The Worst Sponsors, Team Owners, and Track Promoters in NASCAR History
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- Опубліковано 27 лип 2019
- In light of the recent Rich Energy/ Haas F1 debacle, I think it's wise to remind my fellow NASCAR fans, that our motorsport of choice has had a tumultuous history when it comes to sponsors, track promoters and team owners as well. Here's just a few cases of the worst liars thieves, and lawyers to ever disgrace NASCAR with their presence.
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Extenze’s sponsorship was like its product’s results. Flaccid.
There's a reason I came up with the nickname "Kevin Conman"...
Only good thing about them was that they had good paint schemes
That's HARD man!
When the infomercials were done by porn stars it's unbelievable that it actually works.
@@MikeTheKoopaWarrior Yeah. That exact shade of blue is my favorite color. Such a shame.
"I got two pistols, one for each of you, give me what you owe me and we won't have to find out if they're loaded!" I like the cut of that contractor's jib.
Reminds me of Doc Holliday
@@moviewriter93 I'm your huckleberry
@@moviewriter93 I've got 2 guns - one for each of ya!
I call that a win and a major arrow to the black well brothers chest
I belive this fellow drives a very hard bargin
"Everybody sued everybody and nobody won."
^Most civil lawsuits.
sunnycorax The lawyer’s did..
Harlan Mote yeah all there money
Every street fight can be sumed up that way as well
Class action lawsuits are one of the biggest lawyer operated frauds.
The dad who went to jail so his son could race and the random guy who ditched town after becoming a Nascar imposter are the biggest legends of Nascar
Dude misappropriates millions of dollars from innocent people: damn, what an asshole
Dude misappropriates millions to fund his son's NASCAR dreams: okay that's kinda dope though
@@hiimemily I guess it's the fact that the end goal with the dad wasn't nefarious.
@@beantaz3862 Yeah, I can't get too mad at him.
Smokey wasn’t a cheater, after all, none of the rules he broke *were* rules at the time he broke them.
Wanna bet multiple post winning conversations started with "Alright you clever son of a..."
Smokey was brilliant
Yeah, so many rules weren't rules until NASCAR had to stop some crazy team from doing something they were doing.....just because the rule book didn't specifically say you couldn't do it, lol.
Smokey and Jr. were the reason alot of rule were written.
If your not cheating your not trying!!!
Extenze "pulled out" of NASCAR hehehe
Ha Ha! Good One!
Adam_The_Long 😂😂😂😂😂
You sir are a legend
I'm so glad someone else caught that!
R/idontgetit
Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a sound could be heard except for the FBI kicking down the door of DC Solar
Only because they couldn't get into the Nakatomi Tower lol
*FBI OPEN UP!!!!!!!!!!!*
The owner bought over 100 cars and the government is auctioning them off to pay back the investors, one of the cars being burnt Reynolds grand am or whatever
@@bentheg9793 *FBI 🅾️PEN UP !!!!!*
You mean the contractor kicking the door to the count room down. Pistols in hand he took what he was owed, leaving the Blackwell's bewildered some more. (trying to add to the night before Christmas stuff)
The story about Danica Patrick also promoting rival food products to her _SPONSOR_ "Nature's Bakery" had me burst out in laughter and nearly spill my coffee all over my desk.
This is THE evidence to prove that just because you CAN do something doesn’t mean you SHOULD do it. That bridge is well and truly burnt.
To think that as of 3 May 2022, L.W. Wright came forward with everything. It's absolutely wild.
Was it really him?
@@peekaboo1575 Apparently, he was arrested in Knox County, TN in February this year.
@@peekaboo1575had the same firesuit as in the one picture we got of him.
40 years after it happened too
I'm gonna say this out loud...
Damn...
I haven't watched Nascar since Ricky Craven's famous finish, but I love stories and these were an awesome listen.
Netflix better have something good with Haas' F1 debacle in Season 2.
And yes, LW is a total legend.
I was not expecting one of my favorites long form video game content creator on a Nascar video. Love what you do!
frfr, LW was the original troll
@@josephapawelczyk more likely.
Extenze and Danica Patrick should've had a team, neither one worked
That's HILARIOUS and TRUE!!!
Midnight Trumptrain accurate
@@williammaurice7206 The only reason she had any success in Indycar racing was because she weighed so much less than the male drivers. This advantage disappeared in NASCAR since stock cars are so much heavier and twenty/thirty pound gross weight differential doesn't make for much of an advantage.
@@williammaurice7206 Indycar minimum weight does NOT include the driver's weight.
Danica got that money though.
3:33 Guy stuck up his customers in order to finally get paid..... that's gangster.
slimj091 A good ol boy wouldn’t have any trouble collecting what was owed to him in this fashion either.
Just saying.
Michael Strunk well said
Michael Strunk
...good ol’ boys didn’t pay up. being a legend in your own mind (good ol’ boy) doesn’t mean you have good character- it means a good working class guy had to take things into his own hands to get paid because the good old boy network had a superiority complex
More cost effective than lawyers.........long live brass....
A lot of Contractors are felons and some are still sketchy. So if you find a good one, don't screw them over. They don't always go the legal route!
A solar company that was shady as hell? I never heard that one before.
Good One!
@@nicolewembley3093 i'm not sure he meant to make the pun, lol
@@dalton-at-work You decide.
But muh global warming
Yes. The owner bought over 100 cars and the government is auctioning them off to pay back the investors, one of the cars being burnt Reynolds grand am or whatever
Most excellent video Sir, really enjoyed this!
I don't have much knowledge in NASCAR, aside from playing the game Daytona USA, but this was really fascinating!
Larry Bundy Jr i keep seeing you randomly popping up in comment sections
You pop up in the weirdest places, Larry.
Damn it Larry, how do you keep showing up when I least expect it
I can't believe I found you here 😂
Nice to see you here Larry, how's it going?
I worked for BK and Nemco at Arrington’s engine shop. I think everyone in the industry will agree that almost every team is run by questionable people
Arrington's? The manufacturers that made Pro Racing Engines?
NemechekFan_87 Race Engines Plus is the name of the shop. Owned by Joey Arrington, Buddy Arrington’s son
Forrest Alston, shit Formula One is just as hilariously shady. The attempts to spy on other teams would make the British Secret Service blush. A fight broke out in one garage when an F1 team owner got caught snooping under the car of one of his rivals and a mechanic caught and dragged him out!
In an equally funny but brilliant example of ingenuity, one team owner suspected a rival team was running a new kind of wing that would allow for very unusual suspension settings. He told his wife to make him some tartan pants! But he strictly insisted the squares all be precisely spaced. He walked up to the car and stood next to it while his wife snapped a picture. They were able to use rough mathematical calculations and it confirmed the suspension was set much lower than he anticipated. So he told his mechanics to ignore his driver's protests and set the suspension even lower!
And my all time favorite: in 1998, McLaren were accused by F1 magazine of running a special braking system that had not yet been outlawed by the judges so they sent their photographer to snoop around the garage. To his astonishment, McLaren foolishly left their car totally unattended. He stuck his camera in the cockpit floor and snapped a few pics and ran before anyone noticed him. McLaren's directors were absolutely shocked when the new braking system was front page news on the magazine's next issue!
And that's the verrrryyy tip of the iceberg!
@@largol33t1 Motorsport as a whole is a shaddy, shaddy business. If you don't wipe your ass with the rulebook and exploit loopholes like clothing company's exploit kids in South East Asia, your doing it wrong. Honestly it's what makes it so great.
Oh shit joey arrington. Theres some storys to be told there. Reasons why he moved far away from martinsville
Go Daddy left cuz Danica kept leaving the car before the race was finished.
😂
They moved to PornHub just like Danica
*She'd always take Viagra before the Race and that thing, her "Almighty Sarlac" would Chew and Slurp holes through the Seat.*
Danica was purely a promotional strategy, she dont know how to drive...watch her race. Being a female racer, they got tons of publicity over it. Oh and dont forget the number of drivers she "conveniently" crashed and took out each race.
@@dominicdouglas7580 Daytona, Kansas, Talladega????
she done good there
"Their pills didn'r actually make your PP bigger"
The way you said that made me lose it and I don't know how.
same here man
"Wow".......I bet a lot of kids like you today would laugh for 2 weeks after seeing your neighbor's dog take a crap in their back yard.
They also didn’t put him on the Pole!
*I mean........................DAYUMMMM!!!*
*My wife decided for "fun" to take a Viagra. I was a lil taken back with her Vagine moving around and making Slurping noises. I thought Woo-Hoo, she's wearing Crotchless Panties, but was horrified to learn that they weren't crotchless 30min before.*
DC Solar (effect on drivers and team wise) was the worst sponsor of all of NASCAR. Ruined Poole's career, and Chastain almost had his career ruined. Hate that.
Big Daddy's Barbecue knocked Larry Hedrick's team out of business, and single handedly turned Junie Donlavey's operation from respectable to appalling overnight. DC Solar can't claim that.
Brennan Poole wasnt really that good anyway, I think he was going to be on the way out anyway but then the DC Solar collapse just caught him out in the crossfire
Well look at where Chastain is at now :)
@@cartergarrison4952 Yes, look where he is now. Putting a ton of eyes on NASCAR with a ballsy move being touted as the “Hail Melon”.
UA-cam is a funny ol' place.
I live in the UK. We have *ZERO* interest in Nascar. I have *ZERO* interest in Nascar.
However...... I've just watched your video, found it VERY interesting so clicked the thumbs up.
Keep up the good work!
Thanks man! Try to make these accessible to everyone, fans and nonfans alike.
Also have to agree. I have little interest in nascar beyond informative videos like these. You nailed it sir
Apparently US citizens have no interest either. Lots of empty seats.....
Nascar in today's age just sucks. You want to see real Nascar, go back to the beginning up until 2001. Total shit show after that.
If only I had a time machine..
I've learned that the worst owners and teams always roll out the best looking paint schemes
The deadliest predators often have the most dazzling coats to lure in prey.
Count the companies in regarding cigarette sponsorship
This reminds me of a quote from Spongebob,
“Why did you decide to do this?” “MONEY!!!”
The children? I don't care about the children, I just care about their parents money!
@@andrewdotmp4 Okay, money--I mean, children! It's time for the grand unveiling of...MONEY--I mean, KRABBY LAND!
"What Inspired You To Open Another Krusty Krab Right Next To The Original?" "Money"
@@Busch22Fan Okay, money--I mean, money! It's time for the grand unveiling of...MONEY--I mean,
M O N E Y
M O N E Y (M U H E H) Arthur Morgan
Its a story thats been around since racing. When I was a youngster, we hardly ever raced on paved tracks, it was too expensive. We raced on dirt. Plenty in our area. We raced McGregor Speedway on Friday night, we raced Barberville ( called Volusia County now ) on Saturday, and raced Satsuma ( changed to Lake County Speedway) on Sunday if there was anything left of the car. We finally raced Samsula Speedway, in a big race, and against any odds, finished second. Except the payout window had been closed before the race ended, and the promoter gone. Left Fla. in '79 and the track still had not reopened . I have seen races since on the same track, so I assume someone bought it and handle it correctly now. Called New Smyrna now.
I second what others have said. I'd like to see a second part covering some of the others. There was Angela's Motorsports, J.D. Stacy, Warner Hodgdon, Lycos, OXYWater, Arrowhead, Big Daddy's BBQ Sauce, 360 OTC, and Speed-Block (which is why DW ended up selling his team to Beverly in the first place). There's probably even more I can't think of.
Timestamps:
0:00 Rich Energy Drink (F1)
0:54 Intro
1:04 Sketchy Track Promoters / Blackwell Brothers
4:27 BK Racing
5:16 Michael Waltrip Racing
7:41 L.W. Wright
9:55 ExtenZe
11:02 Tobasco
13:08 Nature's Bakery
14:03 Zloop
15:09 DC Solar
17:01 Outro
"To this day nobody knows where l.w Wright went" over 3 years later and they finally found him. L.W Wright has been arrested and put in jail.
I remember getting all kinds of spam on my work email from Extenze. Really shady emails with mis-spellings and click bait. I couldn't believe it when I saw them sponsoring cars in NASCAR about a year or so later. I knew it was going to end badly. Tough break for Nemecheck, Front Row, Robby Gordon and whoever else got scammed by that black hole of a company.
If Nemechek and Gordon used their emails properly, they wouldn't have been scammed. Male-Enhancement products pop-up quite a bit in spam emails.
All they had to do is get a week’s supply for the team. Easy proof that the product didn’t work.
For an update on L. W. Wright: his real name is Larry Earnest Wright and he passed away on January 27, 2024
Let us pay respects to this absolute fucking madlad.
It's worth noting that Chastain just finished second in the Cup Series standings.
10:59 NEMCO is still in NASCAR, in the truck series. Nemechek owns the #8 and #87.
Left Turn Productions [LTP] they pulled out at the time
And came back later
Anthony Staten NEMCO pulled out of cup and went to Trucks
It kinda seemed that Jay screwed Joe for his cup ride for IVR
*Yeah but Nemecuck's Mom runs the show. Is she still dressing him?*
@@MAGGOT_VOMIT she runs the fan club, nothing else more
10:12 HOLY CRAP SPLIT THE MIDDLE AND BARELY MISSED GETTING HIT.
The only impressive thing Conway ever did
@@bw-leftturnracing7779 Yep
@@bw-leftturnracing7779 I think the most impressive thing he ever did was finishing an average 30th with Gibbs
Thankfully the pills don’t work or that would have been and accident
Imagine a company that literally relied upon the sun and yet was ensconced under so much shade.
The auction for all of the cars that DC Solar had amassed is taking place soon or has recently taken place in early Nov'19.
I'm not exactly a NASCAR fan but this work of yours is some of the edgiest, cut-through, unbiased, open and clear investigative journalism I have seen. Your diction and composition chops are also right up there with the best in the business. Congrats.
Forgot the OXY Water scandal. They signed a 2 year full time contract with now GO Fas Racing until the co-owners got into tax fraud schemes
Year?
@@DupontandLowesWarrior recent. like 2016 maybe
What Is OXY Water?
@@AnneBUZZTKO some bullshit super healthy water. kind of like earth water for bk racing. i dont know the full story so i would recommend to just look it up
@@DupontandLowesWarrior This was in 2013
Awesome video bro! There was another team owner that you missed, Angela Harkness. She scammed money from the team members and sponsors and ended up fleeing from the country to the UAE. I made a video on it (self-plug) and its a crazy story to say the least.
Also Eric Friedlander, the Whittington Brothers running their own cup car, and Warren Hodgdon in the 1980s
I do remember that. And it almost ruined Mike McLaughlin's career.
Big Daddy’s BBQ is another example,as it screwed over two cup teams, Donlavey Racing and Larry Hendrick Motorsports.
The strange case of Jennifer Jo Cobb', former business partner David Novak and Mike Harmon. Mike Harmon was arrested for stealing her cars that she races, her hauler and equipment. Novak was Cobb's ex-boyfriend. Harmon should have stayed out of the feud between ex lovers.
That team needs to be talked about by someone. It deserves to be in this video.
The manifold incident might have its roots at Bill Davis Racing. While Waltrip was racing for BDR, a friend of mine, who was the operations manager at the time, shared it with me. According to him, when the car would pit, the crew guy cleaning the windshield would smear a gel compound that was in his free hand over the air intake, as he leaned across the car. My friend said the car would get a boost for a few laps, until the gel had dissipated. This was eventually noticed by a NASCAR official, who warned them not to do it again. Being that this was probably reported and shared with other officials, this meant that they had to stop doing it altogether. It seems very possible that a former BDR team member, or even Waltrip himself, brought this this trick with them to MWR.
After years of working in racing I can attest to the fact that a lot of people in Mototrsports are total scammers, and deadbeats.
Surprised after the Tabasco Fiasco, you didn't jump ahead 2 years and talk about Tyler Jet Motorsports getting into MORE sponsor trouble, this time with Lycos
If I remember that deal correctly, Lycos jumped aboard the 10 before the Daytona 500 with promises to sponsor the car the entire season, then the Tyler Jet Motorsports took the decals off when they found out that Lycos had no intention of paying what they owed the team. Eventually forced Tim Beverley to sell the team despite them eventually being saved from total extinction by Aarons sponsoring the car.
@@PYLrulz1984 pretty much nailed it as my memory recalls
Lycos was my least favorite 90's search engine. Almost never gave you anything, and was slower than molasses.
WOW LMAO I THOUGHT BK RACING WAS ACTUALLY SPONSORED BY BURGER KING WOWWWW. I’m literally shocked
Me too
I just learned this myself. I remember the car behind given away in a kids meal. It's in my kids hot wheels collection.
@@mrwednesdaynight
I think the Burger King toy was Tony Stewarts' BK sponsored Stawart-Haas Chevrolet.
@Slideways77 Whoops. lol Different Haas's too
Ron had like 100 bk franchises around the dc area and north supposedly, so technically his franchises were sponsoring the car
Lost it at the "discount ZZTop guy" remark
Was the Waltrip record fine of 100k the record until he beat his own record and got fined 300k?
Sam Dilworth yea I’m pretty sure
300k?
McLaren: Hold my beer.
I think that was $100K times 3 cars = $300K
Rollins on the intro, Liars, and Rollins on the outro. You are king, Slap. King.
I was hoping someone who appreciate that 😂
@@S1apShoes I am the biggest Rollins mark from the Black Coffee Blues days and beyond. To hear my sweetie in a Slapshoes video...damn near apex level.
By FAR the most underrated NASCAR channel I've seen on UA-cam. Great videos, great information and you have a great knowledge of NASCAR. Love watching your videos and props to you for the content I love to watch every day. Keep it up, bro.
hey man, love how in depth you went in on this video. My home track is Bowman Gray and I have a cousin that races there. I have also been to Greenville-Pickens speedway as well, really cool track. Would love to see the bowman gray modifieds race at Greenville. Keep up the good work!
Two others you could've mentioned was Big Daddy's Barbecue Sauce sponsoring Junie Donleavy's team with Mike Harmon in 1999. They were supposed to be on the #90 car full time but Donleavy discovered something fishy when all their checks were bouncing, and their team ended up being part time with a variety of drivers and sponsorless for most of '99 until Hills Bros. came on board at the end of the season. Ironic enough Big Daddy came back for 2000 to sponsor the #41 Larry Hedrick Motorsports car driven by Rick Mast, but once again their checks were bouncing and unlike Donleavy's team, Hedrick had no other backup sponsorship plans and they were forced to shut down, leaving Mast to move over to the #14 Conseco AJ Foyt car. The other big one was Angela's Motorsports which showed up at Daytona in 2003 with cars being bought from Robert Yates, Harold Holly as the crew chief and Mike McLaughlin as the driver. It seemed to be an all star team in the making and they were the fastest in testing before all this shady stuff happened and the team dissolved before even running the 500. Even though McLaughlin was already in his 40's, this pretty much killed the rest of his career.
Well, turns out he did mention them (in Part 3 of this series).
I’m from Greer, SC. Greenville Pickens is my hometown track also. I’ve heard many a story about the Blackwell brothers.
+1 for the best use of Henry Rollins' "Liar" ever
EVER. Rarely has a Rollins Band song been used so effectively in a video.
Well. Ross Chastain has certainly bounced back.
13:55 how much does it cost to buy a whole nascar season... apparently 30 million dollars... mom can i borrow your credit card
You get an extra thumbs up for playing Liar by Henry Rollins!
"Cause I'm a liar! I'll rip your guts out! I'll kick your ass!" 🤣
At least there haven't been any other cronies in nascar...
*cough..Brian France..cough*
I think you misunderstand the word "cronies"~
@@Buttermilkjug I think you misunderstand how much he has screwed the sport. Bill France and Bill France Jr are rolling in their graves
Brian France is to NASCAR what Teresa Earnhardt is to DEI.
Yeah... well... you misunderstood that "cronies" means cough..good friends..cough~
@@Buttermilkjug thanks for the wonderful information.
I keep finding my way back to these videos, they're so good and have great rewatch ability. You've done something no other NASCAR UA-camr can do.
L.W. Wright was founded after 40 Years.
hm. so you’re saying I could start a race team if I start Ponzi scheme.
new weekend project.
lol 🤣🤣🤣
Another awesome video. Professionally done put together and great information. I recommend your channel to all my nascar buddies. Keep it up man. You WILL grow with this quality.
I don't even like nascar, but these videos are great.
I’m really glad I watched this. It’s so refreshing to see good quality NASCAR videos on UA-cam that aren’t just mindless tributes or top 10 lists that everyone has seen a million times. I’m happy I found your channel and I hope we cross paths at GPS one night.
I'm surprised you didn't include Bruton Smith in your list. I mean, he didn't do anything illegal (that I know of), but he bought the Rock and North Wilkesboro so he could close them to make room on the schedule for races at his cookie cutter tracks. As far as I see it, this was the first step in the downhill slide of NASCAR. Thanks for your videos.
Rockingham and North Wilkesboro were outdated tracks in declining markets. There was no saving them.
@@STP43FAN1 NASCAR All-Star Race says “HELLO!”
What it showed is no, North Wilkesboro is an outdated uncompetitive track in a weak corner of a crowded market. Don’t buy the hype, it was inferior in every aspect. It should race the CARS Tour, ASA, the Trucks, and ARCA. Not Cup. Not Xfinity
Dude, I'm a F1 and IndyCar fan who likes old Japanese shitboxes, but your videos single-handedly got me into NASCAR. Keep up the good stuff, man.
Are you talking about the Honda Engine (GP2 Engine) that is now better then before with Red Bull and Toro Rosso?
Is he the worst dad ever? Or the best dad ever. LMAO!
i mean obviously bad. spoiling your adult child at the expense of everyone else and then going to prison for ten years. but it was funny
I grew up at Greenville Pickens speedway. My uncle used to race Chargers. The Green 87.
LOL! I watched it all the way through! @17:17 "Anyway, I'm Slapshoes and I'm sorry you had to watch this." That shit cracks me up. Cool vid, sir!
Your videos are excellent! By far the most thorough and researched NASCAR vids on UA-cam. Keep up the good work! Looking forward to more
Can't decide what I liked more: asking "was he the best dad or the worst dad?" or calling your racing granddad a savage. LOL Another great vid. Always amazes me that you can totally entertain me even though I'm new to the sport. But you do! ;-)
Man I grew up there! Raced GPS in the 80's. You are spot on about the Blackwell family! The son moved off to LA and shoots a lot of adult type work. Distanced himself from the mess.
That Fence Contractor sounded Old Testament, ultimate badass
Thank you for this video! NASCAR's history with sketchy sponsors often gets overlooked, IMO, only becoming highlighted recently by the DC Solar fiasco.
Shout-out to Henry Rollins by the way. Fascinating video
I was just gonna type, props for the Rollins music :D
Hell ya
Henry Rollins is the man
Y'know who the actual brain child of Spingate was? Mr. Charter System himself, Rob Kauffman
I dont have much knowledge about NASCAR but damn, your videos are very well made and educating! Keep it up!
You make the best Nascar contented on YT. This should be a really interesting video!
Yoshi should pay for all these tax frauds
But from what I heard, that’s gonna happen in Yoshi Commits Tax 2 for the Switch, and if you wonder how I know this, my uncle who works at Nintendo told me.
The Rich Energy saga was unneeded publicity for Haas, but my god was it entertaining as hell to watch unfold in real time. I will never forget it. ZZtop Storey is completely off of his rocker.
Had no idea Danica was partially responsible for Stewart-Haas's success.
She was not as terrible as people claim she was
I mean she was a massively popular driver, so that just might have helped
In all honesty, she was a good racer, but wasn't ready to move up to the cup series when she did. That was her biggest problem. She had a lot of good runs, and most of her "incidents" were the result of getting caught up in someone else's mess. I honestly believe that if she had spent a couple more years in the lower series her career would have been better.
@@alabamaskar52522 Considering the equipment handed to her from the very start she should have been better though.
On the note of shady track promoters and owners, the story of the New London-Waterford Speedbowl in Connecticut over the past decade or so is probably something to look into.
Another great video that really got me close to this sport. Very well done!
I love your methodology of telling history of the NASCAR and Motorsport and how well you tell a story so organized. Love your videos for a good sport story
as someone who mainly watches F1 and only dabbles in nascar, i've gotta say that spingate seems pretty damn similar to renault crashgate from the 2008 singapore gp.
I had a job offering from BK Racing in 2017. Me and my Dad went down to their shop in North Carolina and I did 2 days of intern work there. They were very nice people there and Doug Richert, who was Dale Earnhardt's crew chief when he won the Winston Cup Championship in 1980, wanted me to work there. I had to learn the software they used for car setups and I did CAD work. It was a good experience, but it's kind of good that I didn't get the job there, because I knew they wouldn't last long.
I remember when Lola tried to run their own F1 car, intending to enter into the sport in 1998 (in order to get the most out of new regulations coming in that year. However, their title sponsor, MasterCard, wanted them to enter F1 in 1997. The result was, inevitably enough, the car that was produced, the T97/30, was hopelessly off the pace. The rules state that a car and team can only race if the driver(s) sets a time within 107% of pole position (Jacques Villeneuve set a pole position time of one minute 29.369, so the rest of the field had to be faster than one 35.625 in order to qualify). The team's debut was the 1997 Australian Grand Prix, and the hurried nature of the car's build was self evident. Vincenzo Sospiri, the faster of the two was 11.6 seconds off pole position and Ricardo Rosset (who had a year of F1 experience under his belt) was 12.7 seconds off the pace. Needless to say, they were not allowed to race and MasterCard were so livid with the team's hopeless performance that they pulled out of their deal on the eve of the second Grand Prix, refusing to pay up
This was really well done. I would love to see a part two to this.
I really can’t believe how small your channel is for the quality of the content you put out. Really wishing for the best for you man.
After watching this for like the 4th time I'm convinced that LW Wright is a time traveler. Dude shows up, runs one race, bails when he wrecks the car, and was never seen again. Dude was a time traveler looking for some thrills. Probably conned his way into getting access to a time machine.
Ok even I don't believe that.
He was seen again. There’s a podcast about him and his other cons.
I was half way expecting to hear JD Stacy's name at some point lol.
Love your videos! As a guy named after a racecar driver, of course I grew up loving the sport. My dad worked for Coors when I was born in GA, so we were both Bill Elliott fans. I became a Kenseth fan after he stepped in for him at Dover, and a Chase Elliott fan after Kenseth retired. Keep up the good work!
The breakdown of what happened with DC Solar is fantastic. Great video overall as well.
2:42 “No gloves because he’s a savage.” XDXDXDXDXDXDXD This part made my laugh a whole day
LW Wright for sure should go down/be remembered as the DB Cooper or the Houdini of NASCAR! How in the hell he pulled that off and got away with it I don't know? I know to the dismay of the people Wright screwed over, he should get an honorable mention and a tiny little shrine in the HOF. NBC should do a 10min special in their pre race show before the next Talladega race about LW Wright's exploits!
KK85 all in all Sterling Marlin got the best end of that stick. At least he paid him some amount of cash for the car (hopefully it wasn’t counterfeit)
@@lizzaangelis3308 LMAO, I know right! But then again counterfeit money, if duplicated really well, got you alot farther in the early 80's than it does today. Maybe Sterling Marlin unbeknownst, was spending counterfeit cash around Tennessee and neither him or anyone knew about it or suspected him when the bank the businesses dealt with went to deposit it and the banks called BS?
@@KK-ex5zu who knows all I know was that he wasn't totally screwed like everyone else
@@lizzaangelis3308 I wasn't disagreeing with you, I agree Sterling out of everyone else at least got most of his money back out of the deal.
@@KK-ex5zu I know =)
Love your videos!!!!!!!!!!!
My dad raced at GP back in the late 60's and early 70's when it was both dirt and asphalt, and I ran there in the Charger division in the early 90's with your granddad and uncle. I would love to sit down with you and look through the old photos and swap stories about GP and the Blackwell boys.
I like your vids man. As a fellow NASCAR fan, I enjoy your view on many aspects of the sport. My favorite drivers are Tony Stewart, Dale Earnhardt, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Daniel Suarez and Ward Burton. Your videos remind me of WrestleLamia due to the NASCAR info and I hope you keep up the good work
Sun Energy will be on this list in the next 5 years. Bet. they sponsor so much in motorsports but from what I've been told none of the teams have ever seen anything from the company that is worth nearly as much as they're spending. The checks are clearing but no one knows why.
I literally was just having this conversation yesterday! Lol
They were apparently sued over unbuilt projects just this year too. I know Kenny Habul owns the company and it seemed like he used it to buy his way into rides he really wasn't prepared for. Also did the same thing DC Solar did. Started small with the spending but then started spending more and more way too quickly for a company most people have never heard of. Also, Habul's last motorsports venture was the Bathurst 12 Hour this past January. Makes you wonder if he got spooked by the DC Solar debacle and thought keeping up the high profile racing involvement would get him found out quicker.
Sounds like Ameriquest as well. In one race in the Busch Series, they sponsored all four of the Roush cars in the race (back when Roush had a Busch operation and was respectable). By 2007, they were extinct.
@@AEMoreira81 they also had the naming rights to the old stadium of the Texas Rangers in the MLB, between 2004-2007
Love how you put Henry Rollins in the video, that was great
I’m American and I’m a new fan to Motorsport and mainly like F1-but your videos are so fascinating and well done it has made me become a NASCAR fan! Well done friend.
I have no clue about Nascar history and Nascar in general but this is hella interesting, you got a new sub 😁
I'm not sorry I had to watch this! Your videos are always entertaining and informative.
Another great video. I was hoping to hear about JD Stacy though.
What he do?
@@DupontandLowesWarrior what didn't he do. He was a cheapskate egomaniac who no one cared to work for. He had money but was more interest in promoting himself than anything else. Most famously known for buying the team Dale Sr won the 1980 championship for and driving it into the ground. Sponsored a couple of other teams too. Became a persona non grata.
@@zerodos_02 J.D is a Cheap Bastard doesn't care about anyone but himself
@@DupontandLowesWarrior Stacy bilked the Dutch Government out of somewhere around $10-12 million. He was supposed to be promoting and marketing a thin seam coal mining machine, but he used the money to operate his race teams. Then when the money ran out he tried to start Raceland, a dirt track racing organization to compete with the NDRA. He managed to talk several contractors in the Kingsport, TN area to convert the Kingsport Speedway from asphalt to dirt with payment when they were through. I was the Director of Marketing for Raceland , and I sold several race night sponsorships and other sponsor packages to Pepsi Cola, Coors, Hardees, Shoney's and many more. The revenue I brought in was the only money he had as it turned out. I was duped by Stacy and did not receive a large part of the commissions he owed me. One day after he was turned down for a loan by Bruton Smith, he disappeared.
@@randybroyles194 Jeezus, that guy sounds like a piece of work!
I went from a random Smash Bros. tournament video to NASCAR. It's just like my old hometown. Great video!
Absolutely LOVE that you used Henry Rollins "Lier" at the start of the episode. Absolutely brilliant.
Greenville Pickens is my home track also, live in Sans Souci. Keep up the good work.
Good lord, was this an interesting video!!! Man... do more please!!!!!
Dude I ran across One of your videos the other day and I commented how I couldn’t even stand NASCAR but your video was very entertaining even sell and then I learn we are from the same place. I live in Greenville SC as well. You do a good job mate
Fantastic video as always!
I've heard about the DC Solar and BK Racing debacles, but the other stories featured in this video is so intriguing!
Well done! Keep up the great work. Greetings from Indonesia.
Didn't expect a fellow Indonesian would love something like this, anyway as shady as the companies in this video, nothing would be more shady than what happen in our own country for many years...
@@affandi99 I know.
That's the harsh reality in our country.
@@bhumiriady indeed, now it's just getting deeper and deeper beyond our expectation...
@@affandi99 Agreed.