|| *Comments on the 2004 Sylvania 200 Presented by Lowe's:* View the most recent comment <#16> | Post a comment <#post> 1. CD posted: 10.31.2004 - 4:54 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Race shortend to 200 laps due to darkness! 2. Dave posted: 01.04.2005 - 5:53 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Actually 200 laps was the race distance, though it did finish at dusk. 3. Darrell posted: 01.01.2006 - 7:58 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) What's with the anti-Kvapil sentiment? He nees a little slack after that BANG Racing fiasco. 4. Alex posted: 05.30.2006 - 6:16 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) The race started four hours late because of rain. Very cold and wet day (believe me, I was there). Here's an article I wrote about Ricky Craven's Truck Series debut: http://www.taterracing.com/9202004article.htm 5. Miller4Prez64 posted: 07.17.2006 - 7:09 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) They finished it under caution because of darkness I believe. 6. John P posted: 03.31.2007 - 4:54 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) How funny that the race ends under caution, in the dark, and the race is sponsored by the light bulb company Sylvania 7. Jeff posted: 05.28.2009 - 8:03 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) And I think if they HAD restarted the race, most of if not all of the top ten would have run out of gas. Denny Hamlin and Steve Park were two of the first drivers to have enough to make it beyond lap 200. 8. JG24Ever posted: 07.01.2015 - 11:46 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Holy hell, those first 36 laps being run under a "competition caution"... 9. Mr.Victory posted: 04.11.2018 - 8:47 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The Video uploaded by Dave W, you can see at the end that the sun had went down, and they were still racing. 10. Jimmie4life posted: 05.22.2018 - 4:24 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) They interviewed several pit members after this race and asked what the situation was with the darkness. Most said that it was way too dark, and no NASCAR race should finish this dark, and some said that they had plenty of light to finish. Me, personally, it was just too dark. 21 minutes after sundown, and the Sunoco sign was so bright, you could mistaken it for stadium lights. 11. MenardFan posted: 06.24.2018 - 11:17 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Several instances there were crashes that didn't bring out a caution. Tracy Hines spun on a restart and crashed into the wall, but no caution. Later on, Robert Huffman and Andy Houston crashed into each other, both knocking themselves out of the race, but no caution, even if Houston had possible fluids leaking on the track. 12. RaceFanX posted: 10.11.2018 - 11:29 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Travis Kvapil picks up his second win of the year with his triumph in the Line-X #24 Toyota proving to be the second and last for his Bang! Racing team. Kvapil moved up to Cup for 2005 and this would be his last Truck series win until the 2003 champ returned to the tour full-time in 2007. Bang!'s fortunes worsened after this race amid the financial issues that would lead to its closure at the end of the year, while Kvapil's teammate Mike Skinner finished 10th this would be the 1995 champion's last race for the team before he and his Toyota Tundra factory backing left the outfit; his #42 team closing down as Skinner joined Bill Davis Racing to finish out the season in its new #5 Toyota entry. Young Denny Hamlin just misses picking up a second top-10 in just his third outing in the #03 pickup. 13. Mr.Victory posted: 01.07.2019 - 3:32 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Last win for Alexander Meshkin, who only raced for this one season... 2004. 14. Stonex posted: 03.07.2020 - 12:12 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Shane Hmiel should be listed as leading laps 92-117, not Mike Skinner. 15. SweetRich posted: 03.07.2020 - 9:47 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The commentators for the race were Rick Allen, Phil Parsons and Michael Waltrip with Ray Dunlap and Wendy Venturini on pit road. 16. rm posted: 07.22.2020 - 10:10 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Additional to the rear - 07 - pitting before the green Poor Kelly Sutton. She and her team tried so hard to give the Trucks a good go but man, it very rarely ended well. Here, Sutton wrecked a truck in practice, then qualified P20 (the best of her career to date, she would only ever top it the very next race out at Las Vegas) only to lose an engine before the race. She then spun out on the pace laps. If it's any consolation to Sutton, two-time 2004 winner Chad Chaffin also went for a spin shortly after the green and yellow flags came out to officially start the race. NASCAR allowed Chaffin to return to his spot - despite the green flag already technically being out on the race - as was Sutton, albeit already at the rear of the field. The same could not be said for Dennis Setzer when he came down pit road to make an adjustment and a tire change, who was stuck with his spot at the very tail end of the field. Sutton spun again on lap 111 without the aid of a caution. First mention of the impending darkness on the broadcast: lap 29. Yep, they saw that one coming from a mile (or, I guess, 1.058 miles) away. I'm as big an advocate as anyone for not calling a caution in a race unless absolutely necessary, but I have no idea how Huffman & Houston's frontstretch dustup didn't end with a yellow. Houston had to have been dropping water all the way back around from his busted radiator, though according to some of those participating in the race the track was already in that shape in the first place - what's a little more water going to hurt? This was all part of a bruising day in racing: between the Truck race here at Loudon, All-Pro & ASA races at Kentucky, and the ARCA race at Salem, those four major stock car touring series races had a combined 36 crash DNFs - and 56 total DNFs - between the 135 starters for a finishing rate of only 58.5%. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: