It wasn’t just HMS, it was every Chevrolet team. None of them seemed to adapt to the Chevy Camaro body, which let to Ford and Toyota winning all but 4 races.

If there's one team that can relearn, adapt, strengthen their way back to the top of the Cup teams in that short amount of time, it's Hendrick Motorsports.

Hendrick: _dips in performance one year and then wins 2 titles three years later…_ Roush still sucking: *_“I wish for what they have…”_*

Now let’s talk about the 2021 Stewart Hass racing

That Lowe’s for Pros scheme is the most cursed car in NASCAR history.

I remember an Eric Estepp video talking about how Hendrick may cut down to 3 cars if they couldn’t find speed… So glad that didn’t happen

As a Hendrick fan, I’ll never forgive all the losers who were claiming that “Hendrick and Chevy are dead” during this time

It's crazy how not to long ago everyone was considering HMS the new Roush and Was always behind SHR JGR and Penske during 2018 and 2019 fast forward to 2021.. two Consecutive titles for HMS

What made this even sadder is that this was probably one of the best paint scheme line ups that Hendrick Motorsports ever had in my opinion for all 4 cars, and we only got to see the 9 in victory lane.

2018 was one of the awful years for NASCAR as a whole. The ratings were so down and half the races were boring. On the flipside, you had a bunch of content creators starting things together.

Alternate Title: Bad Seasons: Hendrick Motorsports 2018

The year Jimmie Johnson fans experienced huge pain

“Sometimes a team has to be really bad before they can be really good” SHR: WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN

As a Hendrick fan from when I got into racing in the early 2000s I am happy to see this season and last were bounce backs from 2018 and 2017

All I'm reminded of is how good all the paint schenes were in 2018, not even just Hendrick. Peak year for car designs in NASCAR

10:57 "I know Liberty's athletic teams are called the Flames, but this is taking it a little too literally."

This is the season us Jimmie fans wished never existed. 😢

Maybe in retrospect the 2018 season was a changing of the guard moment for Hendrick Motorsports, Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt Junior having retired and Jimmy Johnson ultimately having the first of 3 winless seasons in a row before retiring himself and both Chase Elliott and William Byron forming what we recognise nowadays

Calling William Byron a bust immediately after an Xfinity Series championship is an absolute crime.

You forgot to mention the Vegas spring race where Cole Custer (driving a Rick Ware car) beat William Byron on speed alone.

I don't know why, but I knew from the day that I saw that 2018 Johnson scheme, it was gonna be a terrible season.

That season was really hard for us Hendrick fans! But it’s been all uphill since Chase’s W at The Glen that summer!

Championship Seasons: Jimmie Johnson 2007 Gone Too Soon: John Nemechek Bad Seasons: Andy Houston 2001 Bad Seasons: Ron Hornaday 2001

Elliott grabbed the reigns and steered HMS back in the right direction and this year Larson jumped on the wagon, took the reigns, and took HMS back to the dominant ways they’re used to. None of Larson, Elliott, Bowman or Byron are even close to their ceiling either. Scary times for the competition.

When people called Byron a bust, the don't know what that even is. A bust does completly terrible in all series they raced in, like Danica Patrick.

2018-2020 really was where HMS struggled a lot. HMS is a powerhouse organization who prides itself on winning and winning a ton. There was a time where everyone was questioning HMS and what was wrong with them. Glad to see them back to championship form this year and in dominating fashion.

Can you make “Good Seasons: William Byron 2021?”

The team won 3 races. In 1990 Hendrick Motorsports had only 1 win and their star driver was injured in a crash at Daytona.

I'd say 2000 was BAD: 24 - Gordon (struggled for a good bit despite winning a couple, but the Richmond penalty tainted it) 5 - T. Labonte (less be said, the better) 25 - Nadeau (yeah he won at Atlanta, but it was such a meh year otherwise)

2021 was virtually the exact opposite of 2018 for Hendrick Motorsports and Stewart Haas Racing

I really miss the 25 car.. as an 8 year old seeing Tim Richmond kick ass during the ‘86 season is what got me into watching Nascar in the first place

Just happy they've bounced back

1:05 I love how Danica just lost it before the crash

Good stuff! You're quickly becoming one of my favorite NASCAR KZfaqrs!

Future uploads: Good Seasons: Austin Cindric 2021 and Championship Seasons: Daniel Hemric 2021.

I've got to be honest though, in my opinion, not just Hendrick Motorsports sucked, the whole 2018 season sucked with not many drivers winning (just the same 3 drivers winning over and over again) and a Mickey champion thanks to NASCAR's drunk points format

Man I forgot just how shitty that year was for Jimmie. Thanks for bringing up 3 year old trauma

Besides JJs bad season and an awful primary scheme he had some really cool schemes at homestead Charlotte and darlington

SHR: that’s nothing watch this

2:18 - The Bump of Anger

Been their fan since 94. I never expected them to have consistently amazing top tier seasons. It was bound for them to have a sticker or so, and now they’re back on top. Wish Willys first win was in the flame scheme.

As a Hendrick fan, this videos is just pain lol

So, when Hendrick unveiled their 2018 cars, i believe Chase had his old man Bill with him, Byron was paired with Jeff Gordon because of number 24, and Rick himself was with Jimmie, but who was with Alex?

What a bad year for Hendricks, also couldn’t find speed in the cars, the struggle was real for the chevy fans!

Those last few years were pure pain as a Johnson fan

Everyone Looks at SHR's 2021 season

I think 2010 is contender for this as well. Mark and Dale missed the chase while going winless. Jeff should have won more then once but went winless. 2010 championship kinda of just fell into Jimmies lap.

1:43 that’s the exact drum beat from demolition derby arenas wow

All the wrecks Johnson was in was unreal that year!!!

I became a fan of Hendrick in late 2017/Early 2018. Pain man

Nobody: 🅱️rad keselowski: bad blocks

Hopefully you’ll do: The Worst Stewart Haas Racing season (2021) The Worst RCR Season (2009) Not a Bust: Brian Scott (Trucks and Xfinity (sure he didn’t have wins at Xfinity but he’s got impressive Top 10s))

Could you do this for Gibbs in 2014 Love this video!

I always enjoy your videos. WFM

Seeing Jimmie go out the way he did just hurt. One of the most classy drivers and to see him just lose it in a year was hard to watch. Wish he could've won that 8th championship but he'll always be one of the most dominant drivers ever.

HMS that season was so painful to watch and also I think the camero for that year was not good. From that low point HMS and Camero inproved and greatly cam back 2019 forward with 2021 as the dominate team to beat

Honestly this year was even worse than 2020 for me. It was Absolute torture.

If Hendrick Motorsports worse season was a full rebuild season and still had 2 out of 4 drivers make the playoffs I think they still did alright. Just not to the Hendrick standards.

I remember people saying Hendrick Motorsports was going downhill 🤣

Nice looking cars lol. When Gordo retired I took a 5 year hiatus. Back now Sticking with Hendrix drivers though, hoping Elliot recovers from his leg and Byron has a break out year.

Bad Seasons: SHR (2021) RCR (2009) Roush Racing (2015-2016) JGR (2011)

They still won 3 races

For JJ, it was mostly made worse by Chad Knaus. Anyone who listened to their radio week after week, for whatever reason Chad REFUSED to make the adjustments JJ wanted. Just flat out refused 100%. The only exception was a few times where he did the changes JJ wanted, and surprise surprise, JJ picked up speed. IDK wtf was with Chad that year, but it was bullshit to say the least!

It's wild because I got my girlfriend to start watching NASCAR with me that season and she really got into it in 2019. She only knows Jimmie Johnson as some guy who finishes in the back of the pack instead of a living legend because she's never seen him win.

The worst Rick Ware Racing seas- OH WAIT!

0:00 Intro 0:45 Chase Elliott 3:21 Jimmie Johnson 8:23 William Byron 15:33 Alex Bowman 19:10 Aftermath

I'd vote for 1987 as their worst year. Three full time drivers only had one win between them, and that one almost didn't happen. Geoff Bodine and Benny Parsons didn't even crack the top ten in points being regularly out performed by Ken Schrader and Dave Marcis both in highly underfunded cars. Tim Richmond had two wins and eight starts and a smattering of other drivers proved unsuccessful.

I may not like nbc, but I love their enthusiasm lmao

Elloiit was the only 1 to get a win

Chase hated it for his guys a lot that season

Bad luck seasons: Byron 2021

Dude thank you so much Darian for being real and honest you didn't quite say Jimmy got scared but you did honestly admit that his downfall started with the Pocono crash you did admit that thank you so much. I've been saying for years now Jimmy got scared he hit the wall Pocono and got scared I've been saying it for years people think I'm stupid or crazy but no he won the 16 title and then comes back strong in the beginning of 17 has three wins he's up in points he's doing good breaks felt Pocono wax the wall boom never wins again never contends again thank you so much for being honest.

Is William Byron isn't a bust but he'd be like a 4th round pick

Even if they were terrible in 2018. They we’re STILL better than Stewart Haas was this season and STILL scored more wins than SHR in 2021. Stewart Haas only got a win this year because the garbage officiating manipulated the outcome of the race TWICE just so they can make the cut line battle “exciting.” They didn’t bother throwing the caution out for rain and they knew Bell was going to win so they had to shorten the race all because the windows were darker than the light outside. And then Almirola went 13 straight races without a top 13 finish. Truly an accomplishment.

Team Hendricks struggling back in 2018? As a Penske fans and SHR fans I enjoy watching them struggles 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 2018 is the best Season for Ford, First On Race Day baby!

You should do a bust video on NASCAR 21 Ignition

I’m gonna say my suggestions again Nascar Busts: Micheal Annett Bad Seasons: Kevin Harvick 2021 Good Seasons: Michael McDowell 2021 ( yes it sounds stupid but for FRM equipment McDowell had an incredible season in my eyes) Gone To Soon: Justin Wilson Gone To Soon: Rodney Orr

I blame the game cover curse lol for that year NH3

This is becoming the era of Gibbs vs Hendrick at the moment in my opinion

TBH I'd argue 2019 as Hendrick Motorsports' Worst Season Even though they had more wins and while Alex Bowman and William Byron improved greatly from the year prior Chase Elliott's 2019 season wasn't as fruitful by his standards while he scored the same amount of wins (3) and the same amount of Top 5s (11) the year prior 2018 He had 6 less Top 10s and an Average finish 3 positions worse Not to mention he had 6 DNFs in 2019 Half of which were last place finishes And for Jimmie Johnson 2019 is his worst season on Average

If only this could happen again.

7:06 if Johnson turns up, he collects Almirola, who doesn't win that race

This season made me hate the Camaro with a passion. I am okay with it now because they fixed the nose but that first year was awful.

Jr was crap after the concussion, but like it mattered because he made more money selling Mt Dew than he ever did racing.

Good thing about the 2018 season is Austin Dillon winning the 500

They didn’t rebrand the 48 to the 5, they rebranded the 88.

Yup Yup, 2018 was the Worst Season Ever for HMS. As an HMS fan, the Problem was with the Camaro, it was one Factor that lead to the Drop in performance

Pretty funny that hendrick's worst season was also their most hyped up season

I personally blame the garbage original Chevy Camaro and Jimmie Johnson’s ugly Lowe’s for Pros for this (not only the paint scheme is so painfully ugly to look at, 3 years later…. But I feel like this scheme was a curse too. Idk why)

I'm not making excuses I'm a Ford guy ...believe or not I'm still a Hendrick fan as well along with the Wood Brothers ..but anyway that camaro was awful from the start in 2018

My predictions: Alex Bowman will be the 2022 Cup Series champion and William Byron the 23 one.

The Worst Hendrick Season is still better than Roush Fenway Racing today.

Byron and Bowman had brilliant 2021 Rookie seasons

I find it funny that xfinty has a problem after the season ended

Me starting to remember Charlotte Roval with the 78 and 48: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

One thing I always thought was Jimmie Johnson for years even though he was so good he was always so lucky aoll the time eventually he was gonna get a massive run of bad luck as well

I want the 88 car back on the track, but not on a Hendrick car though

A lot of Jimmy's failures include mechanical issues

Basically it was a declining Jimmie Johnson, and three children who hadn't figured out how to win yet

2:31 I was there