Fun fact: Thanks to Christian Fittipaldi, Nascar start to be broadcast live to Brazil. Until 03, the broadcast was tape delay in some smaller channels

2:49 the delivery on that "Mikes Hard Lemonade" comment was fuggin' hilarious

The most impressive part of Christian Fittipaldi is how long his career lasted in so many different series.

Mans got rushed up to a dying team and one of the most iconic numbers in NASCAR, with little to no Busch Series time. I don't know what Petty Enterprises really expected from him.

This is the man that made me a NASCAR fan. Growing up a massive F1 & Indycar Fan. I saw Christian was racing in Watkins Glen so I thought I better watch it. I fell in love with the sport & have watched every cup race since .

Darian said it best, I will always remember Christian Fittipaldi as the guy who always got in my way and was always my rival in NASCAR Thunder 2004. Glad to hear he had a pretty good career in IMSA though later on

I am forever grateful to Christian because he was the reason Nascar started to be broadcasted live here in Brazil

Can't blame him for taking the Petty ride. The payday compared to CART must have been great.

Need IndyCar/CART/ChampCar Busts videos. That would be awesome

AKA "Oh, he drove the 43?" In NASCAR Thunder 2004

christian fittipaldi is the first brazilian to race in cup,and because of him nascar is broadcasted here on brazilian pay tv ever since,so even with his cup series career not being what he wanted,he made a huge impact for us,before that we had cup races on small brazilian broadcast networks before,but it was very space out and inconsistent,but after fittipaldi it was for real and we havent stopped ever since.

I will never understand why he was in NASCAR Thunder 2004. He didn't even drive the 43 the most times in 2003.

4:30 “just finish and gain some experience” two seconds later *man is wrecked facing the wrong way* 😂😂😂

Sad thing about this is after the 2002 season John Andretti didn't want to return to Petty Enterprises. The team begged him to return in 2003 and he eventually agreed, only for the team to shit can him halfway through the season for Fittipaldi. Very dumb move looking back, Andretti wasn't the best but at least he didn't wreck every week, could win, and could run up front if given the right circumstances. People also respected John because they knew who he was. He didn't just show up out of nowhere and say hey I'm here for a cup ride.

A lot of entries in this series are open wheel drivers. Just shows you how different IndyCar/F1 and NASCAR are (and makes me respect the talent of Tony Stewart that much more).

Im like 9 seasons in career mode in thunder 2004 and in one of the Sonoma races he actually won

I remember when he moved to NASCAR, everyone belived he was trying to be like his uncle, but at stock cars. Emmo brought F1 to popularity in the 70's, and then the IndyCar in the 80's and 90's. Christian belived that he was able to make NASCAR popular here in the south. Well, it didn't happened...

I did not know that Christian drove in the Cup Series even with RPM or at that time Petty Enterprises

Championship Seasons: Jimmie Johnson 2007 Gone Too Soon: John Nemechek Bad Seasons: Andy Houston 2001 NASCAR Busts: Lyndon Amick

Switching from open wheel to stock car racing is a hit or miss you either end up doing good or become a bust

Looked like all his Cup Series crashes involved either Dale Jarrett, Steve Park or Michael Waltrip

I swear this music is from the Cart World Series video game.

And that theme song in the video remenbers me the CART World Series on Ps1

Christian Fittipaldi when he crashed: *_dude these Cheerios ain’t sh^t…_*

Nascar bust- chad mccumbee And Nascar bust- Patrick carpentier

Love the song choice! NASCAR Thunder 2004 definitely had the best soundtrack out of all the NASCAR games. Also, another good video I love the bust ones and hope you continue to do them!

Steve Park and Fittipaldi almost always seemed to find each other on the track before Fittipaldi was fired.

I don't think you can call him a bust. I could be mistaken, but as I understand it, a bust is someone who has a lot of potential but fails to deliver. There was no potential here. Nobody expected Christian Fittipaldi to perform well, except Richard Petty, I suppose. Christian's open-wheel career was average at best, despite a couple of wins. If he couldn't excel when driving a type of car he was familiar with, why did Richard Petty think he could do great things in machinery that was utterly foreign to him? I am happy his career still had a happy ending, however. Endurance racing turned out to be his true calling.

Fun fact: Christian Fittipaldi is one of only three drivers (Mario Andretti & Juan Montoya are the other two) to have raced in NASCAR, F1 & Indycar.

I liked the Yankees Paint Scheme he ran at The Glen in 03 and this is coming from a Red Sox Fan.

Christian helps to develop the HANS device, after the big crash in Milwalke race during the Cart series.

In terms of Brazilian drives on Nascar, Miguel Paludo and Nelson Piquet Jr are definelly the best, Paludo almost got a Top 5...only if Riley didn't spun him out. And Piquet Jr won 2 trucks series races in Kansas and Michigan, and for Paludo he won with a last lap pass on Crafton for the win on Vegas in 2012.

I have a video suggestion if no one has told you this yet. Do a bad seasons for an entire team (SHR 2021, HMS 2018)

Wow!!!!! Using the Cart world series PS1 videogame soundtrack in this video. Awesome!!!!

A lot of these wrecks involved Steve Park in them for some reason.

Future Video: The Worst CART Season (2001) The Texas Firehawk Cancellation, Many Road/Street Races being Time Shortened... I can go on

He could of had a full ride in the IRL especially with his CART experience. These pro stock cars are a bit slower than the indy cars and probably handled different. Indy cars have a lot of down force, tight suspension, and of course faster. Im not trying to make excuses for Christian, but he should have never transitioned to Grand National Cars....

Interesting as always! Switching from open wheel to NASCAR can be very tricky and Christian learned it the hard way. Also, I know that he raced in Petty Enterprises in Cup, but I never knew he tried racing in the Busch Series until I discovered your video.

NASCAR Busts: Ricky Carmichael pls

I don't know can you really be considered a NASCAR bust when he only made 19 total starts. Coming from open-wheel background where he only won 2 races in 8 years of Indycar too. He wasn't exactly blowing anyone's doors off in open-wheels either. I'm glad you mentioned his sportscar career though. As you mentioned, a two-time back to back IMSA prototype champion and winning the 24 hours of Daytona overall 3 times. Also won 12 hours of Sebring and 24 hours of Spa.

I have been waiting for this one! Love this series!

I remember him in NT2004 he was so goddamn slow 😂😂😂😂😂. To quote Windvow HE FLIPPED AND IS STILL GOING TO BEAT ME!!!! 😂😂😂😂

Thanks for sharing! I didn't become a NASCAR fan until 2004 (after Christian was fired from Petty Enterprises), but I do remember seeing him in the NASCAR Thunder game I played on PS2. Keep up the good work and sharing these awesome stories!

I don't remember ever seeing him on tv but I do remember always picking him in (I think) Thunder 2003 just because we share the same first name. And as far as I know he's the only NASCAR driver named Christian

2:49 I love when announcers connect the wrecked car's sponsor with the wreck. It's so funny. Also, you should make NASCAR Busts: Ty Dillon

I remember he was a scrub in the 43 car and had zero respect from any of the other drivers. When he wasn't smashing it up, he was getting dumped regularly

I remember him in NT 2004 in the 43

Instantly reminded me of one of my favorite video games of all time! NASCAR THUNDER!!! Thanks Darian! Didn’t realize it then ofcourse, but those were some of the best days of my life, much simpler and happier times 🇺🇸 Hope everyone is having a great week so far!

Christian Fittipaldi is a wonderfully skilled member of racing royalty. Sports cars, F1, CART (where I think he could’ve been a champion)… he’s succeeded in everything there is to do in open wheel racing. Given time, he could’ve been the young prospective driver Richard Petty was looking for. Unfortunately, like almost all nascar busts, he was rushed up too early. In this case though, he was basically plucked from CART straight into Cup, with only five or six Xfinity starts to help him out in one of the most difficult Motorsports transition periods there are for a human to experience. In my opinion, Petty did this partially because he was desperate for good results, and because he wanted to take advantage of Fittipaldi’s star power, so he could use it to boost his team. To that I say, what a waste of potential. Given time, he could’ve been the perfect driver The King was looking for, but he threw that potential away because his team was dying, and everything he knew about running a team wasn’t working in the modern era anymore. For that reason, Fittipaldi was screwed out of a potential Montoya/Ambrose level nascar career, and Petty Enterprises still would’ve died off anyway, which is a shame because I can see Fittipaldi and Adam Petty getting along as teammates. Thank goodness he was able to salvage his career with IMSA. Unfortunately, because of bad team and driver decisions, and maybe even bad sponsorship decisions as well on Cheerios’ part, we’ll never know if Christian Fittipaldi could’ve been the first Brazilian born driver to win in the NASCAR cup series.

Video ideas Bad Seasons: Kevin Harvick 2021. Gone To Soon: Rodney Orr. Gone To Soon: Justin Wilson. Not A Bust: Casey Atwood (Xfinity/Busch Series) Championship Seasons (IndyCar): Alex Palou 2021

I'll always remember this guy and that car from the cereal boxes- and the diecast inside

Lol I remember Fittipaldi being the driver of the 43 in NASCAR Thunder 2004 but they also had Richard Petty as a playable legend driver and unless you used Fittipaldi yourself, Richard Petty was always the 43 car that the AI used

Thunder 2004 players know

Thanks For Uploading ☺

The monza flip is something I will never forget

Steve park must of hated this guy lmao he’s in nearly every wreck with him

Sometimes I get the feeling that a lot of those open-wheel guys came to NASCAR because they bought into the misconception of "hurr durr, it's just driving in circles, how hard could it be?" I obviously hope not, but if they did, then most of them certainly found out.

NASCAR Thunder 2004 shoutout at the end. Nice. :)

He was always one of my favorites to play is in NASCAR Thunder 04 because the 43 had sooooo many paint schemes in that game so you could freshen up your look fairly often.

I was kinda anticipating this

I wonder if Dario Franchitti is considered a NASCAR Bust? Similar to Christian Fittipaldi, he came from Indycar/CART but couldn't find the same success he had in open wheel racing when he came to NASCAR. Although if there was one consolation, he drove for CGR in NASCAR and when an opportunity came up for him to return to Indycar with CGR, it opened the door to the most successful period of his career in Indycar

In most of his DNFs he got wrecked, he wasn't the one making mistakes

The battles we had for 42nd place in Nascar Thunder 2004 were legendary.

Christian Fittipaldi had the best paint schemes in NASCAR Thunder 2004, that's the only way I ever knew of him before his IMSA career

You see the trouble people like Christian, Juan Pablo Montoya, Sam Hornish, and many others, and to me it proves just how good NASCAR drivers really are. Guys that won in everything out there EXCEPT NASCAR really show how good Earnhardt, Gordon, Johnson, etc we're at manhandling a 3200 pound stock car!!!

This video pretty much sums up those who jumped from indy to stock cars and think all races cars are designed the same: failure. Despite the fact he may be good in other series, he clearly had no idea what he was getting into. Using the quote from Days of Thunder "to drive a car that weighed twice as much and tires half as wide" is a understatement! It's even more problematic when you just jump from the bgn series where power is a mere 500hp to a cup car at 750+hp. If he wrecked those few times before hitting the majors then more seat time is required if you want to understand the fundamentals of a nascar racecar. It takes years to be a good racer in one of these machines and it takes longer to be respected in this sport. I see alot of Steve Kinser in Christian "Fitti-Petty"...success after nascar.

Also lets not forget Emerson Fittipaldi is a two-time Formula 1 World Champion

He shouldn't have been in NASCAR Thunder 2004. That should've been John Andretti.

Let's take a minute to remember this guy scored points driving for minardi

The only reason I know the name is because of nascar thunder 2004

How hard did Fittipaldi hit in his debut? Well, if you look at 5:03 you'll notice that that #44 Georgia-Pacific Dodge Intrepid is missing the rear window

It really wasn't Petty as much as it was Dodge that called that shot.

His win in Road America in 1999 was unforgettable!

Oh yes, a NASCAR Bust video I always dreamed about.

Primeiro Brasileiro na Nascar 🇧🇷

NASCAR Busts: Buckshot Jones NASCAR Busts: Damon Lusk NASCAR Busts: Larry Foyt NASCAR Busts: Jason Leffler NASCAR Busts: Mike Skinner Bad Seasons: Larry Foyt 2001

My aunt's friend (Who's from Brazil) is a fan of Fittipaldi

Had a good run in the ARCA race at Pocono in 03

The transition from open wheel to stock car racing is never easy, then you put a driver with no experience on a small team and wait for fantastic results....i don't know what Richard Petty was expecting really...and Christian, he would later become a IMSA legend

Michael waktrip has more dnfs than any current drivers had races there entire careers.

I don't know if it's already been done, but a look at Steve Kinser's brief NASCAR career would be interesting. Like Fittipaldi he was put into Cup right away and he had as little success. He eventually said, "The hell with this" and he and Kenny Bernstein came to a mutual parting of the ways.

At the time I was a huge petty enterprises fan....it was a family thing but I was also a huge fan of Adam when he was alive. So let's be clear, petty enterprises was garbage, particularly in this era. Sure, Christian may not have been great in stock cars, but petty enterprises was one of the worst teams on the grid at the time. I do remember though that he ran am ARCA race for petty in 03 at Pocono and had a pretty good run. By I mean this was the same year that the 43 and 44 when it was run regularly missed races regardless of who was driving

Jarrett, Christian and Waltrip sure seemed to find eachother on track a lot based on these "highlights"

That may be the worst bust yet... hard to say but man, Im glad he found his calling in the end cause stock cars sure as hell werent it

Please make a video of Not a Bust: Juan Pablo Montoya in Nascar

Very fun fact- There’s a student in my district (7th grade) named Christian Fittipaldi.

Everyone's gangsta about him in Thunder 2004 but here's another gaming trivia about him: Fittipaldi is the only driver in F-1 Grand Prix Part II (a Japan-only SNES F1 game) that does not have a given name initial written in-game. So while you have A.セナ for Senna, N.マンセル for Mansell, etc., Fittipaldi is simply written as フィッティパルディ in-game, due to character space limits. (also idk if he had an F1 Rejects profile too in that site's heydays, if you want to label him as an F1 bust too) - nope, he was ineligible for an F1 Rejects profile because of that 4th place finish, based on their criteria.

Mike's Hard Lemonade, I'm sure they realized that wall is very hard.

to be entirely fair. the 43 teams usually suck.

Okay, they clearly didn't have a model for him for Nascar Thunder 2004, that's just a generic guy design. XD

That's the way motorsports works sometimes. A driver can be great in one discipline but just miss it in another. Brad Sweet is another example of that. Not all that good in NASCAR but has gone on to be one of the best World of Outlaws drivers.

Excellent Video, Man!!! I had almost completely forgotten about Christian, I personally feel, that, the transition from any kind of open wheel racing to stock cars, while obviously, insanely difficult, give these guys some credit for wanting to challenge themselves... oh, and before I forget, would love to see more IndyCar Busts (Sarah Fisher, AJ Foyt IV, etc), and drivers that became crew chiefs, spotters, etc (Mark McFarlane, Tim Fedewa, Coleman Pressley, Tony Raines, etc)...

I bought a honda ruckus scooter from this guy, pretty awesome man!

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The legendary Steve Park Christian Fittipaldi rivalry

2:10 another NASCAR bust that yet to be featured finished 4th.

Ik u already did the Hendrick Motorsports development program but u didn't explain they entire carriers of Blake Feese and Boston Reed since u already did Kyle Krisiloff

NASCAR Bust: Jack Sprague next.

I don’t think he even finished a single race on the lead lap

My favorite NASCAR driver was christain fittpaladi.