|| *Comments on the 2006 Winn-Dixie 250 Presented by PepsiCo:* View the most recent comment <#28> | Post a comment <#post> 1. nascarman posted: 07.01.2006 - 1:20 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Earnhardt dominated once he had a 10 second lead before a caution. Also he told his crew cheif that he had a flat tire with 5 laps to go. 2. driver1 posted: 07.01.2006 - 1:21 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) He broke the transmission doing burn outs and had to walk to victory lane. 3. dalejrfan15 posted: 07.01.2006 - 10:51 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) JUUUUUUUUUNIOR!I cxant wait to see how well he does in 2 hours.FROM THE 35th POSITION!By the way great run for P.J Jones after starting last. 4. Miller4Prez64 posted: 07.05.2006 - 11:01 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Well this race was a snoozer unlike the Pepsi 400 which I went to. :) A 10 second lead anywhere especially Daytona is really rare. Congrats to Jr on his first Busch Series win in nearly two years tho. 5. Steve posted: 07.12.2006 - 3:38 am Rate this comment: (0) (1) Harvick busted for cheating. More cheaters caught. 6. Miller4Prez64 posted: 07.15.2006 - 3:32 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Harvick has been caught cheating multiple times hes just as bad as Knaus/Jimmie 7. Miller4Prez64 posted: 07.15.2006 - 3:33 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Also Carl Edwards was penelized a lap for wrecking Michael Waltrip and still came back to finish 5th. 8. Anonymous posted: 07.22.2006 - 12:28 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) lamar's crew chief was also busted for cheating 9. Matthew Sullivan posted: 11.28.2006 - 3:13 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Dominance. The last time anyone was able to break away like Junior did in the restrictor plate era was probably when his dad did it in the 1990 Daytona 500. That stuff doesn't happen without a really strong race car. 10. Steve posted: 12.05.2006 - 2:56 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Last Busch telecast for the FOX/FX gang, as ESPN/EPSN2 (maybe a few on ABC?) will have the entire Busch broadcast schedule starting in 2007. 11. biffle16 posted: 03.25.2007 - 7:25 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Yes, Steve, it's too bad. I like FOX a lot, but still, I like ESPN even better. 12. #26 Oreo Double Stuf Ford posted: 02.18.2008 - 7:23 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Actually, Exceptionally Stupid Place for NA$CAR sucked in '07. Way too many commercials, plus Jerry Punch bored the hell out of me. 13. RaceFanX posted: 04.15.2009 - 12:47 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Last Busch race for Steadman Marlin to date 14. Benny posted: 06.12.2010 - 4:06 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Bring Fox/FX and Spike/CMT and TNT/TBS to the Busch series. They would do a good job at that. 15. Paul posted: 02.07.2016 - 12:40 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Failed to qualify or withdrew: WD | Donnie Neuenberger | 72 | Cayman Islands | Pat MacDonald | Chevrolet 16. Paul posted: 02.07.2016 - 12:57 am Rate this comment: (1) (1) This was the first of two races that Mark McFarland would sit out due to an injury he had suffered late in the race at Milwaukee the previous weekend. Martin Truex, Jr. would serve as his replacement in the No. 88 car for those two races (Daytona and Chicago), before McFarland would return to the seat at New Hampshire International Speedway. Also, the Biagi Brothers hired their former driver, Kevin Hamlin, to drive the No. 4 car for this one race at Daytona. The team's regular driver, Auggie Vidovich, had only made four Busch Series starts entering this race since replacing Mark Green behind the wheel, the biggest track being the 1.5-mile Kentucky Speedway. Hamlin drove 14 races for the Biagi Brothers in 2005, including a pair of top-15 finishes. This would be Hamlin's only Busch Series start of the 2006 season. 17. Windows Millennium Edition posted: 03.20.2016 - 10:47 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor updates: #10 RV's.com/Camping World #50 World Financial Group/Ameriquest #00 Yellow Transportation/FleetPride 18. StenhouseFan17 posted: 09.07.2016 - 12:22 am Rate this comment: (0) (1) The night the announcers tried to tell us Dale Jr. could draft the wall...lol. 19. Anthony posted: 01.01.2017 - 8:07 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) You would never see a superspeedway race like this again. The cars started to spread out after 5 laps and handling was absolutely everything. 20. Noah posted: 02.12.2019 - 4:42 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Anyone have any explanation as to why this race was so strange? Cars spread out,Jr leading by 10 seconds,basically everyone 1-2 seconds apart from each other. 21. RaceFanX posted: 02.14.2020 - 1:19 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Champ Car World Series racer Paul Tracy's penultimate Busch Series start sees him finish 28th, his two outings at Daytona this year would be his only top-30 finishes in this series. Tracy would run one more Busch race later in the season at California Speedway then stock to Indy-style racers for the rest of his career. 22. rm posted: 03.03.2020 - 8:59 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Lucky dogs: 1st - 47 2nd - 43 3rd - ??? 4th - 60 5th - none Before pit stops started, Earnhardt had pulled out to a lead of almost 3 seconds over Edwards, who in turn had 2-3 seconds on what was left of the pack being led by Denny Hamlin. Mike Joy made a brief comment in passing about Earnhardt saying Hamlin was a very underrated plate racer, which sure was a bit of prophetic foreshadowing. The results weren't there at the time - a 3rd in his ARCA debut at Talladega (in a Gibbs car prepped by the late Dan Shaver, of all people! - no disrespect to Dan, a solid engineering mind in his own right, but his stuff was hardly top of the line) was his only top ten at that moment in time. Well, 3 Daytona 500 wins later...Junior was onto something. During the round of green flag pit stops just before the initial caution, any cars in the main draft behind the leaders that may have had a prayer at being able to catch or pass Earnhardt Jr. with a caution shot themselves in the foot by having terrible pit stops: -Leicht had a slow stop and then a 1-lap penalty, -Busch missed his pit stall, Tracy fell off the jack, -Edwards (the only other car, period, that could come close to pulling away like Earnhardt!) missed his stall, -Biffle and Wimmer had a bump-drafting contest down pit road (with Wimmer then stalling out), -Johnny Sauter missed his stall, -Kahne got blocked in, -Bowyer drove right past his stall and had to come back in, and -Kevin Hamlin ran out of fuel on pit road. Earnhardt, of course, hit his marks just fine and despite pitting at the very tail end of the green flag cycle, he maintained the lead the entire time. JJ Yeley was the driver who was in 2nd place 10 seconds back before the "debris" caution came out. Even Earnhardt was surprised on the radio that he wound up in the lead by that huge of a margin. I'm not sure if it would have gone green the whole way if the debris caution didn't fly, but if it did Earnhardt would have probably lapped all the way into the top 15-20 - if not more! - at the rate he was going and the rate the contenders were dropping like flies after pit stops. There was a bit of a bizarre red flag during the second caution when some sheetmetal from Danny O'Quinn's car got caught in one of the crossover gates in the trioval. Definitely didn't remember that happening. O'Quinn looked like he'd taken the hardest hit from the crash but it's not clear who turned him into the wall. If I had to hazard a guess, it looked like a red & yellow car, and Steadman Marlin (who dropped out with overheating issues under the caution) would fit that bill. O'Quinn was jacked way up in the back, and whoever hit him would have certainly had overheating/radiator problems. Marlin is briefly shown as being involved in the incident and had to be helped out of his car behind the wall to go to the infield care center. Stephen Leicht briefly got airborne during the third caution when he ran up over Paul Menards right front tire. It was a solid hop, too, and I'm surprised that the suspension held up well enough to finish just one lap down on a night where handling was at a premium over straightline speed. Jon Wood had a pretty catastrophic right-front blowout coming to 7 to go and smacked the trioval wall pretty hard. His car started spitting parts when he finally got onto pit road, I'm surprised they didn't throw a yellow considering they had thrown one minutes earlier when Ashton Lewis lost a tire that quickly rolled down the banking and well off into the grass. In fairness, though, Lewis then had some sheetmetal fly onto the track but after the caution had already flown. Good timing, I guess? Denny Hamlin then wrecked on the backstretch on the green-white-checkered but, once again, no yellow. 23. SweetRich posted: 03.03.2020 - 9:28 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The commentators for the race were Mike Joy, Larry McReynolds and Darrell Waltrip with Dick Berggren, Steve Byrnes and Matt Yocum on pit road. 24. ShinyMew151 posted: 03.04.2020 - 1:43 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) He also had a Talladega win in 2014 @22 25. Jason24 posted: 08.25.2020 - 10:12 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Likely the last NASCAR race ever shown on FX. 26. Rich posted: 11.28.2020 - 11:11 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Joining the race coverage were Chris Myers and Jeff Hammond in the Hollywood hotel. 27. Rich posted: 11.28.2020 - 11:11 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Up until 2015, this race would be the last Busch series event to air on the Fox Network of channels, including FX. ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC would air all Busch series events beginning the following year. 28. Rich posted: 12.15.2020 - 6:05 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Joining the race coverage were Chris Myers and Jeff Hammond in the Hollywood hotel. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: