The Worst Championship Race

[@TaylorSukzAtHistory]

BetterHelp has been exposed for being a scummy corporation, otherwise good video😂

[@rosemarygonzalez6010]

Still not as scummy as this race

[@LessGo7921]

@@rosemarygonzalez6010Nah Betterhelp is definitely worse than Hocevar

[@jordanb.6822]

Wow, they're really that bad of a company?

[@wearethebashers]

man is tryna make a living. I support him taking their money.

[@3magikarpinamansuit281]

Betterhelp was caught connecting people to unregistered therapists and TONS of other super shady shit like forcing them to take notes on you to sell off as info, just watch a video on them.

[@Hunter_Dawso]

You might wanna drop that Betterhelp sponsorship.

[@AuroraBeyond888]

waaaaaaa

[@LennyisFast]

Why

[@EmoDKTsuchiya]

​@@LennyisFast False advertising

[@LennyisFast]

@@EmoDKTsuchiya pretty broad statement there.. how so?

[@razburry8001]

@@AuroraBeyond888 it literally is a scam dumbass.

[@vCuda]

My fucking god, no one remembers the betterhelp scandal lmao. They're STILL an incredibly untrustworthy company, them spending millions on influencers doesn't change that. Money really does talk, it apparently erases collective memories too

[@RazorSharp75426]

What the cocksuck is even the betterhelp scandal? Lolol

[@AS19Motorsport]

Just saw an EllyProductions49 subscriber fall to their knees in a walmart

[@mondaybear21]

was it the betterhelp sponsorship /joking

[@TotallyrealCarsonHocevar]

I’m sorry about the that I was not at my best😢

[@rosemarygonzalez6010]

2:50 sponsor skip

[@FoolishBanana]

Not all heroes wear capes.

[@DarthPlagueisTheWise620]

Don’t do BetterHelp man!

[@drewracer777]

Noooooooooo, I had a feeling he was gonna take it!

[@yahmfyeet184]

why not?

[@DarthPlagueisTheWise620]

@@yahmfyeet184 It’s a really bad organization that puts unreasonable standards on their therapists

[@kyperactive]

​@@yahmfyeet184They're effectively a scam is the short and sweet of it.

[@ShadowWolfe]

​​@@kyperactiveNah "scam" doesn't hit the same as "they sold private information of their customers to advertisers and didn't have qualified therapists"

[@Lleonne96]

Talk about the worst championship race, talk about the worst sponsors to take in one video. How fitting.

[@piedmontrf81]

Elly, please don’t keep endorsing better help.

[@CannedBreadCS2]

Feels like I'm living under a rock the amount of BetterHelp sponsorships/ads I've seen recently. This is not a company we should forgive, and this is a horrible look on your part Elly.

[@pokeboi5438]

Wow, has dude been living under a rock with better help lmao

[@demonpanther290]

He's just greedy, anyone worth while vets their sponsors

[@ProxiProtogen]

Or not every is tuned into internet drama. ​@@demonpanther290

[@wearethebashers]

​@@demonpanther290man is tryna make a living. I support him taking their money.

[@EL1TESHARK]

@@wearethebashers if you’re willing to damage your reputation in order to make a few bucks, you have some serious priority issues AND you deserve every criticism. he even has the copy-paste reddit defense in the description of the video. there are endless companies doing 3rd party sponsorships on YT, him aligning with one of the scummiest ones is disappointing

[@Kurosaka]

@@EL1TESHARK what bro said

[@austinfletchermusic]

Betterhelp is bad bro. Not unsubscribing or anything but ... I just recommend doing some research

[@LennyisFast]

How so?

[@Ryzard]

​@@LennyisFast tldr, several things, but essentially... They are pitched as therapists but don't have actual licensed therapists, and often switch people, have absurdly bad service as a whole, overwork their employees, and sell the data of their vulnerable companies to advertisers and companies - told in private to an assumed medical service.

[@LennyisFast]

@@Ryzard takes seconds of research to see they are licensed therapists. I agree with the data stuff to an extent but those terms are made clear. If you have to lie to prove your point then maybe you should reassess and let the man do a damn advertisement for a company that some people actually find benefit in

[@KellanLollis]

elly got betterhelped it's over 😔

[@KingBenanaMan]

Don’t do better help pls

[@H0LLOW_PRIV]

Bad sponsor preceeded by a bad joke in a video about bad championships, damn this is genius

[@xander_jeffrey]

Wanna hear something crazy? In the past 6 years of the NASCAR Truck Series, there has only been one year where the driver won the championship (both under the playoff format and without it), Zane Smith in 2022. The other times somebody else snatched cup from somebody more deserving. Thx NASCAR…

[@GatoradeCupSeriesX94]

Don’t get me started on the 2019 disaster. Mediocrity is celebrated and that’s all that matters

[@corduroycal]

You can’t deny Sheldon creed the absolute GOAT

[@jcgc3741]

Yo it’s Mario Xandretti

[@mcb187]

Pleeeeease noooo betterhelp they’re a scam who sold private data and don’t have any actually qualified therapists

[@yorha2k]

something that has pleasently surprised me is that a country as hyper masculine as america, with a sport as dude bro'ish as racing produces some of the chillest content creators, great vid g

[@turbo_marc]

“Hyper-masculine” “Dude bro-ish” Seriously?

[@emdotrod]

Elly just dropped a video about this race just after he brought in 1992 Hooters 500. What a man

[@BDSFormula1]

1:55 this is a scam elly

[@jcgc3741]

I’ll answer for him. Yes

[@LennyisFast]

Not really . It’s a therap servcie (not psychiatry) , I know several people who use and stand by the service

[@Ryzard]

​@@LennyisFastdude, are you a plant? Why in the world would you be "mr president get down"-ing for betterhelp? I don't care if a couple people you know have had a good experience via placebo, there are HUGE ethical issues in the treatment of their patients and... "Professionals". You'd get a better result for the money almost anywhere else

[@LennyisFast]

@@Ryzard says the person rampaging on Elle’s comment section because you don’t like a company that he did an ad for

[@masoneveridge4078]

@LennyisFast this is not anything compared to other shit I've seen when it comes to shit sponsors like BetterHelp is

[@DennyDeliversYT]

we all know ben rhodes gets drunk af every time he wins a title… but we really should’ve checked the sobriety of all truck drivers after that race 💀

[@cheezysteve27]

you're literally the only one talking about the video and not the sponsor

[@kyperactive]

​@@cheezysteve27Because the sponsor is horrid 😂 Also thats objectively not true, there are a few there, but to be fair, im sure this is hyperbole.

[@KineticRhyme]

I know its for the money but please let this be the last time you ever do a betterhelp sponsored video

[@syaieya]

I almost feel bad for Ben being the poster child of this failing of a championship finale. His route to the championship should be the kind of resemption story Nascar craves. A singular win on strategy to get him into the playoffs. On the outside looking in going into every cutoff race. Finding a way to claw just enough points to go to the next round. Instead its still just the story of despite everything, he managed to not throw it away when the two that should have had it did.

[@Carsboy95]

NASCAR needs some better help with making a new playoff system 😭

[@DuddleBug5]

1:55 people when they roast you for having a better help sponsor cause there’s a bad side to them that hurts people for ever and other bad stuff: Basically there have been lots on controversy with better help

[@piedmontrf81]

the wording of this comment hurts to read but you got the spirit

[@DuddleBug5]

@@piedmontrf81I at least somewhat fixed comment

[@EL1TESHARK]

thank you for the aneurysm

[@Eliteprecision29]

Grant Enfinger is one of those drivers you can easily place in a truck field from 15-20 years ago. He's old school. He races hard but doesn't step over the line. He could've been classless like everyone else that night and dumped ben rhoades for the championship but he showed how much class he has.

[@chromediesel444]

Phelp's statement was said before the truck finale race that day

[@ahmadzahraniAAZ]

Speaking of Brian France, no, it hasn't changed, because he was never in charge, he was the figurehead, he had as much charge as a wwe general manager. Jim France was always in charge.

[@patrickroden4481]

Nearly a full year later, I still don't know how to accurately describe that race other than it being the death of the truck series I had fallen in love with in 2017-18

[@SortaNonymous]

Okay, first off, drop the BetterHelp sponsership immediately. I'd even be fine with this video being taken down and re-uploaded without it. Anyway, both because of how recent this was and how much the playoffs suck, I have a sinking feeling that at least one of this year's finales could be another embarrassment. (Hell, even if they're no wreckfests, there's still the real chance of yet another frustrating Logano blowout like 2022, only this time in a year where he only qualifies for the playoffs due to a five-overtime win.)

[@Corvin152]

I was at that race in Nuremberg. Must be said I was happy for Maxi Götz since I'll support Merc 'til the day I die but yeah. Absolute madness. Also greetings from (probably) yur only german sub lol

[@ShadowWolfe]

Elly much like other people have said, don't have BetterHelp as a sponsor. The link you attached to that Reddit post doesn't mean BetterHelp is all sunshine and rainbows now. They got caught by the FTC for a reason.

[@Dakota24Fan]

I was watching this race with my then 8 year old son last year, and even he realized how bonkers it was saying, "This race is the "Hot Mess Express", huh Dad?" Yes... yes Son it is...

[@IsaacV24]

I still can’t remember if that was the Craftsman 150 or the Vickernism 150.

[@charlespetersonjr1994]

I called it the CRAPSman 150

[@Jameswormsley03]

@@charlespetersonjr1994😂😂😂

[@JimmieHawk84]

I call it the crashman 150

[@KTNUSA]

The 2023 Truck Series championship race was an embarrassment to all of Nascar. So embarrassing, it makes Brian France all giddy with joy with this championship format he created.

[@EdsBrain]

Imagine if the Cup series had a finale like this where the 4 have crashed out and because nascar has a damage policy they cant be sent out and are now retired, the champion is the one who outlasted the others. The entire fanbase will riot at such an outcome.

[@chasebriscoefan14]

I remember staying up until the very end and contemplating my life desicions during every caution

[@Thefrogbread]

Better help is bad

[@lunaxion8641]

Don’t do Betterhelp, or else you get a bunch of comments saying to not accept the Betterhelp sponsorship.

[@sdx3918]

Funny how this video opened with the 2021 DTM finale when the 2024 finale happened last week which involved Kelvin van der Linde choking away the championship on the last race. Again...

[@andresmolina2796]

a part of me just wants to have the most brutally undeserving champion in every series to see if NASCAR actually drops the playoff format out of controversy

[@masoneveridge4078]

They'll have to do something if someone wins the first 35 cup races then blows the engine in the final race

[@nascarfan05]

I feel like something that’s worth mentioning about Eckes is that he kind of got screwed out of a final 4 spot a couple months before the championship race.At the round of 8 opener at Bristol he dominated the race and had the win locked up before Tanner Gray who was multiple laps down decided to block him which let Corey Heim, who was one of Gray’s teammates win which contributed to 19 missing the final 4.

[@PoweroftheP00f]

Amazing choice to have the circus music 🤣

[@Levi-tv5pd]

Oh just something I feel like adding up: Kevin Van der Linde divebombed and crashed into Lawson in BOTH races at the Norisring in lap 1 turn 1.The first one didn’t cause that much chaos, the second time destroyed Lawson’s car. Also good to remind you that Lawson was 19 and a rookie in DTM

[@joshuapboston1999]

The Truck Series of today is nothing more than the bottom of the barrel for incompetence. When Kyle Busch ultimately retires from Cup racing, he needs to drop back down to Trucks for a couple of seasons to shape the young guys out.

[@Zoniax-zc7xh]

He’s said it was his plan to run a season in truck to see if he can win it all

[@stevenvaughn8431]

Betterhelp = downvote

[@rosemarygonzalez6010]

Bad race = downvote

[@mlwilliam213]

A year later and I’m still positive that Heim did the right thing by putting Hocevar into the wall. You can’t take any chance of him winning the race. You don’t want to live your life knowing that that happened. I feel sorry for Enfinger who deserves to be a champion, but no way could Heim allow that to happen.

[@Vocio_]

Betterhelp 😭😭don’t promote them

[@kyperactive]

Drop the BetterHelp sponsor yo, quite literally a scam. In related discussion, never go full sore loser 😂

[@mateorios1636]

At least Lockheed Martin would be a better sponsor than betterhelp

[@mrgeebers]

The 2023 Championship Truck Race can easily be compared to the Thunder Hallow scene from Cars 3

[@TylerReddick45]

I actually teared up a bit when you mentioned MTJ being eliminated... fav driver going out on a high note is prob not gonna happen :(

[@lucianofilho1935]

This DTM final became more controversial due to the fact that all the drivers who were racing with Mercedes started to make way for Götz (who was using Mercedes), contributing to an even bigger circus

[@EGS1944]

Hard to believe that Kevin Harvick was robbed of a championship not once, but twice (2018 and 2020) 1:23

[@seannolan9857]

You could reasonably argue that Harvick scored the most total points in six different seasons, yet only won the title in a year where he didn't.

[@heiselproductions_01]

Does Betterhelp really pay that well that it’s worth throwing away your credibility?

[@heiselproductions_01]

And Connor if you read this, I still enjoyed the video, you just REALLY need to read the fine print before signing

[@BunchOfOats]

Please look into your sponsorships. I love your channel man but BetterHelp has done a lot of bad stuff. I'm not sure why they're still in business.

[@TheEvilDrCube]

Surprise Scott Pilgrim vs The World Video Game soundtrack slaps.

[@LoomerCuber]

Yeah that Better sponsorship will taint the reputation of your channel highly recommend that you drop them as soon as possible.

[@oliverhardin1413]

Heim is a buddy from high school and so I’ve been watching everything I can he’s in since his late models, and let me tell you how much i still hold a grudge against Hocevar for that bs. Corey lit it up all season and it’s just insane when it’s someone you know that gets the nascar playoff bs

[@ThatKaseyDoggo]

I know it's paycheck, but educate yourself on BetterHelp. Not cool man.

[@chromediesel444]

Should of mentioned more about the 3 truck crash that no one got punished for it. Parson dumping Currey was intentional and he kinda admitted after that race. Daniel Dye was collected in this mess as well and he wasn't medically cleared to attempt the Xfinity race the next day. He had to sat that out and have Leland Honeyman fill his spot. Failed to qualify and missed the race. If Im his sponsor or team owner, I would be mad. No one got punished for creating this mess and NASCAR doesn't care. As for the championship, Nascar didn't park Heim for intentionally crashing Hoecevar. What's worse is they penalized Heim just 5 days later. All that should've been settled at the track. Dam of Legitimacy is destroyed with the playoffs and now with officiating being trash to this day just adds the whole new element to it.

[@blastonightfb77ryan86]

Now we gotta get “The worst playoff race”

[@ssigeon]

enfinger was robbed so hard. strong all year, ran a fantastic phoenix race, and was cruising to the title before heim junked hocevar, and then was likely going to cruise to the title before rhodes gave him the tire rub, and still nearly got there

[@FoolishBanana]

Ew BetterHelp. I know this is your job, but you seriously took a sponsorship deal from them? That's pretty gross to be honest.

[@RileyHerbst98]

The fact that Ankrum slamming into the wall sparking into turns 3 & 4 wasn't mentioned in the video shows how much shit happened this race. Even as a Rhodes fan this race was making me cry and we won the championship.

[@daneamann6225]

CPK Diecast also made a good video on this race and some of the things he highlighted in that video make this entire race look even worse.

[@ItsJustTrevor]

12:58 When you are traveling a greater distance than the cars in a NASCAR race, you know something is very wrong with said race

[@mag1cman777]

Good vid, just do research into your sponsors please

[@BlackCat88899]

I hope you got paid a good amount up front for that sponsorship, cuz otherwise YIKES

[@TheSlothNerd64]

TBF, the Nashville cup race this year might ease the pain of that championship race. Time to beat the dead horse of the question "should overtime still exist?"

[@NitePeirce]

Perfect video to start the weekend

[@Romit12]

BetterHelp? More like NeverHelp!

[@PCC_TRAINS]

Why… better help gives worse help.

[@joshuafrimpong244]

You may want to step away from the sponsor

[@Ryzard]

With the overtimes, I wonder if any mid/backmarkers just look at the sky and think... "I'm gonna do the funniest thing ever" *And then send it directly into the car in front of them on the restart*

[@matthewakers2659]

When I watched the restart where Rhodes wrecked the 38, I remember just sitting there staring and not saying anything because I was already completely mentally drained by that point. The race itself plus the incompetence of the broadcast crew made this one of the worst races of all time.

[@MarcosLuisTheSecond]

AKA the race that killed the Truck Series (for me). Because now this year, there’s no more competition and it’s just Cory Heim and Christian Eckes dominating almost every race with no excitement (minus the super speedways) and less different winners. And this race is the reason why the 2024 Truck Series season is like this for me.

[@greekieshion4501]

Did you include that clip of people throwing tomatoes at you because of how predictable the reaction would be to you taking that Betterhelp sponsor?

[@Preso_]

Better Help are a scam brother, oh well get that bag.

[@DATDylan25]

TBF, every championship race under this playoff format is the worst championship race. This one just stands out as the worst of the worst.

[@abuzzgrain124]

Elly post? Immediate watch.

[@driftygamer296]

Are people actually unsubscribing over a sponsor segment?

[@CuriousRat3]

DONT DO BETTERHELP DUDE THEYRE A SCAM

[@HattieJosh]

Ew BetterHelp sponsorship

[@rosemarygonzalez6010]

Ew carson hocevar

[@HattieJosh]

@@rosemarygonzalez6010 Carson Hocevar is sponsored by AmBetter Health you bozo

[@HattieJosh]

@@rosemarygonzalez6010 and yet he's locked up Rookie of the Year honors. Lol

[@ThomasGoldfinch-r1u]

I remember watching this race on a Saturday in New Zealand and I was watching this guy reacting to this race and the places as they run. I was just going home from watching the Five nights at Freddy’s movie. And when that crazy overtime finish’s, I had already started a race on NASCAR Rivals and I had started stage 3 by the time. Every time I heard that there was a wreck, I was like “Really?”. If someone is able to get back from a movie, drive home for half an hour, and start a race on a video game during a real life race that’s going, then you know something is up! I just hope this year’s finale goes better!

[@derpyxn1nja]

The Jak 2 Crimzon Guard theme at the beginning - holy nostalgia.

[@CousinCarl99]

i couldn't sleep the night after this race, still makes me mad to this day enfinger didn't win it. it's great to see he's in the C4 this year, hope he can pull it off.

[@seville-798]

That was my first in person race. I was in a box. I went down during the last 20 laps to camp victory lane. I knew I was there too long.

[@ImnotCadenyt]

The worst part about it is that people will hate on Heim because he retaliated against Hocevar because he doesn’t drive a chevy. While hocevar dumping and costing Heim a championship will be completely ignored because he drives a chevy.

[@jorhop4005]

DTM featuring in a Ellyproduction49 video is a welcome surprise.

[@Bryzfr]

Enfinger be like:POOKIE BEAR HAS A CHANCE TO WIN THE GAME- Rhodes: *NAAAAHHHHH*

[@88crazydriver]

I honestly thought i was gonna go to sleep before the race ended

[@topnorth-oj5lg]

0:48 it was even worse because berfore that he tried to ram götz and blew his own tire which caused that spin

[@JoeAero1998]

Your opinions on the playoffs are as outdated as betterhelp's integrity. this channel is falling in quality ever so slowly

[@hermanreeves7856]

I was a Hocevar fan for 2 years before this race. I watched him win in person in Nashville just a few months before this. I couldn’t root for him again after this race. It just left a sour taste in my mouth.

[@UndyingSilentm]

I had this blocked out of my mind, forgot how awful that race was lol

[@Jake-rv1ow]

This race right here belongs on the number one spot to the Worlds Dumbest NASCAR Moments.

[@Noobscadoob]

Keep getting betterhelp sponsors. Seeing it personally doesn’t affect me for i dont have to use them just because a nascar video i watched talked about it!

[@razburry8001]

Better Help is a scam Elly

[@SteinOutWide]

Friesen is always minding his own business racing clean and gets caught up in really dumb stuff. He was running so high to avoid the BS that was going to happen between the 11 & 42 and still was somehow collected

[@jaxonjaxoff3291]

Hot take. What Hocevar did was accidental. What Heim did was what really pissed me off.

[@Zoniax-zc7xh]

Yeah, hocevar seemed like a desperate attempt to stay in it. Heim was a temper tantrum.

[@enricoleite9556]

Ok, there´s some details about the DTM finale that you didn´t mention, I´ll use some parts from motorsport week because I´m not the best with english writing. Van der Linde escaped unharmed and into third place after destroying Lawsons race, but spectators were left baffled as he was only served a meager five second penalty for leaving the track. No further punishment was handed down, meaning that the collision with Lawson went completely unpunished. Van der Linde, logically sensing an opportunity now that Lawson had been reduced to a moving roadblock, stayed aggressive throughout but fate ultimately caught up with him when a sideways swipe at Götz (the other title contender) left him spinning out with a puncture. With Van der Linde out of the way and Götz seemingly not able to get to the leading pair of Lucas Auer and Philip Ellis, Lawson would still win the title! But then... Team orders! Worst than that, manufacture orders because they were not even from the same team! Götz had Daniel Juncadella behind acting as a rear gunner, but the two drivers ahead, Auer and Ellis, were also Mercedes drivers, much like Götz. And so Ellis and Auer slowed down significantly in the closing stages, allowing Götz through. Götz won the race and the title. It was SO bad!!!

[@pob6655]

Elly, I love your vids, but betterhelp is one of the scummiest and shitiest companies out there. Please do better when it comes to vetting your sponsors.