|| *Comments on the 1999 NAPA 300K:* View the most recent comment <#10> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. MOST posted: 05.07.2006 - 3:56 am Rate this comment: (2) (2) Sprague had almost a lap on the field with 10 left to go. Good to see Sprague got screwed over, what an asshole. 2. Steve posted: 05.30.2006 - 9:06 pm Rate this comment: (0) (3) Please give your explanation for this negative image you have of Jack Sprague. He is one of the best and cleanest drivers in the history of the Craftsman Truck Series. 3. The Real Thomas posted: 04.25.2007 - 1:54 am Rate this comment: (1) (1) This race was hilarious. Sprat had lapped the field, but then a caution came out with about 5 to go. He pitted and everyone else didn't. He came out in the lead, but lost his 1 lap advantage because of the pit stop. On the restart with 2 laps to go, Mike Wallace charged hard from 2nd place to battle with Sprat side-by-side. Then, coming off turn 4 to the checkered flag, he got on the inside of Sprat and nipped him at the line by .013 sec. Awesome finish! By the way, Jack Sprat has to be one of the dirtiest truck series drivers ever, except maybe Mike Spinner. Watch some of the races when Sprat was with Hendrick, and you'll see perfect examples of this. 4. RaceFanX posted: 03.30.2009 - 3:37 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Lonnie Cox returns from an almost three-year absence for a one-off. He'd have to wait another three years before he'd get to run again 5. ND posted: 09.27.2009 - 8:13 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Didn't sprague really stretch the fuel to get that one lap advantage? He pitted under a late yellow and it put everyone on the tail end of the lead lap. Then came the green-white-checkered which allowed everyone to get that lap back completely and put Wallace on Sprague's bumper for the restart. 6. Bramblegrunt posted: 01.23.2018 - 1:25 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) ND, that is correct, he pitted with around 100 to go and stretched it despite later cautions. The biggest concern was that the tires would let him down but when he lapped the field they werent worried about that anymore...until Rob Morgan's engine failed in a fiery fashion and then a subsequent G-W-C caused by Terry Cook's failed tire. This set up the G-W-C where Sprague guarded the top line on the restart, but sprinkles from a Colorado shower made the conditions on the track pretty rough. Sprague missed the corners on his old tires and allowed Wallace to catch right up on him. Wallace could have spun him out in turn 3 but raced him clean, got under him and the two had a drag race to the start-finish line in thrilling fashion and Wallace won leading only 1 lap. The beginning of the race seemed like we would have yet another Harvick-Biffle rivalry race after Memphis but Biffle had run into his tire on pit road and never was a factor for the rest of the race. Harvick also had a bad pitstop that put him in the back and he didnt have the same truck in traffic. The G-W-C start was also quite thrilling. Mike Bliss running around 5th pancaked the wall right from the get go and bottle-necked the field behind. Many trucks went 3 wide from this, allowing Wallace and Sprague to battle for the win. Hornaday who was about a 15th place truck all day miraculously salvaged a top 6 run after the bottleneck. This was the first race in the truck series without Rick Carelli after his crushing accident in Memphis. He actually called into the race to ESPN from the Memphis hospital and sounded very optimistic and energized to get going again. Randy Renfrow substituted for him and ran solid top 10/top 5 most of the race before his engine failed 7. Mannoroth posted: 11.07.2018 - 10:03 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Damn, Jack Sprague was pretty screwed after that last caution - either pit and watch everyone not to pit, so they could have a shot to win that race, because they got their lap back (which happened), or not to pit and hope he would hold them off on old tires. I really doubt Sprague would win after using the second strategy, because Wallace managed to beat him even on old tires... And once again damn that he was able to lap the entire field... That's really crazy that it could happen in 1999, which is not even 20 years ago. 8. rm posted: 11.07.2018 - 12:42 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Believe the scheduled distance here was 186 laps, extended to 189 by the GWC. 9. RacingDude00 posted: 05.21.2020 - 12:34 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I am guessing but was '300' just to make the race distance sound more flashy / cool or what reason for doing it 10. Rich posted: 09.19.2020 - 11:08 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Marty Reid and Jeremy Dale were the commentators. Dave Burns and Amy East were the pit road reporters. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: