|| *Comments on the 2002 Naturally Fresh Dressings 250:* View the most recent comment <#5> | Post a comment <#post> 1. RaceFanX posted: 08.11.2012 - 11:25 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Tim Bainey Jr. picks up his lone USAR top-5. 2. rm posted: 12.15.2019 - 6:48 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) First caution - laps 4-8 - 14 spun turn 1 Second caution - laps 29-35 - 91 spun backstretch Third caution - laps 39-45 - 07, 4, 14, 17, 21, 25, 27, 35, 50, 54, 73, 78, 97 accident backstretch Fourth caution - laps 48-52 - 84 slow turn 2 Fifth caution - laps 62-68 - 88 accident backstretch Sixth caution - laps 213-230 - 3 accident turn 2 To the rear - 4 - unapproved adjustments; 17 - no qualifying time; 73 - engine change 01 DNF reason - piston 4 DNF reason - too slow 6 DNF reason - steering 91 DNF reason - engine Lap leaders - Lindley 1-55, Ross 56-164, Lindley 165, Ross 166-167, Urban 168-176, Agnew 177-214, Ross 215-250 6 sponsor - Mega Tester 25 sponsor - Texaco/Sikkens 42 sponsor - Badlands RV Park/Hess Racecars 97 sponsor - aarn.com/Fred's Jay Fogleman was held for 10 laps after his crew repaired his car for driving down pit road in reverse during the red flag after the massive 13+ car crash on lap 38. He was also later flagged for failing to meet minimum speed and parked by series officials. So, the pileup was touched off when John Gaunt, running midpack, suddenly had a right front tire fail coming off of turn 2 and caused roughly a quarter of the field to stand on the brakes behind the crash...only for the quarter of the field that was behind them to pile in at full speed and collect about half of the cars on the track. Not long after the big wreck, Kevin Sasser had a huge hit on the inside backstretch wall and kicked up a ton of dust and dirt to add to the load of speedy dry that was already populating the backstretch. Where's some windshield wipers when you need them? Anyway, it was a hard crash for Sasser, who backed into the wall, climbed that, got onto the grass embankment that makes up the infield - very, very, very narrowly missing a photographer! - and landed on his side back on the racetrack before tipping back onto all four wheels. Sasser's flat black Chevy was now tinted a lovely light brown when everything settled. This was the fabled race where there were green flag pit stops in a Hooters Pro Cup race. With how abrasive Winchester is, plus an extensive green flag run and a badly hobbled field after the huge early accident, it went clean and green as leader Brian Ross knifed through the field. Mardy Lindley had dropped back in the field after losing the lead but made a charge back up to the 42's bumper and ran about a carlength back for 20+ laps, waiting for Ross to flinch first. Ross did not flinch so Lindley made his move for the lead...only to run out of gas after leading a single lap. Jason McLellan ended the nearly 150-lap green flag run when he cut a tire trying to get a lap back from leader Jeff Agnew. Agnew picked up some damage in the big wreck and had refueled under that yellow while the team made repairs, giving him 40+ laps more of fuel than the leaders who had been ahead of the wreck. Agnew got the lead when everyone else had to pit for fuel and tires and was slower than all of the non-damaged cars as a result. McLellan got a little too aggressive and rubbed up against some loose sheetmetal from Agnew's car, causing a tire rub and very shortly afterwards, a spectacular right rear tire failure. McLellan backed it into the outside wall and shot back across the racetrack backwards, seemingly on a collision course with the inside wall that already got a test from Kevin Sasser's nasty crash earlier in the race. Instead, McLellan missed the start of the backstretch wall and darted into the infield backward at alarmingly high speed, finally stopping somewhere in the infield where he had collided with the dirt embankment and one of the rollback tow trucks. Ouch. Fittingly, the rollback suffered less damage than McLellan's car did, but there was a lot of cleanup to be done in order to get McLellan's car out of there so that the rollback would be clear to move if need be. The long caution worked against Jeff Agnew, who had taken 4 tires as soon as pit road opened and would need all the help he could get to take down the dominant car of Brian Ross. Agnew was expecting a 30+ lap green flag run to the end in which the tires would come into play, but it wound up as a 19-lap sprint to the finish where Agnew's damaged machine just didn't have enough time, power and grip to surpass Ross, who had finished 2nd in an ARCA race at Winchester previously. Some really wild wrecks in this race, if you'll take nothing else from this short novel. 3. RaceFanX posted: 12.15.2019 - 7:43 pm Rate this comment: (3) (0) You know it's an unusual race when one of the roll back wreckers comes home damaged. What a ride for McLellan and his white-and-purple #3. 4. acerogers58 posted: 05.01.2020 - 2:14 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) The photographer who was almost hit name is Mike Horne, He said the bumper almost ripped his vest off that's how close it came. 5. Rich posted: 09.23.2020 - 5:16 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Rick Benjamin and Scott Sutherland were the commentators. Stephen Cox was the sole pit road reporter. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: