Dude, no offense but I chuckled at that blooper. Ricky Craven and Bill Elliot on the front row of a 2021 Monster Energy Cup series race sounds equal parts weird and fire
Honestly I think the 2000 Pepsi 400 is just as forgotten but even more notable. It is the only race that Dale Sr, Dale Jr, and Kerry ever raced together
0:28 I haven't forgotten the 2001 Pepsi 400. Oh wait. Lol. That actually threw me off. I didn't know that there were 2 of the same event from 2 different tracks.
@@markdemars7648 I also looked into that season, both Dover races were MBNA 400s. The June race was the Platinum 400 while the September race (1st race after 9/11) was the Cal Ripken Jr 400.
@@AoStoRmGod Stop it..... Just stop it.... If you wanna know go watch the Dale Jr podcast where he has Sterling Marlin on it and they talk about that... all of this from all of you has really wrecked havoc on that mans mental state Hes watched the last lap from that race for 23 years now, everyday at least once
This race isn't forgotten by me. My favorite part of this race was the rain delay coverage so hilarious!!!!! Wally talking bout wearing his wife's essentials, Harvick calling Alen statue hair. Etc. I think this broadcast team of Alan Bestwick Wally Dallenbach and B. P. Were awesome, just like Mike Joy, Larry Mac, & D.W. Bob Jenkins, Ned and Benny in 80s and 90s and even Eli Gold & Buddy Baker with TNN in the 90s course who could forget The team of Ken, Ned & David Hobbs for CBS.
@@Denielle-Vtechnically they are the same length being 400 laps. When it comes to short tracks and New Hampshire, NASCAR races measure the distance by number of laps distance instead of miles distance. Kinda like how road course races and Phoenix races are measured in kilometers instead of miles
@@Maverick33 Bro, 400 laps at Martinsville are not as many miles as 400 laps at Richmond. I didn't want to make a comment specifing this, but that's the point by what i said. I'm not learning anything new that i didn't already know by your comment. Nascar only does that because they want their race names to be 400 and 500. They don't want the spring race at Martinsville to be called the "Cook Out 210." They are, however, fine with calling the Grant Park 165 as it is, instead of the much more impressive Grant Park 265, despite the fact that 265 kilometers is the same as 165 miles. The Grant Park 165 is also the shortest points race in the schedule when measured by length in miles, and that's not even taking into account that the race earlier in the summer was shortened from 75 laps to 58, even after being shortened from the 100 laps from last year. The race that Alex Bowman won earlier in the summer was literally 127 miles long. Sure, it was a Road Course which takes less speed and more time to lap than regular ovals, but putting that aside, just imagine points racing 127 miles at Talladega or Charlotte and calling it a race. Doing the math, that's literally just 48 laps at Talladega, or 85 LAPS AT A 400 LAP COCA-COLA 600.
Oh I see lol. I was like, nobody will ever forget the 2001 Pepsi 400. Didn’t realize we had 2 that year. All those fans in the early 2000s in mind blowing and I lived it. Great content man!
Oh, this definitely was not a "forgotten" race for me. I thought that this would be the race where Ricky Craven would finally get his first Cup win. Of course, that would finally come a few months later in a classic finish at Martinsville, with Ricky holding off Dale Jarrett in the final laps for the emotional win.
Worth mentioning that the first red flag for rain was at exactly lap 100 of 200. Because they had not completed that lap, the race was not yet halfway complete and had to continue.
While we are talking about Michigan, I should point out that a month before this race, CART would race there for the final time ending a 20 year partnership. This was because of poor attendance that had declined every year since 1996 even though the racing was excellent & produced some of the wildest open wheel finishes ever. As a result, compared to NASCAR, CART could only draw about half the fans NASCAR did. Heck the ARCA race that took place on that same weekend at the same track drew more fans than CART did. As for how this race turned out, it produced a shock winner in Patrick Carpentier who won his first CART race. The next year Michigan decided to replace the CART race with an IRL one & the Molson Indy Vancouver (a significantly better attended event) was moved up a month to take Michigan's place on the CART schedule.
Thank you for doing a good video on a win from a Nascar legend Sterling Marlin who was largely misunderstood and hated by fans for the wrong reasons at the time
How often did it happen that races at different tracks had identical names? I'd heard of the Miller Genuine Draft 400 and Miller Genuine Draft 500, but I hadn't heard of identical race titles
Something also odd about this race being the Pepsi 400 is why Jeff Gordon didn't run the Pepsi car like he did at Daytona and instead used it at Talladega earlier in the year
I remember this race, I was an Earnie fan as a kid and when Ricky went to the 28, I became a Ricky fan, I for some reason just liked that black 28 havoline car as a kid.
Feels like for quite a few years Michigan got rained on and/or rain shortened. It did give us the Jerry Glanville and Ken Squier rain coverage though on CBS, and the coverage in 2001 as well too. So there's that, but yes for a while Michigan seemed to just mean rain during the race at some pointMike
Watched this race on the VCR years ago, solid race, the championship contenders were the ones running up front at the end. Sign of things to come later on today?
This wasn't all that uncommon back then. For a while there were multiple Miller Genuine Draft 400s (Richmond and Michigan) and Goody's 500s (Bristol and Martinsville). Budweiser also sponsored multiple races in a season at times, but they would shorten the name for one of them (Bud 500 v Budweiser 500).
@@insertgenericusernamehere2402 February 18th, 2001: Death of Dale Earnhardt March 26, 2001: the last episode of WCW Monday Nitro and Vince McMahon announces he purchased World Championship Wrestling. Heard it called "Black Monday" for pro wrestling April 1st, 2001: WWE WrestleMania 17. Often regarded as the greatest WrestleMania of all time. Also considered the official end of the Monday Night War
@@Maverick33 for some reason I always attributed Dale's death as mid-late 90s. Crazy it wasn't that long ago. I wouldn't have wrestling events down as staple days although I love it myself and have been following since the attitude era myself I genuinely couldn't have told you the days if you made me guess.
2001 not 2021 at the beginning lol.
It's 2001, you big dummy.
@@BlackFlagsMatter ah, Freudian Slip, it happens, don't beat yourself up
I understand you want to pursue more personal content , but enjoyed and miss your insight on NWP on Wednesday.
remember that race like it was 3 years ago
Dude, no offense but I chuckled at that blooper. Ricky Craven and Bill Elliot on the front row of a 2021 Monster Energy Cup series race sounds equal parts weird and fire
Crazy that this race was just 3 years ago 🤯
Zamn bro
@@Dark-ql7knare you on za
It wasnt 3 years ago
@@Delta-747 nah I’m on Autism ;)
The video used to say 2021 and that’s why he made that comment
That crowd though. Crazy.
Honestly I think the 2000 Pepsi 400 is just as forgotten but even more notable. It is the only race that Dale Sr, Dale Jr, and Kerry ever raced together
That'd be the Michigan one
0:28 I haven't forgotten the 2001 Pepsi 400. Oh wait. Lol. That actually threw me off. I didn't know that there were 2 of the same event from 2 different tracks.
Yeah I was gonna say uhhhhh, literally nobody forgot this race. JR and Mikey getting it done for SR
Yeah I'll never understand why there were two pepsi 400s thru out the very late 90s to early 2000s foe nascar.
There was also two NAPA 500s that year. The California race was called the “NAPA Auto Parts 500” and the Atlanta race was called the “NAPA 500”.
@@christophermillsap5064 I didn't know that. That's really something.
@@markdemars7648 I also looked into that season, both Dover races were MBNA 400s. The June race was the Platinum 400 while the September race (1st race after 9/11) was the Cal Ripken Jr 400.
Wow a 2pm start in 2001. Nobody tell David Land!
Sterling Marlin still winning in 2021, thats determination for ya
Wasn’t it sterling who took senior into the wall not his fault tho
@@AoStoRmGod Stop it..... Just stop it....
If you wanna know go watch the Dale Jr podcast where he has Sterling Marlin on it and they talk about that... all of this from all of you has really wrecked havoc on that mans mental state
Hes watched the last lap from that race for 23 years now, everyday at least once
Dementia and all
This race isn't forgotten by me. My favorite part of this race was the rain delay coverage so hilarious!!!!! Wally talking bout wearing his wife's essentials, Harvick calling Alen statue hair. Etc. I think this broadcast team of Alan Bestwick Wally Dallenbach and B. P. Were awesome, just like Mike Joy, Larry Mac, & D.W. Bob Jenkins, Ned and Benny in 80s and 90s and even Eli Gold & Buddy Baker with TNN in the 90s course who could forget The team of Ken, Ned & David Hobbs for CBS.
Back when nascar broadcasts were fun .
Statue hair.. Haven't heard that in 20 years. That was nostalgic 😂
wally wearing his wifes essentials, thats when my grandma turned the channel.... no wonder
I feel like if Marlin doesn’t get injured at Richmond and Kansas in 2002 he would’ve won more races and maybe the championship that year
That would've been Dodge's first Cup Series championship
@@jamestaylor4480um no
@@jamestaylor4480 I believe so at least since returning to the sport
0:50 when???
There used to be two Aaron’s 312’s, one at Talladega and one at Atlanta
Yep 😅
I remember there was a Pepsi 500 at California in 2009.
Yep Pepsi Max 500
What about the 2008 auto club 500 ?
2021? Don’t you mean 2001? Great video and I remember this race very well! 😊
I mean; wasn’t uncommon for two races to have the same sponsor and race length, look at the early 90s.
I mean... Cook Out 400 at Martinsville & Cook Out 400 at Richmond. Sure, they're not the same length, but still.
This is was my first race and I remember they had shirts that said Pepsi 400 at Michigan the "at Michigan" in really small print I under the logo
@@Denielle-Vtechnically they are the same length being 400 laps. When it comes to short tracks and New Hampshire, NASCAR races measure the distance by number of laps distance instead of miles distance.
Kinda like how road course races and Phoenix races are measured in kilometers instead of miles
@@Maverick33 Bro, 400 laps at Martinsville are not as many miles as 400 laps at Richmond. I didn't want to make a comment specifing this, but that's the point by what i said. I'm not learning anything new that i didn't already know by your comment.
Nascar only does that because they want their race names to be 400 and 500. They don't want the spring race at Martinsville to be called the "Cook Out 210."
They are, however, fine with calling the Grant Park 165 as it is, instead of the much more impressive Grant Park 265, despite the fact that 265 kilometers is the same as 165 miles.
The Grant Park 165 is also the shortest points race in the schedule when measured by length in miles, and that's not even taking into account that the race earlier in the summer was shortened from 75 laps to 58, even after being shortened from the 100 laps from last year.
The race that Alex Bowman won earlier in the summer was literally 127 miles long. Sure, it was a Road Course which takes less speed and more time to lap than regular ovals, but putting that aside, just imagine points racing 127 miles at Talladega or Charlotte and calling it a race. Doing the math, that's literally just 48 laps at Talladega, or 85 LAPS AT A 400 LAP COCA-COLA 600.
6:15 the hilarious Alen Bestwick laugh
Oh I see lol. I was like, nobody will ever forget the 2001 Pepsi 400. Didn’t realize we had 2 that year. All those fans in the early 2000s in mind blowing and I lived it. Great content man!
The first Michigan race had a thrilling finish
Oh, this definitely was not a "forgotten" race for me. I thought that this would be the race where Ricky Craven would finally get his first Cup win. Of course, that would finally come a few months later in a classic finish at Martinsville, with Ricky holding off Dale Jarrett in the final laps for the emotional win.
Worth mentioning that the first red flag for rain was at exactly lap 100 of 200. Because they had not completed that lap, the race was not yet halfway complete and had to continue.
The only reason i knew there were two Pepsi 400s was due to one of the GOAT nascar games, and its name is Thunder 2003 and its brother, Thunder 2004.
The lack of the statue hair clip displeases me
Same thing happened 2 Camping World 400s in 2008 and 2 Kobalt Tools 400s in 2010
Having two races sponsored by the company is wild behavior
Well then the 80’s and 90’s was a lot of wild behavior because it was common then.
While we are talking about Michigan, I should point out that a month before this race, CART would race there for the final time ending a 20 year partnership. This was because of poor attendance that had declined every year since 1996 even though the racing was excellent & produced some of the wildest open wheel finishes ever. As a result, compared to NASCAR, CART could only draw about half the fans NASCAR did. Heck the ARCA race that took place on that same weekend at the same track drew more fans than CART did. As for how this race turned out, it produced a shock winner in Patrick Carpentier who won his first CART race. The next year Michigan decided to replace the CART race with an IRL one & the Molson Indy Vancouver (a significantly better attended event) was moved up a month to take Michigan's place on the CART schedule.
Then in 2001 the texas race was canceled and cart started struggling while indycar & nascar started gaining on cart.
2021 huh?
Shit feels like yesterday 😪
Jokes aside, another good video man.
First Dodge win since its return
Dodge deserved that win
There was 2 price chopper 400s as well
Thank you for doing a good video on a win from a Nascar legend Sterling Marlin who was largely misunderstood and hated by fans for the wrong reasons at the time
SABCO 6:57
also this was the one and only nascar race i ever went to
The Harley Davidson scheme Rusty Wallace ran in this race was absolutely beautiful.
@@redguysimracing2382 Rusty’s best Harley Davidson car was the 2000 Bristol night race car he won
I dont understand why NASCAR would have TWO races that have the same name... at least have one Pepsi race be a shorter/longer distance than the other
I think it was one of those "such and such 400 presented by so and so" The title was slightly different
How often did it happen that races at different tracks had identical names? I'd heard of the Miller Genuine Draft 400 and Miller Genuine Draft 500, but I hadn't heard of identical race titles
Bristol and martinsville both had goodys as race sponsors
Busch/Xfinity Series had 2 Aaron's 312's in 2004, Talladega and Atlanta.
Atlanta had 2 Bass Pro Shops MBNA 500’s in 2003
Wasn’t there two Subway 400s or 500s before?
They forgot to even run this race for a whole 20 years. Nice to see Bill Elliott and Ricky Craven stuck around to maintain their starting positions.
Michigan 2001: Raced on August 19th, with rain being a factor.
Michigan 2024: Started on August 18th, postponed to August 19th due to rain.
Never forgot this race in 2001, I saw it and Sterling Marlin won the race. Not only that, the first win for Dodge. Plus it was a rain shortened race.
It’s weird seeing those grandstands in turn three and four in this 😂
Something also odd about this race being the Pepsi 400 is why Jeff Gordon didn't run the Pepsi car like he did at Daytona and instead used it at Talladega earlier in the year
I was there that day what an amazing experience it was sad and electric
Daytona
It's the superspeedway effect. Wide open no skill pack racing beats a track you have to drive.
I remember this race, I was an Earnie fan as a kid and when Ricky went to the 28, I became a Ricky fan, I for some reason just liked that black 28 havoline car as a kid.
Bill Elliott's winless drought dated back to 1994 at the time
Love how we raced back to the line for a caution for rain 😂😂
I remember watching this race and was wanting Bill Elliott to get that first Dodge win. Bill was pretty fast that day too
A lot of folks said that Bill Elliott would give Dodge their first Cup Series win
Feels like for quite a few years Michigan got rained on and/or rain shortened. It did give us the Jerry Glanville and Ken Squier rain coverage though on CBS, and the coverage in 2001 as well too. So there's that, but yes for a while Michigan seemed to just mean rain during the race at some pointMike
Watched this race on the VCR years ago, solid race, the championship contenders were the ones running up front at the end. Sign of things to come later on today?
Ah yes 2021
damm i didnt know ricky was racing in 2021
136k at Michigan! Wow
Shame they all forgot they were there 😢
I mean, there were two races this season called Cookout 400
One was a little forgettable, the other sparked a crap ton of controversy
This wasn't all that uncommon back then. For a while there were multiple Miller Genuine Draft 400s (Richmond and Michigan) and Goody's 500s (Bristol and Martinsville). Budweiser also sponsored multiple races in a season at times, but they would shorten the name for one of them (Bud 500 v Budweiser 500).
I couldn't tell you why NASCAR needed 2 Pepsi 400s
I was there! Wearing a Dodge shirt! Believe it was Dodges first win
That havoline 28 car is so iconic I miss seeing it.
Happening now
You wouldn't see that kind of running top 5 in any race these days. Back when backmarkers actually had some speed
Can we point out how dumb it is to race back to the start/finish line if the caution is for RAIN lol
Yep I'm glad it no longer happens.
0:22 I love it when the theme was Fuel by Metallica 🤘
"Once again" total count for this video: 4
Can u do gone too soon Scott Bloomquist plz he died yesterday
I WAS THERE! 😃
This was also the final race where Aaliyah was alive 😢
Shouldn't have had the same names
Dieter Zetsche sighting at 7:07 😄
Marty Robbins
First race since dale sr death
Look at crowds
Sterling deserved this one. After the wreck with Earnhardt earlier in the year as well.
I imagine a lot of this was forgotten due to the thing that happened nearly a month later
I think majority of 2001 in general is forgotten outside of February 18th, March 26th, April 1st and September 11th
@@Maverick33 I'll be honest with you bud. No clue what happened Feb 18th, March 26th, April 1st...
@@insertgenericusernamehere2402
February 18th, 2001: Death of Dale Earnhardt
March 26, 2001: the last episode of WCW Monday Nitro and Vince McMahon announces he purchased World Championship Wrestling. Heard it called "Black Monday" for pro wrestling
April 1st, 2001: WWE WrestleMania 17. Often regarded as the greatest WrestleMania of all time. Also considered the official end of the Monday Night War
@@Maverick33 for some reason I always attributed Dale's death as mid-late 90s. Crazy it wasn't that long ago.
I wouldn't have wrestling events down as staple days although I love it myself and have been following since the attitude era myself I genuinely couldn't have told you the days if you made me guess.
NASCAR bad seasons Nomination: Corey Lajoe 2024
RIP Alton Reed. One of the guys that inspired me into playing saxophone.
Why did they name it the same as Daytona?
Why haven't you been on nwp?
Benchot you are not in your senses
What's a green flag pit stop??? F stage racing