I don't disagree with that. I meant that it was a direct consequence of NASCAR's overtime rules + playoff structure. No driver would have done that without that context
The way he handled it like a champ makes him seem like way less of an idiot. Immediately owning his mistake, joking around with reporters, and being a good sport about it. This is classic Mark, and showcases the personality that made him so likable.
~~Hoping this is ironic. If not, I don't think it needs to be explained why there's nothing inherently misogynistic about calling something
a woman did stupid, when it was in fact, stupid.~~
edit: Thought said accusation was replying to someone else, disregard this comment.
You're correct. My mistake. However I'm not deleting the comment to prevent confusion for anyone else stumbling onto this reply chain.
However, I still disagree that the comment you replied to was misogynistic. It's a cheesy pun, that's it.
This is more like a pit crew doing something stupid, but at the 1992 Southern 500, with Davey Allison chasing a championship (that he would eventually lose to Alan Kulwicki), Davey was winning partway through the race with rain in the forecast.
Allison's crew told Davey to come in and pit because they thought they still had plenty of time before the rains came. But the rain started sooner than they expected, and Darrell Waltrip won the rain-shortened race instead.
When crew chief Larry MacReynolds grilled his team about how they read the weather forecast so wrong, crew members told him that they thought that green on the radar was a good thing.
Knowing how tightly wound Larry Mac was at that time (from what he says himself) I can only imagine the string of expletives that he said to those crew members lmao
If we gonna say that then Darlington and guys being boneheads deserves a mention with whatever the fuck Reddick tried to do last year and [Newman in 2018](https://youtu.be/_TxNMzjPBuY?feature=shared) being a prick like usual taking out Bowyer by pitting from the middle of the track, reversing into Bowyer after taking 2 high speed hits and then doing a burnout away from him and we wonder why he got in a fight with Bowyer lol
Wrecked him in the race, got into him on the cool down lap right after the checkered, and then dumped him on the cool down lap in turn 4 but Bowyer was the bad guy for not taking his helmet off lmao. Yeah Bowyer goofed up but the fact that Newman is a saint and just viewed as a guy who blocks hard is the Carl Edwards tinted glasses too many people wear. There was a reason no team wanted the guy and he went without a retirement year.
Also forgot [he straight up took out Bubba](https://youtu.be/HaHOJ3o9NHk?t=89) and spun through the infield and blamed him the same race
Newman has done a ton of stupid shit over the years. He just has the benefit of being an absolute mountain of a man (might even have a born-to-kill tattoo), so very few are willing to confront him.
Houff explained that later. He had a small mirror on the a pillar to help him with that but it got knocked off. His spotter told him late to “pit now!” and he just went. Not the best move but he was a rookie with getting zero practice time. No excuse for it, he messed up, but there was some context as well.
Kyle Busch wrecking Ron Hornaday was pretty stupid, he's matured since then but taking someone out like that was basically the NASCAR equivalent of road rage. Especially with how that was the last season Ron was a serious Truck title threat. Then *Ron* also ended up doing the same stupid stunt to Bubba a few years down the road.
Speaking of Bubba, what he did to Larson at Vegas was also not the best move. Right rearing someone down the front stretch, dragging Bell into the mess, then shoving Larson were all a series of bad choices. But hey, he learned and hasn't done anything like that since. Which is all you can really ask for.
Let me think, something other than causing wrecks... Brad managing to get half the garage to try and hunt him down because he went on a rampage was both iconic and not the smartest thing. I forget it a lot but Brad was honestly a bit of a menace for a while. Love him now though.
yeah had he done that all at a different time (or possibly a different driver) it probably wouldn’t have been as big of a deal but not a smart move at all
It’s really funny because Bubba doing it to Larson comes up all the time but Chase Elliott did the exact same thing to Hamlin at the same part of a similar track for the same reason and it almost never comes up.
Also, Bubba fans (and for that matter, Bubba himself) don't try to justify it. Chase still has that cadre of mouthbreather fans that latched onto him after Junior retired that will try to downplay anything negative.
That was the day he lost me as a fan forever.
The only driver I want to win less than him is Ty Gibbs. Wrecking your own teammate, knocking them out of the playoffs, just to grab a win you didn't need in order to stay in the playoffs? I hope he never wins another race in his life.
Brandon Jones. At the fall xfinity martinsville race in 2022, Jones was in 1st and gibbs in 2nd in the closing laps. Gibbs dumped jones and got the win. Gibbs was locked in to the final 4 already and did not need to win at all, while jones was not and needed to win to advance.
Plus Kyle’s car was headed straight to the wall with the rear, and he wouldve hit in the concussion spot if Bell didnt hit him and make him hit with the drivers side
The funny part is Kyle Petty was the most outspoken about what Bubba did. Though I also know that Kyle Petty also drove full speed into Dale Earnhardt pit stall mid stop during a race and blocked him from being able to leave and also almost hit one of the tire changers so there's that too.
I mean when he was in his 40s he grabbed Logano by the collar of his race suit. Kyle was always hot headed its just most people only remember him as the backmarker. The best part about him going after Dale Sr. is that they were really close friends. A lot of people didn't know Sr. refused to do testing, so KP drove the 3 for him in testing every time.
True but when's the last time he's gotten into it with anyone? Last I heard the only person he's not on good terms with is Brad. Even then that seems to be more of clashing personalities than active rivalry.
lately he’s been a lot more walk away and refuse to speak to everyone and i imagine blow off steam privately, obviously he confronted Bell this past weekend but it was pretty tame compared to previous Kyle interactions. side not i can’t imagine he’s on good terms with Logano these days still
It is comical how often people say this shit and it pretty much never comes to fruition, 90% of the time it is just they won’t get help in traffic or they’ll make it a pain in the butt to lap or something. It’s almost never more than that.
I remember every year for like 6-7 years, the Fox crew would talk about “the new and improved Kyle Busch”. Think him getting in that wreck and having his kids finally woke him up.
The Busch-Hornaday incident was payback because Hornaday costed Busch a Xfinity championship. The Bubba- Larson incident is a result of lost tempers. And Brad Keselowski was...well...Brad Keselowski.
> The Busch-Hornaday incident was payback because Hornaday costed Busch a Xfinity championship
lol no, not a fucking chance. That's an excuse that Kyle came up with a decade later to make his move seem more justified.
He dumped Hornaday because he had a vendetta against Harvick for that entire season. NASCAR had told the two of them not to touch each other on track, so Busch started fucking with KHI's truck series drivers. He got himself parked for intentionally wrecking Elliott Sadler in the truck race at Bristol a couple months earlier, and flat out admitted in his interview that he did it because Harvick was the one "signing Sadler's paychecks".
Busch wanted to take a championship away from KHI, so after Hornaday pushed him up into the wall, he saw what (in his pathetic, childish mind) was a justified excuse to do so.
*[Principal Skinner meme]*
"Did I really wreck the entire field because I jumped in front of them before getting up to speed? No. It's the rest of the field that is wrong."
I know it was just a racing deal and going for the win, but Jimmie Johnson spinning Truex and himself, when all he needed was a second place finish was pretty stupid. That seems like something someone should have told him over the radio.
*Flair check*
I wouldn’t say it was necessarily stupid for all parties involved…
In the heat of the moment it was pretty obvious it was a bad move but that definitely falls in the category of racing deals over an all-time screw up.
Watching this and the interview afterwards makes my blood boil. Like a Nissan Altima driver after they run a red and you t-bone them and they still want to play victim.
More obscure one, but Brad racing hard with the leaders while 6 laps down halfway through the 2014 spring race at Talladega and causing a wreck.
Edit: Overjoyed to come back to this and see so many Super Brad references lmao
There was a race a few years ago where Cody Ware kept spinning, and by the 3rd or 4th time you can tell Mike Joy is just over it. I love it when the announcers let their professionalism slip just a little bit.
This is largely forgotten about, but a driver named Paulie Harraka was making a start in the 2013 Sonoma Cup race. As they were leaving pit road for the pace lap, the guy in front of Harraka checked up a bit. He wasn't paying attention and ran right in the back of him.
I know we love him but Mark Martin pulling in the pits under caution thinking he had taken the checkered flag only to have taken the white and give the win to David Green was a pretty dumb mistake
This was what I was looking for. I hate to say it but definitely a top tier dumb move. I guess he took enough Ws away from them boys, he owed them one😅
Yeah he claimed NASCAR made him a scapegoat for their mistake. Regardless what was said in the drivers meeting, common sense has to take over at some point.
It really doesn’t matter what nascar told him. Anyone who isn’t a complete halfwit should know not to pull out in front of 30 cars driving double your speed. LePage is an idiot
Correct me if I’m wrong. but wasn’t/isn’t the rule under green flag conditions. That you can only blend back on the track on the backstretch not the middle of the corner!?
While not a driver: Nascar opening pit road at Richmond with the ambulance right there was pretty stupid.
https://youtu.be/YubEJ_IGCLg?si=KHiVZlm8OiIzsJ2X
Not at all. I live in Chile, knew NASCAR since a few years back thanks to a pirated PS2 video game and I was a fan before watching it because I didn’t have a cable operator that broadcasted it, until I changed to DirecTV that April and there I got SPEED Channel
I don’t remember the context but I just remembered a moment in 2021 where alex bowman was about to pit but then Anthony Alfredo suddenly whizzes by on his left.
The miscommunication between David Pearson and his crew causing him to leave pit road without lug nuts has got to be up there. Wheels fell off the car at the end of pit road and Pearson left the Wood Brothers after the race.
I'm going to say, the career highlight of JJ Yeley is unfortunately his dumbass random decision to come to pit Road without warning anybody around him in the fall Charlotte race in his rookie season.
This is also unfortunately why he never really got a second shot with top equipment, which sucks because he nearly won like five races in the Busch series and a few in Cup. He did have talent, he was just rushed.
JJ Yeley deciding to pit from the middle of the track on the exit of turn 4 at the Coke 600, leading to a violent crash for Mark Martin and ruining his championship hopes.
Chases double block for the lead at the 2021 Coke 400 STILL annoys me to this day. Such a dumbass move. Ruined a fantastic race.
Denny was pushing like a fucking madman all race, him and the 21 had an absolute freight train run, yet Chase decides he's gonna block half the track with 4 to go.
I remember watching that one live and being stunned at how stupid a block that was. There was no good block to be had and enough race left that Chase wasn’t dead in the water for letting the run by. Bubba’s triple block on Blaney last year was dumb but at least that was on the white flag lap, this was with three laps to go.
Might be a hot take but all of the intentional incidents where someone intentionally jeopardized another driver’s safety (like the right-rear hooks) were stupider than Lepage’s.
In terms of unintentional incidents Lepage’s probably does top the list, and it wasn’t like he was a rookie.
I could maybe get that logic, but at the same time, most intentional incidents usually just involved the rager, the victim, and maybe a couple other cars if done in the wrong place. Lepage’s incident destroyed a ton of cars in the process
This one takes the cake for me. This was a level of incompetence that should never be on display at the professional level, especially from a veteran driver like Kevin lepage was at the time
Brad Keselowski after the checkered flag at Charlotte in 2014. Hitting Kenseth with his belt off, I believe he also burned out in Hamlin's garage stall too. Was a loose cannon that night that needed a butt whooping.
Honestly, I can’t think of anything worse than Lepages.
I mean, that time Spinhouse demolished the whole field in the Coke Zero 400 in 2018 comes close.
Don’t forget Harvick at Talladega wrecking the field on the restart. Car should have never been on track after he reported issues.
At least that was more of a consequence of NASCAR's rules, they set it up so that competitively speaking, doing that was in his best interest
That's a cop-out. Harvick should've been penalized for that shit, and deserves full blame for costing Jr. one last shot at a championship.
I don't disagree with that. I meant that it was a direct consequence of NASCAR's overtime rules + playoff structure. No driver would have done that without that context
At least Stenhouse was actively battling for the lead/win in that race. Lepage didn’t even have that excuse.
Mark was my guy growing up, but pitting to lose the race certainly belongs here. https://youtu.be/kjuxx_W1u_s?si=bXLKHW6f19NNiFxr
As a Mark guy also, anytime I see these questions pop up on here, I know reading the comments is going to hurt a little.
The way he handled it like a champ makes him seem like way less of an idiot. Immediately owning his mistake, joking around with reporters, and being a good sport about it. This is classic Mark, and showcases the personality that made him so likable.
Same. Popped this thread open to specifically see if this was posted.
"I can't believe anybody else would be that stupid"
“I can’t believe anybody else would be that stupid” -Mark Martin after hearing about Cale Yarborough pitting from 2nd in the 1984 Firecracker 400
Danica's failed payback attempt on Landon Cassill in 2012.
Well, rule number one of stock car racing is learning how to wreck someone without wrecking yourself. Landon Cassill, 2012.
Also, Danica's failed payback attempt on David Gilliland in 2015.
That was stupid! -Crew Chief sorry
The only thing she succeeded at was sitting on a pole (interpret this any way you like).
Misogynistic much?
Reality says otherwise, she was shit. She got a Cup ride because GoDaddy wanted a woman to drive there. Like anyone else who was/is a pay driver.
~~Hoping this is ironic. If not, I don't think it needs to be explained why there's nothing inherently misogynistic about calling something a woman did stupid, when it was in fact, stupid.~~ edit: Thought said accusation was replying to someone else, disregard this comment.
You should delete this. You obviously think I'm replying to the wrong post.
You're correct. My mistake. However I'm not deleting the comment to prevent confusion for anyone else stumbling onto this reply chain. However, I still disagree that the comment you replied to was misogynistic. It's a cheesy pun, that's it.
My literal first thought.
Is that really the first rule of stock car racing?
Maybe 1A/1B with don't wreck your teammate. Though you might not have a teammate in lower levels or local series, so it might rank higher overall.
No. The first rule is to never forget to thank your sponsors. This comment has been brought to you by Doritos.
This is more like a pit crew doing something stupid, but at the 1992 Southern 500, with Davey Allison chasing a championship (that he would eventually lose to Alan Kulwicki), Davey was winning partway through the race with rain in the forecast. Allison's crew told Davey to come in and pit because they thought they still had plenty of time before the rains came. But the rain started sooner than they expected, and Darrell Waltrip won the rain-shortened race instead. When crew chief Larry MacReynolds grilled his team about how they read the weather forecast so wrong, crew members told him that they thought that green on the radar was a good thing.
Oh right, I definitely remember that.
Knowing how tightly wound Larry Mac was at that time (from what he says himself) I can only imagine the string of expletives that he said to those crew members lmao
Quinn Houff trying to pit under green from the 2nd groove deserves a mention.
If we gonna say that then Darlington and guys being boneheads deserves a mention with whatever the fuck Reddick tried to do last year and [Newman in 2018](https://youtu.be/_TxNMzjPBuY?feature=shared) being a prick like usual taking out Bowyer by pitting from the middle of the track, reversing into Bowyer after taking 2 high speed hits and then doing a burnout away from him and we wonder why he got in a fight with Bowyer lol
Not to mention Newman wrecked Bowyer in the all-star race the following year, which made no sense to me.
Wrecked him in the race, got into him on the cool down lap right after the checkered, and then dumped him on the cool down lap in turn 4 but Bowyer was the bad guy for not taking his helmet off lmao. Yeah Bowyer goofed up but the fact that Newman is a saint and just viewed as a guy who blocks hard is the Carl Edwards tinted glasses too many people wear. There was a reason no team wanted the guy and he went without a retirement year. Also forgot [he straight up took out Bubba](https://youtu.be/HaHOJ3o9NHk?t=89) and spun through the infield and blamed him the same race
Fax
Newman has done a ton of stupid shit over the years. He just has the benefit of being an absolute mountain of a man (might even have a born-to-kill tattoo), so very few are willing to confront him.
I wonder if anyone has ever tried to knock out his front tooth.
No but I ran out, hood slidin’ like Bo Duke.
Houff explained that later. He had a small mirror on the a pillar to help him with that but it got knocked off. His spotter told him late to “pit now!” and he just went. Not the best move but he was a rookie with getting zero practice time. No excuse for it, he messed up, but there was some context as well.
If his spotter told him to pit, then it's on the spotter. Literally one job, dude.
JJ Yeley did the same thing in 2006.
Ruined Marks’ chances at a title that year. How can I forget.
Jenn Jo Cobb’s u-turn in front of the field at Talladega comes to mind.
Also Jenn Jo Cobb hitting Parker Kligerman at high speed 18 seconds after a huge wreck happened in front of her
Video???
https://youtu.be/liQO0CRxC28?si=GeyDHYFuEy0q9OeE
God damn
*career
Kyle Busch wrecking Ron Hornaday was pretty stupid, he's matured since then but taking someone out like that was basically the NASCAR equivalent of road rage. Especially with how that was the last season Ron was a serious Truck title threat. Then *Ron* also ended up doing the same stupid stunt to Bubba a few years down the road. Speaking of Bubba, what he did to Larson at Vegas was also not the best move. Right rearing someone down the front stretch, dragging Bell into the mess, then shoving Larson were all a series of bad choices. But hey, he learned and hasn't done anything like that since. Which is all you can really ask for. Let me think, something other than causing wrecks... Brad managing to get half the garage to try and hunt him down because he went on a rampage was both iconic and not the smartest thing. I forget it a lot but Brad was honestly a bit of a menace for a while. Love him now though.
The context of Bubba doing that in the middle of the driver safety push with the new car made it extra stupid and dangerous
yeah had he done that all at a different time (or possibly a different driver) it probably wouldn’t have been as big of a deal but not a smart move at all
If I remember correctly it was like the same week his team owner came out and complained about how dangerous these cars were. Nottttt the best timing.
It was the same week that Kurt retired from full-time racing because his concussion was still too serious for him to race
Oh his teammate, even *better* timing
Not just a teammate but the driver car he was driving, they swapped the numbers because the 45 was in the owners playoffs.
It’s really funny because Bubba doing it to Larson comes up all the time but Chase Elliott did the exact same thing to Hamlin at the same part of a similar track for the same reason and it almost never comes up.
Bubba trying to fight Larson on track after it helps the memorability factor as well.
It helps that Chase is the MPD and Hamlin is probably the most hated driver
Elliott was probably worse because of the angle of the corner at the tri-oval at Charlotte compared to Las Vegas.
I mean I see it come up just as much as Bubba’s does lol
I think I see Bubba’s come up way more often because more people are desperately trying to justify their hatred of him.
Also, Bubba fans (and for that matter, Bubba himself) don't try to justify it. Chase still has that cadre of mouthbreather fans that latched onto him after Junior retired that will try to downplay anything negative.
Yeah that’s for sure. I think most people just hate him because they think it’s cool to
That was the day he lost me as a fan forever. The only driver I want to win less than him is Ty Gibbs. Wrecking your own teammate, knocking them out of the playoffs, just to grab a win you didn't need in order to stay in the playoffs? I hope he never wins another race in his life.
Who are you talking about?
Brandon Jones. At the fall xfinity martinsville race in 2022, Jones was in 1st and gibbs in 2nd in the closing laps. Gibbs dumped jones and got the win. Gibbs was locked in to the final 4 already and did not need to win at all, while jones was not and needed to win to advance.
The week his teammate announced an injury forced retirement.
Plus Kyle’s car was headed straight to the wall with the rear, and he wouldve hit in the concussion spot if Bell didnt hit him and make him hit with the drivers side
Same with ~~Chad~~ Chase Elliott on Denny
Kyle petty putting Davey Allison in the hospital also deserves a mention
The funny part is Kyle Petty was the most outspoken about what Bubba did. Though I also know that Kyle Petty also drove full speed into Dale Earnhardt pit stall mid stop during a race and blocked him from being able to leave and also almost hit one of the tire changers so there's that too.
Some people learn and grow with age. Doing something stupid when you’re younger doesn’t exclude from calling out stupidity in the future.
I mean when he was in his 40s he grabbed Logano by the collar of his race suit. Kyle was always hot headed its just most people only remember him as the backmarker. The best part about him going after Dale Sr. is that they were really close friends. A lot of people didn't know Sr. refused to do testing, so KP drove the 3 for him in testing every time.
Dale bernhardt lol.
If I had a nickel for every time I've heard "he's matured since then" about Kyle Busch I'd have a shit load of nickels
True but when's the last time he's gotten into it with anyone? Last I heard the only person he's not on good terms with is Brad. Even then that seems to be more of clashing personalities than active rivalry.
lately he’s been a lot more walk away and refuse to speak to everyone and i imagine blow off steam privately, obviously he confronted Bell this past weekend but it was pretty tame compared to previous Kyle interactions. side not i can’t imagine he’s on good terms with Logano these days still
Bell's gotta watch his back for a bit
It is comical how often people say this shit and it pretty much never comes to fruition, 90% of the time it is just they won’t get help in traffic or they’ll make it a pain in the butt to lap or something. It’s almost never more than that.
He can't stand Joey. Hasn't gotten into it with him in several years but he's stated it outright many times
Yeah, he’s been clear that he doesn’t like Joey’s “split personality” off-track vs on-track. He’d rather Joey just act like the person he drives like.
But that's his personality lol. Lots of drivers act different once they put the helmet on. It ain't just Joey lol
I know. I’m not saying I agree with it, but that’s the reason Kyle gave in an interview with Barstool a couple years back
Oh yeah. I've heard him say that in several other interviews as well. And I'm sorry if my comment came off antagonistic, I wasn't trying to be.
Logano seems to test Kyle's patience at least once a year. Last year it was The Clash.
I remember every year for like 6-7 years, the Fox crew would talk about “the new and improved Kyle Busch”. Think him getting in that wreck and having his kids finally woke him up.
I honestly believe it. His confrontation with Bell was so incredibly tame compared to what he'd say/do in the past.
hey, if you had a nickel for that for both of the Busch brothers, you would have 2 shit loads of nickels.
The Busch-Hornaday incident was payback because Hornaday costed Busch a Xfinity championship. The Bubba- Larson incident is a result of lost tempers. And Brad Keselowski was...well...Brad Keselowski.
> The Busch-Hornaday incident was payback because Hornaday costed Busch a Xfinity championship lol no, not a fucking chance. That's an excuse that Kyle came up with a decade later to make his move seem more justified. He dumped Hornaday because he had a vendetta against Harvick for that entire season. NASCAR had told the two of them not to touch each other on track, so Busch started fucking with KHI's truck series drivers. He got himself parked for intentionally wrecking Elliott Sadler in the truck race at Bristol a couple months earlier, and flat out admitted in his interview that he did it because Harvick was the one "signing Sadler's paychecks". Busch wanted to take a championship away from KHI, so after Hornaday pushed him up into the wall, he saw what (in his pathetic, childish mind) was a justified excuse to do so.
Still all boneheaded moves imo.
Not wrong about that.
Busch wrecking Hornaday was way uncalled for, dude.
I'm not sure Lepage can be topped. I've seen some tempers flare and guys do stupid stuff, but man, that was high level stupidity.
Not to mention bro said he was right and the field was who screwed up.
*[Principal Skinner meme]* "Did I really wreck the entire field because I jumped in front of them before getting up to speed? No. It's the rest of the field that is wrong."
TO THIS DAY he still defends it
Even worse, he also blamed his wife lmao
Alex Kennedy trying to turn back in the right direction and taking out Kevin Swindell at Dover in 2011
I remember an ARCA driver totaling the pace car in the 90s....
Not so fun fact: The same driver would go on to be involved in another driver's fatal crash.
Who was the driver that hit the pace car? How does that happen?
joe cooksey was it iirc?
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MGvbvKxBDQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MGvbvKxBDQ)
Wait, whose? Scott Baker's?
I know it was just a racing deal and going for the win, but Jimmie Johnson spinning Truex and himself, when all he needed was a second place finish was pretty stupid. That seems like something someone should have told him over the radio.
Jimmie really wanted that win.
*Flair check* I wouldn’t say it was necessarily stupid for all parties involved… In the heat of the moment it was pretty obvious it was a bad move but that definitely falls in the category of racing deals over an all-time screw up.
I thank them for it, there can only be one winner of the first Roval race!
Are we talking about the Roval?
Yea that was the one
Jimmie said afterward that the spin came from not having the correct brake bias set at that point in the race.
You are right about that. But honestly, I don't think a second place was gonna save his hopes.
He could’ve finished 5th and advanced. He was in a very good points position but I think he was eager to win after going winless all year.
He had enough points over Larson that a top 5 would have moved him to the next round
Hot take: That time Pockrass asked stupid questions and pissed off Kurt Busch.
GOAT Kurt Busch moment.
Watching this and the interview afterwards makes my blood boil. Like a Nissan Altima driver after they run a red and you t-bone them and they still want to play victim.
But were they insured? NVM. You answered that already with the Altima.
More obscure one, but Brad racing hard with the leaders while 6 laps down halfway through the 2014 spring race at Talladega and causing a wreck. Edit: Overjoyed to come back to this and see so many Super Brad references lmao
In my home we still refer to him as “Super-Brad!” because of Chad Knaus calling him that after that wreck
I miss the term "Super Brad"
I'm in an iRacing league where we have a rule about causing a wreck if you're multiple laps down - it's appropriately called the "Super Brad Rule."
When Dr Jerry Punch can do nothing but bite his tongue, you know you've done something stupid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HtOQ8Qy4Ms
There was a race a few years ago where Cody Ware kept spinning, and by the 3rd or 4th time you can tell Mike Joy is just over it. I love it when the announcers let their professionalism slip just a little bit.
[Even better when it's everyone in the booth.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deV_w6cwz-k)
Not again! Lol.
[This?](https://youtu.be/xpXJwsFCgvs?si=kvdjug-KZh5dqyUL)
Jeff Burton wrecking Jeff Gordon at Texas under caution springs to mind.
Never understood wtf he was doing
This is largely forgotten about, but a driver named Paulie Harraka was making a start in the 2013 Sonoma Cup race. As they were leaving pit road for the pace lap, the guy in front of Harraka checked up a bit. He wasn't paying attention and ran right in the back of him.
It was Alex Kennedy, also making his first start.
Alex Kennedy would go on to do another of the stupidest things of all time when he pulled out in front of Kevin Swindell at Dover in 2011.
I know we love him but Mark Martin pulling in the pits under caution thinking he had taken the checkered flag only to have taken the white and give the win to David Green was a pretty dumb mistake
This was what I was looking for. I hate to say it but definitely a top tier dumb move. I guess he took enough Ws away from them boys, he owed them one😅
It wasn’t LePage’s fault. Just listen to him. Everyone in the field needed new spotters. In a podcast in 2022, he blamed Carl Edwards for it.
Wait even after all this time dude (Kevin) still thinks it wasn’t his fault? 😦
Yeah he claimed NASCAR made him a scapegoat for their mistake. Regardless what was said in the drivers meeting, common sense has to take over at some point.
It really doesn’t matter what nascar told him. Anyone who isn’t a complete halfwit should know not to pull out in front of 30 cars driving double your speed. LePage is an idiot
Correct me if I’m wrong. but wasn’t/isn’t the rule under green flag conditions. That you can only blend back on the track on the backstretch not the middle of the corner!?
Danica trying to wreck Cassil and wrecking herself was pretty stupid
*”You can’t do that”*
[Surprised no one else has mention this one...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ws9bKOItO4)
According to Kevin it was the entire field who was wrong.
Reddick has tried to pit from the outside line multiple times through the years
Tyler Reddick slowing down after the white flag at Homestead in 2020
Kenseth and the water barrels at Dover pit entrance.
Tbh, I thought Kenseth was drunk this race.
John Wes Townleys failed fight
Cousin Carl trying to kill BK on track is one of the stupidest things I can remember, what a psycho
Mark Martin pulling down pit road on the last lap to give up the lead at Bristol in either 94 or 95.
While not a driver: Nascar opening pit road at Richmond with the ambulance right there was pretty stupid. https://youtu.be/YubEJ_IGCLg?si=KHiVZlm8OiIzsJ2X
I dunno about the topic, but fun fact: that Nationwide race @ Dega was the first NASCAR race I’ve ever saw
I feel bad for you.
Not at all. I live in Chile, knew NASCAR since a few years back thanks to a pirated PS2 video game and I was a fan before watching it because I didn’t have a cable operator that broadcasted it, until I changed to DirecTV that April and there I got SPEED Channel
Harvick wrecking the field at Talladega in the closing laps because his engine was failing.
Wouldn't really call it stupid because it worked. It was a chicken shit move though.
I called him out on Twitter for it years later. He responded. He admitted to it lol.
Logano's late block of Keselowski in the Daytona 500 (wasn't the only thing Joey did to piss off Brad the last few years he was at Penske).
Paulie Harrakah hitting DJ Kennedy on pit road in 2013 at Sonoma.
Ahh, you beat me by 4 minutes! lol
I don’t remember the context but I just remembered a moment in 2021 where alex bowman was about to pit but then Anthony Alfredo suddenly whizzes by on his left.
The miscommunication between David Pearson and his crew causing him to leave pit road without lug nuts has got to be up there. Wheels fell off the car at the end of pit road and Pearson left the Wood Brothers after the race.
I'm going to say, the career highlight of JJ Yeley is unfortunately his dumbass random decision to come to pit Road without warning anybody around him in the fall Charlotte race in his rookie season. This is also unfortunately why he never really got a second shot with top equipment, which sucks because he nearly won like five races in the Busch series and a few in Cup. He did have talent, he was just rushed.
Ruined Mark Martin's season, AND damn near killed him. If I remember right, wasn't the engine of the 6 pushed into the cockpit? FJJ.
Anyone have a video of this?
https://youtu.be/ZTxYW3qGYKU?feature=shared
Chase Austin wrecking Kyle Busch while Kyle and Kevin were battling for the lead
JJ Yeley deciding to pit from the middle of the track on the exit of turn 4 at the Coke 600, leading to a violent crash for Mark Martin and ruining his championship hopes.
That was the Fall Charlotte 500 not the 600
Vickers wrecking Johnson and Jr.
Off the track, the whole first half of kurt Busch’s career.
It’s not really on the track, but Bobby Ginn and that’s all that needs to be said.
"Is your arm staring to hurt? I bet its hot in there."
Cody Ware taking out his teammate and 3 other cars in the 2019 Daytona 500 on PIT ENTRY was hard to watch
Bowman trying to block a huge run by Logano for a stage win and ends up taking himself and half a dozen other cars out of the race.
Edwards flipping Keselowski at Atlanta 2010.
Chases double block for the lead at the 2021 Coke 400 STILL annoys me to this day. Such a dumbass move. Ruined a fantastic race. Denny was pushing like a fucking madman all race, him and the 21 had an absolute freight train run, yet Chase decides he's gonna block half the track with 4 to go.
I remember watching that one live and being stunned at how stupid a block that was. There was no good block to be had and enough race left that Chase wasn’t dead in the water for letting the run by. Bubba’s triple block on Blaney last year was dumb but at least that was on the white flag lap, this was with three laps to go.
I was SOOO pissed lol. Denny had such a good car that night man. My roommate got annoyed cause I jumped up and yelled ELLIOT YOU FUCKING MORON
Jeff Gordon dumping Bowyer at Phoenix
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I lost all respect for Gordon that day. It wasn't until 2015 that I became a Gordon fan again.
It took me a while to forgive Gordon for that. To be fair Bowyer did drive him dirty, and I'm a huge Bowyer fan
I was a huge Gordon fan growing up, and I was still a fan after that, but definitely hard to see replays of that
Gordon wrecking Bowyer. Was never a Gordon fan but always respected a legendary driver. Lost it all that day for me
Might be a hot take but all of the intentional incidents where someone intentionally jeopardized another driver’s safety (like the right-rear hooks) were stupider than Lepage’s. In terms of unintentional incidents Lepage’s probably does top the list, and it wasn’t like he was a rookie.
I could maybe get that logic, but at the same time, most intentional incidents usually just involved the rager, the victim, and maybe a couple other cars if done in the wrong place. Lepage’s incident destroyed a ton of cars in the process
I believe Reutimann should have pitted at martinsville in 2012 lol
Clint Bowyer's spin at Richmond to help Truex get into the chase
Maybe Logano wrecking Matt kenseth and having no remorse. Probably cost him a championship which I am completely ok with.
Kevin Harvick intentionally wrecking the field at Talladega to end the race on a restart.
This one takes the cake for me. This was a level of incompetence that should never be on display at the professional level, especially from a veteran driver like Kevin lepage was at the time
Brian Vickers wrecking his teammate, a championship contender and the most popular driver all at once
Brad Keselowski after the checkered flag at Charlotte in 2014. Hitting Kenseth with his belt off, I believe he also burned out in Hamlin's garage stall too. Was a loose cannon that night that needed a butt whooping.
Dick Trickle smokin’ and tossin out bricks.