|| *Comments on the 2004 Sharpie 500:* View the most recent comment <#42> | Post a comment <#post> 1. Jake posted: 08.30.2004 - 3:55 pm Rate this comment: (3) (1) Can you say DOMINATION? This race was awesome!!! To start 30th at Bristol and lead 295 laps at Bristol, that's so cool. 2. Mike Lindeen posted: 08.31.2004 - 12:04 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Note: Kyle Petty climbed into the 29 about halfway through the race because Kevin Harvick's arm had fallen asleep 3. Jack Lewis posted: 09.18.2004 - 4:52 am Rate this comment: (1) (7) Probably the worst race at Bristol ever, and maybe the worst race of the '04 season. Over 300 laps caution free at Bristol? 4. Anonymous posted: 10.14.2004 - 2:05 pm Rate this comment: (1) (4) There has been a bunch of boring races this year,and NASCAR,er NA$CAR has made some stupid calls this year. 5. HomeDepotKid posted: 10.26.2004 - 9:39 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) My dad was fortunate enough to be given suite tickets for this race(For the Bristol Night Race, too, which is insane), and I can say one word: WOW!!! I'll forever remember this: I got a scanner that day, and I decided, "Hey, let's program Rusty's frequency in!" These are almost the exact words he used when he ran out of gas: RW:I'm out of gas. ME(Screaming at the top of my lungs):Rusty's outta gas! Everyone:What? No he's not! 2 Crew:Get the ether ready! (RW heads to pits, and TV says:Rusty's outta gas) RW(Getting out of the pits):WILL SOMEONE TELL ME WHO'S IN CHARGE OF THE G*****N FUEL MILEAGE?!?! I WANNA G*****N KNOW! This was early in the race. 6. CD posted: 10.31.2004 - 4:10 pm Rate this comment: (0) (3) Jr. wins at Bristol. Ok. Jr. wins at Bristol!!! Is there no justice! 7. Mike D posted: 11.29.2004 - 8:25 pm Rate this comment: (4) (0) What is with all the jr talk! Is it really surprising he won at bristol? I mean if u look hes done pretty good at short tracks. And 2004 showed he can win at any track. 8. STP43fan posted: 03.03.2005 - 12:04 am Rate this comment: (0) (3) wow, blew an engine while doing a burnout, seems like he is hiding something, maybe cheating 9. Darrell posted: 01.26.2006 - 1:04 pm Rate this comment: (0) (3) Nice comment there dalejr8. Do your mommy and daddy know you're playing on your computer? OK, I'm confused. Brad Teague was supposed to run in the #92, but it shows as the #72. And does anyone know with what team Stanton Barrett attempt the race with? :?: 10. mk17ce99 posted: 04.19.2006 - 5:48 am Rate this comment: (0) (2) I was at this race as well. It was quite boring but Kenseth dominated even better in 05 leading 415 of the 500 from the Pole! I also was tuned into Rusty Wallaces conversation when he race out of fuel, I couldnt believe it, LOL! 11. biffle16 posted: 01.09.2007 - 1:06 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) It's interesting to note that, combined, Earnhardt Jr., Gordon, and Wallace, if I counted right, led 434 of 500 laps. 12. Mike posted: 11.02.2007 - 9:35 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Barrett attempted the race in a car owned by Rick Ware, who owned a truck in the truck series for several years. (He might've driven too, I don't remember.) Eventually he bought the team from Ware, and that's the team he attempted Daytona with this year. Teague's car number is a misprint, should be the 92. 13. Steve posted: 01.25.2008 - 6:58 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Actually, if I remember right, Brad Teague qualified Kirk Shelmerdine's #72 Ford for this weekend, but he didn't make the race. The #72 was at the track every week, but not always with Shelmerdine behind the wheel. I think Tom Hubert drove it on road courses and Ted Christopher was in the car at New Hampshire, and then Teague here at Bristol. 14. Tyler posted: 02.16.2008 - 4:24 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I was at this race, I was surprised at how glued Jr's car was to the bottom. Never wiggled, or anything, just smooth, and solid. It was actually a pretty good race, even though he had only like 7 cars on the lead lap at one point... 15. Mr. Big posted: 05.18.2008 - 8:18 pm Rate this comment: (0) (3) A very unmemorable race. Boredom to the extreme. 16. Mark O. posted: 06.11.2008 - 11:33 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Petty was later fined a hefty sum of money by Dodge for hopping into Harvick's car. His contract had a stipulation that said he wasn't to drive any other makes. 17. Hokie20 posted: 10.30.2008 - 3:00 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Junior sweeps race weekend. 18. Ryan posted: 01.12.2009 - 7:39 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I was at this race, too. Dominating. I think he was only passes once and that was be JJ, and then Jr. got back around him. 19. Anonymous posted: 01.15.2009 - 3:19 pm Rate this comment: (4) (0) Let me guess, this race was boring because there weren't any wrecks. Rediculous. This was a great race. A lot of hard, close racing. 20. Baker posted: 05.08.2010 - 8:03 pm Rate this comment: (0) (3) Kevin Harvick ran one of the baddest looking cars in the History of the sport with his team realtree car, but he sucked it up. Too bad. 21. Matthew posted: 02.22.2011 - 3:30 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Ryan McGlynn ran the 200 for someone else,not MWR.Kenny Wallace drove the 100 for MWR. 22. RaceFanX posted: 05.08.2012 - 9:54 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsors: #32 Ricky Craven- Tide with a touch of Downy This was Ricky Craven's final race as a Cup regular, he and PPI Motorsports basically parted ways in the week following this race. Craven reunited with PPI for one more race at Loudon later in the year, sort of as a farewell, then he did a one-off for Joe Gibbs at Talladega but that would be it. 23. Daniel posted: 05.24.2012 - 12:50 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) In using fastest 43: #02 Hermie Sadler & #52 Stanton Barrett Out using fastest 43: #89 Morgan Shepherd & #98 Derrike Cope 24. CBASS posted: 01.18.2013 - 2:15 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor updates #99 RoundUp #97 Sharpie Click #9/19 Dodge Summer Sales Drive #00 Aaron's Sales & Lease #29 Team Realtree/ Goodwrench http://archives.ciastockphoto.com/cgi/images.php?group=w0426 25. TTF24 posted: 08.07.2013 - 12:58 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Congrats Dale JR 26. Anonymous posted: 02.16.2014 - 10:40 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Joe Nemechek had a vicious hit. Remember hearing it loudly. 27. Nascar Lead Lap Points posted: 07.31.2014 - 10:33 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Withdrew 92 Brad Teague New Peoples Bank Ford Bob Jenkins https://web.archive.org/web/20040825020815/http://www.nascar.com/races/cup/2004/24/data/entry_list.html 28. Anonymous posted: 04.13.2015 - 10:57 pm Rate this comment: (0) (2) And just why was it boring? Cause there were no late race manufactured drama cautions by NASCRAP and they actually let them race it out? Would some of you please get the f**k out of this sport so the rest of us can try to get it back to what it once was? 29. Anonymous posted: 05.09.2015 - 12:44 am Rate this comment: (0) (2) Some of you are too goddamn stupid to even fool with. 30. NASCARLover22 posted: 08.24.2015 - 6:47 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor updates: #29 Team Realtree/GM Goodwrench #97 Sharpie Click #41 Energizer/Target #00 Aaron's Dream Machine #77 Kodak Easy Share #98 Mach I Racing #5 Got Milk?/Kellogg's #32 Tide with Downy #51 Marathon/NegotiationsSeminar.com #9/19 Dodge Summer Sales Drive Event #0 NetZero 31. stintrow posted: 03.07.2017 - 10:03 pm Rate this comment: (0) (2) What a boring race this was. ZZZ 32. Altracing posted: 12.27.2017 - 8:57 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Junior became the first driver to win both the Busch and Cup series races in the same weekend at Bristol with this win 33. Altracing posted: 12.27.2017 - 9:04 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) First top five finish for Jeff Burton while driving for RCR 34. Matt posted: 02.25.2019 - 1:08 pm Rate this comment: (1) (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 "What do you think about the Bump & Run?" A-- Anything Goes (27%) B-- OK, But No Wrecking (60%) C-- It's Dirty Racing (13%) 35. Maverick19 posted: 05.16.2019 - 12:37 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) The only time Junior ever led 200+ laps in his career. 36. annoymus posted: 08.18.2019 - 11:42 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) this until last night was the fewest lead lappers for the night race at Bristol since they went to concrete in 92. 7. I believe 93, 94, and 1999 my first night race at Bristol i watched and taped it by the way that had that few lead lappers in the cup race at Bristol. Last nights marked the fewest lead lap finishers in 2019 in the Cup Series and fewest since Dover October 2016. 37. rm posted: 04.06.2020 - 9:06 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) From the broadcast: 37 crew chief - Dan Glauz 45 crew chief - Bill Henderson 89 crew chief - Terry Allen Jimmie Johnson was already riding a streak of three straight engine failures, and this weekend didn't start much better for him when he crashed in happy hour and had to unload the backup car for this race. Coming from shotgun on the field, Johnson safely halted his misfortune by finishing 3rd, using the same car he'd won with at Darlington in the spring. Joe Nemechek's hit looked pretty similar to the one that knocked Kyle Petty out for a race the in the spring race here in 2003. Joe said he had a sore foot but he didn't miss any time, unlike Kyle, pulling double-duty at Fontana the next weekend and faring pretty well in both the Busch & Cup races. Mark Martin vs. Bristol's pit road(s) enters its latest chapter, with Mark coming down both pit roads under green flag conditions and losing a lap to the field. He recovered pretty well, but he still finished 13th instead of picking up a near-certain top 10. 38. Foote posted: 04.06.2020 - 9:42 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Typically when a driver qualifies 30th at Bristol, it's only a matter of time before he gets lapped. Dale Jr not only didn't get lapped, but drove up to the lead and destroyed the field. Was his car good in practice and he just had a bad qualifying lap? Where did all that race speed come from? 39. Tarheel posted: 04.06.2020 - 10:16 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) 38, if I remember correctly Jr had good race speed but just a bad qualifying lap. I think he stayed out or took two tires, something for track position on the third caution. A few laps after the green flag he got by Rusty, and pretty much dominated from that point on. I remember expecting him to lose ground on older tires, but the tires weren't wearing bad and he had a good car. To me, this was possibly his most impressive win, definitely one of them. 40. rm posted: 04.07.2020 - 7:46 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Forgot to mention something very notable from this race: Jimmy Spencer was the last driver to wear an open-face helmet at the Cup level in this race. At the urging of his team, he wore a full-face helmet earlier here for the test but reportedly couldn't get out of it soon enough and switched back for the race. Ryan Newman apparently paid Spencer a visit before the next weekend's race at Fontana and finally convinced Spencer, the last holdout at the Cup level, to switch to the safer full-face helmet. 41. SweetRich posted: 06.29.2020 - 10:58 am 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. 42. DI9_ForLife posted: 04.01.2021 - 7:20 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This race ran green for 229 laps straight at one point, that's insane to think about, especially before Bristol's reconfiguration. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: