NASCAR Underrated Finishes

[@Dat-Mudkip]

That Charlotte race Blaney won is an underrated gem. October, Friday the 13th, 2006. Just a few highlights: - Jimmie Johnson made a rare Busch race appearance, only to junk his car 21 laps into the race - (Still better than Kasey Kahne's day...he was out after just three laps!) - At one point NASCAR threw the green flag, only to bring the yellow back out almost immediately because there were still safety trucks on the backstraight. - A caution during green flag pit stops saw nearly the entire field trapped a lap down - Casey Mears at one point managed to somehow pit under a late caution while still retaining the lead, despite drivers like Carl Edwards not stopping. - (Keep in mind Edwards had dominated the race by this point) - Caution was extended by several laps while everyone argued - NASCAR had to actually red flag the race to figure out how Mears had managed to accomplish pitting without losing the lead - Turns out in all the confusion, Mears just ignored the fact that the light at pit exit was red - Race returned to yellow, with Mears sent to the back and Edwards given the lead - Kenseth, meanwhile, was put in a pickle. He had recieved the Lucky Dog. Trouble was that the scoring error took so long to figure out that the race would restart with less than 10 to go... so a single file restart that Kenseth had to sit at the tail of. - Jason Leffler crashed with just five laps left, putting Mears and Kenseth back into contention - Edwards and Mears raced so hard on the restart that they both crashed with just two laps left. - Edwards would DNF in 27th place, despite leading 123 laps - Race restarted and finished with just five drivers on the lead lap - Those five cars (in order) were Dave Blaney, Michael Waltrip (who raced in q backup car), Stacey Compton, Kenseth, and Danny O'Quinn Jr. - Danny O'Quinn Jr. would score his only top five finish in the Busch series - This would be Dave Blaney's only win in _any_ of NASCAR's top three divisions And that's not even everything!

[@noahcoleman5556]

RIP 2-mile Auto Club. 😢

[@Eggman6344]

Aren't they turning auto club into a short track

[@JeremyOhrt]

The only clean Mosport finish for the truck series

[@DaytonaPrototypes]

Wow, early 2010 Nationwide Series had a few good ones. Never saw that 2005 Kansas finish with Biffle and Kahne, poor Biffle came up short in all 3 of those highlights.

[@LessGo7921]

Unreal how not even a year after Biffle nearly won 2 races for that 27 Baker Curb team, they shut down. Sad the Biff couldn’t get one last win for them 😢

[@CheetahLynx]

I'd never seen that trucks Homestead finish, and I'd never heard of Dave Rezendes before. Awesome find.

[@ultimatehunter36]

I haven't seen a nascar video with underrated finishes before. Love it!

[@SuperNASCARrocks]

That Busch finish at Charlotte is very underrated

[@Reenactmentguy]

One of the pretty underrated is the kasey kahne and Elliot Sadler finish

[@coreyoberlin5921]

If you do part 2, please include 2016 trucks at Michigan. It was my first time at a nascar race

[@iBolt07]

2006 Toyota Tundra 200!!! Marcos Ambrose damn near won that race too, and if he had you'd hear ALL about it.

[@Jose-Gomez]

It's Time For Chicagoland Speedway To Be Brought Back.

[@deafeningoctopus]

I don't think drivers should be allowed to deliberately finish on the apron. If they're going to ignore the limits of the track like that then there might as well not be a white line there at all.

[@liltwizz_07]

Bud....the white line is there to show where the apron starts.

[@deafeningoctopus]

@@liltwizz_07 Yeah. And where the track ends.

[@liltwizz_07]

@@deafeningoctopus Apron is part of the track.