NASCAR ROTY RANKINGS 2013: Ranking the Rookie of the Year Classes Through the Years

Join me as we take a look at every NASCAR Cup Rookie of the Year class from 1972 (the start of the modern era) through 2021, going from the worst to the first in terms of overall careers of each year’s rookie class.

2013

Ricky Stenhouse Jr.'s rookie car

Winner: Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (Roush-Fenway).  Runners Up: Runners Up: Danica Patrick (Stewart-Haas), Timmy Hill (FAS Lane).  Aborted Attempts: none

How their careers turned out: Ricky Stenhouse Jr.’s career is a tough one to judge—he’s won, but not much, and mostly on plate tracks.  But he DOES have a Daytona 500 win to his name and has raced mid-pack equipment for the bulk of his career.  Then again, the 17 car got a LOT better once he left.  Oh well—at least he isn’t doing car warrantee ads or is forced to go home to Port Tobacco.

“Fun” “Fact” about the winner: If Ricky ate every food product on his car, he’d weight about 400 lbs.

Ranking: #30 out of 50

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What Did the Engineer Allegedly Take from Joe Gibbs Racing?

This is a parody

Nascar has acknowledged that a current engineer for Joe Gibbs Racing allegedly passed information along to another non-playoff team.  Here’s what information was allegedly shared:

—the letter/number code combination that gets you free Fritos out of the JGR break room vending machine.

—meditation exercises that allowed Joe Gibbs to humor Daniel Snyder for years.

—a map of all 42 tracks Martin Truex Jr. considers to be “home tracks”.

—location of the key that allows entrance into the secret vault where they store Dale Jarrett’s original mustache.

—map leading to the burial ground in Huntersville where they dumped the remaining shards of Kyle Busch’s guitar trophy.

—details of the contract they signed with Yahoo, revealing that a majority of it was simply reassuring JGR that Yahoo still exists.

—blueprints for a prototype stopwatch to finally prevent Denny Hamlin from speeding on pit road.

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Las Vegas Race Picks: Uncle Max vs. 13th Place

Well, I’m all ready for Christmas at work (and yes, we have a Hanukkah endcap as well).  These corporate visits get more annoying every year.  I *know* they have to find SOMETHING wrong to justify their existence, but really—marking us down for a bent shelving unit that THEY paid for?  Bah!

Anyways, we’re down to four weekend left in the season, and I’m really hoping to break this tie with Thirteenth Place.  Nobody likes a tie—not gamblers, not players, and not even racers (although such a thing is statistically impossible).  On the plus side, at least I’m not at the whims of chance—just my own judgement.

TRUCK SERIES (6 wins): off

Saturday Night XFINITY SERIES (5 wins) AMBETTER HEALTH 302: COLE CUSTER—how can there be a “302” race and it’s not in Delaware?!?

Sunday CUP SERIES SOUTH POINT 400: 13th Place (2 win) Picks KYLE BUSCH.  FAVORITE (2 wins): CHASE ELLIOTT—watch some people claim this is a “make good” for last week’s DQ of Alex Bowman. NEXT FAVORITE: CHRISTOPHER BELL—hard to believe the driver second in points hasn’t won since New Hampshire—thanks, bizarre points system.  DARK HORSE: TY GIBBS—the breakthrough win has to happen soon, right?

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