I’ll only go with schemes since I’ve started watching in 2016 * Busch’s M&M’s 18 * Larson’s HendrickCars 5 * Elliott’s NAPA 9 * Logano’s Pennzoil 22 * Hamlin’s FedEx 11 That’s really all I got sadly
I realized today marks 20 years since the HMS plane crash that took the lives of family and friends of Rick Hendrick, including Ricky Hendrick. The main reason why Larson's HendrickCars scheme is iconic nowadays. I can relate to this 20 years later, especially with what I'm going through right now with my family
Joey Logano - Shell Denny Hamlin - FedEx Alex Bowman - Ally Ty Gibbs - Monster Energy Bubba Wallace - McDonald’s Chase Elliott - NAPA Auto Parts These are all iconic for people who watch NASCAR
Jimmie driving a blue car was how I decided to root for him when I was 3 years old. My favorite color was blue and I had my pick of either Rusty in the blue deuce or Jimmie in the Lowe's 48. I think that's why there's so many younger fans today that are Kyle Busch fans, since the kids went crazy for the M&Ms car. Hell, I even had a soft spot for John Andretti solely because I loved Cheerios as a little kid. I wish we had more full time paint schemes other than Larson, Truex and Joey
Although you definitely do have some good points here the main thing you're forgetting is that it took YEARS for those schemes to become iconic in the fanbase and i think the same thing will happen to today's schemes like Bowman's ally scheme Larson's Hendrick cars Ty Gibbs Monster energy and so on
The only schemes I think of for drivers today that would be about synonymous with thier names are Elliott - Napa 9 Larson - HendrickCars 5 Bowman - Ally 48 Logano - Pennzoil 22 McDowell - Love's 34 Hamlin - FedEx 11 Truex - Bass Pro 19 and yet sponsors like Love's or FedEx are becoming more anonymous today DeWalt 20 will soon be synonymous with Bell, same for Cindric with Discount Tire, Blaney with Menards, and maybe Fastenal with Buescher other than that, sponsors are all over the place. Which sounds good, but it leaves little room for a car the fans crave to see almost every weekend
My favorite driver for the time i watched the sport was Jamie McMurray and i think his bass pro shop 1 is one of the more iconic schemes that car ran besides the all black dei one of martin truex jr
Honestly, i think it’s just a nostalgic vision, in 15 years in the future we gonna see Gen 6 and Next Gen the same time as we seen Gen 4 scheme. Top 10 Schemes will be in HOF of iconics Schemes 1. Denny Hamlin 2017 Fedex paint scheme 2. Joey Logano 2013-2021 Shell Pennzoil (definitely the “Flagship” paint for Logano) 3. Joey Logano 2022-present Shell Pennzoil for Las Vegas Races 4. William Byron Axalta 2021-2023 5. Kyle Larson Hendrick . Cars 2021-present 6. Kyle Larson Red and White Valvoline 2021-present 7. Kevin Harvick Busch Beer “blue tree” car 2017-2023 8. Carl Edwards Arris Orange car 2015-2016 9. Daniel Suarez Footsie car 2021-present 10. MTJ Bass Pro Shop car next gen paint 2022-present
NASCAR needs iconic paint schemes because they really connect with fans. Like the Jeff Gordon DuPont paint scheme, Matt Kenseth’s Dewalt paint scheme. NASCAR needs throwback schemes more. Thank goodness for throwback weekend at Darlington.
I think we need bigger sponsors back, But they don’t want to sponsor metal and machine anymore, Lowe’s, MARS, PepsiCo, Burger King, Those aren’t coming back unfortunately. All we need are recognizable paint schemes and elite drivers winning in those colors.
If the sponsors aren’t coming back then it’s on the team to build their own. In F1 it helps that teams are tied to car manufacturers. But look at Red Bull has done. A consistent visual style for more than 10 years regardless of changing sponsors.
Part of why I’m a Logano fan, his scheme is easily recognizable nearly every week. The red and yellow look fantastic together and pops out. Only an issue when McDowell is running good and he has Loves yellow and red. And when it’s AAA or AutoTrader on the car, the style is the same but with different colors to fit the sponsor. The only one not really following that style is Hunt Bros, but again, it’s already becoming iconic because it’s just a mean green machine. You don’t see anyone driving green out there.
The first car I saw that I absolutely loved was Davey Allison's black and white #28 Havoline car with the gold numbers on it. He was my first favorite driver. After he passed away I started liking Bill Elliot. Then Junior hit the scene and he was my guy 100%.
Kurt Busch's Monster scheme was plan but it was consistent and a classic. But the 22 Shell scheme I don't think has changed since Kurt started in the 22. The 48 Ally car, the Larson's Hendrick 5, to an extent Elliot's Napa 9(although it changes a lot). I would say the Bass pro scheme but it is on 2 cars.
Great to see the Bud #8 back. It is one of my favorite NASCAR paint schemes alongside the black #3 of Dale Sr & the Jeff Gordon "Rainbow Warriors" scheme of the 90's. Speaking of paint schemes, over in Indycar, my favorite scheme would have to be the red & yellow & then red & white Target scheme used by Ganassi & made famous by drivers like Alex Zarnadi, Jimmy Vasser, Juan Montoya & Scott Dixon. Another Indycar paint scheme that I really liked was the baby blue & white Players car that Paul Tracy, the late Greg Moore & Jacques Villeneuve all drove in. Lastly in F1 the famous Ferrari red, the silver & black scheme McLaren used from 1997-2005, the light & yellow scheme Fernando Alonso used to win back to back World titles in 05 & 06 with Renault, and the black & yellow Jordan cars are the schemes I remember most watching F1 during that time period.
As a fellow Jr fan, I really liked his Mountain Dew cars. The first one I liked was his 2010 version, which led to him becoming my favorite driver. That said, I love seeing the Bud 8 car back, even if it's a late model. I think the business model has had an effect on how there's been more than one scheme, which makes it hard to associate a driver & sponsor. That really tells you, it needs to have a major overhaul.
No joke, as a NASCAR fan who could name all Ford drivers before being able to form full sentences, that has not watched since Roush became a joke. This would convince me to at least look at the merchandise if not buy some of it to just get the vibe from my childhood. The Darlington race gets me to at least look up what teams are running for the weekend. Also my family still buys Tide and DeWalt for Rudd and Kenseth.
GM Goodwrench phased out in 2010. STP could work with the 43 car at LMC... Home Depot...maybe with Bell? Lowe's w/ Bowman & Mountain Dew is kinda back with Kaulig but it's with Food City for the Bristol races.
It says something when 20-25 years ago I could tell whose who with worse quality than I can with todays cars with high resolution and bigger screens. It's not just the constant sponsor changes week in and week out but also the fact that the sponsor names and the car numbers don't pop out like they use to. Not to mention the way the next gen is modeled doesn't help either.
I feel like the cars lost their luster when they stepped away from paint, and into wraps. There's just something special, and eye catching about real paint.
1st We need to Have Better Business Model in NASCAR and Have only 1 Sponsor per Team as it Makes the Car and the Driver More Iconic. Think of it, Jimmie and Lowe's, Jeff Gordon and Axalta/DuPont and Pepsi, Dale Sr wirh GM Goodwrench, Rusty Wand Miller, Tony and Home Depot and Office, Depot, Carl Edwards and Office Depot and Aflac, Richard Petty and STP and Dale Jarrett and UPS and Ford Credit, Motorcraft and Wood Brothers, FeDex and Denny, Shell Pennzoil and Budweiser and Harvick, DeWalt and Kenseth, Kyle and M&Ms, Kellogg's and HMS
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The that NASCAR has is that the teams are heavily reliant on their sponsors for their visual identity. This is a problem exclusive to Indy and NASCAR. If I told you to picture a RCR branded car in your head the first thing you would picture is the sponsor. If there is no consistent sponsor there is no idea. But if I were to ask you about a Ferrari race Car or a Red Bull race car you could picture it without to much trouble.
The 11, 22, and more recently the 5 car are the main “iconic” schemes in this day and age. You could argue the 9 car with NAPA, but there seems to be different schemes compared tot the others. IMO, RFK kills the paint schemes more often than any other team.
NASCAR does need iconic schemes. You are right. Which is why I think that unless it's for a special occasion like the All-Star race, one paint Scheme has to be run on every car regardless of the sponsor in modern day NASCAR.
@@thatpaintschemeguy8Then simplify the scheme in such a way that it rarely changes from sponsor to sponsor. Hamlin's car was that for each division of FedEx he had that particular week. So if we had the Interstate Batteries sponsorship on a black FedEx base (change the purple to green and orange to white), then there you go. The colors may change, but the patterns they have shouldn't.
@@joshuapboston1999 Don't know if you realize this, but the sponsor itself plays a big role in paint scheme designs. So good luck trying to convince them to be onboard with that. 23XI for example, I seriously doubt Monster Energy want their logos on the hood of a red and white McDonalds scheme.
@@crystaljonLike I've said previously, you should at least simplify the scheme so that as little changes as possible are made to cause confusion. From there, change the colors accordingly to match the sponsor. So, to use your example for 23XI, for Monster Energy, if the primary sponsor for the 500 uses the McDonald's scheme, change the white to black, and then use two different shades of green to replace the red and gold, one lighter than the other. And yes, I know that sponsors can play a big part in the paint schemes. But between all of them, there has to be a balance to all of their schemes to make it cohesive across the full season.
I will say when you started talking about how you used to have Miller light and some beer or drink companies on the cars. Some of that has to do with how these companies are owned now. Some companies are all owned by one big company and they’re not gonna do multiple cars and spend that much money like that. When they used to be individually owned by separate companies, they’re more freedom to spend on stuff like that.
One problem with this argument is that it's not actually up to nascar to make the paint schemes iconic, it's the sponsor, the team owner, and the driver to make the scheme iconic. You can have a great scheme but the driver could suck and not be recognizable at all, and also the scheme is created by team and sponsor which means they both have to agree on something, and in a world now where corporation means everything, iconic paint schemes are just not the norm anymore, which is tragic, but companies don't care anymore about their designs, they just want to be shown on TV and advertise to people, at this point the paint schemes might be out of NASCAR's hands and into the hands of the team and sponsor. One sign they don't care, look at logano's car now... yellow with just a red line going across the bottom... not very recognizable like it was in 2020. 4:57 all gen 7 cars are acid in my eyes
Bring back scott riggs nesquik paint scheme. Kobalt tools paint scheme lowes-power of pride, home depot all of them. Busch ac delco, pennzoil dewalt tools
There's actually a glaring problem that you didn't mention in the video... Merchandising isn't the same as it was in the Bud 8 era, as instead of multiple companies producing merchandise with all the sponsors, we have 1 company for apparel and 1 company for die cast, and the die cast one refuses to make all the different schemes and even undercuts the Xfinity series and truck series rosters. There are more deleted die casts that will never be made that people wanted (and are pissed off about not getting) than Lionel is actually producing, and on top of this, merchandise prices are through the roof, making what used to be the one way a fan showed support for a driver unobtainable
Schemes today shouldn't count for best schemes ever, I'm talking about the Next-Gen cars. All they care about is the sponsor placement rven though we never had a problem back in the day
MMA especially UFC has the same problem as Nascar. I remember budwiser and Heineken or even energy drink sponsors like Red Bull and Full Throttle being on the MMA shorts of guys like Brock Lesnar and now MMA shorts look generic without all the sponsors and different special colors.
The one reason there is no iconic looking cars anymore is look at how bland and boring these companies logos are. Sure they are clean and simple but just to safe and boring. Pepsi and coke are great examples. Their cans used to just look like the drink was gunna be refreshing and cold. Now it’s just blue can with the word Pepsi on it or red can with the word Coca Cola on it. Everything is way to simplistic with it’s art design. The overall 2000s aesthetic of over the top and in your face is gone.
Just do streaming like, wec,motogp, F1, and imsa. Then all the sponsorship problems will be gone. Nascar cant expect people to watch cable. Were living in the 2020s. I got in the sport in 2023 am not nostalgic like the many fans here.
Streaming is not the silver bullet here. And each sport handles their sponsorship differently. In the case of endurance racing most of those cars aren’t as reliant on sponsors. Mostly due to the fact many of the teams especially the prototypes are getting manufacturer backing. F1 has the advantage of being a global sport giving it more eyes and the fact the the F1 teams have their own identities regardless of their sponsorship. Ferrari will always be Red. Red Bull has had the same lives since 2016 despite two different titles sponsors coming and going.
@@rexthewolf3149 I get it. But Nascar is a lot more reliant on broadcasting money than those series I mentioned. Cable shouldn't be expensive, I can pay for Amazon prime for 3 or 4 euros. We should think about streaming for the cup series.
To have more iconic schemes, we need to retire numbers. Whenever someone thinks of a number, they think of the GOATS (ex: 8 car is most associated with Dale Jr, not Kyle Busch, the 24 and 48 are associated with Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson, not William Byron and Alex Bowman, the 20 is most associated with Tony Stewart, not Christopher Bell, etc). Not to mention, we need more longtime sponsors like FedEx, DeWalt, STP, Pennzoil, to make it better
What NASCAR schemes are the most memorable and iconic ones in your eyes?
I’ll only go with schemes since I’ve started watching in 2016
* Busch’s M&M’s 18
* Larson’s HendrickCars 5
* Elliott’s NAPA 9
* Logano’s Pennzoil 22
* Hamlin’s FedEx 11
That’s really all I got sadly
Dale Sr Goodwrench 3
DW's Mountain Dew 88
Dale Earnhardt's #3 Wrangler Car, 86/87
As for "Special Edition" memorable cars... Dale Sr's Sam Bass 3... That this was so crazy bright compared to his regular livery ..
* Dale Earnhardt’s #3 Men in Black
* Jeff Gordon’s #24 Rainbow Warrior/Flames
* Kyle Larson’s #5 HendrickCars Swoosh
* Dale Earnhardt Jr’s #8 Budweiser Stripes
* Etc, Etc, Etc
I realized today marks 20 years since the HMS plane crash that took the lives of family and friends of Rick Hendrick, including Ricky Hendrick.
The main reason why Larson's HendrickCars scheme is iconic nowadays.
I can relate to this 20 years later, especially with what I'm going through right now with my family
And the Hendrick Plane Crash also reminded me of Kobe's Death, which I am Still Heartbroken from 😢😢
Joey Logano - Shell
Denny Hamlin - FedEx
Alex Bowman - Ally
Ty Gibbs - Monster Energy
Bubba Wallace - McDonald’s
Chase Elliott - NAPA Auto Parts
These are all iconic for people who watch NASCAR
4 of those paint schemes are fairly recent, give it 10 more years and then they'll join the top 2 and the 5 car's paint scheme
Elliott’s scheme changes every year its more of the sponsor that goes along with him
@@S.K.R.E.Inc. I didn’t include Larson only because I mean his sponsor is literally in the team name
I think the only iconic scheme these days would be Kyle Larson’s Hendrick Cars scheme because that’s his only one, aside from occasional Valvoline
Hamlin
logano
Logano
Bowman?
11- FedEx (Denny Hamlin)
22- Pennzoil (Joey Logano)
Fitting how only 1 iconic pain scheme is there for each of the 3 brands that race in Cup
Need iconic drivers first
Jimmie driving a blue car was how I decided to root for him when I was 3 years old. My favorite color was blue and I had my pick of either Rusty in the blue deuce or Jimmie in the Lowe's 48.
I think that's why there's so many younger fans today that are Kyle Busch fans, since the kids went crazy for the M&Ms car. Hell, I even had a soft spot for John Andretti solely because I loved Cheerios as a little kid. I wish we had more full time paint schemes other than Larson, Truex and Joey
I love seeing the Bud 8 again, even on a late model looks very cool. Still need at least 1 Xfinity race with Jr in the Bud 8 though.
Forget Xfinity, we need a CUP race to show an old-school driver beats an entire field of silver-spooned, entitled brats that are drivers today
@@S.K.R.E.Inc. I agree. Love to see a cup start but don't think that's realistic. Maybe 2026 Bristol or Wilkesboro if Xfinity goes there.
Although you definitely do have some good points here the main thing you're forgetting is that it took YEARS for those schemes to become iconic in the fanbase and i think the same thing will happen to today's schemes like Bowman's ally scheme Larson's Hendrick cars Ty Gibbs Monster energy and so on
The only schemes I think of for drivers today that would be about synonymous with thier names are
Elliott - Napa 9
Larson - HendrickCars 5
Bowman - Ally 48
Logano - Pennzoil 22
McDowell - Love's 34
Hamlin - FedEx 11
Truex - Bass Pro 19
and yet sponsors like Love's or FedEx are becoming more anonymous today
DeWalt 20 will soon be synonymous with Bell, same for Cindric with Discount Tire, Blaney with Menards, and maybe Fastenal with Buescher
other than that, sponsors are all over the place. Which sounds good, but it leaves little room for a car the fans crave to see almost every weekend
I would include Kubota on the Chastain car being he's a farmer
My favorite driver for the time i watched the sport was Jamie McMurray and i think his bass pro shop 1 is one of the more iconic schemes that car ran besides the all black dei one of martin truex jr
Honestly, i think it’s just a nostalgic vision, in 15 years in the future we gonna see Gen 6 and Next Gen the same time as we seen Gen 4 scheme.
Top 10 Schemes will be in HOF of iconics Schemes
1. Denny Hamlin 2017 Fedex paint scheme
2. Joey Logano 2013-2021 Shell Pennzoil (definitely the “Flagship” paint for Logano)
3. Joey Logano 2022-present Shell Pennzoil for Las Vegas Races
4. William Byron Axalta 2021-2023
5. Kyle Larson Hendrick . Cars 2021-present
6. Kyle Larson Red and White Valvoline 2021-present
7. Kevin Harvick Busch Beer “blue tree” car 2017-2023
8. Carl Edwards Arris Orange car 2015-2016
9. Daniel Suarez Footsie car 2021-present
10. MTJ Bass Pro Shop car next gen paint 2022-present
NASCAR needs iconic paint schemes because they really connect with fans. Like the Jeff Gordon DuPont paint scheme, Matt Kenseth’s Dewalt paint scheme. NASCAR needs throwback schemes more. Thank goodness for throwback weekend at Darlington.
I think we need bigger sponsors back, But they don’t want to sponsor metal and machine anymore, Lowe’s, MARS, PepsiCo, Burger King, Those aren’t coming back unfortunately. All we need are recognizable paint schemes and elite drivers winning in those colors.
If the sponsors aren’t coming back then it’s on the team to build their own. In F1 it helps that teams are tied to car manufacturers. But look at Red Bull has done. A consistent visual style for more than 10 years regardless of changing sponsors.
Part of why I’m a Logano fan, his scheme is easily recognizable nearly every week. The red and yellow look fantastic together and pops out. Only an issue when McDowell is running good and he has Loves yellow and red. And when it’s AAA or AutoTrader on the car, the style is the same but with different colors to fit the sponsor. The only one not really following that style is Hunt Bros, but again, it’s already becoming iconic because it’s just a mean green machine. You don’t see anyone driving green out there.
The first car I saw that I absolutely loved was Davey Allison's black and white #28 Havoline car with the gold numbers on it. He was my first favorite driver. After he passed away I started liking Bill Elliot. Then Junior hit the scene and he was my guy 100%.
Kurt Busch's Monster scheme was plan but it was consistent and a classic. But the 22 Shell scheme I don't think has changed since Kurt started in the 22. The 48 Ally car, the Larson's Hendrick 5, to an extent Elliot's Napa 9(although it changes a lot). I would say the Bass pro scheme but it is on 2 cars.
Great to see the Bud #8 back. It is one of my favorite NASCAR paint schemes alongside the black #3 of Dale Sr & the Jeff Gordon "Rainbow Warriors" scheme of the 90's. Speaking of paint schemes, over in Indycar, my favorite scheme would have to be the red & yellow & then red & white Target scheme used by Ganassi & made famous by drivers like Alex Zarnadi, Jimmy Vasser, Juan Montoya & Scott Dixon. Another Indycar paint scheme that I really liked was the baby blue & white Players car that Paul Tracy, the late Greg Moore & Jacques Villeneuve all drove in. Lastly in F1 the famous Ferrari red, the silver & black scheme McLaren used from 1997-2005, the light & yellow scheme Fernando Alonso used to win back to back World titles in 05 & 06 with Renault, and the black & yellow Jordan cars are the schemes I remember most watching F1 during that time period.
As a fellow Jr fan, I really liked his Mountain Dew cars. The first one I liked was his 2010 version, which led to him becoming my favorite driver. That said, I love seeing the Bud 8 car back, even if it's a late model. I think the business model has had an effect on how there's been more than one scheme, which makes it hard to associate a driver & sponsor. That really tells you, it needs to have a major overhaul.
No joke, as a NASCAR fan who could name all Ford drivers before being able to form full sentences, that has not watched since Roush became a joke. This would convince me to at least look at the merchandise if not buy some of it to just get the vibe from my childhood. The Darlington race gets me to at least look up what teams are running for the weekend. Also my family still buys Tide and DeWalt for Rudd and Kenseth.
Bring back the GM Goodwrech paint scheme, STP paint scheme, Home Depot paint scheme, Lowes Paint scheme, Mountain Dew Paint scheme. 😊
GM Goodwrench phased out in 2010.
STP could work with the 43 car at LMC...
Home Depot...maybe with Bell?
Lowe's w/ Bowman & Mountain Dew is kinda back with Kaulig but it's with Food City for the Bristol races.
It says something when 20-25 years ago I could tell whose who with worse quality than I can with todays cars with high resolution and bigger screens. It's not just the constant sponsor changes week in and week out but also the fact that the sponsor names and the car numbers don't pop out like they use to. Not to mention the way the next gen is modeled doesn't help either.
I liked Kyle Busch's 3Chi black and gold car. Never thought I'd see a pot leaf on the hood on a car in Nascar
Dales paint scheme is iconic cause it was Dale. It was simple and he had that when his dad died and everyone started rooting for him
I feel like the cars lost their luster when they stepped away from paint, and into wraps. There's just something special, and eye catching about real paint.
While i do love iconic schemes, i like having different schemes for diecasts. I enjoy collecting the more obscure ones.
1st We need to Have Better Business Model in NASCAR and Have only 1 Sponsor per Team as it Makes the Car and the Driver More Iconic.
Think of it, Jimmie and Lowe's, Jeff Gordon and Axalta/DuPont and Pepsi, Dale Sr wirh GM Goodwrench, Rusty Wand Miller, Tony and Home Depot and Office, Depot, Carl Edwards and Office Depot and Aflac, Richard Petty and STP and Dale Jarrett and UPS and Ford Credit, Motorcraft and Wood Brothers, FeDex and Denny, Shell Pennzoil and Budweiser and Harvick, DeWalt and Kenseth, Kyle and M&Ms, Kellogg's and HMS
We need a lot of things for NASCAR to be great again. But too bad the ya NASCAR has been managed for 2 decades sucks, even on the business side
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You can’t force 1 sponsor for the whole year because not all sponsors are willing to pay for the whole year. NASCAR isn’t worth it like F1 is.
@@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT it's still great 2 me. Along with other fans like me
The diecast also has the number in the right spot.
I would say the Jeff Gordon Pepsi paint schemes rival the Dale Earnhardt jr Budwieser paint schemes
The only current paint scheme that is mostly the same all year is the Ally 48.
Kyle Larson's Hendrick Cars Scheme
@@thefranchise4698 Most races yes but Red Valvoline scheme is on the 5 for a few races a year.
I think Blaneys advanced auto scheme has iconic potential. Unfortunately they’re unwilling to be a full season sponsor
The Black and White Gold Number 28 Davey Allison
Little 6 year old me saw a blue car with red flames and I’ve been hooked ever since
Jeff Gordon's Flames scheme
Bowman has the most races with ally. yes it’s not the same scheme every week but still the purple ally somewhere on the car
I may be a bit biased, but Almirola's Smithfield Ford was one of the most recognizable paint scheme
I think the problem having iconic paint schemes nowadays is most cars have so many sponsors from race to race. It makes things different
I heard that Junior s sold so much merchandise that the sponsorship was almost free
The that NASCAR has is that the teams are heavily reliant on their sponsors for their visual identity. This is a problem exclusive to Indy and NASCAR. If I told you to picture a RCR branded car in your head the first thing you would picture is the sponsor. If there is no consistent sponsor there is no idea. But if I were to ask you about a Ferrari race Car or a Red Bull race car you could picture it without to much trouble.
The 11, 22, and more recently the 5 car are the main “iconic” schemes in this day and age. You could argue the 9 car with NAPA, but there seems to be different schemes compared tot the others. IMO, RFK kills the paint schemes more often than any other team.
NASCAR does need iconic schemes. You are right. Which is why I think that unless it's for a special occasion like the All-Star race, one paint Scheme has to be run on every car regardless of the sponsor in modern day NASCAR.
Oh god please no that'd be awful imagine interstate battery logos on a fedex base that would look awful
@@thatpaintschemeguy8Then simplify the scheme in such a way that it rarely changes from sponsor to sponsor. Hamlin's car was that for each division of FedEx he had that particular week. So if we had the Interstate Batteries sponsorship on a black FedEx base (change the purple to green and orange to white), then there you go.
The colors may change, but the patterns they have shouldn't.
@@joshuapboston1999 Don't know if you realize this, but the sponsor itself plays a big role in paint scheme designs. So good luck trying to convince them to be onboard with that. 23XI for example, I seriously doubt Monster Energy want their logos on the hood of a red and white McDonalds scheme.
@@crystaljonLike I've said previously, you should at least simplify the scheme so that as little changes as possible are made to cause confusion. From there, change the colors accordingly to match the sponsor. So, to use your example for 23XI, for Monster Energy, if the primary sponsor for the 500 uses the McDonald's scheme, change the white to black, and then use two different shades of green to replace the red and gold, one lighter than the other.
And yes, I know that sponsors can play a big part in the paint schemes. But between all of them, there has to be a balance to all of their schemes to make it cohesive across the full season.
I will say when you started talking about how you used to have Miller light and some beer or drink companies on the cars. Some of that has to do with how these companies are owned now. Some companies are all owned by one big company and they’re not gonna do multiple cars and spend that much money like that. When they used to be individually owned by separate companies, they’re more freedom to spend on stuff like that.
Bots are in fast today...
The only iconic scheme these days if Truex’s Bass Pro Shops or Joey Logano’s Shell/Penzoil scheme
When I think of Logano, I feel only think ofShell and Home Depot
One problem with this argument is that it's not actually up to nascar to make the paint schemes iconic, it's the sponsor, the team owner, and the driver to make the scheme iconic. You can have a great scheme but the driver could suck and not be recognizable at all, and also the scheme is created by team and sponsor which means they both have to agree on something, and in a world now where corporation means everything, iconic paint schemes are just not the norm anymore, which is tragic, but companies don't care anymore about their designs, they just want to be shown on TV and advertise to people, at this point the paint schemes might be out of NASCAR's hands and into the hands of the team and sponsor. One sign they don't care, look at logano's car now... yellow with just a red line going across the bottom... not very recognizable like it was in 2020.
4:57 all gen 7 cars are acid in my eyes
Bring back scott riggs nesquik paint scheme. Kobalt tools paint scheme lowes-power of pride, home depot all of them. Busch ac delco, pennzoil dewalt tools
There's actually a glaring problem that you didn't mention in the video...
Merchandising isn't the same as it was in the Bud 8 era, as instead of multiple companies producing merchandise with all the sponsors, we have 1 company for apparel and 1 company for die cast, and the die cast one refuses to make all the different schemes and even undercuts the Xfinity series and truck series rosters. There are more deleted die casts that will never be made that people wanted (and are pissed off about not getting) than Lionel is actually producing, and on top of this, merchandise prices are through the roof, making what used to be the one way a fan showed support for a driver unobtainable
cant lie, the kings hawaiian 6 car is iconic. just need brad to win in it!
Who Cares? Boycott every thing AB. Did you forget Bud Lights- Spokesperson? The transition person
The fact that you can’t even remember the name shows how much you actually cared.
Schemes today shouldn't count for best schemes ever, I'm talking about the Next-Gen cars.
All they care about is the sponsor placement rven though we never had a problem back in the day
MMA especially UFC has the same problem as Nascar. I remember budwiser and Heineken or even energy drink sponsors like Red Bull and Full Throttle being on the MMA shorts of guys like Brock Lesnar and now MMA shorts look generic without all the sponsors and different special colors.
Yep now Heineken is the official sponsor of the Champions League.
The first time i watched was 2013
NBC said it well at vegas. too many white cars with black logos on the hood, hard to tell what driver it was
Jeff Gordon dopount paint job after he won the Daytona 500 in 2005.😊
The one reason there is no iconic looking cars anymore is look at how bland and boring these companies logos are. Sure they are clean and simple but just to safe and boring. Pepsi and coke are great examples. Their cans used to just look like the drink was gunna be refreshing and cold. Now it’s just blue can with the word Pepsi on it or red can with the word Coca Cola on it. Everything is way to simplistic with it’s art design. The overall 2000s aesthetic of over the top and in your face is gone.
5:14 jesus darlington looks weird repaved
Just do streaming like, wec,motogp, F1, and imsa. Then all the sponsorship problems will be gone. Nascar cant expect people to watch cable. Were living in the 2020s. I got in the sport in 2023 am not nostalgic like the many fans here.
Streaming is not the silver bullet here. And each sport handles their sponsorship differently. In the case of endurance racing most of those cars aren’t as reliant on sponsors. Mostly due to the fact many of the teams especially the prototypes are getting manufacturer backing.
F1 has the advantage of being a global sport giving it more eyes and the fact the the F1 teams have their own identities regardless of their sponsorship. Ferrari will always be Red. Red Bull has had the same lives since 2016 despite two different titles sponsors coming and going.
@@rexthewolf3149 I get it. But Nascar is a lot more reliant on broadcasting money than those series I mentioned. Cable shouldn't be expensive, I can pay for Amazon prime for 3 or 4 euros. We should think about streaming for the cup series.
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To have more iconic schemes, we need to retire numbers. Whenever someone thinks of a number, they think of the GOATS (ex: 8 car is most associated with Dale Jr, not Kyle Busch, the 24 and 48 are associated with Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson, not William Byron and Alex Bowman, the 20 is most associated with Tony Stewart, not Christopher Bell, etc). Not to mention, we need more longtime sponsors like FedEx, DeWalt, STP, Pennzoil, to make it better
Then we'd run out of numbers
That sound like a terrible idea. Last I checked, people want NASCAR to be less like ball sports.
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