|| *Comments on the 2002 Food City 250:* View the most recent comment <#29> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. SPENCER posted: 11.07.2005 - 10:10 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Jimmy's last Busch win (yet) 2. Darrell posted: 11.18.2005 - 10:02 pm Rate this comment: (0) (6) Mike Harmon had a terrible accident in practicing for this race (NOT the spring one!) He hit a gate and flipped over so many times his car split in two, and he collected Johnny Sauter. Thankfully they both made it out all OK. 3. Martin posted: 02.05.2006 - 9:16 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) Mike Harmon's car didn't flip, his car was split in two by the end of the concrete wall after the crossover gate flew open upon impact. The gate hadn't been secured before the practice session began. Mike started the race with Larry Gunselman's backup car and parked it after 2 laps. 4. Steve posted: 07.24.2006 - 7:47 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I recall being very impressed by Scott Wimmer's patience with lapped traffic as he chased Jimmy Spencer for the win. A couple of times I thought he might bump Jimmy a little bit as they were both slowed by lapped cars, but that's not the way Scott Wimmer races. 5. biffle16 posted: 05.15.2007 - 3:11 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Jimmy's last Busch win (ever) 6. most posted: 10.18.2007 - 1:43 am Rate this comment: (2) (0) ha, Mike Harmon didn't flip, lol. That was a nasty one though, hopefully they have learned finally! 7. Jesse posted: 10.23.2008 - 11:38 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Amazing crash: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuzCc0hBKYE He just stands up lol! 8. awesomegordonfan posted: 09.30.2010 - 6:01 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) "Mike Harmon had a terrible accident in practicing for this race (NOT the spring one!) He hit a gate and *flipped over so many times his car split in two*" (thanks, comments 3 and 6, as well as NASCAR's Worst Wrecks Vol. 1 video) "and he collected Johnny Sauter. Thankfully they both made it out all OK." And Mike Harmon still drives today. Start-and-park and sucky, but still drives. And Sauter consistently finishes well in the CWTS after a mediocre 2007 NSCS season. 9. Anonymous posted: 10.15.2010 - 2:52 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Spencer had a comfortable two second lead with two laps to go until Jamie McMurray tapped Tim Sauter into a long slide directly in front of him. Spencer had to slow way down and Scott Wimmer powered up from behind right onto Spencer's bumper, but not quite close enough to pull off a bump and run. 10. Brian posted: 07.19.2011 - 12:28 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Correction on Kevin Harvick's sponsor: His car was sponsored by Sylvania, not Advance/Rockwell Automation. 11. Ed posted: 12.09.2012 - 9:07 am Rate this comment: (2) (0) After that crash in practice, I'm not surprised Mike Harmon S&P'd 12. Alex posted: 12.23.2012 - 11:03 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) Ed, He borrowed Larry Gunselman's backup car, but that car was set up for Talladega or Daytona, not a short track. It didn't handle right so that's why Harmon parked it, rather than risk wrecking somebody else's car trying to keep up with the field. That said, not sure why Gunselman had a restrictor plate backup car, I guess if he needed it himself he would have done the same thing Harmon did and park it. **** Kevin Harvick did exit the race due to "engine", but didn't blow it as you may think. He accidently hit the kill switch on the steering wheel and couldn't restart the car. He was very upset upon exiting the car and said that they shouldn't have a kill switch on the steering wheel. Since he was running for the win and not points, he just quit as he couldn't have won by having to make a green flag pit stop due to losing power. 13. Sam posted: 02.02.2013 - 4:08 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Kasey Kahne's tough rookie season has the worst race yet, DNQing here after spinning on his qualifying lap. He wasn't high enough in points for a provisional. 14. John posted: 06.01.2014 - 2:50 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Brad Baker's crew chief for this race was Joe Ruttman 15. Nascar Lead Lap Points posted: 09.11.2014 - 10:46 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) After Harmon crash at Bristol. Michael Waltrip and his crew unload his back-up car for Harmon to drive in the race but a part owner of the team (Gregg Mixon) declined the offer He started the race with Larry Gunselman's backup car and parked it after 2 laps. 16. Anonymous posted: 12.29.2014 - 2:55 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor update #77 taco bell crew chief updates #29 bobby leslie #24 dennis connor 17. PCRaceFan0006 posted: 01.18.2015 - 7:52 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Derrike Cope's #49 was a Chevrolet. 18. PCRaceFan0006 posted: 01.18.2015 - 7:56 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Apologies, post #17 is incorrect. Cope had a Chevrolet the following week at Darlington, but at Bristol he did drive a Ford. 19. We need more Onion posted: 02.03.2015 - 11:15 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) As mentioned here, Harmon raced Gunselman's backup. His sponsor should be updated to the one he had on it. #44 sponsor: Waterloo Tool Storage 20. luigistarted06 posted: 08.17.2015 - 12:14 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) @15; man they should have taken the offer. Harmon could have ended up with a solid finish had he done so 21. Paul posted: 09.04.2016 - 1:12 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sammy Potashnick qualified the No. 49 car, but he was replaced by Derrike Cope for the race. Potashnick posted the slowest speeds in both practice sessions, failing to post a lap time under 18 seconds and was a full two seconds slower than the next slowest car during Happy Hour. It's not a surprise that the team elected to make a driver change prior to the race. 22. Jolly Mean Giant posted: 09.23.2016 - 12:15 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Harmon's car actually still had Larry Gunselman's name over the driver's window (he was interviewed about the crash just prior to the start of the race). The command for this event was given by eight of the nine coal miners who had been rescued from the Quecreek Mine in Pennsylvania after being trapped underground for 77 hours just about a month earlier. They celebrated with Jimmy Spencer in victory lane after the race. Two huge crashes in the first 50 laps really thinned out the field and were the reason there were an unusually low number of cautions for a Busch series race at Bristol at time. The first accident happened when Steve Grissom spun into the turn 2 wall after contact with Larry Gunselman. Grissom came back down the track and got clobbered from behind by Mike Wallace, who was hit from behind by Bobby Hamilton, Jr. Kerry Earnhardt also spun, and behind them, Jack Sprague, Stacy Compton, Larry Foyt, Chad Chaffin, and Brian Vickers also tangled. The other big pileup happened on the restart from that caution when Hamilton got into the back of Mark Green going into the first corner, sending Green hard into the wall and Hamilton spinning around. Johnny Sauter rear-ended Tim Sauter, and a wad of cars wound up piling in-Shane Hall, Derrike Cope, Shane Hmiel, Compton, and Coy Gibbs among them. 23. Jolly Mean Giant posted: 12.09.2017 - 10:07 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Driver change: #49 Sammy Potashnick-Greeg Roofing, Jay Robinson, Ford Potashnick qualified the #49 car but was yanked from the ride after posting woefully slow speeds in qualifying and practice in favor of Derrike Cope. He would never make another Busch Series attempt after this event. 24. Mr.Victory posted: 03.29.2018 - 7:09 pm Rate this comment: (1) (1) I believe Harmon left because he was still paranoid about the accident. Also 120,000 people at Bristol for Xfinity? You can barely get that many people into a NASCAR race in the CUP series today. 25. TeamDCR fan posted: 03.29.2018 - 10:13 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) He quit after 2 laps probably because of him driving someone else's car. 26. John posted: 03.30.2018 - 10:35 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) @24 NASCAR attendance figures were never close to being real. F1 said the first race this year had over 600,000 people. Like wtf really? 27. 52 posted: 03.30.2018 - 11:12 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) No. 120k for the busch race at bristol is legit. I was a season ticket holder for 20 years. In order to get to the night race, you had to buy tickets for every race they had. So many timesni looked around and thought, "wow, this track is so awesome it sells out the busch races." Now, I've let my tickets go back because you can roll in the day of the race and get in. Not been in 7 years, and I live about an hour away. 28. Rich posted: 08.25.2020 - 4:55 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Allen Bestwick, Benny Parsons and Wally Dallenbach were the commentators. Matt Yocum, Marty Snider and Dave Burns were the pit road reporters. Bill Weber served as the host for the thirty minute pre-race show. 29. Drew posted: 01.21.2021 - 9:28 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jason Keller should have 143 points, not 142. 9th place + laps led = 138+5 = 143. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: