NASCAR dynasties, as are all dynasties, are the most difficult goal to achieve in the sport. Only the absolute best of the best were able to reach this pinnacle of accomplishment. Yet with that there are still many others who were on the verge of doing this same thing and joining the likes of Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt, Jeff Gordon, and Jimmie Johnson as immortal dominant names. These are 5 NASCAR dynasties that never happened.
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Which driver do you think could have the next NASCAR dynasty?
Larson or Bell
The next son of Kyle Busch himself
Larson
Connor Zillisch
Kyle Larson
The fact Harvick only won one title is a travesty
He deserved 2010, 2015, 2016, and 2020, and would have won them under the Winston Points System
2020 was his season
Oh yeah he’s easily a 3/4 time championship caliber driver
He would have had 4 if we were still using the Winston Cup System. I personally believe he has 4, think of it the driver who drove Earnhardt’s car in 2001 eventually would have 4 cups and that was taken away due to the fraud playoff system. Kevin having 4 cups would have made a hell of a story.
@@BlandSpagetti RCR really held him back
They really only had fast cars in 01,06,10,11 and 13
How Roush from 1989-2002 and 2005-2012 didn’t even win one title is INSANE
Roush unfortunately had bad luck during those early years
@@BlandSpagetti and Hendrick and RCR having better everything
@@BlandSpagettiyeah the first half of the 90 was Earnhardt and the later half of the 90 was Gordon,
1990 Mark Martin
2002 Mark Martin
2005 Greg Biffle
2008 Carl Edwards
2011 Card Edwards
2012 Matt Kenseth
All looked like title contenders and the fact that not one of those 6 ended in a title is crazy
I think the 2 here that have to hurt the worst are 1990 Mark Martin who lost on a penalty and 2011 Carl Edwards who lost on a tiebreaker
2011 always stands out because that’s around when I got into NASCAR. A worst chase finish of 11th in the 10 race era and not winning the title that year is insane.
I’ll forever think 2011 showed NASCAR what they wanted in terms of the direction of the sport, with wanting drivers to get hot with wins at the end and steal championships they probably didn’t deserve
Harvick in 2014
Johnson in 2016
Kinda Logano in 2018
Elliott in 2020
Logano again in 2022
And Blaney in 2023 all fit this bill
@@BlandSpagetti Especially with Mark Martin. It’s definitely a tough pill to swallow when you lose a championship by virtue of a questionable penalty, another one because the Pepsi 400 restarted on the last lap of the race resulting in getting caught up in a big wreck not of your own doing, or losing a championship because of a weird mechanical issue at Talladega.
Something tells me if Chevy can get a new car model or something, Trackhouse could turn into the next dynasty with Chastain.
I will die on this hill that matt kenseth was one Jimmie Johnson, one Joey Logano and one dieing roush team from being a 6 time champion
And one Alex Bowman
As a Kenseth fan don’t forget Vickers in 2011
Harvick is more of an invisible dynasty, as he has the most points overall 4 times.
He even has an all-time better average finish than Matt Kenseth, his boss Tony Stewart, Kyle Busch and JIMMIE JOHNSON.
You by all means go by year to year. You don’t know if Gibbs had an engine issue one year so avg don’t show the truth
@@dang5553 Maybe so, but even if that were true, you’re realistically only talking about a one or maybe two car difference. You still get a pretty good idea of how well someone did in a season based on their average finish alone. That’s why the Latford Winston Cup format was the most fair championship crowning format in NASCAR.
@@nascarfanatic2425 and even if NASCAR wanted to emphasize winning more, easy you literally just award significantly more bonus points to the winner instead of all of the other contrived stuff.
@@nascarfanatic2425and would make Jeff Gordon a 7/8 time champion and undoubtedly the best driver of nascar all time. Buttttt chase gimmicks
The downfall of Roush was perfectly explained by Greg Biffle when he went on the Dale Jr Download a couple of years ago.
1997 was Mark Martin’s best chance to win a championship, but Jeff Gordon and Dale Jarrett had other plans, with Jarrett only being 14 points behind him.
Slapshoes says it best, Mark was one of the best drivers of all time racing against THE best drivers of all time. Watch his Mark Martin series on YouTube.
Mark also had a great 98 but Gordon was untouchable that year
Mark never got to have a season to himself, he was always unlucky enough to be caught up by his competitors.
Remember when Roush Racing went 1-2-3-4 at Homestead? Just imagine if Kurt Busch didn’t have that encounter with police just 2 races before the end of the season, ran at Homestead. Possible 1-2-3-4-5 finish for Roush to close the 2005 season?
It certainly could’ve happened, but I think that even if Kurt never had that incident, it still would’ve been a tall task. Kurt Busch was struggling in his championship follow-up season.
How is Rusty Wallace not here? He’s one of the best drivers in NASCAR history, but only has one championship!
It’s because Penske kind of has a dynasty even without Rusty.
Karma for Rusty for being a putz on the racetrack
@@andysee6996 that’s why only one championship you noticed even in this conversation Darrell Waltrip wasn’t mentioned
Because Bill Elliott and Dale sr and Jeff Gordon were dominating better than Rusty
Martin Truex Jr was close to a dynasty, he won the title in 2017 and then finished runner up in 3 of the next 4 years.
Really creative idea for a video, didn’t realize how much I wanted this lol. It is funny to think about, but if Tony had not gotten hurt in early 2006 he probably wins the title that year, because he was the best guy in that Chase. And he had a shot in 09 as well. We were realistically a couple small details away from Smoke being a five time champ alongside Jimmie
I believe Ned said some of his reasoning of his early retirement was because of Fireball Roberts. He never could get over seeing, hearing and probably smelling Roberts almost burn to death.
It is a travesty that Kevin Harvick only got 1 championship in his career. It’s the reason I’ll forever hate the playoffs.
David Pearson and the Wood Brothers if they’d ran full-time.
The heck with roush racing as a whole. Matt Kenseth lost 2 championships to Jimmie Johnson, and was on his way to homestead for a fourth until Alex Bowman wreck him in the closing laps.
And don’t get me started on 2015.
No one will have dynasties now because of the championship being a toss up the way the current format is setup. We could’ve easily had a Harvick dynasty in later half of 2010s but playoffs say “NO”.
I was really expecting to see Furniture Row on this list. Easily one of the biggest ifs in recent history is JGR practically buyin out FRR.
i think Davey Allison should have been on this list. he had averaged a win just about every 10 races and had just had consecutive 5 win, 3rd in points seasons in 91 and 92. plus, he was looking to have a really strong run at the championship in 93 when he got killed
Martin Truex Jr from 2016-2021 had Furniture Row and Cole Pearn stayed together.