Off topic but I would be interested in a series about R&D and development teams in the 2000s like the #06 with roush and the #06 with Penske and the #80 for joe gibbs
Thanks for mentioning the diecast side for the field fillers. It’s still a shame how the Miccosukee erased their entire history with the sport… Also that’s so cool how you got your hands on a Competitive Edge Motorsports Promo from Racing champions before they completely left NASCAR after 2005. I also have a 2009 custom of David Starr’s Boys Be Boys 06 Extenze that attempted in the All Star Open
The ironic part is I work with Mr Wade day currently to this day, thank you Mr beard for highlighting him in the video. Been working with him since I was 16 and I'll be 24 this year.
Another great episode as always. Would you consider doing a Dave Marcis episode? He raced in 5 different decades of nascar and has so much history I think it would a amazing video of the best owner/driver to never win a championship in my opinion.
@@LASTCARonBROCK that’s true Stapleton had a awesome video of the shop tours. I loved how he still has the old race shop abd it’s basically stuck in time. I think a video like you did with buddy arrington would be perfect how you break down all the seasons.
I've been longing for another episode of ROTFF and all I can say is, it's well worth the wait! As always, I really enjoyed the episode so much. Keep up the good work, sir!
28:14 Larry Carter was Raines' crew chief in his 2003 Cup series season, not Buddy Sisco. Carter was also not only the nephew of Travis Carter of Travis Carter Motorsports but was also the crew chief of Darrell Waltrip in 2000, something he'd make clear every chance he got in the booth whenever the FOX booth focused on Raines in 2003. Raines DID attempt to run Darlington in 2005 in a Dodge owned by Buddy Sisco though.
Ack you're right - thank you for catching that. Interestingly, Sisco was listed to take over for Carter in 2004 but that fell through when the team closed. That must be where I got tangled up: www.espn.com/rpm/wc/spot03/traines.html
Interesting note: CEM registered the #32 for the Busch Series for their limited starts before Braun Racing (who inherited the #19 from Alec Pinsonneault's operation for 2003) linked up with TrimSpa for 2004. Braun was going to change to #32 in reference to one of TrimSpa's products, but technically, they were the #132 team, and CEM got first dibs on the number for any races they both entered. So in both of Garvey's starts in the CEM #32, David Stremme ran the #30 TrimSpa Dodge instead.
@@mrterp04 Yeah, it was really prominent in that time period - the entry lists would even list the part-time entries with duplicate numbers as the #1xx or #2xx, with priority going to the lowest number. This is the only case I remember where the full-time team had to cede their number to a part-time operation. (For fun, look back at the Busch North/South "combination" races in the early '90s, where usually, the team highest in their respective points would get first dibs. Usually.)
This is the one I’ve been waiting for. They had the best paint scheme of the field fillers imo, a shame they had arguably the worst luck and performance out of them all. It’s cool they got a 1:24 scale diecast though! Even though I primarily collect 1:64, I may have to track it down one day.
As if by divine retribution they return from the brink Of excitation return in everything greater numbers they aroused anger in some aberration in others but each knew 2004 was there chance to rise THEY WERE THE FIELD FILLERS!!
Man I think you could do a mini series on all the field filler / fly by night teams Greg Sacks was involved with lol. That guy always showed up with random teams
I fucking love this series ❤ it proves that ANYONE can race in nascar thanks Brock, also I want to request a video on Rick ware racing, it could be call RICK WARE RACING: THE LAST SURVIVING FIELD FILLER
@ I’ve been a defender of Rick Ware Racing since 2019! Even tho I watch less NASCAR, I STILL get to see them race more outside of NASCAR! The IndyCar program with Dale Coyne needs work (again), their NHRA is fun to root for alongside with Clay Millican. Always cool to see them in IMSA!
7:51 Can someone please tell me if that number 19 car is a Casey Mears car? Whose team was it and why are there no pictures of it anywhere on the internet
Casey Mears was the driver of that car. He finished on the lead lap in P21. Sometimes it can be a challenge to find old photos of specific and obscure Busch Series cars like this one.
Yes it is. The car was owned by Todd Braun, Braun Motorsports. That particular race was in 2003. Mears wasn’t the only driver for him that year. From Wikipedia: “Braun moved his operation to the Busch Series in 2003, in a technical alliance with Chip Ganassi Racing.[19] Braun fielded the No. 30 Dodge for Jimmy Vasser for two races, and the No. 19 for Chad Blount and Ganassi drivers Casey Mears, David Stremme, and Jamie McMurray.[19] Mears ran the most races for Braun,[19] winning a pole at Chicagoland Speedway and finishing in the top-ten four times in fourteen starts.”
I'm afraid that's a mistake on my end - the graphic I used got moved to another spot, and I must have left it blank. No one mentioned it in pre-screening so I didn't fix it.
I only wish you could do one on TIGER TOM Pistone. Or Larry Frank. Ill betya that theres enough memorabilia and pics to pull it off like you do better than aaaanyone, especially with Mr. Pistone
Man, I remember being a teen and visiting their website. Hoping to see some cool stats and pictures, I was instead greeted with a nauseating overload of marketing gobbledegook. I guess it worked because Marathon isn't a small brand, but perhaps they would have stuck around longer if they put the same amount of effort into their racing performance.
It was definitely an unusual team. Much like ICN, a lot of the writing on the website was hard to understand. Tom Thomas' race reviews were definitely the best stuff on there. You could tell he was passionate about Marathon's involvement with the team.
I hope this series continues on into the 2010's. Quite a few field filler teams that came and went at that time too.
Whitney motorsports comes to mind. Terry cooks last nascar stint.
Off topic but I would be interested in a series about R&D and development teams in the 2000s like the #06 with roush and the #06 with Penske and the #80 for joe gibbs
I was thinking about that when the series started.
Or the 25 with Hendricks Motorsports post 2007
Thanks for mentioning the diecast side for the field fillers. It’s still a shame how the Miccosukee erased their entire history with the sport…
Also that’s so cool how you got your hands on a Competitive Edge Motorsports Promo from Racing champions before they completely left NASCAR after 2005.
I also have a 2009 custom of David Starr’s Boys Be Boys 06 Extenze that attempted in the All Star Open
I always look forward to one of Brock’s documentaries. The absolute gold standard
I am convinced that you yell "Field Fillers" louder every single episode
Believe it or not, I turned it down a little on this one haha
As someone who hopes to one day start a NASCAR team, these videos truly fascinate me. Keep up the great work.
Thank you! I hadn't thought of them helping in that way, but perhaps they can be instructive!
Jeez our humble narratour laid out the Consort concept so matter of factly that i considered shaving.
Harvick's interview during Lepage's Brickyard qualifying run 💀
The ironic part is I work with Mr Wade day currently to this day, thank you Mr beard for highlighting him in the video. Been working with him since I was 16 and I'll be 24 this year.
Once again great work Brock!
Keep up the good work brock! Love this series would be something if this series could be put on DVD!
Please do The Story of NEMCO Motorsports
You know it's gonna be a good one when the video's about an obscure NASCAR team from the 2000's and it starts with a football game from the 60's
“The Power of Positive Thinking is when you tell em’ youre doing great when in fact you are Stinking”. Christopher Haas 2024.
Another great episode as always. Would you consider doing a Dave Marcis episode? He raced in 5 different decades of nascar and has so much history I think it would a amazing video of the best owner/driver to never win a championship in my opinion.
I'm certainly open to it. Not sure if I can improve on Stapleton's interview with the man himself.
@@LASTCARonBROCK that’s true Stapleton had a awesome video of the shop tours. I loved how he still has the old race shop abd it’s basically stuck in time. I think a video like you did with buddy arrington would be perfect how you break down all the seasons.
I've been longing for another episode of ROTFF and all I can say is, it's well worth the wait!
As always, I really enjoyed the episode so much. Keep up the good work, sir!
Thank you! I'm glad this scratched that itch!
@LASTCARonBROCK Anytime, sir.^^
Rotff teams simultaneously feel like harsh money sucking endeavours while also being a few dudes scrapping together a fun passion project
That's a fair assessment. The duality of racing.
2:30 love how the fee to learn how to negotiate is non-negotiable
A brilliant marketing strategy I must say. It must have been the first lesson.
Sounds like Joe Auer was more interested in marketing and cashing in on his name and the sports popularity than he was about racing haha.
I'll be real. I didn't know how you were gonna tie that intro in to make it work. I should have never doubted you. Well done. 😆
28:14 Larry Carter was Raines' crew chief in his 2003 Cup series season, not Buddy Sisco. Carter was also not only the nephew of Travis Carter of Travis Carter Motorsports but was also the crew chief of Darrell Waltrip in 2000, something he'd make clear every chance he got in the booth whenever the FOX booth focused on Raines in 2003. Raines DID attempt to run Darlington in 2005 in a Dodge owned by Buddy Sisco though.
Ack you're right - thank you for catching that. Interestingly, Sisco was listed to take over for Carter in 2004 but that fell through when the team closed. That must be where I got tangled up: www.espn.com/rpm/wc/spot03/traines.html
@LASTCARonBROCK Carter would also go on to be Rusty Wallace's crew chief in 2004, leading to Rusty's final Cup win in the Spring Martinsville race.
Interesting note: CEM registered the #32 for the Busch Series for their limited starts before Braun Racing (who inherited the #19 from Alec Pinsonneault's operation for 2003) linked up with TrimSpa for 2004. Braun was going to change to #32 in reference to one of TrimSpa's products, but technically, they were the #132 team, and CEM got first dibs on the number for any races they both entered. So in both of Garvey's starts in the CEM #32, David Stremme ran the #30 TrimSpa Dodge instead.
I remember this being brought up on NBS247
@@mrterp04 Yeah, it was really prominent in that time period - the entry lists would even list the part-time entries with duplicate numbers as the #1xx or #2xx, with priority going to the lowest number. This is the only case I remember where the full-time team had to cede their number to a part-time operation. (For fun, look back at the Busch North/South "combination" races in the early '90s, where usually, the team highest in their respective points would get first dibs. Usually.)
Thank you so much for the work you put in to these. They are always incredible. 🤙🏻🤙🏻
This is the one I’ve been waiting for. They had the best paint scheme of the field fillers imo, a shame they had arguably the worst luck and performance out of them all. It’s cool they got a 1:24 scale diecast though! Even though I primarily collect 1:64, I may have to track it down one day.
As if by divine retribution they return from the brink Of excitation return in everything greater numbers they aroused anger in some aberration in others but each knew 2004 was there chance to rise THEY WERE THE FIELD FILLERS!!
Man I think you could do a mini series on all the field filler / fly by night teams Greg Sacks was involved with lol. That guy always showed up with random teams
Marathon sponsor Mike Marlar at the 2019 Eldora race but Nascar ban the sposor before the race
Just started the video and that’s the last place I expected it start Brock
45:51 at first I thought it sounded like Mike Joy 🤨 had to rewind it when i saw the tnt bubble 🧐 oh its Bill Wally and Benny.
Dont ask. I need sleep.
All the driver's they had. I'm surprised they didn't try to get cope in the car
It is interesting, isn't it? One of the few 2004 field fillers he didn't drive.
I fucking love this series ❤ it proves that ANYONE can race in nascar thanks Brock, also I want to request a video on Rick ware racing, it could be call RICK WARE RACING: THE LAST SURVIVING FIELD FILLER
More people should put some respect in his name in not only NASCAR, but auto racing as a whole since they’re all over racing
@@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YTExactly. They gave Dodge the last NASCAR win for them... 2013... The Canadian Tire (or Pintys) Series.
@ too bad NASCAR fans only care about the bad side of RWR
@@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT Yep. That is unfortunate. But now, they have hope... Last year was just the beginning.
@ I’ve been a defender of Rick Ware Racing since 2019!
Even tho I watch less NASCAR, I STILL get to see them race more outside of NASCAR! The IndyCar program with Dale Coyne needs work (again), their NHRA is fun to root for alongside with Clay Millican. Always cool to see them in IMSA!
Thanks for another great video in this series
7:51 Can someone please tell me if that number 19 car is a Casey Mears car? Whose team was it and why are there no pictures of it anywhere on the internet
Casey Mears was the driver of that car. He finished on the lead lap in P21. Sometimes it can be a challenge to find old photos of specific and obscure Busch Series cars like this one.
Yes it is. The car was owned by Todd Braun, Braun Motorsports. That particular race was in 2003. Mears wasn’t the only driver for him that year.
From Wikipedia: “Braun moved his operation to the Busch Series in 2003, in a technical alliance with Chip Ganassi Racing.[19] Braun fielded the No. 30 Dodge for Jimmy Vasser for two races, and the No. 19 for Chad Blount and Ganassi drivers Casey Mears, David Stremme, and Jamie McMurray.[19] Mears ran the most races for Braun,[19] winning a pole at Chicagoland Speedway and finishing in the top-ten four times in fourteen starts.”
1:10:06
Dang, youre even doing the Greg Sacks 13 team?
@15:57 there's nothing ther except audio... Not sure if something got cut out last minute there or if that was deliberate
I'm afraid that's a mistake on my end - the graphic I used got moved to another spot, and I must have left it blank. No one mentioned it in pre-screening so I didn't fix it.
@LASTCARonBROCK Well, glad someone caught it and said something either way, maybe it gets fixed down the line
@@TheMrtgameryou cant with yt studio you can only just cut it out
@@LASTCARonBROCKpeople prolly thought it was natural, when i watched that part it felt like you were introducing/hyping up lepages involvement
@@dethkillerspiral That works for me! It may have come at a natural point anyway.
Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄 ❤️
So am I crazy or does this seem like the least successful field filler yet with what seems like the most sponsorship?
Good point - it also seems to be the biggest sponsor with the least actual support.
Brock’s back., hang on…. did TH-cam unsubscribe me…. Noooo
Is this the first one without Brett Bodine? 😳
I'm afraid that streak ended with Carl Long's episode. :(
Huh-never put two and two together that Joe Auer football player and Joe Auer NASCAR team owner were the same guy.
Your voice sounds familiar
I only wish you could do one on TIGER TOM Pistone. Or Larry Frank. Ill betya that theres enough memorabilia and pics to pull it off like you do better than aaaanyone, especially with Mr. Pistone
Love your series Brock, but everytime I hear Kevin Lepage, I cringe.
Man, I remember being a teen and visiting their website. Hoping to see some cool stats and pictures, I was instead greeted with a nauseating overload of marketing gobbledegook. I guess it worked because Marathon isn't a small brand, but perhaps they would have stuck around longer if they put the same amount of effort into their racing performance.
It was definitely an unusual team. Much like ICN, a lot of the writing on the website was hard to understand. Tom Thomas' race reviews were definitely the best stuff on there. You could tell he was passionate about Marathon's involvement with the team.