|| *Comments on the 2009 Sprint Showdown:* View the most recent comment <#27> | Post a comment <#post> 1. Baker posted: 05.16.2009 - 8:56 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Now why can't Sam figure out how to be so good in points paying events? Nice run. I was surprised big time the fans voted Logano in over some of the other guys. At least on this site everyone seems to hate him. 2. 18fan posted: 05.16.2009 - 8:59 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Logano won the fan vote. McMurray had oil on his windshield and finished second by driving using the white line as his reference point. 3. Dodge posted: 05.16.2009 - 11:28 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) I personally don't understand why Logano was voted in. He has NO business racing with the big boys yet. A.J. Allmendinger should of been the one in.Must be all of the Home Depot workers and all of the Toyota fans that voted. 4. Bronco posted: 05.17.2009 - 12:13 am Rate this comment: (1) (4) Marcos Ambrose, Martin Truex Jr, David Reutimann, Bill Elliott, and instead Stale Bread of all the people gets voted in??? I just about threw up when I saw that. I wouldn't be surprised if Home Depot bought him a spot. Big time congratulations to Jamie McMurray for racing up to the front after starting 30th. Probably would have won if he had a better starting spot. Hornish did a fine job I admit and has improved a lot. I don't think he'll even smell a win this season or next, but he'll probably just gather more good runs. I was sad to see Regan Smith's team not even attempt this race, if NASCAR hadn't screwed him out of Talladega last year Furniture Row would have fielded a car for him. 5. RaceFanX posted: 05.17.2009 - 12:19 am Rate this comment: (2) (0) For once Dave Blaney didn't have to start and park Phil Parsons' #66 Toyota and actually has a good run with it, getting as high as 4th before finishing 11th. 6. Darrell posted: 05.17.2009 - 8:03 am Rate this comment: (2) (0) Logano has no business competing with the big boys, yet he finishes ahead of Junior, Bowyer, and Johnson in the All-Star? The kid's getting better guys. Get over it. Can he do any right? 7. Anonymous posted: 05.17.2009 - 9:46 am Rate this comment: (0) (3) Sam appeared to turn the corner since Phoenix. Joey Logano finished 8th in the all star race. His performance got discredited because of the following: 1.) RCR had a putrid showing. 2.) 2 of the Hendrick cars couldn't finish the race ( Gordon and Johnson). 3.) A good deal of wrecks happened in the final 10 laps of the all star race that included Kyle Busch and Ryan Newman. 4.) A lot of drivers hit the wall in the All star race and still finshed the raced, but in damaged cars. 5.) Jr. doesn't count this year. The whole team is a mess. 8. Anonymous posted: 05.17.2009 - 9:58 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) My mistake about Johnson. What happened to Johnson was the fact a caution because of him. He never recovered from it compare to where he was. 9. Smokefan05 posted: 05.17.2009 - 4:35 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Joey maybe getting better but had no business being in the All-Star race. Robby Gordon would have been a better choice. Congrats Sam, you've earned some credit from me. 10. samfan09 posted: 05.17.2009 - 9:41 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Overall boring race, but great run Sam! He's still got a lot to learn, but at least he's shown some signs that he could be good at some point in the last few weeks. He probably won't win a race the rest of the season, but at least he's shown that he can be competitive at times. Great showing for McMurray with the oil on his windshield. Not sure how many drivers could not only stay out of the wall, but run 2nd like that. I was hoping that Reutimann or Elliott would win the fan vote. Reutimann is quietly having a GREAT season and it would have been nice to see Awesome Bill have at least 1 more chance in the All-Star race before he finally hangs them up for good. Of course, at the rate he's going, he may still. 11. Bronco posted: 05.17.2009 - 10:16 pm Rate this comment: (0) (2) "Joey maybe getting better but had no business being in the All-Star race." Like I said, Home Depot must have bought his way in. There's no other way he would have made it. For what its worth, I thought Carl Edwards did a fantastic job as a pit reporter. If he wasn't a driver, he could have a very good TV career. 12. jamie88fan posted: 02.28.2010 - 8:53 pm Rate this comment: (0) (2) This is the race when carl long got that big fine and lost of points I dont understand how someone loose points when it wasnt a points race the fine was to big and the points wtf nascar... 13. 00andJoe posted: 03.10.2011 - 4:43 am Rate this comment: (5) (0) What a crazy starting grid! 1. #72 - Kirk Shelmerdine 2. #46 - Carl Long 3. #12 - David Stremme 4. #66 - Dave Blaney 5. #36 - Scott Riggs 6. #1 - Martin Truex Jr 7. #6 - David Ragan 8. #77 - Sam Hornish Jr 9. #13 - Max Papis 10. #44 - A.J. Allmendinger 11. #42 - Juan Pablop Montoya 12. #37 - Mike Wallace 13. #00 - David Reutimann 14. #47 - Marcos Ambrose 15. #51 - Dexter Bean 16. #21 - Bill Elliott 17. #75 - Derrike Cope 18. #57 - Norm Benning 19. #20 - Joey Logano 20. #82 - Scott Speed 21. #87 - Joe Nemechek 22. #71 - David Gilliland 23. #07 - Casey Mears 24. #98 - Paul Menard 25. #73 - Mike Garvey 26. #64 - Todd Bodine 27. #19 - Elliott Sadler 28. #55 - Michael Waltrip 29. #06 - David Starr 30. #26 - Jamie McMurray 31. #83 - Brian Vickers 32. #7 - Robby Gordon 33. #41 - J.J. Yeley 34. #43 - Reed Sorenson 35. #34 - Tony Raines 14. 00andJoe posted: 03.10.2011 - 4:50 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Correction to above: Shelmerdine was of course the #27... 15. 00andJoe posted: 03.10.2011 - 4:50 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) To the back: #27 (backup car), #46 (engine change) 16. 00andJoe posted: 03.10.2011 - 5:16 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) First segment top 31 results: #12 Stremme #77 Hornish Jr #1 Truex Jr #66 Blaney #42 Montoya #00 Reutimann #6 Ragan #26 McMurray #20 Logano #44 Allmendinger #47 Ambrose #98 Menard #07 Mears #43 Sorenson #7 R.Gordon #19 E.Sadler #55 M. Waltrip #71 Gilliland #37 M. Wallace #36 Riggs #51 Bean #21 Elliott #82 Speed #87 Nemechek #37 Raines #75 Cope #64 T. Bodine #13 Papis #06 Starr #73 Garvey #41 Yeley Correction to comment #5 - Blaney actually ran as high as second, all the way up to lap 16. 17. 00andJoe posted: 03.10.2011 - 5:28 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Cautions: Laps: 3-7 (#34 spin turn 4), 13-16 (#83 accident turn 1), 21 (segment 1 end), 26 (#19 accident turn 1) 18. 00andJoe posted: 03.10.2011 - 5:28 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Lap leaders: K. Shelmerdine pole, D. Stremme 1-25, S. Hornish 26-40 19. CBASS posted: 02.03.2013 - 8:06 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor updates #43 McCafe #19 Best Buy/ Insignia #12 Penske #64 Gunselman Motorsports #7 Operation Homefront/ Jim Beam http://archives.ciastockphoto.com/cgi/images.php?group=w0913 20. LASTCAR posted: 04.23.2013 - 12:03 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Carl Long finished last in Saturday's Sprint Showdown at the Lowe's Motor Speedway when the engine failed on his #46 Romeo Guest Construction Dodge lost the engine after completing 3 of the race's 40 laps. In Friday's practice, Long's engine blew during a mock qualifying run, forcing him to switch engines before qualifying that afternoon. A mid-afternoon thunderstorm forced the cancellation of Sprint Showdown qualifying, but this ironically worked to Long's benefit. Since the Showdown was not a points event, the starting lineup was determined by the random draw that set the qualifying order. Long was set to be the 2nd driver to qualify, so his #46 was awarded the outside-pole for the Sprint Showdown. However, Long's engine change forced him to surrender the spot and start at the back of the largest Sprint Showdown field since 1996. A similar fate befell the polesitter, fellow owner-driver Kirk Shelmerdine, who was forced to the back after damaging his primary car in practice. Long held his own in the early laps, but when the first caution fell on lap 2, his #46 was on the apron with smoke coming from the left-front fender. Though this appeared to be the result of making contact with another car in traffic, Long pulled behind the wall under yellow with a blown engine. Ironically, despite the two failed engines, Long was then penalized 200 driver and owner points and was put on a 12-race suspension the following Wednesday when NASCAR ruled his race engine was too big. The finish marked the first time both Long and the #46 have ever finished last in the Sprint Showdown. Long has three last-place finishes in NASCAR Sprint Cup points races, most recently in the 2005 New England 300 at New Hampshire. It is also the second time the outside-polesitter of the Sprint Showdown has ever finished last: Todd Bodine did the same when an early crash took him out of the 2003 Winston Open. Also of note, Dave Blaney, the current 2009 leader in last-place finishes, secured sponsorship for the Sprint Showdown, inherited the outside-pole from Long, and contended for the lead for much of the race before finishing 11th. Visit http://brockbeard.blogspot.com/ for more. 21. Matthew Lewis posted: 07.30.2014 - 7:05 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Also Carl Long was hit with the (then) largest fine in NASCAR history, $200,000 for an engine he LEASED from Ernie Elliott that was 0.017 cubic inches above the maximum size allowed by NA$CAR, yet also 50bhp down on every other car in the race. 22. Nascar Lead Lap Points posted: 12.19.2014 - 4:47 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Withdrew 08 Boris Said Carter-Simo Racing John Carter Dodge During an ALMS race on Saturday in Long Beach, Calif., Boris Said's Corvette burst into flames. He got out, but not before sustaining several second degree burns to his arms and eyes.(Portland Press Herald), watching the video, Said got out of the car and ran to the wall and sat there a few minutes with safety workers looking at him and talking to him, Said got up walked away and waved to the crowd and got in a safety vehicle. AND Boris Said adds to the legend. Said suffered second- and third-degree burns in a fire during the Long Beach Grand Am race. Get better, buddy, see an image of Said on Marty Smith's Door to Door column at ESPN SAID Ride plans: Carter Racing plans to return to the track for the 2009 NASCAR Sprint All Star Race. Boris Said will drive the #08 Dodge for the Sprint Showdown, his second race in the #08 this season. The team is actively searching for sponsorship.(Carter Racing PR)(4-23-2009) UPDATE 2: Due to 2nd and 3rd degree burns suffered during an ALMS event late last month, Said is unable to compete this weekend. John Carter has withdrawn the #08 Dodge from the Sprint Showdown. 23. Big Mac Fan posted: 11.04.2015 - 8:54 pm Rate this comment: (3) (0) Weirdest starting line up ever. I thought I was dreaming when I saw Kirk Shelmerdine and Carl Long start on the front row. 24. Windows Millennium Edition posted: 04.09.2016 - 12:20 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor updates: #19 Best Buy/Insignia #64 Gunselman Motorsports 25. Yeet posted: 03.20.2020 - 12:10 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) The 2009 edition of this "LCQ" to get into the All-Star race brought the largest field since the 1992 Winston Open. While 53 teams showed up for the All-Star weekend, only 47 showed up for the 600. Primarily due to the high competition across the entire grid in 2009, a guaranteed entry into a rather decent purse for a 40 lap exhibition was worth it as opposed to having to fight hard to make the 600, which is a very taxing for those cars that make the show regardless. Also, since many of the small teams were on the same page, the back half of the field would see little attrition. 26. TeamDCRfan posted: 03.20.2020 - 2:34 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Teams that decided to skip the 600 that ran this race 57 Norm Benning (Would not attempt another race in 09) 75 Derrike Cope (team and driver would make sporadic appearances throughout the season) 46 Carl Long (had a difficult time after this) 37 Mike Wallace (would eventually join the 64 team) 51 Dexter Bean (would attempt multiple races, making Pocono) 27 Kirk Shelmerdine (27 would show up a couple more times, without making a race) 27. Rich posted: 12.20.2020 - 5:22 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Mike Joy, Larry McReynolds and Darrell Waltrip were the commentators. Dr. Dick Berggren, Steve Byrnes, Matt Yocum and Carl Edwards were the pit road reporters. Krista Voda and Jeff Hammond were in the speed infield studio. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: