|| *Comments on the 2000 Aaron's 312:* View the most recent comment <#13> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. Dave posted: 06.05.2005 - 11:40 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) After the huge lap 87 crash in turn 3, the rains came. The race was stopped and run later that night, broadcast on ESPN instead of its earlier ABC telecast. 2. Darrell posted: 12.16.2005 - 3:57 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The only start Shane Hall made with his Alumni Motorsports team. 3. HomeDepot20TS posted: 04.17.2006 - 11:36 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) That wreck that came right before the rain was one of the worst I'd seen up to that point. The right front of Anthony Lazzaro's car rode on the car of Tim Fedewa from about the drivers side door to the back, which scared the hell out of me. As I recall, Chad Chaffin spun up the track, hit the wall, slid down, and Kenny Wallace had nowhere to go. Jay Sauter and Kevin Harvick plowed into him nose to tail, possibly in reverse order. Fedewa, appearing to have the wreck missed, got run over by Lazzaro but was uninjured, and I forgot where Bobby Hamilton Jr's involvement was. They showed a shot of a few of the drivers involved walking on the apron to pit road. At the exact moment the cameras were on him, as if on cue, Tim Fedewa threw his heat shields, visibly furious and rightfully so. The wreck before that one came when Buckshot Jones made a brilliant move (sarcasm, in case you're wondering) and sent Jason Keller hard into the wall. Keller expressed his displeasure with Buckshot in his interview, then said something like "We'll get some Excedrin and be fine." Kenny Wallace, next in line to be interviewed (the big crash happened before Keller could be interviewed) decided to imitate him by saying "We need some crackers" or something along those lines. For a race in my native Georgia, the two Georgians in the field (Lazzaro and Jones) made headlines for all the wrong reasons, unfortunately mimicking the majority of both their careers. 4. Darrell posted: 07.21.2006 - 5:00 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) First time the race ran under the Aaron's 312. Surprising Mikey didn't run this one. 5. HomeDepot20TS posted: 07.21.2006 - 10:48 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) His Busch sponsor at the time was Band-Aid, thats why. 6. SK posted: 11.22.2007 - 4:24 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The late Blaise Alexander's best career finish, 7th. 7. SK posted: 01.14.2008 - 2:16 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) DNQ: #30 Hermie Sadler #91 Rich Bickle #50 Tony Roper #96 Gus Wasson #55 Michael Ritch #18 Jason Leffler #44 Terry Labonte #82 David Steele #86 Gary Bradberry #70 Ron Young 8. 83andJoe posted: 09.17.2013 - 3:19 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) #8 crew chief: Nick Short 9. BlackChevy14 posted: 09.26.2013 - 1:04 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) As of 2013, Mark's third Nationwide AMS victory remains the track record. Several are close, Harvick, Edwards, McMurray, Burton, and Kenseth have all won the race twice. Notably, Kyle Busch has yet to win the Nationwide race here. He's had some fast cars but they haven't been fast enough when it counted - often due to bad luck - and as such, he's still chasing his first win. It's one of just three active N-wide tracks (Vegas and The Glen being the others) on which there's never been a KB Show. Of course, his record in other divisions (two Cup wins, four truck wins) probably takes any sting out of the goose-egg in the Nationwide win column for Atlanta. 10. RaceFanX posted: 12.31.2016 - 4:52 pm Rate this comment: (1) (1) This was Martin's third win at Atlanta over the course of four years. He won in 1997, 1998, and 2000 with a sixth-place run in the infamous 1999 race. 11. Onion posted: 11.16.2019 - 7:04 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jay Sauter had a notably unlucky race here. He's picked up a puncture in the opening laps and had to pit under green, losing 2 laps. With a well-timed first caution and a strong drive he made them both up and managed to put the car back on the lead lap after Keller's wreck. They restart, within 2 corners Gilchrist causes the big one and Chaffin spins right in front of the #43, leaving it with nowhere to go and putting both cars out of the race. 12. Onion posted: 11.16.2019 - 7:07 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Jeez, I really should stop hitting publish before I'm done. Sauter's car was repaired after the wreck, and he came back a dozen laps down... before getting caught up in yet another accident caused by Glichrist and Buckshot, both of whom were doing their best in this race to further their dubious reputations. 13. Rich posted: 12.27.2020 - 7:32 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Dr. Jerry Punch and Benny Parsons were the commentators. Bill Weber and Ray Dunlap were the pit road reporters. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: