|| *Comments on the 2001 GNC Live Well 250:* View the most recent comment <#16> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. Darrell posted: 12.31.2005 - 6:27 pm Rate this comment: (0) (2) This was the NASCAR debut for Brian Vickers. 2. The Great Dave posted: 03.07.2009 - 11:00 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Joe Bush had sponsorship from Sentry 3. mk17ce99 posted: 06.18.2011 - 9:05 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) It was incredibly hot that day for the race. I was on the front stretch about the start finish line row 2. Was praying for Biffle to get a flat because thats the only way kenseth would have caught him. I guess Kenseth got in an altercation with track security and ironically he's never ran a busch or nationwide race since this one. 4. Mark O. posted: 04.29.2012 - 7:44 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) What are you talking about mk17? He's run over 100 Nationwide races since this one. 5. Foyt14 posted: 08.13.2013 - 4:52 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) 49 Sponsor: Rent-A-Wreck/Waterloo Tool Storage. 49 Make: Pontiac 6. CBASS posted: 01.07.2014 - 8:12 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor updates #52 Means Racing (unsponsored this race) #54 General Creations #94 2Star (NuHouse was on the car, but as a small associate) #07 Ed Whitaker Racing (car was black with yellow ducktape numbers) 7. Paul posted: 05.14.2014 - 4:31 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor update: #94 - Sentry 8. Paul posted: 09.28.2015 - 3:21 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Jeff Purvis makes his final start for Joe Gibbs Racing, leading six laps and coming home with a 7th place finish. Despite good results that both Purvis and Mike McLaughlin had earned in the first half of the 2001 NASCAR Busch Series season, JGR made a tough business decision to cut one of their two full-time teams due to the No. 20 car operating with little to no sponsorship through the first 17 races. Having earned the team's only victory of 2001 and being higher up in the points standings at the time, (McLaughlin and Purvis were 6th and 7th in Busch points, respectively.) JGR decided to release Purvis following the race at Milwaukee. Purvis would make only six more starts that season, including a victory of his own at Pikes Peak while driving the No. 21 car for Richard Childress Racing. 9. Big Mac Fan posted: 09.28.2015 - 12:02 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) And then we all know what happened to Purvis at Nazereth in 2002 while driving for Clarence Brewer, which was very unfortunate. 10. Ak47 posted: 03.23.2016 - 1:09 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I was unaware that there was a time a minor could make a start in the Busch series. I knew Kyle Busch ran truck races in 2001 at 16, but in the Busch races vickers competed that year, he was only 17 years old 11. RaceFanX posted: 03.23.2016 - 5:00 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) NASCAR didn't add an age limit for its higher series until the controversy that followed 16-year-old Kyle being thrown out of a California Speedway Truck race at the end of the 2001 season amid concern about cigarettes being advertised to minors because Marlboro sponsored the CART race taking place alongside the pickup event. 12. RaceFanX posted: 03.23.2016 - 5:09 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Greg Biffle won in the Trucks at the Milwaukee Mile in 1999 and followed up with a win in the Busch cars there here. Biffle's win was the first for a Ford driver here since Buckshot Jones' upset here in 1996. Joe Ruttman finished in the top-10 of the Truck race on the undercard for this one but crashed out early here in James Finch's #1. 13. Sam posted: 03.23.2016 - 6:29 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) But now the truck series lets people over 16 into the series except at Daytona and Talladega 14. Mk17ce99 posted: 08.22.2016 - 10:03 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Five years later but I read through the comments and would like to correct something I wrote. I meant to write that Kenseth hasn't ran a race at the Milwaukee Mile since, not that he hasn't ran an xfinity/nationwide/busch series race since that one..... 15. KyleBrown posted: 04.01.2020 - 6:40 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) According to Mike Joy on the broadcast, this was already rumored to be Purvis's last race for Gibbs with the team shutting down Monday the 2nd, and that ultimately proved true. MBNA being on McLaughlin's normally-unsponsored hood was probably also a signal. 16. KyleBrown posted: 05.04.2020 - 8:03 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Top 36 qualifying results (copied from bgnracing): 1 2 Kevin Harvick 29.394 122.474 2 60 Greg Biffle 29.420 122.366 3 57 Jason Keller 29.495 122.055 4 10 Jeff Green 29.547 121.840 5 26 Bobby Hamilton Jr. 29.551 121.823 6 27 Jamie McMurray 29.601 121.618 7 1 Joe Ruttman 29.626 121.515 8 21 Mike Skinner 29.641 121.453 9 98 Elton Sawyer 29.651 121.412 10 48 Kenny Wallace 29.715 121.151 11 36 Hank Parker Jr. 29.736 121.065 12 34 David Green 29.760 120.968 13 37 Kevin Grubb 29.790 120.846 14 33 Tony Raines 29.849 120.607 15 46 Ashton Lewis Jr. 29.849 120.607 16 20 Mike McLaughlin 29.865 120.542 17 00 Tim Fedewa 29.882 120.474 18 43 Jay Sauter 29.947 120.212 19 17 Matt Kenseth 29.974 120.104 20 11 Ron Hornaday 29.976 120.096 21 18 Jeff Purvis 29.991 120.036 22 59 Rich Bickle 29.992 120.032 23 63 Shane Hall 30.003 119.988 24 7 Randy LaJoie 30.015 119.940 25 54 Kelly Denton 30.037 119.852 26 66 Geoffrey Bodine 30.056 119.776 27 74 Chad Little 30.082 119.6732 28 23 Scott Wimmer 30.105 119.581 29 25 David Donohue 30.115 119.542 30 29 Brian Vickers 30.127 119.494 31 92 Jimmie Johnson 30.141 119.439 32 28 Brad Baker 30.186 119.261 33 14 Larry Foyt 30.546 117.855 34 44 Mike Harmon 30.773 116.986 35 95 Joe Bush 30.846 116.709 36 77 Brad Teague 30.867 116.629 Provisionals (from https://images.cbssports.com/nascar/results/nationwide-series/2001/057): 37 49 Robbie Faggart 31.036 115.994 38 93 Bill Hoff 33.843 106.374 39 52 Kertus Davis 30.945 116.335 40 07 Lance Hooper 31.561 114.065 41 15 Billy Parker 0 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. 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