Bad Seasons: Richard Petty 1988-1989
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It’s sad because the 88, 89 Pontiac was a awesome looking car.
Plus Rusty Wallace was a runner-up and a champion in those years driving a Pontiac.
I gotta give 43 fans props, they are dedicated.
K12 that’s because they aren’t bandwagoners who only rooted for him because he wins a lot which not saying there were not any I’m sure there were lol
Yup. No doubt about that.
Have been a 43 fan for 14 years.
Yeah. We really are dedicated. I've been a fan since the day I was born
Richard Petty loved to race and be out there racing, that's what he lives for. By this time though, he was way past his prime and bad luck and crashes began to take their toll. Richard ended up becoming a competitive footnote at most races but he was still capable of getting some good finishes and if a few breaks went his way in those seasons, there might have a been a 201st victory but really nothing beyond that.
Probably the most depressing Bad Seasons episode ever.
BTW, you forgot to mention that Petty's three DNQs in 1989 resulted in a steep TV ratings drop that season. Because of this, NASCAR implemented the Past Champion's Provisional.
Angry SimRacer what about today?
I thought he had four. I know for sure he had three within four weeks. But I could have sworn he had 4 DNQs in 89.
@@THEDonnyB Mark Martin counted three DNQs for Petty in his book NASCAR for Dummies.
@@areasevenpro racing reference has him with 4.
@@areasevenpro Richmond, Bristol north wilkesboro Bristol
This might as well have been the 7 last seasons. All didn't have anything to really celebrate. It was a slow and painful decline.
It makes you wonder if you're cursed to decline after seven championships. Just look at Earnhardt and Johnson.
@@crystaljon Dale Sr didn't even decline, he literally vanished into the wall and never came back.
@@Eibarwoman like seriously 2nd in points with multiple wins late season, people were thinking Dale could get his 8th in 2001.
@@crystaljon I truly believe that Earnhardt would have gotten that 8th championship if he had lived.
@@Roystothecoolkid He would've in 1995 if it wasn't for Jeff Gordon
Jimmie Johnson 2019 but with Richard Petty
At least Jimmie is still slightly competitive
@@DepravedCoTApologist yeah right the only way he's winning again as if they reunite him with Chad
ChrisS82 except he was barely competitive in 2018 with Chad Knaus.
@@DepravedCoTApologist today it isn't the driver as much as the equipment and tech. I think Jimmy wins a race in the chase and Hendrick will be competitive once again next year.
Jimmie will win when Trump goes to a race, probably the next Daytona 500
Bruh, are we just gonna not act like Richard Petty’s ever season after 1984 was a bad season
I would say every season after 1987 was a bad season for Richard Petty
@James Murphy Contended a lot, but DNF'd even more often
1987 was pretty decent. Wasn't able to win but usually ran well.
Just being realistic here: He spent most of his career racing against people before nascar was competitive. As soon as he was racing against people who weren't from four states (including his own) and had to race people from the Northeast and deep South, he no longer live up to being "the king". He was the king of racing the best locals. He wasn't even the best of the East. Imagine if it was the way it is today, him in his prime, racing against the best of the country. The dude wouldn't win a single race.
@@user-xk5uu6yk5q I'd say you'd see Richard Petty still win a lot, just not 27 in a season sort of dominance if Jim Sauter and Dick Trickle were full time entities.
Richard had a lot of hits over the years, that and age caught up with him
Something changed in 88. He was still competitive and a threat to win week in and week out from 85-87
I think it was a slow burn, going back to when the Chrysler brands left NASCAR. A lot of Petty's heart left too. They were to Petty what Ferrari was to Schumacher or Audi was to Frank Biela.
I'm wondering if that Daytona 500 crash in 1988 hastened Richard Petty's decline. Actually, according to my systems, he's the tenth best Winston Cup driver of the 80s.
I have to admit, those DNQs were probably the most jarring things about this span in Richard's career. Seeing a 7x champ fail to make one race, let alone multiple, shows how much he had declined. The fact that he stuck around for another three seasons also shows how much he wanted to race despite the writing most definitely being on the wall at that point.
Apparently, NASCAR's ratings began to nosedive because of Petty's DNQ's, so the past champion's provisional was introduced to ensure he did make races.
but I think he went out the right way and embraced father time.....am I the only who noticed the former drivers or other drivers that went out the way the king or darrell waltrip did are in much better health and still alive and going strong as today
@@Mechaxthemaskedgamer Most drivers these days I'd guess took a lesson from DW and Petty and did NOT stick around as long, which is why they appear healthier. Richard was 54 when he finally hung it up, and DW was 53. You'd be hard pressed to find a driver lasting in NASCAR to age 50 anymore. Jeff Gordon hung it up from full time racing at 43, Jimmie Johnson at 44, Harvick at 47, and they are considered modern legends.
Racing that long I think really did tarnish their reputations a bit as well. Many fans who came into NASCAR in the 80s and 90s saw Richard Petty not as "The King," but as a rolling roadblock simply logging laps. If they came into the sport in the late 90s, DW was a habitual backmarker who seemed to abuse the Past Champion's Provisional until he retired, not as the hard-charging, opinionated dominator of the 80s NASCAR scene. Both of those drivers held on way too long, but were convinced they still had 1 more win in them.
Petty and DW are perfect examples of not knowing when to call it quits.
Why should they be forced to quit. They are legends. Legends earn the right to do what they want
@@jamesgentry13 It completely tarnishes their legacy. You should wanna go out while you're still respectable.
@@timowens1989 in your mind... A peasant fan
@@jamesgentry13 That's a wonderful insult. I guess I'd expect that from someone like you.
I disagree. It is all about Equipment and tech. DW got a ride in Steve Park's ride when Park broke his leg and DW challenged for victories in the limited schedule. Give a legend good eq. and you will get a top 10.
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He probably made more bank running midfield in the 80s than he did in his championship years, you can't blame him for riding around for a paycheck. The man obviously loves to race and it's not like he was taking young guys' seats.
Its always sad when great champs like Petty,DW,Jarrett,etc start to decline towards the end.
Interesting that you brought up Dale Jarrett considering that his father Ned was the only driver who retired on top, doing so in 1966 after Ford withdrew from NASCAR during that season after winning his second championship in 1965.
It's hard to say if DJ's decline was due to age catching up to him or other factors. His last 2 years at Yates Racing were at a team clearly on the decline. Even the younger Elliott Sadler only was able to run marginally better than DJ, and he in fact bailed out midway through 2006 to go to Evernham. Then he went to Michael Waltrip Racing, almost exclusively because he had his Past Champion's Provisional, which he used to death in the 2007 season because the car was just not up to speed (the organization as a whole missed close to 40% of the season due to DNQs). Was Jarrett approaching the end of the line? Probably, very few of the guys who started driving in the 1980s were still competitive by the mid to late 2000s, but I do think it was accelerated a lot by the people he was driving for at the time.
Although his skills may have declined, most of these wrecks are tire and engine related.
There was no decline in skill at all. Did you see that level of car control at 10:45?
Oh gosh Richard Petty got a bad seasons video
@Lord Of Vengeance I am.
Richard's retirement time shoulda been 5 years earlier after the 1987 season instead of 1992.. he shoulda finished that year out and just retired and he coulda appeared at every race the next year in 1988 and done all the fanfare. By 1992 he was just a shell trying to make it thru the year and it was really, really hard on him but he managed to make it. By going out in 1987 he coulda got a top 10 points spot and had a respectable year. But instead he was stubborn and kept going.
That 88 Daytona wreck I think changed him forever.. he was never the same after. You could say that was fate's way to telling him to quit but he was way to stubborn to listen and it got so rough after. He lost his edge and was just out there with nothing to gain or lose.
JD's death was probably the Catalyst for this decision in the end.
Everyone at that day at the Glen felt it but moved on to finish the race.
Bro, he loved to race, I believe I heard somewhere he didn’t want to quit then come crawling back, he wanted to get it all out, by 1992, that’s exactly what happened
Every season after 1984 was pretty rough for Richard Petty. The last few seasons were tough to watch.
1987 was really his last good season. 8th in points, nearly won Bristol in the spring and the Southern 500.
@@JesusTapdancingChristOnaCross It was okay, but not good by Richard Petty standards. Certainly better than any year afterwards but still went winless. I definitely wouldn't consider 1987 a success.
@@rolandjovi2433i think he finsihed top 5 in points in 1985
I've been a Petty fan since the 60's. Not a "fair weather" fan, have stuck with him all this time, through all the bad years and SO many drivers. But the last 8 years he drove were tough. The last 30 years overall have been painful to watch, with very few highlights. Bit I still look every week to see where they qualify and where they finish.
Jimmie Johnson: I WANT TO BE LIKE RICHARD PETTY!
wins 7 championships... misses the playoffs this year....
I think we can only consider this theory if he goes another year or two without a win.
SCREW "the playoffs"..........They've taken our once glorious sport and turned it into "the NFL on wheels"........EX-long-time, hardcore NASCAR fan.......
@@howabouthetruth2157 that's what the current generation wants. SHUT UP BOOMER
@@jamesgentry13 Oh BULLSHIT. Only stupid young punks & liberals like you, who NEVER followed or watched this sport when it was THE REAL DEAL believe that bullshit spewing from your mouth. "The current generation" also plays with freaking CARTOONS on their cell phones, because some marketing manipulators came up with a new word to call it: "imoji"......or however it's spelled. ( It doesn't matter, because it's STILL a bunch of grown ass young men playing with cartoons in every damned text, comment, message, tweet. ) Less than 10 yrs ago, the only people who played with cartoons were girls, sissy boys, and little children. LOOK AT THE HALF-EMPTY GRANDSTANDS AT ALL THE TRACKS TODAY, YOU JACK ASS. "But wait".......they REMOVED many of those grandstands to cram all the spectators closer together to make it LOOK LIKE "huge crowds" at the races for the TV cameras. TONS OF VIDEOS ALL OVER RUclips SHOWING HOW THIS SPORT HAS DIED, AND EVEN TONS MORE VIEWERS WHO AGREE. ANYONE WITH AT LEAST HALF A BRAIN ABSOLUTELY HATES THE STUPID RULE CHANGES IN NASCAR. GREAT DRIVERS WHO STILL HAD MANY YEARS LEFT, RETIRED EARLY. Fucking "periods" are something WOMEN have monthly, NOT a stockcar race. I know more about this sport than little faggots like you EVER will. Lastly, you try talking your libatrd bullshit to my face you coward, and watch how fast I stomp your wormy little ass all over the pavement.
@@jamesgentry13 howabout is 100% right. and you're a total idiot.
Hey you used guilt by fingertight in the background. I love that song
Petty enterprises is the team lotus of Nascar, a fallen giant that fell so hard....
Hey, guess what 3 years does?
His Daytona wreck was my earliest NASCAR memory. It's been a long ride.
Racing Reference stories: 1956 Tulsa Fairgrounds race.
The Tulsa Fairgrounds track that NASCAR raced on is still there, it was a horse track but I'm unsure if they still do any horse racing anymore. The Expo Center where the Chili Bowl is held is on the other corner of the property. It would be interesting to see pictures or video from the Cup race. IIRC Lee Petty won it.
Isn't that the race that the conditions were.so.bad the drivers quite and boycot after 20 laps
@@GusTheAnt if this is the race the drivers boycotted no. Lee actually got out the car and.took over the flag stand to stop the race
Let's not forget that it's not usually age alone that drivers fall victim to. From the mid 80's to the end of Richard's career, when racing continued to get more expensive, his equipment was considered to be some of the worst among full time drivers. Some drivers lose a great team. Look at Mark Martin's decline after 2009. He didn't just magically become worse. Rick Hendrick did what he felt he had to do for Dale Jr. and Mark was a casualty.
I really think 88-89 being bad seasons for him was all down to equipment. He was still driving the fucking wheels off that car each time before the engine would grenade
1988-89 Richard Petty is basically this last season for Jimmie Johnson
I can honestly see several of his crashes as a result of tire failures because he had way too many problems, also these 2 season were smackdab in the middle of the Tire Wars from '88-89 which caused many issues for many drivers
That might have been one of the most depressing videos I've seen in a long while.
There isn't a sorrier sight than a man who is no longer good enough at was he does. Like a public speaker who loses their train of thought, or a woodworker that can't do the small works. That shot of Petty missing his first race put me down.
Good Seasons (from the Future): Matt DiBenedetto 2020
Motorsports Fan17 2019 could qualify too.
Oh boi u jinxed it
With Wood Brothers no way middle of pack at best 😂
@@Jared40 He'll still get more wins than Trevor Bayne did in his tenure with WBR.
Also more likely: Bad Seasons: Jimmie Johnson 2018-2019
You BFM should do a bad year/championship year all in one video with Richard Petty's 78/79 season's. 1978 was the first year the King went winless, constantly being injured from crashes and dealing with his severe stomach ulcers and finished poorly in the points standing. The next year he rebounded! Less than a month after having 1/3 of his stomach removed he won the 79 Daytona 500 and later the 79 Cup Championship.
There comes a time when even the best must hang up the helmet, sometimes they remain competitive, like Carl Edwards, Jeff Gordon, Dale Jr, and other times, they go out with a whimper, like the Labonte Brothers. But I will be honest, no matter how non-competitive he was, when the King finally did retire, everyone was going to know about it. He physically could not retire with a whimper.
Wonder if he felt, to coin the phrase, "it never rains but it pours," with regards to Richard Petty's final 5 years. So many crashes, problems, accidents, lack of pace in those years
A problem that happens to the best of drivers. The game simply changed around him. Look at what's happening to Valentino Rossi, and look at the returns of Sebastien Loeb and Michael Schumacher's.
30 year later we have Jimmie Johnson
Let's be honest, one of his last two championships came BECAUSE of the playoffs. If it weren't for the playoffs he would only have 6 right now. There's no question that Jimmie can drive, just like Richard could in his day, but age is indeed catching Jimmie now. Just like age caught JG. The sport doesn't do any favors to drivers over the age of 45 anymore like it did in Richard's day. Retirement age is basically considered to be closer to 40 if they started early like Jeff and Jimmie did. But, we'll see what 2020 does. A couple bad years does not a wash-up make. I'm expecting him to not have a lot left in him if 2020 repeats the last 2 seasons. Big if, right now, though
@@morgfarm1 nah mate let's be REAL JJ would only have 4 without the playoffs
Nothing Here and since his wreck at Pocono in 2018 it hasn’t been the same
@@screw_bird His Pocono wreck was 2017
It was the beginning of the demise of Petty Motorsports not Richard's failing driving skills. I think if he had the same motors and chasis of Wallace, Earnhardt, Allison, etc. If the replacement driver stepped in and didn't blow motors and tires and finished consistently in the top 15 then I would agree. This is more about technology passing by the Petty racing machine.
You can't blame him for all of this. His age was the real culprit. Blame his age. But i gotta give him huge props. Despite his age he still was racing even though he mostly crashed in his last seasons but you could see that his love for racing is huge and age didn't stop him to do what he loves the most. I bed if he still had ability to race today you would see him in 43 instead of Bubba but eh nobody stays young for ever.
Bad Seasons
Richard Petty 1985
Richard had 12 DNF’s, just 1 top 5, and wound up 14th in the standings, his worst showing since 1965 when he finished 38th after running a partial season due to the Chrysler boycott.
Bill Elliott 1998-2000
By 1998, Elliott’s career had taken a significant downturn. Former co owner Charles Hardy left in the middle of the 1996 season which was also marred by injuries that left Elliott on the sidelines for 7 races. The team became Elliott-Marino Racing in 1998, with NFL player Dan Marino becoming co owner. After a solid 1997 season, Bill slumped in 98, posting 0 wins, 0 top fives, and just four top tens, and an average finishing position of 22.5, along with an 18th place points finish. He was also forced to miss the fall Dover race due to his father’s death. Marino left after just one season and 1999 didn’t get any better. He post 0 wins, 1 top five, and just two top tens, an average finish of 22.7, along with a 21st place points finish. 2000 was much of the same, posting 3 top fives, seven top tens, and another 21st place points finish. During this time, he announced that he would sell his team to Ray Evernham at season end.
Bill Elliott Racing closed at season’s end. The team could also be the subject of a very interesting NASCAR Busts video.
are you sure some of those accidents in 1988 weren't also caused by tire failure? because that was the year when goodyear and hoosiers battling on tires in 1988, i'm just saying.
4:04 irony is Kyle Petty blowing a motor causing his dad Richard to crash... Guess the racing gods really didn't want the Pettys to finish that race, because again, Kyle blew a motor and Richard got caught up in the oil and smoke Kyle put down causing Richard to wreck
@10:50 was the greatest save in Nascar history. The car was literally on fire and so sideways that he actually made a reverse entry and STILL SAVED IT lmaooo
I just can’t believe how many engine failures he had that season like holy crap.
It's really sad that he had such shitty luck for the last few years because he could still drive the wheels off a racecar 10:54
Black Flags Matter Could you do A.J. Foyt NASCAR career. I could even tell you if it was a good season, bad season, or a bust. But the greatest all around driver ever deserves a nod.
Andy Hobaugh not to mention how badass of a dude he was back in the day.
You can’t really judge A.J.’s career on a season-by-season basis, since he always cherrypicked the biggest races.
He won seven races in NASCAR and finished 3rd in the 1979 Daytona.
I like how you put the song Guilt (Holdown) by Fingertight. NASCAR 2004 is one of my favorite racing games
I don't think Petty's skills declined like some of the other greats towards the end of their careers (check that absolute VETERAN level save @10:50), he just had awful, awful luck for almost a decade. He'd have very short resurgences sprinkled here and there from 84 to 92 but most of the time his luck wouldn't even last for a whole race.
That first race at Pocono in 1988 should have been a win, some even say 202 because they say if Petty had protested the finish of the third place at Richmond he might have been awarded the win. But the King didn't want to win that way.
That's a rough collection of races!
Nicely compiled and edited!
The King should've retired after the 84 season. He had nothing more to accomplish or prove to anyone. 200 career wins, 7 championships, 7 Daytona 500 wins. He had made enough money to last 20 lifetimes. Should've just hung it up then. His last 8 years or so we're just sad to watch considering how dominant he once was throughout most of the 60's and 70's driving for Plymouth and later Dodge. I think his first ever NASCAR ride was a 1957 Oldsmobile 88 given to him by Lee Petty...the original King of Stock Car Racing. Lee also mostly drove Mopar's other than driving for Oldsmobile in 1957-58 and part of 59, when the Petty's switched to Plymouth. I think RP43 drove Mopar's until 1978 and had 192 of his 200 career wins driving a Chrysler product. Lee Petty also started off racing six cylinder Plymouth coupes until the Chrysler 300 came out in 1955 and the Dodge D-500 came out in 1956. The 1955 Chrysler C-300 was the first American high performance sedan and also the first regular production car with 300 horsepower. The Chrysler Hemi V8's first came out in 1951 but there wasn't a true high performance version until the 1955 solid lifter 331 cubic inch FirePower Hemi with two 4 barrel carburetors rated at 300 gross horsepower....the highest ever in a regular production American car. Mopar invented muscle cars...not Pontiac. The 1955 Chrysler C-300 and 1956 300-B, DeSoto Adventurer, Dodge D-500, and Plymouth Fury ruled the streets and the race tracks at that time. It wasn't until 1957 that Ford and Chevy built anything that could compete and they had to use exotic superchargers and fuel injection to do it. But the 1957 Tri Power Oldsmobile's and Pontiac's were really fast cars at that time as well. Probably why Lee Petty switched to Olds in 57. Plus Olds offered him factory support and $ and Chrysler made him no offer at all. I think Mopar was pretty much out of NASCAR in 57. They had totally dominated the 1955-56 seasons but the 57s...although more powerful than the 55 and 56's...were bigger and heavier
#43 is #1 Long Live The King
This mirrors Jimmie Johnson’s season from 2018-2019 so much, ironic it’s been 30 years since Richard Petty’s worst seasons.
Lots of bad luck there honestly, tire and engine failures left and right. He could still drive, but after all that no doubt it killed his confidence
In '88 Richard could've won three or four races including both Pocono races, but he just had absolutely no luck. '89 was just a bad season all around.
Watched Petty Blue a decade ago.
Linda Petty The King’s wife story is hilarious about that accident what she said. How she described how frightened she was seeing that Daytona accident. When she went into Care Center after the crash.
“Are we still having fun?”
The King he couldn’t let driving go.
The biggest problem I heard that hurt the Petty team was they were slow to get with the times, a lot of their equipment at the shop they used to build the cars and make the cars was from the 70's and 80's and they continued doing what they always did way on up into the 2000's to where it was obsolete. Robbie Loomis helped the team somewhat with the transition to update the equipment at the shop when he became crew chief and when Richard stopped driving, he was able to get wins out of Bobby Hamilton and John Andretti. To get wins with the shop the way it was is impressive but it really kept them from long-term success. But Richard loved racing and being out there. Unfortunately, he became an irrelevant footnote and hung on a little too long.
Richard Petty the king
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Bad Seasons: Tony Stewart 2014-15 Good Seasons: Kurt Busch 2002
Bad Seasons. Jimmie Johnsson 2019 Good Seasons: Ricky Rudd 2001
Bad Seasons: Dale Jarrett 2007 Good Seasons: Juan Pablo Montoya 2009
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Bad Seasons. Kevin Harvick 2009 Good Seasons: Neil Bonett 1985
Bad Seasons: Denny Hamiln 2013 Good Seasons: Kyle Petty 1992
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Bad seasons bill Elliot 1998-99
Damn that fire in the pits in Atlanta 😂🔥
As I was present through many of petty wins....later in his career was hard to watch. .
It is bad to see even the best struggle in NASCAR seasons.
Nicholas Arias Like Jimmie Johnson in the past 2 Seasons
Even Johnson can't beat father time.
Nicholas Arias Richard Petty wants to stay full time in Winston Cup Series for 1992 season
It was his last season in the Series. He focused on ownership of Petty Enterprises.
Nicholas Arias oh yeah
It was sad to watch Richard Petty after his win at Daytona overall.
I often wondered if this would have eventually happened to Earnhardt had he not passed away in 2001. Would he have retired still able to win? Or would he have run multiple winless seasons like Darrell Waltrip and Richard Petty.... remember 2000 was one of Earnhardt’s best seasons in years and finished 2nd in points.
Earnhardt was going to run 2 more years after 2001 to work on his race teams. So 2003 would have been his last year.
This is a given though. His 1988 season was his 30th year in NASCAR. Its amazing that he was even competitive until 86/87. Most guys have 10-15 good years before they fizzle out. Dude was still running in the top 10 at the highest level of motorsport 29 years into his career. Thats insane
Still his Pontiac GP is one of the very prettiest racecars ever for me!
I think it was during this time that Petty realized he couldn’t go on forever.
I’m not first, but I’m not last, but when I see that black flags matter uploaded...
*i click very fast*
Um you are copying my comment from the last vid
But your comment was stolen from other stolen comments stolen from others 😐
@@dullknowledge1576 um I think you are crazy and even if this is true doing it on the same channel 2 weeks in a row is just redundent
No I’m not lying, this type of comment is copied, and I’m actually admitting to it
@@fishproductions22 everyone does this shit its very annoying
Richard kept on going cause Richard had a lot of mouths to feed. A lot of family’s incomes depended on him.
It almost looks like the Team was trying to compensate for Petty's decline of skill by overloading the engines, making them faster but also expire much quicker and more often.
"Most recognizable name in motorsports" Mario Andretti?
I just wanted to say that you have presented a thoughtful and interesting video on when Richard Petty's racing career finally began to come apart in the late '80's. There are others out there who are trying to, seemingly, diminish or "cancel" Richard Petty by branding him as a has-been by 1980. That is just not correct-even a perfunctory 10 minutes of research would reveal that Richard Petty was still competitive (perhaps not the same in his glory days of the '70's), but still an honest to God competitor capable of winning races through the 1980's. The problem was that chaos surrounded him-and the stabilizing and fellow driving forces of Maurice Petty and Dale Inman dissipated. Take Richard Petty's years with Mike Curb. Richard Petty's decision to leave Petty Enterprises stemmed from how Maurice Petty decided to fight fire with fire with that illegal engine in Charlotte-and, well, took his burns in stride. But Mike Curb was an absentee owner by the time he brought in Richard Petty-and did not have the savvy single-minded leadership that characterized Petty Enterprises for 20 years. Indeed, Richard Petty almost did not win that epic 200th because Mike Curb was not paying for those engines-that engine that went into, as Buddy Parrott called it, "a nice piece" was almost seized. And that leadership vacuum was so infectious that by July 1985, Richard Petty was planning his escape.
But the other videos gloss all of that. They amount to, at best, flat and boring recaps, and at worst, patronize the audience with the same un-contextual message over and over again.
I think that if Richard Petty had brought in someone who was in tune with the new technology and engines when he reopened Petty Enterprises in 1986 to replace Maurice Petty he might have found just a bit more success then and in 1987. (I say Richard Petty could have reached 205 or even 211.) I also wonder how changes to the Pontiacs affected them. Richard Petty went with Pontiac because of factory support. But factory support seemed eclipsed by the 80's.
At any rate, as a #PettyFanForLife, I'm happy to like this video find it quite befitting of one of my heroes. Thank you for assembling it.
Petty seemed to have had extremely rotten luck...seems half the DNFs during this time were from mechanical problems. Maybe he "borrowed" luck from the late 80's/early 90's in exchange for all the luck he got during the road to 200. (You can't deny he was a lucky bastard at the time.)
Most Of The Wrecks Petty Had In 1988 Were Because Of The Tire War That Year.
Kurt Perleberg shut the fuck up idiot
Lee got injured in 61, then Richard *PUT THE TEAM ON HIS BACK THO!*
But this honestly happened to quite a few guys. Ricky Rudd's last season wasn't great. Bobby Labonte was just embarrassing from about 03 on. This is why you pull a Carl Edwards or Ned Jarrett. Shock the world and retire while on top.
Good Seasons: Tim Richmond (1986)
Bad Seasons: Alan Kulwicki (1991)
Gone Too Soon: Rodney Orr
Nascar Busts: Loy Allen Jr.
Any time Tim got behind the wheel its was a good
@@charlesrichardson4032 yes but in 1986 is the only season if he had a good car before his dead
Guilt by Fingertight awesome song from NT2004
Request: Bad Seasons: Dale Earnhardt Jr. - 2007
David Pearson is the greatest driver in the history of NASCAR. He pretty much won the title in all years he ran the entire schedule.
They say its not what you do in bad equipment , but rather what you do in great equipment ...
Carl edwards , Mark martin , Dale JR..... never could muster up a Cup Ring in great cars
Matt Kenseth's 2020 Season is virtually identical to this
Bad seasons Kyle Busch 2012 is long overdue lmao
Bad Seasons Kyle Busch 2020.
Bad Seasons: Dale Earnhardt Jr. 2016-17.
2016 is nothing he can to about. He missed half of the Season with concussion
@@theracingdriver303jr4 exactly 2017 was below average.
@@ericfording3556 Yep his best finish was 5th at the Texas Fall race & if he would been far enough behind or In Front of Kyle Busch when he spun he could have won the 500 (Could have)
Bad seasons: Jimmie Johnson 2019.
"Nobody can beat Father Time." Tell that to Tom Brady.
Unpopular opinion: Jeff Gordon beat “father time”
His age and the competition level went up, but also his unreliable Pontiacs didn't help, but as the future stars who would take the sport to unparalleled heights began to find their groove he became obsolete sadly.
That Pontiac chassis had constant issues. Pontiac ruined his reputation. He is still the king in my book. Would love to meet him in person
@@babymack6479 he's definitely the king and a legend, but his switch to Pontiac unfortunately led to almost 3 decades of mediocrity, I wish he could've secured a better backer in the 2000's because they did have some talent.
Not to take anything away from the king but they ran like 50+ races a year most of his career
This season he was fighting injuries after the Daytona wreck. His first race back from injury he finished 3rd at Richmond; he could still drive pretty much up until his retirement. His last top 10 was the fateful 1991 Bud at the Glen. By 1992 (his retirement year) a top 15 would be like a win. But remember, these are the best stock car drivers in the world he's racing against, with what was probably not the greatest equipment.
Later in the 90's, Bobby Hamilton and John Andretti would prove that the equipment could win races, but they were mostly an inconsistent mid-pack team. Although Bobby did have a couple good years.
as much as he was getting old and his performance was gonna dip anyway it seems half of his dnfs were from engine failures so i fee like these seasons wouldnt be as bad if they had got their engine program together
Suggestion - Good seasons: Richard Petty, 1987
I can give you one reason why Richard Petty did not excel at all in the 1980s. Dale Earnhardt Sr. I rest my case.
Waltrip, Elliot, etc. Not just Dale Sr.
Very true. All those guys were great drivers.
@@captainredneck0683 Yep..lots of great drivers in the 80's. Petty's decent allowed for Allison, Waltrip, Labonte, Elliot, and Earnhardt to win championships.
Time for a reality check. We are not taking into account the decline of Petty Racing in general, it wasn't all Richard's fault. If you take the driver's believed to be the best and put them in uncompetitive equipment their winning days will be over for sure. Just the way it is.
I see you put another song from one of the greatest NASCAR video games of all time in another video. NASCAR Thunder 2004 is probably the greatest NASCAR video game of all time.
Love the nascar thunder 2004 soundtrack in the back
Bad seasons: Austin Dillon (2019)
Good seasons: Denny Hamlin (2010)
NASCAR busts: Paul Menard
I don't know if Menard is a bust because we've never really had high expectations for him
@@user-cv1cu1vo5r I know but... thats pretty much everything he's ever won in Nascar
@Anson Chiu one cup win in 16 years simply does not look good
Watching this... We need another episode of bad seasons, Jimmie Johson (2018-2020).
I think you should make a video on how that race team has never been the same since Richard retired they're still missing the spark to win races even though they have bright spots
Ethan Whisman Search for “The #43 After Petty. A misfortunate Legacy”.
NRF did a good job covering this.
@@Romax-pg2is yup
Bad Seasons: Jimmie Johnson 2019
Bad Seasons: Dale Earnhardt 1981-1982
Good Seasons: Kevin Harvick 2019
He did a 1982-1983 bad seasons for Dale Sr.
In 1989 Richard Petty and Kyle Petty finished 29th and 30th in points
This sadly is now the direction of Jimmy Johnson’s career.