![]() Instead of going to Robert Yates for help, perhaps they should have gone to another Robert: Robert Burns.īurns was a poet who wrote a well worn piece of wisdom in his work "To a Mouse". ![]() The decision proved to be the wrong one, as Roush fumbled about trying to get a handle on the unfamiliar car and posting a sixth place finish while Earnhardt finished third and collected his title. Roush repainted and ran a Robert Yates Thunderbird previously driven by Davey Allison for the race. When none of the cars proved fast enough, the Ford camp pooled its resources and came up with an alternative. ![]() The 1990 championship went down to the wire with Dale Earnhardt and Mark Martin, and Ford was prepared to do just about anything to stop the Intimidator from winning his fourth championship.Īs the final race at Atlanta loomed, Roush Racing took six different cars to the track to test in order to find the best bullet for Mark Martin to use for that last effort to win the title. Here's a look (in no particular order) at some of those moments that while embarrassing give the sport even more character as it works on its seventh decade. Some are even not necessarily embarrassing to the sport, but they were embarrassing, cringe-worthy, or ill-advised moments inside the sport.Īll of them are moments that left some part of the sport uncomfortable or some part of its fans wishing they could look away. Others are just a black eye on the sport. Some are moments when someone got the better of NASCAR by outsmarting the sport (although ultimately almost always being caught). They're like the moments in a comedy film where you're looking around the theater wondering if it's OK to laugh. Some of the moments and stories in this list are embarrassing for different reasons.Ī handful of them are funny, but cringe-worthy. There's been spectacular wins, amazing stories behind the wins and a colorful cast of characters from the sport's inception in 1948 to today.Īlong the way, the sport has also been peppered with some moments that NASCAR would like to forget. Both Kohli and Kumble denied such allegations throughout the tournament and days after India lost the tournament Final to Pakistan, Kumble came down from his post, a day before his contract was due to expire.NASCAR has a lot of history in its 63 years. At the Games opening ceremony, instead of the Indian flag, they marched wearing the Olympic rings, under the Olympic flag.Ģ017 ICC Champions Trophy, there were reports of a rough relation between the Indian captain Virat Kohli and coach Kumble. Three Indians – Shiva Keshavan, Nadeem Iqbal, and Himanshu Thakur qualified for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics but were listed as Independent Olympic athletes, under the banner of the International Olympic Committee. Here are few memories Indian fans would want to call as embarrassing sports moment:Įmbarrassing sports moment – Winter Olympics They had to face some Embarrassing sports moments. No one reaches its peak without any difficulty, while the Indian sports also had to face some difficulties. But when something has reached a level, It reaches by failure’s, mistakes and embarrassments. When we speak about India in Sports, all we can see is the graph going up. Embarrassing moments in Indian sports are many.
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