|| *Comments on the 2005 Food City 250:* View the most recent comment <#17> | Post a comment <#post> 1. Jake posted: 08.27.2005 - 3:08 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Congrats to Ryan Newman on the hat trick. Man what a crazy race. 2. Brian posted: 08.27.2005 - 4:08 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Congratulations to Newman. He may have not had the best car but he kept getting cautions and he did hold them off. Reed got to 11th place. 3. Mike D posted: 08.31.2005 - 3:05 am Rate this comment: (0) (3) Reed was penalized 50 points for the tire violation. It's a shame since he had nothing to do with it. However, this was a case were a penalty had to be given. NOW the test, let's see if NASCAR can keep some consistency with the rules. 4. HomeDepot20TS posted: 01.13.2006 - 9:03 am Rate this comment: (0) (3) I'm not big on rough racing (But I'm a Stewart fan, go figure) but this was one of those times I'da like to have seen Harvick lay his right front into Biffle's left rear. 5. Miller4Prez64 posted: 07.18.2006 - 2:59 am Rate this comment: (0) (4) I didn't like what Ryan Newman did to Kasey Kahne, Kahne was going to make the pass when Ryan cuts him off and sends him spinning, Ryan doesn't deserve to celebrate this race at Bristol. 6. NASCAR 24/7 posted: 03.14.2010 - 10:05 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Last race Pontiac entered in NASCAR's top 2 series with #36 Stanton Barrett, nearly 2 years after they "retired." 7. KurtBusch22Fan posted: 11.04.2011 - 10:11 am Rate this comment: (0) (5) @ Post 6 They didn't retire two years ago, they stopped giving support after 2003. 8. Jason24 posted: 08.20.2014 - 9:29 pm Rate this comment: (6) (0) @Post 7. Thats why he posted it with air quotes around retired. 9. Anthony posted: 10.09.2015 - 3:19 am Rate this comment: (0) (3) Ryan Newman dominating Busch Series - wouldn't mind seeing that again - beats Busch 10. 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Benny Parsons quoted the Hendrick Busch shop foreman as saying that they had wrecked 33 cars entering the Watkins Glen race, and they added one more each at the Glen and here at Bristol. Regarding Derrike Cope: Cope could not be located after the second rain delay ended and the team had to push the car behind the wall sans driver - hence the "quit" DNF status. There has to be more to this story, though - anyone know more? 15. Foote posted: 01.02.2021 - 5:19 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) 14 Not to mention, Fernandez had one race (Charlotte I believe) where he wrecked the primary in practice, wrecked the backup in qualifying, and wrecked the 3rd car during the race. The embarrassment of a season for the #5 team convinced Rick Hendrick to give up on driver development, and instead hire young drivers that other teams were developing. After hiring William Byron, he said in the press conference "I am a failure at driver development." 16. rm posted: 01.02.2021 - 6:49 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Well, he's not wrong! The only hits they had around this time were Busch & Brian Vickers, but even then both drivers experienced more success in Cup after they had moved away from HMS, though I suppose that could be open to debate on Vickers' part. Throwing a gaggle of drivers with minimal-to-no prior experience in full-bodied stock cars straight into the Busch ranks right as the series was exploding with quality entries - many of them Cup veterans with their Sunday teams or other affiliated organizations - is not an ideal strategy, to say the very least, in hindsight. I don't know what the right model is, but forcing a handful of young (save open-wheel vet Fernandez) drivers to all share just one or very occasionally 2 seats with no seasoning beyond a few ARCA races isn't it. 17. Ultimate_Warrior_#18 posted: 01.02.2021 - 7:44 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Rick Hendrick definitely sucked at driver development, but around that time he had the most dominant organization, with a legend a future legend already on his roster. In 03 and 04 he pretty much had the two top up and coming prospects Busch and Vickers. After that lineup of Gordon, Johnson, Busch and Vickers i don't think Hendrick Motorsports really cared enough to develop Feese, Reid, Krisloff, Cassill, and Fernandez properly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: