|| *Comments on the 2003 Hardee's 250:* View the most recent comment <#14> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. Darrell posted: 03.17.2006 - 1:51 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Last race for Team Bristol Motorsports. Team owner Rick Goodwin wasn't paying the bills as well as he should have, and they closed after this race. 2. DaleJrfan14 posted: 04.03.2006 - 8:28 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) i got on tv this race when a few cars (dont remember who) wrecked in turn 3 3. brandon posted: 05.04.2006 - 12:24 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) this race took place just a couple hours after nadeau's practice crash 4. nascarman posted: 05.26.2006 - 3:39 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Martin Truex's first start for Chance 2. 5. SK posted: 11.10.2007 - 6:47 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Joey Clanton's NASCAR debut. 6. James-O-Matic posted: 10.16.2010 - 1:55 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Hermie Sadler's best finish of the year, 11th. 7. Bill B. posted: 12.26.2011 - 7:22 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) IIRC, Martin Truex Jr. was actually on his way to winning this race when his transmission broke. 8. Taylor posted: 03.31.2013 - 11:34 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) 2 errors in the cautions. 7th caution was for Dave Blaney and Bobby Jr crash in turns 3/4 there was no 3 car in the race. Also the second to last caution wasn't Bobby Jr it was Mike Bliss 9. CBASS posted: 01.08.2014 - 10:33 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor updates #18 MBNA America #87 Kleenix/ CellularOne/ Hill Bros. 10. FloridaFan88 posted: 02.06.2015 - 6:01 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Qualifying Speeds 1. #99 Michael Waltrip Chevrolet 125.523 21.510 2. #57 Jason Keller Ford 125.377 21.535 3. #59 Stacy Compton Chevrolet 124.798 21.635 4. #48 Shane Hmiel Chevrolet 124.625 21.665 5. #2 Ron Hornaday Chevrolet 124.619 21.666 6. #81 Martin Truex Jr. Chevrolet 124.567 21.675 7. #10 Scott Riggs Ford 124.138 21.750 8. #38 Kasey Kahne Ford 123.938 21.785 9. #7 Randy LaJoie Chevrolet 123.870 21.797 10. #43 Johnny Sauter Chevrolet 123.836 21.803 11. #37 David Green Pontiac 123.774 21.814 12. #26 Kevin Grubb Dodge 123.706 21.826 13. #20 Mike Bliss Chevrolet 123.536 21.856 14. #87 Joe Nemechek Chevrolet 123.429 21.875 15. #21 Kevin Harvick Chevrolet 123.282 21.901 16. #92 Todd Bodine Chevrolet 122.968 21.957 17. #60 Stanton Barrett Ford 122.900 21.969 18. #75 Jay Sauter Chevrolet 122.817 21.984 19. #00 Troy Cline Chevrolet 122.577 22.027 20. #4 Mike Wallace Chevrolet 122.555 22.031 21. #5 Brian Vickers Chevrolet 122.299 22.077 22. #27 Joey Clanton Pontiac 122.283 22.080 23. #25 Bobby Hamilton Jr. Ford 122.233 22.089 24. #1 David Stremme Dodge 122.050 22.122 25. #23 Scott Wimmer Chevrolet 122.050 22.122 26. #31 Dave Blaney Chevrolet 121.979 22.135 27. #56 Tim Sauter Chevrolet 121.902 22.149 28. #33 Tony Raines Chevrolet 121.891 22.151 29. #34 Mike McLaughlin Chevrolet 121.836 22.161 30. #22 Regan Smith Chevrolet 121.753 22.176 31. #78 Caleb Holman Chevrolet 121.720 22.182 32. #18 Coy Gibbs Chevrolet 121.299 22.259 33. #19 Chad Blount Dodge 121.109 22.294 34. #13 Carl Long Dodge 121.071 22.301 35. #54 Hermie Sadler Chevrolet 120.697 22.370 36. #12 Kerry Earnhardt Chevrolet 120.649 22.379 37. #77 Brad Teague Ford 120.568 22.394 (Provisional-2) 38. #28 Brad Baker Dodge 120.434 22.419 (DNQ-1) 39. #91 Kenny Hendrick Pontiac 120.187 22.465 (DNQ-2) 40. #0 Morgan Shepherd Chevrolet 120.107 22.480 (Provisional-6) 41. #39 Jason White Ford 119.232 22.645 (Provisional-7) 42. #16 Larry Gunselman Chevrolet 118.556 22.774 (Provisional-4) 43. #44 Mike Harmon Chevrolet 118.317 22.820 (Provisional-5) 44. #61 Justin Ashburn Chevrolet 118.074 22.867 (DNQ-3) 45. #72 Randy MacDonald Chevrolet 117.127 23.052 (DNQ-5) 46. #84 Dion Ciccarelli Chevrolet 11.510 234.574 (DNQ-4) 47. #46 Ashton Lewis Chevrolet No Time (Provisional-1) 48. #49 Chris Bingham Ford No Time (Provisional-3) 49. #01 Jason Rudd Dodge No Time (DNQ-6) 11. Mike posted: 11.02.2015 - 3:05 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Did Dion Ciccarelli actually run a four-minute qualifying lap? 12. ericthenau posted: 07.20.2016 - 8:32 pm Rate this comment: (3) (2) Dion Ciccarelli never actually completed a qualifying lap, Mike. For whichever bizarre reason we will never know of, NASCAR listed Ciccarelli with a 11.510 mph lap in qualifying even though he had crashed his car in qualifying for the race, and didn't post an official qualifying time/speed due to this. Jason Rudd also crashed in qualifying after Ciccarelli did, (In fact, Ciccarelli was first out to qualify and Rudd was second.) and this led to a 3 hour and 40 minute delay in this race's qualifying session when track officials found water in the track and did whatever they could to remove it so that qualifying for the race could continue. With all of these events, qualifying took 5 hours to complete for this race, but this proved not to be the last time something unexpectedly bad would happen during the course of the race weekend. The day after this race's qualifying, and shortly before the start of this race, in Winston Cup Series practice, Jerry Nadeau would be critically injured when his car hit the outside wall driver's side first, effectively ending Nadeau's racing career. 13. Nascar Lead Lap Points posted: 08.07.2016 - 8:22 pm Rate this comment: (0) (2) Owner Update #81 Dale Earnhardt, Inc. (Same for all the races Martin ran in the #81 in 2003) 14. BradTeagueFan~ posted: 12.23.2016 - 12:46 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) First career BGN start for Caleb Holman~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: