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  1.   CD posted:
  10.31.2004 - 4:42 pm
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Jr. wins at a short track Oh No! First Busch Race with G/W/C


  2.   Miller4Prez64 posted:
  06.23.2006 - 7:27 pm
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Jr. would become the first driver to win the Busch and Cup race in the
same weekend at Bristol when he wins the Sharpie 500 the next day.


  3.   Spencer posted:
  09.02.2006 - 6:18 pm
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First time Jr. won in a car not #8 or 3


  4.   biffle16 posted:
  03.02.2007 - 11:00 pm
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First Busch race with a green-white-checkered finish.


  5.   Clayton posted:
  03.06.2009 - 11:28 am
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Carl Edwards only Busch race of 2004. Not a bad run in just his second
career start!


  6.   Ryan posted:
  07.13.2016 - 12:41 pm
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Carl Edwards ran a one-off with a Roush/Robby Benton collaboration. It
was the only race the 03 car made in 3 attempts that season.


  7.   rw posted:
  10.30.2017 - 11:51 pm
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To this day I still remember Kenny Wallace's reaction when Jr qualified
on the pole, his head went up faster than you can blink.


  8.   Luke posted:
  03.03.2018 - 2:09 am
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No. 43 looks like a Chevy here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQY5QZsrJL4 16:11 because of the
'flashlight' and looks like a Chevy logo in the hood


  9.   Victorino posted:
  12.22.2018 - 12:11 pm
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The sponsor of #5 Kyle Busch is Lowe's/Briggs & Stratton
http://www.hendrickmotorsports.com/news/articles/9800/kyle-busch-scores-second-bristol-top-five
Thanks


  10.   RaceFanX posted:
  06.28.2019 - 1:44 pm
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A familiar face was back in action for this one as "Magic Shoes" Mike
McLaughlin took over the Ed Rensi-owned #25 U.S. Marines Ford starting
with this race, replacing Bobby Hamilton, Jr. who the team released as
he was in the process of taking over Cal Wells #32 Tide Cup ride.
McLaughlin's run here was initially a one-off but after a solid
performance where he qualified in the top-10 and finished just outside
it the deal would transition into one to run for the team throughout the
rest of the season before he hung up his helmet.


  11.   rm posted:
  12.15.2020 - 8:30 pm
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McLaughlin's arrival to Rensi came among some controversy not long after
Bobby Hamilton Jr. (Bobby Jr.? Controversial? No, never!) announced that
he would keep running his lame-duck 2004 schedule with Rensi. While both
Bobby Jr. and the Rensis said that nothing would change in their
statuses for the remainder of 2004, the mutual arrangement didn't last
very long when Bobby Jr. began making more frequent appearances on the
Cup grid in James Finch's Miccosukee car and spending less time in the
Busch garage with the Rensi team. The war of words ended in Bobby Jr.
replacing Ricky Craven in the Tide ride ahead of schedule in the fall of
2004 while McLaughlin was the new pilot of the Marine-backed Busch
entry. Jeff Green was announced as the replacement driver of the 25 car
on Wednesday morning, but by end of business McLaughlin's signature was
on the namerail instead. McLaughlin pulled out an unlikely 12th in an
eventful race that saw him do his best to drive up and over the top of
Mike Bliss in the 20 car while checking up to avoid a crash by Robby
Gordon, one of four incidents for McLaughlin on the night.

00 sponsor - NetZero
1 sponsor - Yellow Transportation
38 sponsor - Great Clips/Shark Tale
56 sponsor - DuraGloss

Greg Biffle got involved in a strange feud with Tina Gordon early on
that saw Biffle chop the already-wounded and slow (well, even more slow
than usual, somehow) car of Gordon off on the exit of turn 4 and smack
the outside wall as a result. When Biffle caught back up to Gordon
coming out of turn 2, he appeared to turn her intentionally but promptly
found the outside wall himself again when he made contact with Martin
Truex Jr. while fleeing the scene of the crime. Truex was an innocent
bystander and luckily was able to claw back into the top ten while
instant karma relegated Biffle to a trip behind the wall.

Carl Edwards, Kevin Harvick and Robby Gordon all pulled triple-duty for
the Bristol race week with this race serving as the second leg of their
schedule. Edwards won the Truck race with Harvick and Gordon closely
behind him as all three drivers scored top fives. Gordon had his luck
run out first in the Busch race when he crashed out following a bump
from the lapped car of Derrike Cope. Edwards was involved in a couple of
skirmishes and came home near the back of the top 20 while Harvick
picked up his second top five in as many races. The trio all came up
short in the main event, the Sharpie 500, with Gordon pacing the group
by finishing 12th. Edwards and Harvick ended the weekend on the
sidelines, Edwards due to a crash and Harvick as the initiator of a
driver swap. Harvick had his arm go numb during a brutally long green
flag run in the Cup race, tapping Kyle Petty to relieve him in a move
that infamously led to Dodge levying a widely-panned secret fine upon
Petty for driving a Chevrolet for 100-and-something laps.


  12.   Rich posted:
  04.20.2021 - 10:17 pm
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Allen Bestwick along with Benny Parsons and Wally Dallenbach were the
commentators. Marty Snider along with Dave Burns and Matt Yocum were the
pit road reporters. Bill Weber was the host of the pre-race show.


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