NASCAR has a history of interesting facts and stories that would seem so unlikely that they should not be true in any sense. Yet the unbelievable NASCAR stories we end up hearing as if they are myth actually can end up being more true than not. With that in mind I asked all of you to give me some of these facts and stories and used them to make this for you today. The are NASCAR facts that don't sound real.
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What are some other NASCAR facts that sound fake but are actually true?
Hm
Blood money being used to fund a NASCAR team is a recipe for a geopolitical disaster. Case in point, what Adam Stern reported about one of the latest Charter agreement drafts.
One of my favorite weird facts is that they were running leaded fuel until the COT era.
That’s a really good one. Leaded gas was finally phased out of NASCAR in 2007, some 32 years after it was banned in production cars in the U.S.
Carl Edwards won with Joe Gibbs in all of his primary sponsor except for Stanley Tools
Tony Stewart the only driver to win a Nextel, Winston, and Sprint cup.
@@HGT14 oh mb
@@2tuff.saints580 Ur good
In 1973, Benny Parsons only finished on the lead lap in one single race. He won that race.
He also won the championship that year
Yes, but he didn’t even finish that race. He just got credited because he started the car for that Bristol race.John Utsmam finished the race for Benny and got to the finish line 1st.
He had 15 top 5s that year – are you telling us that he wasn’t on a lead lap in any of those 15 races?
@@zt5547 yes
In Kevin Harvick’s first start in 2001, the 24 (Jeff Gordon) won the pole, and the 1 (Steve Park) won the race. In Kevin Harvick’s last start in 2023, the 24 (William Byron) won the pole, and the 1 (Ross Chastain) won the race.
Coincidence?? I think NOT
Here’s one: Ryan Newman beat Jimmie Johnson for the Rookie of the Year honors in 2002 despite Johnson finishing 5th in the final standings to Ryan Newman finishing 6th.
I think the sole thing that managed to bag Newman that title was that he had one singular top 10 more then Johnson
@@whoasked9500 He also had more piles than Johnson if I’m not mistaken. There is actually a different points system for the Rookie of the Year award. (Or at least there was)
@@whoasked9500 It’s actually a little bit different as to how they crowned the Rookie of the Year back then. You see, how they ruled it was based on your 15 best races. And considering Ryan Newman got 14 Top-5s to Jimmie Johnson’s 6, that played a major factor. Granted, you are right that Newman also scored one more top-10 than JJ, but the point is that back then, ROTY wasn’t determined by points position.
Still, I still think it seems messed up.
@@President_Grover_Cleveland Yes. Back then, it was based on your 15 best races. Today, it’s simply who finishes highest in points. Although it is simpler today, I think the Playoffs Ultimately take the meritocracy out of it. Cole Custer proved that in 2020.
One fact I find interesting is that the Indy Road Course is the only track besides COTA to have hosted races for NASCAR, Indycar, F1 & MotoGP. While we are on the subject of tracks, it should be pointed out that thanks to their inclusion on the Xfinity & Truck Series schedules over the years, Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, Montreal & Mexico City are the only tracks outside of the US to have held points paying races so far though this will likely change if NASCAR adds more international races for the Cup Series.
William Byron has more wins at Hendrick Motorsports than Dale Earnhardt Jr.
And has more wins in the Next Gen than anyone else
Lol thats not even the least bit surprising. If you were a fan during dales time at hendrick youd know that. The guy didnt win a single race for like 4 yrs straight
That sucks. William Byron sucks. Worst driver Hendrick has ever had. Awful awful person.
@@Matt_8000Larson is tied with him in Next Gen wins now
Kevin Harvick proved in 2020 winning doesn’t really mean more in this format. I’ll die on that hill
Same thing in 2018, with Busch and Harvick both having 8 wins, and Joey Logano won the championship, this format is horrible
Ryan Newman 2014
Newman already did that in 2014.
@@FNTM2k3 wrong. Never was more exposed than in 2020
@@DogWarrior1010 still not as much as Harvick in 2020
The only two drivers to win in F1, Indycar and the Cup Series are Mario Andretti and Juan Pablo Montoya. JPM is also the only driver to win multiple races in each of those series.
Ty Dillon has more stage wins than his brother and as many stage wins as every driver in the hall of fame combined!
TY DILLON SUPREMACY
Has Johnson or Jr won any stages?
Jimmie won a stage in 2017
So ty has tied the hall of fame drivers… but not total (counting crew chiefs)
@@tanjirouzumaki144ty Dillon also won a stage at Talladega once.
Jimmie Johnson is the only driver to win a championship across 3 different generations of car. he also won multiple championships in each of them
Another odd one: Ty Dillon is the only driver in nascar history to complete every race in a season in all of the top 3 series. Praise Ty Dillon
What year did he do that??
dillon never had another full time truck season after 2013, with 2014 being his first full time xfinity season. His last full time xfinity season was 2016. His first full time cup season was 2017.
He has never competed full time in all 3 series
@@babyeliascookiehas to be 2015 or somewhere around there. Not sure though
@@babyeliascookieaccording to racing reference, he finished every Truck race in 2012, every Xfinity race in 2015, and every Cup race in 2019
That final stat about Curtis Turner reminded me of something Scott Dixon was able to accomplish en route to his first championship in his debut IRL season.
from his website: “Became the first driver in IndyCar Series history to lead consecutive laps over the course of three races.Led the final 84 laps en route to a victory at Pikes Peak and led all 206 laps of the rain-shortened event Richmond. Led the first 53 laps at Kansas for a total of 343 consecutive laps led.”
In 1979, Joe Millikan finished 2nd to Dale Earnhardt in the Rookie of the Year standings. Terry Labonte was 3rd, Harry Gant was 4th.
Millikan finished 6th in series points with 20 top 10s, 5 top 5s, and a 12.6 average finish. He never ran another full time season and never won a race in 79 career starts.
One of my favorite crazy stats/facts is that in the 2010 Craftsman Truck Series season, Jason White drove all four makes of truck in the series at the time (Ford, Chevrolet, Dodge, and Toyota) in four consecutive races and finished on the lead lap in all four races!
Jason white is the only Nascar driver to finish in the top 150 in the World Series of poker main event.
One driver retired with a statistical average of 1.0 – Marvin Burke. He won a race at Oakland in the 50s and never competed again.
The driver with the worst career average is Lee Connell – he started the 1951 Southern 500 and finished 80th of 82. He never started another race.
Austin Dillon, Erik Jones, Jamie McMurray, and Michael McDowell all have as many crown jewel wins as Tony Stewart
At the Coke 400 from 2019 to 2022 Joey Logano won at least one stage in all 4 races (sweeping the first two stages in 2020), while also being involved in a wreck in all of them