Jan 21, 2022 · Back in 1997 and 1998, the International Sports Management Racing team roped in a brand new sponsor for their campaign. Soon, Todd Bodine’s infamous #35 Tabasco Pontiac was born. However, this does raise a question about why it was so infamous in NASCAR circles.

In NASCAR Cup Series competition the #35 car has started 318 races with 76 drivers and has 0 wins, 1 pole, 11 top 5s, 35 top 10s, and 115 DNFs. 1997-1998 saw the “Tabasco Fiasco ” unfold with the newly founded International Sports Management team and drivers Todd Bodine, Darrell Waltrip, Wally Dallenbach , and Gary Bradberry .

It's been fourteen years since the Tabasco Fiasco, but to this day, no full-time team has dared to run the #35 at NASCAR's highest level. In 2004, a team owned by Gary Keller attempted a few races with Mike Wallace driving an unsponsored number 35 car.

Team Tabasco is a former NASCAR Winston Cup team owned by Bob Hancher. McIlhenny Company, maker of Tabasco brand products, sponsored the car. The company announced in 1997 that it would sponsor the #35 Pontiac driven by Todd Bodine.

The #35 only ran in the top 20 once more before the season ended, and after the season McIlhenny, who had been using the race team more as a marketing tool than anything else, pulled its sponsorship from the #35 and left NASCAR altogether; this ended what has been referred to as the "Tabasco Fiasco" in NASCAR circles in the years since. [2]

Aug 29, 2022 · The Tabasco Fiasco is a well known and complicated story in NASCAR that took place in 1998. However, I wanted to dive deep into it after making my NASCAR iceberg videos and this was featured...

Jan 25, 2018 · Tabasco had a giant marketing campaign. A new fan might have been convinced that Bodine and the 35 were one of the top teams in the series.

Jan 6, 2017 · Formed by Tim Beverly, a successful businessman who owned a jet sales company, from the remains of two other teams, this is the story of ambition, struggle, and tabasco sauce. Let's take a look at Tyler Jet Motorsports. Owners: Manufacturers: Pontiac, Chevrolet. Numbers: #35 (Inherited from ISM), #45, #10. Drivers:

Oct 18, 2021 · Tabasco Brand Products scheme run by Darrell Waltrip only at the Brickyard 400 during the 1998 season. #35 Chevrolet Monte Carlo fielded by Tyler Jet Motorsports after the folding of ISM Racing due to poor performance. The crux of the infamous 'Tabasco Fiasco' in which Waltrip piloted one of his...

Feb 23, 2017 · DW drives a #35 Tabasco Monte Carlo at finishes 13th. He drives it again at Watkins Glen, finishing a decent 25th. Tabasco hits the MF-ing roof that not only had they put all this money in to sponsor Todd Bodine, who had been fired, but all their marketing also shows a Pontiac Grand Prix and now even that isn't on the track.