|| *Comments on the 2002 New England 300:* View the most recent comment <#27> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. Jake posted: 12.22.2004 - 11:56 am Rate this comment: (2) (2) Had so much fun watching this race. It was cool when Dale Jr. and Matt Kenseth battled for the lead all day long. Late in the race, Dale Jr. was working his way back up when Todd Bovine decided to spin Junior out. I don't know what he was thinking. All in all despite the spin, it was the best race I've seen at New Hampshire. 2. Chicago posted: 03.21.2005 - 12:57 am Rate this comment: (2) (2) There is a reason why Todd Bodine is always driving for teams lacking sponsorship or teams that were just formed a "year ago". 3. Jake Kane posted: 04.12.2005 - 5:41 am Rate this comment: (1) (1) that was an earnhardt move by bodine 4. MASH_guy posted: 08.15.2005 - 5:21 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was ultimately a "survival of the fittest" race, due to a problematic track surface and a rock-hard tire. 5. Darrell posted: 12.28.2005 - 7:59 pm Rate this comment: (1) (1) Last win for Ward Burton and Bill Davis. 6. Dalejrfan14 posted: 03.14.2006 - 8:00 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) morgan shepard returned to racing with a 40th place finish 7. mk17ce99 posted: 06.13.2006 - 7:40 pm Rate this comment: (1) (1) Kenseth should have won this ran. Flat tire doomed his hopes! 8. Rusty posted: 07.28.2006 - 10:47 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Closest Jeff Green has gotten to a cup victory 9. Kevin posted: 08.15.2006 - 5:46 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Ward will win again!!!! I hope 10. biffle16 posted: 03.14.2007 - 2:25 am Rate this comment: (0) (1) Great job by Ex-Lax to finish 2nd! 11. RaceFanX posted: 02.10.2008 - 5:19 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Very likely that is Ward Burton's final career victory. He only led 1 lap but this was the last time Brett Bodine led a NASCAR race 12. myself posted: 02.29.2008 - 11:37 am Rate this comment: (1) (1) What the heck happened to Ward Burton?! From the late-90s to around '03 he won some races, led many, & had a lot of good finishes. 13. jeff posted: 03.28.2008 - 12:28 am Rate this comment: (1) (2) He's been shuffled out of a ride to make room for the awesome Open wheelers like Dario, Carpentier, and Hornish. Also, the young guys who don't have enough experience yet like Ragan, Gilliland, and Regan Smith take up quite a few rides. 14. Steve posted: 12.20.2010 - 9:36 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I think this is the last race in 50% or more of the drivers were from the Southeast. Alabama: Steve Grissom and Hut Stricklin Arkansas: Mark Martin Florida: Joe Nemechek Georgia: Bill Elliott Kentucky: Jeff Green, Jeremy Mayfield, and Michael Waltrip North Carolina: Dale Earnhardt Jr, Dale Jarrett, Kyle Petty, and Morgan Shepherd Tennessee: Casey Atwood, Bobby Hamilton, and Sterling Marlin Texas: Bobby and Terry Labonte Virginia: Stacy Compton, Jeff and Ward Burton, Elliott Sadler, and Ricky Rudd 22 of 43. In 2011 I think there will be races with less than 10. The West Coast and Midwest contingents each outnumber the Southern boys. 15. RaceFanX posted: 05.02.2012 - 9:12 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsors: #17 Matt Kenseth- DeWalt / AT&T Broadband #32 Ricky Craven- Tide / Give Kids the World Wally Dallenbach Jr. worked in the TV booth for the TNT coverage of this race but before he made it up there he drove the yellow Chevrolet Monte Carlo pace car for the second half of the field during the parade laps. 16. CBASS posted: 05.12.2012 - 11:57 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsors: #17 AT&T Broadband #7 Sirius Satellite Radio/ Darryl Worley 17. numbah10hatah posted: 12.30.2013 - 10:27 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jeff Green's best career Cup series finish. 18. joey2448 posted: 12.18.2014 - 2:10 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Only two of the top 10 finishers started the day inside the top-10. Every one else started 23rd or worse! The average starting position of the top 10 finishers was 24.7! 19. mister83 posted: 07.11.2015 - 4:48 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Waahd Buuhton's last win. Also I believe this was the race where Junior called Todd Bodine "idiot cue ball head" or something like that. 20. Anonymous posted: 12.07.2015 - 4:06 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ward's last win. Shame because I thought he deserved better. 21. Ben posted: 03.14.2016 - 2:44 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Ward's dedication to Bill Davis was his downfall I believe. It's a shame, he was one of my favorites. 22. RaceFanX posted: 04.28.2018 - 11:27 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Geoffrey Bodine's #66 Discover Card Ford was a late entry to fill the field. Travis Carter's #66 team had largely shut down earlier in the season due to a lack of sponsorship after Kmart's bankruptcy but it was entered here when the field came up short. The #66 was a deliberate start and park entry and most likely was Todd Bodine's backup car with a quick renumbering. Geoffrey's #66 was painted identically to Todd's #26 right down to still having Todd's name on the door. 23. 02Justin10 posted: 07.15.2018 - 12:46 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) In this race your top three finishers had awful starting spots. (Ward-31st, Green-30th, Jarrett-33rd) You really don't see this kind of field movement anymore. (Unless 8+ of your top drivers fail to pass qualifying technical inspection.) 24. Anonymous posted: 03.26.2020 - 12:46 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) this race the most ever lead lap finishers at New Hampshire 25. rateus posted: 04.02.2020 - 4:40 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Driver changes - Geoffrey Bodine actually qualified Todd's car while Dennis Setzer qualified Geoff's own ride. https://www.crash.net/nascar/news/86366/1/starting-line-up-new-hampshire 26. Mile501 posted: 06.05.2020 - 7:12 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Around the halfway point, Kurt Busch was running 5th when he got a flat tire and had to pit under green. He went 3 laps down. Over the next 100 laps, he made all 3 laps up the hard way. (He was helped by multiple cautions, which resulted in few lapped cars for him to race, along with a variety of pit strategies, where the fastest cars weren't always restarting at the front.) During the last 50 laps, he restarted 31st and raced his way all the way back up to 8th. As close as the points were at the end of 2002, had he not made up those laps in this race, he would have finished 7th in points instead of 3rd. 27. SweetRich21/43 posted: 07.31.2020 - 4:30 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The commentators were Allen Bestwick, Benny Parsons and Wally Dallenbach. The pit road reporters were Bill Weber, Matt Yocum, Marty Snider and Dave Burns. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: