|| *Comments on the 2008 Bank Of America 500:* View the most recent comment <#37> | Post a comment <#post> 1. Pork Rind posted: 10.12.2008 - 10:26 am Rate this comment: (2) (0) I was so high on alcohol at the end of the race, when I woke up this morning 10-12, I forgot who won! Jeff Burton's gang made the call to take a chance and won the race. With 5 to go and a few guys within 100 points of Jimmie Johnson, it's going to be quite interesting. I'm still hoping Jeff Gordon wins at least 1 race before the season ends, and Martinsville is his best shot at victory lane. Oh well, have a good day. Bye. 2. DaleSrFanForever posted: 10.12.2008 - 11:39 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) I was really happy to see the 31 team make such a risky call. For the last couple of years, RCR teams seemed content to hang around from 5th to 10th (no easy feat mind you), collect the points, and wait for others to make mistakes. Problem is when bad luck inevitably hits them, they fall way behind in the points because the leaders are finishing in the top 4 consistently. At this race, the 31 team went for it, and it paid off with a victory. I hope they continue being aggressive, because the others will also be gunning for wins. Top 10s won't do the job. 3. Anonymous posted: 10.12.2008 - 11:40 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jeff Gordon needs a new crew chief. His crew chief made a bad calls on the final 2 cautions. Great call by Jeff Burton's crew. 4. DaleSrFanForever posted: 10.12.2008 - 11:44 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) By the way, what is the record for most pit road speeding penalties in a two year period? Tony Stewart has to have shattered it. 5. Kevin posted: 10.12.2008 - 11:50 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I did not see the race, but I was excited to see that Jeff Burton won. He is now 2nd in points. Maybe this is his year! 6. Woodbridge posted: 10.12.2008 - 11:55 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) What the hell happened to Reutimann? One minute he spins going into pit road while running in the top 10, the next he's 13 laps down! GREAT win for Burton, I hope he's right there in the hunt at the end. McMurray's first top five of the season, Reed Sorenson uses pit trickery to secure a top fifteen... ....and Michael Waltrip is the worst driver in NASCAR. Period. 7. Dodge posted: 10.12.2008 - 12:38 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) If there were 5-10 more laps, Kasey would of probably won. 8. Baker posted: 10.12.2008 - 1:10 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) "By the way, what is the record for most pit road speeding penalties in a two year period? Tony Stewart has to have shattered it. DaleSrFanForever | 10.12.08 - 11:44 am" I can't remember the exact numbers, but yes Tony Stewart has the most of any driver in the last 3 years. Denny Hamlin has the 3rd most. No single team has drawn more pit road speeding penalties than Joe Gibbs Racing. And Nascar turns the other check when tires get away from Hendricks ala Jimmie Johnson at Vegas a few years ago and he ended up winning. 9. Baker posted: 10.12.2008 - 1:11 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Anyone crying conspiracy over Tony Stewart being named the winner at Talladega, but shoot down any idea of Hendrick messing with other teams cars is a hypocrite. Next up Jeff Burton and Greg Biffle...JJ has it in the bag. 10. Red posted: 10.12.2008 - 1:16 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Whoever had clean air could easily pull away from the field in this race. The dreaded aero-push seems to be much worse at Charlotte than at the other 1.5 mile tracks for some reason. Great to see Burton win, and even better to see an RCR team employ an aggressive strategy for once. Maybe the 29 and 07 will learn from this. Look at Bowyer, finishing 12th in four of the last six races. Pansy-ass points racing at its ugliest. 11. Anonymous posted: 10.12.2008 - 1:58 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Great mix up for a race. Jimmie Johnson and Tony Stewart looked like the front runners for the 1st 100 laps or so but then fell back. Kyle Busch and Brian Vickers led the most of the laps 100 to 200. Then they encountered problems (kyle-speeding on pit road). Greg Biffle and Jeff Burton led for the final stretch. With a risky call by Jeff Burton giving him the lead and the WIN. Great racing all night long. 12. Kevin posted: 10.12.2008 - 2:58 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Hey Red, so far in the chase Clint Bowyer has not finished worse then 12th with 2 top 10 and a top 5. He is 5th in points. Looks like he is doing something right. 13. Kevin posted: 10.12.2008 - 3:00 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) By the way, Bowyer looks like he is going to be the 2008 Nationwide Champion. Again, he is doing something right!! 14. Brett posted: 10.12.2008 - 3:43 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) It seem in about 50% of all the cautions, Micheal Waltrip was involved in... As Clint Bowyer said "Micheal Waltrip is the worst driver in Nascar, period" OUTSTANDING win by Burton!!! Hope he wins Championship. 15. Josh20 posted: 10.12.2008 - 6:18 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Glad too JB win. Hope he wins the Cup this year. Good run for JaimeMc BTW. 16. Clayton posted: 10.12.2008 - 9:44 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Michael Waltrip stinks and I think Reutimann hit the wall. Someone asked what happened to him. 17. Willy on Wheels posted: 10.12.2008 - 10:02 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Clint Bowyer is wrong. Michael is 2nd or 3rd worst, McDowell is the worst. Waltrip took a car he DNQed 20-something times and brought it and kept it in the top 35 all year. Michael McDowell took a car David Reutimann got up to 20th in owners points after the first 5 races, and took it out of the top 35. 18. Neal posted: 10.12.2008 - 10:46 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The aero push is worse at every track thanks to the new car. Wouldn't removing all the front-end grounding effects like that stupid splitter be the easiest way to get rid of it? They didn't have the aero push problems when the cars didn't have a track-hugging front snout. 19. DieselDan posted: 10.12.2008 - 11:48 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) While I would like to see Jeff Burton win a title, NASCAR will never allow that to happen. He is sponsored by AT&T, who sued NASCAR and Nextel/Sprint to continue sponsoring the 31 after they bought Cingular. 20. Anonymous posted: 10.13.2008 - 12:15 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Kyle Busch has the best run in recent memory for a driver in a solid pink race car 21. 18fan posted: 10.13.2008 - 2:17 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Great win by Burton. Kyle had a great recovery from his speeding penalty and had the fastest car the last run. Sorenson's best finish since New Hampshire in June and his most laps led in a race this season. Tony at points had the best car and had some runs in which he was awful. Overall boring race. 22. Bronco posted: 10.13.2008 - 10:51 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) - First top 5 for Kahne since Michigan in June. I was hoping he could complete the trifecta but he came close. - First top 5 for McMurray since his July Daytona win last year! - Nice to see Burton actually lead laps and win instead of just going conservative. - Whatever happened to Vickers, he dominated the middle part of the race and ends up 18th?? 23. DaleSrFanForever posted: 10.13.2008 - 12:46 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Neal, you are absolutely correct. If all the air didn't go over the car's hood, then it would be less of a hinderance when behind another car. You would have to set it up to run without the air cause you wouldn't get it all anyways. Granted there will always be a bit of turbulance or a "wake" from a car in front, but if the fronts of the cars are off the ground, it won't be so dramatic. However they can do it, they need to. This is getting ridiculous. I congratulate Scott Miller for knowing the situation and making the correct call, but races shouldn't be determined by who gets to restart out front. 24. petty43 posted: 10.13.2008 - 6:59 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) there were several cars better than burton and this needs to stop happening. track position races are boring, which is what every 1 mile and 1.5 mile race has become 25. Anonymous posted: 10.14.2008 - 1:22 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) As an Edwards fan this race was devastating to watch for his championship hopes. I thought he would finish in the top 5 for sure with starting up front and all and instead he lost a ton of laps to fix the ignition problem. After this race he also lost the regular season point lead by two spots. I'm hoping he gets top two or three finishes from here on out. 26. Kit posted: 10.14.2008 - 2:57 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) "Waltrip took a car he DNQed 20-something times and brought it and kept it in the top 35 all year. " Willy, Michael Watrip has raced in the Cup Series over 720 times and has only four wins to show for it, all on plate tracks. It's not impressive to me that he kept it in the top-35. Anyone else with his experience would be winning races. 27. Willyonwheels posted: 10.14.2008 - 9:12 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I was just showing you how Michael Waltrip, while bad, is not as bad as some of these new punks, like Michael McDowWall or The Driver of the Nationwide Series Who Shall Never Be Named. Waltrip made the right decision to fire McDowWall. 28. DaleSrFanForever posted: 10.14.2008 - 1:06 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Mikey isn't the worst, but he isn't far from it. If those other guys are inexplicably able to stay in Cup for the next 25 years, I think they would be a lot better than Mikey is right now. Yeah, he has kept it in the Top 35, but when you look at the people he has had to race for it, it is people with way less experience than him. He should be running circles around them. Yes, if I had to put somebody in my car right now, at this moment, he wouldn't be the absolute last guy I would put in, but given he has over 700 starts, he should have shown more than he has by now. WAY more. 29. Kit posted: 10.14.2008 - 2:15 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Willy, I know what you are saying, but what is your point? We all know that Waltrip sucks and doesn't belong in Cup. I don't think we need to rank him as the worst, or second worst, third worst, etc. He just sucks. Waltrip never should have hired him to begin with. 30. RLB posted: 10.24.2008 - 5:41 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) I was there and very dissapointed when Gordon fell to last, but despite being very drunk I was elated when Gordon led for 47 laps! It was Jeff Burton's 21st career win tying him with Benny Parsons,Bobby Labonte and Jack Smith. Jeff Gordon also surpassed Cale Yarborough for 5th in races led with his 341st and tied Lee Petty for career Top 10's with his 332nd! awesome comeback for The Kid and a descent race overall. 31. Anonymous posted: 02.28.2009 - 2:55 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was the 100th points-paying Cup race at Lowe's. 32. 18fan posted: 02.17.2010 - 12:21 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Only one of Burton's four wins that he led more than six laps in. In only one of his 17 wins did he lead less than 40 laps, when he led 2 in the last of his three straight Jiffy Lube 300 wins from 1997-1999. 33. 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Sad to hear :( 36. chevyfan98 posted: 04.05.2017 - 4:47 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Would end up being the final win for RCR's #31 until Ryan Newman won at Phoenix in 2017. 37. SweetRich posted: 07.15.2020 - 11:19 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The commentators were Dr. Jerry Punch, Andy Petree and Dale Jarrett. The pit road reporters were Dave Burns, Mike Massaro, Jamie Little and Shannon Spake. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: