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  1.   Matt posted:
  07.24.2005 - 4:17 am
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David Green leads the final two laps and takes the win after reeling in
Clint Bowyer who dominated the race along with J.J. Yeley. The win was
Green's first since 2003.

Aaron Fike (8th) and Brandon Miller (10th) picked up their first career
top 10 finishes.

Kevin Hamlin had an impressive Busch Series debut in which he lead five
laps in the late stages of the race and finished 17th in the Biagi
Brothers Dodge.


  2.   Jake posted:
  07.25.2005 - 2:52 am
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Congrats to David Green on his 1st Busch win in almost 2 years!!!


  3.   Chicago posted:
  07.26.2005 - 12:24 am
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Who needs Buschwhackers to have a good race? :)


  4.   larry spencer posted:
  10.09.2005 - 9:10 pm
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David good job


  5.   Darrell posted:
  11.18.2005 - 6:04 pm
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Unfortunately Chicago, NA$CAR thinks they're a necessity. I mean look at
Brandon Miller and Aaron Fike. Two guys who were subbing for the
Buschwhackers, and they wind up in the top ten! Heck, even Casey Atwood
had a good qualifying run in a car Kahne normally drives.

If you ask me, the Buschwhackers are the worst thing to happen to this
sport since Team Tabasco. Now Carl Edwards will probably win Rookie of
the Year over Reed Sorenson, despite the fact that Sorenson is a TRUE
Busch Series competitor. :(


  6.   Miller4Prez64 posted:
  04.30.2006 - 9:35 pm
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The buschwackers are cool and this is the last Pikes Peak race


  7.   Eric Campbell posted:
  05.26.2006 - 3:17 am
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Bill Elliott driving for Rusty Wallace. Never thought I'd live to see that.


  8.   biffle16 posted:
  01.09.2007 - 3:13 am
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Shane Hall 43rd.

Serves him right.


  9.   Darrell posted:
  02.24.2007 - 2:25 pm
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The Buschwhackers are NOT AWESOME! (They suck, and that's a fact.) And
Shane Hall did not park on purpose. That was his owner's decision.
biffle16 and Miller4Prez, please get your facts right before you go
shooting your mouth off.


  10.   mcmurrayfan posted:
  04.17.2007 - 12:10 am
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It's a shame NASCAR got rid of tracks like this. If they would run the
Busch cars at more Non-Cup tracks it would keep most of the Buschwackers
out. They could put the Trucks in more companion events so the Busch
races wouldn't be just Nextel Cup practice in Busch cars with a few
non-Cup drivers. I think the Truck Series could use more races (there's
only 25 races) anyway.


  11.   J.P.M 42 posted:
  06.13.2007 - 8:25 pm
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Kevin Hamlin's first Busch Series start.


  12.   Mike posted:
  09.17.2007 - 12:31 am
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Likely Tim Fedewa's last Busch race.


  13.   Mr. Big posted:
  05.18.2008 - 2:45 pm
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Actually a good race, but how Aaron Fike finished 8th still confuses me.


  14.   Josh posted:
  07.28.2008 - 8:10 pm
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Thank goodness to earth that David A. Green won this race. Awesome run
for Bill Elliott! By the way anyone know about Dale Quarterley? Probably
another one of those field fillers.


  15.   brandon posted:
  08.03.2008 - 8:45 am
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Dale Quarterley is listed as DNF in the same car? Why is that? i guess
that team purchased someones spot


  16.   29PennzoilChevy09 posted:
  11.21.2008 - 1:10 pm
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The only Busch race that I completely missed since watching racing.Then
there was David Green who had a good car apparently,but only led the
last 2 laps?


  17.   Anonymous posted:
  02.09.2009 - 11:38 am
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Bill Elliott's last top ten in the Busch Series.


  18.   Mike posted:
  03.16.2011 - 7:56 pm
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@29PennzoilChevy09: Bowyer was struggling a bit at the end of the race,
and Green got by. Kenny Wallace actually was the fastest at the end, but
a bad pit stop on the last caution put him back too far.

@brandon: If you look, Dale Quarterley is listed with different car
numbers on the results and the DNQ list. MacDonald Motorsports brought
two cars, the 71 and the 72. Since the 72 DNQed, they put Quarterley in
the car that made the show.


  19.   Burton22fan posted:
  02.13.2015 - 1:50 pm
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Not only was this David Green's first win of 2005, it was also his first
top 5 that year.


  20.   DickTrickleFan posted:
  03.12.2015 - 11:06 pm
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A Sasquatch I heard ran across the track durning the race. Perhaps true
where they are in a Colorado and Rocky Mountains is likely a place for
them to live. Perhaps one wondered to the track


  21.   mister83 posted:
  07.02.2015 - 2:17 am
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David Green's last career win.


  22.   Ryan posted:
  05.21.2016 - 6:44 pm
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The last race at Pikes Peak, a remote track that wasn't known for great
racing and featured many backup cars entered just to fill the field size.

It's funny how someone said they should run more standalone events to
reduce the amount of Cup drivers running - at Pikes Peak, nobody wanted
to run besides the full time Busch teams, often resulting in large
amounts of DNFs in the early laps from field filling teams.


  23.   Alex posted:
  09.26.2016 - 6:36 pm
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Yet at stages Bowyer, Wallace, Green, Yeley, Truex, and Elliott were
passing like it was Talladega. This was easily the best race run here by
any series.


  24.   JSPorts posted:
  09.26.2016 - 6:50 pm
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Never got to see a race at this track. Wish I could've. Wish we could go
back to the days where standalone tracks would be plenty in the lower
series (like Pikes Peak). Back when there were more cars (43) and more
sponsors for young drivers. Back when NXS drivers could compete with the
Cup guys, even if they weren't driving for Cup teams (Brewer, for
example). And back when there were more than 8 competitive cars in a
race, and a lot of them were driven by Busch drivers.


  25.   FrontRowMotorsportsFan posted:
  09.26.2016 - 6:57 pm
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@23 - 2005 race only had from what I see, only two S&P's. 2003 & 2004 I
would have to agree that's quite a bit of parks.

I'd like to see NASCAR build a Denver area track that's in similar to
Rockingham. There was supposed to build a "Denver Motorplex" track, but
haven't seen anything on it so I assume the project is dead.


  26.   JSPorts posted:
  09.26.2016 - 6:58 pm
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The lifeblood of this series was that they ran different tracks and had
some older, some younger drivers and different teams. Nowadays, it's
low-horsepower cup cars with cup drivers, cup tracks, cup teams, cup
sponsors and cup pit crews. This series now has no identity.


  27.   FrontRowMotorsportsFan posted:
  09.26.2016 - 6:58 pm
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Attendance: 46,000 for the final two years at the track. That's solid
for a standalone.


  28.   JSPorts posted:
  09.26.2016 - 7:00 pm
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I remember when they used to release attendance, too, because it wasn't
so embarrassing to them.


  29.   FrontRowMotorsportsFan posted:
  09.26.2016 - 7:06 pm
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Wouldn't say the identity is getting any better with Penske, SHR adding
cars. Though the plus is that they're young talents, at least.


  30.   FrontRowMotorsportsFan posted:
  09.26.2016 - 7:15 pm
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Can't really say there's many teams out there that aren't affiliated
with the big teams that really run well. Ryan Sieg, Jeremy Clements,
Ross Chastain, Tyler Young, and Jordan Anderson (in some races) have
done decent at times.


  31.   Sean posted:
  09.26.2016 - 9:44 pm
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"Wish we could go back to the days where standalone tracks would be
plenty in the lower series (like Pikes Peak)."

That's why I found last weekend's race, which was called the
VisitMyrtleBeach.com 300, to be so insulting because all it did was
remind me of the Myrtle Beach short track that the Busch Series used to
race on that was much more interesting than Kentucky...


  32.   Paul posted:
  03.17.2017 - 1:15 pm
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Hank Parker, Jr. qualified the No. 60 car for Carl Edwards. MacDonald
Motorsports entered two cars for this race, #71-Randy MacDonald and
#72-Dale Quarterley. Quarterley failed to qualify, but the team decided
to put him in the No. 71 car for the race because he had a sponsor.

Driver changes:
DC | Hank Parker, Jr. | 60 | Charter Communications | Jack Roush | Ford
DC | Randy MacDonald | 71 | MacDonald Motorsports | Pat MacDonald |
Chevrolet

(The No. 71 car was unsponsored prior to the driver change.)


  33.   Anon posted:
  12.18.2017 - 10:03 am
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Sponsor Updates
#22 K&C RV/FreedomRoads.com
#43 Channellock/Cowboy Crush

Owner Update
#7 Gregg Mixon


  34.   SweetRich posted:
  02.20.2020 - 7:24 pm
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The Commentators For The Race Were Allen Bestwick And Wally Dallenbach.
The Pit Road Reporters Were Dave Burns And Lindsay Czarniak.


  35.   Jordan posted:
  03.26.2020 - 1:17 pm
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Full Race coverage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMCL6eaeAIk

As others said earlier, I really wish the Xfinity would go back to not
only this track but many other abandoned tracks for stand alone events.
They currently do it at Iowa and several road courses.


  36.   Land0nFand0n posted:
  04.26.2020 - 7:10 am
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Stacy Compton and Jennifer Jo Cobb both crashed on their qualifying laps.


  37.   SweetRich posted:
  07.13.2020 - 9:27 pm
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The one and only Busch whacker that competed was Carl Edwards.


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