In NASCAR you can never know just how much one event can morph the upcoming history of the sport. With this we get to see or think about possible butterfly effects on the sport. So today we are going to look at all of the greatest NASCAR butterfly effects that you have to offer.
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What do you think is the greatest NASCAR butterfly effect?
If Ayrton Senna didn’t accepted the deal to race with Williams, he and Dale Sr would be driving for RCR after his run ins at Indy with Fittipaldi and Penske in 1994.
And Senna would flagship the rise of NASCAR In Brazil, maybe even with the buyout and cooperation with Stock Car there with the likes of Ingo Hoffman Bringing CASTROL to NASCAR and maybe Chevy Bringing the Opala to Busch series, and if not the so dreamed race at Interlagos Oval and Jacarepagua, that Bernie Ecclestone threatened to remove F1 from the country if any international board outside FA was to race there.
And for an extent, japan would continue hosting NASCAR because of Senna.
@Who Asked Well if Indycar had stayed together, the 2000’s golden age of NASCAR plays out very differently. 2008 arrives and it very likely results in Indycar ending NASCAR dominance in American mainstream culture. Oh and the open wheel invasion never happens. Tony Stewart, Kyle Larson, and possibly Jeff Gordon and Chase Briscoe never make the jump, Jimmie Johnson stays in what is now Championship Off Road Racing
honestly iceberg if NASCAR had better safety back in 01 Dale Earnhardt probably would have survived and he probably would still be racing in NASCAR until at least 2010 2011 but you’re right the safety aspect probably wouldn’t be as strict as it is now but you never know
Geoff Bodine winning one race in the 80’s prevented Hendrick from being at risk of shutting down
Kyle Busch forced out of Hendrick for Dale Jr.
The Darlington finish is the biggest in my opinion. Darlington was so close to getting Wilkesboro’d and that finish saved the track. Craven deserves a spot in the Hall Of Fame because of that.
God bless you for making “Wilkesboro’d” a verb
I think Craven’s car is in the HOF
I’m gonna go against the grain and say, no. That 2003 race was an absolute snoozer until the final 2 laps. That race did not save Darlington. If races could save tracks, why did Rockingham get abandoned after Steve Park’s win for DEI right after Dale had passed?
@Am I You? You aren’t wrong
@iCrafterChips Craven’s car was in the HOF but was removed a couple years ago. I believe Ricky has it on display at his sportscar shop (Ricky Craven Motorsports) in North Carolina.
Furniture Row Racing going from an underdog/underfunded team to a championship-caliber team in the mid to late 2010s, until its ceasing of operations after 2018.
Front Row Motorsports going from I think a C-grade team, to a B- team after Michael McDowell’s 2021 Daytona 500 victory (MCDOWELL SUPREMACY)
S1ap made a video on it, but how alan kulwicki winning the championship in 92 took away years of drivers careers due to others thinking they could be successful as owner drivers, people like Darrell waltrip, Ricky rudd and Bill elliott
And all of those driver owned teams went out of business around the same time in the late 90’s-2000
And Robby Gordon
4:18 more like a few months. Blaise Alexander had his fatal crash later that year. NASCAR mandated all the safety stuff after he died. Blaise brought all of it into the sport. Dale was just an awakening
If Daniel Suarez was never rushed into the cup series and how would that affect Martin Turex jr?
I never thought of NASCAR in the “butterfly effect” way before but before I even watch this I will say that the biggest event in the history of NASCAR to have the biggest butterfly effect would’ve been Dale Earnhardt’s death. That lead to soooo many changes short and long term even effects that have shaped the sport today
One butterfly effect in NASCAR that I remember quite well actually has more to do with F1 & that is Juan Pablo Montoya entering NASCAR in 2006. If it wasn’t for McLaren being terrible that year & Ron Dennis (the team principal at McLaren at the time) & Juan Pablo Montoya publicly feuding with each other to the point in which Montoya was basically fired by the team midway through 2006, we would have never seen Juan Pablo Montoya in NASCAR as Montoya’s contract was supposed to go until the 2011 season. Montoya’s firing also had a butterfly effect in F1 as well as it basically allowed Lewis Hamilton to enter F1 a year earlier than expected because he took the empty seat at McLaren left by Montoya for the 2007 season. For those wondering who filled Montoya’s seat at McLaren for the rest of the 2006 season, it was Pedro de La Rosa the test driver & he was terrible as he only had one podium & DNF’d in 4 of his 8 starts that season.
7:41 Jeff Gordon could’ve had 7 championships, Kevin Harvick could’ve had 4 championships, Carl Edwards could’ve had 2 championships, Jimmie Johnson would end up with 3 championships, Tony Stewart would only have 2 championships and Denny Hamlin would still have 0 championships
Man denny cant win
It’s all speculation in hindsight. Without the chase, Jimmie would have had to be better earlier in the season instead of pacing himself and saving his best stuff for the chase. You could go back and probably Dale Sr would have won less cups with the chase if it existed back in the early 90s. I think Petty still would have won just as many, he won so many races that resetting the points wouldn’t have mattered.
Everyone remembers Talladega and Atlanta for Dale Jr in the Chase back in 2004 and they remember Martinsville for the Hendrick plane crash but what people forget is Dale Jr crashed at Martinsville too and finished 33rd just like he did in Atlanta.
Another interesting butterfly effect to think about is had CGR not taken a chance on Ross Chastain, he probably wouldn’t be the cup series regular he is today
The butterfly effect I always wonder is what if nascar had taken more action to implement safety features after the death of Adam Petty. Dale and Kenny wouldn’t have been killed and the future would’ve changed in ways we cannot imagine.
Can you do more how good was he videos because I like this series. Here some ideas for you, Like Jeff Burton, Brian Vickers, Paul Menard or David Ragan.
I’m so grateful and honored to be mentioned in a video of yours. Been a fan of yours since late 2021
I remember when Darlington had seashell fragments in the asphalt, making it just tear up tires mercilessly.
I’m surprised the “First race to be televised” didn’t make the list. Like they always love to bring up the fact that this first race to be on live TV, ended with a fight, which “set the tone” for how nascar was perceived for the next couple of generations.
watching Brocks 500 days documentary made me realize how close we came to avoiding Dale’s death several times. I agree, if it wasn’t Dale in 2001 it would have bee someone else at some point.
His whole channel is so so underrated imo, his Rise of The Field Fillers is amazing as is his 500 Days series; I actually teared up abit
About the Bobby Allison crash at 4:45 – in the past I’ve read that the catch fence already HAD been reinforced during the 1986-87 offseason. The thinking at the time was the new fence would prepare the track for projected speeds of up to 215 MPH. Allison’s estimated speed at the point his car took flight was about 205 MPH. After the wreck came thoughts about what would have happened had Allison’s car actually penetrated the fence – possibly an outcome much worse than the 1955 Le Mans disaster. But imagine what would have happened had a car gone airborne during the 1986 season….
I think the open wheel invasion was a side effect of Buschwhacking. With rising talent in the Busch Series drowned out by cup drivers, teams looked to other places for drivers.
I can already tell you this for a fact, this video rocks. Stark Raving Sports has butterfly effect video’s for baseball, and they are awesome. Seeing a Nascar form of them… I absolutely love it