The 46-point penalty that would cost Mark Martin the 1990 championship, since it's been suggested that NASCAR was pressured by Dale Earnhardt and Richard Childress into issuing it.
But the thing is that it's more about NASCAR being biased to "Royalty Drivers" ( Davey Allison in this case cos he's the son of Bobby Allison, I kinda thinking of the Allisons of Alabama as NASCAR royalty). Ol' Rooster was victimized by that
I'm pretty sure that Brock Beard did a breakdown of North Wilkesboro 1990 and found that Brett Bodine actually won. I think he used a short pitting strategy.
If there's one person whose championship win NASCAR took exception to, it was Matt Kenseth. By winning the 2003 Winston Cup with a race to spare despite only winning one race, it led to Brian France and others implementing The Chase to prevent a similar performance happening again. The initial Chase was dubbed the Matt Kenseth rule as a result. I know Jarret has voiced similar views to that which I'm going to say, but it doesn't matter the way he won the Winston Cup in 2003. He was simply the most consistent driver over the course of the season. Yes, Ryan Newman was more spectacular to watch with all the wins he had, but there's a reason why he was so far adrift of Kenseth in the final standings for 2003, all the times he had DNF's. Matt Kenseth deserved the 2003 title and if NASCAR is to repair the damage of Brian France, they need to reinstate the year long points system, make every single race matter towards the championship
@@runrafarunthebestintheworld well, it's a balancing act. The points difference between first and second needs to be big enough to have an impact to make wins matter, but not so much that it allows the winningest driver cause people to get bored with the same person winning. In an ideal world, we'd look towards 1992, the absolutely insane points battle that left 6 drivers mathematically in contention, of which 3 were realistic. But the very thing that made it so special, how close it was, with Bill Elliott and Alan Kulwicki going flat out to get every last bonus point they could in the Hooters 500, would take very specific circumstances to repeat. Specifically, it would involve inconsistent finishes from those who won the most races and the flip side being a driver who is consistent but lacks wins compared to the others. It's not something that's going to happen in most circumstances, but because of that, that's what makes it worth watching
Not really, it's been stated many places that they were looking at a Chase format as far back as 2000 and tweaking the points due to runaway champions, Kenseth was just the last straw. Kenseth's said in interviews Brian France was adamant on making things matter more, can't remebrer if it's wins or points, as Kenseth points out, now we talk about points every week of the playoffs and it's worse than it was under the Latford system
@jacekatalakis8316 I guess the flip side of it would be, for example, showing a modern day audience Jeff Gordon's 1998 season, where together with Mark Martin, they won 20 of the 33 races that year, nearly 2/3 of the races run. Jeff's average finish of 5.7 with 13 wins by himself (7 for Mark) would be considered pretty boring by today's standards as you had pretty much coin toss odds of who was going to win. There needs to be a balance in my view, regard consistency and give a benefit for wins, but not have the same person winning all the time
The thing with 98 is you had good racing though even if Jeff and Mark won. It's like in F1 this year, Max is winning, but, the racing through the field is great. In 98 you had, arguably, better racing for 40th to 43rd than you do now, because you had less developed cars and, arguably, harder to drive. The telecasts also did a great job, IMO, of shining a light on the great racing that was going on throughout the field. Yes, Jeff and Mark dominated, but go back to a race in 98 and pay attention to the racing throughout the field and how the network shows what's going on, vs what we have now with Fox and NBC
Denny Hamlin going clear to the freaking inside wall to "Avoid a crash" At Dega winning the race while Dibennedetto got penalized was PRIME FAVORITISM.
2 situations I clearly remember that I felt was favortism were both in the early 90s. The first was the Ricky Rudd spinning out Davey Allison and getting black flagged as was mentioned by others in the chat. Another incident was a time where Dale Earnhardt Sr's pit crew was allowed to run down into turn 1 and change his tires when a wheel was left loose and came off. Unfortunately I cannot remember specifically what race that one was but I know it happened.
there was also the '93 Coke 600, he was needing a caution and dumped the 68. And there was another race (maybe Wilkesboro in the mid-90s) where he was a lap down or something, and NASCAR threw a caution to figure out the running order and gave Dale his lap back.
It was sometime around his 3rd or 4th championship that I was just sick of hearing the whining that they were picking Johnson's best tracks in those final 10 races (but they definitely weren't). I tend to be a numbers guy, so I went through all the statistics. I picked out all the Chase drivers for the years and put together each individual driver's best 10 tracks to create a dream Chase for that driver. I then compared JJ's average finish at THAT driver's dream Chase schedule and found only 2 drivers that JJ wouldn't have beaten (and they only barely beat him). I remember one was Gordon, and I think the other was Hamlin or Harvick. They were definitely changing the formats to increase the chances for anyone else to win.
I'm sad I never got to see Jimmie win, but I'm happy for his legacy. No one thought anyone else would win 7 championships, let alone 5 in a row, but here we are. 💪🏼
@@runrafarunthebestintheworld Right. If you take out road courses (and Kentucky since it wasn't on the schedule for a long time), he had the fewest amount of top 5 finishes at Homestead (only 5) and Michigan. Homestead was one of his worst tracks.
What’s funny is the next week at Homestead in 2012 Jeff silenced everybody that said he should’ve been suspended by winning the race finishing ahead of ironically Clint Bowyer
The only reason NASCAR gave the win to Tony Stewart in the 2008 talladega fall race is because he was a big name driver. It’s was a much better outcome for sponsors and the media if Stewart won instead of Smith. If the roles were reversed, they would have penalized Smith with forcing him below the line.
I've watched NASCAR since the 60's, and YES, there IS OBVIOUS BIAS and even allowed cheating of certain teams, WHICH in later years even ADMITTED to cheating. End of story.
I can tell you two drivers that NASCAR absolutely loved screwing over: Carl Edwards and Kasey Kahne. The biggest examples I can think of for both are Carl Edwards in the 2006 Budweiser Shootout and Kasey Kahne in the 2014 Daytona 500 and 2006 fall Talladega race.
A couple things: the reason DW was upset at north Wilkesboro was because while nascar was trying to sort the mess out under caution, the bodine team pitted for fresh tires. Then nascar put them at the front. With newer tires, bodine pulled away, when if he’d restarted with his old tires, he’d likely have been passed. Second, just my opinion, I’m not so sure that nascar didn’t penalize Junior at Dega because they favorited him so much as they were afraid of the track being burned down if they did it. Who knows? For the record, at the time, I was livid about it 😂
Said it in another comment, it was actually the National Motorsports Appeal Panel that changed the penalty. Nascar wanted the fine and points taken, but the national board said double the fine, but give back the points.
The whole "Kenseth vs Logano" incident was also what sparked (or at least helped along) the current policy for repairing a damage car (something I *still* don't agree with NASCAR on and want gone ASAP), so in a way NASCAR was potentially biased on two fronts when it came to that incident.
A lot of MOPAR fans believe the France family regulated us out of nascar in the 70’s specifically limiting engine displacement to 348, it’s well known that the 360 la block HATES to be destroked, meanwhile gm and ford both had engines that were within two ci of the spec, the hemi rules, the aero rules, the list is endless and as a result most MOPAR loyalist migrated to drag racing. Right or wrong I can tell you that’s how a lot of us feel.
I believe that NASCAR has been favoring Toyota since the Gen 6 era. Toyota came in the Cup Series 16 years ago and yet, they already have a shit ton of wins and a couple of championships under their belt. You would think that it would take along time for a new manufacturer to start winning? Well, Toyota was doing jack squat with MWR but when JGR switched to them, all of the sudden, they started winning which is kinda weird to me. I think that NASCAR has a hand in Toyota's success in the sport and I think they're still helping them.
Historically speaking at least before 2023, any judgement call that could go in Hendrick's favor, would always go in Hendrick's favor. The man has deep connections and pockets.
@@cito1101 But it's not NASCAR. If anything, they were just as pissed as the fans were when the Kaulig penalty was upheld for pretty much the same infraction. Why else would they step in to get THAT rescinded as well?
Dale Jr. 2003 Talladega was 100% favoritism. They would nail everyone's asses to the wall for the yellow line rule, but by some magic Jr. was safe that year
Wrong. That was the only time they correctly didn’t call the driver below the line, but they still didn’t penalize the driver they deemed to have forced the other to go below the line. When you’re door to door with someone and they come down on you, you give yourself extra room so you don’t get doored. By the way the rules work, Jr should have not been penalized(as he wasn’t) but kenseth should have been penalized for forcing someone below the line while attempting to block.
As an F1 fan in addition to NASCAR this video has me thinking about 3 times (out of many) that F1 played favorites. The first one happened in 1989 when FIA president Jean-Marie Balestre personally DQ'd Senna from the Japanese GP because he used the escape road to get back on track after his incident with teammate & title rival Prost. This cost Senna the World title. Then in 1994 (again involving the World title fight) the stewards absolutely refused to penalize Michael Schumacher after he intentionally rammed Damon Hill at the Australian GP which resulted in Hill DNF'ing & Schumacher winning his first World title. Lastly there's the period from 2000-2004 where F1 & the FIA was accused heavily favoring Ferrari (especially when it came to the technical regulations & things like team orders) so that Michael Schumacher could win the majority of his 7 World titles. Heck the FIA even took away wins from Schumacher's teammate Rubens Barrichello twice during the 2002 season (Austria & Indy) because they wanted Schumacher to win & set the record for most wins in a season at the time. This favoritism continues to plague F1 as they have been accused of this with the Red Bull dynasty with Vettel from 2010-2013, Mercedes with Hamilton/Rosberg from 2014-2020 & Red Bull again with Max Verstappen recently.
Austria 2002 was purely Ferrari team orders, nothing to do with the FIA (besides, I think Ferrari were fined for not having their drivers on the right spots on the podium), and at Indianapolis Barrichello kept the win (Schumacher said he tried and failed to stage a dead heat). The main 'Ferrari International Assistance' controversy I can think of during that time was when Michelin were told to change their tyre construction with three races left in the 2003 season, which might have impacted McLaren and Williams, who were challenging Ferrari for the title.
You say that stuff about Ferrari, and yet, many claim that the 2005 tire change ban was an "anti-Ferrari" rule, since they noticed that Ferrari's early-2000s domination was starting to negatively affect ratings, and needed to do something about it. Which I guess to their credit, kind of worked, since Ferrari would only score one win in '05 (that race we all want to forget.)
I think that every motorsport has their favorites. NASCAR's favorite: some say Chase Elliott but if that were the case, they wouldn't have suspended him for hooking Dirty Denny back in Charlotte. IndyCar's favorite: between Alex Palou and Josef Newgarden. F1's favorite: it's obvious, Max Verstappen.
On of my friends uncle used to work in NASCAR and used to call out exactly what would happen in the last 50 laps, because he told us that NASCAR would give advantages to certain drivers at certain times, allowing for advantages for those teams, he said they did this regularly and the only way a race was actually fair was if the person they gave the advantage to hada wreck or other issues...
As a Gordon fan I definitely agree that the 2012 incident was blatant favoritism. But the 2013 wasn’t in my opinion. If Spingate doesn’t happen Gordon is in. Also Logano was cheating at the same time and since Bowyer and Logano were the cheating aspects they should have also been thrown out of the playoffs just like Truex was, which would have let Gordon in anyways.
I remember that Richmond race. David gilliland and another driver were literally on radio admitting to “ foul play “ to keep Gordon from making the chase. It’s already been proven. Is it favoritism? No. Michael waltrip racing and front row Motorsports impacted that race a lot
They were trying to get logano in because Penske bribed front row to slow their cars to let Logano by. Honestly Logano should've been penalized and kicked out of the Chase IMO
@@Denverbroncos87 oh I know. I'm just saying everyone focuses on spingate when FRM's deal is seemingly forgotten every time this comes up in videos lol
It's funny that you put this out on the same day NASCAR announced the penalties for Sanchez and Crafton, which caused people to whine that Crafton got off light. (Funny, I thought I saw Sanchez deliberately turn right and hook Crafton in leiu of making a clean pass...)
Was anyone really calling for Gordon to be suspended in 2012? Penalized yeah but suspended? That was the heart of the boys have at it era that saw plenty of that kind of driving. Just a few years prior Edwards and Brad K were trying to kill each other every other week.
@@crystaljon Nascar has never suspended a driver for fighting in the infield. Jimmy Spencer was suspended for when punched Kurt Busch but he was already on probation, Kurt was still strapped in his car not able to defend himself, and it was done right in front of a state cop. Other than Jimmy in that very specific situation no driver has ever been suspended for fighting. It would be weird for people to call for that when its never happened.
I think the thing with Gordon's wrecking is that he right hooked Bowyer and that's why people wanted Gordon suspended. Plus with the whole Edwards and Keselowski thing the only instance where Carl should have been suspended was Gateway 2010, as Atlanta that year you could argue was the wing's fault.
There definitely was calls for Gordon to be suspended especially since he right reared him into a wall collecting another driver, drove slow around the track on purpose for laps to get him, and basically ending his season. Plus there was precedent to park him atleast 1 race since the year before Nascar parked Kyle Busch the rest of the truck race and whole weekend after his Ron Hornaday incident ending his championship
Darrell Waltrip telling them that Bodine would never win race ever again was hilarious after they told him it’s his first win let him enjoy it and he never won a race ever again is priceless u can’t make that up lol
For the longest time, mes amis, WOKECAR has had a similar business-model to that of Professional Wrestling. A veneer of believability, covering a core of "arrangements ".
Granted, I am a biased Jeff Gordon fan here, so take my thoughts with a grain of salt. However, I still stand by the idea of adding Jeff to the 2013 Chase, but ONLY, because of certain circumstances within that race. A lot of detractors tend to forget that, prior to the Spingate caution, Jeff was currently in position to make the chase on points (+2 over Logano, trapped a lap down). Then Bowyer spins, Logano and the Fords as well as MWR plays some tricks under caution, Jeff loses a couple spots on the restart, and results in Jeff and Newman missing the chase. While granted, anything could happen in the remaining 8 laps (a legitimate caution, Jeff loses spots, etc.), all signs seemed to indicate that the race was going to finish under green as is and Jeff (barring an issue) was going to make the chase alongside Newman (at the expense of Truex and Logano). -- I do think the addition of 13th car was a bit odd; they could have penalized Logano or Bowyer for their actions and removed one or the other to replace with Jeff instead of just sticking him in the chase. Nevertheless, it has always been my opinion that Jeff was going to make the 2013 Chase had Spingate not occurred; adding him back in should not be a controversy. If it is any consolation to those that think my fan bias clouds my judgement, please note that I have always felt that Jeff should have been parked for Homestead 2012, and Byron (my current favorite) should have kept the penalty from earlier this year and from last year's altercation with Hamlin (though, I am happy none of these penalties occurred). Also, had Jeff not been in position to make the Chase prior to Spingate, I would have a different opinion on the matter.
Erik Jones should've won the Talladega fall race bc: 1. DiBenedetto did force Byron below the yellow was rightfully penalized 2. Hamlin clearly went below the yellow line and came from 4-7 to the lead and didn't get penalized So DiBenedetto gets penalized but why not Hamlin? Answer: Favoritism
Adding the 1 to 301 laps at Hampshire was my number one and I’m jeffro fan for life the true 8 time undefeated undisputed lead every lap won every race
I think its favoritism that NASCAR didn't suspend or fine Kyle Busch for saying he's gonna kill Denny Hamlin after the race back in the COT days at Charlotte I think either the 600 or the All Star race. But now Nick Sanchez got fined for saying he's going to kill Matt Crafton 🤔🤔
I'm suprised we didn't bring up the convenient daytona 500 pole awards through many of the last 15 years. Patrick, Dillon, Gordon, Elliot, Stenhouse, Byron. You could even reach as far back as Mark Martin. So many of those are just good stories at the end of the day, and the tolerances are so tight that a little extra breathing room can absolutely make a car do more. I absolutely think Nascar is not above favoritism at the superspeedways. And the amount they will go through to penalize or not when someone intentionally wrecks is comical. But situations like Martin in 1990 and Jimmie's hot streak are just the product of racing.
This is going to be an unpopular one but you forgot about the 2001 Pepsi 400 at Daytona where Dale Jr. Clearly had an illegal car. He was able to pass cars by himself without drafting help. I understand the was the return race at Daytona after his father had lost his life. But it still shows bias.
I could believe it if it was a one time thing with Jr's car being that much faster but 01 was the start of DEI's insane dominance at plate tracks. Both him and Waltrip through 04 were able to pull out at will by themselves and pass cars
I think the Rudd/Allison Sonoma race and Earnhardt jr running out of fuel and not keeping pace at Michigan should be in there over Jimmy dominating and that 16 dega race
Darrell Waltrip’s loss at North Wilkesboro is even worse for him because to this day, he’s still tied with longtime rival Bobby Allison for 4th on the Cup Series’ All-Time win list.
gordon in 2012 and 2013 was so favortism and killed the old chase format for the stupid one we have now and also they had something against matt kenseth after the logano incident at kansas
So to start I HATE Johnson but in those 5 years in the chase he did better than everyone NASCAR changed the rules to keep Chad away from the tracks when he was sitting races out. Pretty much everything else on your list I agree with. Team owner's showing favorites I don't care about I have 8 blood neices and nephews two step two adopted and 10 great ones and I have a favorite I love them all the same I just like a few better than the rest lol so I can't say shit about that.
How about NASCAR not black flagging,Chase Elliott at the Roval after Harvicks payback? Who else could ride around out there with the deck lid flapping and not get black flagged? And I'm a Chase Elliott fan!!
Another blatant hendrick favoratism is william byron spinning denny under caution blatantly and getting a $50K fine and 25 point pentalty, only for a race later for the fine to be bumped up to $100K and getting all his points back. must be great for daddy hendrick to literally buy points back in the playoffs
That one was more from the National Motorsports Appeal Panel than Nascar. Nascar wanted to have the fine and points penalty on Byron but the Appeal Panel instead raised the fine but retracted the points penalty. Nascar would later learn their lesson by changing the rulebook saying either all of it, or none of it can be changed.
I think that the more recent theories that Nascar favors Bubba Wallace like they did with Gordon, Davey, and Junior do have some merit, although it's not due to some grand conspiracy like the Facebook boomers believe- it really comes down to the fact that he brings a ton of big sponsors in and Nascar wants to keep them, so they're more lenient with him. Being the only Toyota driver that hasn't been caught cheating this year despite getting around the same results is definitely suspicious.
What about when they just made up rules to keep Elliot in the playoffs when his guys were over the wall too soon… or when they let him drive around the roval for 10 laps with his bumper falling off… until it fell off and gave him a caution to get back on the lead lap
Ay, if you go to the Talladega race with Logano and Junior, the real conspiracy is that Harvick did not maintain speed through the caution and was somehow allowed to keep his position on that second and final restart. This allowed Harvick to advance when he should have had his season end. If you go back to when Marcos Ambrose did not maintain his speed under caution at one of the road courses while saving gas, Ambrose was forced to restart behind the cars that had passed him under caution. Harvick was passed by the entire field but still got to restart where he would've been had he not had a problem. Nascar, knowing Harvick was going to intentionally cause a wreck, allowed him to do it anyway so he would advance to the next round.
As a Jr fan I was more upset about Harvick's ticks then Jr losing the race. Harvick caused the wreck knowing his car was junk just to move on. Nascar should have parked him for that move. Talk about race manipulation
Putting Gordon in the playoffs was the only favoritism on this list, Gordon and Kenseth wrecks happen all the time, nascar calling that disaster 2014 Talladega race turned me off nascar for years.
One thing forgotten about the 2016 Talladega race that still drives me nuts to this day was that Dale Jr. was about to be lapped, and the caution came out with 7 laps to go when Jamie McMurray blew his engine. Under the caution leading to the GWC finish, Greg Biffle was leading (it would unexpectedly be his final season in cup, too). Most of the field pitted, but Biffle was in fuel-save and around the time they were ready to restart for the GWC, they ran another 5 or 6 caution laps. Dale Jr. was in 3rd initially. Finally, Biffle was running out, and the second he pulled into the pits, NASCAR announced they were going Green next time by. Dale Jr. took Biffles spot and proceeded to choke twice. Some things are setup too well to be coincidences, and that was one of those times. It was CLEARLY rigged. NASCAR has always simped for Jr; why else would he have his own graphic (Dale Jr Nationwide Rewind, I think it was called) while having a, not bad at all, but still underwhelming career?
The answer to your question about why Dale Jr. had his own graphic is right there in the name if it was indeed a sponsored segment by Nationwide. It's not that different from the "Toyota Driver Update" we still see today on the broadcasts. And you know what? Dale Jr. being the most popular driver at the time probably sweetened the deal for NASCAR's broadcasting partners when Nationwide Insurance approached them with the idea.
@@nathanstroud2223It's very different from the Toyota Driver Update, because it is in regard to anyone in the field driving a Toyota. It's not based on one specific driver. The Dale Jr Nationwide yadda yadda is specifically for Jr, because he was NASCAR's golden child before Chase Elliott.
I don't know if it's favoritism, but it's definitely something. The NASCAR execs only care about TV ratings. They keep messing around NASCAR is going to turn into WWF, fake races with fake storylines
My boy Tony Stewart was penalized for going under the yellow line. Jr could have ridden around the apron all day and no penalty would have been called.
I feel like NASCAR has more “favoritism” moments then any other sport. The rules need to be black and white for if you do something you shouldn’t and what the consequence(s) should be
I always have thought when Hendrick’s family (I think it was his son) died in the helicopter crash and Jimmie Johnson won was a complete setup. I know this might hurt some feelings. Just my opinion.
Jimmy would be nothing without chad. He was the mastermind. Funny how when he was made competition director for all 4 hendrick cars suddenly all the cars were doing well
I be 100% honest At the time I was happy that MK got supposed 2 weeks. I wanted him suspended the rest of the season in 2015 tbh.. I never liked before that or after that. But now I think about it. 2 weeks was to much really. Other drivers that got suspended for intentionally wrecking a driver only got 1 week. So I think it was unfair. NASCAR always seems to give different penalties to different drivers doing the same thing.
Yes he did. He was in 10th spots when Bowyer spun out. If anything, Logano and Bowyer should’ve been dropped from the Chase for manipulating the race and potentially the championship.
Do you think that NASCAR played favorites in any of these or any other situations? If so which ones?
Harvick won in 2003 at Talladega
The 46-point penalty that would cost Mark Martin the 1990 championship, since it's been suggested that NASCAR was pressured by Dale Earnhardt and Richard Childress into issuing it.
the addition of Jeff Gordon to the chase/championship battle after "spingate" yeah that still frustrates/haunts me to this day
2016 homestead with the mystery caution that nascar could never produce the debris for that cost Carl Edwards the championship
@@tjr9488 I thought it was 2016
I think the Ricky Rudd-Davey Allison incident at Sonoma would count as playing favourites. And it's another Hendrick driver involved in that one too
That has to be one of the biggest screwjobs in Nascar
Burns my *ss to this day
But the thing is that it's more about NASCAR being biased to "Royalty Drivers" ( Davey Allison in this case cos he's the son of Bobby Allison, I kinda thinking of the Allisons of Alabama as NASCAR royalty). Ol' Rooster was victimized by that
Ricky only bumped Davey.
Can't remember anyone else having a win taken away for wrecking someone. This should have been in there over Jimmie Johnson and that 15 dega race
I'm pretty sure that Brock Beard did a breakdown of North Wilkesboro 1990 and found that Brett Bodine actually won. I think he used a short pitting strategy.
Yes, he did. Brett and his team just pulled a fast one in terms of strategy.
If there's one person whose championship win NASCAR took exception to, it was Matt Kenseth. By winning the 2003 Winston Cup with a race to spare despite only winning one race, it led to Brian France and others implementing The Chase to prevent a similar performance happening again. The initial Chase was dubbed the Matt Kenseth rule as a result.
I know Jarret has voiced similar views to that which I'm going to say, but it doesn't matter the way he won the Winston Cup in 2003. He was simply the most consistent driver over the course of the season. Yes, Ryan Newman was more spectacular to watch with all the wins he had, but there's a reason why he was so far adrift of Kenseth in the final standings for 2003, all the times he had DNF's.
Matt Kenseth deserved the 2003 title and if NASCAR is to repair the damage of Brian France, they need to reinstate the year long points system, make every single race matter towards the championship
Yes and they need to make wins matter more while still having a year long points system while still having consistency matter.
@@runrafarunthebestintheworld well, it's a balancing act. The points difference between first and second needs to be big enough to have an impact to make wins matter, but not so much that it allows the winningest driver cause people to get bored with the same person winning.
In an ideal world, we'd look towards 1992, the absolutely insane points battle that left 6 drivers mathematically in contention, of which 3 were realistic. But the very thing that made it so special, how close it was, with Bill Elliott and Alan Kulwicki going flat out to get every last bonus point they could in the Hooters 500, would take very specific circumstances to repeat. Specifically, it would involve inconsistent finishes from those who won the most races and the flip side being a driver who is consistent but lacks wins compared to the others. It's not something that's going to happen in most circumstances, but because of that, that's what makes it worth watching
Not really, it's been stated many places that they were looking at a Chase format as far back as 2000 and tweaking the points due to runaway champions, Kenseth was just the last straw. Kenseth's said in interviews Brian France was adamant on making things matter more, can't remebrer if it's wins or points, as Kenseth points out, now we talk about points every week of the playoffs and it's worse than it was under the Latford system
@jacekatalakis8316 I guess the flip side of it would be, for example, showing a modern day audience Jeff Gordon's 1998 season, where together with Mark Martin, they won 20 of the 33 races that year, nearly 2/3 of the races run. Jeff's average finish of 5.7 with 13 wins by himself (7 for Mark) would be considered pretty boring by today's standards as you had pretty much coin toss odds of who was going to win. There needs to be a balance in my view, regard consistency and give a benefit for wins, but not have the same person winning all the time
The thing with 98 is you had good racing though even if Jeff and Mark won. It's like in F1 this year, Max is winning, but, the racing through the field is great. In 98 you had, arguably, better racing for 40th to 43rd than you do now, because you had less developed cars and, arguably, harder to drive. The telecasts also did a great job, IMO, of shining a light on the great racing that was going on throughout the field. Yes, Jeff and Mark dominated, but go back to a race in 98 and pay attention to the racing throughout the field and how the network shows what's going on, vs what we have now with Fox and NBC
Denny Hamlin going clear to the freaking inside wall to "Avoid a crash" At Dega winning the race while Dibennedetto got penalized was PRIME FAVORITISM.
Dibenedetto made a late block on willy b forcing him below the yellow line
@Cuhh346 what are you yapping about 😭
saying nascar favors denny hamlin of all people is crazy
@@Pen2ke I mean, his podcast is called 'Actions Detrimental' for a reason.
Byron got loose infront of Denny Hamlin and he thought William was gonna crash so Hamlin has the right to pull that.
How about the 08 Dega race that they robbed from Smith and gave to Tony?
They didn’t want the Wicked Witch to get a win.
If it was any other driver in the spring 2003 Talladega race, that would’ve been a penalty. Just went to show how much NASCAR was in love with Jr.
Anyone else it would be the same call Dale jr is a great racer and Nascar legend ur just mad he beat ur favorite
@@rcguy902 Wrong
@@SuperNASCARrocks yes I know ur wrong child it's OK
@JGR4LIFE
Lol good joke he's not overrated at all
@@SuperNASCARrocks
Actually he's right
2 situations I clearly remember that I felt was favortism were both in the early 90s. The first was the Ricky Rudd spinning out Davey Allison and getting black flagged as was mentioned by others in the chat. Another incident was a time where Dale Earnhardt Sr's pit crew was allowed to run down into turn 1 and change his tires when a wheel was left loose and came off. Unfortunately I cannot remember specifically what race that one was but I know it happened.
1990 fall Charlotte race.
there was also the '93 Coke 600, he was needing a caution and dumped the 68. And there was another race (maybe Wilkesboro in the mid-90s) where he was a lap down or something, and NASCAR threw a caution to figure out the running order and gave Dale his lap back.
@@nascarsteve Earnhardt WAS penalized for the Charlotte incident. He just came back from it and won.
NASCAR was not playing favorites for Jimmie. They were changing the format to keep him from winning championships.
It was sometime around his 3rd or 4th championship that I was just sick of hearing the whining that they were picking Johnson's best tracks in those final 10 races (but they definitely weren't). I tend to be a numbers guy, so I went through all the statistics. I picked out all the Chase drivers for the years and put together each individual driver's best 10 tracks to create a dream Chase for that driver. I then compared JJ's average finish at THAT driver's dream Chase schedule and found only 2 drivers that JJ wouldn't have beaten (and they only barely beat him). I remember one was Gordon, and I think the other was Hamlin or Harvick. They were definitely changing the formats to increase the chances for anyone else to win.
I'm sad I never got to see Jimmie win, but I'm happy for his legacy. No one thought anyone else would win 7 championships, let alone 5 in a row, but here we are. 💪🏼
Well this surely prevented Jeff Gordon from winning any more championships!!
@@jek4837 plus Homestead wasn't Jimmie's best track until he won at Homestead in 2016.
@@runrafarunthebestintheworld Right. If you take out road courses (and Kentucky since it wasn't on the schedule for a long time), he had the fewest amount of top 5 finishes at Homestead (only 5) and Michigan. Homestead was one of his worst tracks.
What’s funny is the next week at Homestead in 2012 Jeff silenced everybody that said he should’ve been suspended by winning the race finishing ahead of ironically Clint Bowyer
The move on Bowyer by Gordon in 2012 was so obvious and blatant . NASCAR was so transparent with its favoritsm for the 90s biggest name in the sport
Gordon even admitted he should have been suspended for Homestead, a race in which he ultimately won.
@@nascarsteve A race that was also his last with DuPont logos on the car. Imaging how different that could've ended.
The only reason NASCAR gave the win to Tony Stewart in the 2008 talladega fall race is because he was a big name driver. It’s was a much better outcome for sponsors and the media if Stewart won instead of Smith. If the roles were reversed, they would have penalized Smith with forcing him below the line.
I've watched NASCAR since the 60's, and YES, there IS OBVIOUS BIAS and even allowed cheating of certain teams, WHICH in later years even ADMITTED to cheating. End of story.
There was a Martinsville race where Dale jr in 2 cautions came back from 5 laps down to win. That screamed favorites in my mind
It’s Crazy how Gordon and Clint worked in the both together after going through those heated battles on the track,
I can tell you two drivers that NASCAR absolutely loved screwing over: Carl Edwards and Kasey Kahne.
The biggest examples I can think of for both are Carl Edwards in the 2006 Budweiser Shootout and Kasey Kahne in the 2014 Daytona 500 and 2006 fall Talladega race.
Tbf. Fuck Carl. But kasey got screwed.
A couple things: the reason DW was upset at north Wilkesboro was because while nascar was trying to sort the mess out under caution, the bodine team pitted for fresh tires. Then nascar put them at the front. With newer tires, bodine pulled away, when if he’d restarted with his old tires, he’d likely have been passed. Second, just my opinion, I’m not so sure that nascar didn’t penalize Junior at Dega because they favorited him so much as they were afraid of the track being burned down if they did it. Who knows? For the record, at the time, I was livid about it 😂
I think #1, 4 and 5 are the ones that may be NASCAR playing favourites. I’m saying this as a Gordon fan. 7 may be bias too.
Nascar played favorites when Dale Jr. won the 2001 Pepsi 400.
Explain
Good video hopefully we can get a part 2 on this topic
William Byron not getting penalized when he dumped Denny Hamlin at Texas because he was in Jeff Gordon's car
Said it in another comment, it was actually the National Motorsports Appeal Panel that changed the penalty. Nascar wanted the fine and points taken, but the national board said double the fine, but give back the points.
The whole "Kenseth vs Logano" incident was also what sparked (or at least helped along) the current policy for repairing a damage car (something I *still* don't agree with NASCAR on and want gone ASAP), so in a way NASCAR was potentially biased on two fronts when it came to that incident.
yup, it's the Matt Kenseth rule
DVP is the dumbest thing NASCAR has ever come up with.
And I'm aware that the caution clock was a thing.
@@nascarsteve thinking about that and the Chase being formed after he won a championship with 1 win I'm starting to wonder if NASCAR disliked Kenseth.
@@whoasked9500 they also loved to screw Carl Edwards.
Good video. Definitely one of your better topics lately.
A lot of MOPAR fans believe the France family regulated us out of nascar in the 70’s specifically limiting engine displacement to 348, it’s well known that the 360 la block HATES to be destroked, meanwhile gm and ford both had engines that were within two ci of the spec, the hemi rules, the aero rules, the list is endless and as a result most MOPAR loyalist migrated to drag racing. Right or wrong I can tell you that’s how a lot of us feel.
I believe that NASCAR has been favoring Toyota since the Gen 6 era. Toyota came in the Cup Series 16 years ago and yet, they already have a shit ton of wins and a couple of championships under their belt. You would think that it would take along time for a new manufacturer to start winning? Well, Toyota was doing jack squat with MWR but when JGR switched to them, all of the sudden, they started winning which is kinda weird to me. I think that NASCAR has a hand in Toyota's success in the sport and I think they're still helping them.
Jeff Gordon should have ABSOLUTELY been suspended for the 2012 Homestead race
Knaus is on cam telling JJ to wreck the back of the car, I think only if they won
Historically speaking at least before 2023, any judgement call that could go in Hendrick's favor, would always go in Hendrick's favor. The man has deep connections and pockets.
Those red lines at Talladega bother me...
well with the Jimmie Johnson thing that's how Lewis Hamilton fans feel about f1 now that Max versteppen is dominant .
The time all 4 HMS drivers got their points rescinded after HMS appealed L2 Penalty
That really wasn't NASCAR. Appeal committee is not controlled by NASCAR.
If you actually did some research, you'd know NASCAR aren't the one who uphold or withdraw penalties.
@crystaljon I know, but I feel like it still needed to be added
@@cito1101 But it's not NASCAR. If anything, they were just as pissed as the fans were when the Kaulig penalty was upheld for pretty much the same infraction. Why else would they step in to get THAT rescinded as well?
Dale Jr. 2003 Talladega was 100% favoritism. They would nail everyone's asses to the wall for the yellow line rule, but by some magic Jr. was safe that year
Wrong.
That was the only time they correctly didn’t call the driver below the line, but they still didn’t penalize the driver they deemed to have forced the other to go below the line. When you’re door to door with someone and they come down on you, you give yourself extra room so you don’t get doored. By the way the rules work, Jr should have not been penalized(as he wasn’t) but kenseth should have been penalized for forcing someone below the line while attempting to block.
@@matto5547 Then what do you call '08 when Regan Smith was also forced down below the line in a very similar fashion.
@@matto5547I can't think if single time they've correctly called the yellow Line rule.
Wrong
Does Chase Elliott’s debris flying around at Charlotte ROVAL and NASCAR race control not black flagging him a few years ago count?
As an F1 fan in addition to NASCAR this video has me thinking about 3 times (out of many) that F1 played favorites. The first one happened in 1989 when FIA president Jean-Marie Balestre personally DQ'd Senna from the Japanese GP because he used the escape road to get back on track after his incident with teammate & title rival Prost. This cost Senna the World title. Then in 1994 (again involving the World title fight) the stewards absolutely refused to penalize Michael Schumacher after he intentionally rammed Damon Hill at the Australian GP which resulted in Hill DNF'ing & Schumacher winning his first World title. Lastly there's the period from 2000-2004 where F1 & the FIA was accused heavily favoring Ferrari (especially when it came to the technical regulations & things like team orders) so that Michael Schumacher could win the majority of his 7 World titles. Heck the FIA even took away wins from Schumacher's teammate Rubens Barrichello twice during the 2002 season (Austria & Indy) because they wanted Schumacher to win & set the record for most wins in a season at the time. This favoritism continues to plague F1 as they have been accused of this with the Red Bull dynasty with Vettel from 2010-2013, Mercedes with Hamilton/Rosberg from 2014-2020 & Red Bull again with Max Verstappen recently.
Austria 2002 was purely Ferrari team orders, nothing to do with the FIA (besides, I think Ferrari were fined for not having their drivers on the right spots on the podium), and at Indianapolis Barrichello kept the win (Schumacher said he tried and failed to stage a dead heat). The main 'Ferrari International Assistance' controversy I can think of during that time was when Michelin were told to change their tyre construction with three races left in the 2003 season, which might have impacted McLaren and Williams, who were challenging Ferrari for the title.
You say that stuff about Ferrari, and yet, many claim that the 2005 tire change ban was an "anti-Ferrari" rule, since they noticed that Ferrari's early-2000s domination was starting to negatively affect ratings, and needed to do something about it. Which I guess to their credit, kind of worked, since Ferrari would only score one win in '05 (that race we all want to forget.)
I think that every motorsport has their favorites. NASCAR's favorite: some say Chase Elliott but if that were the case, they wouldn't have suspended him for hooking Dirty Denny back in Charlotte. IndyCar's favorite: between Alex Palou and Josef Newgarden. F1's favorite: it's obvious, Max Verstappen.
@@crystaljon & the race that not only set F1 back big time in the US but also created a PR nightmare for IMS & F1.
On of my friends uncle used to work in NASCAR and used to call out exactly what would happen in the last 50 laps, because he told us that NASCAR would give advantages to certain drivers at certain times, allowing for advantages for those teams, he said they did this regularly and the only way a race was actually fair was if the person they gave the advantage to hada wreck or other issues...
As a Gordon fan I definitely agree that the 2012 incident was blatant favoritism. But the 2013 wasn’t in my opinion. If Spingate doesn’t happen Gordon is in. Also Logano was cheating at the same time and since Bowyer and Logano were the cheating aspects they should have also been thrown out of the playoffs just like Truex was, which would have let Gordon in anyways.
I remember that Richmond race.
David gilliland and another driver were literally on radio admitting to “ foul play “ to keep Gordon from making the chase. It’s already been proven.
Is it favoritism? No.
Michael waltrip racing and front row Motorsports impacted that race a lot
It was still favoritism but everyone forgets that Front Row stuff as well
They were trying to get logano in because Penske bribed front row to slow their cars to let Logano by. Honestly Logano should've been penalized and kicked out of the Chase IMO
@@DerrickLong87 exactly
@@doomusrlc read the comment below yours….
Nascar said they were reviewing all the audio. Front row got caught.
@@Denverbroncos87 oh I know. I'm just saying everyone focuses on spingate when FRM's deal is seemingly forgotten every time this comes up in videos lol
This fan loved the Jimmie Johnson domination!
any time jr was lapped the caution and lucky dog would follow. some one posted it happened 18 times. even the pit crews named it the jr caution.
I actually watched that Jr Aaron's 499 pass and he wasn't below the line when he passed Kenseth but was when he passed Johnson
Its obvious Hendrick gets it the most
It's funny that you put this out on the same day NASCAR announced the penalties for Sanchez and Crafton, which caused people to whine that Crafton got off light. (Funny, I thought I saw Sanchez deliberately turn right and hook Crafton in leiu of making a clean pass...)
Was anyone really calling for Gordon to be suspended in 2012? Penalized yeah but suspended? That was the heart of the boys have at it era that saw plenty of that kind of driving. Just a few years prior Edwards and Brad K were trying to kill each other every other week.
Nascar should've known that by now
Wrecking someone on track, and fighting in the infield, are very different.
@@crystaljon Nascar has never suspended a driver for fighting in the infield. Jimmy Spencer was suspended for when punched Kurt Busch but he was already on probation, Kurt was still strapped in his car not able to defend himself, and it was done right in front of a state cop. Other than Jimmy in that very specific situation no driver has ever been suspended for fighting. It would be weird for people to call for that when its never happened.
I think the thing with Gordon's wrecking is that he right hooked Bowyer and that's why people wanted Gordon suspended. Plus with the whole Edwards and Keselowski thing the only instance where Carl should have been suspended was Gateway 2010, as Atlanta that year you could argue was the wing's fault.
There definitely was calls for Gordon to be suspended especially since he right reared him into a wall collecting another driver, drove slow around the track on purpose for laps to get him, and basically ending his season. Plus there was precedent to park him atleast 1 race since the year before Nascar parked Kyle Busch the rest of the truck race and whole weekend after his Ron Hornaday incident ending his championship
They don’t play favorites. Surprised you didn’t bring up July 2001 Daytona
And since we're on the topic, let's go the other way, Nascar hatred. I've only got to say two names. Tim Richmond and Jeremy Mayfield.
He’s my favorite driver. But, that Brickyard Kasey won was def favoritism. They waited til the line was crossed
Darrell Waltrip telling them that Bodine would never win race ever again was hilarious after they told him it’s his first win let him enjoy it and he never won a race ever again is priceless u can’t make that up lol
For the longest time, mes amis, WOKECAR has had a similar business-model to that of Professional Wrestling. A veneer of believability, covering a core of "arrangements ".
Sir, Why Don't You Just Enjoy The Sport And Stop Talking About Wokeness? Ok?
We can’t forget about Denny Hamlin passing below the yellow line to win at Talladega in the fall of 2020
Granted, I am a biased Jeff Gordon fan here, so take my thoughts with a grain of salt. However, I still stand by the idea of adding Jeff to the 2013 Chase, but ONLY, because of certain circumstances within that race. A lot of detractors tend to forget that, prior to the Spingate caution, Jeff was currently in position to make the chase on points (+2 over Logano, trapped a lap down). Then Bowyer spins, Logano and the Fords as well as MWR plays some tricks under caution, Jeff loses a couple spots on the restart, and results in Jeff and Newman missing the chase. While granted, anything could happen in the remaining 8 laps (a legitimate caution, Jeff loses spots, etc.), all signs seemed to indicate that the race was going to finish under green as is and Jeff (barring an issue) was going to make the chase alongside Newman (at the expense of Truex and Logano). -- I do think the addition of 13th car was a bit odd; they could have penalized Logano or Bowyer for their actions and removed one or the other to replace with Jeff instead of just sticking him in the chase. Nevertheless, it has always been my opinion that Jeff was going to make the 2013 Chase had Spingate not occurred; adding him back in should not be a controversy.
If it is any consolation to those that think my fan bias clouds my judgement, please note that I have always felt that Jeff should have been parked for Homestead 2012, and Byron (my current favorite) should have kept the penalty from earlier this year and from last year's altercation with Hamlin (though, I am happy none of these penalties occurred). Also, had Jeff not been in position to make the Chase prior to Spingate, I would have a different opinion on the matter.
Erik Jones should've won the Talladega fall race bc:
1. DiBenedetto did force Byron below the yellow was rightfully penalized
2. Hamlin clearly went below the yellow line and came from 4-7 to the lead and didn't get penalized
So DiBenedetto gets penalized but why not Hamlin?
Answer: Favoritism
Actually Jones caused Hamlin to go down the line, Hamlin was justified, so (again) Ty Dillon should've won
NASCAR plays favorites
Adding the 1 to 301 laps at Hampshire was my number one and I’m jeffro fan for life the true 8 time undefeated undisputed lead every lap won every race
NASCAR not throwing the caution at the end of the 2011 600 so that Jr. would win, only to have him run out of fuel a lap and a half later
I think its favoritism that NASCAR didn't suspend or fine Kyle Busch for saying he's gonna kill Denny Hamlin after the race back in the COT days at Charlotte I think either the 600 or the All Star race. But now Nick Sanchez got fined for saying he's going to kill Matt Crafton 🤔🤔
Black flagging Rudd so golden boy Davey would " win" at Sears Point...never before , never after..
Thats why they invented Champion provisional so Petty would make the races
2013 was something else not just for NASCAR but everything too
2003 Talladega was the only time I didn't have a problem with favoritism
I’m assuming your a Jr fan
@@jbucktheman Correct
That wasn't favoritism jr was forced below the line
I'm suprised we didn't bring up the convenient daytona 500 pole awards through many of the last 15 years. Patrick, Dillon, Gordon, Elliot, Stenhouse, Byron. You could even reach as far back as Mark Martin. So many of those are just good stories at the end of the day, and the tolerances are so tight that a little extra breathing room can absolutely make a car do more.
I absolutely think Nascar is not above favoritism at the superspeedways. And the amount they will go through to penalize or not when someone intentionally wrecks is comical. But situations like Martin in 1990 and Jimmie's hot streak are just the product of racing.
This is going to be an unpopular one but you forgot about the 2001 Pepsi 400 at Daytona where Dale Jr. Clearly had an illegal car. He was able to pass cars by himself without drafting help. I understand the was the return race at Daytona after his father had lost his life. But it still shows bias.
100% agree
I could believe it if it was a one time thing with Jr's car being that much faster but 01 was the start of DEI's insane dominance at plate tracks. Both him and Waltrip through 04 were able to pull out at will by themselves and pass cars
2008. AMP energy 500 they played to with Tony over ragan smith
There's also 2020 fall Martinsville and 2021 Bristol
The pit member reset? That was just a really smart play by the pit member. Nothing BS bout it
@@LudicrousBacon I was referring more to JGR's team orders where Erik Jones wouldn't pass Hamlin
@@LudicrousBacon when SHR or other teams do the same thing, the get obliterated with penalties
Surprised Chase Elliot’s bumper cover at the Roval in 2021 didn’t make it.
As a Chase fan, I have to agree. I see both halves of the argument, but yeah. It was pretty funny watching him scare Kevin into the wall though
NASCRAP always plays favorites!
They didn't play favorites for Dale Jr at Talladega because if they were, they would have thrown the caution after Junior took the lead
I think the Rudd/Allison Sonoma race and Earnhardt jr running out of fuel and not keeping pace at Michigan should be in there over Jimmy dominating and that 16 dega race
Darrell Waltrip’s loss at North Wilkesboro is even worse for him because to this day, he’s still tied with longtime rival Bobby Allison for 4th on the Cup Series’ All-Time win list.
I wonder if NASCAR would have still DQ’d Harvick if he had won the race?
Still think the yellow line rule is dumb as hell and should be removed. 2001 rule over reaction in wake of Dale Sr
It creates more accidents and screws drivers more often then not and is actually unsafe
gordon in 2012 and 2013 was so favortism and killed the old chase format for the stupid one we have now and also they had something against matt kenseth after the logano incident at kansas
2020 Martinsville should have been on the list IMO. That whole thing about the pit crew member resetting himself was BS
That was just a really smart play by the pit member. Nothing BS bout it
So to start I HATE Johnson but in those 5 years in the chase he did better than everyone NASCAR changed the rules to keep Chad away from the tracks when he was sitting races out. Pretty much everything else on your list I agree with. Team owner's showing favorites I don't care about I have 8 blood neices and nephews two step two adopted and 10 great ones and I have a favorite I love them all the same I just like a few better than the rest lol so I can't say shit about that.
How about NASCAR not black flagging,Chase Elliott at the Roval after Harvicks payback? Who else could ride around out there with the deck lid flapping and not get black flagged? And I'm a Chase Elliott fan!!
NASCAR doesn't believe in using the black flag anymore (...for some reason)
They keep changing the points system to try to get dale Jr a championship and he couldn't even do that with nascar helping 😂
Another blatant hendrick favoratism is william byron spinning denny under caution blatantly and getting a $50K fine and 25 point pentalty, only for a race later for the fine to be bumped up to $100K and getting all his points back. must be great for daddy hendrick to literally buy points back in the playoffs
That one was more from the National Motorsports Appeal Panel than Nascar. Nascar wanted to have the fine and points penalty on Byron but the Appeal Panel instead raised the fine but retracted the points penalty. Nascar would later learn their lesson by changing the rulebook saying either all of it, or none of it can be changed.
I think that the more recent theories that Nascar favors Bubba Wallace like they did with Gordon, Davey, and Junior do have some merit, although it's not due to some grand conspiracy like the Facebook boomers believe- it really comes down to the fact that he brings a ton of big sponsors in and Nascar wants to keep them, so they're more lenient with him. Being the only Toyota driver that hasn't been caught cheating this year despite getting around the same results is definitely suspicious.
You forgot the debris cautions that came out during the Johnson reign of terror.
No doubt they did play favorites in 2015 with the Talladega debacle
What about when they just made up rules to keep Elliot in the playoffs when his guys were over the wall too soon… or when they let him drive around the roval for 10 laps with his bumper falling off… until it fell off and gave him a caution to get back on the lead lap
Ay, if you go to the Talladega race with Logano and Junior, the real conspiracy is that Harvick did not maintain speed through the caution and was somehow allowed to keep his position on that second and final restart. This allowed Harvick to advance when he should have had his season end. If you go back to when Marcos Ambrose did not maintain his speed under caution at one of the road courses while saving gas, Ambrose was forced to restart behind the cars that had passed him under caution. Harvick was passed by the entire field but still got to restart where he would've been had he not had a problem. Nascar, knowing Harvick was going to intentionally cause a wreck, allowed him to do it anyway so he would advance to the next round.
As a Jr fan I was more upset about Harvick's ticks then Jr losing the race. Harvick caused the wreck knowing his car was junk just to move on. Nascar should have parked him for that move. Talk about race manipulation
Every time DW was part of the broadcast team and Dale JR was on the track.... so that's like 1000000000000000000000000 times of favoritism. LLAL
"come on June bug"...ugh..
Putting Gordon in the playoffs was the only favoritism on this list, Gordon and Kenseth wrecks happen all the time, nascar calling that disaster 2014 Talladega race turned me off nascar for years.
One thing forgotten about the 2016 Talladega race that still drives me nuts to this day was that Dale Jr. was about to be lapped, and the caution came out with 7 laps to go when Jamie McMurray blew his engine. Under the caution leading to the GWC finish, Greg Biffle was leading (it would unexpectedly be his final season in cup, too).
Most of the field pitted, but Biffle was in fuel-save and around the time they were ready to restart for the GWC, they ran another 5 or 6 caution laps. Dale Jr. was in 3rd initially. Finally, Biffle was running out, and the second he pulled into the pits, NASCAR announced they were going Green next time by. Dale Jr. took Biffles spot and proceeded to choke twice. Some things are setup too well to be coincidences, and that was one of those times. It was CLEARLY rigged.
NASCAR has always simped for Jr; why else would he have his own graphic (Dale Jr Nationwide Rewind, I think it was called) while having a, not bad at all, but still underwhelming career?
The answer to your question about why Dale Jr. had his own graphic is right there in the name if it was indeed a sponsored segment by Nationwide. It's not that different from the "Toyota Driver Update" we still see today on the broadcasts. And you know what? Dale Jr. being the most popular driver at the time probably sweetened the deal for NASCAR's broadcasting partners when Nationwide Insurance approached them with the idea.
@@nathanstroud2223It's very different from the Toyota Driver Update, because it is in regard to anyone in the field driving a Toyota. It's not based on one specific driver. The Dale Jr Nationwide yadda yadda is specifically for Jr, because he was NASCAR's golden child before Chase Elliott.
I don't know if it's favoritism, but it's definitely something. The NASCAR execs only care about TV ratings. They keep messing around NASCAR is going to turn into WWF, fake races with fake storylines
Brad Keselowski racing without a front bumper and tried to wreck Kury Busch st Martinsville
If NASCAR truly played favorites, Jr. Would be the 7 time champ, not Jimmie
My boy Tony Stewart was penalized for going under the yellow line. Jr could have ridden around the apron all day and no penalty would have been called.
NASCAR has always played favorites.
NASCAR loooooves to rig races.
I'm Gonna Pretend I Didn't Hear That Word.....
@@juliana.lymond2622 well you didn't 'hear' it , you read it. soooooo yeah , you cannot unsee that.
;)
I feel like NASCAR has more “favoritism” moments then any other sport. The rules need to be black and white for if you do something you shouldn’t and what the consequence(s) should be
Nah NASCAR, NFL, and NBA are constantly fighting each other for who can play favorites better.
Could have thrown chase Elliott not getting penalized for pit road violation at Martinsville 2020
I always have thought when Hendrick’s family (I think it was his son) died in the helicopter crash and Jimmie Johnson won was a complete setup. I know this might hurt some feelings. Just my opinion.
Not gonna talk about the fall 2020 martinsville race?? Lol
2001 Pepsi 400 was definitely a fixed finish.
Jimmy would be nothing without chad. He was the mastermind. Funny how when he was made competition director for all 4 hendrick cars suddenly all the cars were doing well
It’s the Belichick and Brady comparison of NASCAR.
I be 100% honest At the time I was happy that MK got supposed 2 weeks. I wanted him suspended the rest of the season in 2015 tbh.. I never liked before that or after that. But now I think about it. 2 weeks was to much really. Other drivers that got suspended for intentionally wrecking a driver only got 1 week. So I think it was unfair. NASCAR always seems to give different penalties to different drivers doing the same thing.
It would be very unpopular to black flag him
Can tell you one thing for CERTAIN....Matt Kenseth got another million fans the day he helped KARMA pay Joey Logano a visit
Jeff Gordon definitely had no business being in the Chase in 2013.
Yes he did. He was in 10th spots when Bowyer spun out. If anything, Logano and Bowyer should’ve been dropped from the Chase for manipulating the race and potentially the championship.
@@allabouthewaves4354 coulda woulda shoulda. Gordon was ass that year and didn't win. He had no business being in that Chase, and everyone knows it.