NASCAR Busts: Scott Riggs
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- How bad was Scott Riggs Cup series career? Well, he only had one season where he made all of his races.
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Man going back and listening to the old commentary makes me miss and appreciate Benny Parsons more and more every time I hear it.
He always seemed like a family member more than just an announcer.
Who's that
@@hockeyfan1988 I agree 100%
@@mikebarnes7441 Former racecar driver and later announcer.
I’ll never forget his run in the 2005 Daytona 500. He was so fast. Got a 4th place finish and was up front all race. He was always a dark horse for me at the plate tracks. Shame his career didn’t work out.
Scott Riggs is an example of wrong place, wrong time, wrong opportunities. After having two amazing years in the Busch series he basically was on two teams that were already starting to decline and since then never got to show his potential becoming the next James Buescher.
Don't you mean the first James Buescher?
At least Riggs made it to Cup
Riggs seemed like a pretty solid prospect before going to Everham. I think he ultimately got sucked into the Everham blackhole that hurt everybody's career unless they were maybe Bill Elliott and Kasey Kahne.
That was a HUGE mess and he arrived just as it was beginning or when stuff started to come out about what was brewing under the surface
Dude was great in the 10 nesquick car in The Busch series
I personally thought the 10 car had a beautiful paint scheme
On a Dodge? Gorgeous.
I always remember (as a kid) hating Mark Martin because he drove a Ford but alway loving the paint scheme even then. The red white and blue with the big V I loved it
Pretty much any valvoline schemes look great
Scott Riggs really should have been the next big thing. He had so much talent and showed so much potential from 2004-06, but he always seemed to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. He joined MB2 as they were falling apart, and then Evernham when they falling apart too. Riggs was just a victim of being with the wrong team constantly
Also was in Haas before Tony Stewart became co-owner and Scott Riggs loss his ride in 2008
While on the subject of valvoline do Nascar Busts: Patrick Carpentier
Eric Fording His time in the #10 made Danica’s look amazing
Dana Chappell that surely says a lot
this hurt to click on as i was a fan of riggs as he was coming up through the nascar ranks
Rob R his son is a good racer also
Yes Layne is a great racer and could great it better levels but teams want to much money even for late models because we have a old car vs jrs cars and other teams with money
Oh, the lovely lovely Scott Riggs...
DannyBTalks give a shoutout to griffdawg
R.I.P. Scott he was my favorite before Kyle Larson
The moral of these NASCAR Bust videos? If you want to have a good career in NASCAR, better make sure your name isn’t Scott.
Let’s see...
Scott Riggs
Scott Wimmer
Scott Speed
Scott Pruett
Scott Lagasse
Scott Lagasse Jr.
Brian Scott
Yeah, that’s not good.
I came here to point this out as well.
Wendell Scott stops it, Hall of famer.
Scott Pruett had a fine racing career though, and did quite well on road courses, almost winning in Mexico City in 2007 until Juan Pablo Montoya spun him out.
As a kid named Scott watching these guys in the mid-2000s, eesh it wasn't pretty :(
Riggs could easily won a Truck Series Championship but his stunt in Cup series killed his entire career.
I have a series idea: Races to be remembered or Races to be forgotten. Like the 2007 Daytona 500 (Remembered) or the 2008 Brickyard 400 (Hopefully forgotten).
You mean 2008? 2009 was better
What In Carnation? That is a great idea
This would be an awesome series for sure.
I live in Durham, NC which is basically the same city Riggs is from. We have some mutual friends and Ive met him on several occasions and we even got to hang with him in the in field at S. Boston Speedway during his truck days. On top of being a very humble and cool guy, he had the talent to win races obviously when he was in good equipment as seen in his truck and Infinty days. Til this day I believe going with Evernham was the move that doomed his career. They just weren't good enough. Now I don't know how true it is, but I was told by a source close to him that DEI wanted him, but he chose not to sign because for one, we all heard the rumors about Mrs Earnhaedt not being the easiest person to work for and I also was told they wanted too much rights to Riggs. Was told he couldn't make a buck without DEI getting a cut if he signed on that line. It will always leave me wondering what could have been if he had though. With that being said I hate to see him being referred to as a "bust" although I understand. Despite that he'll still always be one of my favorite drivers! He also kicks ass on a motocross track which is what he did before he went to four wheels and being a motocrosser at heart myself that's just more props I have to give the man
Scott had like the championship lead entering Rockingham, lost it and dropped like second or third entering Miami. Crashes on lap one and ended up sixth.
Shows how intense that 2003 NBS title chase was. Vickers wasn't really a factor until his IRP win and had Herzog had the sponsorship, Todd Bodine would've been in that mix too.
Todd is arguably a Cup bust when you look how often he bounced back and forth from Cup to Busch.
i'd venture to say the whole Bodine family was a bust, less Geoff when he was in the 5 car.
AutoRockinRacing94 give a shoutout to griffdawg
Geoff was nowhere near a bust he had close to 20 cup wins...
But he's a truck god
@@superass113 Geoff Bodine won 18 races, and the majority of them were not in the 5 car. He was definitely not a bust.
Good stuff as always! He sure kept the fab shop busy with all the torn up sheetmetal, that is for sure. Never was the same after Jon Wood dumped his shot at the Busch title away at Homestead in 03.
I was a huge Johnny Benson fan and it made me so upset to see Scott Riggs take over the #10 car. At least Johnny was able to go on to win a Truck Championship, but I’m still pretty salty about Scott Riggs taking his Cup ride.
Luke Datema How were your salt levels when Danica took over?
Haha. Danica's number 10 was with a different team so I was't too salty. However, I still miss watching Johnny Benson race.
Johnny was at that point, though. Didn’t get his only win until he was 39 and I don’t think it helped that season that he had to sit out a few races on 2 occasions due to injury and followed it up with a bad year. But yeah, Riggs wasn’t what they should’ve gotten and it looks bad
It didn't help sharing a declining MB2 with Front Row Joe...
Benson was underrated bigtime
I remember reading an article on Scott Riggs on how he declined an offer to drive for Hendrick in the Busch series because he felt loyal to ppc racing and how he decided evernham to replace bill in the #9 after 2003
That moment with Kurt Busch was rather restrained for Kurt
Finally! Scott Riggs had so much potential, but everything just went wrong for him...
NASCAR Busts: Trevor Bayne/Todd Kluever/David Stremme.
Kira Did Nothing Wrong. Trevor isnt a bust just bad equipment
That's not a really good excuse, Trevor Bayne is driving the same equipment his teammate Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Is driving, and Ricky got 2 wins with that equipment.
So that only goes to show that even if Bayne was driving freaking championship equipment, he would still underperfom and would keep wrecking cars.
Kira Did Nothing Wrong. Not exactly the 6 and 17 have way diffrent people working and building both cars so they are diffrent and Matt Kenseth has proved that its the Equipment not the driver
Hold it right there, you first said "Trevor isn't a bust just bad equipment" and now you're saying that they have different people working and building both cars? first of all that's wrong, Roush makes both cars, while it's true that they both have different pit crews, chiefs and spotter, that's still not a good excuse, considering Bayne also wrecked a lot of cars back when he was with the Wood Brothers, so it's clearly the driver and not the equipment nor the crew.
And yes, while I agree Kenseth hasn't done very well, the guy has come back to racing after 6 months of inactivity, I say wait for next season at least to see how well he does on that #6 car.
So yeah, overall, Bayne's just a one-win wonder and he's still in the cup series only because of that single win 7 years ago. Even Advocare realized that Bayne's not a good driver, and they dropped their sponsorship to only 12 races, to probably just leave Roush next season.
If you have any, ANY good argument that explains why Bayne it's not a bust, then I will hear you, if you have something nonsencial or just plain dumb to say, I just suggest you to not respond, since it would just be a waste of yours, and my time.
Bayne's a bust, period.
Kira Did Nothing Wrong. Bayne is not a bust. Roush's equipment is just not that good and the only reason why Stenhouse is doing worth a damn right now is because he is such a good driver. Bayne would be well-suited in a situation like Menard or Newman is in right now since he's a good driver and can bring the car home in one piece but hasn't been doing so well since he's overdriving his stuff just to get anything out of it.
We need a Danica NASCAR busts
The Larson Fan 8842 yes we do and a ricky Carmichael one
The Danica one's been done to death already.
The Larson Fan 8842 there's tons of videos of her lol
The Larson Fan 8842 You self righteous hypocrite!
Danica, has her own share of ' busts ', but a lot of the time, she didn't cause the accident, but got ' caught up ' in someone else's mess.
And Kyle, isn't a 'squeaky' clean driver himself.
Don't get me wrong, I like Kyle, but if Danica had been given good equipment, and NOT used as a ' Publicity Figure ', she probably would have done a lot better.
That'd be to long if a video
This video hurts. Find me a fan that DIDN’T want Riggsy to succeed. Helluva great guy.
Always felt so bad for him every week.
Iv always appreciated your videos. You don’t ramble on & you always let the video evidence speak for itself.
Awesome video man! These keep getting better and better!
I figured you would get to this guy, I always thought Scott Riggs was going to be an awesome addition to the NASCAR series but it ended up regressing. I always say that he was a good driver but he went to the wrong team/owner combination because he was a good Busch driver and his likability and his Southern roots would have been nice to have in the series for a good while.
Love these videos & your choice in instrumentals.
Underrated driver and I’ve seen much bigger busts if he is one. He wasn’t in the greatest situations in the Cup Series in my opinion.
Good Videos. I don't know if you take requests, but David Stremme. Drove for Ganassi and Penske, in cars where the previous drivers won races, and barely did anything.
Nice video. Keep up the good work
NASCAR Busts: Trevor Bayne and Danica Patrick
Trevor still has time in his racing career
What In Carnation? Trevor isnt a bust just is in crap equipment
Agreed and also has an eye disease. I believe.
Kaden Kart wrong
What In Carnation? Copycater
Scott Riggs could of been a good decent driver who could get a win or two each year if he was in good equipment and if he wasn’t wrecking every week every some of the wreaks he was in weren’t his fault except for Kurt
I remember as a kid their was a fighter like meet and greet in Fontana & I overheard one of the kids tell a guy im a Scott Riggs fan & even I felt bad
Nice Work! 10/10
Always loved running that Stanley Tools Dodge in NASCAR racing games. The 10 car was a badass ride 😢
Riggs was one of those guys who was good in lower series like trucks and xfinity but sucked in cup.
Honestly, kind of like Brian Scott and Sam Hornish Jr.
Yea. A good driver, certainly a professional. Just not a clear cut cup driver.
bad equipment
Nah he didn't suck. He had terrible equipment
I miss the old days of Benny in the booth I loved listening to him call races, but I wouldn’t put Scott as a bust I mean stat wise I see it totally but he wasn’t really in the greatest of equipment the majority of his career
Is Almirola the only good driver thats ever been in the 10
Ricky Rudd.
Don't forget Johnny Benson Jr.
Never forget Johnny Benson.
Kira Did Nothing Wrong. Oh sorry
Ricky Rudd tide car good old days
This is just an example of how some are just meant to be full time Truck or Xfinity drivers. I never understood how you can have success in those series and then struggle so badly in cup it's just crazy.
Justin Salinari I don’t think people realize how important it is to have a good fit with the right people too. Joey Lagano truex and Kyle Busch are examples, they could have just as easily been relegated to field fillers before they got their break and ended up in one of these videos
One of the most underrated nascar announcers is Ned Jarrett. Very smart guy who knew what he was talking about, and he and Ken Squier were a good fit
I apologize if you’ve done one on Scott Wimmer but please do one so Wimmer33fan can lose his mind 😂
ACS Racing Network make a shoutout video to help grow griffdawg's TH-cam channel
You know I have played the Scott Riggs Mission on Nascar 06 but have never seen the actual crash with Kurt Busch I just remember having Kurt or Scott having a crazy wreck sometimes during it
I'm not a huge racing fan so I'm not all that knowledgeable, but it's amazing to me that you can have a crash like that and walk away fine. That seems like it'd be pure luck, but I'm sure it's more about how safe they've made the cars.
What if it is just the number 10? Multiple drivers have had issues with it, just like after Richard Petty retired the 43 just isn't the same.
Like Steve Park, I feel like Riggs is most known for his flip than anything else
Lets remember he led basically every lap of the Open in 2006 with MB2 to transfer into the all-star race. Remember that he was racing against guys in top tier equipment in that Open like Yeley, Hamlin, Vickers, etc. Wish this dude could've made it stick.
What happened with the 10 car in 06 was Evernham bought it, and Riggs was signed onto valvoline so he ended up bringing the sponsor along with him.
I Still Remember The Talladega Flip From Scott Riggs 2005
I know Scott Riggs in person I also know his son layne Riggs who races late model cars in North Carolina
what a sad night when you see a hauler like Valvoline leaving early in the weekend
That list of cars that failed to qualify for a random Atlanta race at 5:43 👀 mid-200s entry lists were longggg
His 2008 season with Haas before Tony Stewart was so underrated...
What about a NASCAR bust: Jimmy Spencer is NASCAR Bust
I have an idea for a new series. How about the rise of race teams and the fall of race teams. Like the rise of Stewart-Haas, and the fall of Bud Moore Engineering.
Next Nascar busts video on David stremme.
The guy drove penske equipment in 2009 and record 0 top 10's for crying out loud. He never won a race in nascar's top 3 series and only 3 career top 10's.
he also ran for ganassi for 2 or 3 season and had 3 top 5s and 10 top 10s lol
jems 78
tbh that was at a time when Penske as a whole was usually mediocre and the only one that had a chance at the time to compete for a top 10 or win was Kurt Busch, however Stremme is still a bust.
jems 78 penske wasn't really a high tier team in the late 2000s. In 2008 ryan newman and kurt busch both won a race for him but they didn't make chase because they were mediocre. The mediocre runs carried in 2009 where this time at least one of their cars made the chase. I understand that stremme is a bust but penske struggle at the same time with him.
7:25 is that Rodney childers
Yes
Childers been around a long long time
Great music choice sir
Scott Riggs would have been a superstar if he took over the 25 Hendrick car and not Casey Mears
This was when NASCAR was at its best every week you had 50 something cars show up to try and make the race so qualifying was always awesome and the races actually had action now you have to wait for a road course or a super speedway
Wow! I remember Scott Riggs I'm old as hell man 😧
Can you do a video about drivers who jumped ship from one Motorsport to Nascar
@ Black Flags Matter what do you think about toyota running the supra in the xfinity series next season?
IDK why he didn't do that good all I remember was he was the one guy who would always find a way to be in the big one for some reason.
That was the
Nicest move I ever seen Jr make!
You should do a last starts for people like jeff gordon, richard petty etc
I have to admit watching nascar growing up I was already a Dale Earnhardt Jr fan in cup but who to follow in the lower ranks? It was Scott Riggs shame he really never got the opportunities he deserved. :(
The same Scott Riggs I saw take a dominant win at Nashville in 2003...
I remember his Busch seasons well he came close to Winning it I think in 03
Riggs and Wimmer were the reason NASCAR introduced the Top 35 rule in 2005. No one would have cared about changing the provisional rules for 50+ car entry lists if it weren’t for Atlanta 2004.
Amazing how much Scott Wimmer and Scott Riggs had in common
That background music sounds like there's a loose belt under the hood.
Ray needed the sponsorship, he saw the ship starting to sink and had to do anything he could to keep it going. I liked Riggs as a guy but he was never "Cup material" IMO. He was one of the few who didn't take a start and park at first believing it was wrong and it ultimately sped up his demise in the Series. I am waiting for a bust episode on Mike Skinner though, truck success aside, he was a failure in Cup reminiscent of Park when it came to a bad break on some injuries but he never closed the deal in a Cup car.
I think if he didn't blow the Coke 600 that 1 year we wouldn't be talking about him being a bust.
The Valvoline car and CAT car missing the same race is why NASCAr now has automatic qualifying.
Need a David Ragan bust video, or maybe a David Gilliland one.
Man look at all those fans at a TRUCK race not even a Cup series race, the good ol days
always felt like riggs could've been a winner with a stronger team.
I don't get how some of these team owners think. You see a guy that has a terrible record, wrecks constantly, is always at the bottom of the points rankings... And they want to bring this rolling catastrophe aboard. Wha...??
He has another highlight. 4th in the 2005 Daytona 500
Riggs was actually really solid following 2005 he just happened to be the third car in a terrible evernham
We need a NASCAR Busts Danica Patrick
He was in Haas racing before it was rebranded as Stewart Haas and he was not retained.
The music in the background.
Well he made people be scared to be near him
NASCAR Busts: Brendan Gaughan? Bobby Hamilton Jr.? Johnny Sauter? Travis Kvapil? David Gilliland? Stacy Compton? Stanton Barrett? Sam Hornish Jr.? Larry Foyt? Todd Kluever? Erik Darnell? Colin Braun? Joey Coulter?
Riggs won multiple truck races, multiple Busch races, and came two races away from a Busch series championship. Plus he overperformed in the Evernham 10 car in 2006. I'd say that's not a bust.
Is that window pain at the beginning?!???!
You know it
Please do a NASCAR Bust Buckshot Jones. That guy wrecked more cars than Danica Scott Riggs Scott Wimmer Derrike Cope Chad Little Trevor Bayne and David Ragan combined
Whats that beat name?
To be fair he did finish 4th in the 05 Daytona 500
Do pls a NASCAR Casey mears bust
I remember Andy Petree critiquing his stats saying " his numbers aren't terrible"....that was enough said.
Riggs had some sweet paint schemes tho!
He actually has wins in both Xfinity and trucks. He just didn’t have a good cup ride
Talk about rags to riches for Rodney Childers
NASCAR Busts: Dario Franchitti
Bad Seasons: Martin Truex Jr 2014
Bad Seasons: Carl Edwards 2012
Bad Seasons: Joey Logano 2017
Championship Seasons: Martin Truex Jr 2017
Championship Seasons: Tony Stewart 2011
Championship Seasons: Chase Elliott 2014
He deserved better :(
4:55 Every iRacing pickup cup race start at Pocono
Riggs was on his way to winning the Coke 600 but a horrific final pitstop ended those chances and his career.
Randolf didn't give Scott good cars at MBV in 04 and 05 when Scott missed Atlanta race Pemberton tore down Scott's car and Ryan said Doug had the car all Jacked up, then they hired Rodney as car chief in 05 and mid-way through the season they fired Randolf and Rodney was promoted. MBV found out Scott was leaving to go to EMS in 06( Everham wanted Scott 2nd over Kasey from his rookie season including DEI ) and half way through 05 they stopped given Scott good equipment. At EMS Scott had good equipment, missed the 500 because Rodney ran the Trans fluid low to reduce friction, but burned up the gear and being a new team missed the 500 but went on the to lead laps and shoulda woulda coulda won some races that year and finished 19th in points ahead of Bobby Labonte. 07 EMS had a bogus Aero Package software downloaded throughout 2/3's of the 07 season till it was caught and it affected Kasey Elliot and Scott the most and Everham sold EMS to another owner and was the start of the end for Scott.....that's the short story of a Great Driver that luck and fate affects us all. I worked for Scott....and that's the short story:-)
The crew chief Kurt didn't know was Rodney Childers, i didn't know that Childers was Riggs crew chief.
At least that Nesquik car looked cool...