When Jeff Gordon EMBARRASSED Coke
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- This is the story of the 2004 cola wars during the 2004 Pepsi 400 at Daytona. Jeff Gordon's lone Pepsi Chevy vs 20+ Coke drivers. #nascar #hendrickmotorsports #cheating #nascar2023 #nascarhighlights #nascarcrash #nascarcheating #jeffgordon
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Coke- We have a legion of drivers tonight, surely we will beat pepsi
Pepsi- We have Jeff Gordon, that's all we need.
Exactly he spanked them
Dr Hammond: We have a T Rex
Hold my Pepsi
@@Thedearster Good lord, has that been opened since the 80's?🤮 Hold your own antique bottle from now on....
@@kramnull8962 🤣🤣
I like how Jeff literally throws the Powerade bottle (coke brand) off his car in victory lane
All the pepsi drivers would do that and then nascar eventually started fining drivers for it😂💀
@@sorenauto2525my one question is how did Powerade get in there. Given at the time the track was still Pepsi product and Powerade was a Coke product at the time.
@@reidcraig3739Powerade was a series sponsor.
Wasn't Jeff fined for doing that? I mean, I'm not a Gordon hater but Johnson got fined for blocking the Gatorade sign and put Lowe's in front of it in victory lane after he won a race years ago.
Probably, though that may be that his sponsors also didn't like Coke products on a Pepsi car. I think Johnson was also a Pepsi car, but they didn't push it as much as Gordon. For all we know, Pepsi was willing to pay the fines.
He missed the opportunity to say I'd rather be P1 than C2.
Man I thought this so many times while making the video 🤣
Life was so good with Jeff Gordon as the phenomenon of NASCAR, the PlayStation 2 vs GameCube era, and a ton of sweet childhood memories!
Great time to be a kid. Miss those days
Man, you are right on. 2004 was such a great year for the sport even though Busch won the title. Gordon was dominant, and the NASCAR video games were amazing.
Coca Cola: “I have an army”
Pepsi: “And we have a Gordon” 😎
😄😄😄😄
"We had a bunch of those red cars for some reason I don't know what they were but they were, uh, in my way." What a badass lol
Savage, lol!
Jeff is the champ of upset changes. He was supposed to be a Ford driver but no one would take Ray, then Coke wasn’t about that Hendrick life and Jeff got Pepsi
This really reminds me of how exciting NASCAR was back then. Every race seemed to mean something. Plate races were especially cool back then when you had to be pretty good at it to win.
Plate races are and always have been, hot garbage.
Best part is... This was at the height of the controversy around the Gatorade (Pepsi) drivers blatantly knocking the Powerade bottles off of their cars in victory lane. (I think there's a compilation video of them doing it somewhere.) I remember NASCAR putting the drivers in a tough spot by putting Coke (Powerade) products on their Pepsi sponsored cars and it didn't sit well. It all came to a head when NASCAR demanded the drivers leave the Powerade bottles on their cars or face fines for knocking them off... So at Jimmie Johnson's next win, he didn't touch the bottles.. But he did place a large cardboard Lowe's sign in front of the bottles to obscure the camera's vision of them... It was hilarious, because he obeyed NASCAR and never touched the bottles... But that didn't stop NASCAR from fining him 10,000 for "improper use of cardboard." So it's subtle, but poetic that in this video, you also get a small nod to the other sponsor war going on at the same time... It was such a great time to be a fan of the sport.
God. Thanks for transporting me back to the days of watching NASCAR as a kid. And the broadcast sounds they had for the graphic alerts.... Man... I feel like a kid again cheering on Jeff
It was the best time.._
That Talladega clip with Jeff, Tony and Jimmie all up front. Talk about an era summed up in one picture.
By far the best NASCAR documentary producer right now. Amazing stuff as always
Greatly appreciated!
One race I’ll never forget being able to see Jeff in the only Pepsi car win and put a beating on all the Coca Cola c2 cars In person
Too bad Pepsi left the sport now and it’s dominated by Coke Products if any drink sponsors. But NASCAR was also more popular back then too so i guess it don’t matter as much
As a Gordon fan my favorite wins are from that infamous Talladega race and when he came back and won from 3 laps down at Martinsville in 2005. The good old days right in the middle of my childhood. Gen. 4 cars, Jeff Gordon young and domint, and Nascar Thunder series for the PS2. Miss those days.
How is it possible that the NASCAR video games were so much better 20 years ago than today? I used to play them for hours. I can't last 20 minutes with the newer ones we have now.
My favorite is when he absolutely dominated Talladega to the point he was just passing people without help and even when tandem draft passed he drove right past them like they were moving in slow motion 😭
Yes that was also my Talladega race my self. We’re he was also pull out of the draft and pull away we’re 2 cars we’re drafting as hard as they could to try catch up to Jeff Gordon since 2 cars or more supposed to be faster. But didn’t work out that 24 Hendricks car was beyond a rocket that day.
I want to give a special thanks to
Michael McIntyre & Dave W for the race and qualifying footage!
🟠🟠 Thanks for watching. I’ve always loved this story and wanted to make a video about it. I wish the quality of the footage was better but this is better than nothing. Please subscribe if you haven’t!
You know it bugs me with how blurry a lot of the video is from back then, but I always remembered it as being a really good picture. It certainly wasn't hd like today, but I don't ever recall it being that blurry. Is the aspect ratio we're viewing it on now have anything to do with making it look worse?
@@christenn32 VHS recordings deteriorate in quality. It seems like over the years, as our monitor resolution gets better, it emphasizes the flaws. There is some quality loss, going from recording to CZcams upload, as well.
Remember the tracking adjustments on VHS. If you adjusted the tracking there was 6 numbers that actually had good quality, but still wasn't the best. Those flaws show up in 1080p, let alone in 4k.
I'm a 35 year old nascar fan and Gordon was my hero. Thanks for the video. I've been watching your videos for awhile and when I seen a 24 video, I got excited. Lol
LMAO, Jeff Gordon literally gave a fuck you to Coca-Cola without flipping the bird at Coca-Cola. All he just had the power to do is ask “C what? C what?” @ 27:59
Pre-Chase NASCAR was so good. It wasn't perfect,but it was definitely better than what it has become.
Can’t think of a bad looking Pepsi 24 car . Loved the Gen 4 era of nascar
I was sooooo looking forward to watching this race as a kid… and then the rain pushed the start back, and I fell asleep & completely missed the race!!
Pepsi car at Talladega/Daytona was no joke… and lookin back on it they should’ve sponsored Jeff Gordon waaaaayyyy more, it should’ve been his primary sponsor.
I'm not a pepsi fan, but man... this story does belongs to be remember as one of the best nascar figths
I was at that race. I was in High School at the time in 2004. NASCAR was much better back then than what it is today. There was more emphases on racing. Sadly, Brian France was the Chairman back then and his horrid legacy still lives on today. 2004 was also my peak interest in Yu-Gi-Oh! and Duel Masters.
And now I feel betrayed, because Chase Elliott moved over to coca cola 😭
The only good thing that could come from that is a red #9 throwback to one of his dad's paint jobs, but I'm not happy about Chase holding a coke over a mountain dew lol
Man i miss when teams were able to build special cars for these races and really push their limits on what they could do with the bodies and chassis
I'm drinking a Pepsi while watching a video about Pepsi winning over Coca-Cola.
A harken back to the good old days of NASCAR when it wasn't sports entertainment.
I got to go to this race, saw a guy with the 24 flames hat talk to my parents beside me and i randomly decided id be a 24 fan too.
Forgot just how hard they shilled that c2. Lower carb beverage. I watched these with my dad and grandpa. Thank you.
I love the way that era of cars would get yawed out to the point where it almost looks like the cars going right as it’s turning left it was awesome to watch every week
9:06 listen to Gordon's car scream down the backstretch... greatest sounding race car ever
This is when they really started catching up to DEI with their plate engines. Thank God for that cause it made for some awesome races between the 24 and 8!
I graduated in 2000 and watched Nascar from about 12 or 13 years old. I mean I knew about Gordon and Earnhardt even when I didn't watch but just so happen I was in Germany and Iraq from 2000-2005 so I missed some of the best years!
JG was the man , Ironman Jeff Gordon , the GOAT!!
Jeff Gordon had some really cool Pepsi schemes.
Comedian Freddy Lewis was a huge fan of Jeff Gordon. In fact, Lewis once painted the number 24 on the doors of his 1981 Lincoln Continental.
Your stories are just awesome. But more than that your production and delivery of the story is phenomenal. Thats a lot of research and a lot of devoted time. Great content. Your journalism is top shelf stuff.!
Good work! Gordon getting out his car with a Pepsi in hand while having Coke as an associate sponsor(rear deck lid) had to be the ultimate embarrassment, but it resulted in some great schemes and memorable moments like this!
You know, we can all miss a lot from this era of nascar, but one thing I think a lot of us DONT miss is the constant sponsor plugs. Hearing all those drivers force some way to talk about C2 is cringy 😅
You think they stopped doing that so much? I’m gonna disagree faster than Xfinity internet.
I remember this race being significant in also showing DEI tbat Hendrick wasn't 🧢 in their Talladega win earlier that year since it was DEI and many who thought Jr should have won. I never realized there were that many cars painted alike lmaaaoo 😂😂😂😂
The pass by Jr at 17:27 is pretty sick...
That was nothing short of impressive.
This was a pretty amazing bit of history. Thanks for showcasing this.
And they all happy because the all won a bag before AND after the race.
Good stuff! I enjoy the content man. Keep it up dude!! I was just waiting for somethin and missed it by a few days haha!! Going back to school right now so this was a treat!
Thanks Mikey!
Great video! So many things I didn't know about the Cola wars. Thanks for the video 😎👍
“They may call this the Pepsi 400, but Coca-Cola still tastes a hell of a lot better.” -Tony Stewart
And Tony is absolutely right
@@LessGo7921 Amen that legendary comment was from the 2006 pepsi 400
tony aint wrong coke is great
I don’t drink coke since they agree with men wearing women’s clothing
@@DirtTrackRacing410 "Be less white" -Coke.
Best pop sponsor paint scheme was Darrell Waltrip's/Junior Johnsons Mountain Dew Buick Regal which he won back to back titles in 81 and 82.
Gordon was phenomenal but he kept beating my drivers so i couldn't cheer for him at the time. Great video, cheers.
Another AWESOME video!!! Thanks for all the hard work you put into these. Yours are probably my favorite NASCAR videos to watch!
I was like eight years old when this race happened, and I don’t really remember anything about the race itself, but I DO remember that Pepsi commercial that aired as the very first commercial after the checkered flag. Even at age 8 I was like “Wow, they must have been really sure that Gordon was gonna win to film that commercial.”
We were at this race. I was a Gordon fan since his Sprint car days. First NASCAR race I ever went to at Michigan in 2001, Jeff won the pole and the race. I miss Gordon racing. I’m a Kyle Larson now but still wish Jeff was racing.
NASCAR is no where near as exciting as it once was. The 90’s through 2015 were awesome. Not so much anymore!
This was during a time when Hendrick had finally caught up to DEI in the restrictor plate game. Gordon won the plate race prior to this at Talladega & then won the 500 at the next Daytona Cup race in 05. He would go on to win the Spring Dega race again in 05 & then both races at Talladega in 2006 so it's safe to say that he would have won no matter what sponsor was on the car, having Pepsi on there on a night when Coke had such a huge presence was just the icing on the cake for Hendrick Motorsports & the Pepsi execs...
If i remember Gordon had a dominant car but they ganged up on him Johnson won spring race in 06 and Vickers won in fall after taking out Jr and Johnson
@@markharris7751 Damn my mistake, Gordon won both Dega races in 07 not 06. But that race in 04 at Daytona, he was on the pole that night and back then whenever he was on the pole that usually meant bad news for the rest of the field on raceday...
I think we put boom tubes and 900hp every track would be sold out even with points they have now. Really nostalgic of the sights and sounds going to track first time.
Jeff Gordon- Those red cars I didn't know what they were but were in my way
You got one helluva channel here. Keep it up!
I remember watching this live. I did not get my coupon for my free two liter. The reason is that right after Jeff won the race I had to leave and rush to the hospital because my mother-in-law had passed away. This video is the only time that I have ever seen Jeff’s victory lane intervention. My mother-in-law was a Jeff Gordon fan also.
Great video! 10/10 as always
Making that commercial beforehand isnt such an uncommon thing, but incredible nonetheless. Thanks for sharing the story. I watched this race but never recall all the Coke plugs during the Pepsi 400 lol
Great video big fan of your work!
Appreciate it Seth!
The glory days…..you had to have been there. I still love Jeff Gordon and Hendrick! Let’s go!!
The marketing competition was so much fun, regardless of what side you were on. It’s a shame many brands don’t want that anymore.
Coke: I have a united the field of Chevy, Ford, and Dodge drivers to take the fight to Pepsi and embarrass you at your own race.
Pepsi: *Slaps number 24 on car*
Coke: "Wait lets discuss something here"
“Can Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson hold off Dale Jr.?”
Does Santa clause wear a red suit? I mean Jr. is good but Johnson and Gordon were the best 2 in the field. No one was catching them once they got 1-2.
Great video of the GOAT
That Earnhardt move is something that really stuck out when I watched this race
I was there at this race. Had a blast pulling for Jeff to beat the Coke cars
That night of qualifying was crazy. “So Tony, tell me about your qualifying run?”
Tony: “FUCK PEPSI”
Love the NASCAR content, keep it up
I watched this race and one Pepsi driver #24 against a bunch of coke drivers and they lost to one Pepsi driver and it was impressive! Johnson was young and loyal to Jeff until he says, it’s time to fly!!! And he did! But this night, it was belonged to the #24 Jeff Gordon Pepsi night and all in for one guy and not afraid of the so many coke drivers! What a race!
Jimmie and Chad figured out how to work that extra hard, each race, all the time.
I loved when they used to push the powerade off the car roof cause it was a coke product lol that was great.
Crazy, NASCAR is probably the only area in my life that I'm like, "please, please, bring back sponsorship wars."
The marketing, the commercials, the hilarious ways drivers tried to sell. It was fun, didn't hurt us, and made people a metric-shitton of money.
This is back when I cared about Cup. I tend to follow Xfinity now as they have more of an old school approach and somewhat of a grass roots feel.
Little known fact: Comedian Freddy Lewis only served Pepsi products at Lewis’s Bistro & Delicatessen because of Jeff Gordon! xoxo The Clarences
Saying these guy understood the assignement about sponsorship would be an understatement.
Both Coke and Pepsi goth their money worth out of this
As a Kurt fan, this hurts. Really wished he had a single plate win in the 2000’s. That 17 Daytona 500 win was such a relief 😭
Also Coke had no chance to keep him since one of Jeff’s personal longtime friends was a Pepsi executive
Let's now forget how Kurt eeked out the final race in 2004, barley beating Jimmy n Jeff 😳!!!$$$!!!
@@northcackalacky4694 I for one will never forget that 😂
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Bro I love intro song. That's a badass song intro no matter where you use it in the video. ❤❤
I don’t think I’ve heard that many Coca Cola ads in a lifetime… and that was just the first 15 minutes.
8:37 I noticed that too. Why did his car sound so much different than the rest of the cars?
I miss hearing that "boogity, boogity, boogity, let's go racing"
Victory lane interviews were the best kind of interviews.
Coke: were here
Jeff gordon: and i took that personal
Thanks again 5 Wide, another saver.
Jeff Gordon was my driver back then, and that's why I'm a Pepsi drinker. Shame that NASCAR now in days took away Pepsi.
17:28 is one of if not the greatest pass in NASCAR history
😂😂😂😂 Pepsi out here with the confidence back in the day. Said we were gonna win and by golly we did. 😂😂😂
Iconic race, but not even Gordon's best plate race. I recall one of the 2004 or 2005 Talladega races where the 24 was by far the fastest car and Jeff ended up pulling away from the pack on every restart. Hendrick, especially the 24 garage, was cooking up some wild stuff in the mid 2000s.
Pepsi is one of my favorite Jeff Gordon Sponsors.
Felt like I watched a re-run of an old Bud Light Qualifying lol
People forget that JG started out with Coke with his sponsor before switching to Pepsi.
this is good nostalgia for me
Geez Gordon's acting talent was inversely proportional to his driving talent..
That video was so… Refreshing!
His star wars 2005 Pepsi scheme honestly is the best of all time.
T-rex car and yoda car are peak paint schemes 😤
“I told you the force was with me”
There's a cardboard cutout of Jeff Gordon holding a Pepsi bottle behind me. I felt obligated to click on this video and watch it because of that
Also….I think Jeff repaid Jimmie Johnson 7 times over….. 😉
Love how those engines sounded back then.
Take me back
I miss these cars.
I hate it when JJ doesn't challenge Gordon. It's annoying. I wanna see two greats battle. C'mon
the carbonated sugar water wars
even back then FOX missed all the passes with their insistence on in car cameras.
I forgot just how bad the product placement could be haha
Dudes just got blue shit stuck on his face. Love it.