The true saddest loss in nascar history was Boris Said at Watkins Glen in the late 2000s. Was by far THE fastest in practice in that race, but qualifying got rained out meaning that they had to resort to owners points to decide the field. Said was bellow the cutoff and missed the race completely. This would’ve likely been the greatest shot to win a nascar race….

“I don’t know what Kyle Busch did to piss off the racing gods but they just wouldn’t let him prevail!” When you spin out Dale Jr. in 2008, the gods won’t show mercy.

One worth mentioning that was not featured in the video: Denny Hamlin 2008 Richmond. He led 381 of the race's 410 laps, but he had a tire go down late. It got overshadowed by Kyle Busch turning Dale Jr. racing for the win shortly thereafter.

Can't believe there wasn't any mention of Denny Hamlin's outrageous sell at the 2008 Richmond race. He led 381 of 410 laps (92.9% of the entire race btw) but it all was thrown away when he blew a tire and got a pit pen on top of it. And then Kyle Busch spun Dale Jr 17 laps later and nobody remembers what happened to DH

One that I think deserves a mention is the 2008 spring race at Richmond. Denny Hamlin led 380 of the 400 laps

This is why Elly Productions is the next up and coming NASCAR RU-vid Creator! He is soooo talented

It’s absolutely mind blowing that Mark Martin won 5 races at the age of 50 in 2010. I understand that the Michigan win was a fuel mileage win, but A) a win is a win. B) 5 races is a career defining year for most guys, but for Mark it was one last hurrah. To see that he had that much left in the tank at 50 and called it quits while he was ahead is astounding. Other than winning a championship, arguably the best way to end your career.

I mean.... the race that brought NASCAR to the forefront: The 1979 Daytona 500 - Pole Setter was gone a few laps in via pit crew stupidity, and winning the 500 was the only piece missing to him dominating the whole weekend of events. - The 2 leaders crash each other out, leading to THE FIGHT - The King, who wasn't even really expected to do anything that day, wins.

This is a perfectly timed upload, as I am on the bus ride home from a varsity baseball game where the other team walked it off on a throwing error by my team lol

2023 Texas for Bubba and 2018 roval for Jimmie Johnson haunts me.

Babe wake up, new EllyProductions video just dropped

Daniel Hemric selling his entire soul to the Nascar devils to get his only win at the championship finale is a top 10 all time Nascar story and you can’t tell me otherwise. Esp since the playoffs robbed him of a ring in 2018

@14:30. Jeff Gordon took 2 tires and jimmie took 4 on the final pitstop

I felt a shader in my heart when you showed Sheldon creed😭😭😭😭 he’s my xfinity driver

While not in the video's format, I think the most painful loss in recent memory was Dale Jr at Talladega in 2015. If Harvick doesn't wreck the field and he manages to outrun Logano in the best car of the day, he makes it to Round 8 and gets that rain shortened win at Phoenix to make his only Championship 4 appearance At the same time I do think Truex barely making the Final 4 was important in his redemption story and if not for that I have to wonder if Furniture Row would get on that tear from 2016-2018

My favorite example of this was the 2021 ARCA season finale. Ty Gibbs led the first 98 laps of 100 and by lap 50 just 3 cars were on the lead lap. A caution with 7 to go set up a restart where Nick Sanchez took the lead to get his first ever win. (Also most boring race I’ve ever watched, I was there and enjoyed watching the haulers show up for the cup race more than watching the actual race).

I have a VCR recording of the 2008 Bristol race, and I'm so glad it made it onto the thumbnail. I've been a fan of Nascar for over a decade, and I still don't like Kyle Busch.

I didn't even remember Harvick in 2017, though that Richmond finish from a week ago is still fresh in my mind. Truex is my grandmother's favorite driver, and after spending the afternoon together, the 2 of them would watch the race from their hotel that evening; she and I texting back and forth about the race. Needless to say, she wasn't happy with how it ended, and neither was I, as the finish happened about 3 hours after I officially turned 20 years old. Great day; hate it had to end like that.

2004 Kasey kahne fan here That charlotte fall race still hurts

15:06 Montoya sighting

Storybook Seasons: 1992 🙌🏼 Cant wait!

Last year in trucks, Nick Sanchez led 168 laps in a race that had 167 scheduled laps, but finished 16th

How did all four Boston sports teams get in the intro in a NASCAR video?

I really did not expect to hear Amazing Digital Circus in a video about NASCAR 🤣

I know it's not quite to the same level as the examples in the video, but the 2009 Brickyard 400 still breaks my heart to this day.

I'm sorry... did you just say Truex and Wallace were your favorite "drivers"? Good lord man. Best of luck with that emotional roller-coaster!

EmpLemon got the algorithm working overtime on NASCAR suggestions

Dude, honestly, until recently the only thing I knew about nascar I learned from Cars and some EmpLemon videos... I love your content and I'm learning a lot... keep up the good work

Penguins tried their hardest to choke exactly like that clip as you uploaded this video

Surprised denny hamlins 381 out of 410 laps at richmond 2008 where he came 24th wasnt mentioned on this list

The storytelling in this video is off the charts! Love it

Never thought I'd hear the Digital Circus music in a NASCAR video but here we are

f-zero bgm!!! At first I wasn't sure I have heard it wrong or not ;P Great video as usual, keep it up with the contents ;)

loving your graphics package. It's very professional and pleasant looking

I recall people calling the penalty that Harvick got in the 2017 Atlanta race a load of garbage. NASCAR was saying that he had exceeded the speed limit by a hundreth of a mile per hour (0.01 mph), or something like that. One thing worth noting was this was the first year NASCAR had introduced those fancy screens in the cockpit that replaced the tried-and-true tacometer that had been a staple for decades. I recall drivers complained it was difficult to see the screen in some cases, which probably explains why so many drivers got busted for speeding in the first place.

The payback Kyle Busch got for giving up all those race wins was winning that championship where he was on the bench for almost half the season...

You put Patrice Bergeron's last game in there and I'm crying already 😭

Only watching your videos every now and then as Im not that much of a NASCAR guy, but goddayum your music choice is glorious! The f-zero GX ost came unexpected. Hope you keep it up!

When I was in 11th grade one of the most attractive girls in our school asked me out to our Christmas dance and I thought because she was so attractive it was some kind of joke and she was just going to mess with me but a few days later I found out she had a crush on me. I still think that of that before I go to sleep at night almost 14 years later.😐

Leaving off the spring 2008 Richmond race seems almost sacrilege lol. Hamlin led 381 of (planned) 400 laps when he had a flat and spun with about 8 to go. Subsequent cautions brought the race to 410 laps. Granted that Hamlin domination is always overshadowed by the whole Kyle Busch vs Earnhardt Jr deal lol

This is your version of EmpLemon's "Art of the Choke"

Great video aside, yo transitions are on point my brother, keep it up

You really know how to put together videos well Elly, awesome work.

That Creed Bit Tore my soul up. Don’t do my boy like that

As a Dale fan, that 1995 Sonoma race was a ton of fun. Mark may have lead almost the whole thing, but Dale was running second right behind him for almost all of those laps. I still have the race on a VHS somewhere, Dale's only road course win.

You including the 2019 Bristol Night race in this video is a targeted psyop on me 😭😭

The PHX race with bowman, I was there taking my dad to his first ever nascar race( he's a JR fan) so naturally we were rooting for Bowman as his subsitute. I couldn't tell you how disappointed we were after that one.

Your videos are top notch man. Love it!

FOR F1 AN example is the 2011 candaian gp where vettel led most of the laps and in the last lap he choked and button took the win form him

love the usage of the avs comeback against the penguins, great stuff as always

harvicks 2023 season was the best example of the worst ways to lose

What are the Streets of Rage 2 remixes you're using? Elite soundtrack and elite video my man

"the vengence of matt kenseth", that line had me laughing so hard i nearly passed out

“The agony of defeat, however, poignant only serves to compliment the euphoria of victory.” A saying so good it should be on a T-shirt. Great new saying.

Bro you really had to show my Penguins blowing a 4-0 lead

Ah, a new EllyProductions video. One about Cousin Carl at that edit the thumbnail had me thinking that, still great video

This is such a high quality video. I walked in and said, Wow, this is such a high quality video. Thanks for making lunch enjoyable ahaha!

hearing F-Zero GX music in this made me very happy.

Gordon lost the 2010 Shelby 427 because he took 2 tires on the last caution and Johnson had 4. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was heartbreaking

This is incredibly well made content, thanks!

Honey!! Get up another Ellyproduction vid is out!!! 🎉

Elly uploads are always the highlight of my week

A good video on sports chokes is EMPLemon's "Art of the Choke", it's such a good video

I was at both of those Atlanta races in 2021, as a Larson fan. Pain. And sitting next to my Mom, a Blaney fan... she still hasn't let it go, brings it up regularly lol I'm convinced that I'm cursed to never see "my driver" win in person. I've been attending races for 25ish years and it hasn't happened once, regardless of who my driver at the time is. Larson has been a few of my best shots, but between these, the inaugural Roval, a few at Darlington and Bristol where he's had a strong shot at winning but thrown it away one way or another... the curse has to be real, right? Hoping it'll be broken in Indy in May, that'd be epic af and I'd accept that as the only time I ever see my driver win in person lol

You’re an actual treasure to RU-vid and to all of motorsports.

Editing was amazing, just needed to say that

Saying Robby Gordon had nothing to gain by wrecking Jeff Gordon when that's literally the only reason he has an oval win in Cup...

Awesome vid keep it man

I swear I'm hearing the F-Zero GX soundtrack. Classy music choice.

Pretty sure Denny Hamlin also led 381 of the 400 laps at Richmond in 2008. That was overshadowed by Kyle Busch wrecking Dale Jr in the final laps though.

Brian Scott at Richmond 2013 comes into mind as well

I know this video is only the Cup Series, but you gotta give Nick Sanchez a shoutout for clearing Waltrip’s record and leading all but maybe 2 or 3 laps at Texas last year and STILL LOSING in the truck series

Stages changed a lot for race winners i would say adding at least 3 cautions garenteed to pack everyone together at the mid point in the race

This video felt more like an emplemon video than an elly productions video tbh…

This channel is a certified hood classic

In indycar it’s also happened 😂 Scott Dixon led so many laps in the 2022 Indy 500 and on the last cycle of pit stops he sped on pit road and was forced to do a drive through, giving up a for sure win for him

If last week's race inspired this video, I'm glad something this good actually came from it.

Part of the difference between then and now is the points. There are no points for leading a lap or the most laps now. The only times it matters is either the last lap of the stage or race now. Before the weird chase format, you got points for leading at least one lap and points for leading the most laps.

racing fans need to face the fact that drivers deserve the race-winning trophy as long as you finish P1 and also pass post-race inspection! Winning is Winning!

idk how 2008 Richmond wasn't on here. Denny nearly led the whole race before he blew a tire

Robby Gordon story is missing a bit. That was Mike Skinners car who got hurt. Robby Started off in the #4 Kodak car but was so ass he got fired (btw Robby is one of my favorite nascar drivers from that era). Robby was brought in as a replacement (a seat he wouldn't give up at RCR) and won the season finale in a massive upset.

I’m surprised Hamlin 2008 Richmond race wasent one here

That 1995 Sonoma race would be the only time in his career that Dale Sr. won a road course race in the Cup series

The Creed slander is warranted lmao

There is no way he said that Bubba Wallace is one of his favorite drivers!

Was that the Amazing Digital Circus theme I heard?

Watched that race in Richmond Denny came from seemingly from no where to the top ten abt half way though and wasn't gone long if he fell out

The creed chokemaxxing continues even up to last night’s martinsville race

Don't think we didn't see that teaser for an upcoming video!

posts this the same day creed blows another win

Watching in-person and seeing truex lose after dominating 2 years in a row actually stings worse than seeing him lose on tv

Truex seems like the most likely to have some cheated up tires. There were rumors of some sort of pin-holes to allow air pressure to escape and give him an advantage over a long run. Truex was the “stage dominator” who often led huge portions of races only to have his car drop off at the end. It’s interesting how the car performed so well until the end of the race. Obviously if you win the race, that cars will be inspected, so if you had cheated up tires, you’d be caught. But if you used them all race long and then put normal ones on at the last stop, you’d get away with it but you’d lose your advantage. You’d probably “dominate the stages” though. Add to that how often Martin would win and do a burnout long enough to completely destroy the back tires. This dude has done burnouts that get absolutely boring but it’s like he insisted on killing those tires. I really like MTJ and maybe he wasn’t doing it, but there’s definitely some smoke there. Obviously, it’s only illegal if you get caught.

Tekken music last time, Sagat's theme this time. When we getting fighting game content from you bruv?

I was at the 2009 Texas Race, the only NASCAR race I’ve ever attended in person.