|| *Comments on the 2014 Drive to Stop Diabetes 300:* View the most recent comment <#91> | Post a comment <#post> 1. DaleSrFanForever posted: 03.15.2014 - 11:57 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I'm actually gonna watch this race. I want to see Ryan Blaney in that #22 car, see if he can run with the #54 at Bristol. 2. Daniel posted: 03.15.2014 - 12:26 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) In using fastest 40: #76 Willie Allen Out using fastest 40: #24 Ruben Garcia Jr. 3. Dense Drip posted: 03.15.2014 - 12:37 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I feel really bad for Martins Motorsports. Both of their drivers didn't qualify. I got a bad feeling that they won't be around for long. 4. ESPN posted: 03.15.2014 - 12:52 pm Rate this comment: (1) (3) History is going to be made today. Kyle is going for his 16th career Bristol win. 5. Dave #38 Fan-Go Gilliland! posted: 03.15.2014 - 1:14 pm Rate this comment: (1) (1) "History is going to be made today. Kyle is going for his 16th career Bristol win." hahahahahahahahahahahaha. The only "history" being made is "can Kyle Busch win again and finally kill this series for good?" 6. DaleSrFanForever posted: 03.15.2014 - 1:57 pm Rate this comment: (6) (2) Jamie Little: "I'm here with Chase Elliott. Chase, how much illegal shit is in your car this week? You have never run a legal car in your life, so what is illeg on this one?". 7. DaleSrFanForever posted: 03.15.2014 - 1:58 pm Rate this comment: (1) (1) *illegal 8. Anonymous posted: 03.15.2014 - 1:58 pm Rate this comment: (1) (1) so I think this is Larson's turn to ruin a race. It's gonna be Kez,KyBu,and KyLa this season :/ 9. We need more Onion posted: 03.15.2014 - 2:15 pm Rate this comment: (3) (0) "so I think this is Larson's turn to ruin a race. It's gonna be Kez,KyBu,and KyLa this season :/" Larson should be given a season before being called a buschwacker... 10. RCRandPenskeGuy posted: 03.15.2014 - 2:16 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I'm watching this race all the way through since Ryan Blaney is running this week. Green flag! 11. Peter posted: 03.15.2014 - 2:41 pm Rate this comment: (5) (0) BBBBBBBBBOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 12. DaleSrFanForever posted: 03.15.2014 - 2:51 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) I was starting to get exciting thinking they must not be throwing bs debris cautions. I was wrong. Same ol' same ol'. 13. DaleSrFanForever posted: 03.15.2014 - 3:07 pm Rate this comment: (1) (1) Just throw the green flag then black flag the #9. 14. DaleSrFanForever posted: 03.15.2014 - 3:10 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Why was the #9 not black flagged? 15. Zackary Shawn posted: 03.15.2014 - 3:16 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) ^I suspect the TV and Kyle Larson's spotter may have not known what they were talking about. 16. Anonymous posted: 03.15.2014 - 3:20 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Next year, either Monster Energy, Discount Tire, or Gamestop will sponsor this series. 17. DaleSrFanForever posted: 03.15.2014 - 3:25 pm Rate this comment: (4) (0) Wow, Harvick roughed up a small budget car. I'm shocked. 18. TS1420 posted: 03.15.2014 - 3:40 pm Rate this comment: (1) (2) "Why was the #9 not black flagged?" Hendrick ties. 19. murb posted: 03.15.2014 - 3:41 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I've been in and out of this race. The racing looks good, but like always, the Prelim Cup stuff is just annoying as hell. Go Larson (who, like Onion said, shouldn't be considered a full Buschwhacker yet). 20. murb posted: 03.15.2014 - 3:47 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) BSPN is so bored with Kyle Busch that they actually interviewed Ruben Garcia. 21. murb posted: 03.15.2014 - 3:47 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ryan Reed crashes. 22. Schroeder51 posted: 03.15.2014 - 3:47 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Hard hit by Ryan Reed. This guy has had some really tough luck so far this season. 23. Jaws_fan posted: 03.15.2014 - 3:49 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) ^ Larson sounds like he has a good head on his shoulders, so he will probably stop running these races next year and focus solely on cup 24. RCRandPenskeGuy posted: 03.15.2014 - 3:50 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) *sigh* was hoping we would see something different today. Now I have to brace myself for the inevitable Kyle win. Can't wait till the Nationwide Series gets to the stand alone tracks. 25. Anonymous posted: 03.15.2014 - 3:52 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ryan Reed crashes again. I remember another Roush rookie who crashed a lot in his first year, now he has 2 NNS championships, a full time cup ride, and BoB. Does anyone know who I'm talking about? 26. Schroeder51 posted: 03.15.2014 - 3:54 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Yeah, the racing looks fine today, but the problem is it's once again yet another "epic" rout by Kyle Busch and the Cup drivers. That's exactly why I plan to skip most of the Nationwide races this year-because this is going to be the end result 90% of the time this season. On the positive side, Cale Conley is back on the lead lap. He's done a pretty good job so far in his debut performance. 27. TS1420 posted: 03.15.2014 - 3:56 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) I agree murb. The racing is good. It's just tiring seeing Cup superstars driving for their Cup mega-teams curb-stomping the Nationwide regulars week after week after week. Hell. It was better 5+ years ago when the fields were half filled with Cup drivers and the series truly was "Cup Lite". Now it's just Kyle Busch, Driver of the 22 Broey Kesloganoski, sometimes Matt Kenseth & Kevin Harvick and occasionally someone else. 6 drivers (5 cars) dominating the series. 28. murb posted: 03.15.2014 - 3:58 pm Rate this comment: (2) (1) Great run by Cale Conley. Hopefully he can get hooked up with another good organization since RCR doesn't care about non-Dillon drivers. 29. Schroeder51 posted: 03.15.2014 - 3:59 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Landon Cassill is having a great run as well. He's in 12th. 30. DaleSrFanForever posted: 03.15.2014 - 4:00 pm Rate this comment: (1) (2) This is the first race I have watched this year, so I don't know, I need you guys to tell me. Is Ryan Reed's head always stuck so far up his own ass? 31. Schroeder51 posted: 03.15.2014 - 4:01 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jeremy Clements bumps the wall, bringing out the caution. Cassill gets back on the lead lap. Damn good run for a low-budget team. 32. Anonymous posted: 03.15.2014 - 4:02 pm Rate this comment: (1) (2) 51 hits the wall. I wish this was a truck race. C'mon Hardee's, enough of that commercial with the lady on the beach. 33. murb posted: 03.15.2014 - 4:03 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ryan Reed's first few races this year have made Ricky Stenhouse's first few NNS races look pretty good. 34. Blue Pulaski posted: 03.15.2014 - 4:03 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) That's the impression I've got of him to DSFF, it looked like he tried to take Buesher out but pulled a Danica 35. murb posted: 03.15.2014 - 4:05 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Well damn. 36. Anonymous posted: 03.15.2014 - 4:06 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) BREAKING NEWS: Monster Energy to replace Nationwide as title sponsor of this series next year. 37. murb posted: 03.15.2014 - 4:06 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) "BREAKING NEWS: Monster Energy to replace Nationwide as title sponsor of this series next year." Hopefully, because then Kyle will have no excuse to be running all these races. 38. Peter posted: 03.15.2014 - 4:06 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Yeah Kyle wins! Look at the indifference in the stands 39. Smiff_2 posted: 03.15.2014 - 4:07 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Putrid. 40. Schroeder51 posted: 03.15.2014 - 4:07 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Yet another "epic" win by the #54 Monster Energy car...sigh. Knew what I was getting into when I decided to watch the last 100 laps... 41. DaleSrFanForever posted: 03.15.2014 - 4:09 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Nice finish by Blaney in his first NWide race of the year, and first ever NWide race at the enigmatic Bristol. They got the car better as the race went by, so hopefully they are building chemistry to get some wins this year. 42. We need more Onion posted: 03.15.2014 - 4:09 pm Rate this comment: (1) (2) -.- Why do I keep watching this series? NO good stories, no good races, no nice guys winning. 43. RCRandPenskeGuy posted: 03.15.2014 - 4:09 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I guess hoping Ryan Blaney would have a shot at the win was just that: hope. I based that on how strong the 22 car is most weeks. 44. Zackary Shawn posted: 03.15.2014 - 4:10 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) "Yeah Kyle wins! Look at the indifference in the stands" The crowd actually seemed like they enjoyed it, in fairness. 45. DaleSrFanForever posted: 03.15.2014 - 4:10 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Thanks Blue. I didn't know if that was momentary Bristol frustration, or if he is just a schmuck. 46. Anonymous posted: 03.15.2014 - 4:10 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Hey Webmaster. I've been trying to like comment #32 for the last 5 minutes but it won't let me. Is there a problem with the like/dislike button? 47. Peter posted: 03.15.2014 - 4:11 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) 44, They cheered for the burnout, not because he won 48. Zackary Shawn posted: 03.15.2014 - 4:12 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Honestly, if I were a driver I'd be lying if I said that I wouldn't want to win as many races as I could like Kyle does. It's boring, but put yourself in his shoes. 49. Jaws_fan posted: 03.15.2014 - 4:13 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Yeah #44 listen to that ruckus crowd while Kyle's in VL 50. WinstonCup4Ever posted: 03.15.2014 - 4:13 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This race may have been boring, but Sebring has been exciting despite all the wreckless driving so far. 51. RCRandPenskeGuy posted: 03.15.2014 - 4:16 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I will still watch any Nationwide race that Ryan Blaney will be in the 22 car for, even though today was disappointing. They did manage to still score a Top 5 despite not being that visible today, so that shows me he can already preservere good finishes out of off days. 52. Zackary Shawn posted: 03.15.2014 - 4:16 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) "44, They cheered for the burnout, not because he won" Why would you cheer a burnout unless you liked the driver performing said burnout. I didn't cheer his burnout when I was at Atlanta last year. As an Auburn fan, I don't cheer when an Alabama player does some neat celebration after touchdown. What you said makes about as much sense to me as the missing Malaysian airplane (which is none at all). 53. Jaws_fan posted: 03.15.2014 - 4:16 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Is Sebring on TV? 54. Zackary Shawn posted: 03.15.2014 - 4:19 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) If you're a Cup driver why would anything but a win in Nationwide be considered a "great day"? (I'm looking at you Kevin Harvick) 55. murb posted: 03.15.2014 - 4:19 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) "Honestly, if I were a driver I'd be lying if I said that I wouldn't want to win as many races as I could like Kyle does. It's boring, but put yourself in his shoes." What he should want and what he should be focusing on at this point in his career is winning multiple Cup championships. He has the talent to do it, but I think all these additional races distract him and wear him out. Sure, these wins may be fun in the moment, but in the big picture (the Cup Series), they seem to be detrimental. There's no way he can run all these races and not be out of gas at the end of the year. 56. New14 & 88Fan posted: 03.15.2014 - 4:22 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sounds like I didn't miss much, great runs by Kyle Larson, Ryan Blaney, Trevor Bayne, Regan Smith, Cale Cnley and Landon Cassill. 57. Zackary Shawn posted: 03.15.2014 - 4:25 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) murb, what I'm saying is that I understand where Kyle is coming from. The idea of dominating as many races as you can is EXTRMELY appealing in more ways than one. I can't say I fault him for that. 58. DaleSrFanForever posted: 03.15.2014 - 4:29 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) We have to remember that Kyle is officially "The Next Jeff Gordon". Kyle turns 30 next year, the same age at which Jeff won his 4th CUP championship. I mean it really isn't close especially considering he has 2 additional seasons under his belt compared to Jeff at the same age. 59. WinstonCup4Ever posted: 03.15.2014 - 4:32 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The rest of the race is on imsa.com Sometime in the early morning will be a highlights re air of the race on FS1. 60. Ashton46 posted: 03.15.2014 - 4:35 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Might as well call it the Busch Series again...He can do all this winning on Saturday's but over 100 wins in NW and Trucks combined can't win you a Cup title 61. cjs3872 posted: 03.15.2014 - 4:43 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) C'mon, guys, let's cut Ryan Reed a break here. The guy's got diabetes. That means that, at any time, he could have something happen to him, especially in a race where there was a lot of green flag running early on. And a race at Bristol is always physically exhausting because of the forces involved, but then add the fact that Reed's a diabetic, and that exhaustion could very well multiply for him, and simply overcome him. And add to that the fact that he's having to try to overdrive Roush's pathetically slow cars (all of them were lapped by lap 80 today), and you get the results. And let's not forget why there was controversy surrounding Chase Elliott on that restart. It's not anything he did, but rather the pathetic wave-around rule that, in that particular instance, got half the field a lap back. Why all the leaders crew chiefs all have them pit in that instance is simply beyond me, because if even one of them had not pitted, you wouldn't have had 18 cars, about half the field that was running at that time, get a free lap back. When that happened, that moved Chase Elliott up in the order in which the cars were running on the track, so that he might have been close to being in the right position, and any lapped car has the option of letting a lead lap car in front of them for the restart, which means that Elliott might have been lined up correctly. But something has to be done about that wave-around rule, because there's something just not right about half the field being able to make up a lap at one time, just because they don't pit under caution. I said this during the off-season, but allowing one car to make up a lap, which the free pass rule does, is okay, but the wave-around rule, as was exhibited today, can allow most of the field to make up a lap at one time, if the circumstances allow, and there's something that's just not right about that. All that being said, the fact that there were only six cars on the lead lap at Bristol 97 laps into the race, and there would have been just five had the caution at that time not flown when it did, says something about the lack of competition in this series, because they were lapping into the top 10 60 laps in, and might have been lapping into the top five just past 100 laps had that caution not been called. That's more of a statement about the lack of competition in the series, because last week at Las Vegas, they were down to seven or eight cars on the lead lap halfway into that race on a 1.5 mile track, albeit that was due to when a caution fell during pit stops, but this is now two successive races where there have been a single-digit number of cars on the lead lap halfway through a race in this series, and that has to concern NASCAR at this point. And I'll bet that some of those "debris" cautions were thrown not just to tighten up the field, but also to inspect and clean up the track, because at least once in this race, a caution period was extended just so the officials could clean up the tire debris from the track, so they may have used the "debris" excuse to throw the caution to clean up the racing surface. 62. Kyle posted: 03.15.2014 - 5:05 pm Rate this comment: (4) (2) What a pathetic peice of shit series 63. Rusty posted: 03.15.2014 - 5:05 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) It's ridiculous that Kyle is turning 30. It seems like yesterday he was an 18 year old kid driving that #5 Lowe's car for Hendrick in this series as an up and comer. Time flies. 64. Ian posted: 03.15.2014 - 5:24 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor Updates: #13 JGL Racing Toyota (No visible primary sponsor, and I am pretty sure this car is a team car to the #28 and #93, but someone should confirm that first) #24 HDI Seguros Toyota (same sponsor as Phoenix) #31 AccuDoc Solutions/Rockstar Chevrolet (AccuDoc was on the hood on both the primary and backup car) #52 Pray for Your Pastor Chevrolet #62 El Cortez/South Point Chevrolet (El Cortez was on the hood; they are hosting a remembrance ceremony for Gaughan's grandfather) #74 Mike Harmon Racing Dodge (No visible primary sponsor) #01 JD Motorsports Chevrolet (No visible primary sponsor) 65. VoteGillilandNotDanica2014 posted: 03.15.2014 - 5:27 pm Rate this comment: (1) (1) I actually didn't like the racing. I miss when Bristol was single groove and you had to knock someone out of the way to pass. Bruton Smith ruined Bristol, just like he & Brian France are ruining NASCAR in general. And yawn, another Kyle Busch win. 66. Rexrobe posted: 03.15.2014 - 5:36 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Bristol used to be fun because it was the last place you could bump and bang and knock people out of the way. It was nice because the drivers didn't have to be nice, politically correct drones all the time. Much like NASCAR itself used to be before corporate money overwhelmed it. Now Bristol, too, has become PC, sterilized NASCAR. What a shame. 67. SpeedWorld97 posted: 03.15.2014 - 5:37 pm Rate this comment: (3) (2) I actually chose to skip this race and watch Sebring online instead. Best choice I've made in a while!! 68. cjs3872 posted: 03.15.2014 - 5:48 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) @65, your point is exactly why I think Bristol is better now than it was then. After all, back then, you would have races where 90 minutes to 2 hours (if not more than 2 hours) of the race was run under caution, simply because of all the crashes because you could not pass without wrecking someone or knocking him out of the way, which resulted in 15-20 cautions for 90-130 laps of a 500-lap race being run under caution. What they have now is much better. I would rather see the racing as it is now (or as it was before the 1992 resurfacing, because it was much the same prior to the '92 resurfacing as it is now), because it actually takes skill to get around someone. It takes next-to-no skill to just knock the guy in front of you out of the way. That's also why I'd like to the second groove at Martinsville re-emerge like it did early in the last decade, because the number of cautions there has been in the mid-to-high teens recently, and any race with a high number of cautions has no rhythm to it. Now I know I seem to be in the minority around here that say the racing at Bristol is better now than it was prior to the 2007 resurfacing, but now it takes more skill to make a pass than it used to be, which makes Bristol a more exacting test for the drivers than it was. And also, it's much easier to navigate lapped traffic than it used to be, because there are more options available. The problem with today's NNS race was that there was two or three cars significantly better than the rest of the field, which is why they were lapping into the top ten by lap 60. Now if there could be a way to keep scores of cars from getting free laps back when the leaders pit under caution (18 got laps back on one caution in today's race, plus the automatic free pass car), it would be better yet, because cars wouldn't get laps back they didn't earn. 69. PCRaceFan0006 posted: 03.15.2014 - 7:44 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The 67 car was a Ford. It was the same car Tommy Joe Martins used to run Phoenix and Las Vegas with as the 76. 70. We need more Onion posted: 03.15.2014 - 8:14 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The top 5 was so bad that I didn't even notice that Cassill came home 12th after narrowly avoiding Reed's wreck. Well done for him, looking sharp with that 10th place in points. 71. DB1995 posted: 03.15.2014 - 8:34 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Trevor Bayne's car was absolute junk the first half, running in 20th almost 2 laps down at one point, good comeback for 8th and 1 point out of the points lead 72. Anon posted: 03.15.2014 - 9:55 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Congrats to Ryan Blaney on the win. 73. DB1995 posted: 03.15.2014 - 9:57 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Anon, actually it would be Ty Dillon, then Brendan Gaughan, then Trevor Bayne, Chase Elliott, Regan Smith. Ryan Blaney gets truck points 74. cjs3872 posted: 03.15.2014 - 10:00 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The Roush cars as a group are junk, DB1995, but Trevor used the cautions to his advantage, including a wave-around when a ridiculous 18 cars used the wave-around on the third caution and a free pass later on, and got up to eighth. I've said it before, but his only chance at winning the NNS championship is to do exactly what Austin Dillon did last year, which is to pile up enough finishes of 5th-8th, try to sneak in a win, which Austin couldn't do (ironically, Austin's best shot came in the race at Iowa that Trevor won), and "points race" the competition to death, because his cars certainly aren't fast enough to even compete for a top five, much less a win, so he can't go out and try to win races to win the championship, but rather pile up enough finishes in the second half of the top ten, hoping to back into a win, and win the championship simply by piling up more points than anyone else does, because others who are competing for the NNS championship have much better cars than Trevor does right now. Right now, Trevor's doing what he has to, which is to get his slow Roush cars to finish in the second half of the top ten, but how long can that last, because one bad race, and his title hopes might be over. He has a much smaller margin of error where that's concerned than any of his rivals, because of how much off their pace he is. Regan Smith, Chase Eliott, and Ty Dillon have much more speed than Trevor does, so their margin of error is greater, not to mention that, unlike Trevor, who has nobody his team can lean on, his competition has lots of help to lean on. Smith and Elliott have each other's teams (not to mention their alliance with Hendrick Motorsports, as JR Motorsports is essentially the NNS wing of HMS), and Ty Dillon has the other RCR teams (both Cup and NNS), which are competitive, but Trevor has nobody else on his team that's competitive. For instance, Trevor's likely to get his doors blown off next week at California, since his cars are way down on both horsepower and handling, and unlike what others have said, Roush is getting no help from Penske, either on the Cup side or the Nationwide side. Remember that this is the same Roger Penske that once had a driver in Mark Donohue that literally wrote a book on getting the "unfair advantage" in racing, and Penske has always been of that mindset, as well. And since none of the other Roush cars are competitive either, Bayne has nobody else to fall back on to get better cars, and the same is true regarding Roush's Cup teams. So one or two mistakes will likely cost Bayne any shot at the NNS championship, while his key competition for the title can make a few mistakes and still have the speed to make it up. 75. CBASS posted: 03.15.2014 - 10:02 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor updates #42 Cartwheel by Target #5 Armour/ Food City/ Bad Boy Buggies #62 El Cortez/ South Point #01 JD Motorsports #99 Rheem Comfort Products #31 AccuDoc Solutions/ Rockstar Energy #87 D.A.B. Constructors/ Wood Pellet Grills #14 Hefty Ultimate/ Arm & Hammer #70 Charlie's Soap #52 Pray For Your Pastor/ kandjmorristown.com #24 HDI (the sponsors listed were only associates) #76 Diamond Gussett/ Land No Tax The #67 was a Ford (same car as his #76 from Phoenix & Vegas) 76. 1995z71 posted: 03.15.2014 - 11:14 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) ZZZzzzZZZ 77. b4il3y posted: 03.16.2014 - 3:21 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) as 1995 said.. zzzzzzzz.... 78. Mbenoit posted: 03.16.2014 - 3:57 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Unbelievable dominance by the 54 and 22 teams during the last year or so. The two teams won 25 of 33 races last year (75 percent), and they've done the same thing this year in winning three of the first four. 28 or the last 37 races have been won by two individual race teams. When you factor in Sam Hornish's win last year, plus Matt Kenseth's two wins, that's 31 of the last 37 races (84 percent winning percentage). Frankly, it's getting pretty old. 79. Mbenoit posted: 03.16.2014 - 3:59 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) *31 of the last 37 having been won by either Penske or Gibbs, to be specific. 80. 02Justin10 posted: 03.16.2014 - 11:26 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I don't get NASCAR sometimes...they say they have no problem with Cup regulars running Nationwide races all the time, yet NASCAR throws that "debris" caution early in the race...I bet they threw that mercy caution so Busch, Kenseth, and Larson wouldn't lap everyone outside the top 3! And I agree about Bristol...the racing is nowhere as good as it used to be...at least Bristol has gone down in excitement just like NASCAR Cup and Nationwide has in recent years. 81. Ken posted: 03.16.2014 - 11:53 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Don't forget Regan Smith has won 4 of the last 40 or so races, that's got to be the best of NNS regulars in that span (though the win at Homestead was while he was still racing for NSCS points). 82. cjs3872 posted: 03.16.2014 - 12:16 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) But two of those four wins that Regan Smith has have come in plate races, Ken, and literally anyone can be competitive in those races. Remember that in the 2012 season-opener, James Buescher was running 11th in turn four on the last lap, and ended up winning the race because everyone in front of him crashed. Smith's win at Michigan last year certainly was impressive, though, and that's still the last win by a NNS championship-eligible driver in a non-RP race in which the Cup drivers have participated. And I certainly don't see the championship-eligible drivers winning more than six times this season, and that's if they win on the road courses, and if they don't, I don't see them winning more than four, which is the number those drivers won last year. It's for that reason that a guy like Austin Dillon won the title without winning a race last year, and why someone like Trevor Bayne could do the same thing this year. Bayne's cars are pathetically slow, yet if he goes through the season with only one or two really bad races, I could see him taking the title without a win because the points bump for winning a race doesn't figure to come into play where the championship is concerned, so finishing 5th-8th as often as possible is the key to winning the title, because I don't see more than 4-6 races won by NNS championship-eligible drivers. And let's not forget that we could also see Truck Series drivers end up winning races in the Nationwide Series, as Ryan Blaney did last year, which would have the same effect on the championship as if a Cup driver won those races. 83. Daniel posted: 03.17.2014 - 4:12 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) 41 entered at Fontana: -Jason White in the #00 -Derek White in the #13 -Joey Logano in the #22 -Carlos Contreras in the #23 -Ryan Ellis in the #24 -David Starr in the #44 -Mike Harmon in the #74 -Daryl Harr in the #87 -Jeff Green in the #91 -J.J. Yeley in the #93 -David Ragan in the #98 -#29, #33, #67, #76 not entered 84. numbah10hatah posted: 03.17.2014 - 5:14 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) #31 sponsor: AccuDoc Solutions/ Rockstar Energy (there's a typo in AccuDoc) 85. RACE34 posted: 03.17.2014 - 8:17 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I don't mind seeing any other CUP regular win in the Nationwide or Truck series except for Kyle Busch!! 86. Anonymous posted: 03.17.2014 - 10:17 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) "Kyle Larson won the pole and led the first two laps of the NASCAR Nationwide Series "Drive to Stop Diabetes 300" at Bristol on March 15, then Kyle Busch and Matt Kenseth led the next 298 laps. " If that ain't a hilarious and ironic caption, I don't know what is. 87. 23andJoe posted: 04.12.2014 - 1:18 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) #67 was a Dodge. 88. Nascar Lead Lap Points posted: 04.24.2014 - 4:15 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Tommy Joe Martins Withdrew after a crash in practice 89. Nascar Lead Lap Points posted: 08.31.2014 - 12:28 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor Updates #5 Armour Vienna Sausage/ Food City /Bad Boy Buggies/Brooks #62 El Cortez Hotel & Casino/ South Point Hotel & Casino #99 Rheem #52 2014 Pray For Your Pastor Tour/kandjmorristown.com #74 Mike Harmon Racing (Car had no logos) #13 Derek White Racing (Car had no logos) #10 Heroes Behind the Camo / SupportMilitary.org 90. Big King Fan posted: 12.03.2015 - 3:33 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Top ten If race ended halfway: 1. Matt Kenseth, finished 5th 2. Kyle Busch, finished 1st 3. Kevin Harvick, finished 3rd 4. Regan Smith, finished 10th 5. Kyle Larson, finished 2nd 6. Brendan Gaughan, finished 7th 7. Ryan Blaney, finished 4th 8. Chase Elliott, finished 9th 9. Ty Dillon, finished 6th 10. Brian Scott, finished 14th 91. Sector posted: 02.03.2020 - 6:57 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Adding the total of wins at a single track across all three NASCAR national series (Cup, Busch/Nationwide/Xfinity & Truck), Kyle Busch wins at Bristol for the 16th time which is a record (4 wins in Truck, 7 in Nationwide & 5 in Cup). While it is beyond similar, "The King" Richard Petty held the record of 15 wins at Martinsville AND North Wilkesboro, all in the Cup Series. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: