NASCAR's Worst Championship Race
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- Опубликовано: 9 ноя 2023
- The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series is now the worst in all of NASCAR. From the race starting at 10pm ET, FOX Sports laughable coverage and so many stupid wrecks and you have NASCAR's Worst Championship Race!
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“its an incredible playoff system that rewards the best drivers in the sport.” -steve phelps 💀💀💀😭😭😭🤨🤨🤨😐😐😐⁉️⁉️⁉️🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢
Bro cursed this year’s championship weekend 💀
Byron got robbed Harvick got robbed martinsville was a disaster the truck series race was a complete shit show playoff format sucks
@@alexlambert5830 just ditch the playoffs and bring back the bloody year-round points system, I'll say. But instead of Winston Cup points format let's use the half-grid/partial-grid points system like in most of Euro-Anglo-centric motorsports series. Simply because I think that the Winston Cup points system has the aroma of "participation trophy" since it awards the points to anyone regardless of the finishing order.
Nascar just be sayin words at this point bruh
Facts
Even NASCAR was annoyed by it by looking at it because they do not throw the caution for Tyler Ankrum hitting the wall in turns 3 and 4. They were pretty much like, “aight this is stupid. Let them race…”
When the 16 truck crashed, that was NASCAR way of saying "screw this, we're going home, we're done with this race".
Can't forget the restart zone was incorrectly paved 50 feet from where it was supposed to be 💀
Oh yea thanks for the reminder!
@@BlackFlagsMatterseems like every single race with broken playoff format is absolute the worst ever.
I love night races. Idk what this new obsession with races being mid day is, but 10pm is probably a little too late 😂
By the time this race was over, Denny Hamlin won a championship
😂😂
Yep 😂😂😂
“No the playoffs aren’t gimmicky” -literally NASCAR hours earlier
"Not gimmicky, just GAY" - literally me
Not Gimmicky my arse
@@RazorSharp75426 if they were gay they'd actually work
@@theflagstand It's so "gay" it made Rob Halford of Judas Priest, Elton John, and Hurley Haywood (yes, he's a gay dude) look STRAIGHT.
@@RazorSharp75426 I think the concept of "NASCAR overtime" is just as bad, if not worse. Look at how much equipment got destroyed during these overtime restarts and how tedious the cycle got.
Personally, I believe NASCAR would be far better off just running to the scheduled distance and abandoning overtime altogether.
Was this race the Craftsman 150? Or was it the Vickernism 150? I’m confused.
To quote the Fabulous Hudson Hornet: “You drive like ya fix roads. LOUSY!”
"Now you've got everyone thinking you're a DOPE!"
- Jimmy Spencer
@@ChrisMolyneaux93 "You guys are so fucking *GAY* !" - Me, to NASCAR Trucks drivers at this race
To quote James Hunt, "sounds fuckin' AWFUL"
More like the *Crashman 150* if anything
Vickernism 150 presented by Crashman
Tony Stewart even admitted that the Truck race was a complete fiasco after the Xfinity race ended.
Yes, he has a list of drivers he will never hire.
This race makes the 2008 Brickyard 400 look tame in comparison.
i though that the 2002 championship was anticlimactic then this is worse
Or the 2003 Brazilian GP
@@KyleBusch-2023this race makes the 2008 brickyard look like the 2005 coca cola 600 minus
yes@@RazorSharp75426
@@noahhall5211 the one with many tyre blowouts because of diamond-grinded asphalt, yeah?
that photo of the flagman just hunched over summed up the championship race in a nutshell.
flagman was literally like "dude get me the fuck out of here"
"That was worth the wait."
Buddy, this was the reason NASCAR needs to stop trying to recreate 1992.
Why are they trying to re-create 1992?
@TheYusuf75 there was like 8 people that could've won the championship that season, it was quite littlerally historical for the sport.
@@hotwheelzvette959 whittled down to 6 dudes by the time of Hooters 500 that year, last time I checked.
@@RazorSharp75426 as well as 2003 Busch Series Season Finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway where Six Drivers had a Shot to Win the Championship
I have to give a lot of respect to Grant Enfinger. He could have bumped Rhodes at the end and taken the championship. He didn't. Grant raced him cleanly.
Grant choked it away actually. He had momentum, went high and could've made an outside pass and photo finish for the championship. Buuuuuuuut, he decided to hit the brakes and wave his white flag.
GTA 6 was released before the end of this embarrassment of a race
The lions would've won a Superbowl before this race ended
Ayrton Senna would have rose from the grave and take over driving for McLaren before the ending of the race...
GTA 6 is never gonna happen. Y'all need to give up on that already
@@Maverick33 I suppose You're Oblivious that Rockstar Games themselves officially announced the next GTA game a week or so ago
@@NASCARFAN93100 until I see actual legit gameplay footage and online listings, I have my doubts.
Imagine James Hunt calling this race from the booth as driver analyst..... Expect rapid fire F-bombs on live TV when he utters his opinions on each carnage this race has.
Murray would’ve been like: “oh dear, now they have collected each other again! This is fantastic!” (fantastic being used as a way to show disbelief)
@@alexotero7105 yup. But just imagining James called the race with Mike Joy..... what would it be like?
Or David Hobbs!
@@RazorSharp75426 well, I think Mike would have taken Murray’s place in the pairing, considering Mike’s usual serious on the job approach with the eventual quick remark. I think they would’ve had similar chemistry than the one James had with Murray on the booth, but god almighty FOX would have to age rate the emissions of the races with how savage James was😅. Honestly, Hunt would have a field day every single race he called.
On another note, considering the puns Mike sometimes throws at FOX, if we add James Hunt to that equation, we’re not talking about renovating the format. It’d be a goddamn revolution in a Cuban style (with the homeboy being Mike and James being the outside helper with sympathies) in which the commentators would rally the fans and initiate a new golden era for NASCAR😂
Man, I wish Murray and James were still around. Well, at least we have Martin Brundle🤷🏻♂️ (that’s the one I like the most from the F1 English commentators)
@@chada75 oh boy, David would be so confused at what was transpiring, but he’d absolutely try his best to keep the fans interested!
Trucks is officially ARCA 2.0
Basically what happens when you give room/channels for sim-cade addicts to go pro racing. As demonstrated in this race everyone kinda raced like stereotypical sim-cade rammers found on online lobbies. Rubbing is racing, yeah. But at least know the time to do it.
And anyways, screw Darren Cox for that.
*By the time this race finished GTA 6 was launched* 😂😂
This race makes the 2022 texas fall race look like the 2007 daytona 500.
At least this year’s Texas Fall Race wasn’t as bad as Last year’s
Hell even the 2022 Sharpie 500 at Bristol with all the tire failures and crappy ass parts
@@MegaMr46Texas Fall 2022 and Nascar 2023 Truck Championship race are now TOP 2 WORST RACE EVER.
This makes 1955 Le Mans looks like the best motor race ever.
Lmfao I saw a tweet that had a photo of the flagman with his head down like he was exhausted. I feel his pain, he wanted it to be done
Before the race, I said “At least Phoenix hasn’t had a controversial finale… YET.”
Yeah… 🤐
Reason number 1 for full season points in the lower series:
I guess they gave Ben Rhodes a free championship
🤦🏾♂️🤣🤦🏾♂️🤣
The photo of the flagman will forever be a meme of what the truck series has become! Well, that and Grant Enfinger looking like he's about ready to kill someone!
when TYLER REDDICK and CHRIS BUESCHER are calling the drivers clowns you know the circus has truly come to town
I was imagining what if european , british and japanese drivers calling them clowns?
A 10pm Eastern start time with two-no, three-sorry, FOUR GWC overtimes, a 10 minute red flag, title contenders acting like the brattiest ARCA brats, and the Fox crew just begging to go home with the coverage on until 1:10 in the damn morning. The perfect worst race.
I thought the 2021 Belgian GP was bad, seeing this I'm be like, holy motherfuck me I was wrong.
This race made the Las Vegas Grand Prix look like a well-oiled machine.
This makes the 1969 talladega race look exciting
That wasn't even a Championship race in my eyes. It was a disgrace.
This is absolute farce imo.
It was a gay orgy but with stock pickup trucks
Carson still needs to learn went to be agressive, atleast he took the blame as for Heim.
The main reason this shit show happend is because the finale is a single race.
Carson was still acting just to save face and you people still fell for it.
@@runrafarunthebestintheworldNo I believe that Carson was genuine, he got flustered on the restart and dropped a lot of spots from hitting Corey. At this point he’s like a young Kyle Busch, incredibly fast but has a lot to learn.
So my uncle had season tickets at Phoenix. We spent the championship weekend at this track. And holy cow did the fans get so restless and impatient. We all wanted this race to end so badly.
Championship implications for the flag man 😢
Even Tony Stewart mentioned about the Truck fiasco after the Xfinity race. And noticed that Josh Bilicki's comment is very similar to Mike Joy's comment in the All-Star Race.
this race reminded me why im happy i dont have any hard favorite drivers. That race was one hell of a show when you didnt care who won
No, it was painful. Stupid that it started at 10:00 pm. Still should have been over at midnight. 1:00 am I'm yelling at my tv stop wrecking each other you stupid sons of bitches!
Corey Heim literally altered the outcome of the championship.
I was at that race, I was just mad because I wanted to go home but I couldn’t because I wanted to see if my favorite driver Grant Enfinger would win the championship. Disappointed that I had to witness all that chaos.
I will never forgive Heim on this night. Next Races I'm attending, I'm bringing my sign saying "Corey Heim screwed over Grant Enfinger's Championship!!!"
It was a totally classless move and I hope he never goes farther than trucks.
Carson*
Don’t get me wrong, I love the Truck Series and the action it brings, but I think those younger drivers need a complete overhaul in how to race each other with respect. Maybe they could learn how to do so themselves or the veteran drivers help them.
Yes. Matt "The Punch" Crafton sets such a great example!
@@GrandpaShark I was mostly referring towards the Cup veterans.
Tbh the xfinity races are often pretty much as messy, then you watch the cup race and it's often clean af, really shows the difference
The race time confuse me because I don't get why in the world they want to do that at 10:00 while they had like all day to even do that
Same like the Xfinity race started earlier than the truck series race. I guess they just wanted a full night race.
Long story short, FS1 was scheduled to air SmackDown in the event of Game 6 of the World Series on FOX.
However, the Rangers won in 5 and NASCAR chose to not move up the race despite the freely available airtime.
This reminds me of the 1st cup race at Texas…..
That was just wreck, after wreck
The people who say this is a good race are the kind of people who eat water with their cereal
Or literally anyone who eat cereals for breakfast.
Two words Demolition Derby
I love how he drops the trophy on his own head.
Like I've said in WhatIf's video, it was a chore to cover and witness in person. I was so fucking done after the second overtime. More done than those three red flags in this year's Indy 500, which I was so over it after the second red flag!
And to think this all started because Heim wanted revenge on Hocevar just for the sake of getting revenge (Hocevar was nowhere near a position to win the championship) and knew he had to get it in that race since Hocevar isn’t racing in the series next year.
Enfinger probably like: “man, I came back full time for THIS clown show? What have I done?…”
Now I want to ask everyone including you Darian.
After a race like that do you think it's time to start begging and pleading to NASCAR to get rid of the format?
Because to make matters worse Ben Rhodes was the least deserving out of the four drivers to win the championship.
This is what the points would've been if it was the old fashioned way (Full season points system).
1 Corey Heim 928
2 Christian Eckes 817 -111
3 Grant Enfinger 803 -125
4 Carson Hocevar 776 -152
5 Ben Rhodes 766 -162
6 Ty Majeski 746 -182
7 Zane Smith 735 -193
8 Nick Sanchez 706 -222
9 Matt Crafton 614 -314
10 Chase Purdy 582 -346
The points system used was more the matter imo
As an Eckes fan, this makes me feel a little bit better.
@@superninjaracer9971 He'll be up in cup one day, I can tell.
Here's one MAJOR problem:
With traditional points, Heim would've clinched with 3-4 races left. Look at F1 when the championship is clinched early. Nobody cares after the championship is won. The remaining 3 or 4 Truck Series races would have been empty houses attendance wise. It'd be similar to covid NASCAR where tracks were completely empty.
@Maverick33 F1 is an awful comparison. Because the racing in F1 is unequivocal SHIT lmao. IndyCar is a far better example. It looked like Palou would clinch very early but he started faltering and Scott Dixon almost did the Wixon. Instead of clinching with like 3 races left it came to the penultimate race. Not to mention indycar is fantastic racing.
And no, using the "people stop caring" excuse isn't valid either. Because the ratings continue to TANK in the nascar playoffs anyway. Get us back to full season points and some integrity.
you could probably file taxes and eat an entire dinner by the time it's over
Me, my dad and a friend of his stayed up watching this until about 12:01 PM our local time and I was screaming at the top of my lungs 😂. It was like a freakin' demo derby
I Love Darian, Tells it like it is!!!!!
I didn’t stay up and wondered why my dvr recording of the race was so long when I watched it on Saturday. Thankfully I got to fast forward all the breaks in action.
Still think what Corey Heim did was the stupidest thing ever he could have just ran around for 3 laps and beaten hocevar in the race and for the championship but no
Carson deserved to have his shit dumped for once. He has always done this stuff and Heim won't be racing him next year as for some reason Carson is getting a promotion all the way to cup.
1:20 was the worst possible timing to show that replay, and it took way too long for the shot with the crash to go full screen
I would still argue 2003 is close for the trucks. Ted Musgrave's owner enters a worthless entry to take out (maybe purposely) Brendan Gaughan, only to be penalized on the final restart and lose the championship to Travis Kvapil.
"JIMMY SMITH CAN KISS MY ASS."
"Zip! Zip it!"
I remember that line from one of friskynixon's NASCAR compilations
Oh god that race gave me fits of rage with me holding Rhodes to win the title and Zane to win the race.
The race that made me say "F*** this, gimme a cold one, I'm binge watching that "Wayside" cartoon!"
Oh, and don't forget that Heim would get penalized and finish behind Hocevar in the standings. I guess he got the last laugh.
Incredible playoff system - Steve Phelps
Bro got jinxed💀🤡
6:47 why does Darian sound drunk? 💀
Yesh
Nascar has put itself in a situation where a single bad race can completely void out anything interesting or even celebratory from an entire year's championship.
There's no talk that Ben clawed his way by the skin of his teeth through every elimination stage to win it all. There's no talk that Eckes tied Hocevar for wins on the season in the last race. Or that Garcia was one spot away from a first win.
A few things twisted one way or another. We were this close to having all 4 championship contenders wreck out with just a few laps to go.
But no one cares after that show. And that is a dangerous situation to be in.
I will not acknowledge Ben Rhodes as the 2023 truck series champion.
It was a total disgrace to motor sports.
Agreed. Watching Verstappen on a rampage this year was better tbh.
If this isn’t proof enough that the Truck Series is dead… I don’t know what is.
I don't even know what's better to replace Trucks with! And European Truck racing was better.
@@RazorSharp75426 The Pinty's Series lmao
Only good NASCAR series.
@@Dexter037S4 that's Canada, or is it? What about Euro Series?
@@RazorSharp75426 Euro Series is road courses only, and thus not really a good replacement.
Its time to go back to the season long points format
The first half of the race was alright, but then the last 30 laps or so were just a shizenhowsen-show
6:50 This sums it up lol
Please do a video on the rise, fall, and rebirth of Iowa Speedway!
Damn, I loved this race! These kind of races happen just often enough for me to really enjoy them! 😂
If this doesn’t prove that the playoffs system is an absolute warcrime against Nascar then idk what does.😂
Or motorsports in general
They don't need to decide a championship at a track that has room to be 7 or 8 wide. This track needs grass again or some turtles to keep people up on the track if this is where it has to be decided.
I remember Natalie Decker talking to Derek Kraus about how up north, kids were respectful but in North Carolina they just wreck each other like crazy. Winners get noticed, no matter how they do it. Look at Hocevar.
I only watched ONE truck race this year, the North Wilkesboro race. This race was a reminder why I stopped caring about the Truck Series.
With the type of race it turned out to be, it deserved every single ounce of backlash that it got, glad I ended up going to bed before this race.....
Glad I didn't watch it. A street race on highways with heavy Cop interference would be more exciting, and I'm all for going up all night long just to watch it.
Especially if the outlaw drove a yellow Lamborghini Diablo SV with batallions after batallions of civic cop cruisers, Apache choppers, Cop SUV, and flare-spitting fighter jets right on the tail of the outlaw.
a fitting title for the video oh and i have a suggestion for one bad seasons chase elliott 2023
NASCAR: “We have the best competitive races in the world”
Truck Drivers: “Let us fix that” 🤡🤡🤡
Why clown emojis instead of monkey emojis?
NASCAR, you're drunk. Go back to Florida.
@@chada75 not North Carolina?
By the time this race was over I’d have good WiFi for the first time in 7 years
Looked more like the Livin’ la Vida Loca Destruction Derby 150 *SMFH*
This dumpster fire makes the 2022 Sharpie 500 at Bristol look like the 1998 Daytona 500 and is exactly why I stopped watching this division after 2021 and told my friend in the store about it 2 days after it happened by describing it as the CRASHMAN Truck Series so might as well call this race the *Crashman 150* while we’re at it 🤦♂️
And to think, a lot of that stupidity would’ve been avoided if only Corey Heim just didn’t heat-seek Carson Hocevar…….
Zane Smith: *Granny shifts instead of double clutching like he should*
I was expecting a video on my boy Hank Parker Jr., but I will take this because I definitely agree that the truck series finale is the worst finale I have ever seen.
this is sooo similar to Hornaday vs Benson in 2008 when neither of them wanted the Championship
Darian, I'd rather listen to FOX's coverage than hearing Dale Jr. just yelling "Slide job!" and Rick Allen saying "Prahblems on the race track" over and over.
Also, if you're upset with the 10 pm est start time for this race, then you probably lost it when the 2015 Coke Zero 400 at Daytona didn't start til 11:10 pm est and ended at almost 3 am est.
I normally don't care for Jamie Littles play by play commentary but she had a couple good calls. Like Hocevar spinning Heim and then the final lap call. But yeah this race was awful. And this was the first race my girlfriend watched with me. At least she picked Ben Rhodes
The FOX trucks booth sounds like they are being held hostage in the basement of FOX Studios
The only good part of that race was ben roads post race interview😂
Seems like every single race since 2015 NASCAR Season, with this broken playoff format, EVERY SINGLE RACE IN PLAYOFFS ARE ABSOLUTE THE WORST!
2004*.
1:40 that’s why we need gus johnson or kevin burkhardt in the booth instead of jamie little.
Put Homeworld-Miami Speedway, BACK, As The Final Race, Of The Season.
Instead Of Phoenix Raceway.
I personally prefer having Daytona RC, Charlotte or old California speedway as the finale
@@RazorSharp75426 Virginia International Raceway.
I cant believe that the truck series has degraded too this level 😮
i agree with truex jr. that was all an act by carson hocevar in the car.
The NASCAR Crash-man Truck Series 🤐🤐
I remember it being hyped on tiktok but instead it was a shitshow 💀
I hope they replace Phoenix with some other circuit like Atlanta cause that would obviously be the best choice and to bring it back old school.
Don't like Phoenix, but the new Atlanta sucks. Go back to Homestead.
@@GrandpaShark Homestead? Why tf not using Pikes Peak Hillclimb route for the finale, and run it downhill?
And that's why I officially canceled this NASCAR truck series fantasy racing program.
Starting now.
I love it just because of the drama and wrecks drama and wrecks are the fun things
3:14 hahaha took a page out of the JG9 playbook by saying Seriously. 😅
To be fair, FOX had prioritized that Friday night for a potential Game 6 of the World Series, which would have pushed SmackDown to FS1 and subsequently pushed the race to 10 PM ET.
Considering the Rangers won in 5, it felt ridiculous how neither FOX or NASCAR chose to reschedule it earlier since now FS1 didn’t need to air SmackDown.
As for FOX’s coverage, that’s mostly on them not having the announcers at the track post-Sonoma.
Ironically, they could have done it for Phoenix considering FOX was already there for the World Series.
I love the truck series, grew up pulling for hamilton and bodine every weekend, watched these races more than cup or busch, but this series is a joke lately
The hocevar affect.
The most ridiculous part of this race was the start time.
Why can’t we just get rid of overtime for the trucks
What was once a great series is now an embarrassment plus with very bad coverage from Fox.
This is the race that broke kamikaze games
I was in the stands at that race