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Not a "bust" in Xfinity tho

loved his #77 scheme in the COT era

Coming soon on NASCAR Busts: Hailie Deegan Natalie Decker Quin Houff Harrison Burton Anthony Alfredo Jennifer Jo Cobb Kevin Lepage

Fun Fact: Sam Hornish also had a niece, Hope that was a part of the NASCAR drive for Diversity program, briefly in the 2010s

We got a Sam Hornish Bust video before GTA 6

In nascar, he didn't do too bad in Xfinity but the cup series was a whole different story

I did grow up watching Sam’s NASCAR Career. Though his Cup career was bad, but honestly more NASCAR fans should focus on his Nationwide/Xfinity Series career. I also think more fans should look at his IndyCar career as well! Other than that, Sam was one of those drivers that was amazing in IndyCar, but didn’t do well in Stock Cars (well, Cup).

I think Sam Hornish Jr was a somewhat decent Nationwide/Xfinity Series driver. Sam Hornish, Jr's Nationwide/Xfinity Series Stats (2006 - 2017): In 120 Starts, Sam Hornish, Jr got 5 Wins, 38 Top 5s, 64 Top 10s, 9 Poles, Led 1376 of 20096 Laps Ran, 81 Lead Lap Finishes, 17 DNFs, 2 DNQs, An Average Start of 9.3, An Average Finish of 13.7, and A Best Points Finish of 2nd in 2013.

To be fair, Hornish was rushed way too early into Cup. He should've ran a couple of full time Xfinity seasons before jumping into Cup

Cup series? Yes, Xfinity? No way

Probably should clarify Cup series bust. Almost won an xfinity series championship and won races in the xfinity series.

If we are talking Cup series? Sure. Xfinity, zero chance.

To this day, the most heartbroken I've been as a NASCAR fan was when he lost the Nationwide championship in 2013 to Austin Dillon by just three points. I've had favorites that have come one spot short of winning championships since (Brad Keselowski in 2020 & Ben Rhodes in 2022) but that one really hurt.

That Penske Mobil 1 livery was always one of my personal favorites He should've been Xfinity champ in 2013 and even got a couple wins when he returned for a few races at Iowa and Mid-Ohio. A motorsports legend for sure, but an unquestionable Cup Series bust

Another example of being rushed to Cup too quickly. He was so good in the Busch/Nationwide car, had he of stayed there another season he would have probably been ok in Cup. I'm glad you showed that clip from the fall Texas race that year, I was at that race and I think he was about half of the cautions in that race.

Hornish was one of only two drivers who was competitive in IRL before and after the CART teams (Penske, Ganassi, Andretti-Green, Rahal, Fernandez, Mo Nunn) and their drivers started coming over in 2002, 2003 and 2004. (The other driver was Scott Sharp.)

Is Hailie Deegan next?

So... being a championship contender in the 2nd tier NASCAR series is now considered a bust? Really? THIS is how deciding what a bust is?

Love the GT4 music in the background. Absolute nostalgia! 🥲💙

6:07 "Franchitti in the wall, and there's Sam Hornish" yep that just about sums up IndyCar drivers attempting NASCAR in the late 2000s.

In the Cup Series, yeah he was a bust. But in Xfinity, he was actually respectable, especially since 2011.

Cup Series yes but arguably not so in the Xfinity Series.

Do a bust vid on Colin Braun. I'm pretty sure he's a bust

Okay to be fair unlike the JJ Yeley, Reed Sorenson and Andy Houston videos I do agree with you on Sam Horny Jr being a bust Granted looking back on it the 77 clearly wasn't penske's priority probably because the 77 was originally Jasper Motorsports

How this guy never got at least an f1 test after he won his second irl championship I have no idea…

Future video idea suggestion: Drivers that come so close to a championship one season but struggle big time the next year and don't come close to capturing form from the prior year (1991 Mark Martin, 1992 Bill Elliott, 2011 Denny Hamlin, 2012 Carl Edwards, 2014 Matt Kenseth)

NASCAR busts Patrick carpentier

I don’t think he counts as a “bust”. Maybe as a Cup driver but he has 5 Xfinity Series wins and almost won a championship too. Think he barely beats the label.

Zane Smith- The rookie season from hell- coming soon to BFM

NASCAR Busts: Michael Mrucz

Marty Robbins

Hornish's birthplace of Archbold, Ohio is half an hour from where I live, and his current residence of Napoleon, Ohio is also half an hour away. His Mobil 1 paint schemes were great though. And im honestly amazed we got a Sam Hornish Jr bust video before Dario Franchitti

I remember the whole Open-Wheel drivers to NASCAR mumbo jumbo during the late prime to early twilight of my years in the Lenore House in Michigan. What a helluva time to be alive + one of them was my favorite driver after Kyle Petty retired that being Montoya and that was NOT fun! At least Hornish was good in Busch Grand National/Nationwide/Xfinity and that’s what most people should be focusing on and even as an Austin Dillon fan, I’m not afraid to admit as a regular viewer with the fanboy cap off that he should’ve been the champion in 2013 if NASCAR didn’t waste laps under yellow and actually red flagged the damn race + I met him the week of the August MIS race in 2008 at Bruce Campbell Dodge by where I lived at the time and he was very cool! Good video Darian! EDIT: I FORGOT about that 2015 Cup stint with the Pettys the 1st year I moved to Ridgeville in the Sandy Ridge House! Thanks for reminding me and bringing back so many memories!

6:50 “Speed is beautiful”

One of the best drivers racing a Pennzoil-sponsored cars

Sam’s move to NASCAR made sense at the time. That man accomplished everything in IndyCar one possibly could. Had he started in Busch full time, he would have stood a chance in Cup.

I love the "another open wheel driver that couldn't make it in NASCAR." You know, because all NASCAR drivers that go to open wheel are successful. Jimmie Johnson was a beast in Indycar!!!

I always wondered where the disconnect is with these IndyCar drivers struggling when they make the jump over. If I remember correctly, wasn't the last really successful one Tony Stewart?

Sam Hornish Jr. and Dan Wheldon! The IndyCar rivalry I got few glimpses on when the IRL was broadcasted in my country. RIP Dan! People like these two got me into oval racing.

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He probably needed to be brought along more slowly. His Nationwide/Xfinity success kind of proves it.

6:53 “speed is beautiful” How ironic

Championship Seasons: Jimmie Johnson 2007 Bad Seasons: Dale Jarrett 2003 Random Drivers: Lyndon Amick Gone Too Soon: John Nemechek ( Not JHN)

I was really hoping that at least one of the Indy car guys from that 08-13 period would be a legit contender

Holy shit the bots are out in force.

Can we talk about how Nascar screwed him out of an Xfinity title and gave it to Dillon?

At least Sam Hornish Jr has something Danica Patrick doesn't have and That's a Top 5 Finish (3 of Which) in the Cup Series

11:29 i never knew my workplace sponsored the 9 car in 2015 for Sam Hornish Jr

What is a NASCAR Bust? I don't know anything about this, but I wanna know why KZfaq is recommending me this. Can someone explain to me what a NASCAR bust is?!

Is gran turismo 5 menu music what im hearing?

I just bought his rookie diecast. 236/300 funny how this is the first video that comes out

For Indycar busts I think we need to do a video on Marty Roth, Tom Blomqvist or Zach Veach

Some drivers are great in one series and not another. Colin Braun is another.

Sam Hornish's career could have gone on a different trajectory if he had the opportunity to enter F1 instead of remaining in the IRL in the early to mid 2000's as both BAR Honda & Jordan were interested in signing him but Panther Racing & then Penske refused to release him from his contract. Heck for their first F1 season in 2005, Red Bull (who had been the Jaguar team since 2000) wanted to sign him as a way of really promoting their team in the US. However the deal was nixed once team principal Christian Horner found out that the IRL only raced on ovals & that Hornish had little experience on road courses & decided to sign David Coulthard instead.

Part of the problem is that, like David Stremme, he ran for Penske when they were at the low point of the team's slump. (Luck didn't seem to be on his side either.) I think in almost any other full-time team he would have ran better, and his later career in Xfinity seems to back that theory.

Waiting for Hailie Deegan's one

I still find it hilarious that despite his 2010 season being worse than 2009 he still scored more points in 2010 than he did in 2009

Completely unrelated to this video which was great, but why r u not on NWP? It’s been a few weeks without u and I was just curious

At Fontana, Sam Hornish won the fastest race of any kind ever run on a closed course. The average speed was over 207 mph...for 400 miles. If I remember right, that was in 2003.

Waiting for the "Nascar Busts: Hailie Deegan" since she lost the Xfinity ride.

It’s like when he called Steve Kinser a bust, yeah his NASCAR career wasn’t that great but I doubt anyone was challenging him 1v1 in a dirt sprint car race in his prime lol

Not A Bust: Sam Hornish Jr. Xfinity Series.

If there is one driver that i would recommend you cover in Gone Too Soon. Why not the 1963 Daytona 500 winner Tiny Lund? I felt like he couldve achieved more than what he got before his untimely death at Talladega in 1975. But if you don't see Tiny Lund as a driver that was gone too soon I feel like you should still cover him anyway because his story is rather interesting and one for the ages

I seen him race in a xfinity car back in 2012 at Chicagoland

6:50 Jajajaja, "La Velocidad Es Hermosa"

I'd like to see you do à video about Dario Franchiti's brief run in NASCAR.

Honestly, when I was a kid, he was my favorite nascar driver cuz NASCAR Inside Line, I thought there was a difference in how fast each o e would be. Then he had the most eye-catching paint out of the dodge cars. But I’d run Tony Stewart and Jamie McMurray, and Jimmie and Jeff. Cuz they all had my favorite looking cars.

Ok. Here’s a racing “What If”. What if Hornish stayed in IndyCar? Does he challenge Scott Dixon’s dominance? How many more titles does he win? I would’ve loved to see an IndyCar era featuring Hornish, Dixon, & Montoya. That would’ve been some fun racing.

he could be considered as a What If in Nascar overall cuz he had good races and bad races

We need one for Kevin LePagr

Was insane in open wheel, goes straight to Cup in the worst Penske car during their worst time, then kills it in XFINITY, and never gets a fair chance in Cup again Ppl really don't know what a bust is and just throw that term around like candy

SH jr generally finished lower than he qualified while in the Cup series. That ain't good.

You didn't mention the multiple wins at Iowa!

I met him he was a very nice guy At that time i was wearing an Philadelphia Eagles jacket he actually and chip Kelly (speaking about busts )just got hired He asked me how I felt about that and I told him I didn’t like it

Next Hailie Deegan please, I need that video before I die

It's it's one of those surf shark sponsorships this video is. He is one of those guys. Sure Sam Hornish Jr in IndyCar is one of the greats like Franchitti, Patrick, and the like. But when it comes to touching on NASCAR, it's supposed opposite. But SHJR stands above the rest in NASCAR Xfinity. But when touching on the world of the NASCAR Cup series, it's one of those Cup Series busts just like Danica Patrick.

I’ve always thought he had the best COT paint scheme

Aj allmendinger 2012 vídeo!! like to see it

Sam hornish Is a great guy just saying he's done a lot for his hometown

I still liked him tbh despite the results

Cup series can make you a star or get chew and spit out in an instant.

No mention of 06 team in 2007, making homestead and Phoenix?: bringing out caution at homestead too

Waiting for the Hailie Deegan vid to drop. 🍿

He looks like Elvis tbh

Poor dumb mechanics 💀💀💀

In the Cup Series driving Jeremy Mayfield's old Mobil 1 scheme on the #77 no less!

Sam coulda been a xfinity champion fs

Yeah he did nothing really exciting in cup. (Another random fact, Wikipedia says he finished 35th and was running but that's where Harvick finished. lol)

Not a bust: Sam Hornish Jr (Xfinity Series)

Danica should've seen how Sam Hornish fumbled in NASCAR as a precaution so she didn't go to NASCAR. The premise of an Indy/CART pilot going stock car racing (post-Stewart) was all too familiar as they went to go bust. But she went there anyway and....... (At least Uncle Sam fared a bit better than Lady Danica)

Nascar bust- Hailie Deegan

To be fair that 77 was never a good Penske car so he isn’t a bust for me. Roger Penske put all of his eggs in Kurt Busch’s basket.

Can you do Brian Keselowski?

Indycar bust: Milka Duno

Wasn’t a bust even in the cup series just because you don’t win doesn’t mean you’re a bust

He won some races in the Busch series so I can't really label him a bust in NASCAR in the cup series yes but not as a whole

Yea he didn't do so hot In the cup series but I always thought there was something fishy going on behind the scenes because he would show speed but not results

Sam’s not as much of a bust as he was a late bloomer

Sam was a great driver, don’t think it’s entirely fair to call him a bust.