Imagine Chad Knaus starting his own team next year with Dodge factory support and having Kyle Busch and Josh Berry as his drivers. That's basically the current day equivalent to this
The story I had heard was Dodge wanted a team with Evernham as owner and Jeff Gordon as driver being they were the hottest commodities in the sport at the time. Rick Hendrick caught wind of it and signed Gordon to a lifetime contract immediately. All in all concerning Evernham Motorsports the one I truly felt bad for was Jeremy Mayfield. Him and Kasey Khane had to be the top talent to drive for the team and Mayfield really got a bum rap out of the deal because Ray couldn’t keep it in his pants.
Yaaas! This was my childhood!!! I still have a Kasey Kahne no 9 hat. But as to their fall, partially at that point in time, a lot of people tend to forget, aside from the whole Erin Crocker drama, we were slowly headed toward the great recession of 2008, and when the stock market crashed, so did Evernham Gillette, DEI, Chip Ganassi, among other teams. But man, I tell you what, whenever you saw those iconic Evernham-styled No 9 and 19,there was just something magical those two cars had that we will never see again....
Suggestions, not requests but some ideas! Rise and fall of some early Busch series teams from the 80s or 90s like BACE Motorsports who won 3 titles with Randy LaJoie or Pearson Racing who 2 titles with Larry Pearson?
I was a big Mayfield fan when he was racing. His struggles in 2006 were much more than just Ray being distracted with Erin and ignoring the #19. Evernham was disappointed with Kahne's sophomore season and felt a change was needed to help improve the #9 team. In the process, Mayfield got shafted. The #19 cars, equipment, and crew moved from Mayfield to Kahne. Riggs received the #9 team and crew. And Mayfield was stuck with the #91 R&D leftovers. Quite nice of Ray to do that to him considering he raced into the Chase the first two years of its existence. Maybe he thought Mayfield, being a veteran of the series, would be able to bring that team into contention. But the R&D team was complete junk. No driver could have brought that car to the front. I was angry, and I bet Mayfield probably felt the same. I feel that was the start of the downfall for the EMS. Not to knock Sadler, but I think Mayfield was the better driver over his career. Sadler didn't exactly light it up during his tenure after replacing him in the #19. The team would have been helped by the stability of a steady lineup. By the way, Jeremy and Ray did eventually bury the hatchet years later, but it's understandable with Jeremy's struggles that season he would air Ray's dirty laundry.
Considering you covered RYR and Junior Johnson & Associates, I was thinking you could talk about the rise and fall of AK racing just to complete the 1992 trilogy
The 9 car has a lot history and good road course legacy. Drivers like Bill Elliot, Kasey Kahne, Marcos Ambrose and now Chase Elliot won races in these tracks, incredible.
First off, excellent content Danny. Since the sport has gone Corporate, it’s history is peppered with drivers, albeit a crew chief in this instance, that attempted to be owners. I believe they’re lack of longevity is attributed to the same principle. Just because you can drive or set up a race car doesn’t mean you can run a successful business. One can only wonder what could have been Had Gillette been there from jump street? I think it is safe to say that without the Business acumen of Gene Haus, Smoke most likely would not have enjoyed the success he has had as a car owner. Justin Marks is the current driver trying to break the mold pretty much on his own. From what I understand Justin is quite the shrewd business man, and let’s face it, an average driver at best. So that’s my 2 cents, fwiw. This is my first video of yours like this so I guess I need to go back and check out the previous ones.
Thanks for the comment, Keith, and yes, plenty of previous ones to enjoy. My apologies though, as I know some of my previous ones aren’t as good as some of the others.
Great video Danny B. I have a few suggestions. Travis Carter Enterprises, A. J. Foyt Enterprises/Arnold Motorsports, Brett Bodine Racing, Jasper Motorsports, PPI Motorsports, and Bud Moore Engineering/Fenley-Moore Racing. I know I'm overdoing the list but it is some ideas.
Great video. I had the opportunity to work on GEM (Gillette Evernham Motorsport) chassis 245 last week and have to say they had som top notch fabricators building their cars.
Great Vid. The ONLY fault I would be able to have. Is when you were clicking off the Stats from the '02 Season. You left out was the way Awesome Bill SPANKED the Field at the end Season Homestead Race only to have a flat Tire going into Turn 3. 👍👍
2:50 I loved those Muppets paint schemes that NASCAR ran around that time along with the Looney Tunes paint schemes they usually would run at Richmond on the Chevys.
Evernham best season was 2006. Kasey Kahne had 6 wins in the #9 Also Jeremy Mayfield made the first two playoffs in 2004 and 2005 in the #19 back when they only locked in the top 10
this is one of my favorite youtube channels ... the way you put this stuff together is awesome & you don't try to exaggerate anything just the truth & an your opinion 🤟🏻🤙
Casey got screwed several times, should have had several wins his rookie season. Worst was probably the oil on the track at Darlington when they went back green.
Yeah. Such a shame the way his career went down. Took a gamble on Evernham's team, and it basically ruined his Cup Series career, instead of advancing it.
Him and Greg Biffle we're brought in because someone was trying to get an oval built in Washington state l believe. Trying to get support from up there The #16 Roush ride was Tommy Kendall's and all of the sudden they brought in Biffle.
Makes no sense. Kahne finished 2nd so many times in his rookie season. He came so close. The other rookies were Brian Vickers for Hendrick, Johnny Sauter for RCR, Scott Riggs for MB2, Brendan Gaughan for Penske all had terrible rookie seasons and weren’t even remotely competitive
@@user-ed1yx2fq7l you gotta think about it like this BEFORE the 04 season on paper Vickers was the reigning Busch series champion, RCR & Penske were top rides at the time, and Scott Riggs had a lot hype around him. So that left Kahne at the time as an unproven driver with an unproven team. Still glad he proved everyone wrong😁
@@lathanpankey2173l mean Bill Elliott was winning races for Evernham so I wouldn’t say unproven. It’s crazy to me bc I remember Kahne being the hyped up rookie while Gaughan and Sauter were so awful they were let go by year end. And Vickers and Riggs combined had 1 top 5 all season😭
@@user-ed1yx2fq7l yea but that’s Bill Elliot one of the greatest drivers ever he ran solidly in that car 9 top 5s 12 top 10s and a 16th place average finish but that shows how good Bill was even late in his career oppose to Evernham over performing
I still feel bad for Casey Atwood because of the race in Homestead he should've won but couldn't handle the pressure...lol I'm still on Mayfield's side...lol
Atwood got screwed imo. He was finally getting acclimated to the cup cars at the end of '01, and I think he could've had a good season in '02 if he either stayed in the 19, or looked toward a couple different offers he had at the end of the season. Agreeing to the junk ass #7 for Ultra was the screwjob that he admitted was a mistake in an interview years later.
I drive by Junies shop every now and then its good its still being used as a car shop but what they did in that little shop in Richmond Va is remarkable
I am convinced if he had not of and that team stayed, Kasey Kahne would have won about 50 Cup races and at least one Cup championship. Hendrick did not want Kasey to do well and NASCAR did not either.
@@DannyBTalks well if Jr motorsports eventually buys out jtg or spire you'll have more 😁 these are absolutely amazing though. I love nascar history. These videos made my day. Did you do one on Dws truck team from the early 2000s?
As a couple of suggestions i would like to see one about DiGard Racing and BlueMax Racing in the cup series. In the Busch Series probably about PPC Racing and maybe FitzBradshaw Racing. Then in the trucks probably about Bobby Hamilton Racing and Ultra Motorsports.
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That team was never a viable competitive threat. Dodge Chrysler wasted a ton of money on crap teams. Ray also ruined the team by screwing around with Erin Crocker. He didn’t just destroy dodge return to nascsr, he also destroyed the image of women trying to race in NASCAR. Honestly overall Ray Evernham is the nascar role model of rule 12A4A “actions detrimental to stock car racing”. IMO Ray is the epitome of a POS
This definitely had to be offered to ray by dodge cause theu thought JG would come too....JG by his own words had cheated on wife brooke and was living at rick's house and ofcourse no better loyalty then that...plus rick offering JG a lifetime contract and ownership in the 48...duh JG wasnt going to leave...and look now...i'd say good move on JG's part....plus won the 2001 chip after ray left.....
Man it’s crazy to think about, the 2006 campaign stats for Kasey would be championship worthy in todays playoffs. Then you look and he finished 8th in 2006 and it makes you think how much the sport has changed.
I still have a shit load of Kasey Kahne merch from his Evernham days. Really sad to see him retire, but watching his last win at the brickyard had me on my feet yelling at the TV.
I was a big Kahne fan and still am. I haven’t found a new favorite driver. People say he didn’t have the talent to be a champion. I say that’s not true. He came up in a new team that was like a dysfunctional family and won (a lot!!!). Then he made Red Bull racing relevant in their final yr ( to be honest I think he coulda won a championship in that 4 car if they hadn’t shut down and he went to HMS). Then he goes to HMS and clearly was their second best driver in 2012. But he wasn’t Gordon, Johnson, or Dale Jr., he wasn’t that organization’s priority. He got shafted and treated like a test car most weeks. Kahne took 💩 and made the most of it more than just about any other driver.
I can’t believe this was two decades ago. Seems like yesterday. That Valvoline Dodge was sexy as all get out. Scott Riggs should have had one win in his career.
Great video, you missed the beginning where evernham had a sick son and at one point said he was stepping out at Hendrick because he wanted to spend more time with his family, enter dodge team? Funny how the hendrick leukemia thing disappeared from the history books as well. And what ever became of evernhams son who was so sick? Hmmm did he forget about that when little Erin walked in.
Imagine Chad Knaus starting his own team next year with Dodge factory support and having Kyle Busch and Josh Berry as his drivers. That's basically the current day equivalent to this
The story I had heard was Dodge wanted a team with Evernham as owner and Jeff Gordon as driver being they were the hottest commodities in the sport at the time. Rick Hendrick caught wind of it and signed Gordon to a lifetime contract immediately. All in all concerning Evernham Motorsports the one I truly felt bad for was Jeremy Mayfield. Him and Kasey Khane had to be the top talent to drive for the team and Mayfield really got a bum rap out of the deal because Ray couldn’t keep it in his pants.
Nice comment dear ❤❤❤
Yaaas! This was my childhood!!! I still have a Kasey Kahne no 9 hat. But as to their fall, partially at that point in time, a lot of people tend to forget, aside from the whole Erin Crocker drama, we were slowly headed toward the great recession of 2008, and when the stock market crashed, so did Evernham Gillette, DEI, Chip Ganassi, among other teams. But man, I tell you what, whenever you saw those iconic Evernham-styled No 9 and 19,there was just something magical those two cars had that we will never see again....
Well I still have Kasey Kahne's No.9 Dodge Charger from 2005
@@jamestaylor4480 sweet, dude!!!!
I also have Kasey Kahne's No. 9 and Jeremy Mayfield's No. 19 Dodge Intrepids from 2004
@@jamestaylor4480 nice!
The Gilletts ruined this team.
Suggestions, not requests but some ideas! Rise and fall of some early Busch series teams from the 80s or 90s like BACE Motorsports who won 3 titles with Randy LaJoie or Pearson Racing who 2 titles with Larry Pearson?
while RPM has Petty blue, Evernham Motorsports had Evernham red…
we need more throwbacks of them imo
I was a big Mayfield fan when he was racing. His struggles in 2006 were much more than just Ray being distracted with Erin and ignoring the #19. Evernham was disappointed with Kahne's sophomore season and felt a change was needed to help improve the #9 team. In the process, Mayfield got shafted. The #19 cars, equipment, and crew moved from Mayfield to Kahne. Riggs received the #9 team and crew. And Mayfield was stuck with the #91 R&D leftovers. Quite nice of Ray to do that to him considering he raced into the Chase the first two years of its existence. Maybe he thought Mayfield, being a veteran of the series, would be able to bring that team into contention. But the R&D team was complete junk. No driver could have brought that car to the front. I was angry, and I bet Mayfield probably felt the same.
I feel that was the start of the downfall for the EMS. Not to knock Sadler, but I think Mayfield was the better driver over his career. Sadler didn't exactly light it up during his tenure after replacing him in the #19. The team would have been helped by the stability of a steady lineup.
By the way, Jeremy and Ray did eventually bury the hatchet years later, but it's understandable with Jeremy's struggles that season he would air Ray's dirty laundry.
2007 was a struggle for Ray Evernham.
Watching bill Elliott win again with evernham was awesome.
Ray fell to the distraction of Erin's lady parts, when he should have been focused on the auto parts.
LOL
Considering you covered RYR and Junior Johnson & Associates, I was thinking you could talk about the rise and fall of AK racing just to complete the 1992 trilogy
Oh this is a tough one, those red dodge dealers cars were gorgeous 😭.
The 9 car has a lot history and good road course legacy. Drivers like Bill Elliot, Kasey Kahne, Marcos Ambrose and now Chase Elliot won races in these tracks, incredible.
Fun fact: Rodney Childers was a former crew chief and team manager for Gillett Evernham Motorsports
S1apsh0es could include the 2006 Evernham-Mayfield-Crocker fiasco in his Liars, Thieves & Lawyers series
Oh, I have a suggestion: The rise and fall of Brewco Motorsports/Baker Curb Racing. I feel that team was so underrated, it should be criminal.....
Do more series like this. This is what got me into your channel.
First off, excellent content Danny.
Since the sport has gone Corporate, it’s history is peppered with drivers, albeit a crew chief in this instance, that attempted to be owners. I believe they’re lack of longevity is attributed to the same principle. Just because you can drive or set up a race car doesn’t mean you can run a successful business.
One can only wonder what could have been Had Gillette been there from jump street?
I think it is safe to say that without the Business acumen of Gene Haus, Smoke most likely would not have enjoyed the success he has had as a car owner.
Justin Marks is the current driver trying to break the mold pretty much on his own. From what I understand Justin is quite the shrewd business man, and let’s face it, an average driver at best.
So that’s my 2 cents, fwiw.
This is my first video of yours like this so I guess I need to go back and check out the previous ones.
Thanks for the comment, Keith, and yes, plenty of previous ones to enjoy. My apologies though, as I know some of my previous ones aren’t as good as some of the others.
God I miss dodge in nascar those Mopar paint schemes were the best
Great video Danny B. I have a few suggestions. Travis Carter Enterprises, A. J. Foyt Enterprises/Arnold Motorsports, Brett Bodine Racing, Jasper Motorsports, PPI Motorsports, and Bud Moore Engineering/Fenley-Moore Racing. I know I'm overdoing the list but it is some ideas.
2004 Charlotte fall race was a gut punch for kahne fans
Great video. I had the opportunity to work on GEM (Gillette Evernham Motorsport) chassis 245 last week and have to say they had som top notch fabricators building their cars.
PLEASE all the Rise and Fall videos you can...they're among my favorite on all of TH-cam
Heck even my mother had a Dodge Intrepid and I remember that car fondly growing up...
Great Vid. The ONLY fault I would be able to have. Is when you were clicking off the Stats from the '02 Season. You left out was the way Awesome Bill SPANKED the Field at the end Season Homestead Race only to have a flat Tire going into Turn 3. 👍👍
2:50 I loved those Muppets paint schemes that NASCAR ran around that time along with the Looney Tunes paint schemes they usually would run at Richmond on the Chevys.
The Muppets were featured on the Dodge Intrepid RTs , while the Looney Tunes were featured on the Chevy Monte Carlos.
Evernham best season was 2006. Kasey Kahne had 6 wins in the #9
Also Jeremy Mayfield made the first two playoffs in 2004 and 2005 in the #19 back when they only locked in the top 10
Heck ya! Thank you for another Rise and fall it has been too long! I love the drivers you forgot about too 🙂
Interesting stuff! I missed a lot of that drama towards the end, so it was good to catch up on it here!
The no 10 car in Richard Petty Motorsports was rebranded into no 44 in 2009.
this is one of my favorite youtube channels ... the way you put this stuff together is awesome & you don't try to exaggerate anything just the truth & an your opinion 🤟🏻🤙
Casey got screwed several times, should have had several wins his rookie season.
Worst was probably the oil on the track at Darlington when they went back green.
Yeah. Such a shame the way his career went down. Took a gamble on Evernham's team, and it basically ruined his Cup Series career, instead of advancing it.
Would love to see your take on the rise and fall of AK Alan Kulwicki Racing
Not gonna lie learning that Kasey was considered the lame duck of the rookie class and turned out to have by far the best career kinda made me smile
Him and Greg Biffle we're brought in because someone was trying to get an oval built in Washington state l believe. Trying to get support from up there The #16 Roush ride was Tommy Kendall's and all of the sudden they brought in Biffle.
Makes no sense. Kahne finished 2nd so many times in his rookie season. He came so close. The other rookies were Brian Vickers for Hendrick, Johnny Sauter for RCR, Scott Riggs for MB2, Brendan Gaughan for Penske all had terrible rookie seasons and weren’t even remotely competitive
@@user-ed1yx2fq7l you gotta think about it like this BEFORE the 04 season on paper Vickers was the reigning Busch series champion, RCR & Penske were top rides at the time, and Scott Riggs had a lot hype around him. So that left Kahne at the time as an unproven driver with an unproven team. Still glad he proved everyone wrong😁
@@lathanpankey2173l mean Bill Elliott was winning races for Evernham so I wouldn’t say unproven.
It’s crazy to me bc I remember Kahne being the hyped up rookie while Gaughan and Sauter were so awful they were let go by year end. And Vickers and Riggs combined had 1 top 5 all season😭
@@user-ed1yx2fq7l yea but that’s Bill Elliot one of the greatest drivers ever he ran solidly in that car 9 top 5s 12 top 10s and a 16th place average finish but that shows how good Bill was even late in his career oppose to Evernham over performing
It seems like wherever Ray Evernham goes, distinction and collapse follows.
Evernham blamed Jeremy Mayfield for telling his wife he cheated is what happened
Exactly. Evernham is a great race car owner in the beginning, and a great crew chief, but overall a POS person who fucked up Mayfield’s
career
Evernham got his revenge and ruined a good man's life.
I still feel bad for Casey Atwood because of the race in Homestead he should've won but couldn't handle the pressure...lol
I'm still on Mayfield's side...lol
Atwood got screwed imo. He was finally getting acclimated to the cup cars at the end of '01, and I think he could've had a good season in '02 if he either stayed in the 19, or looked toward a couple different offers he had at the end of the season. Agreeing to the junk ass #7 for Ultra was the screwjob that he admitted was a mistake in an interview years later.
I once had no idea why typing Evernham Motorsports redirected me to Richard Petty Motorsports on the Wikipedia.
Dodge came and went with Evernham Motorsports tbh
3:48. Mayfield actually scored 2 top fives and 4 top tens in 2002.
Turner motorsports in the xfinity and truck series would be a cool one
I asked for this a while ago. Thanks for making it happen
Suggestion: Rise and Fall of Donlavey Racing?
I drive by Junies shop every now and then its good its still being used as a car shop but what they did in that little shop in Richmond Va is remarkable
Rise and fall
Chance 2 motorsports
Turner Scott cup and Xfinity teams
Braun racing
The fifth roush car
Hendrick motorsports Xfinity team
The Mayfield drama in 2006 no doubt caused the team’s downfall.
I am convinced if he had not of and that team stayed, Kasey Kahne would have won about 50 Cup races and at least one Cup championship. Hendrick did not want Kasey to do well and NASCAR did not either.
Miss that team
How long did the teams use the Dodge Avenger body? It seemed short lived...
Fucking Michael Waltrip used that car but it was fucking unbranded lmaoo
Hey Danny I live a hour from you. Keep it up.
Back then being a Jeff Gordon fan I hated it when he didn't win but I never hated if another driver won. It's not like that now.
These rise and fall series are elite. Love em I'm watching my 5th in a row as we speak.
Wish I had time to do more!
@@DannyBTalks well if Jr motorsports eventually buys out jtg or spire you'll have more 😁 these are absolutely amazing though. I love nascar history. These videos made my day. Did you do one on Dws truck team from the early 2000s?
@@Al8181 I sure did!
@@DannyBTalks that's next I'm watching the rise and fall of Robert Yates Racing as we speak lol
Evernham Motorsports had one the best paint schemes in existence especially the red car.
As a couple of suggestions i would like to see one about DiGard Racing and BlueMax Racing in the cup series.
In the Busch Series probably about PPC Racing and maybe FitzBradshaw Racing.
Then in the trucks probably about Bobby Hamilton Racing and Ultra Motorsports.
1:22 - Is that a little Chase sharing some door sill time with his dad?
12:52 peep at the Talladega Nights cars that are covered up
I really hope dodge comes back to nascar.
Please do The Rise and Fall of Petty Enterprises
Do Rise and Fall of Texas Motor speedway.
A future Rise & Fall episode: The France Family of NASCAR
Good video
Great team, classic paint schemes with 9 and 19 dodge.
Evernham’s relationship with George N Gillett Jr turned sour, when he thought that Gillett did not invest any money into Gillett Evernham Motorsports.
next year for april fools day you should do the rise and fall of Team Peyton
Red Horse Racing would make a great episode imo.
Did that one already.
@@DannyBTalks Whoops. Sorry, I'm going to find it now.
Loved this video!!
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Petty Enterprises
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Hendrick Motorsports(ARCA)
Rise and Fall of Hendrick Motorsports in the Busch and Truck Series.
Kasey Kahne is awesome!
Ray should of started 1 team in 2001 and maybe started a 2nd team in 2003 and a 3rd team in 2005
Not really a rise and fall, since they never rose, but what about a video on MSRP Motorsports (Prism)?
I'm considering an alternate series titled "What Happened?" that teams like this might fit better in. Thanks!
Bro, the team was heavily penalized at Daytona in 2007 over downforce trick. The team’s performance was never the same
don't follow it much any more since Dodge left NASCAR and Toyota was added couldn't picture myself driving a Camry grandma car.
Back then, I don’t blame you for saying that, but man…I love the new Camries.
And yes, no matter how great he has been, the affair is just fricken lame. I have no room for it
Wish nascar was still like this. Especially with the cars. Now it’s just straight cheeks
george gillet is now one if the most hated men in liverpool !!! he ran the club into the ground !!!
sorry danny know its a nascar channel im a brit who happens to love football(soccer) and nascar 😊
I just hate the King got caught up in the mess that was George Gillett.
👍👍
George N Gillett Jr buying a controlling interest in Evernham Motorsports was a huge mistake.
Definitely. If anything, it took all hands away from Ray Evernham in the end.
The rise and fall of cale yarborough motorsports
Kasey should've won it all in 04. Just horrible luck
Rise and fall brad keselowki racing
Kasey kane was great in 2006 fell of in 2007
What went wrong: Casey Atwood, scott Riggs and Reed Sorensen. Terrible drivers.
Having an affair with an employee.
Stayed with dodge too long.
Evernham lost it all cause he cheated on his wife with crocker
The Rise and Fall of Germain Racing
Honestly, I can’t really say there’s enough of a rise.
@@DannyBTalks maybe the truck team, but that’s it really
@@threepea1151 and I already did that.
@@DannyBTalksand here I was looking through the playlist, I’m blind lol
@@threepea1151 I would love to see the Cup team video one day tbh
Twisted Sister 😂
That team was never a viable competitive threat. Dodge Chrysler wasted a ton of money on crap teams. Ray also ruined the team by screwing around with Erin Crocker. He didn’t just destroy dodge return to nascsr, he also destroyed the image of women trying to race in NASCAR. Honestly overall Ray Evernham is the nascar role model of rule 12A4A “actions detrimental to stock car racing”. IMO Ray is the epitome of a POS
This definitely had to be offered to ray by dodge cause theu thought JG would come too....JG by his own words had cheated on wife brooke and was living at rick's house and ofcourse no better loyalty then that...plus rick offering JG a lifetime contract and ownership in the 48...duh JG wasnt going to leave...and look now...i'd say good move on JG's part....plus won the 2001 chip after ray left.....
Jeremy Mayfield scored 4 top 10’s and 5 top 5’s 😂
You know that team had some of the best looking cars and numbers when they were around.
Erin Crocker was the downfall of this organization in my opinion
Yeah probably worth it lol
I know they never won but would love to see a vid of Jasper Motorsports! Blaney’s 77 as well as the Penske merger.. it’s just a nostalgic team imo
I miss Evernham Motorsports. The paint schemes on both the 9 and 19 cars were fantastic.
Man it’s crazy to think about, the 2006 campaign stats for Kasey would be championship worthy in todays playoffs. Then you look and he finished 8th in 2006 and it makes you think how much the sport has changed.
Been waiting for this one man. I have always wanted to see Chad Knaus start his own team and see how it went. But that's impossible now
I still have a shit load of Kasey Kahne merch from his Evernham days. Really sad to see him retire, but watching his last win at the brickyard had me on my feet yelling at the TV.
I was a big Kahne fan and still am. I haven’t found a new favorite driver. People say he didn’t have the talent to be a champion. I say that’s not true. He came up in a new team that was like a dysfunctional family and won (a lot!!!). Then he made Red Bull racing relevant in their final yr ( to be honest I think he coulda won a championship in that 4 car if they hadn’t shut down and he went to HMS). Then he goes to HMS and clearly was their second best driver in 2012. But he wasn’t Gordon, Johnson, or Dale Jr., he wasn’t that organization’s priority. He got shafted and treated like a test car most weeks. Kahne took 💩 and made the most of it more than just about any other driver.
Yes 🗿👍
I can’t believe this was two decades ago. Seems like yesterday.
That Valvoline Dodge was sexy as all get out. Scott Riggs should have had one win in his career.
Great video, you missed the beginning where evernham had a sick son and at one point said he was stepping out at Hendrick because he wanted to spend more time with his family, enter dodge team?
Funny how the hendrick leukemia thing disappeared from the history books as well. And what ever became of evernhams son who was so sick? Hmmm did he forget about that when little Erin walked in.
Wasn't Hendrick having IRS problems when his leukemia hit?
@@Paintppa1 yeah, some sort of legal issues. Never spoke of ever again.
he shoulda stayed at hendrick motorsports
Still can’t believe he pissed away such an opportunity. Ray is a genius but a terrible owner.
I remember that team