The last driver to win MPD that wasn't an Elliott or an Earnhardt was Darrell Waltrip in 1990 (he also won it in 1989)

Since 1990 it has gone

1991-2000: Bill Elliott

2001: Dale Earnhardt

2002: Bill Elliott (Bill Removed himself from future ballots after this year)

2003-2017: Dale Earnhardt Jr.

2018-2025: Chase Elliott

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There's a fan reward for 25 points.

As a Dale Earnhardt Jr/Ryan Newman fan turned Ross Chastain fan (I know how to pick 'em) there's just so many.

For Dale and Ryan, it's between the 2011 Coca Cola 600, 2013 Fall Richmond, 2015 Fall Talladega and 2020 Daytona 500. For Ross it hasn't been just one race...it's been whole seasons now since 2022 that I've been disappointed.

Was just wondering what was on your list?

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I don't like this. Feels like SVG got along great with his spotter. Why try and bail Zilly out at this point?

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It’s official!

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"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight".

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why there is mini Cody: https://www.reddit.com/r/NASCAR/s/J16TE2xkoC

Welcome to this week's Forgotten Rides Friday!

Forgotten Rides Friday - a post to share and discuss cars from NASCAR's past that others may have forgotten about!

Gonna be honest I haven’t been paying attention much to this season after his last truck race but every time I see a tribute it just really makes me feel good.

NASCAR just dropped a video of him yesterday, the cars still seem to be repping him every race unless I’m just behind.

Wouldn’t be upset to see a little 8 on the cars forever, I got got back into nascar the past 2 years, hadn’t watched a race since the 2001 Daytona 500, Dale was way harder to move past for me as an 11 year old kid.

But Kyle and Hocevar were really starting to get me excited again. Every weekend I would turn on the tv and my eyes would dart around the screen. 8? 77? Where are they!? I didn’t even give a shit about anyone else, even though KB was struggling in cup the whole time I was a fan.

Really sucks to think just as I started to appreciate the man, he was gone. His 1st place finish being pushed by Hocevar in trucks is the most excited I have ever felt during a race, and that double burnout to cap it off. Wow! Hard not to cry like a little bitch when thinking back on how perfect that whole thing was. 69, nice.

Drunk ramble over. Hope someone out there can understand where I am coming from.

Anyone got any KFB tributes on their personal cars? On god I considered putting Rowdy above both my windows lmao. I think a blacked out 8 decal is probably the best way to go.

Link to full race: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0E_MkD4Grw

I was the first person in my family to really get into NASCAR. My family was more familiar with F1 and street racing, but my dad showed me my first NASCAR race on TV (I believe it was the Capital City 400 at Richmond), and Denny Hamlin won. From there, I started following the 11

One thing I’ll always have a lot of respect for my dad for is that, as a Hispanic dad, he would always let me watch NASCAR even if there was a soccer game on. He knew how much I loved it and never tried to make me watch something else just because soccer was the more familiar sport in our family

I went through a few periods of taking breaks from NASCAR, but when I really got back into it around 2023, I became pretty obsessed with it. Eventually, I got a lot of my friends familiar with NASCAR too. They used to think it was just a boring sport where cars go in circles, but now most of them enjoy watching when they do and would actually be willing to go to a NASCAR race

So, do you guys have any stories about getting your friends or family into NASCAR, or at least getting them to understand and appreciate what it is?

In 1979 NASCAR legend David Pearson stepped into the #2 of Osterlund Racing, substituting for up and coming driver Dale Earnhardt who was out with injury. Pearson went on to win the Southern 500 in this role with Osterlund, cementing one of the greatest substitute performances of all time.

What other examples do you have of legendary drivers stepping into substitute roles? Or relative unknowns putting up legendary performances while in a substitute role?