|| *Comments on the 2011 Kentucky 225:* View the most recent comment <#47> | Post a comment <#post> 1. cjs3872 posted: 10.01.2011 - 11:32 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The year of the milestones that 2011 has been continues with Ron Hornaday, Jr. claiming his 50th Truck Series win. Other milestones this year include Jeff Gordon's modern-record-setting 85th Cup win, Kyle Busch's 50th Nationwide Series win, not to mention Trevor Bayne's Daytona 500 win the day after his 20th birthday, making him the youngest-ever winner of any 500-mile race, much less a race with as grand a tradition as the Daytona 500. Also, James Buescher finished third behind Austin Dillon. Buescher's comsistently excellent performance much of the year has been astounding to me, since he runs with just a fraction of the funding that those such as Dillon (RCR) and Hornaday and Nelson Piquet, Jr.(KHI) run with, yet he's been as competivive as either of them have been. Put him with an elite team and I think you'll see him win races, since he has overperformed more with his team than any other driver has with theirs, perhaps across all three of NASCAR's major series this year. 2. 00andJoe posted: 10.01.2011 - 11:35 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) #10 sponsor: Georgia Pacific 3. RaceFanX posted: 10.01.2011 - 11:39 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ron ran the #2 in this race instead of his normal #33 for owner points reasons and ends up No.1. 4. Unser1 posted: 10.01.2011 - 11:44 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was an undercard race for the IndyCar series. 5. 18fan posted: 10.01.2011 - 11:46 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The difference in this race was when Hornaday and Dillon came up to lap Coulter with 6 or 7 laps to go. Hornaday went high to go around Coulter, leaving the bottom open for Dillon. Austin went to the bottom, but went right into Hornaday's trap, got stuck behind Coulter, and couldn't make up the lost ground. Nelson Piquet Jr had led 12 laps in his previous 24 starts and led 40 in this race. He was once again fast on an intermediate track. He has obvious potential, so he should find a ride next year in Trucks. 6. Matthew Sullivan posted: 10.02.2011 - 12:09 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) One of the better races I've seen all season. Amazing how good a truck race can be when Cup guys aren't there to feed their egos. 7. AlmirolaFan88 posted: 10.02.2011 - 12:32 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Great run for Dakoda Armstrong. I was worried he would be just another one of those flash in the pan ARCA hot shots. Speaking of ARCA hot shots, the switch from Toyota to Chevy is really paying off for Justin Lofton. Ron Hornaday Jr. becomes the first driver to win 50 races in the series. It's becoming harder and harder to have a long standing career in the truck series, as it is a feeder to Nationwide for the young drivers, and over the years long standing veterans have slowing been getting forced out of the series. Todd Bodine's status is unknown for next year. Hornaday is still looking. There may not be another 50 race winner in the Camping World Truck Series. Except for......Kyle Busch. 8. irony posted: 10.02.2011 - 12:41 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The #2 truck is so much better than the #33 it isn't funny. Ron hasn't had a run like this all year. The 33 pit crew is better though. In the back of my mind, I thought the Atlanta win might be it for Ron. Glad he at least got win 50, doubling his 25 he totaled with DEI before leaving the Truck Series originally after 1999. He only has 24 with KHI however. He won one race in a one off start with IWX, in Mike Bliss' backup truck at Homestead in 2002. Win 25 with KHI is another milestone Ron will be chasing. 9. OldSchoolNascarDude posted: 10.02.2011 - 12:45 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) My Thoughts: 1)Not an awful debut for Ty Dillon. He struggled in the pits during caution and green stops. However, that's what these starts are for, to gain experience. He'll be fine by the time 2012 rolls around. Childress will make sure of it. 2)Ron Hornaday has been the one motivated by the KHI layoffs. He's been great as of late and is making a late bid of contending for a title. No matter whether you like him or not, you have to respect his talent. Someone will find room in the stable for him next season. 3)Nelson Piquet Jr. turned his season around at this same track back in June. Even though he crashed in this race at the time, he ran well and has continued to do so since then. He's made the leap from ride buyer to respected driver. 4)It appears the title will be battled out between Dillon and Buescher. Timothy Peters isn't at a title level and Johnny Sauter and his team have squandered too many opportunties to gain points this season. They have given away at least 60 points points this season by shooting their own self in the foot. 5)Overall, this wasn't the greatest race. Too many crashes early kept the race from getting a flow and a cold track pretty much negated any tire wear at all. However, Kyle and Kevin weren't in attendance. That's always a plus. 10. KurtBusch22Fan posted: 10.02.2011 - 1:02 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) A surprise from Jennifer Jo Cobb and Norm Benning. They finished the race. 11. 18fan posted: 10.02.2011 - 1:10 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) My thoughts echo all of the people that say that these races people who said how much better Truck races are without Cup drivers. Next week at Las Vegas is the last standalone race of the year, so it could very easily be the last win for a Truck regular, although there still is the Talladega race. I think the Vegas race will be a battle between Hornaday, Piquet, Dillon, Buescher, probably Sauter, and maybe Coulter and Peters. I think Dillon and Hornaday are the favorites, but I have a sneaking feeling Piquet will break through before the year is over. 12. potatosalad48 posted: 10.02.2011 - 1:26 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Career run for Nelson Piquet, Jr., leading 40 laps and finishing 4th. Ron Hornaday collects his 50th career Truck win by holding off Austin Dillon who had been faster for a few laps. 13. jabber1990 posted: 10.02.2011 - 1:30 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) why was Hornaday in the #2? I thought he was the normal driver of the #33 14. TheChaseBlowsChunks posted: 10.02.2011 - 1:35 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) "It's becoming harder and harder to have a long standing career in the truck series, as it is a feeder to Nationwide for the young drivers, and over the years long standing veterans have slowing been getting forced out of the series. Todd Bodine's status is unknown for next year. Hornaday is still looking. There may not be another 50 race winner in the Camping World Truck Series. Except for......Kyle Busch." Sounds good to me. I think Hornaday and Bodine in this series is just as bad, or even worse than Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick. They are washed up has-beens taking up good trucks that younger drivers should be learning in. They have no intentions of ever moving beyond the Trucks, so why do they need to be there? At least Busch and Harvick are running the series with teams they made themselves, and when they run the races it is to continue to strengthen their own teams so they can give younger drivers an opportunity in a good Truck. And don't give me some crap about the Hornadays and Bodines being there to "teach" these young drivers anything, because that's exactly what the Cup guys are doing, and they are doing it better. They are preparing them for what they will experience at higher levels, while Hornaday and Bodine are only teaching them how to race a couple of nobodies who never made it in the big time. Is anyone impressed with Hornaday's 50 wins? I'm not. I'll tell you what I am impressed with, two Cup drivers who run their own teams and create the jobs and opportunities that help keep this series afloat, even while they are racing for a real championship as their day job. Ron Hornaday is worthless, and Todd Bodine is even more worthless. 15. 00andJoe posted: 10.02.2011 - 1:48 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) jabber1990 - He is, but KHI's #2 is contending for the owners' championship. So Harvick put his best driver in the #2 and the newcomer in the #33. Clearly, it was the right decision. 16. Spen posted: 10.02.2011 - 7:13 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Cjs: Totally agree with you about James Buescher. Wins or not, I personally believe he's the most deserving of the top three drivers this year. Unlike Sauter and Dillon, who have been taking turns *trying* to throw this title away, James has actually been racing as if he wants to win it. Which is more than I can say about *any* driver in the top three series' this year. Talladega will be the deciding race this year. With an ECR engine, Dillon's got the best shot at winning the race, but I'd also give him a higher chance of being caught up in (or creating) the "big one". If James can do the excellent job of disaster avoidence that he's done all year (and there have been a number of near-misses), he could come out of 'Dega with a good-sized lead. I think part of the reason he's run so well this year has to do with the fact that career-wise, this championship would matter more to him than the other two. Johnny's pretty well set at Thorsport, and seems poised to become the next Todd Bodine in this series. One of these years, they'll get the bugs worked out and seal the deal on a title. If it's not this year, there's always next year, or the year after. There's no real urgency, and it's not like a Truck title will get him back in Cup or anything. And Dillon's set for life at RCR. Even if he sucked completly (which he certainly doesn't), he'd be sure of having a cup future. (And I personally think that losing this title would be better for him in the long run.) But James is another story. Sure, he's got decent job security at Turner (so long as he's dating the boss's daughter, anyway), but Turner doesn't yet have a Cup team, and while I do like Steve's way of running things (how many owners would have accepted that DNQ at Phoenix? In this era of spoiled brats, it was so refreshing to see them take their lumps, and use it as a reason to try harder.), I still don't really think that they have what it takes, from a monetary standpoint, to seriously compete at the Cup level. At best, they could fill the Red Bull posistion of being generally mediocre, with a few good runs mixed in. At worst, they could be the new Haas CNC. So if James is ever going to be more than a twenty-fifth place Cup driver, he needs this championship on his resume. And I truly believe that James has what it takes to suceed in Cup. I've been keeping an eye on him since his Busch races for the guy who took over Bob Sutton's team (for the life of me I can't remember his name. And my computer's running really badly right now, so I'm not going to stop and check.). And I think that ultimatly, the thing that has helped his career the most in the long run, was getting fired by James Finch. He was trying way too hard to get good results out of a non-competitive car, and the result was that in the ten or so races he ran for the team, he was involved in something like six wrecks. Losing that ride gave him a first hand lesson in the old adage about "in order to finish first, you must first finish". This is a lesson that Jeff Gordon didn't fully learn until he was twenty-four. And Kyle Busch, and other "young guns" who have always had elite rides, have never learned at all. This has led to James having a more conservative style than most of his peers. While it's not very flashy, if it wins him a championship, teams might start taking notice. And while he may not go all out every lap, he's demonstrated that, when the situation calls for it, he can be quite assertive. Remember how hard he ran when it looked like rain was iminent at IRP? And not only did he pounce at just the right time to take and keep the lead, he excellent race management skills, not only by saving enough fuel to make it to the end (which his teamate Carmichael failed to do), but also nursing a tire that was going soft. Really, if Timothy Peters hadn't made the luckiest mistake ever, James would have won the race quite handily. And speaking of race management, I've notieced this year that he nearly always is running better at the end of a long geen flag run than he is at the start. So if Goodyear ever goes back to having a softer tire compound, he'd be in great shape. And I think that the longer Cup races would work in his favor. (Future World 600 winner, perhaps?) Maybe this is all wishful thinking brought on by my desire to have a Texan to cheer for in cup again, but I really do think he's the real deal. And I'm going to have to find someone in this generation to cheer for, as the youngest of my current favorites is Matt Kenseth. Oh and by the way, congrats to Ron! I was hoping he'd get #50 before the year was out. Who'd have thought that Kentucky would have a better race than Dover today? 17. DaleSrFanForever posted: 10.02.2011 - 10:22 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Congrats to Ron. I missed it unfortunately. Points battle is looking good. 18. 00andJoe posted: 10.02.2011 - 1:10 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) #14 - I think you'd best get back to maintaining that bridge you live under. (aka, obvious troll is obvious) Also, following on from #16's last comment - I noticed that too. Why could the Trucks put on a good show at Kentucky, when Cup stunk up the joint? 19. Beth posted: 10.02.2011 - 1:21 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) One of the better Truck Series races in a while...nice to see the stars of the series making some ground while the Cup drivers were nowhere to be found. I did find it funny, though, that SPEED managed to spend a decent amount of time talking about Kyle Busch who wasn't even in the field. Why, Mikey, why?? So happy for Ron getting his 50th win before he's left most likely without a ride next season. 20. Anonymous posted: 10.02.2011 - 1:37 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) "#14 - I think you'd best get back to maintaining that bridge you live under. (aka, obvious troll is obvious)" Why do you think they are a troll? I happen to agree with most of what they said. Just because an opinion runs counter to your own, that doesn't make them a troll. They made some good points, and backed it up with reasons. Really, what is the point of someone like Ron Hornaday running this series? So he can pad his "impressive" record against 3rd tier drivers, extremely green rookies, failed Cup drivers, and the occasional good driver like Harvick/Busch? 21. OldSchoolNascarDude posted: 10.02.2011 - 2:02 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ron is running this series because it puts food on the table. He's done more for the Nascar Truck Series during its tenure than any other driver. 22. Anonymous posted: 10.02.2011 - 2:04 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Spen, you could say that Buescher is sort of like the Trevor Bayne of the Truck Series. If Bayne hadn't of missed those NNS races because of his sickness he could have been in the thick of the championship hunt in that series. Granted his recent bad luck probably would have knocked him out of that hunt, but his consistency is what would have had him in the hunt. You could also compare Buescher to Matt Crafton. As far as the title hunt goes for James, he cannot afford any kind of bad luck because he doesn't seem to have the equipment to make it up by winning races like Dillon or Sauter have done. James needs a good run at Vegas because Dillon has to be considered a favorite to win there. 23. cjs3872 posted: 10.02.2011 - 2:40 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Anonymous (#22), I disagree with you there. Remember that Trevor Bayne, who may be without a ride at season's end due to lack of sponsorship (I sincerely hope not) not only was sidelined by illness, but was already lagging in top-flight equipment (possibly from being too conservative) before his illness struck, and would have fallen out of title contention for that reason anyway. On the other hand, Buescher has been keeping up with more heavily funded teams with a team that obviously is not of the caliber of those he's battling with for the championship (especially Austin Dillon's RCR team). If Buescher were to pull off this championship, the only things I might be able to compare it to would be Alan Kulwicki's 1992 title, when he beat Junior Johnson's team with Bill Elliott, and Robert Yates' team with Davey Allison, or Benny Parsons' 1973 Cup title, which he won over Johnson's team with Cale Yarborough driving then, and Richard Petty. And Buescher's run this year reminds me more of Parsons' 1973 season rather than Kulwicki's 1992 season. Remember that Parsons only won once in 1973, and he wasn't even driving the cars when it took the checkered flag in that race. Parsons got out of the car and John Utsman actually took the checkered flag driving Parsons' car at Bristol that day. 24. Spen posted: 10.02.2011 - 3:02 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Actually, Benny did get back in the car for the last fifty laps or so, so he did take the checkered flag, but yes, Utsman ran a good half of that race for him. 25. cjs3872 posted: 10.02.2011 - 6:00 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sorry about the at error then, I had thought, based on what I had read about that situation, that Utsman had taken the checkered flag, but the fact remains that that particular Bristol race was the only one that Parsons won that year, and Buescher's attempt at the Truck Series championship is a lot like Parsons' 1973 championship season, which came nearly a year before he got his first major sponsor, King's Row Furniture, between halfway and two-thirds of the way through the 1974 season. 26. cjs3872 posted: 10.02.2011 - 6:01 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) That should have said King's Row Fireplace, not Furniture, for Benny Parsons' first major sponsor. 27. RCRandPenskeGuy posted: 10.02.2011 - 6:20 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) If you didn't have the greatest career in Cup, why is it such a crime to just race in Trucks full-time? Maybe they just enjoy racing, and at least it is the ONLY series they run in. People like Bodine, Skinner, Hornaday and Benson who decided to make careers for themselves in Trucks are by no means stopping young guns from getting rides in the Nationwide Series. 28. 1995z71 posted: 10.02.2011 - 7:09 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) No Cup Drivers means this race had lead changes & excitement! Congrats Ron on 50th. 29. DaleSrFanForever posted: 10.02.2011 - 8:35 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) BP's title was a great accomplishment by him and his team. They didn't have nearly the manpower or finances of the Junior Johnson, Petty Enterprises or Bud Moore, so they grinded out finishes and found a way to win it. 30. 00andJoe posted: 10.02.2011 - 9:09 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) "Really, what is the point of someone like Ron Hornaday running this series?" Because he...I dunno...LIKES running Trucks and has no -desire- to move up (again)? 31. irony posted: 10.02.2011 - 11:55 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) There's more than enough young drivers in the top 2 series. Don't need them to take over the Truck Series too. And the notion that there is a talent shortage in Cup is a load of CRAP. The fact that young guys like Matt DiBenedetto sign contracts and don't get to race because either the sponsor or owner wants Cup drivers in the car is what you should be complaining about. Ron's age is a major factor in him being in the Truck Series to begin with. If he would of come along 10 years earlier before the youth movement he would of had a decent Cup career, if he wanted it. 32. 00andJoe posted: 10.03.2011 - 1:44 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Arguably Ron would have had a decent chance at a good Cup career even when he did move up, if he'd signed with any team owner other than A.J. Foyt, Destroyer of Careers. 33. 00andJoe posted: 10.03.2011 - 1:46 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) (clarifying the above: A.J. as a driver was awesome, but as a team owner...the #14 Conseco car absolutely destroyed the career of anyone who touched it. Hornaday, Compton and Rick Mast all had their Cup careers trashed by that team. The only one who "got out alive" was Mike Wallace, and even that's questionable.) 34. 00andJoe posted: 10.03.2011 - 1:51 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) (and I forgot to count John Andretti as among those who were KO'd by Foyt's team.) Anyway, a bit of a Stock Report on the Trucks' young guns: BUY: Dillon (pick 'em), Buescher, Piquet, Armstrong, Coulter, Kligerman, Ickler HOLD: Lofton, Whitt, Carmichael, Richards, Peters SELL: Papis, Gaughan. 35. TheChaseBlowsChunks posted: 10.03.2011 - 3:27 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) ""Really, what is the point of someone like Ron Hornaday running this series?" Because he...I dunno...LIKES running Trucks and has no -desire- to move up (again)?" Well if a driver is allowed to run this series simply because they enjoy it, I don't want to hear any more complaining about the Busch's and Harvick's of the world. As far as I see it, they enjoy it, they provide jobs, they give young driver's opportunities, they teach young drivers how to race, and they provide a boost in viewership and interest in broadcasts of the races. And for the record, I still think Todd Bodine and his entire family are worthless. 36. irony posted: 10.03.2011 - 4:32 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The #14 team was hell for everyone who worked there, which was nobody for very long. But Ron got that thing up front every now and then and something would go wrong. You can count on one hand the races that went cleanly start to finish. And BTW ... "And don't give me some crap about the Hornadays and Bodines being there to "teach" these young drivers anything" I won't because they're not. 37. Anonymous posted: 10.03.2011 - 6:26 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Why won't somebody look at Trevor Bayne's stats page????? For crying out loud he nearly won the CARS ProCup in 2005. Too conservative my foot. More likely a case of Roush deliberately running a development driver he doesn't like into the ground. Look at Kluever: epic rookie season in Trucks, would have lit up the show, but Roush moved him up too fast. Same with Danny O'Quinn, Jr. Roush assumes the driver is worthless if he can't win a Cup championship as a rookie. Roush seems to have a touch to turn lead into gold, but he likewise turns gold into lead. I think Roush should cut all developments except for Stenhouse because he doesn't want to give guys a chance. Using Roush's logic, David Pearson and Richard Petty should have been fired because they didn't win in their rookie years. 38. cjs3872 posted: 10.03.2011 - 7:08 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Anonymous (#35), I mentioned this in another comments page, but there was an incident that occurred AFTER the 2005 USAR Pro Cup season you mentioned in which Bayne raced a teammate too hard while he was a delevolpmental driver for DEI, the results of which may have taken away his aggressiveness, which has been known to happen to other drivers as well. Apparently, he had to repair one of his cars after a race. As a result, he may have had to become a much more conservative driver. Again, things like this have happened to other drivers before. But another reason for Bayne's conservativeness has to do with the fact that he's not yet, since he came into a major NASCAR series, raced for a fully sponsored team. The one time he's raced in a major NASCAR series with any kind of sponsorship at all was during his short time with Michael Waltrip's team in the Nationwide Series, which is when he ran his best. But funding went dry and he wound up with Roush. Even his current ride with Roush isn't sponsored, which may lead to that team shutting down at season's end, resulting in this year's Daytona 500 winner possibly not having a ride for next year. And then there's the fact that he has to qualify for every race, despite that car's high standing in the owner's point standings, due to them skipping the first Iowa race. Basically, Bayne's been racing with one hand tied behind his back for most of this year, having to qualify on time, and having no sponsor. 00andJoe, while I agree that A.J. Foyt torpedoed some careers, John Andretti's would not be one of them. The only time that John Andretti ever raced for Foyt that I know of was at Indy in the mid 1990s, finishing 10th twice. But it was also with Foyt that Robby Gordon was discovered as a potential top-level racer after Roush brought him to pavement racing and Chip Ganassi gave him a try in IndyCars in 1992. You could also say that Foyt torpedoed the career of Vitor Meira, who seemed to be on the verge of winning, as well as Airton Dare, who actually did win for A.J. at Kansas. Meira continues to toil with A.J.'s IndyCar team today. But none of the drivers that Foyt put in his Cup cars ever did anything in the Cup series before they drive for A.J., so it wasn't like they set the world on fire anyway. Mast's best years were well behind him, Compton had two poles driving a car crew chiefed by Chad Knaus at Melling Racing, and Mike Bliss never amounted to much in the Cup Series, even after he left A.J.'s operation. And as for Mike Wallace, he couldn't keep a ride at Penske, despite his good runs there when he replaced Jeremy Mayfield late in 2001. Foyt's best finish as a Cup owner in his last foray into NASCAR was a fourth place finish at Watkins Glen by P.J. Jones, the oldest son of one of his greatest rivals, Parnelli Jones. 39. Matt L posted: 10.03.2011 - 12:28 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Great race to watch with a lot of passing and new names out front. This is what the series used to be pre-2009. Hopefully the economics turn around for next season. 40. Talon64 posted: 10.03.2011 - 5:57 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ron Hornaday became the 1st driver to reach 50 career wins in the Trucks. His 3rd win and 10th top 5 of 2011 leads all series-regulars (but his 125 laps led this year would by far be the worst of his career in a full season). Austin Dillon won his season-high 5th pole of 2011 (nobody else has more than 2) and the 12th of his career which ties him with Kyle Busch and Ted Musgrave for 7th all time. Austin finished in the top 2 for a 3rd straight race, the only driver other than Kyle Busch to accomplish that this year. James Buescher picked up his series-leading 17th top 10 of the year (in starting 19 of 20 races). It's his 30th career top 10 in 67 series starts. He's now sporting a lucky 7.7 average start AND finish this year. Nelson Piquet Jr. was the highest finishing rookie in the race, getting his 4th top 5 of the season (tied with Parker Kligerman for the most this season by a rookie). Brian Ickler finished in the top 5 for the 2nd time in 3 starts in the #18 KBM Truck this year (scheduled to run next race at Las Vegas). But they're now 41 points behind the #2 KHI team, who won the race, in the owners championship. Ricky Carmichael got his 2nd top 10 in the last 4 races, after none in the previous 7. Cole Whitt tied ROTY points leader Joey Coulter for the most top 10's by a rookie this season with his 10th of 2011. He's now just 4 points behind Coulter in the ROTY standings, with Piquet Jr. 12 back in 3rd and Kligerman 13 back in 4th. Dakoda Armstrong, who has 3 wins in 33 career ARCA starts, got his first top 10 in 5 career starts, all this year for Thorsport, in 9th. David Starr got his first top 10 in 5 races. 41. 00andJoe posted: 10.03.2011 - 6:54 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) "Well if a driver is allowed to run this series simply because they enjoy it, I don't want to hear any more complaining about the Busch's and Harvick's of the world. As far as I see it, they enjoy it, they provide jobs, they give young driver's opportunities, they teach young drivers how to race, and they provide a boost in viewership and interest in broadcasts of the races. " Busch and Harvick are running the lower series AND Cup. THAT is the difference. They shouldn't be dominating the lower series AND running a Cup schedule. ==== CJS - That was my mistake; Andretti ran the last four races of 2004 for Foyt's team (and the first three of 2005 with the same team, with Greg Pollex listed as owner?). I thought I remembered him running more, my mistake. 42. cjs3872 posted: 10.03.2011 - 9:57 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The confusion's understandable, 00andJoe, because Andretti used Foyt's #14 while with Greg Pollex's team. Foyt allowed them to use the number due to his close association with Andretti (unlike the other members of the Andretti family). In fact, Foyt is John Andretti's godfather. 43. irony posted: 10.03.2011 - 11:48 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Seriously, how can anyone not see the difference between Hornaday/Bodine and Busch/Harvick? I mean come the heck on. Hornaday and Bodine are racing drivers on their level (2nd tier IMO, not 3rd). They provide jobs, good for them. That doesn't improve my race viewing experience. 44. 44andJoe posted: 12.29.2012 - 1:42 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) #27 owner: Rod Sieg. 45. Windows Millennium Edition posted: 03.06.2016 - 3:21 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Withdrew: WD|A.J. Russell|73|Sacred Power|David Melton|Ford 46. PCRF0006 posted: 02.05.2018 - 7:24 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) #45: A.J. Russell was actually fast enough in qualifying to make the race, but because he bumped out the team owner of his truck, Jennifer Jo Cobb, his #73 was withdrawn to get the #10 in. 47. YRF0006 posted: 01.03.2019 - 1:44 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Still missing: WD|A.J. 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