|| *Comments on the 2011 Coca-Cola 250 Powered by Fred's:* View the most recent comment <#39> | Post a comment <#post> 1. 00andJoe posted: 10.22.2011 - 10:29 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Krista Voda, before the race: "we won't see the two-car tangos" KHI: "O RLY?" I'm surprised the #3 wasn't penalised at the end - on the last lap he had half the truck below the yellow line on the backstrech going around Grant Enfinger.. 2. irony posted: 10.22.2011 - 10:30 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Restrictor plate specialist Mike Wallace finally gets good equipment and gets his first big win since the '04 Busch race at Daytona. Time really flies, that race seems like yesterday to me. Ron was on his bumper literally the whole race, and never overheated. Mike did get loose one time, but other than that Ron and Mike were flawless where others struggled in the 2 truck tandem. 3. 00andJoe posted: 10.22.2011 - 10:32 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) #82 sponsor: VisitGulf.com/Preble-Rish #39 sponsor: Pull-A-Part #76 sponsor: J&R Supply #93 sponsor: Pull-A-Part #07 sponsor: AkzoNobel 4. irony posted: 10.22.2011 - 10:36 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Worth mentioning that after Mike's last Busch Series win in 04, he was leading on the last lap the next week at Chicago and ran out of gas. Hopefully he has better luck this time. 5. potatosalad48 posted: 10.22.2011 - 10:40 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Great job by the KHI trucks to stay together knowing the bumpers on the Trucks don't line up. 6. cjs3872 posted: 10.22.2011 - 10:42 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This race was the prime example of why you see the two-car pods during the entire race now, as we saw how much faster two cars tied together are than the field is using conventional drafting. At one point in the race, the KHI team trucks of Mike Wallace and Ron Hornaday, Jr. were over 11 seconds, or not much less than a quarter lap ahead of the main draft (at this time Parker Kligerman and Todd Bodine were running third and fourth, and they were more than seven seconds behind themselves). Now this is not likely to happen in the Cup race, it's a prime example of how much faster a two-car push-draft is than the rest of the field, even if they're in a big draft of their own. And even then there were 24 official lead changes, despite the fact that Hornaday pushed Wallace for more than half the race. Meanwhile, James Buescher continues to make a run at a piece of infamy, as he closed in to within 3 points of Austin Dillon, despite not having won a race, and not having even qualified for one race. Meanwhile, the controversy of what happened to Dillon late in the race is another example of the competitors sometimes not knowing what the rules are. It's obvious that Dillon was not keeping up, but Dillon was confused, saying that he only needed to get to the start-finish line on that lap to keep his position. Three-time Indy winner Bobby Unser always took pride in knowing what the rules were when he competed, and later when he commentated, and this is true among the sport's other greats as well. So why can't today's drivers and teams figure out what the rules are. It's one thing to try to take advantage of the rulebook, but it's another not to know what the rules are in a given situation. 7. AlmirolaFan88 posted: 10.22.2011 - 10:45 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Mike Wallace wore a firesuit last used when Wallace drove a one off Cup race at Talladega for RCR in 2008. First Truck win for a Nationwide Series regular this season. It could have been Elliott Sadler earning that honor but he opted for the weekend off. Todd Bodine had the next best truck after the KHI duo, but couldn't seem to mesh well with whoever he drafted with. At the end he hooked up with Jason White and if they had 1 more lap, they might have been the winning duo. 8. Bronco posted: 10.22.2011 - 11:01 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) First ever win for Chevyin a Truck superspeedway race, starting in 2000 when the Trucks first visited Daytona, a race won by Mike Wallace in a Ford. Sadler nearly picked up one for Chevy at Daytona this year before Waltrip passed him. Most laps ever led in a Truck race at Talladega. This was Mike's first Truck start since this race in 2009, his past four truck starts have all been at Talladega. After all the tandem racing we have seen this year, Michael Waltrip's Truck win is even more impressive to me considering he was the only one that was able to push someone out front and pass them. Everyone else has pushed a car out front and helplessly watched him win the race without having a chance to make a move, or in some cases, not wanting to. Tandem racing needs to go away. 9. Anonymous posted: 10.22.2011 - 11:05 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I think this might have been the best planned race by a race organization for a plate race ever. KHI even had their drivers line up next to each other on restarts by planning when a driver should get out their pit box. This is nothing against DEI in its glory days of plate racing, but I didn't recalled a race organization prior actually have a driver wait to get out of its pit stop before another driver gets out, so the team cars would line up on a restart. The other thing to look at this race was no other team was prepared for what KHI was planning for most of the race. 10. Cooper posted: 10.22.2011 - 11:06 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) "8. Bronco posted: 10.22.11 - 11:01 pm" "After all the tandem racing we have seen this year, Michael Waltrip's Truck win is even more impressive to me considering he was the only one that was able to push someone out front and pass them. Everyone else has pushed a car out front and helplessly watched him win the race without having a chance to make a move, or in some cases, not wanting to. Tandem racing needs to go away." Most sensible comment all year. Preach it brother, preach. 11. Baker posted: 10.22.2011 - 11:08 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Ron Hornaday is going to win this championship. Dillon is going to choke and Hornaday is going to out run Buescher and Sauter the next 3 races. He was barried in 9th like 4 weeks ago. I don't like him, but its going to happen. 12. 1995 Subaru WRX STi posted: 10.22.2011 - 11:09 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) "Tandem racing needs to go away." Not going away anytime soon, so suck it up. KHI had this thing from the moment the green flag was waved. KHI did their homework, 98% of the field got a F grade from me. 13. cjs3872 posted: 10.22.2011 - 11:21 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) AlmirolaFan88, Sadler chose to take the weekend off and gave his ride to Mike Wallace because he's in the Nationwide title hunt, and he didn't want to risk anything at Talladega, especially given his history there. and if he had been in the race, I suspect the entire race would have played out much differenty, because Sadler has never been comfortable there, especially after his two big crashes, while wallace has always been good at plate tracks. Remember that he finished in the op ten three times in plate races a decade ago driving for Jim Smith's Ultra Motorsports, and finished fourth in the 2007 Daytona 500 driving for Phoenix Racing (though Phoenix Racing, which may be today's version of RahMoc, finished third in the 2002 Daytona 500 with Geoff Bodine and, of course, won the spring race at Talladega in 2009 with Brad Keselowski). 14. potatosalad48 posted: 10.22.2011 - 11:27 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Mike is very under rated, he deserved this win. 15. irony posted: 10.22.2011 - 11:30 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Hornaday has made up 52 points in the last 5 weeks. He has to make up 16 more in 3 weeks. Martinsville and Texas are two of his best tracks. Homestead is one of his worst. Buescher and Hornaday have both spotted the field a race; Buescher literally and Hornaday with a 25 point penalty early in the year. Otherwise we wouldn't even be talking about Sauter any more. 16. JAMIE88FAN posted: 10.22.2011 - 11:42 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) This tandom crap stink a snore ... One more thing I think nascar once again screwed the little guy Norm Benning dnq he made every attemted this year but even put a extra truck when they were short on trucks but when full fields they forget ... 17. joey2448 posted: 10.23.2011 - 1:09 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I can't believe Ron Hornaday is back in the title hunt. He was all but out only a few weeks ago... 18. OldSchoolNascarDude posted: 10.23.2011 - 1:36 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) -I'll give KHI credit. They came into the race with a gameplan and stuck with it. They executed it perfectly. -Ever since Ron Hornaday got knocked out of a job, he's been on a rampage. -I don't know how Kyle Busch didn't factor up front more in this race, but I'm not complaining. -I'm glad to see a plate race without a huge crash. I'm not a fan of demo derby's. 19. 00andJoe posted: 10.23.2011 - 2:08 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) "One more thing I think nascar once again screwed the little guy Norm Benning dnq he made every attemted this year but even put a extra truck when they were short on trucks but when full fields they forget ... " lolwhut. Norm wasn't in the top 25 in owners points, and wasn't fast enough to make the field. How is that "screwing him"? 20. DaleJrFan20 posted: 10.23.2011 - 2:39 am Rate this comment: (0) (1) Trucks finally fall victim to Two Car Tango, and thus, there is no need to watch superspeedways.GW Mike, too bad I'm too bored to care after this horrid snoozefest. 21. irony posted: 10.23.2011 - 2:43 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Norm is the Milka Duno of NASCAR. 22. NicoRosbergFan posted: 10.23.2011 - 5:26 am Rate this comment: (2) (0) Wrong! Sadler took the weekend off because his wife his due to have a baby this week. 23. NicoRosbergFan posted: 10.23.2011 - 5:50 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Bad week for motorsport: Marco Simoncelli was killed in today's Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix. 24. Raycer posted: 10.23.2011 - 6:37 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) "Tandem racing needs to go away. " I agree 100%. The guy pushing the leader can't even make a move until it's too late. I also hate how announcers try to sell it as the greatest thing ever. 25. DaleSrFanForever posted: 10.23.2011 - 10:03 am Rate this comment: (0) (1) I didn't see it, but Mike Wallace proves he is a much better "plate specialist" than Michael Waltrip. Wallace just never had a Cup ride worth a shit (his fault cause he sucked everywhere else). If he could have drove the 15 car from '01 thru '04, he would have twice as many wins as Mikey. If Mikey is so good at plate racing, why has he never won a plate race in any other Series except this year's Truck race at Daytona when half his spoiler magically fell back on the last lap. 26. AlmirolaFan88 posted: 10.23.2011 - 11:55 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) "Norm is the Milka Duno of NASCAR." You can't really compare the two. I fail to see where her talent is and she often wrecks. She's got a big money sponsor that can get her a top ride, and has yet to do anything with it. He runs on a tightrope budget and can only afford engines that are like, 40 hp less than everyone elses. I've yet to see Norm wreck anything. He does what he can with what he has. At least he has a few Top 5's in ARCA before. We all might diss Norm at times, but he deserves better than a Milka Duno comparison! 27. cjs3872 posted: 10.23.2011 - 12:37 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Okay, NicoRosbergFan, so Sadler's wife was having a baby, and I commend him for taking the weekend off to celebrate that, but I still believe that Harvick might have taken him out of the #33 truck anyway, due to his battling for the Nationwide title. And irony, James Buescher actually spotted the firld a race when he failed to qualify at Phoenix, but the others certainly have not. It's just a situation that those battling for the championship sinply don't know how to win one, while Hornaday has learned how to battle for championships from some of the masters, especially Dale Earnhardt, Sr., for whom he won his first two truck titles. Hornaday has also driven for Richard Childress in Nationwide and A.J. Foyt in Cup, and both certainly have their share of titles (Childress currently has six in Cup as a car owner, along with his Nationwide title with Kevin Harvick, as well as his championship in the Truck series' first season with Mike Skinner, while Foyt won six IndyCar titles as a driver, not counting 1979, and won an IRL title in 1998 with Kenny Brack). Hornaday and Harvick simply know how to win champiojnships, while their competition is still learning how to. Remember that before the 1976 Daytona 500 even started, Jackie Stewart, live on ABC (the start of the Daytona 500 was carried live that year for the first time ever), predicted that it would be Richard Petty and David Pearson battling for the win. The reason he did so was that Petty and Paearson knew how to win races. And of course, we know what happened that day, as it was Petty and Pearson battling to the finish while all the other challengers (Foyt, Benny Parsons, Buddy Baker, Darrell Waltrip, Bobby Allison, and Coo Coo Marlin) had problems. And of course, there was that crash between Petty, Pearson, and eventually Joe Frasson (who finished 14th) at the finish in what is still, in my mind, the greatest finish in the history of the sport. 28. cjs3872 posted: 10.23.2011 - 12:49 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) DSFF, one main reason that Michael Waltrip had never won at Daytona and Talladega in a lower series until this year's Truck Series race was downright rotten luck. For instance, Waltrip had the fastest car in the Nationwide Series race at Daytona in 1994 when the rear spoiler flew off, similar to what happened to Neil Bonnett in the 1981 Daytona 500. And there's nothing you can do when Lady Luck decides to intervene. Also, my comment about Phoenix Racing being today's version of RahMoc, especially when it comes to racing at Daytona and Talladega, which I'm surprised that nobody else picked up on, was made because RahMoc, from the mid-80s to the mid-90s, was a fromt runner no matter who drove the car. Neil bonnett dominated a large part of SpeedWeeks in 1983 in that car, and finished fourth in the 1988 Daytona 500 in it, but Lake Speed was second in the 1985 Daytona 500 with it, Morgan Shepherd was second in the '89 Firecracker 400, Joe Ruttman and Dick Trickle were third and fifth in the 1991 and 1992 Daytona 500 respectively, and Todd Bodine was a major challenger, as well, especially in the 1994 Daytona 500 before he and Jeff Gordon tangled on the backstretch. It's true that RahMoc, unlike Phoenix Racing, never won a points race at Daytona or Talladega, but for a second-level team, which they were for most of their existence, the RahMoc #75 car, no matter who drove it, was always one that the competition knew it had to beat if it wanted to win. NOTE: I know that Neil Bonnett did win the 1983 World 600 in the RahMoc car, but I was referring to Daytona and Talladega races when I was referring to RahMoc's consistent runs up front, regardless of driver. 29. irony posted: 10.23.2011 - 8:11 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Hornaday won back-to-back SW Tour titles and narrowly lost a Winston West title the next year, before signing with Dale. He's been involved in a championship battle for most of the last 2 decades. If he loses this one, it's due mainly to the 25 point penalty which equals 25 spots in a 36 truck field, which is why I feel he has spotted the field a race as well. One thing I didn't realize is the winner gets 43 points plus bonus, same as Cup. I thought for some reason the Truck winner got 36. Still, it's only the 2nd time I can remember a Truck team getting a penalty that big. The other was Biffle in 1999, which cost him the title. Truck and NW teams usually get smaller penalties. 30. RCRandPenskeGuy posted: 10.23.2011 - 11:48 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) It's official, KHI is established in my mind as the best Truck Series team. A team that can win races so often despite shuffling drivers, and a team that can win races with guys like Elliott Sadler and Mike Wallace is obviously damn good. Considering I dislike Harvick, and would do anything to tilt stats against him, that is huge coming from me. 31. Talon64 posted: 10.24.2011 - 5:42 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Mike Wallace picks up his 5th career Truck Series victory, his first since Mesa Marin in 2000, and first NASCAR win of any kind since Busch at Daytona in 2004. Of his 9 wins between Nationwide and Trucks, 3 of them are on plate tracks. Ron Hornaday gets his 6th straight top 10, 4th straight top 5 and 3rd straight top 2 finish. It's his 2nd runner-up finish in 6 Talladega starts. James Buescher joins Ron Hornaday as the only other Truck regular with 10+ top 5's (Hornaday leads the series with 12). It's also Buescher's series-leading 18th top 10 in 21 starts in 2011. Buescher also won the pole for the race, 2nd of his career (both this season). Ricky Carmichael gets his best finish of 2011 in 4th, his first top 5 of the year (3 in 2010). It's his 3rd top 10 in the last 6 races (12.3 avg fin, 16.8 on the season). Jason White gets his 7th career top 5 in 126 series starts, and 2nd of 2011. It's his first top 10 in 7 races. Todd Bodine has 2 top 5's, 8 top 10's and no finish worse than 13th in the 12 races since switching from #30 Germain to #5 RMM (same team though), with an 8.5 avg fin (16.5 avg fin in first 10 races of 2011). Austin Dillon picked up his 5th top 10 in the last 6 races, and has now equaled his laps led from 2010 (392). Brendan Gaughan has back-to-back top 10's for the first time in 2011. Kyle Busch made his 100th career Truck Series start but only finished 9th (his 13th top 10 in 15 starts this season). Max Papis gets just his 2nd top 10 of the season, and 4th in 41 career starts. Cole Whitt was the highest finishing rookie in 14th. He now leads the ROTY standings by 4 points over Joey Coulter, with Nelson Piquet Jr. 7 back in 3rd and Parker Kligerman 15 back in 4th. 32. RaceFanX posted: 10.28.2011 - 11:05 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Showing you how long it has been since Wallace last won a Truck race, as noted by Talon64 his last win was at Mesa Marin out in Southern California. That track no longer exists as it was torn down in 2005, more than half a decade ago. 33. Destiny posted: 11.01.2011 - 12:50 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Mike's win in just eight days before his father's death. 34. Daniel posted: 05.20.2012 - 10:44 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) In using fastest 36: #10 Jennifer Jo Cobb, #57 Norm Benning, #74 Mike Harmon Out using fastest 36: #07 Butch Miller, #66 J.J. Yeley, #93 B.J. McLeod 35. 83andJoe posted: 09.11.2013 - 2:43 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Greenfield DNQ'd his usual #68, not #58. 36. Nascar Lead Lap Points posted: 04.25.2014 - 1:43 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Withdrew 09 Charles Vest Rockingham Speedway Chris Baluch 10 Ford 63 Jack Smith Seal Wrap Michael Mittler 11 Ford 37. Anthony posted: 01.15.2016 - 9:09 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) tandem in the trucks was the worst thing ever 38. 88&4Fan posted: 01.15.2016 - 10:08 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Why so specific to the trucks? It sucked everywhere. 39. Danish_Pie posted: 06.06.2020 - 3:18 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Grant Enfinger's 12th place here was the best ever for the #82 in trucks at the time. Enfinger would match the finish with the number four months later at Daytona. He would later win at both tracks in the series. This was the first race out for his team owner, George Bragg. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: