Correction: February 24th, 2013.

The best part about this race was the fact that they rebroadcasted it during the 2014 rain delay and all the major news outlets thought it was live and called Jimmie Johnson the winner again.

When there was a wreck my uncle was like, “Holy shit! Something actually happened!”

Gen 6 cars: *Hello aero sensitivity* 2013 Daytona 500: *Thomas Tank Engine intensifies*

"Well, that happened" pretty much sums up this race

Gen 6: I’m going to surprise many! Daytona: *no.*

The race itself was bad enough, but all the hype leading up to it made it seem even worse in comparison.

A great day for us Jimmie fans but also one of the cringiest days in NASCAR

Talking with people on NASCAR on SPEED page that week. They said they were trying to save their cars because they weren’t getting enough parts and pieces of the car so they had to save it. That was until Talladega in May. We all know what happened in that one.

For some reason I was expecting the Thomas the Tank Engine theme to kick in at 3:00. I don't know what this says about me.

Still better than the French GP 2019.

I don’t remember this race at all. Yet I know I watched it.

I remember being mega hyped for the start of the 2013 season too. The new Gen 6 car was coming online and my beloved #20 car was getting Matt Kenseth onboard it. Sadly, just like everyone else I was pretty bummed (not just about Kenseth's result!). The racing was pretty poor and generally always was on the plate tracks. The Spring Talladega race that year was pretty good, but other then that it was pretty lack lustre.

I remember being so bored that I went out to eat with my grandparents right in the middle of the race lol

Look at all the sponsors still on those cars in 2013......

To this day, we still see train racing

Gen 6, 2013: Daytona is going to be the best race!! Daytona: No, it's not, I'm your worst nightmare...

As a Nascar fan who got into the sport during the offseason of 2012 and 2013, and having this as my first ever race, This video hurts my soul

When Joe Nemechek blew his engine and was out, I honestly didn't care about the race. Race was crap. COT car was butt ugly, but it raced well.

Honestly, I can’t wait for Darian to make a video about the Third Worst Daytona 500 in like 8 Years about this year’s 500, which actually literally put me to sleep.

Me: trying to pay attention Also me: cause i'm thinkin' PENCIIIIIIIL FIGHT here we are

Roush never recovered from losing Matt Kenseth this year.

"Sigle File everyone " pretty much sums it up.

If dennydelivers was doing his race recaps it would be like this: 🚂

I remember sitting and watching, and was bummed out after

The 2000 Daytona 500 had 9 lead changes while the 2013 race had 28 lead changes

[Pencil Fight Intensifies] Glad to see that NASCAR 2005 Chase for the Cup music still exists outside of my playlist

*video starts and I hear the opening riff* “THIS LIFE SPREADS LIKE CANCER CAUSE NOTHING HERE IS REAL!”

"I never saw the 2000 Daytona 500 but I'm still of the opinion that it's the worst in history." Huh?

I remember this. Though I was still thinking about what happened in the final lap in the Nationwide (Xinifty) race the previous day. Let’s hope the Gen 7 cars will be better. 🤞

This was the first race I ever watched and somehow, even as boring as it was, my little 8 year old self fell in love (ig because I was a Gordon fan and didn't know any better) but man looking back... this was a snoozer

I will always say they rigged the pole for Miss I Have No Talent. Also, I’m a believer in them playing it as safe as they could after Kyle’s wreck the day before.

I was at my grandpa's birthday party when this race was on. It was at a ymca and we couldn't watch most of the race (which was a blessing in disguise because of how boring it was), but we could really only see the end. The ymca just happened to put the race on a tv with about 10 to go. my dad, grandpa, and i were all kind of bored that johnson won, so that's that. thank you for coming to my in depth story behind this race lol

This race is why I’m not looking forward to Gen 7’s first race.

I remember this race! I always remembered Danica on pole, but the Toyotas having engine trouble is something I remembered for years.

This was one of the worst races to come out at the worst time for me. Middle School, personal drama, and Hurricane Sandy had jaded me, and I wanted a nice awesome Daytona 500 to cheer me up. And what happens? Stewart out 30 laps in, terrible racing, and the Gen 6 car being one of the few times I will actually say Brian France fucked up. Since aside from removing bits of manufacturer identity the Car of Tomorrow was perfectly acceptable and didn't need to be replaced with this! At least they fixed it for the next year.

3:58 now that’s a lot of damage

Kudos for using a cool bands song Pencil Fight in the background! 🤘🏻🤘🏻

Joey Logano’s masterfully smooth dodge of that first big one though, will never forget it

Okay you used the 2005 Chase for the Cup soundtrack in this video. You've earned my sub!

It'll be interesting to see what is regarded as the best Daytona 500 from Darion's perspective

The Worst NASCAR Richmond Race: 2014 Federated Auto Parts 400.

2021 just gave 2000 and 2013 some competition.

I watch every lap of every race thank you very much!!

4:56 It was supposed to be the *FORD* *ONE*

The second Danica picked the outside, I knew it was gonna be a rough 4 hours.

I noticed you used the song “Pencil Fight” by Atomship on the video. I love that song. The singer recently passed away.

The next race, Denny Hamlin was fined $25K because his criticism on the Gen 6 car was deemed a detrimental action...

This race was the first NASCAR race I ever watched entirely, during the rain delay in the 2014 race. What a disaster.

“The aim of the Gen 6 was to bring back pack racing” All I see is line racing, no pack here

This is why I am terrified for the 2022 Daytona 500.

Great background music choice. Flashbacks to the NASCAR games.

I didn't mind this 500 at all, actually. Heck, 2004 was worse cause that had literally only 3 cars battling for the lead for like...the last 50 laps. This at least had a semblance of competition. That only got a pass cause Jr. won. Sorry, but...yeah, the '04 500 blows that much.

i remember how well this race was marketed, only time i saw store displays for the 500 like it was new year’s eve

i feel like the 2001 race would be the worst Daytona 500

That Daytona 500 sums up the last 8 years of NASCAR. I still dont understand why they do the segment racing.

Anyone taken back to Nascar Chase for the Cup with the song at the beginning of the video?

Lmaooo pencil fight as the song, great addition

Fun fact. Been a fan since 1999 and I will tell you that the 2000 500 is what killed the break away type of racing. The next race at Talladega they implemented rule changes that allowed 3 and 4 wide racing all day with no breakaway. But it didnt work in the July race at Daytona so they went with the roof strip package for the Winston 500 and we all know how great that race was. The rest was history.

I've played so much NASCAR 2005: Chase For the Cup, that I immediately recognized the guitar tune at the beginning. Atomship's Pencil Fight.

I still maintain on the final laps, had the guys hooked up early enough then Johnson would have been dogmeat but they could do anything with him. The drivers were really feeling out these cars and they felt they could make the same moves like they could with the old cars. They needed to get the train rolling way before if they could ever catch Johnson. Danica was even a threat to win this thing, I mean drivers couldn't make many moves and the pack couldn't stand to be around each other. I think this remains Danica's best start in a Cup race and her first top 10. This race just looked so dialed back than some of the Daytona 500s around this time period. I mean at least Jimmie won it, I mean somebody had to win this thing.

It feels like it's nearly every year that the Daytona 500 sucks now tbh...

Oh yeah, well your lucky you weren't me on career mode in truck series at Daytona, that ending was no fun, all me at the end haha

I can't believe it. the US's second High-speed rail line, amazing.

Love that the song in the back of the video is actually called Pencil Fight

Hey, If Jimmie wins then I highly rate the race.

I'd rather see some choo-choo shit than the current wreckfest that superspeedways are today. And I love a good wreck. Not the choo-choo shit like this,, but the choo-choo shit like the 90's.

I think the train racing was cause of the drivers and teams chose to do it. They didn't have a notebook on racing Gen 6 at Daytona yet. So to play it safe and not risk tearing anything up, they all just ran single file. That way they could take the car and engine back and really study it and get notes. We saw the same thing in the 2007 October race at Talladega. New car and never raced on a plate track before. We're gonna see the exact same thing when Gen 7 "Next Gen" rolls out in 2022. New car+new package+no notebook+no history= train racing

What's the name of the song in the background?

7:54 If Mark would have moved up to the outside he would've had a chance to catch Jimmie Johnson. Instead he decided to push Dale Jr who didn't even try to win.

What’s the background song at the start

Lifts glasses: Is that a Blockbuster sponsor on the 35 car?

Glad that I watched the 2013 *Drive4Copd 300* (Xfinity/Nationwide series) (It's the first Nascar race that I ever watched in my life)

Watching all these videos are so nostalgic. Wish the hood days would come back

You cant miss the fact that he used Pencil Fight from Atomship A song from NASCAR 2005: Chase For The Cup

Bruh I liked how the gen 6 cars was supposed to bring back stock cars and good racing yet there like the most boring cars nascar has ever had

Even back when the Harlem Shake was a thing, I didn’t get why so many people thought it was such a cool thing to do. And I thought it couldn’t have gotten worse than when _The Simpsons_ jumped on the bandwagon…

This is a great video from Black Flags Matter

that background music gave me flashbacks to EA Chase for the Cup 05

This is one of my favorite Daytona 500's cause my favorite Driver Won My other two are the 2006 Daytona 500 and especially the 1998 Daytona 500

I remembered this race, it was so weird not seeing the COT

4:11 but at the sAme time

Now I remember why the 2013 Daytona 500 was a heartbreaker as a Dale Jr fan back in the day. He had that same run similar to the 2010 and 2012 Daytona 500s, he just ran out of time. I still have that 2014 Daytona 500 championship tee after Dale Jr won that race, I wore it to football practice like an idiot when I was 15 years old. It's all torn up but hell it's still good for lounging. From a retrospective point of view, 2014 was the year when the window closed in regards to winning the Daytona 500 for JR Nation. If he had a shot to win either of his last two Daytona races especially his last Daytona race, if he didn't DNF'd out of both races, he would have swept Daytona for the 2017 season. He had the car to beat in both races especially in his last race. I attended his last 500 and Daytona race in person and he had the car where Kurt Bush sure would not have won that 500 and quite possibly Dale Jr would have held off Steinhouse in the 2017 Coke Zero Sugar 400.

Where was I when this race happened? At first, in a hospital bed after my appendix burst (fun fact: the day before at the end of the Xfinity race, the nurses rushed in because my heart monitor was going nuts, fearing the worst... nope, it's just me at the end of a plate race), and then, despite my best pleas and efforts, going under for surgery before the race ended (around the time Kenseth's engine blew). I fell asleep during the Oscars later that night - always love February as a NASCAR, Olympics, and film awards season fan. Helps that my birthday often falls the weekend of the 500, too. :) I was born a day before the 2000 500, so make of that what you will.

I was 5 but remember the 2000 Daytona 500 like it was yesterday. I wanted you the 10 car to win

Songs in the background?? They sound so familiar but can't quite put my finger on it!

Somebody was definitely on the roof with that cars 2 ray gun thing that day

I often forget this race happened and I was at the damn thing.

Do "the 3rd worst Daytona 500" next, please ;D

If I recall correctly this was the first in a series of Kyle Busch ruining Kasey Kahne’s races this year.

my friend you could upload a video for the 2007 daytona speedweeks and the daytona 500 the most chaotic speedweeks ever

Idk, as much as the racing was boring, I can kinda understand a bit of why the drivers were doing this, they got a brand new race car that is WAAAAAAYYYYYY more aero sensitive than any of the cars from the past and the drivers didn’t know what they were running with. Especially durning the pre season test, they had that massive wreck that took out just about the entire field, so that pretty much told the drivers that “hey, we might wanna take it easy with these cars,. They’re a little hard to handle” and thus the 2013 season on super speedways. Mainly the whole 2013 season. The drivers I don’t think even liked the cars, even Hamlin after one of the New Hampshire races had not good words to say about the Gen 6 car and said it needed work, which it did later on....just to make the racing worse. Just constantly changing the package over and over and over to the point where it just got wicked old. And it just lead to the addition of the “Playoffs” and the dumb stages that don’t improve the racing one bit but to just cause more and more wrecks for ad revenue. Come 2022’s Daytona 500, if probably won’t be any different, maybe a bit more racing than 2013, but the Duels and the 500 r gonna just more of a learning curve for the new Gen 7, cause the drivers, while some have tested the car, even side by side, probably won’t really know what they’re running with. Cause I’ve always said this, but the Gen 7 will most likely handle like a cross between a GT3 car and a V8 Supercar. It’ll be more of how the drivers adapt to the car during the duels and the 500 that will determine how interesting the race is. Cause ya look how the drivers have been with the Gen 6, they’re aggressive as hell, I’m surprised nobody has gotten themselves killed from how aggressive they’ve been racing. We practically almost just had that after Newman’s crash in the 2020 Daytona 500. And it’s gonna be a big question how the Gen 7 can make up for the mess of issues the Gen 6 has caused.

Pencil Fight is such a good song, good choice for the video. Nascar 2005 was a great game

Video ideas: bad season Jeff burton 2013 Jeff gordon 2013 Danica patrick 2013 Good season: Jimmie Johnson 2013 Kasey kahne 2013 Matt Kenseth 2013.

There was a Talladega race held in the 90's on a Mother's Day Sunday, it went the full 500 miles without a single caution flag. There was no strategy involved that day, it was get up front and go very fast, I think Mark Martin won it. Dull as hell.

Pencil Fight, best way to describe any Nascar Race

The long awaited sequel

I think we have a new second worst Daytona 500

I'd rather have this race than a total crapshoot like 2018.

You forgot to mention Nascar provided Danica Patrick with bigger holes in her restrictor plate for qualifying. 🤣🤣