The Worst NASCAR Drivers of All Time

[@alexbrock7815]

Let's be honest, with a name like Will Power (only briefly mentioned here), he was either going to be a racer or a self-help guru.

[@sammymogn4229]

I got a guy in my school called will power who has done some questionable things...

[@NayuzAqua]

​@sammymogn4229 never gonna name my child Will Power... Kid gonna turn into a menace 😂

[@haiwin224]

Honestly Jeremy Mayfield got railroaded. He tested positive for amphetamines. He was prescribed Adderall for ADHD and Adderall is an amphetamine. He literally was kicked out for taking his prescription medication.

[@entransify]

also they had promised him ahead of time that his prescription was fine and that it wouldn't get him dinged. someone had it in for him.

[@Joe_Dirt82]

Evernham did as he was sleeping with the new girl on the team n his wife kinda found out thru Jeremy

[@PenguinGaming1]

Yes please @DailyFuelUp I would like a whole video about the NASCAR driver who was on substances 😊

[@Joe_Dirt82]

Dale jr talked to him on his Dirty Mo podcasts. Jeremy found out team owner was sleeping with the new girl driver. Long story but team owner set him up to fail. Got his personal shop raided.

[@MiclynYT]

i actualy whould

[@CBF65]

Mayfield was far from a bad driver, underrated if anything.

[@Marko137-em8nx]

DNFs shows

[@razburry8001]

@@Marko137-em8nx Educate yourself bro

[@ic3man]

@@Marko137-em8nxdaily fuel up is learning about NASCAR, he doesn’t know as much as it seems. For now, he should stick to F1 and even then, he’s got some odd takes. Especially that Badoer video where people said it wasn’t justified

[@MichaelWilliams-vb6wr]

And that meth charge was a screw job by nascar saw his side of story on Dale Jr podcast

[@CapAnson12345]

Statistically the worst NASCAR driver of all time is in fact Danica Patrick. 191 races. Never finished in the top five, only seven times in the top ten. In 53,561 total career laps she led 64 of them. Somehow. But another driver just for sheer length of ineptitude in his career beats her out for my worst driver pick of all time: Michael Waltrip. 33 years, 784 races. Four victories. Also led less than 1% of his laps. Never finished higher than 12th in the standings. But two of those four victories happened to be at Daytona, including the Earnhardt death race. Plus his brother was pretty good. So people hear his name and think he's better than he was. Waltrip made a career out of plugging along in 20-25th place. Just most people that do that don't last for a third of a century.

[@beeble2003]

I'm confused about how a sport can have so little rising talent that somebody gets to hang around for 33 years.

[@slopoke22]

Its a money thang

[@CarsandCats]

Biggest bitch to ever hold a steering wheel. Racing is much better without her presence.

[@jackwilliams4691]

I hope he continues to post more videos about racing outside of F1. I love learning about other forms of auto racing like this.

[@MetrixGD]

yeah. i love f1 but other motor sports forms are kinda underrated

[@EthanHappytalks]

But he’s bald 💀

[@UltimateFormula1Fan]

MY EYES!!!!!!

[@AidankurtLovell]

🤨

[@Thaisistercunny]

And he has a no lose contract

[@SwineBrothers]

Yes, Dick Trickle was one of the best stock car drivers in history in my opinion. For someone who didn't race Cup full-time until he was 47, he was pretty impressive. And he won literally hundreds of other stock car races.

[@jakeglover8699]

Jermey was not a drug addict. NASCAR pushed him out. He’s a great guy

[@Marko137-em8nx]

The video shows he was. Nascar didn't push him away, he push him self away.

[@berke2336]

FREE MY MANS

[@lunareclipse6999]

@@Marko137-em8nx They literally said, with the alleged amount in his system he would've been dead.

[@david-468]

@@Marko137-em8nxyou’re a drug addict murderer by your logic then, you’re just an ignorant sheep

[@ic3man]

@@Marko137-em8nxhave you even heard the story? The lawsuit mayfield filed proved that he wasn’t a drug addict and prescribed medicine he took made it look as though he had drug issues and that if he did as much as nascar claimed then he would’ve died. Do your research

[@fhm2]

I love the Nascar videos you have done, thank you! All I wish to say is that "Penske" rhymes with "key"

[@paballomolata8844]

Scott's comeback story is truly inspiring

[@MatthewLittle]

With regards to Jeremy Mayfield, there was one other controversy involving him during his NASCAR career. In early August 2006, he was racing for Ray Evernham when he learned he had let go prior to the Watkins Glen round that year for veteran driver Bill Elliott. The stated public reason was that the #19 was below top-35 and they needed to get the car back above 35th (at the time only the top-35 in owner's pts were qualified in each Cup series race). Unofficially it turns out Mayfield had made some very pointed comments about Evernham not being at the track often; it turned out that Mayfield was right - Evernham wasn't at the track often because he was sleeping with another driver, Erin Crocker (she was racing the team's #98 entry in the Truck Series that year), whom Evernham later married in 2009. Ironically, Evernham is still pretty much respected in the NASCAR garage (he was Jeff Gordon's crew chief back during Gordon's golden era of racing before becoming a team owner) while Mayfield.....

[@MichaelWilliams-vb6wr]

Thank you for putting this out there i liked Mayfield he was a damn good driver anybody that raced with him said that

[@revelare_xvii6269]

Dick Trickle is a DIABOLICAL name for a race car driver.😂

[@goblin11c95]

mayfield never did meth. if you did more then surface level research you would know that.

[@KalmoK]

1:14 Wow, a Finnish broadcast, what a twist! Greetings from Finland btw 😂

[@EvolutionArtCorp]

Keep up the US racing content mate. Great work! It's very educational and fun! (for me at least) (greetings and love from Hungary!)

[@oyohoyoh373]

Yeah, it's interesting.

[@MetrixGD]

what's your opinion on the Hungarian GP? just asking

[@szabolcskiss5383]

Halihó! 😅

[@queenautumnween2796]

I dont see how a guy like Jeremy Mayfield, who has 5 career wins, 48 top 5s and 96 top 10s and 3 top 10 points finishes can be considered one of the worst drivers? Is he only on here so you could put "meth addict" on the thumbnail?

[@jackybeck2479]

Funny of you to mention Ricky Bobby at the start! Oh and 9:05, other than Carl Long, Ricky Bobby also delivered pizzas in Talladega Nights as well.

[@poorlydunbarvideos1472]

Hailee Deegan is conspicuously absent from this list

[@S_raB]

Pen-SKEE Know your British, but Pen-skay is unforgivable

[@SwineBrothers]

To be fair, Carl Long's now something of a mentor figure in the Xfinity series. And never had good equipment. But I don't understand staying in Cup and Xfinity so long with backmarker parts. Truth be told, I'd rather run street stocks and win than Cup and finish 40th.

[@entransify]

he was just happy to be there and didn't care about money.

[@kdawson020279]

I've gotten old enough to realize that once you hit middle age, we're all NASCAR legend Dick Trickel at 1 in the morning. 😂

[@edenkim4103]

@DailyFuelUp we need Logan Sargeant, Tatiana Calderon, Alessio Deledda because they are the worst drivers and also Olivier Panis’ 1998 season

[@dragonpokemonlover237]

Yes so happy to see more NASCAR content loving it

[@bardthenascarfanaticdragon]

Scott Speed did decently at Talladega in Spring 2009, despite starting 1 lap down due to being penalized for making changes to his car during the impound weekend, which was before the green flag waved. The winner at the race was a young driver named "Brad Keselowski". Keselowski was "the little driver that could" back then. But now, he's a feisty hotshot who is Roush's ace.

[@richeisgruber2614]

Mayfield was hosed by NASCAR and it was proven they did it after he called out Ray Evernham

[@joshuastedford1670]

Really enjoyed the video - more than happy to see other series' covered beyond F1

[@ShaunHopkinsAVFC]

Dick Trickle the pinnacle of NASCAR? Literally no one has ever said that before you 😂😂😂

[@ДьяконФрост-ч7т]

21:40 I can’t fight her, I can’t fight her, I can’t fight her…

[@SwineBrothers]

If Speed had run a full Truck season in 09, and then the then Nationwide series, he might have amounted to something. But quite frankly, Red Bull didn't know what they were doing in NASCAR.

[@thetruckercat5938]

More NASCAR and Indycar videos plz

[@nascarsteve]

Guess I'll do a part-2. Stremme was rushed to Cup, ran for a subpar Ganassi Team and Penske before they were a power. He runs dirt modifieds now and has done really well, also builds Lethal Chassis for the Dirt Car modifieds. Carl Long was a long-time underdog driver who actually got DQ'd from the 2000 Coke 600 for having an engine that was too big. Dale Jr said carl would run circles around him in late models at the local level. He COULD drive, just was severely underfunded. And I think I got everyone you mentioned. And it's PensKEY, not PenSKAY.

[@DukeTheRebel]

Just a heads up, Dick trickle was doing pace speed

[@nascarsteve]

he would light up under every caution

[@moodykrazykid]

i think Juan Pablo Montoya should have been on this list just for the fact he was the only driver to slam into a jet drier while under yellow.

[@ThePapaja1996]

Wow that surprising that he was so bad.

[@ALCTheBlade]

That was due to a mechanical failure, not driver error. A rear trailing arm broke in the car as he was rejoining the field from his pit stop.

[@nickman2345]

For the millionth time this has to be said, his car broke at the worst possible time. It wasn't JPM's fault.

[@JackLikesTrackhouse]

Wasn’t his fault. Suffered a suspension failure. And Montoya’s probably one of the best racing drivers ever and wasn’t even that bad in NASCAR.

[@MetrixGD]

i swear there's gonna be a war between nascar and f1 fans

[@jamalragin8860]

Already is I’m just neutral Ilove both

[@Novusa]

Already began m8

[@Novusa]

Lemme tell ya it’s hard being a nascar fan in Europe

[@Inky.64]

As a fan of both I can't wait lmao

[@larryplummer9154]

I think Danica could've been good in Nascar but was moved up too quickly same goes for Hailee Deegan. They were used for cash grabs and ratings

[@McQueen95727]

No Lightning McQueen for NASCAR GOAT?

[@Mogzilla86]

Wonder what would have happened to Danica if she stayed in indy car, she was clearly much better at it. Fair play her dream was to race stock cars and she did it

[@nascarsteve]

Scott Speed is actually a world-class talent who brought Red Bull sponsorship to ARCA (NASCAR) and learning to drive a stock car just out of F-1 is night-and-day difference. He excelled at off-road racing (I saw him race Global Rally and he did amazing) and I've met him a couple times, super cool guy. Dick Trickle was a short-track legend who didn't race full-time NASCAR until he was in his late 40s and he didn't have good equipment, but he nearly won Bristol in the late 90s. He has THOUSANDS of short-track wins. Jeremy Mayfield was a good driver, underrated, he got railroaded by Brian France who is a snake. Danica...she was a cash cow and was terrible. She had championship equipment who was a wreck magnet.

[@CarsandCats]

Dick Trickle sounds like something you'd come back with after a visit to Thailand.

[@nicolesgaming8917]

Bowman-Gray...a Beyblade track.... That's a new one, and entirely accurate. Also, Carl Long's Long-evity... love a nice pun.

[@RetepElpmet]

My ex-wife's dad raced NASCAR, although only regionally. He eventually gave that up after injuries. Their family definitely got me hooked on NASCAR, but I don't watch nearly as much as I used to. Still, I'm honestly surprised you were able to cut this down to 5 racers. You could probably do a couple more of these videos.

[@nascarsteve]

who was it?

[@edenkim4103]

Bro called Vin Diesel bald 💀

[@b3ans4eva]

At least Danica had a sense of humour about being run over by Cartman on South Park. I’d say it’s a higher honour than winning in NASCAR.

[@AG7-MTM]

It goes without saying Danica SHOULD NOT have been one of the worst NASCAR drivers of all time - after all, IndyCar didn't stand a chance

[@pistonfury]

I think is Lance Stroll was in Naskar he would be the GOAT!!!!

[@arnavfuntime8555]

He actually has the talent

[@Kirck-np3tv]

Of crashes. Plus it's Nascar

[@pistonfury]

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[@greedoshotfirst1]

Scott Speed and David Stremme both suffered from being thrust into the Cup Series far before they were ready for it. They still needed seasoning. A lot of drivers were unfortunately put in that same position throughout the mid 00's to early 10's era and are labeled busts because of it. Back in the early 00's, the thought of topping out on Trucks or Busch/Nationwide/Xfinity was unheard of. I think both Scott and especially David could have had far better careers if they had just stayed below Cup. There's absolutely no shame in it.

[@nascarsteve]

Glad Stremme has made a successful transition to dirt track He builds lethal chassis for dirt modifieds.

[@MaxPrescottDi9]

None of the drivers on this list are even close to the worst drivers ever. NASCAR has had 3,500 drivers enter a cup race. If you did enough to stick around for a few years, you’re no where near the worst

[@briantieken6718]

However, the week after his suspension, Mayfield stated that he had only taken two tablets of Claritin-D and the prescription drug Adderall, which he stated was prescribed to assist his attention deficit disorder,[16] and that he had never used any sort of illegal drug. His wife, family, friends, fans, crew chief and other team members, drug store receipts, and signed prescription from his care provider backed these claims.

[@MrAndces]

Give us a 1 hour video with "math" guy's story!!!! Love your content

[@billypratt4201]

Waste of money......Danica

[@DoctorCluck36]

Seeing the Rockford Speedway in a video always makes me sad

[@ic3man]

You completed ignored how Mayfield made the chase at Evernham in 2004 and 2005. Also before anyone mentions 2006, Mayfield was given the R&D crew (that was part time before 2006) as Mayfields crew chief went to Kasey Kahne after Tommy Baldwin left for Yates Racing and Scott Riggs basically got the rest of Kasey Kahnes former crew from 2004-05. Evernham, while remembered as an amazing crew chief, was not the best team owner in NASCAR and seemingly his 2 entries (the 10 and 19) were off pace compared to the 9 team at Evernham, with Ray also not paying enough attention to his own team as he started dating his own development driver, Erin Crocker (who’s now Evernham’s wife) and after Mayfield called him out on it, Mayfield was let go from Evernham mid-season.

[@firdaussede4204]

I hope you can make a video about a man that called drift king, keichi tsuchiya. An undeniable talented japanese racer starting from scratch

[@jonathangray6365]

bruh I love this thank you 👍👍👍👍

[@penguinbrony2415]

10:23 This was not during practice. This was during the Subway 400 race at Rockingham in 2004 (the final race for the Cup series there so far). Jeremy Mayfield had a short career renaissance while driving the 19 for Ray Everingham in 2003-2005, then it fell apart in 2006. Also, another driver that could have been featured is Quin Houff. He raced in the Cup series in just under 100 races over 4 seasons and never finished better than 13th.

[@nascarsteve]

Quinn should have had his NASCAR licsence revoked after he tried to pit in the middle of a 3-wide at Texas.

[@penguinbrony2415]

@@nascarsteve Totally agree there. he had no business being out on the track.

[@AndreChambers-ih1gk]

I'd love a video of Jeremy Mayfield's fall out for sure!

[@gonickb]

Okay, we need that Mayfield story

[@nascarsteve]

it's on the Dale Jr download.

[@armoredspaz]

good stuff, more racing overall would be great!

[@felicitymousey1195]

I was rooting for Danica but yeah she just not good for NASCAR 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@GustavoAventuras7732]

great video to tell the truth I haven't watched NASCAR in years

[@Kuyajaiden]

21:40 really had him scared there 😭

[@StevenRogers-hw9dj]

It's a shame that you couldn't list any of the actual "worst" drivers.

[@BrianCampbell-m9p]

Dick Trickle lit the cigarette under caution and not 200 mph. Listen to the Dale Jr Download for the Jeremy Mayfield story. I can not believe people use talent and Danica Patrick in the same sentence. What she destroyed in chassis, not bolt on parts but just the chassis, could have paid for everything I wanted to do in racing.

[@CarsandCats]

Even her own bolt-ons got removed

[@BarberDude]

Not to nitpick, however, you mentioned Danica had to break barriers? What barriers did she have to break? I don’t believe that women weren’t allowed to race. I just think they didn’t do it. There was no barrier in her way.

[@donstevenson2660]

That whine of hers breaks the sound barrier

[@queenautumnween2796]

Yeah she didn't break barriers. There were already a few female NASCAR drivers over the years. The only huge difference is that Danica was the only one given a top ride in NASCAR at the time and with how much coverage media gave her, you'd think she was breaking barriers

[@BibosLowBudget]

Thumbs Up from Germany 👍

[@Barryhentley10]

Sebastian Vettel and Scott speed

[@stimsarecool]

I'm not the biggest NASCAR fan but i find all racing sports interesting, mostly F1 and now that the seasons over i think you should cover other racing sports just to see what's out there, like history of the sport and stats of drivers

[@Marko137-em8nx]

Nascar good

[@RaleighRyan]

Good video, although I believe that Carl Long flip was during a race, not practice.

[@cykablyatman6242]

carl long wrecking at the last rockingham cup race was fitting drivers and teams are gonna win the suit

[@SepehrHH]

Nice video mate

[@scotthofstetter4036]

Dick Trickle smoked during yellow flags. Is the yellow flag speed 200 mph? Come on man.

[@RetroRich91]

I love this video! Except it's pronounced "penski" even tho it's spelt penske

[@RetroRich91]

Also Jeremy Mayfield was literally set up. It goes really deep. Do a video

[@FarmGuy343]

Danica isn't a bad driver, she's just not exceptional. Ernie Irvin was disgusting. If you were the only other car on the track, and he was 9 seconds a lap faster than you, he would still hit you trying to pass. They didn't call him Swervin Irvin for nothing. Completely dangerous driver that ended up in a fast car

[@WRYT679]

I actually know David Stremme. He still races around the midwest and I'm close friends with his younger brother Nick

[@seandamenacee4767]

Jeremy Mayfield isn’t really worth being on this list honestly 😭

[@harty_yt]

Can you also make vids about GT3 series racing? Would be really cool, but if you don't want, you don't have to, just would be cool. 😊

[@michaelski9899]

Add MICHAEL WALTRIP to the crap mix won at Daytona but dale earnhart killed himself so he could win , won a rain shortened race,always had top tier cars sucked for the rest 600or 700 races, got caught trying to jet fuel ,had a team that tried to win a championship by cheating

[@Ratt2004]

Mayfield testes positive for Adderal, an ADHD medication. FAR from a crackhead. 4 wins, 5 wins....good, & he was consistent as well. The guy got blackballed because he called out Ray Evernham for focusing more on cheating on his wife with a developmental driver than putting effort into his Cup Series team. The fallout speaks for itself -Loses ride a week later -Goes to Haas-CNC, doing nothing for a lame duck season pre-SHR -Forms team that is hit-or-miss, only to be 'banned' weeks into 2009 season. Listen to the Dale Jr Download with Mayfield, you might learn something or 4.

[@outlawtaylor3]

Dick trickle was actually smoking during a caution

[@mhh7544]

Its odd US hasnt really been able to put out top drivers on worlds stage, not F1 , not in WRC, only in Nascar and national races . Ken Block was famous for sure and a cool guy, but as a rally driver even Kimi Räikkönen was better .

[@juanusa121]

Danica Patrick great indycar driver who prefered the money of the Nascar, Same as Juan Pablo Montoya who prefered win the same money than f1 but living in miami and travelling less.😊

[@SwineBrothers]

It's the "ASA" series. American Speed Association.

[@luisrosales9349]

Mayfield got done dirty. He took ADHD meds

[@ALLTHINGSTV1]

Penske is pronounced penski not penskay jesus

[@JohnDeCarlo-l2g]

It been proven that nascar pushed him out and made him the sacrificial lamb for their new drug testing program

[@Jamie_06]

Scott speed was in forza horizon 2 storm island dlc not him but his truck

[@Rb7isTired]

people are like "omg women can drive your so sexist" but then whenever women join racing they only last

[@ThePapaja1996]

Eh what about Jutta kleinschmidt winner of dakkar 2001 or Michelle Mouton second place in rally B 1982

[@Rb7isTired]

@@ThePapaja1996 uh cool

[@MichaelWilliams-vb6wr]

PENS-🖋-SKAY 😂😂

[@robertellison4691]

What about Michael Waltrip? Didn't he set the record for the most starts without a win? They finally gave him a few since he had many foolish fans that would support him and buy his sponsor's products. Its all about the almighty dollar.

[@deanlarkins5858]

You never said who was the worst....

[@CatGoomba64]

Don't agree with Mayfield at all. Even after he left Penske he had 3 wins in the top series and was a solid driver for another 6 years. Unfortunately his team owner was banging his driver and Jeremy caught wind of this so he got fired in 2006. Not to mention he's not even the only guy to be caught for "illegal" substances, as Shane Hmiel was as well and he was far worse in all tiers, save for 1 truck win, before getting suspended. Even then you could go as far as to replace guys like him and Carl Long who had the misfortune of driving for backmarkers his whole career with someone like Quinn Houff or Cody Ware who are both known for tearing up equipment more than anything. At least Carl, for all his faults, has proven to be a semi decent team owner when Nascar isn't screwing him over

[@ThomasArmstrongIII]

Please do video about the Jeremy Mayfield story

[@NASCARFAN93100]

Danica Patrick will forever be The Catalyst of The Jeff Gordon/Clint Bowyer Saga in 2012 (Which Foreshadowed The Matt Kenseth/Joey Logano Saga in 2015) because of The Contract between Stewart Haas Racing & Tommy Baldwin Racing on The 10 Car benefitting both teams which is why David Reutimann initiated The Race Altering Caution with 4 to go in The Infamous Goody's Fast Relief 500 at Martinsville (Which Resulted in The Infamous Advocare 500 at Phoenix 7 Months Later) to stay in the Top 35 as a means of guaranteeing Danica in The Balance of Her Part-Time Cup schedule which consisted of 10 Races that season.

[@IglooRacing]

Diddy party 💀

[@LotsOfToubleUsuallySerious]

Please make a video on Mayfield

[@bendycucoriedky]

holy thumbnail. Do you feel good about it?

[@RandomAccount6241]

misspelled Jimmie Johnson 😔

[@lonewolvesonwheels]

Derrick Cope was my pick for worst

[@afdelta0120]

Danica is a beautiful example of stay your lane. She felt big for her win at motegi n decided to chase history ocer what she was good at. Unironically her performance at nascar ended up making women seem incompetent to drive in racing, ruining any good will in womens representation she made. I think some lower nascar tiers to this day have a negative spin on new female drivers. Unironically barring more women from entering the sport. Thanks Danica.... -_- (Please know i genuinely feel like women could easily become synonymous with racing if they syopped making it a feminist thing. ...insert that clip of "feminist knuckles" here)

[@cjcampbell2218]

Still Carl long is still relevant and is backs as a owner in cup and xfinity

[@lukesmialkowski7870]

My mom would got a better finish.She's 62,and shining