What If NASCAR Had the Playoffs In 2004? 

Lol

Aggressive Goes Around!!!!!!

He wouldn’t have been the only to pop a blood vessel!! Steve Letarte, Dale Jarrett, Jr., they all would have died. 😂

COMING OUT OF TURN NUMBER 4

And there they go THREE WIDE FOR THE CHAMPIONS- (Passes Out) Dale Jr: Wow haha

With 9 top fives and 23 top tens, Jamie McMurray would have tied with Mark Martin for sixth in the Winston Cup format.

couldn't agree more

Agree

And my boy newman got bad luck even in the fake realm

Aidan Murray it really started to “regress” when the gen 6 car was a thing and even when the COT. Was introduced.

@@kohl3726 agreed

2012 was good too

@@jordanrobson3166 yep, nobody is pleased anymore, my guy. If I were to tell those people who bitch about NASCAR being "boring" because everything was fair and non-gimmickal, I would say "if you find NASCAR boring, just don't watch it. But do not let NASCAR change what it's not. We do not want NASCAR as a stick and ball sport or WWE. Let racing be racing. If you don't like it, don't watch." I am hoping NASCAR will be a racing sport like it's suppose to be and not all that WWE and ball sport crap.

@@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT The fan of the Champion is.

It would be popular

@@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT that's it. People complained Kenseth won with just 1 win. The logical solution would be to increase the points gap between first and second like F1 did back in 2010. Bun no. Nascar went for the Chase, and ratings and attendance show it wasn't the way to go

@@Ofitus21 NASCAR should've kept their standings and everything original. Brian France kept turning it into a ball sport. As for the fans, be careful what you wish for, or else you won't be pleased :/

Chasefan#9 he didn't put in the time or effort needed

Indeed he could have in 2004. But that mistake at Atlanta killed it for him.

Looking back now, you're right

@@ChaseFanNo.9 He never combined luck with skill.

Marten Spitzner Even if he finished top 5 at Atlanta, he wasn’t in the picture in the last race at all like Johnson and Gordon was.

*Cough* 2011

Side note, that fantasy title fight at Homestead felt real. Excitement then heartbreak all over again.

@@rustywalrus That's the very essence of sports.

He cursed on NBC. Completely different. Still sucked that he got penalized.

Denny Hamlin did it on cable. Junior did it on network TV. That's actually a huge difference believe it or not.

Dale Jr did it on network TV and Denny did it on cable TV. Big difference. Also, Dale Jr’s deal that was less than a year after the Janet Jackson accident at the super bowl so all TV networks were pretty strict on what was said or seen on TV

@@CH-bo5jw Yes, that was the biggest issue. After Nipplegate, everyone was pretty over the top in their reaction.

Or do those Banzai moves like he did in 2011.

Yep

@@despacitosuarez Like he needs an excuse to dump anybody.

The way it finished would've been amazing though.

Lmfaooo

@@potato-ee4qx True in all aspects.

The more you know

Maybe, although I do like the current format better then the chase

NRF shut up, you’re not a expert as much as you would like to think of yourself as one.

RC RACER 88 no

I'll give Jenny's to Jeff any day of the week edited:autocorrect did that and I left it

New episode will be next week, August 7th

I definitely will be, the 2005 edition will be out in the next week or 2.

The problem with that is...the schedule wasn't 36 races for most of those years.

Why would that be a problem? Just start the playoffs with ten to go. Doesn't matter if it starts on race 20 or race 27. A bigger problem would be working out stage points in the pre-ticker era. But 98-03 should still be doable.

Sterling Marlin would be the champion in 2001. Which wouldn't sit well with Dale Earnhardt fans who hated on Marlin for his role in Dale Earnhardt's fatal crash.

Assuming he doesn’t lose any due to the playoff format of course

Literally the most historically stacked final

I guess if you are talking popularity wise. Skill wise no.

@@emperorburton tf you mean. At the time, those 4 were the best wheel men. Johnson wasnt quite at the level of the other 3, but he still would have won the Chip.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zEn4S15Mkf0.html Fair warning I did this video almost 3 years ago so it’s not one of my best but here is the video.

well ya gotta do well ALL YEAR to be able to make it to that last race.....so it aint like its just the last race counts........

Why?

@@diychad7268 The major problem is you can do a good job overall, but with a 3 straight races going bad you get out of champioship. Which it was what happened with Kurt Busch. It is not fair, motorsport you can have some problems any race, like, for example, Hamilton race today on F1.

no because he wouldnt have won some of the champoinships he did under this format

Kyle Busch would be leading the points by a lot. Logano has more stage points and less laps led so Kyle would have the lead.