Here's Why Carl Edwards Left NASCAR Unexpectedly
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Kenny Wallace gives his opinion on why Carl Edwards unexpectedly retired after the 2016 NASCAR season.
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In my humble opinion, NASCAR has done a great deal of damage to themselves with shenanigans just like this, and they are still doing it today in other forms of "rule changes". Get rid of the stages, stop extending yellows just so somebody can remain on the lead lap, and get rid of the "cookie cutter" cars that inhibit the innovations from the garage. The sport progressed through the years from the innovations of the teams and not the sanctioning body. Today's NASCAR is almost unwatchable!!!
...but, on my Sunday, and sometime Saturday nights, I like watching the NASCAR racing; it's colorful, and loud during the 'Crank it Up' segments, and I get to put on my favorite T-shirt and support my favorite driver/team, with the bright yellow car that has happy M&M's all over it, and his brother, too¡☆! 😃
Haven't watched since the bubba Wallace phony lies.
I used to drive my late model that I made up at Thompson International Speedway and was a total diehard NASCAR fan but throughout the years with their politics and stupidity and other shenanigans and not holding Goodyear to the fire for the Indy race that they brought those "rubber bands" that the drivers had to come in every 12 to 14 laps because Goodyear brought their usual junk/ worse than their usual junk ties to a very prestigious and special event! That's when I stop watching and being part of NASCAR altogether! They can kiss my ass, I don't watch, I don't follow and I don't read any of their stuff! They have a track at Waterford Connecticut that they have no business being part of because it's nothing but demolition derby… That ain't racing but it is NASCAR so that means it is a "shit show!" No thank you!
even if they did all that - it still wouldn't help - why ? because of the spoiled little rich kids who all sound like they are from the same upper class neighborhood - this isn't changing
Almost? It is unwatchable today. It started with the lucky dog, giving the first car a lap down, his lap back. They also took a valid points system that worked great for years, and made it like regular season and playoffs for the championship. Then they took a stage theme from a non points event "The Winston", and put it in EVERY race. Final nail in the coffin was the fact that they got politically correct. It's officially ruined, you can't put Humpty Dumpty back together again.
I was working for Nascar as an inspector in the truck series when Carl Edwards won his first truck race in a Ford driving for Jack Roush. Carl was a great driver and had a great personality. I just knew he was going to do good racing in Nascar. I also was in Homestead the day Kenny Wallace is talking about. It disgusted me what Nascar did to tighten up the field to supposedly make the final laps to a championship exciting. Well, that day they messed up badly. Spoke with Carl after the race and he was broken hearted. I've never seen him in this state, very sad and not angry but pissed off in a sense he was robbed. I don't blame him, he was a good clean racer with a simple attitude. I miss him in the Cup series and I'm glad he got out before it got worse in Nascar. God Bless him and his family.
100%
He wasn't all that clean. I loved him to death but he was kinda known for running guys over for a win/payback.
@tnwhiskey68 I never saw that. He was a clean racer with patients getting to the front. Can't remember what year it was but he got screwed by Tony Stewart out of a championship in Homestead Florida. The dirty driver back then was Kurt Bush.
@@raykasza6855Ask Keselowski how clean Carl was. I think his charm, smile and personality put a gloss over some of the stuff he did on the track. I don’t think he was a dirty racer like old school Kurt Busch, but he wasn’t “clean” either. Not that I have a problem with that…still liked the guy.
Even if Carl wasn’t your “DRIVER” you really liked and respected him as a GREAT driver…miss him and the ICONIC BACKFLIP…thanks Kenny!
JEFF Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Dale Earnhardt rSr& Jr. DARRELL AND Michael Walt rip are a 1-Thousand times better Carl Edwards.
I think you hit the nail on the head so to speak Kenny. I've always wondered where Carl Edwards went or what happened to him later on. Nascar does have that tendency to play favorites or to make it where certain people get the glory, even if it means wrecking someone else's career. The amount of people in the stands at each track speaks for itself these days.
Carl was a great driver and a true spokesman for the sport. Ever since his truck days he fired up the sport. Nascar needs more like him. Hope he's living a great life. Kenny you have always been a personality we need more of. Keep it up brother.
Cheers Jeff
As a Carl Edwards fan I had the opportunity to finally meet him in Charlotte in 2015 it was my buddies first race Carl is a very humble guy and that's what made the heartbreak a whole lot worse a year later that man stood and talked with us for 15 min after the race just shooting the bull and signed our Hot Passes and actually handed me the sunglasses off his face it was an unbelievable experience
NASCAR = Boss Hogg. Everytime I heard "he was called to the Nascar hauler"... I would think "Boss Hogg has summoned the Duke Boys" .. Completely unprofessional. Circus stuff. Nascar needs a rulebook and on field officials to administer that rulebook with standardized penalties just like every other sport. Goodell doesn't change on field calls in the NFL .. hello NASCAR.. End your PT Barnum administration.
Who cares? He wasn’t a good driver
@@levantjbean2712 judging by his bank account id say he was pretty good.tell me what youve acomplished in your life?
@@levantjbean2712 he won a lot of NASCAR races
@@thespicemelange.1 no he didn’t, look up what a lot means
Thank you for posting this. Carl Edwards was my favorite driver, a humble human being and a genuine nice person. My heart broke that day they threw the phantom. I still watch the sport because I grew up in upstate SC and it's in my blood. And it's one of the few good memories of my childhood with my father. I don't love nascar as much as I did before this happened and I haven't found or seen another driver with the passion and integrity that Carl had. This was wrong, he is missed and i hope he reads this and holds his head high knowing he's a champion in my heart. I'll never forget after the championship was taken from him he ran across pit road, to Loganos pit box, shook their hands and then faded Into obscurity. Mic drop moment and class act. Sadly, in this world we live in nice guys typically get stepped on. You shouldn't have to be vindictive and nasty human to be a winner. Thank you Carl. For what you did for the sport and humanity!
Agree ,Carl is also my favorite driver, the reason i always planned my Sunday afternoons during race season. He used to run on the dirt track across the way from my house in his early career. There is one Driver of late who has piqued my attention Ross Chastain, love his willingness to throw it all out there and but heads for the win.
Always liked Carl, miss seeing him do his backflip after a win.
Would like to see him do the SRX series.
I will see Tony Stewart and Rolla, Missouri's Taxpayer funded Animal control, in Hell (not that i am bragging.) Nice Hat. Guess (w)hat. "Nativesun", rhymes, with "Davey Allison."
I think edwards is just at that fuck this point with racing in general. I believe it bothers him the way Nascar did him throughout the years. And he just doesn’t want to be apart of it anymore..
He will not do it. He’s happy living his best life and especially being with his wife, kids & rest of family
Carl was my driver, it’s a shame what they did to him so they could get their phony drama. I have nothing but respect for Carl after he decided to retire after that. The “playoffs” are a complete joke.
Very true, it's screwed Kevin Harvick out of being a 4x cup champion, but he's still around 🤷♂️
Carl was an excellent driver, I agree with most of what Kenny says except that he left with a broken heart. I think he left pissed with two middle fingers pointed at NASCAR. That's why he pretty much disappeared and wants nothing to do with the sport. They did him dirty.
NASCAR is chickenshit, point blank. Look what they did to Winston after 33yrs and 38Billion dollars, all the Winston cup wins, turned into sprint cup wins, bullshit in my opinion. I haven't watched a single race since Matt Kenseth was the last Winston Cup Champion.
Carl blocked Joey though. He did not have to block Joeys
Re your observation that NASCAR's dubious calls are now a thing of the past....
HA HA HA HA HAAAAA!!!!!!! Good one!!
Apparently you haven't been watching this thing called the 2022 racing season?
100% agree. As a Carl Edwards fan, I have watched the videos of what happened at the end of that race and his retirement press conference over and over. Watching him walk from the car that night and apologize to the 22 crew, it was almost like you can look at his face and just see at that moment he was over it. I myself have a tendency to smile when I get to the point in life where I'm over a situation and it's just kind of my signal, that I'm done. I think as the next month or so went on, his feelings never changed. I have been at the same job for 15 years and the people I work with ask me why I'm always so happy and I tell them because I really enjoy what I do but I usually follow that up very quickly with if that ever changes and I'm unhappy for a period of 6 months or so, I wouldn't be a benefit to my employer or be doing myself any favors if I stuck around doing something I didn't enjoy anymore. Maybe racing had become more of a job to Carl even before the championship race and that's all it took for him to need a change. We will probably never know but I for one respect the man. You never hear anything about him and usually those are the people that are happiest in life because they don't seek attention. Maybe these days, he does his backflips in private off his tractor after a hard day's work that brings him joy in life. :-)
Carl was the last actual driver I was exclusively rooting for. I was hoping he would pop up in some other form racing like road racing and Id watch him race there. I quit NASCAR finally a couple years ago like so many did with their ridiculous stunts they still pull, but I like things like this channel with Kenny because they were what made the racing fun to watch at the time!
He was an amazing driver and man. Miss him. So sad.
I was a HUGE Cousin Carl fan. It was very difficult to see him vanish without a trace.
Thanks Kenny for saying what needed to be said. That caution was so bogus, it still makes me angry to this day! What you failed to mention tho, was how Logano purposefully " plowed" Carl into the wall!!! He could have lifted, but Logano is still notorious for that type of unsportsmanlike driving. Look what he did to Kenseth!!! But that aside, I could tell that something serious was coming down after that wreck!! Watching Carl's face as he walked to the Medical Center said it all. His jaws were clenched and SET!!! He was furious and trying to keep control of himself. His eyes were burning with rage!! I don't blame him a bit!! He had every right to be furious. What a terrible feeling to know you've been played by a crooked system that you have no control over!! Why go on and let them do it again??!! Not Carl Edwards!! His level of integrity couldn't allow him to go on. I commend him for it, yet I'm still so sorry His career had to end on this note. I hope one day he will write a book about his career in Nascar! Then the truth will come out.
Thanks for this...I always thought there was something more to his leaving so soon. I was always a Hendrick guy but I loved Carl because he was a straight up good guy who was good for the sport. This makes all the sense to me.
Great run down, reminds of George Stright in The movie Pure Country, Carl was tired of being the Dancing Chicken and left on his terms. I salute him for making his decision.
Carl Edwards is one of my favorites and I'll tell you what he didn't deserve what he got God bless him
Kenny, I love how straight forward you are. Wish you were still racing cup and xfinity.
Diehard Carl Edwards fan I ran car edwards car on twitter for years! Wish he would come back! Even if just a few races!!
He lived a winter in my cousins basement in Morrisville NC rent free one year while coming up in trucks
Carl quickly became my favorite driver because of his competitiveness and positive attitude. He showed the same amount of class when he won as he did if he got wrecked at the end. He was so well spoken and respectful of the sport. So it was highly surprising and disappointing when he chose to retire, but even more so that he completely left the sport. I envisioned him joining the booth and finding some role to stay involved in racing. It makes sense what Kenny is speculating here.
Kenny, I don’t always agree with you, but you nailed this one. I couldn’t agree more
I was not a Carl fan but he deserved to win that championship. I hope he is happy in life with his family.
Dark days for nascar we all do things we wish we should not have the same for the people that made it happen life is so short hug your love ones kiss your kids enjoy everyday
Carl Edwards was a great driver and one of my favorite drivers. I wish him well in his retirement. By the way Kenny, Davey Allison was my all-time favorite driver. Rest in Peace Davey Allison.🙂
It's obvious this was the reason.
Nascar loved throwing cautions for more drama. Then other times you'll see a big piece in the middle of the straightaway but they won't throw a caution because it's in the middle of pit stops. It's frustrating.
Thank you, Mr. Wallace. Carl Edwards was, sorry is classic gritty Driver. I'd like to thank him for the great excitement he provided every Sunday, although I always route for Jr. I was never disappointed seeing your backflip CELEBRATION, an how you would cleanly drive up through the field. ""Mr. Edwards will always be great dominate driver & Champion, no doubt inspiring man.
I miss Carl. What a great race car driver he was and I missed that awesome backflip.
In my opinion once he wrecked he knew he had enough. “Broken hearted” … maybe….PISSED OFF…absolutely. Favoritism is a overwhelming deal in BUSINESS.
Absolutely agree with Kenny on this. Maybe not a broken heart so much as being fed up with the system.
Carl was shafted out of multiple championships due to the chase format being introduced. He deserved better. God bless him for giving me exciting Sunday’s when he was in the sport. Loved watching him race and for who he is as a human.
I only started watching Nascar because of Carl Edwards after my husband , an avid Nascar fan, told me to watch Carl's back flip. I was hooked I could not
get enough I watch everything related to Nascar. After Carl left I do not watch.
You know Kenny that is really a bummer that NASCAR did things like that! It's the same thing professional boxing used to do! Cousin Carl is such a nice guy it really sucks that he didn't get that championship! Happy Mothers day to your wife and mom bro!
Interesting. I always enjoyed his personality and when he was at the front. Miss him.
This incident that Kenny speaks of kind of ruined my enjoyment of nascar. This type of thing happened way to many times. Kenny speaks of Jim Joyce in this video about the Tigers Galaraga lost perfect game.
I was a staunch nascar fan for 20 years until the Carl Edward's screw over. Then the past few years nascar and fox tried to capitalize on drama between drivers and the race coverage was forgotten. I only watch parts of a few races anymore. I just can't stand the broadcasts. And all the terrible racing.
If carl had driven a chevy hed have been my guy. What a great dude and driver
I really liked Carl, he had the best backflip NASCAR will ever see 💪
He copied Tyler Walker with the flip.
He did have a pretty awesome backflip!!
I got disheartened when I noticed the announcers would mention "Jimmie Johnson is a lap down" and like clockwork there would be a caution like ~10 laps later. Doesn't matter who else was a lap down, they might as well have renamed the "Lucky Dog" to the "Jimmie Johnson rule".
It was a bad time for NASCAR and it made it easy to walk away.
The best memory for Carl to me...
Smoke won that championship in the media room in that interview..Lived rent free in Carl's head after that...
For small teams it's hard enough getting exposure for sponsors without NASCAR pushing or promoting certain drivers or teams.
There's always been something about you Kenny that makes you awesome and it's gotta be your sense of humor. Always been a fan. They don't make drivers like you guys anymore. I use to to look at a calendar of everybody bunched up at Daytona and could tell you every driver in every car and I can't do that anymore because nobody stays long enough for it to even matter. Driver loyalty and fan loyalty used to be a thing. V FOR "6"
Herm I love how you are straight forward about everything. In my eyes Carl was cheated out of his championship.
Kenny not getting off carl but when I see you I Rember taladaga coming in2nd behind Dale senior one heck of a run, I will always remember that, Dean LaLonde Standish, michigan..
What broke my heart was seeing him lose the Championship to Tony Stewart.
I was managing Ryan's Steakhouse in Columbia and fed Carl and his race team one night really late. Pretty sure you are right.
I believe your synopsis is correct !!!
He forsure was disappointed enough
To just step away
I had no idea that it would be permanently ...
Say what you will, Carl was the only that ever removed his sunglasses when being interviewed, class act ( respect )
You and your brother are the best I'm going to hope on my Harley and come see you guys you guy make me miss my old days
Carl was not going to play their bulls t drama NASCAR games. He had the integrity to leave them.
I believe you may be right on Kenny
Good to hear it straight. Thanks Kenny.
I would love to see Kenny Wallace do the Carl Edwards backflip in victory lane...
Dang man. Phantom caution almost got Blaney at the All-Star race lol
Kenny, only thing I’d say, my opinion only, is that Carl would still be highly unsatisfied with where the sport is. He’s cut from that old school cloth. Wayyy too many gimmicks involved these days. He prided himself on his physical shape and being able to literally out muscle another car and driver around the track for 500 miles in 90 degree summer temps. Not to mention how little power the cars have these days - I think he even recently said that’s the biggest turnoff for him. I’m only 34 and I never thought at this age I’d see a time where the kind of racing guys like Carl, Jeff, Jr., Tony, Jimmie, etc. put on is considered ancient, but sadly we’re there.
Carl Edwards has mentioned that racing is a risky sport. I believe that the timing of Dale Earnhardt Jr suffering from the 2 concussions in 2016 that ended his season leading up to him retiring in 2017 played a major role in Carl Edwards stepping out of the car at the end of the 2016 season.
I am 62 in the past 10 years or so haven’t watched a race because of how they are don’t miss it a bit
I’m not even a diehard nascar guy, but I remember Carl as a great driver and a solid dude. Loss for nascar when he left
Happy Birthday my brother
Carl got robbed of 3 different championships, two by the chase and one by a bs caution. Only driver to get robbed as much is Gordon who was robbed 3 times by the chase, and he also retired the year after his last one in 2014
Gordon lost titles in 2007 and 2014 because of the Chase.
@@ethanweeter2732 and 2004
I'd be willing to accept the 2008 and 2011 being a result of the points system that existed since 2004, but carl was absolutely robbed in 2016
I stopped watching nascar but I like Wallace he's a funny guy the internet is made for him
I believe that day Carl Edwards was going to be the Championship. And Nascar took it away from Carl Edwards on that day. To bad he left Nascar he was a very good race car driver..
Also when the guy pulls out into the track at Talladega, and Carl plows into the idiot. Carl said that he could have been impelled by his steering column...His life flashed before his eyes...
Now NASCAR, surely misses guys like Carl.
Edwards would've accomplished great things if he was still racing. I will miss his backflips.
Man Kenny you hit it right on the head racer and a very humble person and NASCAR just did him wrong but he's not the only one that this has happened to but he is the only one that left because of it as far as I know and man I tell you they lost a hell of a driver and a hell of a person Carl if you read this we're all proud of you we're thankful we got to see you race and do what you did on the racetrack and off the race track hope you're enjoying retirement you deserve it
The only ETRL car I ever had, still do, is the Texaco Havoline number 28 Davey Allison car. Got it before his accident. I have moved and lost so many things. But, somehow Davey's car has always made every move.
Nascar lost me and my wife as fans since 2016 over that very caution. We are only getting into it this year due to your youtube site.
Armando Galarraga Detroit Tigers pitcher was the pitcher who lost the perfect game, and the umpire Jim Joyce was the ump he truly was so sorry for what he did but Joyce is still an ump and Armondo is retired.
I have only recently discovered your channel and I love it !!!
Welcome!!
Yes, you are! Look at your life , your dreams achieved, and your family!
My thoughts on the restart solution is go back to lead lap outside lapped cars on inside. Great timing since the cars are pretty equal up front in clean air especially!
Can still have the dog but let the drivers have a chance to race their way back on the lead lap.
I am the biggest Karl Edward fan. I was in the car with him every time he won in my mind.
The death of Dale Earnhardt was the death of Nascar for so many of us! Look at all the changes, MAJOR changes Nascar made after #3 died. I know some were necessary safety adjustments/rules and I understand those but the whole playoffs/points changes were the nail in the coffin for them and this is one fan they will never get back! So sad because I was a lifetime fan. I still keep up with the guys from the Earnhardt era and Jr's Dirty Mo podcasts
It used to be in the old days that, because of the minimal amount of safety in the cars and the tracks, drivers drove a lot different. They looked out after the other drivers so that no one got hurt. Nowadays......the cars and tracks are so safe that driver etiquette is thrown out the window. Drivers today have no problem taking chances and wrecking other drivers as the chances of getting hurt is almost zero.
100% agree with everything said in this video!
Carl was one of my favorites. That back flip was classic.
I raced karts one night in Daytona against Carl and Larry Gussleman before Carl had a real ride. He was testing for another driver during speed week. I got one of his original business cards and wish he would have signed it.
Nascar lost me the day Carl Edwards was "ghosted" of his championship. And yes Kenny 👍 you're correct his heart was broken and I'm sure there was a healthy dish if F...........Y..........NASCAR
to go along with that. I miss him he was classy, him and his crazy backflip ✌🙃
The pitcher played for the Detroit Tigers and lost around 1 million dollar due to clause in his contract for a no hitter.
True NASCAR fans know how great Carl Edwards was. He and Mark Martin are my two all time favorites. Damn shame neither of them ever won a championship.
Just goes to show that Mark wasn't actually a great driver. Good, not great!!!!
@@daren32909
Because he didn’t win a cup title? I respectfully disagree.
1990 Mark got hosed
Agree. Mark and Carl were both gentlemen and never were able to hoist the trophy. Nascar is on the decline. The races are boring. I rather go to WOO dirt races and see some tight racing in traffic.
That's me I basically QUIT watching the races all together ever since my man Mark Martin hung it up !!! Nascar for the last 10 years at least has gone to CRAPS with their rule changing this rule changing that and really the fans don't won't none of that shit or care about it for real !!! I might watch a little of the Daytona 500 , Coca Cola 600 and not even the whole race to the finish with all that different stages and interruptions and it has never been the same since the days of Petty, Pearson, Yarborough, Earnhardt, Martin, Gordan, and the older drivers you get my picture but people will still watch it to me since Winston left the scene it was NEVER the SAME !!!!
Plain and simple for me, I was/am a Carl Edwards fan so when he quit, it broke my heart and I quit with him. I haven’t been to or watched another nascar race since.
Carl is a champion in my eyes and one hell of a role model.
Same here. I have not watched nascar since he left or retired
MO@@MrUnknown1992
NASCAR has pandered to the younger set. They have totally abandoned the core fan who supported them for years. These rule changes are a total joke. I wouldn't pay a red cent to attend a race.
Carl flew into our facility one night. It was raining like crazy. He asked if he could nose the aircraft into the hangar because his family was in the aircraft. We pulled the aircraft into the hangar with everyone inside and let them all out. There were no passenger seats in the aircraft. Everyone was all in the floor in sleeping bags. We got the airplane unloaded and then put it back outside.
Super nice guy. Very polite and appreciative for our efforts to not put his family out in the rain.
Carl was an old boy who played the game with honesty and grit, Nascar clowns took that away with short sighted rulings. A tough and classy guy to the end Carl calls it a day and walks away head held high. Cheers to you Mr. Edwards.
Opinion: I feel that sometimes those smaller/weaker drivers or teams get overlooked at when the huge teams always get the fame & the glory. It’s kinda like what is happening with Kyle Busch. Imagine if he left JGR and got downgraded to a smaller 1 car team only to help build that team up. Would anyone do that if you were a driver? Say if you had plenty of $$ and decided to go to the underdog team in order for that team to become bigger, badder and have a level playing field with the other race teams.
@@vickynuno-ramsouer9804 You do have a point here I feel, while hes not going to a smaller underbudget team, he is going to a team that has not had much success here lately, I think he could definitely turn things around for Richard Childress.
@@ONTHEEDGEFRED we’re talking about Carl Edwards here, Not KFB. He’s going to RCR and I think that’s going to definitely level out the playing field a lot. For the past few years, it’s been powerhouse war of the roses with Hendrick vs JGR. SHR vs Penske, and then all the smaller newer teams vs. the rest of the field in order to either get noticed or for one of the bigger teams to come in and help them out with a charter. It’s a very competitive game out there: sponsors, how the driver is as a whole, fan engagement, and so much more. As drivers go along they want more, but unfortunately that’s not always the case. Sometimes you have to take away from one in order to build growth. I also felt that with Carl, Dani, Danica and now with KFB. I’m sure there’s more that I’m missing, but if anyone can remember lmk.
I wish he would come back and get a ( GOOD ) car !…….
Jack Roush has over 30 championships from various forms of racing. NASCAR never gave him a fair shot. If we would have seen Fair racing Mark Martin, Carl Edwards would have won multiple championships, like those two Hendrick prima donnas. Mark Martin and Carl Edwards were better.
Carl Edwards is such a class act. I cried as he gave his retirement announcement. His positive and respectful attitude, along with his wonderful smile always made my heart happy. He's missed every race day. I hope he reads these comments and he knows how many people love and miss him. He's truly a Champion in life!
Carl was always down to earth polite. One thing he always did, and I think it was really class was when he would be interviewed whether he won or ended up wrecked and out of the race. He always took his son glasses off.
Class act 😂😂😂
Carl the very best ever, Kenny that dirt mouth,Dale Jr too
Agreed 100%!
The Eddie Haskell of NASCAR, even his own teammates hated him. They ask Kenseth about him once and he said "none of us really talk to him"
There's a handful of drivers that give us the reasons to watch the sport, Carl is one of those drivers. I hope he's living a great life miss him.
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Fact,miss the back flip's also.
Carl Edwards was a driver who made you hate what the sport had become.
Carl was a great young man and was/ is a damn better man/ driver and better for nascar than lemon sucker kal Bush. Carl Edward Jermey mayfield was done WRONG. To hell with Nascar
That was his championship ! He was one a the best if not the best no nonsence !
Carl would be a two time cup champ ('08, '11) under the traditional format. In addition to preserve his health and build more presence with his family, I think he had enough of the b.s. (nascar's constant changing points system screwed him out of two championships. When he finally is going to get one on his third try, he felt nascar took it away from him.)
Thanks to fatty rick hendricks money!
And Johnson would only be 3 time champion. He’s busy showing his true skills in Indy car though 😂
I tell you something, if the current format of the playoffs had been implemented since 2004 instead of Chase, Carl could have had the opportunity to be champion even once, Jimmie Johnson did not reach 7 titles maybe a maximum of 3.
@@realbaron5714 Jeff Gordon would be the 7 time champion.
@@kristenangier9673 I can't say much about Gordon because I didn't live that time but that he was a good driver he was, only that he didn't know how to adapt well to the Chase format since you can be consistent in the first 26 races of the year but if in the last 10 you collapse or make a mistake, you are lost. For example: Kyle Busch in 2008.
Carl was my favorite driver 100%. Not because he was a great driver but because he was even a better person and roll model for any young fan. The day he retired is the day I said enough of NASCAR! I very seldom watch any more.
I can't blame Carl for leaving, he seemed like a purist type of racer and Nascar kept getting further and further away from that... Not to mention he had a history of getting fucked over by Nascar.
How?
Along with rickyrudd !!
Ya nailed it Herm! Carl was a driver that everybody liked
I've always suspected that Carl was absolutely heartbroken after losing those 2 Championships that should have been his. The wind was just sucked out of his sails. I don't blame him. The meddling of NASCAR, the points system and playoffs structure has huge potential to screw over the best-performing drivers each year. Look at Kevin Harvick - he had 9 wins, 20 top 5s and 27 top 10s in 2020, and in 2018 he had 8 wins, 23 top 5s and 29 top 10s but in both of those years he finished out of the final 4. I'm not a fan of the playoff structure at all and never will be.
Well everybody can blame Matt Kenseth for the playoff system. What ever year he won his championship he point raced, he never won a race that year and they changed to the playoff system the next year. Never thought he was any good before or after that.
@@mikebussart2575 in 2003 Kenseth won one race at Las Vegas if I remember correctly early in the year and was the most consistent driver all year. And that became a problem for NASCAR for some reasons.
@@andrewbird5598 I can tell you why: because it SUCKED. It was boring as sin. Matt Kenseth had the championship locked up like a month early and we knew no one was catching him in like July. And the thing is, this wasn’t just a one time thing. MOST years were like that. The fans overwhelmingly said they wanted wins to matter more. Everyone looks back now and says they hate the Chase, but let me tell you, it’s far better than what we had the vast majority of years.
@@mikebussart2575 Well... He was good enough to win a championship. Which is how every champion before him won, with consistency.
@@mikebussart2575 I would also argue that Jimmie Johnson is the reason for the current playoff system and basically getting rid of the points system pretty much altogether. I remember Jimmie would have the title wrapped up or close to wrapped up before the final race which would make that race boring or not relevant to the championship
Nascar is bad as Brandon's administration
Yep and they even sucked up to the “woke” Admn, done with them
One of those people that brings politics into everything even when it has nothing to do with anything. 😒
Salty Trumpstain clowns 😂😂😂
Yes the sabotage of the Carl Edwards Championship was the final straw for me too. When Carl retired from NASCAR, I retired too!! I tried to keep watching. Then all the different rule changes and different formats all the bs. NASCAR lost fans from all the stupidity. Pretty much done with all Pro sports due to all the bad calls “on purpose” to cost teams wins and championships. Sickening!!!
I totally agree with you. Carl's lost of the championship was the last straw for me. I quit watching because I was so tired of the BS. I use to be a diehard fan, you couldn't pull me away from the tv when a race was on.
He was my favorite driver of all time and I haven't watched an entire race since he left.
Wokeism & " Noosegate " was THE Last Straw for ME, BTW Arsehole Joe Gibbs & stabbing Kenseth # 20 in the back, INMO !
Count me as another life long fan that hasn't watched a complete race since Cousin Carl left the sport as well.
I thought Edwards was a class act. He had a solid fan base that rooted for him . He drove clean , stood up for his position on the track. Would let his driving do the talking.
I saw him get some real unfortunate outcomes on a few Sundays that left a bad taste .
Carl I was a fan of your style of racing, you exemplified the heart and soul of the sport. I miss your smile and your good guys vibe.
Drivers like you are a dying breed, giving way to the young , neatly scripted , chosen to be stars boys we now have to suffer.
I miss the days of Petty, Allison and Earnhardt. Alabama Boys. I'm sorry about how the media has NORTHERNIZED NASCAR. It's all about soundbytes , political correct speeches, no emotion racing .
Carl Edwards , I hope to see you driving something somewhere again.
Ever consider NHRA? You can become a star in 4.5 seconds . I love the smell of Nitro in the morning , maybe you would too.
No matter what you do you will do well
You're that kind of dude.
Love you Carl. Live your very best life . You can be sure that there are people like me that will always mention your name when best Nascar drivers are being discussed. I will for sure. 100%
I liked how he put the Pensky Pukes in their places and wrecked Keslaswski when he refused to race him cleanly! He should have kicked Joey's ass that last championship race when he wrecked Carl again and took him out of the championship!
As a northerner myself I couldn’t agree more. I watched Daytona this year and haven’t watched a race since. Struggled hard to remain a fan for the last couple years but the interest is just completely again. I am slowly and painfully coming to terms with fully accepting that the sport that NASCAR once was simply does not exist anymore and never will again. As the Pettys have said, it used to be a race but now it is a show.
I couldn't agree more Kenny, I became an Edwards fan in 2009 when he got put into the fence at Talladega and climbed from his car and ran to the finish line, I love his demeanor his driving style his personality it was all just awesome to me and I was absolutely crushed after the wreck that caused him the championship in 2016 probably the most devastating event for me as a fan to this day and in my heart I understood why he retired but just didn't want to believe it, I do and will continue to miss seeing Carl on track but I am glad he is happily retired and living his best life!
I’ve lost a lot of respect and trust in NASCAR for this exact point you’re making. I was a huge Dale Jarrett fan and remember the year he lost the Championship to Jeff Gordon by 12 points. I believe it was 1998, the year before he won his championship. NASCAR black flagged DJ at Watkins Glen because they thought he was leaking oil or transmission fluid because he had a few wisps of smoke out of the car, which was probably just a tire rub or something but they found nothing wrong in the pits, essentially black flagging him for nothing. The points he lost that day from the black flag cost him the championship and I’m still sore over it.
Probably was 1997, Gordon won the title by 14 pts that year and I think it was DJ that was 2nd. Gordon destroyed everyone in 1998.
Definitely 97 you’re talking about that was before my time but my dad was a T Labonte fan and He remembered when jarret got screwed on that call he was pissed. Despite liking labonte he hated mostly all of hendrick lol
That may have also been the same year where DJ had the best car by far at the Brickyard and ran out of fuel going for the bonus money NASCAR gave out for leading at the half way point. He went down like 3 laps and could never recover, so the points lost there would have put him over the top for the championship, if that was indeed the same year. I remember how pissed he was and he had some pretty pointed remarks about him being the driver and didn’t make the calls on when to pit. Hindsight is always 20/20…🤷🏻
@@bigshanern4l186 I think people forget how good he was that year and the year jarret won the title in 99 I don’t think people remember how good Bobby Labonte was that year as well
Ya that's cuz I swear Hendrick has his hand in nascar. Jimmie Johnson got away with cheating for years. Watch a race on TV and all you hear is Hendrick this and Hendrick that. They had to get Johnson his seventh championship somehow
Win or lose, you have always been one of the happiest drivers on the track. God bless you, we need more people like that in this world
Since the minute he made him announcement, I've always had this mindset. Carl was well off, and just drove because he was good at it and loved doing it. When NASCAR pulled their stunts, and it ultimately cost Carl the championship at the last minute, he took a hard look and decided that he had no reason to put himself through that again if NASCAR could just pull it out from under him again. He was comfortable with himself and his career to be satisfied with what he had done and didn't need to prove himself to anybody
its crazy how carl got his break. doubt that will ever happen again in racing. he was posting ads as a driver to look for work.
And for that he gain a fan at the wrong time. I sure do miss him.
Not to mention nascar had history of giving Carl the shaft
Sounds that's what Kenny said. Thanks for repeating it.
@@dirttrackin38mb not just him. There was other drivers and teams that were screwed over by NASCAR.
You hit the nail on the head Kenny !! THATS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED !! 😢 I love how honest you are towards racing and the passion you have towards racing it's in your blood.
They did the same thing at Brooklyn Michigan when race was stopped because of rain with Jeremy Mayfield in the lead which nascar could not let happen. They green flaged the race in the down pour and let Tony Stewart win while everyone wrecked. Lost all trust in Nascar since.
How about when they let Mark Martin win because the rain was wet the anounser said it was a wet rain so they kept the cars on the track under caution until halfway then called the race it's all bullshit just like NFL they know who's going to win before the season starts
Correction, RED FLAGED IT GREEN SIGNIFIES GO ,RED MEANS DELAYED!
I still miss Carl in NASCAR to this day. I agree with you Kenny on that they absolutely robbed Carl of HIS championship in 2016 cause of that BS caution they threw that night and I do believe that's why he left too cause he was sick of NASCAR pulling such moves just to get their drama.
That wasn't the first time NASCAR has upset me with "fake" cautions though. They screwed over my favorite driver, Martin Truex Jr., of being at least a 2X champion this same way. Last year at Phoenix, Truex had the best car of the Championship 4 and got the lead late before running away to the 2021 title. Then NASCAR threw the "caution" with less than 30 laps left for a car that I think was slow cause it's engine blew up, but it was completely safe and off the track, going to pit road. But they still pulled that same type of BS caution and it screwed MTJ from the championship he should have had last year. The JGR 19 car has been done bad so many times...
I genuinely hate when officials interfere with the outcome of an event.. Let the drivers dictate who wins. If a crew chief puts together a great race and the driver literally drives a solid race they should win.. It's called competition. I haven't watched Nascar much since Carl got robbed and Im sure Im not alone
They always try and help Hendrick too.