Props to Reed Sorenson for being realistic and qualifying 36th

you know qualifying is out of whack when Brian Scott of all drivers wins a pole… 💀

Reminds me of that year at Monza for F1. Nobody wanted to go out of fear of giving the tow to the wrong person.

2014 season was great because cars could pass cars easily because of the horsepower and it made the racing exciting to watch

Rip Daytona backstretch grandstands, as a local I'll always miss those a lot

Never knew that the fall Talladega race misspelled Sorenson’s name on the DNQ list lmao

In some ways, that Daytona situation reminds me of a messed up situation that occurred in F1 at Monza in 2019. Due to the uniquely high speeds seen at Monza, drivers usually trying and use the slipstream of the car ahead (drafting) to gain not just top speed, but lap time. The flip side is that nobody wants to be the lead car. In Q3 at Monza in 2019, and I should know because I was there, after a crash involving Kimi Raikkonen that brought out the red flag, the cars left didn't want to be first across the line as the final laps got underway. As the seconds ticked by, it became apparent that if they weren't careful, nobody would set a time. They did get a move on eventually, but with the exception of the McLaren of Carlos Sainz, it was too late. To a mixture of humour and bewilderment, to spectators, teams, drivers and journalists, nobody could improve their time set earlier in Q3. While the majority Italian crowd were pleased that a Ferrari driver was on pole position, Charles Leclerc, they also felt a bit flat with the anticlimactic and bizarre way the session ended

I still believe to this day that the 17 failing to qualify for Dega is what gave birth to the charter system in the cup series. Also the only group qualifying system to ever work on a superspeedway is done by ARCA. 5 or 6 cars at a time and they get 5 minutes, then the next group goes.

Night Birds, excellent song choice! 👌 Made purchasing a new car on GT5 more pleasant! ☺

Thank goodness we don't have this anymore top 5 worst making decisions in NASCAR History!

Great video. Didn't realize how farcical this idea was as a 12 year old watching NASCAR in 2014. I would've added Clint Bowyer's rant after that Daytona wreck

Love the content as someone who fell out of love for the sport around 2007 mainly due to my close family that was my connection to the sport passed I missed the passed decade of racing so anything between 2008-2017 Im pretty blank on.

I was watching the “conquering the system the Daniel hemric story” and I see this

I totally agree that group qualifying is amazing when done correctly. It should never be used at superspeedways, but there are plenty of tracks that it works well at.

I was at that 2014 spring Talladega race and no one could believe that Brian Scott got the pole. AND THEN STENHOUSE DNQs IN OCTOBER?!

Who remembers Brian Scott?

Thanks for the PTSD

Clint's rant on this fiasco after crashing in 2015 Daytona 500 Qualifying was epic

babe wake up black flags matter posted 3 fire videos in the past 5 days

Group qualifying only works on road courses

On the plus side, at least the underfunded teams salivated hard on this. You didn't see them complaining. XD

Imagine if for each race they had qualifying races

The gram turismo sound track is killing me 😂😂😂

I love a late night Black Flags Matter video!

I’d double check the video, at the Brian Scott pole segment, the audio seems to get off, as later during the Daytona Nationwide series broadcast clip audio is playing over the cup series broadcast video.

Jeff Gordon having the worst qualifying time at the fall 2014 talladega race was bizarre

@3:00 I simply cannot focus on anything being said with that howling GT saxophone solo dancing in my ears, reminding me of staring at my custom livery gt3 Aston for hours in the garage

Gran turismo music in the background is a nice touch

8 years ago, this was the season I stopped watching. It WAS entertaining, but, meh. However, Brian freaking Scott. Great memory vid. Thank you and keep up the great work. Might have to get caught up sometime. Vroom.

This shiznit pissed me off to no end. Daytona in July had pissed me off to absolutely no end. The 40 mph around the track screwed Joe Nemechek's chances. He got a ride with RAB Racing, had sponsorship from Toyota and had a car that could have easily made it based on single car speed. But instead, the drivers did all the BS, and Joe's lap was basically a single car run, then guys at the last second grouped up right and bumped the 29 out of the top 36. And don't even get me started on Fall Talladega. Joe was in, but NASCAR pitched a fit about something involving the oil tank, something that would have had no impact on the performance of the car, and disallowed his time. I don't remember watching that race much because I was so pissed off. The only time I was excited about group qualifying was the 2015 truck race at Daytona because Norm Benning timed in like 6th fastest or something in round 1

Group qualifying at plate tracks is one of the stupidest things that NASCAR has ever come up with. The owners lost a lot of money. But hey, some of the field fillers looked like superstars.

Thanks for the jazz music, Jean Girard.

Merry Christmas Darian

Got to watch Majeski at Bristol in the truck series. Raced extremely clean in a race that had like 10 wrecks. Awesome driver!

The music choice is spot on. 😂

Like the new background music... But please consider mixing it in at a bit lower of a volume... Feel like I'm in a Grand Turismo lobby.

The Gran Turismo music fits so well

The 2007 Fall Talladega race had a stranger qualifying session with single car quals than these in 2014. The group quals created issues in California in 2018/19 when the cars in the final round failed to produce a time. F1 has made group qualifying work for years. Sure some tracks will produce predictable results and others will net some crazy lineups. Nascar is the same.

i remember being at my grandparents and seeing that nationwide qualifying wreck

Ah yes.. Back when Ricky Stenhouse missed a race

Man there's a whole bunch of stuff that I missed out on from my time of not watching in the time frame of '09 to 2020

Adding to the 2015 Speedweeks discourse, the Truck series also had a wreck in their group qualifying session too IIRC

Felt like I was buying parts for a car on gt7 while watching this lol, love it

Group Qualifying belongs on road courses

I was at the July Daytona Xfinity race that day of the qualifying insanity, it was so bizarre

Love the gran turismo music

Group Qualifying, Is Seriously An Absolute Insult To Formula 1. AND I, Will Disagree With Clint Bowyer. Because It's Not NASCAR's Fault, It's All Brian France's Fault.

I agree, group qualifying needs to come back... just not for superspeedways.

5:35 This reminds me of Q3 at Monza for F1 in 2019 lmao

Thanks, I had successfully blocked this from my brain and you go and bring it back up, lol

Stenhouse missing the race, and how it happened, was one of the funniest things I had seen that year. I was thoroughly entertained by how much of a shitshow it was. Don't get me wrong, it's terrible for sporting reasons... but so are playoffs in motorsports.

Many people that Danica Patrick actually ran well at Talladega and that Landon Cassill almost won a race at Talladega as well

One of the ASA stars that ended up being a NASCAR Bust were Mike Garvey, Gary St. Amant, Kevin Cywinski, Brad Loney and Joey Clanton.

The phrase “this isn’t f1” is more appropriate here than what NRF tried to do.

I figured you were going to make a video about group qualifying PERIOD. From when it began 2014 to 2019.

GT music is so good.

Love Night Birds from Gran Turismo

Anytime David Gilliland is able to BS his way into a top 10 starting position is goated

oops the audio goes out of sync early on in the video. Might want to fix that and reupload.

Night Birds by Yudai Satoh

Darian, don’t you dare sully the good name of our lord and saviour, Brian Scott!

Gran turismo music is vibing but tbh is a bit too loud

I honestly think they could’ve solved a lot of problems by not starting the timer until every driver was on track and running at speed

Busch series qual crash: oh look, there was a warning to have Nascar spotters outside Daytona to monitor incoming weather.

I miss group qualifying because of the hilariously embarrassing shenanigans it created 😂

Group qualifying is good and could come back, as long as you don't do it at superspeedways ever again.

Wassup boys

It's great seeing nascar being consistent with not calling cautions when it is raining. lol

Yea that was bad

Hey, could you discuss lengthening the championship round to three races? What is your opinion on having a single winner take all race? In my opinion that just doesnt work for motorsports at all. I can live with the playoff format but not with as single championship race at one track and track type. To me it cheapens the championship! So many things can go wrong, especially outside of your team's control that no single race should chose a champion in my mind. Three would be great. They will still get their "game 7 moments" with a three race championship round, and no one track will chose the winner. Anyways, would love to hear your thoughts and see the community's thoughts and reactions.

6:48 Monza 2019 qualifying madness inspired by Daytona 400 2014!

I wouldnt mind atleast group qualifying at short tracks 1 mile or under. But not the whole field. Random draw of like 3 or 4 cars and they get 2 laps. Kind of how a local dirt track might do things.

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PLEASE keep smooth jazz as the background music in future videos

This is why I dont watch qualifying except the Gatorade Duels

Nice gt7 music

Can we just go back to single round qualifying and give the pole winner a playoff point to make it important? Cool, thanks.

Where was the race with group qualifying where the train of cars puttered around and everyone but Austin Dillon got the checkered before starting their fast lap? The other one I like to refer to for this was World Touring (WTCC) at Salzburgring in 2013. Another slipstreaming track, nobody wants to be the lead car, and the train idled around until it was too late to start a lap before the checkered flag dropped.

Group qualifying at every track except Daytona and talladega is a good idea.

Marty Robbins

So the Superspeedway Group Qualifying format was basically as bad as an idea as Elimination Qualifying in F1

Gotta love nascar for the commitment to be the biggest joke of the racing world and not even try to get normal or get more viewers.

Yep, when drivers got mad because they had to drive with other cars.

Is the song from gran turismo????

Group Qualifying on Superspeedways were absolutely dumb. What top it all for the BS was the 2015 Daytona 500

It was stupid but not going to lie, it was sure entertaining! Lol

This was the beginning of the end of NASCAR as we knew it. It’s a shame that NASCAR is not like it used to be and now they run the race in sections instead of just one long race among other BS rule changes. Are used to be a huge NASCAR fan, and nowadays I couldn’t even tell you who is in NASCAR because I just don’t care. I think a lot of old school fans think the same way

I can’t believe the "NASCAR Idiocricy" that we’ve all lived through!!

Did anyone watch the 2007 Daytona 500 on FS2 today? Man that race reminded me just how much better NASCAR was then. It has basically pencil dived since

I personally not a really big fan of "Group Qualifying"-type format, not just on NASCAR but also on most motorsport disciplines because the lap maybe a bit compromised by another cars. I personally prefer the "Single-car"-type qualifying format because it's just the driver, machine, track and the clock. Nothing else matters, no interferences from other cars.

Why were they taking Superspeedway qualifying so serious anyways? It mattered ZERO.

Wait Blaney’s first race was at the 2014 Dega Fall Race?!

Do 1 big group but eliminate the slowest driver every 2 minutes.

Ive watched so much Michael Mrucz, when you mentioned Joe Nemechek, I thought you mispronounced his name (I thought it was pronounced Joe Nemetoad).

To this very day I still hate the group qualifying...

You know something's screwed up when a full-time driver from a team like Roush failed to qualify.

Imagine Landon Cassill winning the July Daytona Race.

I don’t mind group qualifying for the road courses

Background music for this video - F

Why it looked filmed in 2000s?