|| *Comments on the 2004 Tropicana 400 Presented by Meijer:* View the most recent comment <#23> | Post a comment <#post> 1. #20 IS A JAG posted: 07.24.2004 - 9:06 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Well the jag gets a victory after he knocks out Kasey Kane. And of course, NASCAR does nothing about it because of their loyalty to the jag's owner. Nice. 2. HomeDepotKid posted: 09.12.2004 - 2:47 am Rate this comment: (0) (1) Actually, Stewart did not have retro-rockets on his car(The only way he would have blantantly ploughed into Kahne). Someone pulled in front of Kahne, Kasey had no choice but to slow up, and Tony had no time to slow down to avoid hitting Kahne. 3. JJ Lehto posted: 02.20.2005 - 10:43 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Who cares!!!!!! Kasey Kahne stayedout and didnt pit, stewart had a dominant car, kahne wouldnt of won anyway. 4. SK posted: 09.02.2007 - 2:58 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Chad Blount's Nextel Cup debut. 5. Tooj117 posted: 03.19.2008 - 10:31 pm Rate this comment: (0) (4) Tony didn't intentionally wreck kasey, the real cause was that some field filler who was like 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028419716939937510582097494459230781640628620899862803482534211706798214808651328230664709384460955058223172535940812848111745028410270193852110555964462294895493038196442881097566593 34461284756482337867831652712019091 laps down blocking them both (smoke and kasey), and tony hit his brakes brakes too late, but i was still pissed. (That extremely long decimal is pi to the 250th place) 6. most posted: 04.15.2008 - 12:39 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) wow, thanks for typing that long strand of numbers which screwed the settings of the page up, point could have been made without doing that! 7. dsfds posted: 08.31.2008 - 12:28 pm Rate this comment: (4) (0) what the hell Tooj117, and 3-4 laps down isn't bad actually. 8. blaneyfan66 posted: 04.17.2010 - 10:16 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Too bad Blaney and Kahne both wrecked. They would have both been competitors for the win. 9. jessie henry posted: 08.03.2011 - 2:05 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) tony he should dq 10. Daniel posted: 05.24.2012 - 12:42 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) In using fastest 43: #98 Todd Bodine Out using fastest 43: #45 Kyle Petty 11. CBASS posted: 01.18.2013 - 2:15 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor updates #99 Comcast High-Speed Internet #97 Sharpie #2 Miller Lite/ Puddle of Mudd #1 Kraft #15 NAPA Auto Parts #51 Marathon/ NegotiationsSeminar.com #49 Red Baron #9/19 Dodge Summer Sales Drive #0 NetZero #80 Slim Jim/ Act II http://archives.ciastockphoto.com/cgi/images.php?group=w0420 12. Evan posted: 01.15.2014 - 11:08 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) * The last race of the Michael McSwain-Bobby Labonte relationship that lasted through the 2003 season to 18 races here. McSwain just never fit into the mold of crew chief that JGR was looking for, he seemed like a good fit at the time but it did not go well for Bobby after the switch as he continued to lose his competitive edge. * About the incident with Kasey Kahne and Tony Stewart, I was mad at the time but after looking at it, it was a rookie mistake as Kasey Kahne hit his brakes to avoid the slow car and Tony got into him and spun him. Understandably so his crews fought Tony Stewart's pit crew on pit road but it really was a mistake on both their parts. 13. Nascar Lead Lap Points posted: 07.28.2014 - 10:13 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Withdrew 89 Morgan Shepherd Racing With Jesus/Red Line Oil Morgan Shepherd Dodge (For all the withdrew in #89 from 04-06 was owned by him) My Bad https://web.archive.org/web/20040711012223/http://www.nascar.com/races/cup/2004/18/data/entry_list.html 14. 88&4Fan posted: 08.08.2015 - 6:57 am Rate this comment: (0) (3) This was also the race where the Tropicana orange was on the track during qualifying. One of NASCAR's more strange moments. 15. NASCARLover22 posted: 08.24.2015 - 5:22 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor updates: #80 Slim Jim/Act II #9/19 Dodge Summer Sales Drive Event #2 Miller Lite/Puddle of Mudd #18 Wellbutrin XL/Interstate Batteries #0 NetZero #97 Sharpie #99 Comcast High Speed Internet #51 Marathon/NegotiationsSeminar.com #01 USG Sheetrock/U.S. Army #1 Kraft (no Foods at the end) 16. PCRF0006 posted: 02.26.2018 - 7:17 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) #14 Same day but the incident happened in Busch series qualifying, not Cup. 17. Matt posted: 02.25.2019 - 12:56 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) In 2004, NASCAR on NBC brought back the Cingular Wireless Fan Poll, in an effort to communicate with the ever-growing fanbase. This race's poll question was "When should NASCAR change the rules in order to guarantee a green-flag finish?" A-- Now (66%) B-- Later this season (3%) C-- Next season (24%) D-- Not at all (7) 18. Anon posted: 08.26.2019 - 12:55 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) I was at this one, and this was a memorable weekend on track for more than just the Tropicana orange running over an Xfinity car. The obnoxious Kasey Kahne fans in attendance were starting fistfights with anyone wearing Tony Stewart apparel, which back then was a lot of people. I've attended many races, and the Stewart/Kahne incident from this one is the one that resulted in the most fans getting kicked out of an event that I've witnessed. 19. rm posted: 04.05.2020 - 8:03 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) From the broadcast: 37 crew chief - Todd Lohse Ricky Rudd and the Wood Brothers team, struggling to remain in the top 30 in points, borrowed a hastily-repainted Mark Martin car through their Roush alliance in hope of finding something new and speedy here. Unfortunately for Rudd, he was involved in an accident early on in which he shredded his right side tires and littered the track with debris, and he finished more than 60 laps down. Martin didn't fare much better, he blew up with 4 to go and coasted slowly to the finish on the apron and didn't technically get saddled with a DNF. A thoroughly disappointed Martin threw his gloves off and began unstrapping himself from his web of safety equipment before he even rolled back around to the finish line or pit road. As for the Stewart-Kahne debacle: the car Kahne was stuck behind was Dale Jarrett, at the tail end of the lead lap. While both Kahne and Jarrett were on older tires, they were hardly holding the field up, with Jarrett making his way up to 3rd by the race's end. The NBC crew tried to paint the incident as Kahne braking early for the corner, but it really seemed more like Stewart just drove right up to Kahne and ran him over well before the corner. Kahne offered a different explanation, though: he said he was hit as he tried to grab fourth gear, touching off the crash. Stewart definitely would have been able to avoid the accident if he hadn't been nearly as aggressive on a restart just before the halfway mark, but combined with the rest of the details this begins to lean more towards "racing incident" territory. Stewart can't be completely absolved of the blame since this was not his first run-in of that matter in 2004, and that a driver of his status and experience level really should know better than to hit the guy in front of him hard on a restart with 100+ laps to go when the field hasn't even made it to turn 1 yet. Especially when it's pretty clear that Stewart had the fastest car in the field, hands down. 20. Foote posted: 04.06.2020 - 4:23 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Wally's defense of Stewart wrecking Kahne was baffling. He said Kahne "lifted" when they were still on the straightaway, when the replays clearly showed that he did not. Also it makes sense that Kahne defended Stewart, since Kahne was a timid rookie and Stewart was a dirt-track mentor. You can tell Benny Parsons was wanting to put blame on Tony, but Wally just kept yelling over him. There were replay monitors that show that Stewart (who got a great restart) accelerated into the back of Kahne and lifted his rear wheels off the ground. Kahne's car never checked up or slowed whatsoever-- if it did, then it certainly would have been a racing deal. Replays = video evidence of what happened, and they show Stewart gradually approach Kasey's bumper until he successfully wrecks him. I enjoy looking back at Tony's give-a-care moments in his career, but he was just ridiculous in 2004. 21. rm posted: 04.06.2020 - 12:00 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Yeah exactly. I know it's the prerogative of the broadcast team to try to push anything towards "racing incident" if they can, and to be fair if you look at most run-ins outside of the heat of the moment most of them are two guys going for the same spot on the track, with one trying a little harder. And while that's still a valid explanation here to some degree, I feel it boils down more to the fact that there's a time and a place to push that hard on a restart - 130 laps to go is nowhere close to that time and fourth in line on a restart isn't that place. Tony should have more than known better than that. They had another run-in at Pocono a couple weeks later, mostly orchestrated by Kurt Busch getting Tony aero-loose, but I was surprised that Tony didn't even mention Kahne turning him around when he was interviewed after that one. If Tony didn't lob anything towards Kahne for that one, and the 9 car somehow got faster with the slight nose damage and finished 3rd...all's well that ends well, I suppose? At least for this stretch of the season anyway. 22. Rich posted: 08.04.2020 - 8:56 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. 23. Josh_Drake posted: 11.23.2020 - 1:25 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) #12 That's not how 'rookie mistakes' work. Your explanation for it being Kahne's fault does not logically follow, as if all of what you said was true, then the blame should be on the lapped car for holding up both of the drivers. This is just defaulting to blaming the rookie for defaulting to blaming the rookie's sake. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: