Ranking Every NASCAR Season I've Watched!
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- Опубликовано: 27 ноя 2024
- What can I say? As a NASCAR fan I have wanked to rank the seasons that I have watched over the years for a long time. From my start as a Dale Jr. fan to being on RUclips and giving my thoughts on the Playoffs there is a lot that has changed in the time that I have stayed the same with the constant of NASCAR racing. So today we look back at the years of this great sport and I tell you what I like most. This is my ranking of every NASCAR season I've watched!
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How would you rank the NASCAR seasons you’ve watched?
#1: 2024
That’s it
1. 2024
2. 2022
3. 2021
4. 2017
5. 2023
6. 2019
7. 2016
8. 2018
9. 2020
1. 2024
2. 2023
I don’t even know what my first season watching was I do remember Harvick/Martin finish though
1. 2011
2. 2014
3. 2024
4. 2016
5. 2007
6. 2022
7. 2012
8. 2023
9. 2017
10. 2010
11. 2021
12. 2009
13. 2019
14. 2013
15. 2008
16. 2018
17. 2020
18. 2015
2024 being ranked so low imo is criminal. I think the highs really outweigh the lows and we actually had some great road course, short track, and speedway races. I would've personally put it in upper good to lower great.
Agreed 2024 had great racing the playoffs getting exposed kinda overshadowed it but some of the best racing in years.
If you didn’t pay attention to the playoffs or the championship itself, just watched the races, pretty good season
Agreed
5 really good races doesn't make up for 31 mediocre ones
@@brunz24xxxyep, I was fed up by the FIRST Martinsville race, only the finish at Atlanta, Vegas was decent, and Bristol 1 were any good, in my 20 years watching this season pissed me off enough to actually not watch most of the season after Martinsville 1 and that was before stuff got really bad! I HATED this season, even the Daytona 500 was unwatchable there's nothing fun about watching them run 20 MPH off the pace saving fuel in gridlocked packs and unable to pass or move forward...if there's a suck thing as a God tier season this season was Satan tier! It was horrible! Garbage! Absolute shit!
To me 2010 felt like the final year NASCAR was really a bigtime mainstream sport and a juggernaut of pop culture.
2024 is definitely great. I don’t even remember all of the lowlights you pointed out. The on track product was great with very few exceptions.
Lots of controversy in 2024, but at the same time, it did keep you interested and following the news during the week.
The 1998 season was the best for me. That was the year Gordon and Martin won everything. Not a year with the closest finishes or the best points battle, but I was very aware at the time that I'd probably never see that level of excellence from two different teams over the course of a season again. That was Jeff and Mark at their absolute best.
1998 was also were Earnhardt won his Daytona 500.
2014 was my favorite season, though I was a Gordon fan, it w was the best racing I'd ever seen, I started watching Nascar in 2009
As someone who started watching in 2012, it's
1. 2012
2. 2014
3. 2021
Had the most fun in 2012, greatest wow factors in 2014, best second half of the year/playoffs in 2021, and reminded me of old nascar again.
Nod to 2011 tho I wish I was sentient when it was happening
2012 is an underrated season. Lots of great racing that year and a great championship battle between Jimmie Johnson and Brad Keselowski
2017 will honestly be one of my seasons i remember, i still don't understand why but probably it was the first season i watched like 60-70% of the races that year since i got to watching Nascar a bit in 2014.
My all time favorite season probably is 2021. Still remember spring Kansas and the second Pocono race from the doubleheader of me super happy KFB won, especially Kansas.
2011 is absolutely my god tier #1. I'm probably biased as a Stewart fan, but that final run in my opinion is why we have playoffs today. Nascar wanted to recreate the tony/carl needing to win dynamic.
Other than Earnhardt’s passing the 2001 season was very solid; I think there were 19 different winners.
2024 should not be rated so low. It had amazing racing and amazing finishes with a great racing product all around. It had innovations like rain racing on a oval as well as option tires at Richmond. Multiple photo finishes and great racing almost every race. Yes it had controversy but the highs out weighed the lows for sure. It will go down as one of the most memorable seasons in 20 years and maybe even 100.
2006 is my #1. The races was great and the finishes no matter the series was some of the most underrated in all of NASCAR history. Also this was the height of the decade long dominance of Roush vs Hendrick and the rise of JGR. Also it was the sad decline of some teams like DEI, Bill Davis, and RYR. It was the first season I watched live and it’s a good season to get new fans hooked on the sport because it’s the beginning of the new era. During 2004-2007 era gone were the days of the Winston Cup drivers and in with the new generation of younger drivers like we see today being rushed too early or shouldn’t be in cup to begin with. Complains aside it’s a good battle of youth vs experience. The cars wasn’t as aerodynamic as it is now so a lot of the newcomers became instant championship contenders. Kyle Busch and Denny Hamlin for example.
You need a crown, dude. I agreed with almost opinion for every season and where you put them. Only ones I disagreed with was 2016 was really good in my opinion and 2007 is very underrated. Great video.
2011 is so memorable for incredible finishes, an all time championship battle, and Dale Jr heartbreak. 2014 was sadly the last year of high horsepower, unfortunately the first year of the phony playoffs, and Dale Jr's most successful season with HMS.
I can only rank 2013 - 2020 , 2022
2023
2024
@@vain3207what happened in 21
If Jeff Gordon had won 2014 I think I would have a beautiful wife kids home and corvette rn. Pain
2004 (Jr won 6 races)
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2008 (biased because I saw my first race in person)
2005
2011
2012
2006
2007
2010
2009
2014
2013
Honestly haven’t watched a full season since 2014 because of the Playoffs and stage racing format.
I started watching nascar in 2001.... and I'd say my two favorite seasons are still 02 and 03... past that, I don't disagree with too much of what you said here
I do think as time goes on that youll forget some of lowlights of 2024. 2022 has some VERY low lights as well but yet you put it above 2024. Even though in my opinion 2024's racing product was superior in every way.
2022 had more interesting winners imo (with the exception of Austin Dillon), and the season itself had a new winner almost every week, you never knew what could happen but in a good way, it was so great to see underdog drivers win. Plus Trackhouse 23Xl and the hail melon. 2024 didn’t have that kind of storyline even though the racing was better at almost every track
@stormix5755 Maybe the storylines were not as strong, but much like 2024, 2022 had some awful storylines to go with it, in my opinion worse. NASCAR's officiating was horrible this year but it was even worse in 22. Not to mention the safety problems with the first year of the next gen. Better racing will always be the main storyline in my eyes.
22 was way more exciting and the new kid on the block Ross Chastain made it must watch every race!! And he competed for a championship against the likes of Gibbs,Hendrick, and Penske teams!!
Starting watching NASCAR in with the 2001 Daytona 500 (ironically).
Then started watching NASCAR full time in 2002.
My God-Tier Seasons: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2011 & 2014.
Good Seasons: 2001, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2021, 2023 & 2024.
Mid Seasons: 2010, 2013, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020 & 2022.
On 7 Cylinders: 2008
2014 is my favorite season in the years I have been watching. I think it is the last great NASCAR season in my opinion. And as a Dale Jr fan, it was fun really fun to watch the resurrection of his career. If only it could have lasted 2 or 3 more years
As someone who's started watching in 2021, I have a lot of fondness for each season, but it's hard to think of my favorite. I have a lot of admittedly premature nostalgia for 2021, but while it was one of the Gen 6's better years, it was still the Gen 6. I had the most fun in 2024, but also the most frustration. Ditto for 2022. Honestly, while 2023 didn't have the highest highs, I feel like it was the most consistently satisfying season of the last four without most of the nuisances (and that's coming from a Truex fan). It is kind of tight though. And that's without having to pick from the last four Xfinity Series seasons, which feels like having to pick a favorite child (although it probably wouldn't be 2022)
2009 was the first full season I watched. 2011 is my number one, 2014 is a close second.
2016 was when I started watching, I was only 10 at that time. I was flipping through channels one night and came across the spring Texas race and I was instantly hooked. The fact it was at night too was really cool to me because it reminded me of the opening scene in Cars which is my favorite scene of the movie. I saw Truex dominating the race and instantly gravitated towards him and was bummed out when he lost, which is why I rooted for him from there on, and seeing all the adversities he’s had and hearing about Sherry made me a dedicated fan of him. And from that day on I became a NASCAR fan. I was a casual fan at first but by the end of the season I was a full on diehard and knew the names of all the drivers. It also opened a gateway to other motorsports like Indycar, Imsa, WEC, and F1.
I was the same age as you in 2004 and fell in love with NASCAR...NOTHING and I mean NOTHING beats the NASCAR you grew up with.
My god tier seasons. 11,14,20,21
2004 and 2007 will always be great seasons. 2014 had a great racing product as well. But 2015 was pretty awful. The racing product was Lackluster to say the least. 2011 was a great season. The racing in 2011 was really good. It was great. The championship battle between Edwards and Stewart was incredible.
Ima rank it from 1-3 (I started watching LATE 2022)
1. 2024 (Yes ik Joey was the most undeserving champion and the whole martinsville cheatshow happened, but despite those it was still a cool season and I just enjoyed watching it the most)
2. 2023 (This one got p2 because I feel like watching 2 races in 2022 shouldn't get the second [Martinsville-2 was actually the first race I watched, like the whole race not just the Hail Melon. Ross did get me into the sport with that move tho]. I think Blaney was a deserving champion and ran well throughout the season. Wish it was Bell or Larson but anyone in that Champ 4 could win it and I would think they deserved it)
3. 2022 (I love the the Martinsville-2 race but only watching Martinsville and Phoenix makes me feel like it should go at the bottom)
2005 was when i started too, was a jeff gordon fan since the first race i watched to his retirement lol
I have been watching Nascar since the 2000 season. Since that time, in my personal opinion, the 2001, 2002, 2007, 2011 seasons are god tier cup seasons. From storylines to fantatsic racing and underdog winners, these seasons are my personal favorite as a Nascar fan.
I think 2014 deserves to be in god tier too.
Started watching the sport in late 2012 and early 2013. The best season I have watched was 2014 by far. My first year watching all 36 races. Such an incredible year with the inaugural running of the current win and your win format. Jeff Gordon’s and Dale Jr.’s resurgence. The last of Allen Bestwick calling NASCAR for ESPN. The list goes on. The incredible feelings of joy I got from 2014 were only replicated again in the first half of 2022.
That Amp hat is a throwback
I started watching in 2015.
1.2024 (Besides controversies)
2.2016
3.2021
4.2022
5.2023
6.2027
7.2019
8.2018
9.2020
10.2015
I started watching full time in 2002 and I’ll put the 2002, 2004, 2011 and 2014 seasons on the God Tier
I agree with these just as well. I began watching in 2004.
2004, 2005, 2011, and 2014 are probably my favorite seasons, and 2015 is obviously the worst season by a mile. 2018 and 2019 sucked too.
My Predictions:
"God" Tier - 2006, 2011, 2014.
"Great" Tier - 2005, 2012, 2009.
"Good" Tier - 2007, 2024, 2010, 2022, 2016, 2023, 2017.
"Decent Enough" Tier - 2021, 2013, 2018, 2020, 2019.
"On 7 Cylinders" Tier - 2015, 2008.
Funny how a Dale jr fan ranks any season where Kyle Busch does good as a bad season and the ones he struggles are rated good. Funny how that works
Kyle is the most overrated driver in history he’s terrible
I don't think I can agree with that logic@@NASCARfan38-v6n
Or the seasons in general just weren't good????
I swear 2011 is such an underrated season, the COTs were at their best, and they looked amazing, the paint schemes looked great, the racing was great, I really like the 2011 season. I bought a Dale Jr. diecast from 2011 because it was my favorite year.
2014 was a crazy year
I started being a Nascar fan in 2015 when I was 4 years old however I started watching NASCAR in 2017 but truly I remember watching NASCAR in 2020 and here are my favorite seasons
1.2021
2.2019
3.2023
4.2024
5.2015
6.2020
7.2018
8.2016
9.2017
10.2022 what do you want me to explain why? no it sucked
Man I am getting old
I don’t know why but 2019 was a good season in my opinion. Not only because it was the first season i really got into nascar lol but something about the races for some reason felt nostalgic to me. I genuinely don’t know how but they did.
Judging NASCAR from 2005 is cute, but the really good racing was in the 90's and a little into the early 2000's.
How can you keep these seasons together 😂, I’ve only been watching since 2019 and they are already blurring togetherlol
Some of us are just crazy obsessive. I can name the winner of every race since '83 off the top of my head.
2014 was a fever dream
2014-2006-2010-2018-2020* ending killed me, 2024-2011-1999-2000-2003-2013-2017-2016-2007* cuz of Daytona 500/all star- 2008-2004-2005-2022-2021-2023-2002-2001-2009
2009 was my first year with like , 8-12 races from 2008.
God teir : 2009,2012,2014,2016,2021
7 cylinders: 2018 ,2020,2023,2024
Since I started watching in 2015.
1. 2024
2. 2020
3. 2021
4. 2016
5. 2023
6. 2022
7. 2019
8. 2017
9. 2018
10. 2015
Too bad I didn't get into Nascar when it was great in the 90s and 2000s or before fall 2014.
I started watching in 95 I have had almost 30 years as a NASCAR fan
Man 2024 if was just based off the racing would be a god season. Still is imo
1. 2014. Jeff Gordon fan here
2.2011.
3. 2009. My first full season watching.
4. 2010.
5. 2012.
6.2013.
7. 2008
8. 2015.
9. 2020! So many unknowns I feel like made the season so much more compelling!
10. 2022.
11. 2019
12. 2016. I was not watching the majority of the season. What I did see was exciting so I got back in almost every week
13.2017.
14. 2022.
15. 2022. Building.
16.2023 stumbling.
17. 2024. Very good but questionable, not exactly trying to win over your loyal fans.
2018. 18. Personally I think this season was horrible, the racing itself atrocious!.
nice amp hat Jaret!
Started watching in 2021 so my ranking from best to worst would be: 22, 21, 24, 23
I’ve been watching since 2014 and my favorite season was either 2023 or 2021
I started watching in 2023 so 8/10 and 2024 was 10/10
Maybe the grudge against Kyle Busch is still there😂, ranking both of his championships in the last tier. TBH they weren’t great, but as a KB fan they were great to me😂
2011 2014 were bangers imo
3:42 2009 unfortunately off track news seemed to take bigger precedent over the racing on track, which is why it seems to be forgotten.
Honestly as fan of 20 years this season was the worst and most frustrating season as a fan, as much as it's hated I'd rather watch a 550 race than a Gen 7 on a road course or short track...at least Gen 6 was good on most tracks that weren't 1.5s and Gen 7 only being decent at best on them isn't an upgrade at all in my opinion...2021 was the last good season for me.
THANK YOU! About time someone FINALLY said this.
@GodzillaGaming111 I've been saying it for months even during the season...I just didn't want to watch after Martinsville in April and just knew nothing was ever gonna get better, than Nashville happened and about every race after had some sort of controversy or was just painfully boring (like Martinsville 1)
I think people are too critical of this past year, it had some bad moments but there were way more great moments and races that will be remembered for decades
2011 wooooo!!! It will never be topped imo
I hold the '97 season in high regard. I was my first nascar season that I remember following in full
While I've been watching since birth, that was definitely the year that cemented me as a NASCAR fan.
Something about the COT was awesome to me. I know it sucked but I loved the bigger spoiler and overall shape of the car.
I'd honestly take the 2008 spec COT over Gen 7...you could tell those cars were a handful to drive, the racing on short tracks, road courses, and superspeedways was all amazing, and they had massive off throttle in the corners...we barely got any more off throttle than the 550 package with Gen 7 and they don't appear as absolutely wild beasts that need tamed, once the wing came off, the splitter got filled in COT was a decent race car, not as good as Gen 4.
NASCAR’s golden ear was 1991 through 1994! The years 1996 and 2001 are very memorable as well
Top nascar seasons for me are
2011
2012
2013
2022
2024
2015 Gordon's final season nothing will ever surpass that
As a Gordon fan, I think it was very painful. Gordon's dominance from the previous year was completely lost, the whole Logano-Kenseth drama was infuriating and there weren't many other things that I can highlight apart from Gordon's farewell. But I'll always remember the fall Martinsville race fondly. Logano finally got what he deserved and I've never seen Gordon so happy after a win. Drive for five was alive until the end. Almost a story book ending of a legendary career.
2002 or 2004 would be number one for me. Honorable mentioned would be 1996.
For me it’d be:
1 2024 (recency bias?)
2 2021
3 2022
4 2016
4 2020
5 2018
6 2017
7 2019
We will never ever see a 51 year old win races and finish 2nd in points. Mark Martin is a legend.
2024 showed just how screwed up Nascar's rules are, Indy would've likely been Nashville part 2, but Nascar manipulated their own overtime rule to avoid it, that's just one example of the nonsense that happened this year. Honestly, I hope it gets worse in 2025, maybe that will finally create some change in the sport
I don't see positive change ever coming...NASCAR like having control with this car and using gimmicks, Michael Jordan is our only hope of ever getting the sport back only because of NASCAR and the France family being forced to change.
@PaperBanjo64 Man, I hope he wins
@@whalesequence same, if he loses he needs to convince Marcus Smith to side with him, and start a new stock car series without the gimmicks or Gen 7 cars.
@@PaperBanjo64 I wish I could say that, but the Indycar split killed American open wheel racing
@@whalesequence I'm aware of that, but it's obvious NASCAR refuses to change, F1 is gonna take over anyway, somebody has got to do something!
I would say 2021 was the best for me, then 2018 was the worst
1. 2011
2. 2014
3. 2005
4. 2004
5. 2022
6. 2012
7. 2024
8. 2003
9. 2007
10. 2009
11. 2010
12. 2023
13. 2006
14. 2016
15. 2021
16. 2017
17. 2020
18. 2019
19. 2013
20. 2018
21. 2008
22. 2015
EVERY SEASON SINCE PLAYOFFS F TIER
Man this guy only started watching racing in 2005 I feel old at 37 I been watching every season since the mid 90s
S Tier:
1997
2001
2002
2004
2011
2014
A Tier
1998
1999
2000
2017
2022
2024
B Tier
2003
2005
2006
2007
2010
2012
2016
2011
2023
Then the rest
Good evening
2001-2004 probably would be in the great section.
This is the dilemma with NASCAR. These youngsters and youngster content creators have no clue how awesome NASCAR used to be.
2005- Best of Gen 4
2011- Best of COT
2014- best of Gen 6 but it’s overrated for how people talk about it. Great racing sure but there was also bad boring mile and a half racing to
2020- hot take but 2020 is super underrated. Not just saying that as a Kevin Harvick fan. But the racing was actually good that year and the storylines were good too.
Based.
Kinda disagree with 2020 but I see your point.
@@GodzillaGaming111 I think 2020 was much better than 2021. And I’m also a Larson fan but as far as racing product 2020 was better
@hunternixonfishing2500 2020 was seeing who could beat Kevin Harvick and Denny Hamlin which was fun, I enjoyed watching that year other than new Nintendo games were about the only bright spots that year was a year from Hell barely saw any chicks or did anything fun it was awful.
The first half of this season was shaping up to be God Tier without a doubt, but it's such a shame the racing and controversy got so abysmal throughout the second half. I think a lot of it can be traced to the scumminess that the playoff system rewards, making a lot of the late season finishes get tainted in some way with drivers, manufacturers, and even NASCAR itself doing whatever it took to game the system.
Not to make you feel old man, but 05 was the year I was born 😂
Here’s my list as a Very VERY new fan
1. 2024 iconic and the best I’ve seen. Hate the championship tho lmao
2. 2022(first year I watched and I became a Ross fan)
3. 2023 (kinda forgettable felt like 22 pt 2)
I think 2024 as a whole would be better classified as 'chaotic' rather than 'good' because while mostly everything on track was fun, everything off the track was hell.
2011 is the best season of the 21st century and one of the best in NASCAR history up there with 1979 and 1992
Ironically, my top 3 seasons I’ve watched are the seasons my driver won the championship: 2024, 2022, 2018
Idk the racing was just better and had awesome moments
If I did this, I’d have to go all the way back to 89. Not doing that.
I'd rather watch RUclips reruns of 1989 than this year and I wasn't even born yet for another 4 years!
Truex jr winning the championship will always my favorite season
This was first year I watched since Matt kenseth retired I watched few other races in his part time but couldn’t find a driver till Bell
For me, 1992 will never be beaten as the best season I've ever watched
2024 is peak
I started in 2022
2022: Great
2023: Decent Enough
2024: Completely ruined by my dead passion to NASCAR after realizing that there's actually no goal in the season and it's just 36 pointless races with big part of them being also rigged by officiating.
There's other racing leagues out there! Try IndyCar, F1, World of Outlaws or something else, racing is a good sport but NASCAR has been getting really bad this year.
Istg this guy hates racing, 2023 and 2024 were some of the best seasons in motorsports history
Top 3.
1st: 2007
2nd: 2014
3rd: 2018
I don’t know about anyone else but I’d say maybe the last 5 years just kinda blur together, nothing too significant or memorable. Other than it being weird how 2020 went.
Matt kenseth should have a lot more championships thanks a lot Jimmy Johnson
17:52 “😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐” we all say in unison
2024 was better than 2022
2022 was way more exiting just because 🍉man was must watch every race!!
Truex deserved that championship
No hate really liked the video but seemed liked there was some bias towards Hendrick
Best- 2024 (Besides all the controversies)
2022
2021
2023
2020
Worst-2019 Joe Gibbs racing dominated the entire season
I think I know how to fix the Playoffs while keeping them! The top 16 in points are locked into a 9-week battle, then the top four advance to Phoenix. What’s your thoughts?
Also:
2022, okay
2023, pretty good
2024, freaking awesome
Did you actually rewatch at least highlights of every or at least damn near every race of the past 20 years for this video?
2024 was a god tier season and nobody can change my mind.
I loved this season
2023 champion was just as fraudglent
Joey Logano was worse...he was "installed" champion because of Alex Bowman getting disqualified and winning next race in Las Vegas.
@PaperBanjo64 that's true but I'm talking overall season