NASCAR Busts: David Stremme
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- David Stremme is without question a hell of a wheelman in most racing series he competes in. However, when it comes to NASCAR, he'll be forever known as another bust.
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"Zero top 10s and an average finish of 26.4 makes this, without question, one of the worst rookie seasons ever." Noah Gragson with 0 top tens and an average finish this year of 28.4 has entered the chat.
But that with bad team
@@nascaralert4504 A brand new team that is starting off badly + probably still getting used to the new Gen car, which looks completely different to drive compared to the previous gen, currently used in Xfinity.
@@nascaralert4504Penske and Ganassi sucked during the time that Stremme drove for them too. I'd say that it's comparable to Gragson and LMC now.
@@jackkeithley4934Not a new team, rebrand of RPM
@@jackkeithley4934 not a brand new team and the new car doesnt stand either his second year was the start of the COT which was a shit show its first season
In Stremme's defense, he joined CGR right when the team went down the toilet, and ran for Penske when they were in the bottom-end of a slump.
Still he didn't do much in Busch or Cup.
Not to mention that even in 2010 after Stremme was released, the #12 team was an afterthought for Penske.
That's a defense? He had Sterling's and Newman's car. I think he just jumped to cars that were not prepared for him to drive like he did before, pushing. I think the difference that would of been good if he adopted Rusty's driving style, because Rusty knows when to not push the car when it isn't going to work.
@Black Flags Matter Knew that this was coming eventually.
Sad thing is, as is the case for most NASCAR busts, if he’d stayed in lower divisions for more development time, he could’ve been a winning Cup driver, and the “Silver Bullet” could’ve gone out with at least one more win.
Strangely enough, even though he wasn’t the hardest working driver in the world, you probably could make the same argument for another CGR driver in Reed Sorenson as well.
ALSO: I’ll never forget the moment when Michael Waltrip spun Stremme around at Sonoma on the last lap for blocking, and Waltrip’s spotter congratulated him l, and called Stremme an A-Hole over the radio. 😂
First rule of wrecking a driver: Wreck the right driver!
I literally knew Stremme was gonna be a NASCAR Bust in *2004* when he tried to wreck one driver at Bristol, ended up wrecking another instead... AND it nearly caused a fight!
If you know, you know.
Finally Darian did a David Stremme NASCAR Busts video, something we've been all asking for years by now. Thank you BFM!🙏
At long last!
Yes a bust video of David being wrecked by others and blowing tires thanks 😂
One thing I should point out is that after Stremme got let go by Ganassi after the 2007 season, he was replaced by Indycar driver Dario Franchitti (who had won the previous year's Indy 500) in the #40. This move pissed off Michael Andretti & Andretti Autosport (who Franchitti drove for in Indycar) big time because Chip Ganassi basically used the promise of a full time ride in NASCAR to steal a top driver away from one of their biggest rivals in Indycar. However Franchitti did even worse than Stremme in the #40 not even completing the full season (he only entered 14 races) & his highest finish was 22nd at Martinsville. The #40 team was disbanded after the 2008 season & Franchitti went over to the Indycar side of Ganassi where he won Indycar titles in 2009, 2010 & 2011 before his career was ended in an awful wreck at the Houston GP in 2013.
Chip addressed his short nascar run on the Dale Jr downoaded. He claimed they had originally secured sponsorship commitments that then backed out. You also left out the fact he broke his leg at Talladega.
Considering Penske now own IMS, literally, I think he'll be alright.
@@bradsanders407I thought it was Las Vegas or Michigan
When he was at Penske, he was just a stopgap driver until a better driver with a huge upside came along. Once Keselowski came in, that assumption became a fact.
But even as a stopgap driver he made money. He had a contract with Penske for one year in 2008 was a base salary of $3 million a year plus 45% of the Winnings so $1.98 million plus $750k in personal endorsements and diecast......so making $5,730,000 in a season for being a gap driver still isn't bad lol
@@ItsjustmecwI'd give my right foot to be able to do that.👀🚘🏁
Friends n I say all the time. Imagine even just being a bench rider, in whatever sport you want to use. Getting leauge minimum, hundreds of thousands of $$$. Or maybe a cool million. Just don't be the worst guy on the team.
Brad was their first choice but he thought he still had a shot of driving for Hendrick. Rick resigned Mark Martin and he got a second chance to talk to Penske for that ride
How bad do you need to screw up to have Schrader wreck you. Kenny is one of NASCAR's nicest guys
Right when I randomly decided to search "Nascar Busts: David Stremme" Knowing such a video doesn't exist, I refresh my homepage and one of the first videos I see is "Nascar Busts: David Stremme". Coincidence?
"He put up his best average finish" *Oh, that's good*
"It was 25th" *OKAY NEVERMIND*
I cannot believe Penske gave him a ride, let alone walk through the front doors of the team office with the results he was putting up in Cup with Ganassi
Cost them 💲 💲 💲
Ah yes, the only driver who managed to piss off cool calm and collected Kasey Kahne in 2006
I will say in the last few years, I've become a huge fan of his. He has relocated from NC to PA and I've heard him do several talks about his racing career and racing in general. He has said he went really quickly from ASA to the Cup series, but as he said, he was the last developmental driver to make it to Cup. But his knowledge and connections in racing are amazing and he really has his finger on everything from NASCAR to national and local dirt tracks and paved short track racing.
Stremme was part of that odd CGR lineup in 2007-2009 in which they had Stremme, Sorenson, and Montoya. Not exactly a trio you want to build around.
When Montoya is your best driver on a "top tier" team, that is code for your screwed.
Please tell me you're not one of those people who don't recognize JPM for his other motorsports accomplishments
@@yungsagegaming8577ah JPM is good at F1 everybody knows that, but no way in Nascar if you see the result that he made with CGR and he is the best driver, clearly there is something wrong with this CGR team back then
@@SebrystianVettelHe was also good at IndyCar, open wheel cars are very different than stock cars, that was also part of why Danica Patrick struggled in Nascar, it is a very different type of car and adjusting that late in your career makes it more difficult.
@@stigrabbid589 i mean at least Montoya can adapt with the car like in 2009 he finished 8th in the standings, Danica is just a dumb driver, at the point where Danica joined SHR got a better equipment than CGR with harvick Tony and Harvick both winning the title in the span of 4 years, so i think no excuses for Danica that she is a bad driver and can't adapt with SHR for a long time.
I really think he could've done something, but he was thrown up too fast but at least he had banger paint schemes.
He was thrown up to replace Marlin and which was a bad move for Ganassi to do.
Dale Jr's 2004 Born on Date car is a throwback to Streme's ASA car and nobody even knew it.
Do Jon Wood next
It still blows my mind that the 12 car was fully funded in 2009/2010. They ran the Verizon colors but couldn't run the logo because of Sprint sponsoring the series. It is so wacky and I feel like it doesn't get talked about enough. I know it happened to Burton with AT&T mid-season in '08, but the Verizon thing was after that. Wild.
It was actually 2007 when the whole AT&T debacle went down. I also heard rumors that Sprint would put up jammers and block signals from other carriers at tracks during race weekends. So fans who had Verizon or T-Mobile for example would have no signal nor service. But people with Sprint still did.
You have no idea how long I've been waiting for this video.......
To be fair to him, the 06 Rookie class as a whole was definitely one of the weaker rookie classes.... does not justify his poor career whatsoever. But I will say if he had spent an extra year (2006) in the CGR Xfinity program, maybe he would have done better, but who knows? Fantastic video btw
I'd disagree with 2006 being the weaker rookie class, you still had Clint Bowyer, Martin Truex, Jr. and ROTY Denny Hamlin.
@@jrmustang9496 Okay, fair point
Weaker rookie class? I mean, considering 2 of the drivers are future HOF drivers and another one has 10 Cup wins and nearly won a championship I wouldn't call it a weak rookie class.
@@jrmustang9496- And Hamlin finished third in the overall standings.
Some guys from that class soared to Great heights like Martin Truex Jr and Denny Hamlin while others flopped like fish like Stremme and Reed Sorenson who Was another victim of all the reshuffling that happened with Chip Ganassi Racing in 2006 along with Stremme
I'd love to see a video on David Reutimann. Just a dang good driver who got an unlikely shot in his late 30s and had a blast with it.
He was such a fun story, just someone who came into the cup series late but was pretty fast at times and had his random wins lol
Judging by this video, Stremme's career probably would have survived if Martinsville didn't exist 🤣🤣
Bad seasons recommendations:
1. Kurt Busch 2012
2. Dale Jarrett 2003
3. Ricky Rudd 1999
4. Dale Earnhardt Jr 2007
5. Toyota Cup program 2007
How about kyle petty and his horrible seasons from 2000- when he retired. 1 of those seasons he failed to qualify for half the races and blamed other drivers for that.
@@Denverbroncos87petty was past his prime and kept doing whatever to make his sponsors happy but man he was a perennial backmarker
I remember going to Chicagoland in 2003, and David was driving the #1 Yellow trucking car. All I remember thinking was "Holy cow that car is FAST." I forgot where he qualified, but I thought for sure there was no one faster in the field. Something we gotta remember is every NASCAR bust could whip on any local track talent any day of the week
That is not remotely true. In the CRA Super Series I watched many of their regulars consistently beat nascar talent. One guy in particular dominated that series and I never understood why no one gave him a ride. He dominated when Chase Elliott, Ryan Blaney, Eric Jones, and John Hunter Nemechek, T.J. Reid and Stremme himself to name a few were running fulltime schedules in the series. In the last turn of the last lap of the Redbud 400 this guy named Steve Doer passed Chase Elliot for the win on the outside. Something I've never seen happen at Anderson. There's video of it on youtube.
Kurt Busch vs. David Stremme in 2009 is one of the biggest teammate mismatches in NASCAR history.
Busch: 2 wins, 10 top-5s, 21 top-10s, 738 laps led, average finish of 12.8, 4th in final points.
Stremme: 0 wins, 0 top-5s, 0 top-10s, 14 laps led, average finish of 25.0, 32nd in final points, 1 DNQ.
I know Kurt is a NASCAR legend, but holy crap, that is BAAAAAAAD.
Meow
Sad ending for the Silver Bullet
I remember Stremme lapping the field in an ARCA race at…I want to say Pocono. It was a weekend where Cup wasn’t running with Busch or Trucks and they wanted him to get experience at the track.
The Brandon Weeden of NASCAR Cup Drivers.
I think he was just rushed from the Xfinity Series to the Cup Series too fast.
David is running locally here in PA in the modifieds. Usually see him almost every time they are scheduled to race.
This is the most I've learned about David's career ever.
Ahh, yes, the other driver from South Bend, Indiana. I'm from just north of there, so I heard that name a LOT while he was moving up the ranks.
Fun fact: in 2008, he actually made one start in the Cup series in the 40 car, just a year after being released from the team. He was brought in on short notice to fill in for Dario Franchitti who had suffered a broken leg in the Nationwide race the day before, and actually did well during it, even leading some laps. Unfortunately, I think the engine let go and he got a DNF.
Sterling Marlin drove it again too
Stremme could have had a much more respectable career if he was simply just an Xfinity regular, could have possibly gotten a win or a two as well.
The same could be said for a lot of nascar busts, like Danica Patrick, Cole Custer, and Austin Cindric.
@@toadsixeightproblem is nascar created that "names are made here" nonsense and created diaper leagues, and pushed the veterans out of them
@toadette68 too early to say that about cindric, it's only his second year in cup
Yeah would probably at least got 3 wins
@@toadsixeightdon’t forget Matt Kenseth in 2020, and now Jimmie Johnson this year
the Breaking Benjamin background music is so badass
Chip Ganassi must've been high when he made the decision to bump David Stremme up to one of his cup rides at such an inexperienced level..
Another story of a talent being rushed up way too soon. If he had stayed in the NBS for another few years he would have been okay there. Not a legend, but a respectable driver that could have gotten his first win or more in the latter half of the 00's. I've been a Stremme fan a long time, since the beginning as I'm also from the Midwest.
Same for Reed Sorenson who was in the show at age 21.
Honestly, I waited a long time for this
I've been waiting for this one for a long time
I only remember him because he was in nascar 07, other wise he was a nobody
Same
I remember him because his car had a Lightning McQueen-like paint scheme in NASCAR Inside Line
@@kenyilopez3818 I remember him because I like Sterling Marlin and it was his old car
I remember how him and that paint scheme were a, massive downgrade for the team in 2006
love the breaking benjamin in the background
I WAS WAITING FOR THIS ONE. Kamikaze Games arch rival in nascar 07, maybe 08 I think.
I wouldn’t call him a bust. Chip Ganassi racing was a 3 star team at best when Sterling Marlin stopped being competitive and Jamie McMurray leaving at the end of 2005. Only had one year in a Penske car. Then he drove the 30 car from 2011-2013.
Man. 2006 Ganassi had Casey Mears move to the 42, and Casey did excellent. Reed Sorenson was put in the 41, and in my opinion Sorensen was ready for cup. Stremme was not.
Reed Sorenson was a solid driver. The only problem is that he joined CGR at the wrong time.
@@arcticphoenix2789 then the "open wheel invasion" occurred in 2008. A lot of drivers got lost in the shuffle when those 6/7 former Champ Car/IndyCar/Formula 1 drivers came over. Jacques Villeneuve, Patrick Carpantier, Dario Franchitti, Sam Hornish Jr., Max Papis, A.J. Allmendinger and Michael McDowell. Allmendinger is included cause his brief stint in Champ Car World Series. McDowell included cause he came from Champ Car developmental.
Stremme always seemed to be King of Mid Prospects in Busch and never really wowed me, similar to Cole Whitt (except Whitt did things in Trucks). I consider Sorenson a bigger bust than Stremme because he actually did stuff like win and consistently have great runs before moving to Cup.
Even though sorenson won races in the Busch series? Sorenson has better stats, top 5 and top tens than stremme does in cup…. Let that sit in for a moment…
Small appearances by yeley and the roush 06 car, this low key a triple bust video
Nascar cup series bust- David green. ( he is amazing in busch but sucked in cup)
Nascar bust- Kevin lepage, max papis, Andy lally, Brandon miller, chase miller, Chad mccumbee, Andy Kirby, Stuart Kirby, bill Lester,
Indycar bust- Milka duno.
The crowds, it’s glorious to remember these days before NASCAR lost its way.
Yes! Been waiting for you to do a video on Stremme
I remember the Griffdawg "What if Dale Earnhardt is Still Alive" videos, when he was a 3-Time Daytona 500 Winner.
Wrap your head around that.
5:00 wrecking with another NASCAR bust😂
Great job darian fantastic as usual
Plus side of Streme's career...he drove some nice looking cars. The 14 Navy, 40 Coors/Lone Star pre COT, and 12 Verizon were all sick paint schemes imo
12:55 When you mention David Stremme, this is what I think of. I watched this race multiple times.
11:46 I also seen this one multiple times, but less. I completely forgot about it.
Moral of this series: If you're in Arca and get offered an Xfinity ride, turn them down and just do Trucks lol
That intro music tho. Breaking Benjamin goes crazy.
True
That 2006 Cup rookie class...either boom (Truex, Hamlin, Bowyer) or bust (Stremme, Sorenson, Yeley, and a short cameo by Brent Sherman).
Those 05-06 cup cars were the best looking cars man. That charger nose is amazing
I totally forgot he raced in the 12 for Penske 0___0
I'd say he wasn't a bad driver, but just one of the unluckiest. Teams with a bad run in those years crippled his skill along with being called up too early to the Cup series.
I almost forgot David Stremme even existed.
"Montoya, S t r e m m e , Kenseth, Biffle, Marlin, Carl Edwards, Casey Mears, all crashed on the final lap."
My dad personally knows David. He raced against him at northern Indiana & southwest Michigan tracks back in the 90s & early 2000s. We got to see him at Michigan in 2009 when he was driving the 12 car, got my program autographed from him & my dad got a Stremme hat auto’ed from him too and they chatted a bit during it
I'm guessing your dad is Bull? Tell him I would always use to root for him unless Ray Fullen was on the track. Those were the golden days of the Anderson Speedway.
@@bradsanders407 His name wasn’t Bull, and he’d race against David at tracks named New Paris & South Bend Speedway
Was your dad Brad Baker? Your dad probably also knows Gary and Jordan St. Amant
@@Maverick33 No his first name was Scott
@@Brett_Baker_ interesting. Cause there was a Scott Baker who tragically died in a crash at Toledo Speedway in 2000 during an ARCA race.
NASCAR Busts: Ty Dillon. It might be early to say that but I think he was a MAJOR bust
I thought he was going to a star in NASCAR. He had promised, but he flamed out quickly. Austin Dillion is a disappointment, but at least he had some success.
At least he won the ARCA championship but Austin is the better of the Dillon brothers by an lot. To be fair on Ty he doing it without (in Cup at least) his grandfather. If both Dillons drives for RCR then Ty might have an better career. Perhaps an win or 2 in Cup if he drove for RCR with his brother.
Finally! I've been waiting for this one lol he's a double bust
Much like with many NASCAR busts, David Stremme was rushed to the cup series. If he was given couple more seasons in the Xfinity series, I think he would have been a top 15 driver week in and out. ALso didn't help he went to Ganassi when they were rebuilding in the mid 2000s.
Honestly, I was hoping you would do this video one day
"Darian Gilliam doesn't do an illogical NASCAR bust video on drivers I like" Challenge (Impossible)
Man, the silver bullet. Miss it!
I honestly forgot David Stremme was in the Cup Series for a while, until this video was made
I wish I had forgotten. He was hot garbage!
The Diary of Jane in the background🤘
That silver and black Coors car did look cool tho
13:20 I always thought Plush by STP sounded like racetrack music. Not sure why.
I remember that the 06 rookie class was supposed to be one of the best but looked like Martin trued Jr had the best career easily
NASCAR Busts: Roush Racing Driver X contestants. Would be interesting
I was just in here, thinking about 3 DNFs in 4 starts in 05, when all of a sudden I notice Breaking Benjamin is the bgm. Now my brain is trying to focus back and it's not working. 😂
Stremme and Reed never had at chance at CGR. That #40 Coors paint scheme was insane though. Wish I could find a vintage shirt of it.
Thank you for finally getting to this one lol
My perspective is different than all you clowns piling on David. He's the nicest "kid" Ive ever had the privelege of knowing. Why? Simply stated, I raced at our local northern Indiana tracks in the lowest division: Mini-stocks, at New paris, plymouth, south bend, baer field and kalamazoo. Anytime I had a problem with my car, David and his entire family, Dad Lou, Mom Cindy, and younger brother bobby and there crew members were always willing to help me out. Additionally, David is one of few people nowadays who can design, build and set the car up. Back in the day he also used to build his own motors. To me he is and always will be a northern Indiana short track legend. He's a kid from the west side of south bend who worked his ass off and got to the highest level of the sport. It's just sad that he was never given the top notch equipment. Unfortunately he's not the only racer that this has happened to nor will he be the last. I'm proud of him and glad Ashley convinced him to start a family, because nothing compares to being a Dad.
I heard to this day stremme is still wrecking.
Did you not watch the video. He has had huge success everywhere but nascar.
@@bradsanders407 Did you miss the meme? ;)
Stremme runs a modified team around here in Michigan and watched him race. Good on the local short tracks, never had that transfer over to cup which sucked.
David stremme is a good race car driver i remember seeing him race at Loudon New Hampshire motor speedway back in 2010 til 2013
NASCAR busts recommendations:
1. Kelly Bires
2. Colin Braun
3. Cale Gale
4. Chase Miller
5. Cole Whitt
Don’t disrespect the GOAT Cale Gale
No doubting David Stremme as a nascar bust but I will admit his last few years in Cup driving underfunded equipment, David did somewhat impress me and he definitely drove with more maturity, especially for Inception Motorsports in 2012 when as a Start and Park his job was to get them in the show as many times as he could and he usually did and then again in 2013 helping guide Swan Racing through that season by keeping it straight most races.
Meanwhile in Griffdawg’s NR2003 Series “What if Dale Earnhardt is still alive?”:
Stremme is a 3-Time Daytona 500 Champion
2017 Cup Series Champion
Currently driving for Roush Fenway Racing
And a Nascar GOAT.
I have been waiting for this
I remember there was a 4-5 race stretch were JJ yeley and Stremme both finished 11th and 12th like 4 or 5 times
Black flags remember when you made a video on the silver bullet, it's a shame why the team got shut down a really good powerhouse team in the early 2000s. I mean early 90s all the way to their downfall in the late 2000s
Anyone else gets flashbacks to NBS 24/7 on speed seeing that Trimspa car?
Also Diary of Jane was a solid choice
Outside of Hamlin, 2006 has to be one of the worst rookie classes in nascar.
Truex was officially a rookie in 06. But yah Denny was good right off the bat in 06
The Diary of Jane.
It appears in 2006, David pissed off everybody, even Kasey Kahne.
Yes another great bust video
You could do a bust video on the Ganassi development program
Really Ganassi in NASCAR as a whole. Other than MacMary (RIP BP) and JPM, who had success for them?
@@interstate366Kurt Busch
@@interstate366 Kurt Busch and Kyle Larson
@@interstate366Sterling Marlin competed for championships
It always seemed like Ganassis drivers just sucked or were great drivers who managed to make the most out of their equipment like Larson and Kurt Busch. Montoya, Marlin, and McMurray were good too but man they seemed very unlucky
NASCAR Busts: Cody Ware and NASCAR Busts: Carson Ware
Man... chip had some serious sponors. Do miss the Target car in Indycar and Nascar
I remember him in the 14 Busch series car and the 40 cup series car
If you ask me who I have an unreasonable distaste for... Every time I will say David Stremme.
the nascar cars were so very beautiful and ellegant back in 2004 and 2005 year
Poor David Stremme, I've seen him race in both Jr and Cup Series over the years and never won a thing.
7:41 I was at that race and the wreck happened right in front of me.
Breaking Benjamin and NASCAR? You got yourself a sub.
Aside from 2 of them, the 2006 rookie class was an unmitigated disaster