Your 10 favorite and 10 least favorite drivers of all time

[Chewbaccer]

If 10 is too much, go with 5.

I'm a 90's kid, and NASCAR was the biggest deal for me in the late 90's and early 2000's, and though I never went away, it's a bigger deal to me now than it has been in years. I never saw Petty, Pearson and Allison, so they won't be on my list.

Here goes:

Favorites:

1. Kevin Harvick(I was a huge Dale Sr fan as a kid, but I'm 29 now and I've been a Harvick fan for 19 years now, I think it's time to put him at the top of my list)
2. Dale Earnhardt Sr.
3. Tony Stewart
4. Ricky Rudd
5. Ward Burton
6. Dale Jarrett
7. Rusty Wallace
8. Bobby Labonte
9. Elliott Sadler
10. Jimmy Spencer(Mostly for his run ins with Kurt Busch)

Least favorites:

1. Jeff Gordon(Actually really like him as an announcer)
2. Denny Hamlin
3. Sterling Marlin(Which sucks because I am a MOPAR man, but he was just such a prick in person)
4. Mark Martin(Brett Favre of NASCAR)
5. Michael Waltrip(TBH, his time as an announcer probably gets him here more than his time as a driver)
6. Greg Biffle
7. Kyle Busch
8. Joey Logano
9. Juan Pablo Montoya
10. Robby Gordon(Just a waste of talent and a terrible teammate when he had teammates)

 

[Yankee Traveler]

Hmm...

Awesome Bill
Davey Allison
Mark Martin
Ricky Rudd
Darrell Waltrip
Dale Jarrett
Geoff Bodine
David Pearson
Richard Petty
Robby Gordon
Swerv'in Irvan
Alan Kulwicki
Jeff Burton

Least...
Mike Skinner, never should have had a ride.
Jeff Gordon, Talented....and the luckiest ever.

Mostly, Dale Earnhardt. Highly talented but NASCAR's golden child who was allowed to get away with things that others were not when his talent wasn't enough.

 

[Edisto_Tiger]

Favorites

1. Big E
2. Ernie Irvan
3. Bobby Labonte
4. Lake Speed (he won the first race I ever attended)
5. Kevin Harvick
6. Buddy Baker
7. Neil Bonnet
8. Ken Scrader
9. Harry Gant
10. Ward Burton

Least favorites:

1. Geoff Bodine
2. Rusty Wallace
3. DW
4. Davey Allison (rip)
5. Robby Gordon - the prick almost ran over my wife in Bristol
6. Kyle Busch
7. Jimmy Johnson
8. Jeff Gordon
9. Greg Biffle
10. Bobby Hamilton jr.

 

[Kevin12773]

Stopped watching NASCAR when Rusty Wallace retired.

least Dale Sr. That Fucker would wreck everyone and bitch like a sour puss when it happened to him

 

[Used 2 B Hu]

Did/do not like:
Earnhardt
Petty
DW
Hamlin
Keslowski
Jeff Gordon
Tony Stewart
Stenhouse

Liked:
Neil Bonnett
Bill Elliot
Sterling Marlin
Rusty
Ernie Irvin
Kasey Kahne
Used to hate Truex but I like him now

 

[Schmoopy1000]

Favorites

1. DW (the driver not the announcer)
2. Ricky Rudd
3. Ken Schrader (I think all drivers should be like him)
4. Ryan Newman
5. Harry Gant
6. Davey Allison
7. Alan Kulwicki
8. Denny Hamlin
9. Terry Labonte
10. Matt Kenseth

Disliked Drivers

1. Joey logano (biggest douche ever)
2. Dale Sr.
3. Kurt Busch
4. Rusty Wallace
5. Kyle Busch
6. Juan Pablo Montoya
7. Danica Patrick (biggest waste of good equipment)
8. Swervin' Irvan
9. Brad Keselowski
10. Tony Stewart (total dick in person with no cameras around)

3 through 6 are pretty interchangeable

 

[psaboy]

Favorite:

Baby Driver

 

[Chewbaccer]

Hmm...

Awesome Bill
Davey Allison
Mark Martin
Ricky Rudd
Darrell Waltrip
Dale Jarrett
Geoff Bodine
David Pearson
Richard Petty
Robby Gordon
Swerv'in Irvan
Alan Kulwicki
Jeff Burton

Least...
Mike Skinner, never should have had a ride.
Jeff Gordon, Talented....and the luckiest ever.

Mostly, Dale Earnhardt. Highly talented but NASCAR's golden child who was allowed to get away with things that others were not when his talent wasn't enough.

Earnhardt wasn't allowed to get away with things. He got rough driving penalties, he just usually overcame them to win the race out of spite.

 

[pachyderm]

Not a particular order just guys I thought of while making the list except for Pearson & Dale Sr.
Pearson is my all time NASCAR fave.
Dale Sr. is my all time least fave.
*Can't stand Robby Gordon in any series.

Favorites

1. David Pearson
2. Ward Burton
   
3. Ryan Newman
4. Joey Logano
5. Sterling Marlin(Family ties)
6. Buddy Baker
7. Davey Allison
8. Richard Petty(I know, ironic as he was Pearson's natural enemy on the track)
9. Ward Burton
10. Juan Pablo Montoya

Least favorites:

1. Dale Sr.
2. Rusty Wallace
3. DW(Loved him in the booth though)
4. Cale Yarborough
5. Robby Gordon(Tried to run over a guy's wife in Bristol, probably other cities too)*
6. Kyle Busch
7. Tony Stewart
8. Danica Patrick
9. Kurt Busch
10. Dale Sr. (yeah, so much so he made it twice)

 

[Chewbaccer]

He’s not relevant enough to hate, and I know he arguably has the worst equipment in the garage, but Quinn Houff if the worst driver I’ve ever seen. Being the slowest car in the track is fine, but he’s always in the way of lead lapped cars and manages to lose control of the slowest car on the track

 

[Chewbaccer]

Did/do not like:
Earnhardt
Petty
DW
Hamlin
Keslowski
Jeff Gordon
Tony Stewart
Stenhouse

Liked:
Neil Bonnett
Bill Elliot
Sterling Marlin
Rusty
Ernie Irvin
Kasey Kahne
Used to hate Truex but I like him now

Hate hate Dale and Jeff along with Richard Petty?

DW and Smoke there too.

You just hate the guys that won most of the races other than Jimmie Johnson and Kyle Busch?

 

[Chewbaccer]

Favorites

1. Big E
2. Ernie Irvan
3. Bobby Labonte
4. Lake Speed (he won the first race I ever attended)
5. Kevin Harvick
6. Buddy Baker
7. Neil Bonnet
8. Ken Scrader
9. Harry Gant
10. Ward Burton

Least favorites:

1. Geoff Bodine
2. Rusty Wallace
3. DW
4. Davey Allison (rip)
5. Robby Gordon - the prick almost ran over my wife in Bristol
6. Kyle Busch
7. Jimmy Johnson
8. Jeff Gordon
9. Greg Biffle
10. Bobby Hamilton jr.

What’s the Bobby Hamilton Jr backstory?

All he ever was was a decent Busch series driver

 

[Chewbaccer]

And that shit Joey pulled on Chase Elliott Sunday, I guarantee he wouldn’t have pulled that with Harvick or Busch, and if he tried that with Tony Stewart, he’d have a wrecked car and a fight after the race

 

[Yankee Traveler]

Earnhardt wasn't allowed to get away with things.

Bullshit.

There were MANY late race bumps that were within the Earnhardt rules but not within the rules placed on anyone else.

But he put butts in seats, so all was ok.

 

[Chewbaccer]

Bullshit.

There were MANY late race bumps that were within the Earnhardt rules but not within the rules placed on anyone else.

But he put butts in seats, so all was ok.

The bump and run was legal for everyone, he was just the only one to do it often.

 

[Yankee Traveler]

The bump and run was legal for everyone, he was just the only one to do it often.

Some late race bump and runs were legal for some people.

They were always legal for Dale no matter the consequence and they were never legal on Dale.

Dale was NASCAR's poster boy and the rules did not apply to him.

 

[Chewbaccer]

Some late race bump and runs were legal for some people.

They were always legal for Dale no matter the consequence and they were never legal on Dale.

Dale was NASCAR's poster boy and the rules did not apply to him.

I just watched a replay of a race from the early 90’s where has was penalized a lap for spinning out Greg Sacks. He made the lap up under green and went on to win the race.

Jeff Gordon was known to use the chrome horn too, as was Rusty Wallace and numerous others

 

[Chewbaccer]

All the stuff Dale did that is bitched about by haters is encouraged today as well.

 

[Yankee Traveler]

I just watched a replay of a race from the early 90’s where has was penalized a lap for spinning out Greg Sacks. He made the lap up under green and went on to win the race.

Jeff Gordon was known to use the chrome horn too, as was Rusty Wallace and numerous others

Oh, he was talented.
Gordon was a little prick. And lucky too. I remember seeing Gordon smack the wall so hard he had concrete embedded all around the bead of both right side tires with like 10 laps to go. Never lost any air. made up like 5 positions to win.
Drive through debris...no cut tires ever.
Bodine was a short track pitbull too.

 

[Myles]

If 10 is too much, go with 5.

I'm a 90's kid, and NASCAR was the biggest deal for me in the late 90's and early 2000's, and though I never went away, it's a bigger deal to me now than it has been in years. I never saw Petty, Pearson and Allison, so they won't be on my list.

Here goes:

Favorites:

1. Kevin Harvick(I was a huge Dale Sr fan as a kid, but I'm 29 now and I've been a Harvick fan for 19 years now, I think it's time to put him at the top of my list)
2. Dale Earnhardt Sr.
3. Tony Stewart
4. Ricky Rudd
5. Ward Burton
6. Dale Jarrett
7. Rusty Wallace
8. Bobby Labonte
9. Elliott Sadler
10. Jimmy Spencer(Mostly for his run ins with Kurt Busch)

Least favorites:

1. Jeff Gordon(Actually really like him as an announcer)
2. Denny Hamlin
3. Sterling Marlin(Which sucks because I am a MOPAR man, but he was just such a prick in person)
4. Mark Martin(Brett Favre of NASCAR)
5. Michael Waltrip(TBH, his time as an announcer probably gets him here more than his time as a driver)
6. Greg Biffle
7. Kyle Busch
8. Joey Logano
9. Juan Pablo Montoya
10. Robby Gordon(Just a waste of talent and a terrible teammate when he had teammates)

Favorites:
Rusty Wallace
Boris Said
Dale Earnhardt
Tony Stewart
Warn Burton

Least:
Dale Earnhardt Jr
Jimmie Johnson
Michael Waltrip