|| *Comments on the 2006 Coca-Cola 600:* View the most recent comment <#38> | Post a comment <#post> 1. nascarman posted: 05.29.2006 - 1:28 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Tony Stewart broke his shoulder in a crash. 2. dalejrfan14 posted: 05.29.2006 - 5:24 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Are you sure cause he was released from the hospital saying nothing about that during the race. Also i'd like to point out some stuff and congradulate some people: 1.congrats to Khane for finally breaking the cheaters streak. 2.Dale Jr for starting 34th and making up a lap due to pit miscue to finish 11th 3.Carl Edwards for recovering from a blown tire and being a lap down to finish 3rd 4.Mark Martin for finishing 4th in his last 600 5.Denny hamlin for edging out Sorenson for the highest finishing rookie 6.Jeff Green for a fantastic showing leading 16 laps and finishing 12th 7.Scott Rigs for Leading 90 laps and looking like the winner until his pit miscue with a handful of laps to go. 8.Johnny Sauter who was a contender all race until he blew a tire. 9.Ryan Newman for staying off the wall in his first spinout 10.Waltrip for making the field VIA a bribe 11.Tony Stewart for taking his injury like a man. When stewart crashed and the net was still up i was worried that he could seriously be hurt.I was relieved when he got out though. 3. HomeDepot20TS posted: 05.29.2006 - 6:05 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Its, according to the JGR site, a minimally displaced (no idea what that means, I'm a race fan, not a doctor) fracture of the tip of the right scapula. All I know is it makes me cringe to think about and I'd kind of prefer for Tony to either skip Dover and focus on recouperating or only run the first few laps and get out of the car. 4. HomeDepot20TS posted: 05.29.2006 - 6:07 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Congrats to Kahne, in the end I was rooting for Carl but oh well. Am I the only one utterly sick and tired of Kyle Busch at this point? 5. Miller4Prez64 posted: 05.29.2006 - 7:12 pm Rate this comment: (0) (2) Scott Riggs was robbed of his 1st win 6. Frank posted: 05.29.2006 - 7:19 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jimmie almost won another one...If so, they would have had to change the name to The Jimmie Johnson 600. HA!! What an incredible job almost winning another one at the Home track. Kyle Busch reminds me of Stewart, so comparing their driving styles what is so different? They each expect the other drivers to get out of the way or they wreck them. They never take blame for causing an accident. 7. Matthew Sullivan posted: 05.29.2006 - 9:00 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Riggs cost himself any chance of winning by stalling in the pits. Good run by Paul Menard who finished 14th after spinning early in the race. The smaller fuel cells were stupid and NASCAR is going to use something similar next season! Retarded! 8. jjnotlehto posted: 05.29.2006 - 9:22 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) THIS IS THE FIRST TIME A #70 CAR HAS BEEN IN A CUP RACE SINCE WATKINS GLEN 1991. LETS NOT FORGET JD MCDUFFIE 9. Darrell posted: 05.29.2006 - 9:45 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Kandy Kahne wins anotherone. The Haas boys were awesome tonight. Would have loved to see one of them win. 10. Anonymous posted: 05.29.2006 - 9:46 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) dale jarrett worst ever finish 11. Darrell posted: 05.30.2006 - 2:41 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Good to see all the little guys left out of the race so they wouldn't wreck the better cars. 12. jj0 posted: 05.30.2006 - 3:03 am Rate this comment: (0) (1) J.D. McDuffie died at Watking Glen in 90 or 91, I think. Don't know if it was practice or a race. 13. Steve posted: 05.30.2006 - 5:11 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) J.D. McDuffie was killed during the race in 1991. He holds the record for most Winston Cup starts (653) without a win. His best career finish was 3rd at Albany-Saratoga Speedway in Malta, New York in 1971. Kasey Kahne wins a Nextel Cup race after NOT winning the pole. Great rebound for Carl Edwards, after a pit road violation, and later a flat tire resulting in a spin. And I am again impressed by Reed Sorenson. His first 600-mile race, and he finishes 10th. Denny Hamlin beat him for rookie of the race, but Reed is only 20! Paul Menard gets (to this point) his worst finish of the year (I think it's a good year when your worst finish is 14th!). And my comment on Michael Waltrip: NAPA pays to have a car in the race. Michael's car wasn't handling good enough in qualifying, and he wasn't fast enough. Derrike Cope made the race (surprisingly for the team, it was their third consecutive race), but, had he started the race, would have only run 10-15 laps, as he has done in his previous races this year. Michael failed to finish, but he did not "start and park", as Cope would likely have done. So this did not hurt the team in any way. "Hi!", you ask what's wrong with racism? People like you who think it's O.K.! 14. the 'billy club' posted: 05.30.2006 - 5:11 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Lol! dude i loved it when Kyle Busch threw his hans device at this driver in the middle of the race and one of the officials tried restraining him from doing that. it was comical, lol! 15. nascarman posted: 05.30.2006 - 8:10 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I know Tony only had a minimally displaced fracture of the right scapula(same as shoulder blade) I was just too lazy to type all of it down so I put he broke his shoulder. 16. B4il3y posted: 06.01.2006 - 9:20 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Glad to see Scott Riggs and Jeff Green with good runs. This was by far Riggs' best performance since entering the top series. I know he has finished 2nd b before, but it was on a fuel milege race at Michigan. This time he had a dominant car. Also, Johnny Sauter still has it, and with a chance could still have a good career. Not much of a Kahne fan, but a good win for him and Dodge. Not much of a fan of the smaller fuel cells either. 17. Anonymous posted: 06.21.2006 - 5:19 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) This time kasey did not start on the pole 18. michael posted: 07.17.2006 - 4:46 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) tony raines sponsor was dlp hdtv with cars no just dlp hdtv 19. Steve posted: 07.23.2006 - 3:46 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Whoever is making idiotic statements using someone else's screen name, please find something more useful to do, like being a dynamite tester! This was Michael Waltrip's 654th career start. If Michael Waltrip had never won a Cup race, he would have broken the record set by the aforementioned J.D. McDuffie, who had a record 653 winless reces. 20. Brock posted: 01.19.2007 - 3:06 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Poor Scotty Riggs just couldn't catch a break. 21. biffle16 posted: 01.24.2007 - 7:51 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Well said, Frank! :) 22. RaceFanX posted: 10.19.2008 - 1:23 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Tony Raines' #96 DLP Chevy was painted in the colors of Lighting McQueen, the hero of the animated movie "Cars," in this race. The movie, heavily-inspired by NASCAR, was also promoted on the cars of Scott Riggs and Kyle Busch. 23. RCRandPenskeGuy posted: 12.30.2009 - 8:43 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Dale Jarrett didn't even make it a whole lap before backing himself into the Turn 4 wall and ending his race. It was his spotter that would be to blame for that; Dale had a new spotter for that week and he'd been cleared when really there was someone underneath him, so he went down thinking nobody was there. Tony Stewart crashed on lap 32 and ended up injuring his shoulder. He had also had a hard crash the night before in the Busch race, and would turn the car over to Ricky Rudd during the next week's race at Dover. Scott Riggs had such a good car in this race, it is a real shame he couldn't hold on to win the thing. Other than him, Kasey Kahne pretty much dominated this race and went on to win. 24. luigistarted06 posted: 03.30.2010 - 7:09 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Scott Riggs, Jeff Green, and Johnny Sauter had probably the 3 best cars all race. However problems costed them all chances at the win, which would have been any of there 1st. 25. Rocky Lore posted: 05.04.2010 - 7:34 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) In order to keep a consecutive start streak alive, Michael Waltrip paid McGlynn Racing to vacate their spot. Derrike Cope was the odd driver out. 26. Daniel posted: 05.23.2012 - 12:44 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) In using fastest 43: #00 Hermie Sadler & #49 Kevin Lepage Out using fastest 43: #7 Robby Gordon & #96 Tony Raines 27. CBASS posted: 01.21.2013 - 7:19 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor updates #21 Air Force #70 Haas CNC Machine Tools #29 Reese's with Caramel #32 Tide #10 Cars/ Valvoline #66 Best Buy/ SanDisk #43 Go-Gurt Portable Yogurt #16 National Guard/ Subway #96 Cars/ DLP HDTV #31 Cingular #37 Atomic X #72 Dutch Quality Stone/ Boral http://www.motorsport.com/nascar-cup/photos/main-gallery/?y=2006&s=5&dl=a&r=2073 28. 88&4Fan posted: 09.02.2015 - 7:26 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Scott Riggs had only led 33 laps his entire cup CAREER going into this race. He lead almost three times that in this race alone. 29. Windows Millennium Edition posted: 03.13.2016 - 11:01 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor updates: #10 Disney's "Cars"/Valvoline #16 National Guard/Subway #43 Yoplait Go-Gurt Portable Yogurt #12 Alltel/Mobil 1 #96 Disney's "Cars"/DLP HDTV #5 Disney's "Cars"/Kellogg's #26 Smirnoff Ice/Sharpie #17 R&L Carriers/USG #21 U.S. Air Force/Little Debbie 30. Alex posted: 04.12.2016 - 9:55 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) 2006 was a brutal year for Scott Riggs, and unfortunately it cost him his career in the long run. He should have had top-5s in both Charlotte races (a flat tire cost him the 600 win, and I can't remember what happened in the 500), and he got flat out dumped by Kevin Harvick while running 3rd at the second Texas race. Crap happens though, so it is what it is. 31. Braindead Zombie posted: 04.12.2016 - 10:19 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) 2006 was actually his best year but yeah there was so much potential wasted with him. Too bad he started his career so late, I think he could've been at least a Kasey Kahne/ Ryan Newman type driver but instead ended up being David Reutimann without the two wins. 32. Altracing posted: 12.01.2018 - 11:17 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Mike Bliss was on standby for Stewart after he got hurt in the Busch race the previous night just in case Tony needed relief. 33. E-Rick95 posted: 04.11.2020 - 6:59 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) anyone know how Michael DNQ'd for this race but yet still raced? i dont see any withdraws from this race 34. Joshua posted: 04.11.2020 - 7:21 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) @33: See @25 35. Real posted: 04.11.2020 - 8:43 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) He entered in someone's else's car. PPI did it earlier that year or the previous year too 36. MSportRev posted: 04.11.2020 - 8:47 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) DC: Derrike Cope #74 Dodge owned by Raynard McGlynn. After failing to qualify, Waltrip replaced Cope in the car and the team was allowed to change the car number. 37. RaceFanX posted: 04.11.2020 - 9:54 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) DC Sponsor: Derrike Cope #74- Royal Administration / Sundance Napa took over the sponsorship after Michael took over the ride. Coincidentally the car was already a blue Dodge just like Waltrip's normal #55 before he took over and it was redecorated. 38. TeamDCRfan posted: 04.11.2020 - 10:37 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) A lot of people did not like the fact that the 74 became the 55. They felt that since Mikey was driving the McGlynn 74, he should have been in a number 74. NASCAR had a rule at the time that if you bought a ride, everything, number, sponsor, make went to the bought ride. 35. PPI did it fall Dega 05. The 32 DNQd. They bought the 00 Aaron's Dream Machine CHEVROLET, to be driven by Mike Skinner. When that happened, Skinners team bought the 34 FORD that was to be driven by Hermie Sadler, and the 34 became the 00. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: