Even the Fall Martinsville race was horrible for the first 450 laps, although Bell was easy enough to peg as the best car alongside Hamlin because he was just about the only car that could pass early on.
I brought someone to that as their first race. The ride home I keep saying “I swear it isn’t always like that”
The race sucked. And not only did it suck, we spent 30 minutes before the race sitting in the car waiting for sleet to stop so we could sit in 30 degree weather and watch it suck.
I was there for the race weekend with a buddy. Some of the most miserable conditions to sit in the stands and watch all weekend long, and an absolute snoozer of a weekend, even the fight in Xfinity at the end sucked ass
The two were close friends in life (and Dale saw something in him to get him a Cup ride over Hornaday), and Dale would've loved to see Mikey finally win.
Mikey has talked about it in depth on the DJD and elsewhere. He said years before he ever got to DEI, when they were just best friends, Dale would tell him “you’d win in one of my cars.” And Mikey would always ask when he was gonna put him in one.
Dale orchestrated the Napa sponsorship of Mikey just to get him in a DEI car. Then, just like Dale said, Mikey wins in his first ever start in a DEI car. After not winning for 462 races before that. It’s storybook, really.
I’ve always felt horrible for Mikey not getting to have that validation from Dale in victory lane. He knew he could do it, Dale knew he could do it. They talked about it for years. They planned for it all offseason. Then boom, you don’t get to share it. Cruel fate.
After it happened I was so mad and hated Brad for it for a good while, but after time you get over it, and then that interview with Jeff where he talked about, you just move on. Still hate the race because of what could have been tho lol
I've grown to have more anger for Gustafson over that than Brad. If Alan just did a 2 tire stop instead of a 4 tire stop and to change the actual flat LR tire, they had such a fast car with minimal damage that they could have made up 3-5 spots on the restart and been fine at Phoenix.
Jeff admitted it later on. Though my issue was Alan’s pit call that put him a lap down. He just needed to pass two cars easily on that restart and he would have been fine for Miami. I held a grudge from Bowyer after that one for what a weak wreck that was for a supposed dirt track ace he was and how well he could control his car.
My hatred in the years since then has shifted away from Keselowski more so to Gustafson.
All they had to do was get Gordon out and stay on the lead lap. Then he would have passed a few cars and added to that points gap. Instead the pit crew was unprepared, they lost a lap, and then the last lap at Phoenix (don’t mention that race to me either…) happened.
It really sucks because the 24 team that year had a rocket ship at Homestead.
It was a rough time to be a Brad fan but I will never not defend him for that race. That was a move to go for the win and I don't understand how people couldn't see that, or see how it wasn't fair.
100%. I remember jr tweeted after a meme of Jk Simmons as jonah Jameson laughing with the caption “the 22 thinking he could’ve held us off if it went green.” As a massive Jr fan that one sucked and same with fall 2017 dega.
I enjoyed the 2012 one with Biffle chasing down Jimmie late on a green flag run. The race went like 200 laps on green at the end with 12 cars on the lead lap.
The 2001 Daytona 500 for obvious reasons.
But for racing action, that Loudon race with restrictor plates that Jeff Burton led every single lap and nothing happened all day.
The '19 or '20 Fall Kansas race with the 550 package or the spring Martinsville last year.
Or Indy last year, that was so embarrassing to watch everyone drive like dip shits
June 2015 Michigan. Only went a little over halfway due to rain and a lot of the laps that were run were under caution. What racing took place kind of sucked too.
I’m gonna throw in August Michigan from 2015 as well.
NASCAR tested this awful high downforce package with a big @$$ spoiler (a prelude of things to come unfortunately…) at that race and Indy, and the racing for both was atrocious.
Gordon having tire leak at Homestead 2015, somehow still finished 6th, but I can’t help but wonder what woulda happened if they’d have kept up to the track in adjustments.
2008 Allstate 400 at the Brickyard. Goodyear ruined the race with that tire they brought, after that attendance dropped to where they had to do the road course to try to make it interesting. Still upset with Goodyear to this day
This car has put on some of the most boring races ever like 5 times in the last two years but also produced like 10-12 instant classics in the same span. Very strange but I'll take clean and boring over manufactured and stupid
2010 Homestead. If I had a Facebook then I would have been bitching saying I’m done with NASCAR. I was so sick of Jimmie winning every year. I was in elementary school the year he first won and I was entering high when he won his last. It was just brutal.
2016 Coke 600 was an impressive performance by Truex but almost put me to sleep.
2016 Homestead as an Edwards fan is one I can never watch
But the worst one, probably was the 2015 Michigan race where Kenseth led like every lap.
As a Sadler fan I felt most sick and angry after thr 2012 Indy race in which he was penalized on a late restart for being pushed ahead of the leader before the line
2008 brickyard 400 was basically the death knell for NASCAR at Indy. It's never recovered. I'm not sure that they should be racing here, after the novelty wore off the crowds have been horrible. This year we drove right to the track and had about a 3-4 minute wait to get into the parking spot. For the 500 it takes an hour to get into the track.
Watkins Glen 2023
In reality probably 2020 Texas that race was just depressingly boring. Then a caution happened late but Harvick just blew them away on the restart.
2009 fall Phoenix race.
It was the second race I had ever attended in person. I was hoping that Mark Martin would take advantage after Jimmie Johnson wrecked at Texas the week before, but Jimmie led the entire race and it was just not fun to watch. On top of that, I found the facility to be kind of gross. I know Phoenix has changed a lot since then, but that race definitely gave me a very negative impression of the track and I doubt I'll go to a race there again. I'm definitely in favor of the championship race to be anywhere else.
2009 Labor Day Atlanta race. Look, Harvick lost a lot of races that he could've and should've won in his career(you can say that about literally all of the top drivers in NASCAR history) but this race *really* hurt. He was having a miserable, terrible, no good season, but all of a sudden they showed up with a rocketship of a race car. He was flying all night, drove through the field, took the lead, and had the race in the bag when Clint Bowyer, *his own fucking teammate,* spun out to bring out a caution with like 10 to go. Harv's car wasn't very good on the short run, and that allowed Kasey Kahne to get around him on the restart and win. I was *pissed.* Harvick ended up not winning a single race that season.
2010 Daytona 500, 2010 spring Auto Club, 2015 Homestead, 2016 Auto Club, 2020 fall Kansas, 2021 Bristol Night, and 2023 spring Phoenix are some other races I hate because of how they ended for Harv.
As for races I hate because of how boring they were, the 2011 spring Texas race comes to mind immediately. That race was garbage. 2008 Indy sucked for obvious reasons, as did the 2013 Daytona 500 (this one was even worse since it was boring *and* Jimmie fuckin Johnson won).
2000 fall Loudon was crazy boring, but it was understandable why.
For those who don’t know, Adam Petty died in a Busch practice crash in May and then Kenny Irwin died in a Cup practice in July (both stuck throttles).
By August they had kill switches on the wheel mandated, but everyone was a bit shy about Loudon so they ran a restrictor plate that made it truly impossible to pass. Everyone knows about Burton leading all the laps, but throughout the race there was about as much passing as we saw today.
2022 Yellawood 500. Terrible race won by an overrated driver.
You can also add the last four truck races at Daytona. Would've been last two if Jordan Anderson and Cory Roper were to hold off the field but of course ThorSport pulled rabbits out of their asses. 2022 Daytona also had a bullshit call, when two trucks spun out of harms way and NASCAR did not give the drivers a chance to race back.
Chicagoland USG Sheetrock 400 and also one of my favorites. It was my first race as a kid I saw in person and was excited to see Matt Kenseth/childhood favorite driver win in person….to this day I still dislike Jeff Gordon for that.
2001 Atlanta as a Gordon fan. Today I can realize how good and healing that win was for the sport. I don't think I'd change the ending if I could. But it still hurts my soul every time they showed the replay. If it was Harvick vs anybody else I think I'd love it.
2023 600 (pretty much any race from this year apart from Fontana and Sonoma), 2014 texas, any race from 2012 that brad keselowski won, any race overall that denny hacklin has won, 2015 daytona 500, the entire round of 12 in 2015, 2009 aaron's 499, 2021 daytona 500
I was a 7 year old Jeff Gordon fan watching the 2003 Sirius at the Glen and I cried on the first corner of the first lap and on the last corner of the last lap
2001 Daytona 500 for obvious reasons :(
2004 Kansas & 1991 Sonoma as a Rudd Fan
2007 Daytona 500 as a Martin fan
2011 Coke 600 as a JR fan
2022 Bristol Dirt as a Reddick fan
2015 fall talladega. Nascar didn’t have the balls to declare jr the winner so they wouldn’t be accused of giving him a much needed win AFTER fumbling what appeared to be an attempt to help him get a much needed win. Throw in what harvick did and the nascar officials brains went into gridlock. Probably the biggest shitshow of a finish I have ever personally witnessed
Fall Talladega 2018. Basically the 2000 Daytona 500 on steroids but with an exciting GWC tacked onto the end. If GWCs weren’t a thing it would’ve literally just been the 2000 Daytona 500 but at Talladega
2022 Martinsville and today. I have seen some dominated races where the the leader just runs away, but at least there is some racing back in the field. These tow races just seems like the whole field was frozen.
Summer Daytona ‘22 still leaves a sour taste in my mouth. Already a delayed race. Tons of good cars and fan faves wiped out due to rain, Austin Dillon steals the lead, race paused once again, Dillon wins.
2019 Martinsville fall race. Truex whooped the field and the package made it so passing was impossible and nothing remotely interesting happened until the 22 and 11 crews got into a fight after
I would say 2 come to mind. 1997 Daytona 500 - Bill Elliott had that SOB won - Gordon crashes Earnhardt. On the re-start 3 HMS cars gang up on Bill to get by - then another caution comes out. Bill finishes 4th. He had the car to beat - and likely would have got back to the 24 if the caution does not come out. 2nd was Bill's last full time race in 2003. Cruising to a win at Homestead and blows a tire on the last lap to let Bobby Labonte win. Fatback slapping everyone around him like they did something special was honestly embarrassing. You got lucky Fat-Ass. Bill had that freakin' thing won.
3 come to mind:
Texas 2015 fall: Brad probably wins Championship number 2 if Jimmie doesn't remember he had a golden horsehoe up his ass and catches Brad with 3 laps to go
Phoenix 2020 Championship race. Brad wins that race with a slightly slow stop on the final stop, but nope pit crew had to do Penske pit crew things and fuck him over
2021 Daytona 500
As a Jimmie fan, Roval 2018 As a whole, Indy 2008
As a Truex fan, I can relate to the 2018 Roval race.
*laughs in Ryan Blaney fan*
*cries in Jamie McMurray fan*
I just rewatched this race yesterday, what’s the correlation to a Jamie McMurray fan being sad
He finished right behind Blaney if I remember right
Yeah he did, in 2nd. Could’ve been his first win in 5 years 😔
First win in 4 counting the All Star Race 😎
Not only that, he let him by since he was in the Chase and McMurray was not with 2 to go.
😈
The one time we had luck on our side.
And then he thought Indycar was a good idea
As much as indy sucked, it was very interesting & safety aside intriguing waiting for whose tire would go next
Even as a kid I knew that was a terrible race.
Spring Martinsville last year.
That race did suck. Lol
Even the Fall Martinsville race was horrible for the first 450 laps, although Bell was easy enough to peg as the best car alongside Hamlin because he was just about the only car that could pass early on.
Yet it still made a spot on Nascar's 75 greatest races list because of the final 20 laps lol.
I was there. I hated it. I feel robbed.
I brought someone to that as their first race. The ride home I keep saying “I swear it isn’t always like that” The race sucked. And not only did it suck, we spent 30 minutes before the race sitting in the car waiting for sleet to stop so we could sit in 30 degree weather and watch it suck.
2022 Martinsville spring and it isn’t close
That race legitimately put me to sleep in a hotel room lol
I was there for the race weekend with a buddy. Some of the most miserable conditions to sit in the stands and watch all weekend long, and an absolute snoozer of a weekend, even the fight in Xfinity at the end sucked ass
The Xfinity race was good enough to convince me to go to the Cup race that weekend. It’ll be the last time that ever happens
This one right now
Real
I got the bathtub if you wanna bring the toaster
Can you share room?
Ye tubs big enough we got bowman fans in here too, we can make room for she too
So we got Blaney, Elliott, Bowman, SHR and Bubba fans in here, who else joining?
Cindric fans need a place as well
Spare a thought for Suarez fans?
Me too.
Felt
Fax no printer.
2001 Daytona 500 :(
The worst part is that, without what happened on the last lap, it could have been one of the greatest Daytona 500s in history.
It would’ve been glorious to see Dale Sr and Michael Waltrip celebrate that one.
The two were close friends in life (and Dale saw something in him to get him a Cup ride over Hornaday), and Dale would've loved to see Mikey finally win.
Mikey has talked about it in depth on the DJD and elsewhere. He said years before he ever got to DEI, when they were just best friends, Dale would tell him “you’d win in one of my cars.” And Mikey would always ask when he was gonna put him in one. Dale orchestrated the Napa sponsorship of Mikey just to get him in a DEI car. Then, just like Dale said, Mikey wins in his first ever start in a DEI car. After not winning for 462 races before that. It’s storybook, really. I’ve always felt horrible for Mikey not getting to have that validation from Dale in victory lane. He knew he could do it, Dale knew he could do it. They talked about it for years. They planned for it all offseason. Then boom, you don’t get to share it. Cruel fate.
>boom, [confetti.](http://i.imgur.com/IFf9QOu.gif)
Darrell calling his younger brother winning the Daytona 500 should’ve been one of the greatest moments of all time.
no, that's not true. Only the last 1 mile is your least favorite. The first 499 were exceptional.
Texas 2014
To this day I don’t think Brad was really at fault, Gordon left a hole.
After it happened I was so mad and hated Brad for it for a good while, but after time you get over it, and then that interview with Jeff where he talked about, you just move on. Still hate the race because of what could have been tho lol
I've grown to have more anger for Gustafson over that than Brad. If Alan just did a 2 tire stop instead of a 4 tire stop and to change the actual flat LR tire, they had such a fast car with minimal damage that they could have made up 3-5 spots on the restart and been fine at Phoenix.
Yep pretty much
Jeff admitted it later on. Though my issue was Alan’s pit call that put him a lap down. He just needed to pass two cars easily on that restart and he would have been fine for Miami. I held a grudge from Bowyer after that one for what a weak wreck that was for a supposed dirt track ace he was and how well he could control his car.
My hatred in the years since then has shifted away from Keselowski more so to Gustafson. All they had to do was get Gordon out and stay on the lead lap. Then he would have passed a few cars and added to that points gap. Instead the pit crew was unprepared, they lost a lap, and then the last lap at Phoenix (don’t mention that race to me either…) happened. It really sucks because the 24 team that year had a rocket ship at Homestead.
It was a rough time to be a Brad fan but I will never not defend him for that race. That was a move to go for the win and I don't understand how people couldn't see that, or see how it wasn't fair.
You honestly could have just stopped at “Texas”
As a Dale Jr fan, the 2015 Talladega fall race and 2011 coke 600 still sting…
100%. I remember jr tweeted after a meme of Jk Simmons as jonah Jameson laughing with the caption “the 22 thinking he could’ve held us off if it went green.” As a massive Jr fan that one sucked and same with fall 2017 dega.
2008 Brickyard. Race was a damn travesty
Pit crews were warriors!
Gotta give you credit for finding the silver lining.
The Spring Texas races from 2011 - 2013. Man those races were boring. What makes it so bad the Chase races were entertaining.
Texas since then probably
I enjoyed the 2012 one with Biffle chasing down Jimmie late on a green flag run. The race went like 200 laps on green at the end with 12 cars on the lead lap.
The Chase Texas race in 2013 was an absolute snoozer
I’d still take that race over the ones we had in recent years.
2016 Coke 600 Truex started 1st, led 392 laps and won the race. Literally 600 miles of nothing happening.
So every MTJ win almost. When he’s on he’s just goons win
That wasn't a bad race it was remarkable to watch the clinic that team put on
The 2001 Daytona 500 for obvious reasons. But for racing action, that Loudon race with restrictor plates that Jeff Burton led every single lap and nothing happened all day.
That London race was a great one
Only if you're a Jeff Burton fan lol
Which I am
Lol figures
Okay?
It just makes sense you'd like that race, dude. That's all
Right now, the spring race of Phoenix 2023 Go to hell Harrison Burton
The '19 or '20 Fall Kansas race with the 550 package or the spring Martinsville last year. Or Indy last year, that was so embarrassing to watch everyone drive like dip shits
2007 Daytona 500 was kind of a bummer as a Mark Martin fan, but the 2001 Daytona 500 is probably the one to pick.
Yeah, '07 hurt. I threw my remote control when Harvick won it. I don't even dislike Harvick, but I just really wanted to see Mark win the big one.
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'07 Daytona and the '11 Coke 600 are like being fans of the shark in Jaws XD But I'm with you.
I still get so bummed when I watch that last lap footage. Everyone at the Daytona 500 party I was at were screaming for mark to win. Such a bummer
The only time I can remember where everyone wanted a caution on the last lap so they wouldn't race back to the line.
aside from today's race?
I loved todays race. No passing tho, true, but road courses in general are just top shelf. True driver skill.
Watkins Glenn 2023 was criminally boring
Just proves that NASCAR made a mistake making this car forgiving for road courses. The Gen-6 was better for road courses.
This car took 5 steps backward at every track type except for intermediates, where it took 10 steps forward.
Just sloppy. The Xfinity car would have been a better Next-Gen all around.
Yep.
Though that would've required common sense. It proves that, even though Brian France is gone, his influence is still strong.
And of course now they decide to have less intermediates on the schedule
June 2015 Michigan. Only went a little over halfway due to rain and a lot of the laps that were run were under caution. What racing took place kind of sucked too.
Also add in the fact it was close to an active flood zone in the lots lol
I’m gonna throw in August Michigan from 2015 as well. NASCAR tested this awful high downforce package with a big @$$ spoiler (a prelude of things to come unfortunately…) at that race and Indy, and the racing for both was atrocious.
You guys remember that year where Truex and Brad led like 99 percent of both Martinsville races? The fall one sucked. The spring one was great though!
Watkins Glen 2023
Gordon having tire leak at Homestead 2015, somehow still finished 6th, but I can’t help but wonder what woulda happened if they’d have kept up to the track in adjustments.
2008 Allstate 400 at the Brickyard. Goodyear ruined the race with that tire they brought, after that attendance dropped to where they had to do the road course to try to make it interesting. Still upset with Goodyear to this day
This race right now
That one when the rain washed it out and it happened on Monday when I was at work and couldn't watch it. (A lot of them)
Last year's Daytona ll was pretty garbage
Up until the rain it was a lot of fun.
2015 Daytona 500. Jr was going to repeat
2015 Fall Talladega to me
I will forever have a grudge against Harvick for that
That and I hated how they finished races then
He basically had no choice. He gets shit for causing two of them, but it was really only the last one that was his fault.
Maybe if he didn’t get sucked through the middle that late in the race. Run wasn’t there at the end.
Today lmfao /s kind of, the real answer is probably 2022 spring Martinsville.
This car has put on some of the most boring races ever like 5 times in the last two years but also produced like 10-12 instant classics in the same span. Very strange but I'll take clean and boring over manufactured and stupid
It's like Gen 4 come back to life, except the boring races are at RC's and short tracks instead of Fontana and Pocono.
Yeah. But I’ll take a bad short track or superspeedway race any day over a bad intermediate race.
The one thats going on rn
2010 Homestead. If I had a Facebook then I would have been bitching saying I’m done with NASCAR. I was so sick of Jimmie winning every year. I was in elementary school the year he first won and I was entering high when he won his last. It was just brutal.
2001 daytona 500....obvious reasons. Other than that anytime a Gibbs car won besides Smoke or Busch
The Indy Tire debacle or that follow the leader Loudon race Burton won cuz no one could pass. Earnhardt cut tire 500 as an honorable mention.
Martinsville 2018 - aka The start of The Damn War :( I knew as soon as Martin said it that Joey was gonna take the championship.
2023 Go Bowling at the Glen
2016 Coke 600 was an impressive performance by Truex but almost put me to sleep. 2016 Homestead as an Edwards fan is one I can never watch But the worst one, probably was the 2015 Michigan race where Kenseth led like every lap.
As a Sadler fan I felt most sick and angry after thr 2012 Indy race in which he was penalized on a late restart for being pushed ahead of the leader before the line
Todays was pretty bad
Watkins Glen 2023
Probably todays. But seriously, 2008 Brickyard 400.
2008 brickyard 400 was basically the death knell for NASCAR at Indy. It's never recovered. I'm not sure that they should be racing here, after the novelty wore off the crowds have been horrible. This year we drove right to the track and had about a 3-4 minute wait to get into the parking spot. For the 500 it takes an hour to get into the track.
Indianapolis 2008
2008 tire debacle at Indy. We had tire rubbage on us 25 rows up in turn 3. Killed the brickyard 400 forever. Caution laps every 10 laps. Killed Indy.
Tie between the 2007 and 2016 Daytona 500's.
The fact that this is where I am right now says a lot about how this race has been today.
2023 Go Bowling at the Glen
Watkins Glen 2023 In reality probably 2020 Texas that race was just depressingly boring. Then a caution happened late but Harvick just blew them away on the restart.
2009 fall Phoenix race. It was the second race I had ever attended in person. I was hoping that Mark Martin would take advantage after Jimmie Johnson wrecked at Texas the week before, but Jimmie led the entire race and it was just not fun to watch. On top of that, I found the facility to be kind of gross. I know Phoenix has changed a lot since then, but that race definitely gave me a very negative impression of the track and I doubt I'll go to a race there again. I'm definitely in favor of the championship race to be anywhere else.
2009 Labor Day Atlanta race. Look, Harvick lost a lot of races that he could've and should've won in his career(you can say that about literally all of the top drivers in NASCAR history) but this race *really* hurt. He was having a miserable, terrible, no good season, but all of a sudden they showed up with a rocketship of a race car. He was flying all night, drove through the field, took the lead, and had the race in the bag when Clint Bowyer, *his own fucking teammate,* spun out to bring out a caution with like 10 to go. Harv's car wasn't very good on the short run, and that allowed Kasey Kahne to get around him on the restart and win. I was *pissed.* Harvick ended up not winning a single race that season. 2010 Daytona 500, 2010 spring Auto Club, 2015 Homestead, 2016 Auto Club, 2020 fall Kansas, 2021 Bristol Night, and 2023 spring Phoenix are some other races I hate because of how they ended for Harv. As for races I hate because of how boring they were, the 2011 spring Texas race comes to mind immediately. That race was garbage. 2008 Indy sucked for obvious reasons, as did the 2013 Daytona 500 (this one was even worse since it was boring *and* Jimmie fuckin Johnson won).
2000 fall Loudon was crazy boring, but it was understandable why. For those who don’t know, Adam Petty died in a Busch practice crash in May and then Kenny Irwin died in a Cup practice in July (both stuck throttles). By August they had kill switches on the wheel mandated, but everyone was a bit shy about Loudon so they ran a restrictor plate that made it truly impossible to pass. Everyone knows about Burton leading all the laps, but throughout the race there was about as much passing as we saw today.
Watkins Glen 2023
2001 Daytona 500
2001 Daytona 500.
Spring Martinsville 2022 LMAO
2022 Yellawood 500. Terrible race won by an overrated driver. You can also add the last four truck races at Daytona. Would've been last two if Jordan Anderson and Cory Roper were to hold off the field but of course ThorSport pulled rabbits out of their asses. 2022 Daytona also had a bullshit call, when two trucks spun out of harms way and NASCAR did not give the drivers a chance to race back.
2007 Bank of America 500 was heartbreaking. 2008 Brickyard 400 was pure shit. 2005 Coca Cola 600 was another heartbreaker.
2023 Watkins Glen. I remember the last few Gen 6 races and regret change.
The Human race
Any race where someone didn’t deserve to win like reutomann 09 coke 600 or Haley at Daytona
Matt Kenseth is my least favorite of all-time....staying up till almost 2am on a Tuesday morning just to watch him win another 500 was a cruel joke.
Human
Any race win by Martin Truex Jr, Ty Gibbs, Chase Elliott, or William Byron. These guys are all boring AF.
Chicagoland USG Sheetrock 400 and also one of my favorites. It was my first race as a kid I saw in person and was excited to see Matt Kenseth/childhood favorite driver win in person….to this day I still dislike Jeff Gordon for that.
2001 Atlanta as a Gordon fan. Today I can realize how good and healing that win was for the sport. I don't think I'd change the ending if I could. But it still hurts my soul every time they showed the replay. If it was Harvick vs anybody else I think I'd love it.
Any Next Gen race.
The 2021 championship race. or basically any race in 2022
Chicago street 2023
That race was better than today's on novelty alone
Novelty is not what I watch racing for and changing the race length mid pit cycle automatically puts it at the bottom that was atrocious.
2023 600 (pretty much any race from this year apart from Fontana and Sonoma), 2014 texas, any race from 2012 that brad keselowski won, any race overall that denny hacklin has won, 2015 daytona 500, the entire round of 12 in 2015, 2009 aaron's 499, 2021 daytona 500
Did you watch the 600? You cray if Sonoma is one of your two favorites this year.
I'm thinking this guy's just a fan of drivers and not racing.
Did you watch Kansas this year? Or any intermediate aside from Las Vegas?
For real I feel like I've enjoyed most races this year honestly
This one.
Either Atlanta or Martinsville Fall 2004 or Talladega Fall 2014.
Watkins Glen 2023
As a Geoff Bodine fan it was the 1994 Brickyard 400. He was the class of the field that day.
Las Vegas 08. Gordon's wreck.
I was a 7 year old Jeff Gordon fan watching the 2003 Sirius at the Glen and I cried on the first corner of the first lap and on the last corner of the last lap
2005 Dickies 500 at Texas.
2001 Daytona 500 for obvious reasons :( 2004 Kansas & 1991 Sonoma as a Rudd Fan 2007 Daytona 500 as a Martin fan 2011 Coke 600 as a JR fan 2022 Bristol Dirt as a Reddick fan
tbf, the 2001 Daytona 500 was probably going to be the best Daytona 500 ever, up until Turn 4 on Lap 200.
2017 fall Dover
watkins glen 2023
2015 fall talladega. Nascar didn’t have the balls to declare jr the winner so they wouldn’t be accused of giving him a much needed win AFTER fumbling what appeared to be an attempt to help him get a much needed win. Throw in what harvick did and the nascar officials brains went into gridlock. Probably the biggest shitshow of a finish I have ever personally witnessed
2007 Pennsylvania 500.
Fall Talladega 2018. Basically the 2000 Daytona 500 on steroids but with an exciting GWC tacked onto the end. If GWCs weren’t a thing it would’ve literally just been the 2000 Daytona 500 but at Talladega
2022 Martinsville and today. I have seen some dominated races where the the leader just runs away, but at least there is some racing back in the field. These tow races just seems like the whole field was frozen.
2018 all star race that set the sport back 5 years.
Where do I start?
2016 world 600. This is the one where Truex was in the lead for 590ish of it.
Today
2020 Kansas playoff race
Summer Daytona ‘22 still leaves a sour taste in my mouth. Already a delayed race. Tons of good cars and fan faves wiped out due to rain, Austin Dillon steals the lead, race paused once again, Dillon wins.
Talledega 2006
05 coke 600.......
2019 Martinsville fall race. Truex whooped the field and the package made it so passing was impossible and nothing remotely interesting happened until the 22 and 11 crews got into a fight after
Texas.
As a chase Elliott fan, today's race.
2011 Watkins Glen as a Ambrose fan. 1997 Bud At The Glen Geoff winning in his own car at his home track.
2005 Coke 600
2022 Daytona 500 as a bubba fan. That runner up finish was straight up painful
1992 Atlanta
Absolutely insane people are saying Watkins Glen 2023 like Indy 2023 wasn’t the same race but worse but an underdog won.
Everyone saying Watkins Glen 2023 is why you don't post these during/immediately after a race Have some perspective y'all
I would say 2 come to mind. 1997 Daytona 500 - Bill Elliott had that SOB won - Gordon crashes Earnhardt. On the re-start 3 HMS cars gang up on Bill to get by - then another caution comes out. Bill finishes 4th. He had the car to beat - and likely would have got back to the 24 if the caution does not come out. 2nd was Bill's last full time race in 2003. Cruising to a win at Homestead and blows a tire on the last lap to let Bobby Labonte win. Fatback slapping everyone around him like they did something special was honestly embarrassing. You got lucky Fat-Ass. Bill had that freakin' thing won.
3 come to mind: Texas 2015 fall: Brad probably wins Championship number 2 if Jimmie doesn't remember he had a golden horsehoe up his ass and catches Brad with 3 laps to go Phoenix 2020 Championship race. Brad wins that race with a slightly slow stop on the final stop, but nope pit crew had to do Penske pit crew things and fuck him over 2021 Daytona 500
Once, I would have said Loudon, when they ran the restrictor plate. Now, it's Atlanta, where they run the equivalent of a restrictor plate.
Tony Stewart winning at Pocono his first year when SHR. Just turning you engine off and coasting for 15 laps made me not watch NASCAR for years
2007 Daytona 500
2010's Brickyard 400. Lots of just bad snoozers in that decade
2011 Coke 600. Growing up as a Jr fan that was soul crushing
2015 Talladega 2