Rick Ware Racing is more of a meme then the loveable back markers of NASCAR however their ability to somehow participate in every known form of motorsport is impressive.
The problem with the Cup team is that the sponsors and Rick kept picking mid or bad drivers to drive his cars. I think they’re doing a bit better comparing to like 3 years ago.
Ah yes -a bronze (decent bronze) -a nascar joke/LMP2 19-20 AM division champ (yes he has a title) -a nascar nepo baby (with some talent) -and TWO HOW WERE THEY NOT DRIVING PORSCHE’S IN THE RACE?
Austin Dillion appearance did make some sense. NASCAR drivers sometimes use the Daytona 24 to improve their road course skills. With NASCAR adding more road courses on the calendar, Dillon probably felt like he could use more practice.
Why couldn't he just do the 4 hour MPC race in the Rebelrock Camaro like a normal NASCAR driver though. Or what Ford does every year at Daytona. He says before remembering that GM kinda doesn't care about customer racing and the only reason why the Corvette GT3 even exists is because literally everything has forced their hand.
He tested positive for the first Cup race at the Daytona Road Course and he fell behind and thought this was a great to learn the track before the Clash and Cup race.
Oh, but consider the previous attempt that RWR tried with Algarve Pro Racing. In a Riley-Multimatic. Ultimately it didn't pan out because Multimatic had a parts shortage and couldn't supply the team with a spare rear end, which Rick attributed to them prioritizing Mazda, and the lineup wasn't as wacky, but yeah. Also tbf this was in the era of Cup drivers being hyped to do road courses. After all, this was the same race with Chase Elliott and Jimmie Johnson in it in separate DPis
For a driver that's usually known as a walking meme in the NASCAR world Cody Ware is actually pretty decent in prototype cars. Along with the 4th place here in Daytona he also has 2 wins in the Asian Le Mans Series LMP2 Pro-Am class along with the class championship. Currently, he races LMP3s in the IMSA VP Sportscar Challenge where in only 2 starts he got 1 podium.
That Asian Le Mans championship is kinda a red herring, because he was the only driver who did the whole season and there was max like 4 cars in that class per round
I like how saying Yoluc was inexperienced in LMP2's at the time, and now he just got upgraded to Silver rank due to how much he stomped the field in LMP2 Pro/Am in ELMS(admittedly he lost the title, but that was a mistake he made at Portimao and reliability problems at Aragon that sniped it away).
He managed to win the Pro/Am title the year before though. Before getting a silver license Yoluç used to be a sharp knife in the bronze drivers category
5:05 I remember this story, the race director or some other top official said something along the lines of “that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen anyone ever do”
OK, while I generally enjoy your content, I have to say that you need to make at least a few more videos on this subject. While in terms of sheer weirdness in the modern era, Yes the Eurasia Motorsport with Rick Ware Racing Ligier LMP2 was the most unusual entry in 2020. HOWEVER! This car/driver combo doesn't even come close to some of the weirdest entries the Daytona 24 Hours has seen across its vast history. From the 1990s with the likes of the front-engined Cannibal WSC to the Mosler raptor GT1 that ran in 1998 with a "Split Windshield" design that made it look like a boat, to the "Pepsi Challenger" Aston-Martin Nimrod Group C car with NASCAR royalty driving... All way back to 1970, when somebody entered a homebuilt car based off of a Formula Vee chassis, powered by a Porsche engine and sporting a modified Meyers Manx dune-buggy body! There are several other choices you could've made here. This one, in my humble opinion, doesn't clear any of them.
I dont think its that weird. Rick ware himself raced everything from nascar to indycars to imsa. Not that strange that he would foot the bill for his kids to do the same. Not even weird that nascar guys raced an lmp2. Hell kyle petty was racing a porsche gt1 in 2001. If you want an odd entry, check out that year and the busch grand national monte carlo that got turned into a sports car. Now that thing was weird lol
I will say, I do kind of miss each car having distinct number fonts. I get all the entries having number badges that are color-coded and clear, but I dunno, both the artist and sad nostalgic who can't get over the fact that Carl Edwards is retired in me really loves those old number fonts.
Tim Allen driving a Saleen with Steve Saleen is up there for me on the Rolex 24 weird drivers scale. Add in that Craig T. Nelson was in the race too that year
you know, i respect that they commited on being different and make the best of what they had with highly unorthodox ways of operating comoared to the rest xD
Speaking of IMSA. You could do an in depth review of the visit Floridas trial by fire with the Riley P2, given they were somewhat moderately successful with it and the only team to have one outside of Riley tech. They switched mid season and I think the switch and a crash sent them bankrupt.
The Nashville street course has been officially closed (due to construction interference from the new Tennessee Titians stadium! Indy is racing on the super speedway instead! Time to do a street circuit failure video on it!
Not the weirdest entry. Weirdest entry was the Mayers Manx dune buggy entered in 1970. Granted, they didn’t start the race because of an issue that Porsche had with them
I wouldn't call this a weird entry. RWR and Ware had LMP2 experience. Yoluc was getting ready for an ELMS season and any LMP2 running is good. NASCAR drivers take part in the Rolex24 so Dillon wasn't a surprise. The oddball choice is Sven Muller who hasn't gone any races outside of GT cars since.
Austin Dillon being a bad choice because he was a NASCAR driver with 0 sportcars experience is the silliest naive reason ever.... their are a lot nascar drivers that would dominate in sportscar if they switched full time. silly
Y'all, Jack's actually (at least somewhat) right, there was a Chevy Monte Carlo stock car in the Rolex 24 in the early Grand Am days, or the pre Grand-Am days.
Rick Ware Racing is more of a meme then the loveable back markers of NASCAR however their ability to somehow participate in every known form of motorsport is impressive.
The problem with the Cup team is that the sponsors and Rick kept picking mid or bad drivers to drive his cars.
I think they’re doing a bit better comparing to like 3 years ago.
Hell RWR even has a drag racing team i just learned that yesterday
@@speedhunter7156 they’ve won 3 races last year with Clay Millican
@@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT i wouldn't doubt that their only farce was NASCAR XD seems like they are trying to turn it around
Maybe they'll have more of a chance at entering F1 than Andretti by FOM standards!
When I saw that there was a non Oreca entry I immediately decided to support them for this year's race
that Ligier LMP2 looks so out of place among those sea of Oreca LMP2s
That was me until they caused roughly 25% of all cautions in the race haha
Same here. In hindsight I kind of regret it. Still, they're running the full season, so I have hope.
@@aojracing4885 oh no
@@duckheadgamingtheir bronze driver is probably the worst of all teams. I really think they could've done much better if it was someone else driving.
Ah yes
-a bronze (decent bronze)
-a nascar joke/LMP2 19-20 AM division champ (yes he has a title)
-a nascar nepo baby (with some talent)
-and TWO HOW WERE THEY NOT DRIVING PORSCHE’S IN THE RACE?
There's so many weird ass Daytona entries, a high point for me is the Toyota AE86 that came up from Ecuador for the 94 race
Austin Dillion appearance did make some sense. NASCAR drivers sometimes use the Daytona 24 to improve their road course skills. With NASCAR adding more road courses on the calendar, Dillon probably felt like he could use more practice.
Why couldn't he just do the 4 hour MPC race in the Rebelrock Camaro like a normal NASCAR driver though. Or what Ford does every year at Daytona.
He says before remembering that GM kinda doesn't care about customer racing and the only reason why the Corvette GT3 even exists is because literally everything has forced their hand.
He tested positive for the first Cup race at the Daytona Road Course and he fell behind and thought this was a great to learn the track before the Clash and Cup race.
Daytona 24 2021 was literally the last time the LMP2 class had 3 different chassis from Oreca, Ligier, Dallara
Wana buy a ligier and make and entry with me?
Oh, but consider the previous attempt that RWR tried with Algarve Pro Racing. In a Riley-Multimatic.
Ultimately it didn't pan out because Multimatic had a parts shortage and couldn't supply the team with a spare rear end, which Rick attributed to them prioritizing Mazda, and the lineup wasn't as wacky, but yeah.
Also tbf this was in the era of Cup drivers being hyped to do road courses. After all, this was the same race with Chase Elliott and Jimmie Johnson in it in separate DPis
For a driver that's usually known as a walking meme in the NASCAR world Cody Ware is actually pretty decent in prototype cars.
Along with the 4th place here in Daytona he also has 2 wins in the Asian Le Mans Series LMP2 Pro-Am class along with the class championship. Currently, he races LMP3s in the IMSA VP Sportscar Challenge where in only 2 starts he got 1 podium.
Cody Ware was this nascar generation's Montoya
@@silvy3047 don't put JPM's name anywhere near that talentless scrub
That Asian Le Mans championship is kinda a red herring, because he was the only driver who did the whole season and there was max like 4 cars in that class per round
I like how saying Yoluc was inexperienced in LMP2's at the time, and now he just got upgraded to Silver rank due to how much he stomped the field in LMP2 Pro/Am in ELMS(admittedly he lost the title, but that was a mistake he made at Portimao and reliability problems at Aragon that sniped it away).
He managed to win the Pro/Am title the year before though. Before getting a silver license Yoluç used to be a sharp knife in the bronze drivers category
I do love entries like this. Unusual car, strange driver line-up, not around for very long. Almost a bit of a novelty act.
5:05 I remember this story, the race director or some other top official said something along the lines of “that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen anyone ever do”
OK, while I generally enjoy your content, I have to say that you need to make at least a few more videos on this subject. While in terms of sheer weirdness in the modern era, Yes the Eurasia Motorsport with Rick Ware Racing Ligier LMP2 was the most unusual entry in 2020.
HOWEVER! This car/driver combo doesn't even come close to some of the weirdest entries the Daytona 24 Hours has seen across its vast history. From the 1990s with the likes of the front-engined Cannibal WSC to the Mosler raptor GT1 that ran in 1998 with a "Split Windshield" design that made it look like a boat, to the "Pepsi Challenger" Aston-Martin Nimrod Group C car with NASCAR royalty driving... All way back to 1970, when somebody entered a homebuilt car based off of a Formula Vee chassis, powered by a Porsche engine and sporting a modified Meyers Manx dune-buggy body!
There are several other choices you could've made here. This one, in my humble opinion, doesn't clear any of them.
Indeed. The '95 race springs to mind, when Paul Newman finished 3rd overall, 1st in class, aged 70, in a Trans-Am Mustang...
I'd really love a follow up video on this year's non Oreca entry. It's worthy of discussion and kind of hilarious. Five FCYs
You can take the dentists out of LMP3 but you can't take the LMP3 out of the dentists 😂
I dont think its that weird. Rick ware himself raced everything from nascar to indycars to imsa. Not that strange that he would foot the bill for his kids to do the same. Not even weird that nascar guys raced an lmp2. Hell kyle petty was racing a porsche gt1 in 2001. If you want an odd entry, check out that year and the busch grand national monte carlo that got turned into a sports car. Now that thing was weird lol
gotta love the purple nurtec cars, however i feel like their 2011 Rolex 24 Lineup is also... strange
I like lmp2 as a class but it gets dragged down by being basically formula oreca. I always support teams running different chassis
I will say, I do kind of miss each car having distinct number fonts. I get all the entries having number badges that are color-coded and clear, but I dunno, both the artist and sad nostalgic who can't get over the fact that Carl Edwards is retired in me really loves those old number fonts.
Tim Allen driving a Saleen with Steve Saleen is up there for me on the Rolex 24 weird drivers scale. Add in that Craig T. Nelson was in the race too that year
I think their main goal was to finish
you know, i respect that they commited on being different and make the best of what they had with highly unorthodox ways of operating comoared to the rest xD
I would also mention theillnesses. Every year the goal was to raise $1 million dollars for a different charity.
I recall austin nearly wrecking this thing
I had to hold back laughter with the power steering comment because of recent happenings
Where is The Spirit Of Daytona Mitsubishi Eclipse
Speaking of IMSA. You could do an in depth review of the visit Floridas trial by fire with the Riley P2, given they were somewhat moderately successful with it and the only team to have one outside of Riley tech. They switched mid season and I think the switch and a crash sent them bankrupt.
Makes me wonder if that chassis is the disastrous #33 from this year.
Shoulda just asked me, I woulda raced at Sebring.
It's better than a car full of Orthodontists
Anything involving RWR is gonna be interesting…
Tye, should you do a Bathurst 12 hour preview? I think that would be a really cool video
That Marcos though ❤❤❤
The Nashville street course has been officially closed (due to construction interference from the new Tennessee Titians stadium! Indy is racing on the super speedway instead! Time to do a street circuit failure video on it!
Can you do the Mainz Airfield circuit in your street circuit series?
Lance willsey did terrible cause to many full course yellows let’s all hope he doesn’t do that again at Sebring
...he's totally gonna do it again at Sebring. That place screams "dentistry"
I know that guy probably has a problem he just kinda piss me off a bit
Not the weirdest entry. Weirdest entry was the Mayers Manx dune buggy entered in 1970. Granted, they didn’t start the race because of an issue that Porsche had with them
i still think the Delta Wing car is the weirdest
This year’s Ligier had an incredible pro line up…shame it was so unreliable
If you’re moving to also talking about terrible cars then the Riley/Multimatic Mk.30 LMP2 and the Nissan DPi probably deserve their own videos
I wouldn't call this a weird entry. RWR and Ware had LMP2 experience. Yoluc was getting ready for an ELMS season and any LMP2 running is good. NASCAR drivers take part in the Rolex24 so Dillon wasn't a surprise. The oddball choice is Sven Muller who hasn't gone any races outside of GT cars since.
Please mate do Rome Formula E track failure
Nice
Austin Dillon being a bad choice because he was a NASCAR driver with 0 sportcars experience is the silliest naive reason ever.... their are a lot nascar drivers that would dominate in sportscar if they switched full time. silly
NASCAR had a car in the 24 hours of Daytona a while back
That was le mans
I don’t think so the only times NASCAR has ever had entries in endurance racing was back in the 70s 24h of Le Man, and 2023
@@tijmendr9006 both actually
Y'all, Jack's actually (at least somewhat) right, there was a Chevy Monte Carlo stock car in the Rolex 24 in the early Grand Am days, or the pre Grand-Am days.
@@K9RacingAndStuff Just looked it up. Chevrolet Monte Carlo LM, in 1996!
Womp womp
Womp womp