|| *Comments on the 2002 New Hampshire 300:* View the most recent comment <#18> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. ChrisA posted: 07.01.2005 - 4:07 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ryan Newman picked up his first career Nextel Cup win in this rain-shortened event. 2. HomeDepot20TS posted: 09.18.2005 - 5:05 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Newman's Ford was incredibly dominant. The only driver to pass him under green was Johnny Benson. 3. Rusty posted: 07.28.2006 - 11:00 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) After coming close several times Ryan Newman finally gets his 1st career win. 4. w00t posted: 09.19.2006 - 8:01 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) It wasn't raining that hard. They could have still raced! 5. Steve posted: 11.04.2006 - 4:54 am Rate this comment: (1) (1) When "Tacky Network Television" showed the starting lineup, they had an "updated" picture of Mike Skinner, who was in a firey practice crash during the week at (I think) Kansas. They showed him with a bandage over the flesh of his nose. How insulting and degrading. 6. John posted: 06.13.2010 - 7:41 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Kevin Lepage was in the 37 car this race. Not 38 7. Jon posted: 07.22.2011 - 3:46 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) how many drivers earned their first cup victory in a rainout? joey logano here a couple years ago, david reutimann a couple years ago in charlotte, and this one... anyone got any others? 8. RaceFanX posted: 05.02.2012 - 9:24 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsors: #29 Kevin Harvick- God Bless America #11 Brett Bodine- Hooters Restaurants Remembering our Heroes With this race's proxmity to the first anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks a few teams ran patriotic paint schemes to commerate it. GM Goodwrench took thier decals off Kevin Harvick's #29 while Harvick's teammate and defending race winner Robby Gordon drove with a patriotic hood featuring the Statue of Liberty. Brett Bodine's Hooters team also made the company's logos red, white and blue for this race while Old Glory adorned the hood of Elliott Sadler's #21. 9. CBASS posted: 05.13.2012 - 12:19 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor corrections #12 Mobil 1 Speedpass #31 Home of the Brave/ Cingular Wireless #45 Sprint/ Adam Petty Tribute (black car with silver stripe, run at the site of his son's death) #22 CAT Dealers #21 9-11 Tribute/ Motorcraft #89 Racing With Jesus/ Red Line Oil 10. Daniel posted: 05.25.2012 - 12:44 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) In using fastest 43: #51 Carl Long Out using fastest 43: #1 Steve Park 11. Buckyrox33 posted: 07.03.2015 - 6:58 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor update #11 - Hooters Restaurants Remembering Our Heroes (spelling error) 12. NASCARLover22 posted: 09.06.2015 - 2:41 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Withdrew #27 Kirk Shelmerdine Sponsor: Naturally Fresh Foods Owner: Kirk Shelmerdine Manufacturer: Ford http://www.jayski.com/next/2002/2002nhis2.htm 13. Accutech posted: 10.01.2015 - 7:42 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor update: #37 Friendly's Fan Made Ice Cream 14. SK posted: 04.15.2017 - 11:22 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Johnny was arguably even faster than Newman, but had a hard time going through lapped traffic. He struggled to pass the #14 of Mike Wallace for several laps and when he finally got underneath Mike, he slid up into the 14 and bounced off of him twice, allowing the 12 and the 97 to go by on the inside. 15. Jimmie4life posted: 05.05.2018 - 11:43 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Even if they didn't get the rain on lap 197, It would've been dark, as sundown was less than an hour away. 16. Mile501 posted: 07.31.2020 - 1:51 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) The 3 Petty Enterprises cars had an excellent qualifying effort for this race, lining up together in numerical order (#43, #44, #45) in 11th, 12th, and 13th. This was the only time in NASCAR's modern era that Petty Enterprises ran 3 cars, and all 3 started in the top 15. (They frequently accomplished the feat during the 1960s, however.) I also noticed several other pairs of consecutive car numbers in the lineup for this race: #19 and #20 started 9th and 10th #29 and #30 started 32nd and 33rd #25 and #26 started 34th and 35th #7 and #8 started 36th and 37th 17. SweetRich21/43 posted: 07.31.2020 - 4:28 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. 18. Mile501 posted: 08.01.2020 - 7:43 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) In the opening for the pre-race show for this race, Bill Weber made some comments that no one would have thought anything about at the time, but that would be an odd foretelling of how NASCAR would start to change just 2 years later: "As the Winston Cup Series roars into the middle of September, 10 men find themselves in the middle of the race for the Winston Cup. Now, only 271 points stand between the top spot and the 10th place challenger ... and for these 10 teams, a new season begins. Today, the pressure-packed playoffs start anew in New Hampshire." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: