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  1.   Jack posted:
  05.03.2004 - 10:10 pm
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I hope Stanton Barrett is ok from that hard hit he took.


  2.   CD posted:
  10.31.2004 - 3:38 pm
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Jeff wins again!


  3.   my bush posted:
  01.16.2005 - 6:59 am
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hot southern california weather


  4.   Darrell posted:
  12.24.2005 - 6:31 pm
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Morgan Shepherd actually led in this race. Pretty cool!


  5.   Jeff posted:
  06.21.2006 - 7:49 am
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Yeah Morgan led because everyone else pitted and he didn't. But leading
is leading I guess. This the last time he led a Cup race in his career?
I was at this race and it was a hot day indeed; as it was 99 at green
flag time. So was the Labor Day race later this season too. The win by
Gordon by 12 seconds is a bit deceiving. Bobby Labonte was gaining on
him and had a good chance of catching the ole 24 if he hadn't run out of
gas with a few laps to go. Actually alot of guys ran out of gas near the
end and coasted to pit road. Mayfield and Kahne were 2 that lost about
10 positions on the final lap due to this. I'd rank this race as a
pretty racy one for Cali Speedway standards.


  6.   Steve posted:
  12.09.2006 - 5:29 am
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Morgan led 2 laps at Las Vegas in 2005, but he hasn't been in front of
the field at the start-finish line since.


  7.   Steve posted:
  02.05.2007 - 5:26 am
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Morgan stayed on the lead lap for the first half of the race.


  8.   Steve posted:
  02.27.2008 - 9:52 pm
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I think it's safe to say that this is the last race with no DNQs.


  9.   Clayton posted:
  05.02.2008 - 12:05 am
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IDK Steve we are only down to 45 cars this year and maybe more declining
as we go on. With the way the sport is run on Sponsership, never say never!


  10.   Paul posted:
  06.06.2008 - 2:44 am
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Brendan Gaughan's first Cup T10 finish.


  11.   Jesse posted:
  07.21.2008 - 11:25 pm
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Kurt Busch hit the wall and collected Rusty Wallace:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLuPzYKaoWo
Amazingly, both cars were repaired and finished the race. Busch finished
only 1 lap down! Rusty had some harsh words about Tony Stewart after the
race. Rusty said that Tony sideswiped him and then flipped him the bird
like Rusty had done something wrong.


  12.   hyltonfan60 posted:
  02.09.2009 - 5:03 pm
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Kirk Shelmerdine's sponsor was 2nd Chance Race Parts.


  13.   Art D posted:
  02.28.2010 - 3:09 am
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66th career win for J. Gordon, and his 15th career multi-win streak.


  14.   blaneyfan66 posted:
  04.15.2010 - 7:09 pm
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And nobody talks about the amazing 33rd place qualifying run for Joe
Ruttman. And guess what he did with that? Parked through 2 LAPS!! Pathetic.


  15.   Amd posted:
  06.24.2010 - 9:26 pm
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First race I ever attended and my boy won unfotunately since then I've
attended every race with results that were not the same


  16.   joey2448 posted:
  07.01.2011 - 4:27 am
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I'm pretty certain Bobby ran dry on the final lap, like on the
frontstretch as the white flag was flying. He was gaining on Jeff,
though I don't recall that he was gonna catch him in time. He had the
same thing happen to him the previous year at Daytona in the July race.


  17.   Schroeder51 posted:
  01.26.2012 - 1:41 pm
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Correct. Labonte ran out of gas on the white flag lap. He just barely
coasted across the line in front of Brendan Gaughan.


  18.   Wayne Murray posted:
  06.05.2012 - 4:44 pm
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Wasn't it in excess of 100 degrees in Fontana during this race?


  19.   RaceFanX posted:
  07.11.2012 - 1:29 am
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Stanton Barrett was indeed uninjured from his hard crash early in this
race.


  20.   CBASS posted:
  01.18.2013 - 7:36 am
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  21.   NascarNBC posted:
  01.28.2013 - 10:56 pm
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#24!


  22.   Ed posted:
  10.02.2013 - 2:41 pm
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JG v. JJ: 2-0 in favor of Jeff


  23.   Nascar24Fox posted:
  04.12.2014 - 11:43 pm
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Great Work Jeff Gordon #242004


  24.   88&4Fan posted:
  08.06.2015 - 4:26 pm
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Great run for Brendan Gaughan. His first career top ten finish and his
first career lap led.


  25.   NASCARLover22 posted:
  08.23.2015 - 4:47 pm
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  26.   rm posted:
  08.08.2016 - 12:12 pm
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Johnny Benson practiced and qualified the 09 car.


  27.   Anthony posted:
  08.11.2016 - 8:13 pm
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You wouldn't get a winning margin like this anymore, they'd find a way
to throw a debris caution and get "overtime"


  28.   18fan posted:
  08.12.2016 - 2:14 am
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The winning margin was as large as it was because Labonte ran out of gas
coming to to the white flag. He was within a second of Gordon when he
ran out of gas.


  29.   rm posted:
  04.04.2020 - 5:21 pm
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Ward Burton managed to snag a top 10 with all the mayhem in the final
laps, an impressive recovery from a spin earlier in the race that didn't
bring out a caution.

Morgan Shepherd was in line to get the free pass for the fifth caution,
having just made a pit stop when the yellow came out, but didn't get the
nod when race control deemed he had sped excessively coming off of pit
road in an attempt to beat the pace car out. Not sure if he was fed up
and parked it in response or if he had legitimate issues - hence, the
green flag pit stop - and he was never mentioned again on the broadcast.
He did get some love earlier on for clinging to the end of the lead lap
for so long, though.

Technically, Jeremy Mayfield wasn't running at the end of this race, but
his pit crew sure was. Both he and teammate Kasey Kahne ran dry on the
final lap, with Kahne able to limp home and complete all 500 miles.
Mayfield coasted onto pit road to get some gas and a push from his pit
crew, but the results sheet would imply that NASCAR didn't count his
final lap since his crew pushed him past the line.


  30.   Land0nFand0n posted:
  06.15.2020 - 4:37 pm
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Driver change:

As previously mentioned, Johnny Benson qualified the #09.


  31.   Rich posted:
  08.25.2020 - 4:55 pm
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Mike Joy, Larry McReynolds and Darrell Waltrip were the commentators.
Dr. Dick Berggren, Steve Byrnes, Matt Yocum and Jeanne Zelasko were the
pit road reporters. Chris Myers and Jeff Hammond were in the Hollywood
hotel.


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