|| *Comments on the 2017 Food City 300:* View the most recent comment <#55> | Post a comment <#post> 1. JR-TV posted: 08.15.2017 - 8:47 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) I don't understand why the #15 is always entered as a Ford. It is always a Chevrolet at the track when they show up. 2. Jimmie4life posted: 08.15.2017 - 9:11 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Dale Jr. has entered in this race. 3. Jonathan King posted: 08.15.2017 - 10:27 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Buschwacker count: 8 One buschwacker I will be going for is Dale Jr. because he is retiring and he is going to bring a lot of attention to the Xfinity Series. I cant wait to watch. 4. Danish Pie posted: 08.15.2017 - 3:01 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Buschwhackers: #2-Austin Dillon #3-Ty Dillon #15-Reed Sorenson #18-Kyle Busch #20-Daniel Suarez #22-Joey Logano #88-Dale Earnhardt Jr. #98-Aric Almirola Pulling Double Duty: #8-B.J. McLeod(?) #13-Timmy Hill #14-J.J. Yeley #52-Joey Gase Start-N-Parkers: #15-Reed Sorenson #89-Morgan Shepherd(?) #93-Jeff Green @3 I hate that bias way of thinking. "8 Buschwhackers, but one of them is Dale, so it's okay." 5. 95McDowellFan posted: 08.15.2017 - 4:14 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Originally Garrett Smithley was entered in both the #0 and #15 6. 23andJoe posted: 08.15.2017 - 6:50 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) #4: To be fair, Dale is driving for his own team, not Hendrick. Developing and maintaining your own team is a legit endeavor; Sorenson, Junior and Almirola would be 'acceptable' in my book. It's just that Kyle and the Dillon Gang on the other side of the coin have spoiled it for everyone. 7. Danish Pie posted: 08.15.2017 - 8:34 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Kyle Busch has his own truck team. Doesn't make it better for him to drive in trucks. I don't like this double standard people have when it's comes to Cup drivers dropping down. If they are getting Cup points, they shouldn't be driving in Xfinity, or especially trucks. Period. End of sentence. Just cause it's Junior dropping down doesn't suddenly make it acceptable. He could be developing a driver in this race by putting them in the 88. Alex Bowman could be driving the 88 in this race. Or Bubba Wallace. Or Brett Moffitt. Or Stephen Leicht. Plenty of people could be driving the 88, just like plenty of people could be driving the 2, 3, 18, 20, etc. None of the Cup drivers should be in this race, regardless of what people say. If Kyle wins the race, he will get loathed for it. If Dale wins the race, people will be elated. The fact Earnhardt gets a pass because he's Earnhardt really irks me. 8. 95McDowellFan posted: 08.15.2017 - 9:04 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) "To be fair, Dale is driving for his own team, not Hendrick." What about Kyle Busch driving for Kyle Busch Motorsports in the Truck Series? 9. chevyfan98 posted: 08.16.2017 - 7:41 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Junior fan here, no idea why he's running this race (oh wait yes I do its because he needs to keep his sponsors happy) and I won't be cheering for him in it. I find it really sad actually that his last win of any kind in NASCAR is probably going to be an Xfinity race in which he was partially responsible for causing a wreck that took out one of his own cars. 10. Stewart14Rocks posted: 08.17.2017 - 7:37 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I could really care less about dale running this race. He generally doesn't run the xfinity series often and has his own team. With the recent comments about nascar letting cup drivers race in lower series, im pretty sure by 2019/2020 nascar will ban full time cup drivers from racing in lower series. 11. Mannoroth posted: 08.18.2017 - 9:33 am Rate this comment: (0) (1) 10. Great opinion - and then let's just sit and watch, how slowly will Camping World Truck Series die without KBM and how those big Xfinity teams will stop pumping so much money into their Buschwhacker cars (especially Penske Racing, which needs Keselowski, Logano and Blaney in almost all the races). So we can say goodbye Trucks with Xfinity and then just watch, how new rookies will develop in K&N or ARCA, then move to Cup and will suck even more than today's rookies... 12. TeamDCR fan posted: 08.18.2017 - 12:11 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This race marks 15 years since the Harmonator's vicious crossover gate crash with Johnny Sauter 13. Danish Pie posted: 08.18.2017 - 5:03 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sorenson and Shepherd DNQ. So looks like Green is the only one who is start-n-parking. xP 14. Anthony posted: 08.18.2017 - 5:32 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) It's too bad because Reed Sorenson, in 2011, was racing for a Xfinity championship, winning a race & finished 5th in points. Not only that, he ran decent in the #4 1, drove in some good rides. These last five years since, he's full of wasted potential. 15. Anonymous posted: 08.18.2017 - 5:32 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) After he did in last races in #13, I do not think Timmy Hill will try the full race 16. Drakion posted: 08.18.2017 - 5:43 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Claiming KBM is the only thing keeping the truck series going is one of the most ignorant responses I have ever seen at this site.................. 17. Ultimate Warrior #18 posted: 08.18.2017 - 7:30 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) I rather see Reed Sorenson in the #01 over Harrison Rhodes he would actually make that ride a borderline chase contender. 18. Scott25 posted: 08.18.2017 - 8:15 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Rick Allen makes every race less enjoyable to watch. 19. joey2448 posted: 08.18.2017 - 8:27 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Kyle Busch got caught speeding on pit road under caution after the first stage, and now he must make his way back to the front, just like Wed night in the Truck race. Logano also caught speeding in the 22 car. Holy cow, Busch finds himself in a hornets nest around the lap 100 mark. Him and Logano are carving up the field. 20. Incognito posted: 08.18.2017 - 8:50 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) NASCAR's got 99 prawblems and Rick is one. 21. Matt L posted: 08.18.2017 - 8:50 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This is honestly much more enjoyable when Busch/Logano are out of sight and out of mind. 22. 42Fan posted: 08.18.2017 - 8:51 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) It's the Kyle Busch Show in the Xfinity Series! 23. joey2448 posted: 08.18.2017 - 8:51 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Well, it took 85 laps for Kyle Busch to get back to the lead, all under green flag conditions. Busch wins stages 1 and 2. 24. Sector posted: 08.18.2017 - 9:38 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Don't worry folks, Kyle Busch is only 9 wins away from being out of sight in the Xfinity series. I honestly think he'll end up reaching 102 in the end 11 wins to go. 25. TeamDCR fan posted: 08.18.2017 - 9:39 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) once again we see why NASCAR is cutting the number of lower series races that Cup drivers can run 26. Dion posted: 08.18.2017 - 10:19 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I can't wait for Kyle to retire. He has done great things & helped many drivers out in Trucks & Xfinity, but he drains away all the enjoyment of watching races. 27. John Lee Pettimore III posted: 08.18.2017 - 10:19 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) 16 - He said KBM and the big teams. I don't know that he's all that wrong there. Big sponsors with big money want big name drivers. If they are not allowed to race - the big money will be gone. Then where are we? Simple economics. He's wrong about Penske though - Uuummm, Sam Hornish Jr. sure beat em all at Mid-Ohio. And he's totally wrong about today's rookies. They suck? Really? What rookies have you been watching? 28. Ryan Serowinski posted: 08.18.2017 - 11:18 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor: #18-It was the regular blue and orange NOS car, not the Rowdy black and orange NOS scheme 29. 23andJoe posted: 08.18.2017 - 11:21 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) >Big sponsors with big money want big name drivers. If they are not allowed to race - the big money will be gone. Big sponsors with big money had no problem making Chad Little, Randy LaJoie, David Green, Ron Hornaday and Jack Sprague into 'big name drivers'. 30. Mannoroth posted: 08.18.2017 - 11:37 pm Rate this comment: (0) (2) 27. Today's rookies do suck, man. Why they are unable to win a race in their first full-time season, while Jimmie Johnson, Kyle Busch, Kevin Harvick or Denny Hamlin won even 2 races in their first Cup seasons? No fuel mileage, no Superspeedway, no rain delay... On the other hand, we have Brad Keselowski, who won at Talladega and then had a winless season in 2010, before he figured it out in 2011. Joey Logano won thanks to the rain at Loudon and was winless both in 2010 and 2011. He figured it out at Penske. Kyle Larson was absolutely winless in 2014 and 2015, then figured it out in 2016 at Michigan. Ryan Blaney could be considered in the same category, but needs to win again to prove his win at Pocono wasn't just random. And then we have Chris Buescher, who has his rain win at Pocono. Austin Dillon, who has his fuel mileage win at Charlotte (Coca-Cola 600) and Ricky Stenhouse Jr., who was really lucky at SuperSpeedway and won even twice in one season. They have a win as well = cool, but do it again (this time under normal circumstances) and it will mean more... 31. rw posted: 08.18.2017 - 11:41 pm Rate this comment: (3) (1) sigh...................... 32. JSPorts posted: 08.18.2017 - 11:48 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) If the Xfinity guys were running up front, they would get sponsored. This won't happen until the Cup guys are gone. Cup guys gone = Xfinity guys sponsored, because they start winning. The only way someone becomes a "big name driver" is if they can win races. The Cup domination takes away the opportunity for any Xfinity driver to be a big-name star. This isn't the mid-2000s, where almost any driver in any series could get a Fortune 500 sponsor on their car. 33. JSPorts posted: 08.18.2017 - 11:53 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) The reasons today's rookies aren't winning immediately are that, first off, they're being rushed up. Johnson & Harvick were rookies at age 26, Hamlin was also 26, Dale Earnhardt Jr was 26, his dad was 28, Biffle was 34, McMurray was 27, Keselowski even was at least 25. Kyle Busch was 20, but he didn't really turn into an elite driver until he was 23. Larson took 1 more year than that, and Larson actually had a much more consistent rookie season than Busch did. But Logano was only 19, Larson was 22, Elliott was 21, Jones is 21. The second two have been good in their first seasons, but they just haven't been able to break through with a win yet. The second reason is that the Xfinity cars are no longer similar enough to the Cup cars. These Xfinity cars are more like the COT than the Gen-6. Cup guys will tell you, driving the Cup car helps them more in Xfinity than driving Xfinity helps for Cup. It should be the other way around if they want these young guys to be better prepared. 34. Anthony posted: 08.19.2017 - 12:15 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Cup-Lite living up to its name, once again. 35. Mannoroth posted: 08.19.2017 - 1:21 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) 32. Okay, but this only one part. The other part is that even if you are successful in lower series, you can still suck in Cup and all the good sponsors will leave you... One thing is to make a name for yourself and the other is to keep it that way. And another thing is that if the money from properly sponsored Xfinity rookies (after Cup guys are gone) can match the amount of money Cup teams invest into Xfinity. 36. who gives a shit posted: 08.19.2017 - 1:21 am Rate this comment: (3) (3) Wow Kyle won another Busch race! Why does he keep doing this? Does he think winning 200 truck and xfinity races will somehow equal what Petty did? NO. Does Tom Brady need to play in the Nabisco crackers bowl every year? Is Mike Trout Playing for the Lansing Lugnuts? Does Lebron play Mcneese st? Kyle is a clown at this point continuing to run these races. We know you can beat a bunch of 20 year olds who have never even won an ARCA race, big deal, who gives a shit? Other than sponsors and the 900 fans that wasted their time and money going to this race? No wonder ESPN gave this shitshow up to Fox Sports. I would rather watch soccer than Xfinity, and I hate soccer. 37. Sector posted: 08.19.2017 - 1:23 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) "Ryan Blaney could be considered in the same category, but needs to win again to prove his win at Pocono wasn't just random." Ryan Blaney's win was random? That win was as legit as they come. 38. joey2448 posted: 08.19.2017 - 5:12 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) "Blaney could be considered in the same category, but needs to win again to prove his win at Pocono wasn't just random." What??? So winning a totally legit race doesn't qualify you as a contender? I mean, what else does he have to do? He passed Kyle Busch for the lead, then held off Harvick for the win! Two of the very best right now! 39. Alex posted: 08.19.2017 - 7:38 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) If facts meant anything to Mannoroth, he'd have stopped posting 4 years ago. 40. Boring posted: 08.19.2017 - 7:38 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) I dont take anything Mannoroth says seriously anymore since he has shown on multiple occassions he has a biased and delusional view on the sport...the dwindling number of fans is proof enough most fans are sick of cup invaders. 41. Mannoroth posted: 08.19.2017 - 7:38 am Rate this comment: (1) (1) 36. And have you ever taken a closer look at all Petty's wins? 93 of them are from races shorter than 250 miles and almost all his wins have a smell of weaker competition, many lapped cars and almost no rules. Kinda NASCAR Unlimited Series from the cartoon NASCAR Racers... Hell, almost half of his wins are on the today's K&N Pro Series level. Just because it was all considered as Cup, he has that many wins. That's why many of you (including you) can't see it in a different way. It's just a number, nothing else. 37. Until he wins more races like this, then yes. One win like that doesn't make you an elite driver... 42. Tide1732 posted: 08.19.2017 - 8:05 am Rate this comment: (0) (5) Bristol was a dumb Underdog drivers to win a race in NASCAR Games. I'm Playing NASCAR Thunder 2004 season mode Kevin Harvick, And Brett Bodine win at Bristol (Night), In career mode, Kenny Wallace win in day race, And Kevin Lepage wins the night race. In NASCAR 2003, My career mod with Jeff Gordon, Ken Schrader win at Bristol (Day), In the Career Mode, Scott Wimmer wins the Day race, And Kyle Petty wins the Night race... Martinsville is a other track to get a underdog wins in NASCAR Videogames, My Fight to the top in cup series in NASCAR 09 For PS2, David Gilliand win 2 races at Darlington. In NASCAR 07 Season with the #20 team, Skip Garrett (Fantasy Driver) wins the day race. 43. Boring posted: 08.19.2017 - 8:05 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) And claming Ryan Blaney's win means nothing to him further shows why Mannoroth has no credibility to almost all of us and why we simply look at him as a Kyle Busch obsessed joke. 44. Seibaru (Tylor Thaber) posted: 08.19.2017 - 9:46 am Rate this comment: (0) (1) @42 IT'S A GAME YOU DINGUS. 45. Mannoroth posted: 08.19.2017 - 11:29 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) 40. They're sick because they can't get used to it due to one driver that just loves racing... 43. I've never said his win means nothing. His win means more than Buescher's, Dillon's and even two Stenhouse's wins, but he has to win more races like this to be taken seriously. A lot of drivers won their first race normally like him, but they couldn't carry on - like Jamie McMurray, who won at Charlotte in 2002, then got 3 SS wins and 8 years later, he finally won normally again. Unfortunately, his last normal win was in 2010 at Charlotte... 46. Tyson posted: 08.19.2017 - 12:48 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Sponsor updates: 78 - Moore Freight Service 47. 95McDowellFan posted: 08.19.2017 - 1:03 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @42 I swear for some reason in NT2003 no matter who was in the #45, they would do good at Bristol, I've had both Kyle Petty and Jeff Purvis win at Bristol in that game. 48. who gives a shit posted: 08.19.2017 - 2:33 pm Rate this comment: (3) (0) @41 Yes but there was nothing Petty could do about it, he had no other options back, then other than NASCAR sportsman or USAC races(which would have disqualified him from NASCAR points). And I have looked at plenty of his short track wins, enough to know that in 1967 for example he had to still beat Hutcherson, who was very good on dirt, Bobby Allison, and Jim Paschal plus others in those little 200 lappers. Whats more Petty already had won 200 races by the time he started the number of races Kyle has run across the three top divisions of NASCAR already. AN option that Richard did not have. Richard may have raced 48 times a year for 6 years but Kyle has ran as many as 85 races some of these past years, and he still is not winning as frequently as the King did. PLus the overwhelming majority of his wins are truck and xfinity wins, not cup wins. If he wins 100 cups races I will gladly admit he is better than the king, o and he needs at least 4 more titles. Right now he is still way behind Jimmie who by the way has not bothered with pumping up his totals in truck and xfinity and still has WAY more cups wins that Schrub. 49. JSPorts posted: 08.19.2017 - 2:50 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Petty won 204 NASCAR races in his first 964 starts. 200/204 wins (98%) were in the Cup Series. Kyle Busch has won 180 NASCAR races in his 930 starts. 39/180 wins (22%) have been in the Cup Series. 50. Drakion posted: 08.19.2017 - 3:37 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Kyle's win number is inflated by pointless lower series wins, he will never be as good as several others in Cup, and he will never be "king". Cup wins are the only ones that matter in the end. Seriously the only way he won a championship in cup was because of a extremely broken chase system after missing a third of the season...making it by far the most pathetic championship in racing history......he is not as good as he thinks he is, his inflated annoying ego makes it even worse....if he was even a tad bit likable it might be somewhat tolerable watching him make the trucks and xfinity a snooze fest...but its even worse considering how big of a cry baby arrogant douche he always seems to be. 51. John Lee Pettimore III posted: 08.19.2017 - 4:12 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) 29 - Hee hee, now that was funny. 52. CBASS posted: 08.19.2017 - 8:15 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Thought this was gonna be a Friday night wreckfest after the first few wrecks, but man did this become clean and green lol. Still nice to have some good ol' fashioned short track racing. Sponsor updates #18 NOS High Performance Energy Drink (was not the Rowdy version this week) #7 Brandt Professional Agriculture #00 Haas/ CSU/ One Cure #42 BURGERFI (how the actual company branding appears to be) #88 Goody's Mixed Fruit Blast/ Food City #07 Learn Underwater Welding/ www.CDA.edu (been Ray's current sponsor deal since Kentucky with exception for Iowa) #90 #TealNation #52 Donate Life/ DonateLifeTN.org #78 Circle Track Warehouse/ Moore Freight Systems #74 Guardian of Valor/ Veterans Motorsports Inc. #13 MBM Motorsports (car had the Indy wrap but was unsponsored) 53. Nascar Lead Lap Points posted: 08.21.2017 - 11:56 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Chase Owner Standings (Two races to go) 1. 18 JGR 4 wins 2. 20 JGR 3 wins 3. 42 Chip Ganassi 3 wins 4. 9 JR Motorsports 3 wins 5. 22 Penske 2 wins 6. 7 JR Motorsports 1 win 7. 16 Roush 1 win 8. 1 JR Motorsports 807 points 9. 2 RCR 655 points 10. 3 RCR 631 points 11. 48 Chip Ganassi 621 points 12. 21 RCR 601 points ------------------------------ 13. 00 SHR 533 points - 68 points 14. 19 JGR 514 points - 87 points 15. 11 Kaulig 454 points - 147 points Custer is 6th in points and 12th in owners Playoff points 1. 18 JGR 25 points 2. 20 JGR 20 points 3. 22 Penske 19 points 4. 42 Chip Ganassi 18 points 5. 9 JR Motorsports 17 points 6. 12 Penske 12 points (N/A) 7. 7 JR Motorsports 8 points 8. 98 Biagi 6 points (N/A) 9. 16 Roush 5 points 10. 1 JR Motorsports 5 points 11. 2 RCR 2 points 12. 11 Kaulig 2 points 13. 41 SHR 2 points (N/A) 14. 21 RCR 1 point 15. 62 RCR 1 point 16. 60 Roush 1 point (N/A) 54. RaceFanX posted: 08.27.2017 - 3:07 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) David Starr didn't go to the infield care center after wrecking in this one, violating NASCAR rules. The series' top officials penalized him by calling him in to speak with them during practice for the series' next race at Road America. 55. Sector posted: 02.03.2020 - 7:14 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The second win of the "second trifecta" this weekend. Kyle Busch would make history once more by winning all three NASCAR national series (Cup, Nationwide and Truck) races in the same weekend at the same track. This would be the second time for Busch to accomplish this "sweep" as he did so at the same exact track at the Bristol night event back in 2010. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: