"The Dinger" had his best three-race stretch of the season during that span, earning finishes of 10th, 13th and 10th, respectively. "Million Dollar Bill" ran this car at the UAW-GM Teamwork 500at Pocono in 1995, the 17th race of the season. It may not be as flashy as most others on this list, but it's still pretty coolespecially with the oranges all over the car. Great race. Back to the paint scheme, I have always adored it since I was at that Talladega race in 1998. I believe this is a pretty good stat line: 668 starts, 16 poles, 32 wins, 163 top fives, 260 top tens, 7,054 laps led, career earnings of $59,866,794 and of course, one championship. But it was still a nice tribute to his dad, who was a seven-time champion and is widely considered to be one of the best drivers of all-time. For the rest of the season, Grubb posted two top-five finishes, along with six top tens. The 50-mile race contained fourteen different drivers including Gordon, Dale Earnhardt, Rusty Wallace, Mark Martin, Dale Jarrett, among other big names. The actual All-Star Race celebrates the drivers who had won the previous year or during the current campaign. The 2.5-mile of Daytona International Speedway hosted the famed Daytona 500. . But at the 2007 Bud Shootout at Daytona, they unveiled a gold car for Busch, sponsoring Miller Lite as a four-time World Beer Cup Gold Award winner (1996, 1998, 2002, 2006). To this day, they still rank among the top of my list of best paint schemes. It was undoubtedly an awesome edition and the night was perhaps even better as Michael Waltrip, in his No. 99 Exide Batteries Ford. Leffler, who was tragically killed in a sprint car race in 2013, earned Haas CNC Racing (which later became Stewart Haas Racing) its first win during a Busch Series race at Nashville. Richard Petty. For the 2001 Brickyard 400 at the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Benson honored former movie star James Dean with this silver and red paint scheme, in correspondence with his main sponsor, Valvoline. 36 Skittles Pontiac car. 11 that he drove for Junior Johnson in 1983. In 2003, Martin's blue, white and black No. Jeff Gordon has raced a special paint scheme in at least one event in every season since 1997. It's No. He'd finish the season 11th in points, his second-worst season since coming to Roush Racing full-time in 2005. Another movie car driven by Jeff Gordon was the Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen Chevrolet, which Gordon piloted to a fourth-place finish in the 2009 Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. 29 Reese's Chevrolet has become a consistent staple and one of the most recognizable paint schemesin the Sprint Cup Series over the last few years. 11 Budweiser Chevrolet for Junior Johnson. Baker was the first driver to exceed the 200 mph mark on a closed course test run. The South Boston, Virginia native got his first big break prior to the 1994 season, when he was offered a full-time ride by the Stavola Brothers to drive the No. He would come back to the Nationwide Series, last driving the No. Other non-Winston Cup regulars Brendan Gaughan, Austin Cameron, Kelly Tanner, Ron Burns, Lance Norick, Rich Woodland Jr., Butch Gilliland, Jeff Davis and Scott Gaylord also participated in the event as well. LISTENWeb: https://t.co/Bifc95ifTgApple: https://t.co/yWSE7hCgoiGoogle: https://t.co/AOrz0CP3Ta pic.twitter.com/9avrsjckoe, Dirty Mo Media (@DirtyMoMedia) May 4, 2022. A mindset. This is a paint scheme no doubt. M&M's decided to remove their logo from his car for that race, along with all the decals. Upon the release of the sequel, it was announced that they would sponsor Bill Elliott's No. It's one of, if not the weirdest, paint scheme of all-time, too. Edwards and Tony Stewart tied at Homestead, but Stewart won the championship by virtue of his five wins to Edwards' one win. It was definitely a fantastic paint scheme that deserved a spot on the list. . 3. Over the course of the 1997 season, Labonte's regular paint scheme was sponsored by Kellogg's Corn Flakes. 93 Amoco Dodge. And it actually turned out to be a good idea. The team was formerly the No. What was so cool about it was that the car was also owned by one of the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history, Dan Marino (notice the colors and number of the car). For some reason, I just thought this car was awesome and I still think that, I guess. Since Burton wasn't locked in to the All-Star race, he had to win the Winston Open to get in. Benson, who not known for his qualifying efforts, started the day in the 26th position. By that comparison, Moise is the Angelina Jolie of the NASCAR world. For the event, Gordon qualified in the 18th position, while finishing the race in 13th. In case some of you don't,Ripken was considered to be baseball's "Ironman" after playing in 2,632 consecutive games for the Baltimore Orioles. After his 18th place finish in that year's Daytona 500, Wallace posted finishes eighth, 11th, sixth, seventh, ninth, 11th, 16th, eighth and eighth. Kenseth started the race in 16th and finished in sixth, his only race of the entire season. During the 1998 season, Musgrave was relieved of his duties from the No. Petty had copious amounts of potential, but his life was tragically cut short at New Hampshire in 2000 when he got loose going into Turn 3 and crashed head-on into the wall. And he wasn't done there. In any case, it was still a great tribute to one of the men that helped turned NASCAR into what it is today. 32 that Ricky Craven had recently departed from. However, Irvan struggled for the majority of the season, compiling three poles, zero top fives and eleven top tens. Bobby Labonte ran this specific scheme at the 2007 Sylvania 300 at New Hampshire. He could have been a Hall-of-Fame caliber driver or a mediocre driver that consistently ran in the middle of the pack in the middle part of his career. 27years later at theDodge Avenger500 at Darlington, Earnhardt ran this retro paint scheme, in tribute to the old No. Kasey Kahne won the race with Carl Edwards finishing ahead of Dale Jr. As I'm sure y'all have noticed going through this slideshow, I'm a big, big fan of retro paint schemes or tributes to other drivers from the "old days." 2019 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Team Paint Schemes pages: #1 Chip Ganassi Racing #2 Team Penske . Wallace's weekend got off to a rocky start as he qualified towards the back of the pack in 38th, but by the end of the race, he had jumped 27 places higherSterling Marlin won the race, by the way. And that was Gordon, as he swept the road courses in 2003, beating out Pruett, Earnhardt Jr., Jimmie Johnson and Kevin Harvick. However, he would be involved in the "Big One," which occurred on the eighth lap of the race, involving 14 cars including Kevin Harvick, Jamie McMurray, Kasey Kahne, Clint Bowyer and others. 25. ALL 2023 NASCAR PAINT SCHEMES!! NASCAR traveled to Las Vegas the next weekend and Harvick's No. Petty's near top ten would eventually become his third-best finish of the entire season, as he finished eighth at Loudon and sixth at Watkins Glen. Country music is the lifeblood of Whiskey Riff, and we pride ourselves on standing firmly in the corner of the independent artists, and those few in the mainstream still doing it the right way. Honestly, even though I hate yogurt, this is one of my favorite paint schemes of all-time. And then he goes to drive for Tony and Beth Ann Morgenthau. At Michigan, Labonte qualified in the back at 39th and finished the race in 26th. Here's yet another Dale Earnhardt paint scheme that he ran exclusively at The Winston. This led to "Awesome Bill" driving the No. Members. Ran at the Irwin Tools Night Race at Bristol, Edwards' car transformed into the light blue scheme with the Aflac duck on the side, perhaps one of the most well-known commercial entities. I've always been a big, big fan of this car, probably because of my love for Slurpee's. So that leads to the question, "What are farewell tours?". The first NASCAR race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway was an ARCA Menards Series West race won by Ken Schrader on November 2, 1996. While driving the No. In honor of the Summer Olympics being held in Atlanta during the 1996 season, Dale Earnhardt Sr. had the special paint scheme for just the one race, in Atlanta. Kevin Harvick won in his third career start in the Sprint Cup Series. But at the 1995 Winston, Earnhardt changed NASCAR history with his "Silverwrench" Chevrolet. No foul play was suspected and it was announced that the cause of death was a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Firstly, this is one of the greatest looking paint schemes I've ever seen. Dale Jr. hopped out of his car and stood at the driver's net with his hands up in the air. Marcis started 883 Sprint Cup Series races, spanning an astounding 35 years, starting in 1968 and ending in 2002. At Talladega Superspeedway, Jeff Gordon finished eighth in the 2010 Amp Energy 500, where his Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet carried the colors of the National Guard. Atwood finished the year 35th in points and was subsequently let go at the end of the season. It was one of the greatest moments in recent memory. Atwood drove the No. For M&Ms last season in NASCAR, Kyle Busch will drive a throwback scheme that pays tribute to Ernie Irvans 1998 M&Ms car. Back when The Olive Garden sponsored Marcis, it was not the popular chain-restaurant that we all know today. 15. #NASCARThrowback weekend is here. Over the years, the paint schemes and sponsorship of the cars have become the biggest part of the sport. It was truly a classic paint scheme. He would go on to finish 70 laps in third, a traditional spot for "The Intimidator" to finish. This meant a new era was being ushered in and we did not see Reese's sponsor Harvick last season. Junior, as he's so aptly named, started the weekend with a qualifying effort of sixth. This paint scheme was set to honor STP's 25th anniversary in NASCAR and for Richard Petty. Check out the fresh paint schemes drivers will display for Sunday's Daytona 500 (2:30 p.m. Japanese drivers Hideo Fukuyama, Keiicha Tsuchiya, Kazuteru Wakida and Motohiro Nakaji competed in the event, along with Canadian Gary Smith. 29 and GM Goodwrench would still stay on the hood. Gordon went on to finish second in the race, which was run on Halloween. 877 starts. However, it was still an awesome paint scheme from the seven-time Winston Cup Champion. Waltrip started the day in 23rd and it looked as if there was a possibility that he could end up in victory lane, but that wasn't the case as he crossed the finish line in ninth. As stated above, Bonnett raced just five races during the 1990 season before suffering a near life-threatening crash. I'm sure most of you know who Cal Ripken, Jr. is. Chromalusion is a special kind of paint that shines from every angle and Jeff Gordon used it throughout the 1998 season on more than just this car. 01, Rick Hendrick in the No. That season, Atwood competed in 35 of the 36 races, accumulating zero wins, zero top fives, zero top tens and zero poles. As you can tell by the paint scheme, the car celebrated the beginning of the infamous McRib sandwich that is currently and seldomly served by McDonald's, the primary of sponsor of Bill Elliott at the time, who was the owner of this car. Texaco-Havoline has been a sponsor for NASCAR for a very long time. That lucky driver turned out to be Ken Schrader. Once thought to be a contender at the Sprint Cup level, Scott Riggs has seemingly fallen off the face of the earth. Ed Pimm drove the Sunoco No.98 back in the 80s. THROWBACK @ToyotaRacing is set to celebrate its 1,500th race in #NASCAR with special throwback schemes at @TooToughToTame to commemorate the milestone. Kahne was terrific during his rookie campaign, as the Washington native collected three poles in the first 14 events. When I started putting together this list, I didn't think there was a chance that David Ragan would earn a spot on it. Unfortunately, Bobby Jr. wasn't the same driver his father was, but he did have some stellar paint schemes since his arrival. I especially like the rear sides of the car with the burger, fries and of course, the Coca-Cola. That is second-best all-time behind John Rostek (1960, Arizona State Fairgrounds), Jamie McMurray (2002, Charlotte) and most recently Trevor Bayne in last year's Daytona 500. In 2006, Hendrick Motorsports brought back Labonte for a few races in what was considered to be his minor farewell tour. 2002 was the start of a down period for Wallace, as the 1989 Winston Cup Champion would not win a race for the first time since the 1986 season. Not only was it a classic stock car, it was the blue and yellow paint scheme that earned it a spot on this list. 31 car for Richard Childress Racing and has had a rather stellar career since arriving at Roush Racing many years ago. The following season, Jones ran the entire season in the No. If you want to look good at @TooToughToTame then youve gotta look tough. He spent three seasons with the team, amassing six top fives and eighteen top tens. Edwards did not have a stellar day at all that Sunday, but he gave us a great looking paint scheme. However, Gordon did have a couple of different paint schemes throughout the 2008 campaign, including sponsoring by Pepsi, DuPont Cromax Pro,Nicorette White Ice Mint, his main sponsor DuPontand of course, Nicorette Gum. But this was the first time that they actually sponsored a race car. This rivalry ended up getting the better of Trickle many times as he ended many races in the garage, rather with a blown engine or being involved in a wreck. The following season, Jarrett participated in 18 of 31 races, driving the same car. 9. So with all this nostalgia, lets take a look at some of the best paint schemes that well see out on the track this this throwback weekend: LaJoie is honoring country singer-turned-NASCAR driver Marty Robbins with his throwback scheme that pays tribute to the bright pink and yellow paint scheme that Robbins ran in the 1970s. Some of these sponsors included the one pictured in this slide, Service Merchandise, McDonalds' Happy Meal, Mac Tonight, NASCAR's 50th Anniversary and of course, his typical paint scheme he ran throughout the 1998 season. Prior to the 1998 season, Jerry Nadeau signed a contract with Bill Elliott Racing to race the No. Well, without any dictionary definition, I consider them to be a period of time when someone or some people say their goodbyes from whatever they're doing. Jeff Gordon did something different in 2008, even though it was a down year for the four-time champion. 58Hut Stricklin, 1999 (Loudon, Dover, Martinsville), No. His lengthy time at the highest professional level lasted a total of 33 years, including 19 wins, 202 top fives, 311 top tens and 38 poles. Even though he was a mediocre Cup driver, he gave us an awesome paint scheme. All Rights Reserved. At least the paint scheme was pretty cool. 1 driver by seeing who has been the most dominant as of late. It was a great paint scheme without a doubt. In those eleven events, Burton finished worse than 13th just one time (31st at Kansas) and also had four top fives, nine top tens and a win at the South Carolina 200 at Darlington. It's too bad he didn't reach his full potential. Throughout his career, Spencer was known to be one of the most hot-headed drivers of his era. 20 Toyota, driven by Joey Logano, Denny Hamlin, Kyle Busch, Brad Coleman and Matt DiBenedettothroughout the season, featured many different sponsors such as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Super Mario Bros., Tekken 6, Brutal Legend, The Beatles Rockband, [Protoype], Halo Wars, Guitar Hero, the WWEand the Nintendo Wii. The more details you can give, the more likely we can fix it quickly. @JustinMarksTH stopped by The @DaleJr Download to tell us about their @TooToughToTame paint schemes. 36 and No. Part of his reinstatement was that NASCAR could administer drug tests at any point. He also had a good run in the standings in that span as well, as Petty finished 13th, 16th, ninth and 10th in the final standings from 1983-86. Some of you will definitely know it if you have kids because it's one of the best animated movies of recent memory. Subscribe for more!Join The Patreon https://www.patreon.com/DLBTVFollow @dlbxtv: Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/dlbxtv Instagram: htt. By that I mean, this is one of my favorite cars that was run the entire season, not just one or two races. He'd slip back in the pack throughout the race and would blow an engine on lap 77. Although SPAM is one of the most disgusting things ever created, the paint scheme was epic. As part of NASCAR's 50th anniversary celebration in 1998. This special paint scheme was oriented towards the fishing side of his life. In those later years, Baker would race a little over half of the races that were announced. This car was run at the 2002 Food City 500 at Bristol, the sixth race of the season. 00 from Michael Waltrip Racing has had some of the coolest paint schemes (even though a lot of them aren't on this list). 0 yellow Jelly Belly car make some lapsInglebright started 34th that day, but managed a pedestrian 32nd-place finish. 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