NASCAR as a whole is full of weird and abnormal truths and facts. Whether it be by the drivers, owners, networks, or fans the more you become immersed into the NASCAR world the more you see the crazy aspects. So today we are going to look back at a few facts about NASCAR that you may not know about. These are 5 odd NASCAR facts.
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What is the oddest NASCAR fact you know?
@turgid_member that’s an incredible fact! Bobby Allison and Neil Bonnett were really close to doing it too.
A car #63 has never had a lead lap finish in Cup. Ever.
Jeff Gordon only had 3 last lap passes for the win in his career. It was 4 if you include a duel race. He was only passed for the lead on the last lap twice, or 3 times if you include one in the Winston.
Within one year starting with the Gen 3 car, Every Gen car first full season was the same time that either The Stock Market and/or US Economy crashed or dropped.
William Byron finished first and last at the 2 daytona races in the same year of 2020. He also won at his duel.
8:10 I’m a Gordon fan I’m very upset about the playoff system but I’m also a JIMMAY fan so I guess it balances a little
Mark Martin is NASCAR’s all time winningest driver to never lead the series in wins for a season.
Well that’s something he won at lol
This is the most Mark Martin stat possible
*S1apShoes has entered the chat*
Well, alright
@Ross Crashtain Mark Martin has the 2nd most championship 2nd place finishes
One fact I’m sure is weird is that from 2005 to 2019, the champion drove an even numbered car. After Kurt Busch’s 2004 title, there wouldn’t be an odd numbered champion until Chase Elliott.
@David De Ment I wanted him to win in 2019 but yknow what happened
You mean odd at the end with Elliot right? Just wanna make sure I read that correctly.
@Storm Lee Kelly yea
Don’t you mean odd numbered?
@Xavier Juno yes
Fun Fact: If NBC did NASCAR Coverage along with FOX from 2001 to now, without the 2007-2014 break, it too would be 23 years for that channel
One of my favorite interesting NASCAR stats of all time:
JD McDuffie competed in 653 races from 1963 to 1991, a span of 27 years.
Not only did he never win a race, he never finished a single race on the lead lap!
But, he had over 100 top 10s. He wasn’t a bad driver, he did everything himself, and just didn’t have the funding to be successful.
@Ghetto Streamlabs Thankfully I’ve never seen a driver get killed on live TV. I started watching NASCAR regularly in February 2020.
@Ty K there were typically about 5 cars on the lead lap in the early 90s except at the superspeedways and road courses
@Ty K Yep, there was no lucky dog, there weren’t nearly as many cautions to bring the field back together, etc. Ned Jarrett once won a race by 14 laps over 2nd place!
Another one:
If we never changed the Winston Cup points format in 2004, the champions since then would look like this:
2004 – Jeff Gordon
2005 – Tony Stewart
2006 – Jimmie Johnson
2007 – Jeff Gordon
2008 – Carl Edwards
2009 – Jimmie Johnson
2010 – Kevin Harvick
2011 – Carl Edwards
2012 – Brad Keselowski
2013 – Jimmie Johnson
2014 – Jeff Gordon
2015 – Kevin Harvick
2016 – Kevin Harvick
2017 – Martin Truex
2018 – Kyle Busch
2019 – Kyle Busch
2020 – Kevin Harvick
2021 – Kyle Larson
2022 – Chase Elliott
As a Jimmie fan I wonder indeed if he would have changed his driving habits. It’s been overly documented Hendrick would bust out an early set of cars that could run up front and then sandbag the meat of the season until right before the chase. Then ramp it up and win one.
@Alpha yup.
Excellent job. Could have added where the champ would have finished in old point system. Something to compare to.
For some reason, that looks exactly like the way it really should be.. Harvick 4x champ, Gordon 6x champ and maybe could have squeezed out 1 more
Chase Elliot winning Pocono without leading a lap (due to Hamlin and Kyle Busch DQ’s) for me is a recent fact that will always sound odd.
That is going to be something that in 5-10 years new nascar fans are gonna be asking “HOW” before hearing the context. That is a good one to bring up.
Well he had to be credited for leading the last lap if he won right?
@Rob F No if you go back and look it said he didn’t lead a lap. So he wasn’t credited with leading the last lap
@Rob F As it stands in the record books, they don’t even give him credit for the leading the last lap. Perhaps NASCAR could retroactively give him the 1 lap led for the last lap but until then, the fact still remains.
Before Joey Logano in 2018 with 3 wins, the last time a champion won with under 5 wins was 2004 with Kurt Busch (3 wins). In 2022, Joey Logano became the first driver to win the champion with exactly 4 wins since Bobby Labonte in 2000. Ironically, Kurt Busch retired that year. Bobby Labonte, Kurt Busch, and Joey Logano have all driven the 22 at some point in their Cup career.
Wait when did Bobby drive the 22?
@Xavier Juno Bobby Labonte’s rookie season was in 1993 with Bill Davis Racing in the #22. He moved to Joe Gibbs’s #18 in 1995 to replace Dale Jarrett.
@Noah Coleman oh ya now I remember
Oddest fact I know:
The front splitter struts on the earlier models of the COT were under a development war. Teams were fighting to see how big and aerodynamic they could make their struts without arising suspicion. Apparently it was a major contributor to the car’s aerodynamics and drag.
AJ Allmendinger & Kaulig Racing are the only Cup Team to win as a open driver & team in the Charter System
Since 2001, only 17 races have ended with a wreck/caution on the final lap of the race
Idk why i feel like that number is way lower than what I’d expect. That’s not even 1 a season.
I still want an Iceberg video races that Dale Jr. woulda coulda shoulda won. If everything went right, he would have 35-40 Cup wins.
Throughout NASCAR’s entire history, Dodge has only won 2 manufacturer’s championships in the sport’s top division, meaning they have the same number of manufacturer’s titles as Buick.
Not a fact but, huge amount of self control on Dale Jr.‘s crew chief. He was about to smash the headset so hard but held it like a boss.
Odd Dark fact: Neil Bonnett and Dale Earnhardt died in the same turn, at the same track, with the impact sites roughly 100 feet apart.
I never really thought about that. 7 years & 7 days apart
There is exactly ONE race where Kerry, Dale Jr AND Sr all raced together, the 2000 Pepsi 400 at Michigan.
Kerry crashed early and finished last in his debut, but at least he raced in the Cup series one time alongside his father and brother Dale.
Adam Petty only had 1 race where his dad Kyle FAILED TO QUALIFY
I think the oddest fact is that Kyle Busch, a two-time Cup Series Champion and the most winningest driver of this era still hasn’t won a Daytona 500 yet. He came so close many times in the past but couldn’t seal the deal. Is he gonna suffer the same fate as Smoke? Maybe it’ll all change in this year’s Daytona 500.
19 cars from #1-99 have never won a race including #50, 67, & 84 that are in this years’ Daytona 500..
The #63 car has never finished on the lead lap in the Cup series, ever.
I’m gonna bring up my odd fact from the last video and add onto it.
In 2017, Michael McDowell completed more laps than anybody else in the Cup Series. He then proceeded to do it again last season in 2022. So theoretically under the 1972-73 points format, McDowell would be a two time champion.