The story was that RCR was building cars that were basically antiquated and too heavy than what other teams were building and didn’t realize it until the summer, coincidentally they started showing much better results at Indianapolis and Harvick almost won at Atlanta.

The 7 in Bowyers car always looked like an upside-down 2 to me

RCR's 2019 Season: It's Groundhog Day

Little did we know that RCR would be even worse 10 years later...

2009 was just simply a wired year. We had Petty merging with Everham, the wicked witch merging with Ganssi that was supposed to be a 4 car team became 2 because of sponsorship. In points while Hendrick was 1,2,3 in points, but the 4th car driven by Dale Jr had an awful year finishing 25th. Roush had a down year after winning nearly half the races in 2008, and RCR being terrible too. However replacing them at the top was a resurgent Mark Martin, Montoya pulling a chase year out of his ass, Brian Vickers pulling Red Bull Racing in the playoffs, and Brad Kesewiski winning in a part time 09 car. And I saved the worst for last but this started the attendance and TV ratings downturn as the recession took a huge hit to nascar, and is only now flatlining.

Harvick was smart for leaving RCR. he realized how much of a tire fire it is.

If the tread repeats itself, Austin Dillion becomes a star and ends up, leading the points for most of the 2020 season.

I'm glad someone did this, I was wondering what happened to this team in 2009.

Honestly it’s easy to forget clint bowyer finished the 2009 Aaron’s 499 albeit 180 laps down

I like how Casey Mears was actually doing decent before the crew chief swap. He was starting to gel pretty well with Todd Berrier. He was 2nd of the 4 RCR cars, but after the swap, Mears quickly fell to the worst of all the RCR cars at the end of the season. I don't know what tells me that Dick Childress had no interest of developing Casey Mears.

I love this Nascar history. I think nrf should do a video of an over all look on the seasons from these years.

I think I figured something out; it ain’t Childress, it’s his drivers, or driver. AD doesn’t deserve a Cup ride if those are his stats. Reddick in 4 starts already looks better than the 3. And I’m also gonna guess that Dillion has the better equipment.

I thought 2005 was the last time Harvick missed the playoffs while driving for RCR in 2009

I see it this way. A big team can be great. More drivers, more cars and potentially netting of more money. But if all of your teams have a bad year at the same time it can spell doom. I think that's what happened to RCR. 2009 was the start. They could have downsized one team to part time and gotten rid of another but childress tried to keep a four car stable and didn't have transcendent talent in at least two of the rides. The decline is definitely the reason harvick left. That just sped up the decline. We can only hope Reddick can be successful in the 8. Maybe in a year or two they can bring a 31 in part time with Hemric or a combination of RCR Xfinity driver's trying out. With Jack Daniels returning though, I think RCR may jump the gun and try moving to a three car team with a full time 07 and a part time 31. I also don't think that Austin Dillon is a bad driver. He's not transcendent, that's for sure. But I think it's more of a decent driver with mediocre at best equipment. They just don't have the funding with a lack of results. Reddick is a great driver and I feel he's a last shot for RCR. If he doesn't pan out I can't see RCR being around in 2028. Also, I remember seeing a video where someone suggested RCR buying RPM. While it is an interesting proposal, I'm not sure it would help much. And I don't think the 43 should race without a Petty affiliation. Think what you want about the 3 and Austin Dillon, at least that was Richard Childress' number and it's his grandson racing it. I don't know how I'd feel if the 43 raced without a Petty affiliation.

Its a real shame Harvick never won a title in the 29

Harvick held that organization together

6 year old me remembers...

Tyler Reddick will be in#8 next season so ( Rcr) may start winning again which is going to be awesome to watch.

I always thought Casey would have made the playoffs in 2007 if his beginning wasn't that rough. He went from being in danger of not being in the top 35 at Talladega (thanks Jimmie) to being thatclose after 26 races. I think Hendrick then gave him really inferior equipment in 2008 and kicked his ass out the door. Mears never had any luck, only flashes of brilliance.

Back when NASCAR could ban prevent major sponsors. Now they're in need of them. How the mighty have fallen

I mean..... it’s better than now at least

RCR’s biggest flaw is that they tend to jump the gun when adding teams and then not realizing they need to scale back.

Harvick missed the Playoffs in 2005, FYI.

Now Make A Video On Todd Gililand's Win

RCR should bring back the 33 car

Don’t understand why Casey mears has such a big fanbase

What’s the song at 5:00?

*2004 was the last time RCR failed to win a race before 2009. Also, Harvick failed to make the chase in 2005 as well as in 2004.

Can't help but wonder if Tony Stewart had tagged Kevin Harvick instead of Ryan Newman to drive the 39 from the very beginning of SHR existence how many more wins Kevin would have had if he wouldve just left RCR and joined SHR.

Please say the original names like Busch and Nationwide.

Do a vid like this but on gendricks 25 car

Let's face it, if it weren't for Dale Earnhardt RCR wouldn't have survived the 90's. Kevin Harvick was good enough to keep it afloat but now it's sinking. Can you imagine what Earnhardt would've done in a Hendrick car?

Actually harvick missed the chase in 2005

RCR has never been the best team in the garage, even while winning championships with Earnhardt and being Chevy’s #1 team, they still never had the best equipment. Ford was always faster than Chevy on raw speed. But at least they had good people then, the most underrated part of Earnhardt being with the team was identifying good people to hire. Even as Chevy got better with the rise of Hendrick, RCR struggled to keep up, and then after Earnhardt died they pretty much permanently fell below Hendrick on the Chevy totem pole. Combine that with the decline in quality of personnel without Earnhardt, and you get the RCR of the mid-to-late 2000s, which Harvick should absolutely have left when his contract was up after 2008. Tony Stewart was offering him a ride at Haas, which was basically in the mirror position of RCR, with Stewart now giving them the ability to hire the right people. Harvick instead wasted 3 more years working with not as talented people at RCR.

Can’t wait for Suarez to join this empire in 2020

Go jeff burton #31

Hey NRF it's called Lifes a beach then you swim not then u Drive

NRF Should Gateway replace the spring Dover race or Indy in 2021?

4th at Atlanta not Vegas.

I'm thinking rcr should of never started the 07 or the 33 and should of stayed a 3 car team

I dont see RCR winning for a while now

What a downfall

What about their 2002 season? What a failure that was.

The nightmare season of Richard Childress Racing, the last non-Hendrick Team to win the Daytona 500 pole award and the homebase of Austin Dillon, the last non-Hendrick driver to win the Daytona 500 pole award, came in 2009. I was shocked about RCR's winless season

if Gil Martin stayed with Clint Bowyer, Bowyer would have stayed with RCR longer.

666 likes. 13 dislikes. Simply amazing

they may have had a bad year then but now every year is awful

Who knew RCR would be shit 10 years later

The manier the team is, the worst it gets for RCR. When RCR only haf Dale sr only, it was successful. When rcr had Austin Dillon only, he got wins.

RCR's 2009 Season: A Nightmarish Outcome

idk how long you've watched NASCAR but it isn't the playoffs, it's the chase. Or at least it was in the 2000s. So please, for the love of god, don't call it the playoffs.