|| *Comments on the 2009 Sprint All-Star Challenge:* View the most recent comment <#30> | Post a comment <#post> 1. Mike posted: 05.16.2009 - 11:21 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) One of the greatest All-Star races of all time. 2. Baker posted: 05.17.2009 - 12:22 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Tony Stewart is a bad man behind the wheel of a race car. Congrats Smoke and hope you get that 600 wins next week too. 3. Bronco posted: 05.17.2009 - 12:41 am Rate this comment: (0) (3) Horrible race in my opinion. Johnson leads every lap of the first segment, then Shrub leads every lap of the second segment, and the first green flag lead change doesnt happen until the third segment. Now that Stewart has won the All-Star race, he only needs to win the elusive Daytona 500, the Coke 600, and win at Darlington, California and Las Vegas to complete his NASCAR resume. If NASCAR is going hype up the all star race and want it to be exciting, then might I suggest holding at Talladega under the lights. That's one of the few tracks where the CoT races well. 4. 18fan posted: 05.17.2009 - 2:35 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) This race actually had excitement, unlike last year. Kyle going through the middle, Busch, Newman, and Gordon banging each other until Gordon spun. Congrats to Tony. First race since Gene Haas(The Haas in Stewart-Haas Racing)got out of prison for tax fraud. Newman cut a tire, and Kyle had too much damage to be competitive the last seven laps. 5. NazRacePhan posted: 05.17.2009 - 7:53 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) What an outstanding run for Tony... hung back, then showed up out of nowhere when it counted!!!! Same goes for Newman, almost going a second lap down, getting the lucky dog at the end of Segment 1 (which was an absolute GIFT from Jimmie Johnson) Now if Tony can follow it up getting his first 600 win!!! 6. Anonymous posted: 05.17.2009 - 9:52 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Where race were you watching in the final 10 laps Bronco? Did it occur to you that some of the drivers where holding back till the final segment. The final top laps shown passes and doing 3 wide for the lead even between Gordon, Kyle Busch and Newman. The final 10 laps of the all star race is the best in a while for the event. 7. Anonymous posted: 05.17.2009 - 9:57 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Stewart becomes the first owner driver since Geoff Bodine to win an all star race event. 8. Anonymous posted: 05.17.2009 - 10:33 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The race was great in the final ten laps. RCR wasn't that good all race long. Based on Stewart's Resume without wins, California and Las Vegas are not major tracks for wins a first place. Darlington is not really a major win from an event stand point anymore since the Labor Day version Southern 500 no longer exists. Darlington is an important win on a Driver's resume based on talent though. Wins that Show case a driver's skill level are the following tracks : All Road Courses, Short tracks, 1 mile tracks, Darlington, and Rockingham before it left the cup schedule after the 2004 race season. Pocono is more on horsepower and aerodynamics than driver. It is similar to cookie cutter tracks in that way. California and Las Vegas aren't places for major wins at due to the following reason. 1.) Those two tracks don't have a racing event that is really important to the drivers to win at unless it is a home track to a cup driver like Las Vegas is to the Busch Brothers. A lot of Cup drivers looked at events at the Labor Day Southern 500, the Coke 600, Daytona 500, Brickyard 400 as major wins to have on a driver's resume because of the history of the event or the history of the track. 9. Bronco posted: 05.17.2009 - 10:49 am Rate this comment: (1) (1) "Where race were you watching in the final 10 laps Bronco?" I was watching the race where whichever driver got out front was pretty much untouchable in the first few segments. Yes, the final 10 laps were fun to watch with all the three wide racing but for me it wasn't much fun watching 90 laps of follow the leader before that. I wish they would go back to the 90s format and keep it like that once and for all. Run 30 laps then invert, run another 30 laps and invert, then have a 10 lap shootout. That always provided the best racing to me. 10. CarlEdwards99 posted: 05.17.2009 - 11:49 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) few thoughts 1. I didn't think the 10 lap shootout would work as typically with the COT, the leader pulls away for the first 25 laps at least. I was wrong 2. Kenseth had to just miss his mark when he left the bottom open, if not, I will never know what he was thinking 3. DW's Kyle Busch bias just got absurd at one point. I believe it was sagment 3, DW claimed Kyle Busch was 3 tenths faster than the rest of the field when in reality Gordon had closed in on Busch's back bumper 11. CarlEdwards99 posted: 05.17.2009 - 12:39 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I agree with Bronco. Bring back the invert and bring back 3 sagments. 4 sagments is to much. 12. Patrick posted: 05.17.2009 - 1:19 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) great allstar race, the first two segiments it was pretty calm the calm before the storm then the last 10 laps all heck broke loose and Tony ended up rising to the top and winning it. congrats to him and his entire #14 team. that first points win is just a matter of time. 13. Anonymous posted: 05.17.2009 - 1:43 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I agree with CarlEdwards99 with DW's Kyle Busch bias and the 10 lap shootout worked with the cot. It is obvious why DW has Kyle Busch Bias. Kyle's driving reminds DW of his own back in the late 70's and early 80's. 14. Kit posted: 05.17.2009 - 4:02 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) "One of the greatest All-Star races of all time." You have to be kidding. This race doesn't even come close to the '92 All-Star race. They had to pull the winner (Allison) out of his car with the jaws of life. Newman was driving like a total idiot; I thought he was a better driver than that. He tried to take the lead on the outside of probably the narrowest part of the race track, and not only took himself out of the race, but Gordon and Busch. You can't win a race by damaging your car with eight laps to go. Busch was also damaging his car too much. "Wins that Show case a driver's skill level are the following tracks" I don't know about road courses. The thing is, to be good on a road course, you have to know the track really well. You're not racing anyone so much as you are racing the track. Guys like JPM can win on road courses and are not competitive on ovals. Darlington, on the other hand, not only do you have to know the track but you are also racing against others for every spot. "Kenseth had to just miss his mark when he left the bottom open, if not, I will never know what he was thinking" His car might have given up on him. Stewart's car was the only one gripping down there successfully. "DW's Kyle Busch bias just got absurd at one point." I agree. Having DW and Larry Mac in the booth is too much. 15. Smokefan05 posted: 05.17.2009 - 4:32 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Last year the winner (kasey kahne) ran away with it. This year not so much. Congrats Tony, First win at the All-Star too. The team are figuring what the COT needs. 16. The Ost posted: 05.17.2009 - 6:04 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I liked the last two segments. The first 70 laps are not needed unless there's a bigger incentive to race harder to win them. The last ten was a banger! Great run by Stewart. 17. DaleSrFanForever posted: 05.18.2009 - 10:14 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) "3. DW's Kyle Busch bias just got absurd at one point. I believe it was sagment 3, DW claimed Kyle Busch was 3 tenths faster than the rest of the field when in reality Gordon had closed in on Busch's back bumper" Him and Mike Joy both. I hate it when they openly root for drivers like that. They just want somebody "controversial" so they can hype up rivalries. Darrell has really gone over the edge lately. He has simply become a cartoon version of himself. It is a shame that one of the five best drivers in NASCAR history has done this to himself. The race itself sucked. Yeah, the last ten laps were entertaining, but that is a lot of crap to wade through to get there. They just need to totally overhaul this race. It is all hype and pagentry, and very little substance. It is a microcasm of everything that is wrong with modern NASCAR. First of all, it is a victim of its own success. After the races in '87, '89, and '92 they could never replicate that. That was back when cars could race side by side at tracks like Charlotte. Since the mid 90s, it has been all about the guy out front pulling away. So they can never have races like that again. Secondly, most teams use it as an extended test for the World 600. Not even $1 million really makes a dent in these super teams budgets. They know which race is more important in terms of points and prestige. They even admit that. Look at the RCR cars. They weren't even trying to win, they were just trying stuff for the 600. At least I hope they were. I have Jeff Burton in my race pool next week. The thought of that makes me want to buy one of his sponsors' bulldozers and run myself over with it. 18. #20 fan but #48 HATER! posted: 05.19.2009 - 11:53 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) prolly the best race we will see for the entire season. now we go back to the pressure of points and the chase. TONY STEWART GETS THE WIN!!!! HECK YEAH!!!!! also looks like johnsons bump and run win at martinsville came back to huant him after hamlin tagged johnson in the race (i was jumping up and down hysterically at this) the single best ten laps i have seen the last two years bar none! 19. Baker posted: 05.21.2009 - 1:40 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) As much as I love Stewart winning Ryan Newman was bad fast. He has a rocket of a car out there and that idiot in the rainbow pride car either a) can drive as I've suspected for years or b) flat out took a cheap shot on Busch because he's jealous and cost Newman a run away victory. 20. Ryan posted: 07.02.2011 - 6:02 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ryan Newman bump drafts Kyle Busch down the backstretch and goes three wide with Kyle and Jeff Gordon in the corner. Kyle has to react and comes down and he and Jeff touch, ending Jeff's night. Newman ends up paying for his aggression after damage from hitting the wall ends his shot at winning. 21. RaceFanX posted: 02.28.2013 - 5:34 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Lap Leaders: J.Johnson 1-50, Ky.Busch 51-80, J.Gordon 81-90, Ky.Busch 91, J.Gordon 92, Ky.Busch 93-94, M.Kenseth 95-98, T.Stewart 99-100 22. LASTCAR posted: 04.23.2013 - 12:02 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Greg Biffle finished last in Saturday's NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race at the Lowe's Motor Speedway when his #16 3M Ford was involved in a two-car crash on lap 71 of the 100-lap race. Biffle scored the 11th starting spot in Friday's qualifying session, having incurred a five-second penalty for a lugnut that was left loose during his pit stop. Biffle ran a quiet race through the first two 50 and 20-lap segments, but found trouble at the start of the third 20-lap segment. Just one lap into the segment, while running the high groove in turns one and two, Biffle had nowhere to go when Sam Hornish, Jr.'s Dodge broke loose under him, pinning Biffle into the outside wall. The car's passenger-side sheetmetal was knocked flat as a result, and the right-front corner of his Ford was damaged the most severely. Biffle went behind the wall and did not return to the track. The race is Biffle's first last-place finish in the All-Star Race. He has four last-place finishes in NASCAR Sprint Cup points races, most recently in last summer's Coke Zero 400 at Daytona. Visit http://brockbeard.blogspot.com/ for more. 23. Anonymous posted: 04.16.2014 - 7:52 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Why does DW have to act like a spastic when somebody crashes. 24. 88&4Fan posted: 08.17.2015 - 6:55 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The last ten laps of this race might be the most exciting last ten laps I've ever seen on a non-plate track ever since Atlanta 2001. 25. Maverick11 posted: 04.12.2016 - 12:41 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I dare anyone who says that this was a horrible race to watch the racing right before Gordon's crash and still say it with a straight face. 26. Braindead Zombie posted: 04.12.2016 - 1:24 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Heck, even after Gordons crash, the racing was still awesome. Tony Stewart came from nowhere in the last segment to win. Best All-Star race since 1992, hands down. 27. RaceFanX posted: 05.21.2016 - 11:15 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Stewart's victory in this race would turn out to be his only one in the All-Star race. 28. Anthony posted: 09.08.2016 - 2:20 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The last good All Star Race 29. chevyfan98 posted: 09.08.2016 - 2:35 am Rate this comment: (3) (0) ^2010 was good too. 30. Rich posted: 12.20.2020 - 5:23 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Mike Joy, Larry McReynolds and Darrell Waltrip were the commentators. Dr. Dick Berggren, Steve Byrnes and Matt Yocum were the pit road reporters. Krista Voda and Jeff Hammond were at the speed infield studio. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: