|| *Comments on the 2003 Tropicana Twister 300 Presented by Speedway SuperAmerica:* View the most recent comment <#18> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. Steve posted: 02.05.2007 - 5:45 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Bobby Jr. said that he wanted to step on the competition's throat and not let them go. Mission accomplished. He led all but 14 laps, and he lapped cars up to the 5th position. 2. SK posted: 11.10.2007 - 5:28 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Longtime Craftsman Truck competitor Lance Norick's last NASCAR start, to date. The Oklahoma native currently builds and races RC cars competitively for a living. 3. Anonymous posted: 04.06.2008 - 8:38 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) WHat dominating fashion for Hamilton JR. Leading ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY-SIX OF TWO-HUNDRED LAPS. I doubt he will do it again. The Nationwide series does not have the room it used to for the Nationwide guys. 4. Mr. Big posted: 05.26.2008 - 4:57 pm Rate this comment: (1) (2) Absolute dominance by Hamilton Jr. Unfortunately, this probably won't happen again (a Nationwide only guy dominating like this) thanks to all the Cup guys coming over and ruining races. 5. John posted: 11.01.2009 - 1:11 am Rate this comment: (2) (0) This race was very amazing considering it was one of the bigger Busch races of the year, which brought alot of cup drivers and teams, and a busch only team not only won the race, but dominated. You dont see that very often. 6. The Great Dave posted: 01.21.2012 - 3:09 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor on the #0 was Amerisuites Chicago-Lombard / Weber Grill Resteraunt. 7. 44andJoe posted: 12.28.2012 - 3:03 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) #88 owner: Joe Nemechek 8. CBASS posted: 01.08.2014 - 1:51 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor updates #99 T3/ Aaron's Sales & Lease 9. Burton22fan posted: 03.24.2015 - 2:04 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Kerry Earnhardt's last race in the 12. He was replaced by Tim Fedewa the next week. 10. Paul posted: 12.27.2017 - 10:59 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Joe Nemechek qualified the No. 7 car and Greg Biffle qualified the No. 88 car. The NEMCO team made a change prior to the race, and instead put Todd Bodine in the No. 7 and Nemechek moved over to the No. 88 car. Bodine had driven the No. 92 car for Herzog-Jackson Motorsports the first 18 races of the 2003 season, and was 4th in the standings before that team decided to scale back its schedule. NEMCO wanted Bodine to drive the No. 7 car the remainder of the season, but a deal couldn't be made and Bodine only ran this race for the team. Biffle would drive the car for the majority of the remaining races. Driver changes: DC | Joe Nemechek | 7 | Cottonelle Ultra / Cub Foods | Ed Evans | Chevrolet DC | Greg Biffle | 88 | Cellular One | Joe Nemechek | Chevrolet 11. John posted: 03.29.2018 - 7:34 am Rate this comment: (0) (3) @10 #7 was owned by NEMCO? I thought it was Evans, wikipedia doesn't list it in NEMCO's history. 12. Wil posted: 10.21.2018 - 1:59 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) A lot of Cup drivers in this race, yet it was dominated by Bobby Hamilton Jr, a Busch regular. Don't see that anymore. This was also Kerry Earnhardt's last race in the 12 car before being fired. He lost it coming off turn 2 and crashed-- he was both slow and tore up a ton of equipment as a driver. 13. JSPorts posted: 10.21.2018 - 2:07 pm Rate this comment: (1) (2) I wish we could see races like this nowadays. It certainly didn't hurt that most of the Cup guys were driving for separate teams. Kenseth drove for Reiser (not Roush), Mears drove for Braun (not Ganassi), Waltrip drove for his own team (not DEI), McMurray drove for Finch (not Ganassi), Blaney drove for Marsh (not Jasper), Nemechek drove for his own team (not MB2.) 14. rm posted: 05.11.2020 - 5:22 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) 99 sponsor - Terminator T3 Bobby Labonte's crash in the Cup race the next day is usually remembered as the worst wreck of the weekend, overshadowing a couple of nasty hits in this race. Kerry Earnhardt had to be cut out of his car after a crash on lap 3, spinning down the track before being punted by Ashton Lewis Jr. right in the driver's side door. Lewis was fine, but Earnhardt was placed in a collar as the safety team worked on getting him out of the car. He was taken to a local hospital for precautionary reasons. One lap after the restart, Paul Menard spun and backed it into the wall in turn 2. Nearly the whole field streamed by before Brad Teague and Larry Gunselman arrived on the scene, racing hard for roughly 36th place. Teague and Gunselman made contact and Gunselman backed it into the wall himself before clobbering Menard's stalled car. Gunselman got some TV time for the ensuing interview, but his odd answers stumped the NBC booth. Race control wasn't very happy about the two cautions for fluid on the track, as both yellows were brought on by cars that had been in and out of the garage and were double-digit laps down. Derrike Cope was 13 laps down when he brought out the third caution and Stanton Barrett was 32 laps down when he brought out the fourth caution. It wouldn't be a race from the 2003 season if there wasn't any controversy regarding racing back to the caution, now would it? Johnny Sauter and Casey Mears were locked in a dogfight for 2nd place and passed leader Bobby Hamilton Jr. past the start-finish line, something NASCAR was not terribly fond of. Nor were they a fan of Mears & Sauter riding through the scene of the accident in turns 1 & 2 at a fairly good clip while the safety crews were scrambled to the scene. Or maybe it was because all this happened on lap 15 - not 15 laps to go, just 15 laps into the race. 15. rm posted: 06.16.2020 - 10:53 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) One week after Dale Earnhardt Jr. came into Daytona for the Busch race and led all 100 laps, Bobby Hamilton Jr. turns around and pulls off a similar feat at Chicagoland, leading 186 of the 200 laps. Hamilton Jr. was in the lead by lap 3 after starting 3rd and, save for a 12-lap cycle of green flag pit stops, he never gave up P1 on the board. Hamilton Jr. seemed to see himself as the leading voice of the series regulars in 2003, calling on himself and the other championship contenders to run better and beat down the Buschwhackers as badly as the Buschwhackers had been beating them. He succeeded in his own call to action in this race, and it prompted the Busch regulars to win 11 of the final 16 races in the season. 16. GGDC posted: 09.09.2020 - 11:40 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) SPONSOR UPDATE #0 Jason White Eagle Jet / Amerisuites Chicago-Lombard CHevy #5 Brian Vickers GMAC Financial / Carquest Chevy #53 Brad Teague Tennessee Mountain Boys Pontiac #77 Jimmy Kitchens UAW / Walk to Cure Diabetes Ford #81 Dwyane Leik DSB Benore / Super Swivels Chevy #99 Micheal Waltrip Aaron's / Terminator T3 Chevy 17. Rich posted: 09.09.2020 - 2:14 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 was the host of the thirty minute pre race show. 18. YSRF0006 posted: 12.24.2020 - 2:21 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) According to the SPEED broadcast of qualifying, Gus Wasson started the weekend in the #96 car, but crashed hard in pre-qualifying practice off of Turn 4. The team did not make an on-track qualifying attempt. Josh Richeson started the race for the team but retired early. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: