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  1.   Jake posted:
  09.01.2004 - 8:20 pm
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John Andretti took over the no. 8 Chevy after 51 laps and Kevin
Harvick's DNF streak ended at 58 races.


  2.   Greg posted:
  10.22.2004 - 8:49 pm
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Earnhardt Jr ran 53 laps before turning a badly handling racecar over to
Andretti. The caution had come out on lap 51 and Jr ran two more laps
before pitting.


  3.   CD posted:
  10.31.2004 - 4:05 pm
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Johnson does the sweep at Pocono. Andretti steps in for Jr.


  4.   Chicago posted:
  04.24.2005 - 7:05 pm
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Ward Burton had a great top-five run going before he broke a
transmission with less than fourty laps to go.


  5.   Darrell posted:
  03.17.2006 - 2:15 pm
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Greg Sacks' return to Cup.


  6.   J. Kircher posted:
  04.05.2006 - 2:45 pm
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This was another chapter in the Gatorade vs. Powerade sponsor battle in
2004. When Jimmie Johnson, a Gatorade-backed driver, hopped out of his
dominant Chevy he did not throw the Powerade bottle as most Gatorade
drivers did and were reprimanded for, but instead took an obnoxious
Lowe's sign and placed it over the bottle.

The move prompted NASCAR to tell all teams that "victory lane protocol
will be followed". This caused NASCAR to overeact the next week at Indy
when Jeff Gordon won and had an impromptu celebration on the
frontstretch. Then again it could also be said that the sponsor savvy
Gordon parked there on purpose.

Casey Mears won his first Cup pole and Kasey Kahne had a great run
despite damage to his car from being collected in Tony Stewart's wreck.


  7.   Steve posted:
  11.24.2006 - 3:42 am
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Drivers can't knock over Powerade bottles that are on their car, they
can't stand on the roof; where's the freedom in victory celebration?
We'll never see something like Rusty Wallace's 1989 Winston Cup
Championship celebration again, when he jumped up and down on the roof 3
or 4 times, jumped down to the hood, and then to the ground. These days,
if someone did that, NA$CAR would take away all of his or her points!


  8.   Steve posted:
  12.05.2006 - 3:26 am
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Last attempt for old Junie Donlavey's team.


  9.   Steve.M. posted:
  07.31.2007 - 5:50 am
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This was actually the first race where the Green - White - Checker COULD
be used but wasnt needed.


  10.   JarrettFan44 posted:
  08.21.2007 - 5:16 am
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Jason Jarrett's Final Cup Start


  11.   Mr. Big posted:
  05.22.2008 - 3:51 pm
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What the hell was up with Joe Nemechek's cars at Pocono in 2004?

Both races, around lap 100, he lost 1st, 2nd, and 4th gear.


  12.   blaneyfan66 posted:
  04.17.2010 - 10:22 am
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Poor Ward.


  13.   JamieMcmurrayFan posted:
  06.13.2010 - 6:54 pm
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aj henriksen failed to make his first (and as of now only) cup start


  14.   Mike posted:
  09.07.2010 - 7:50 pm
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Terry Labonte's 5th straight top ten finish at Pocono.


  15.   RaceFanX posted:
  07.23.2011 - 6:07 pm
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The "Aspen Edge" that sponsored Sterling Marlin in this race is a
low-carb beer that Coors makes, it was brand new at the time.


  16.   Daniel posted:
  05.24.2012 - 12:45 pm
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In using fastest 43: #51 Kevin Lepage

Out using fastest 43: #72 Kirk Shelmerdine


  17.   SG224 posted:
  12.15.2012 - 10:04 pm
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Wasnt this Sacks return to cup after that wreck at Texas in 1998 where
he almost died?


  18.   CBASS posted:
  01.18.2013 - 2:15 pm
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  19.   startandparkfan posted:
  05.31.2013 - 3:50 pm
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#99- Crash


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  07.30.2014 - 7:32 pm
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  21.   88&4Fan posted:
  08.08.2015 - 10:35 pm
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Start and parks! Start and parks everywhere!

Also Ryan Newman's 100th start.


  22.   NASCARLover22 posted:
  08.24.2015 - 6:01 pm
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  23.   5 posted:
  01.12.2016 - 3:33 pm
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Terry Labonte's last top ten in the #5 car. I believe he ran a special
paint scheme for the Olympics.


  24.   Anthony posted:
  09.05.2016 - 9:37 am
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Jeff Burton pounded the wall hard in this race - thankfully the SAFER
walls were installed a few weeks prior


  25.   Mannoroth posted:
  10.19.2016 - 7:16 am
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Jimmie Johnson's first win in August. He added his second win in that
month in 2008 at Fontana. And guess what - it was on the 31st August. He
was lucky that Sunday didn't make it to July in 2004 and that the other
Sunday was still in August and not in September in 2008, otherwise he
would be completely winless in August.


  26.   Anthony posted:
  06.08.2017 - 10:38 pm
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Johnson is 232 points in front in the points after this race. Without
any Chase formats, he would have points raced from this point and
probably romped to the championship with a race or two to spare. Knowing
they could breeze into the Chase, the team went into "experimental" mode
and somehow had 2 engine failures in 2 weeks, with no problems in any
race beforehand. If there was no Chase, those problems wouldn't have
happened.

The 2004 Championship was decided at this point if there was no Chase.


  27.   Name: posted:
  06.08.2017 - 11:23 pm
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So what you're saying is, the chase made it better, and that getting rid
of it is bad


  28.   bduddy posted:
  06.09.2017 - 2:52 am
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It made this particular championship better. It's also made a bunch of
them much worse.


  29.   Alex posted:
  06.09.2017 - 7:21 am
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The "engine experimentation" excuse is one of the most abused, unproven
excuses I have ever seen for anything, including politics...


  30.   Newman31 posted:
  03.26.2018 - 6:48 pm
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"Drivers can't knock over Powerade bottles that are on their car, they
can't stand on the roof; where's the freedom in victory celebration?
We'll never see something like Rusty Wallace's 1989 Winston Cup
Championship celebration again, when he jumped up and down on the roof 3
or 4 times, jumped down to the hood, and then to the ground. These days,
if someone did that, NA$CAR would take away all of his or her points!"

Clint Bowyer stood on the roof today after he won at Martinsville, even
though NASCAR had told drivers to stay off it.


  31.   BOBO83329521 posted:
  11.27.2019 - 12:27 pm
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Jimmie Johnson became the 50th driver to get 10 or more wins in NASCAR
after winning this race.


  32.   Foote posted:
  03.31.2020 - 3:16 pm
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Can drivers/teams simply choose to list their status as "handling" if
they crash out? Jeff Burton didn't retire due to handling problems, he
simply crashed hard. I've always wondered this.


  33.   RaceFanX posted:
  03.31.2020 - 4:20 pm
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Handling in this context usually means the team tried to fix it and got
back out only for the car to prove undrivable afterward so they had to
retire it. The era of the crash clock has done away with a lot of the
longer-term repair efforts in modern NASCAR.


  34.   Foote posted:
  03.31.2020 - 5:02 pm
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@33 Gotcha. Burton's car was definitely not capable of running another
lap (unless they had another rear clip lying around) but I assume Nascar
just shrugs if a team lists handling. It doesn't change anything.


  35.   JSPorts posted:
  03.31.2020 - 6:13 pm
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Did he never go back out of the garage and on track? Cause if not, it
seems like the DNF reason would be listed as "crash."


  36.   Foote posted:
  04.02.2020 - 8:37 pm
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@35 That car never went back out on any track. and is likely buried in a
car graveyard somewhere. This was the first race at Pocono-- a
dangerously fast track-- with safer barriers and thank goodness they
were there because Burton still limped away from the wreck.


  37.   rm posted:
  04.06.2020 - 1:37 am
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. had struggled mightily at the start of the race,
outside of the pain he was still in from his burns. Earnhardt had
plummeted outside the top 35 by lap 20 and went a lap down before the
first caution, at which point the driver change to John Andretti was
orchestrated. Andretti fared no better, hitting the wall under green and
getting black flagged 25 laps later for being too slow - a fate that had
already befallen Kirk Shelmerdine and Carl Long earlier in the race. The
team brought Andretti back to the garage to work on it, not wanting to
get parked after only making adjustments on pit road. They were bailed
out by a caution waving just a few laps later when Morgan Shepherd - the
only car running behind Andretti at the time - lost an engine and they
were able to rejoin the race before losing too many laps.

DEI teammate Michael Waltrip didn't run much better, also dropping to
the back of the pack before losing an engine and spitting debris out on
the track at the halfway mark.

As if Pocono wasn't a strange enough place sometimes, a tow truck was
briefly stuck in the mud when trying to retrieve Tony Stewart's wrecked car.

Dave Blaney was having transmission issues that relegated him to being
the final car running at the finish. The TNT crew was able to find a
silver lining for him, though. His then-10-year old son Ryan Blaney won
a quarter midget race held the day before the Cup race. Ryan Blaney
wouldn't get to race at the Tricky Triangle itself for 9 more years,
winning in his first attempt at a Truck race in 2013.


  38.   Altracing posted:
  11.21.2020 - 6:20 pm
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This was the first win for Hendrick Motorsports since the passing of
Rick Hendrick's father "Papa Joe" Hendrick passed away two weeks prior,
Rick's aunt had also passed away during the week of the race. Of course
just about two months later would be the terrible plane crash that
killed 10 people including Rick's older brother John, his twin nieces,
and his son Ricky.


  39.   Rich posted:
  11.24.2020 - 8:38 pm
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Allen Bestwick, Benny Parsons and Wally Dallenbach were the
commentators. Bill Weber, Matt Yocum, Marty Snider and Dave Burns were
the pit road reporters.


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