|| *Comments on the 2001 Harrah's 500:* View the most recent comment <#22> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. HomeDepot20TS posted: 08.07.2005 - 2:54 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The final laps of this race were thrilling, with Jarrett, Park, Busch, Benson and Gordon all in contention late in the going. I thought it was going to be Atlanta all over again. Great win for DJ. 2. Darrell posted: 04.22.2006 - 12:26 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Wasn't the race that was rain-delayed, and to fill the time Fox had Steve Byrnes going to driver's motorhomes and see if they'd let him in? 3. HomeDepot20TS posted: 05.28.2006 - 1:47 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) No, that was the 2002 one. It was funny though. 4. most posted: 01.12.2007 - 11:58 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jarrett and Park 1-2 again, I think that happened 3 times that season. 5. biffle16 posted: 02.24.2007 - 7:27 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Nope, just 2. He finished 2nd at Dover to Jeff Gordon, though. 6. SK posted: 12.05.2007 - 8:33 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Kurt Busch's first career top-5. 7. RaceFanX posted: 01.01.2008 - 10:08 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) THe #27 Eel River Racing team was so strapped for cash that they couldn't afford to repaint the car they ran in this event after its previous race at Las Vegas where they had a one race sponsorship from Hills Bros. Coffee. They simply removed the Hills Bros. decals and ran the car here as it was. There are pictures on Jayski 8. myself posted: 08.19.2009 - 12:10 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I, mistakenly, labeled '01 as Jarrett's year after this race. 9. I love Japan posted: 04.25.2010 - 9:39 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jeff Burton a consensus top-5 pick and my preseason #5 was 35th in points after this race. He would rebound to finish 10th. 10. 18fan posted: 05.08.2010 - 2:28 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Benson took two tires on the last stop and it almost paid off. 11. joe gibbs posted: 08.03.2010 - 5:18 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) my guys tony and bobby did ok. 12. Schroeder51 posted: 12.23.2011 - 11:04 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) For the second week in a row Todd Bodine had a top-5 car throughout much of the first half and ran as high as 3rd, having a battle with Jeff Gordon for position throughout the middle stages. In the second half, he once again fell back and ultimately dropped out for the second week in a row when his engine expired, the second of 4 straight DNFs. 13. Evan posted: 01.29.2012 - 10:16 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) * Kurt Busch's first finish in the top 5 and Rubbermaid and Sharpie would sign with him the following week which would begin a 4 year relationship until Kurt Busch scared Rubbermaid off after his raucous reception at the 2003 Sharpie 500 in which he won after being punched out by Jimmy Spencer. In which IMO, Spencer should have been at the track, not on the sidelines. So it was the final race for the sponsor roushracing.com. * Todd Bodine showed promise in the early stages of races, he always ran well at Atlanta so it was no coincidence that he would run well at Texas however Bodine never figured out on the Cup level to be good on the long haul which was they key to winning in those days. To me Todd Bodine was better at races of shorter distances because he raced hard all day. Now the cars in Cup are so evened out you can race with all you have every lap, in those years you had to save your stuff and Todd never could do that. 14. RaceFanX posted: 04.11.2012 - 9:32 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsors: #10 Johnny Benson, Jr.- Eagle One #44 Buckshot Jones- Petty Four Generations / Georgia-Pacific / Hot Wheels This was the one year anniversary of the late Adam Petty's lone Winston Cup start and the Petty family ran a tribute to the sporting world's first fourth-generation athlete on Buckshot Jones' #44 car in this race. Sadly for the second-straight year Kyle Petty, now racing Adam's #45, failed to qualify for the Texas race. 15. RaceFanX posted: 09.03.2012 - 9:30 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor: #66 Todd Bodine- Kmart Blue Light Special (Todd ran this sponsorship in this race and all of the remaining races in 2001 plus the first two races of 2002 when he still had Kmart sponsorship) 16. CBASS posted: 09.29.2012 - 1:42 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor corrections #66 Kmart Blue Light Special #44 Petty 4 Generations/ Hot Wheels #33 Oakwood Homes/ Schult #93 Amoco Ultimate #97 JR's Garage/ roushracing.com #20 Home Depot/ Rigid #96 McDonald's Drive Thru 17. Nascar Lead Lap Points posted: 06.20.2014 - 4:17 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Owner Updates #50 Hal Hicks / Mike Witters 18. Mike posted: 02.18.2015 - 1:56 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) First time in 2001 that the driver who led the most laps actually won the race. 19. Ed posted: 12.28.2015 - 1:43 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Just to show how bad Texas was to Jeff over the years, this was his first top-5 there 20. Anthony posted: 01.31.2016 - 8:30 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Good race. I wish NASCAR was like that nowadays. 21. Altracing posted: 07.02.2019 - 7:46 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) This would be the last time the #88 would win on a 1.5 mile track in the cup series until Alex Bowman won at Chicagoland in 2019 22. SweetRich posted: 02.20.2020 - 5:49 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The Commentators For The Race Were Mike Joy, Larry McReynolds And Darrell Waltrip. The Pit Road Reporters Were Dick Berggren, Steve Byrnes, Matt Yocum And Jeanne Zelasko. And From The Hollywood Hotel, Chris Myers And Jeff Hammond. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: