JUST AS RUSTY WALLACE HAS HAD THE LEAD AND IS LAPPING A BUNCH OF CARS, CRASH AND THE DAY IS RUIEND FOR DODGE! DAMN IT! AND NEWMAN CRASHES EARLY, FAILS AT FIGHTING BACK TO THE TOP! IT WAS A HEAVY CRASH DAY!





Starting in the rear of the field without crew chief Todd Berrier, Kevin Harvick got his first Bristol win Sunday in a crash-filled Food City 500

Fin St Car Driver Make Sponsor Pts/Bonus Laps Status
1 13 #29 Kevin Harvick Chevrolet GM Goodwrench 185/5 500 Running
2 1 #38 Elliott Sadler Ford M&M's 175/5 500 Running
3 11 #20 Tony Stewart Chevrolet The Home Depot 165/0 500 Running
4 19 #8 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Chevrolet Budweiser 160/0 500 Running
5 21 #88 Dale Jarrett Ford UPS 155/0 500 Running
6 14 #48 Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet Lowe's 155/5 500 Running
7 5 #77 Travis Kvapil * Dodge Kodak/Jasper Engines 146/0 500 Running
8 37 #45 Kyle Petty Dodge Georgia-Pacific/Brawny 142/0 500 Running
9 10 #16 Greg Biffle Ford Charter Communications 143/5 500 Running
10 28 #10 Scott Riggs Chevrolet Valvoline 134/0 500 Running
11 15 #40 Sterling Marlin Dodge Coors Light 130/0 499 Running
12 12 #25 Brian Vickers Chevrolet GMAC/ditech.com 127/0 498 Running
13 3 #2 Rusty Wallace Dodge Miller Lite 134/10 498 Running
14 9 #9 Kasey Kahne Dodge Dodge Dealers/UAW 121/0 498 Running
15 4 #24 Jeff Gordon Chevrolet DuPont 123/5 498 Running
16 25 #17 Matt Kenseth Ford DeWalt Power Tools 120/5 497 Running
17 8 #19 Jeremy Mayfield Dodge Dodge Dealers/UAW 112/0 497 Running
18 16 #44 Terry Labonte Chevrolet Kellogg's 114/5 496 Running
19 27 #15 Michael Waltrip Chevrolet NAPA Auto Parts 111/5 496 Running
20 2 #07 Dave Blaney Chevrolet Jack Daniel's 103/0 495 Running
21 29 #50 Jimmy Spencer Dodge U.S. Micro Corporation 100/0 492 Running
22 38 #18 Bobby Labonte Chevrolet Interstate Batteries 97/0 468 Running
23 30 #49 Ken Schrader Dodge Schwan's Home Service 94/0 467 Running
24 17 #42 Jamie McMurray Dodge Texaco/Havoline-Autism Society of America 91/0 456 Running
25 20 #21 Ricky Rudd Ford Motorcraft Genuine Parts 88/0 452 Running
26 42 #99 Carl Edwards Ford Office Depot 85/0 447 Running
27 32 #22 Scott Wimmer Dodge Caterpillar 82/0 437 Running
28 39 #5 Kyle Busch * Chevrolet CARQUEST 79/0 428 Running
29 6 #43 Jeff Green Dodge Cheerios/Betty Crocker 76/0 427 Running
30 7 #12 Ryan Newman Dodge ALLTEL 73/0 418 Running
31 34 #6 Mark Martin Ford Viagra 70/0 406 Running
32 35 #66 Hermie Sadler Ford East Tennessee Trailers 67/0 395 Running
33 40 #01 Joe Nemechek Chevrolet U.S. Army 64/0 393 Running
34 22 #4 Mike Wallace Chevrolet Lucas Oil/Food City 61/0 379 Out of Race
35 26 #97 Kurt Busch Ford Sharpie Retractable "Autographs for Education" 58/0 360 Out of Race
36 24 #31 Jeff Burton Chevrolet Cingular Wireless 55/0 358 Out of Race
37 41 #0 Mike Bliss Chevrolet NetZero Best Buy 52/0 351 Running
38 36 #11 Jason Leffler Chevrolet FedEx Express 49/0 342 Running
39 18 #32 Bobby Hamilton Jr. Chevrolet Tide 46/0 330 Out of Race
40 33 #108 Shane Hmiel Chevrolet Win Fuel 43/0 305 Out of Race
41 23 #192 Stanton Barrett * Chevrolet USmilitary.com 40/0 83 Out of Race
42 43 #200 Carl Long Chevrolet Buyer's Choice/Howes Lubricator 37/0 37 Out of Race
43 31 #41 Casey Mears Dodge Target 34/0 20 Out of Race


* Denotes Rookie

 

Here is a lap-by-lap account of the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway:

Lap 500: Kevin Harvick wins the Food City 500 for his first win since 2003. Elliott Sadler is second, and Tony Stewart is third.

Lap 492: Matt Kenseth makes unscheduled pit stop.

Lap 491: Jeff Gordon makes unscheduled pit stop.

Lap 487: Matt Kenseth is slowing on the track due to a flat right rear. Falls a lap down.

Lap 460: Matt Kenseth passes Greg Biffle for third.

Lap 450: This is Harvick's race to lose -- he leads by two full seconds.

Lap 434: Biffle continues to fade, loses second to Elliott Sadler.

Lap 433: Kevin Harvick takes lead from Biffle.

Lap 432: Green flag. Greg Biffle leads

Lap 426: Caution is out for debris from the Johnson-Waltrip tiff. This is the 14th caution.

Lap 420: Michael Waltrip and Jimmie Johnson get together, Waltrip cuts a tire and has to go to pit road. Johnson has damage. Race stays green.

Lap 420: Green flag. Greg Biffle leads.

Lap 415: Biffle stays out and retains lead, all other lead lap cars pit. Jimmie Johnson wins the battle off pit road. Kevin Harvick has a nice pit and will come out second.

Lap 414: Caution out for Mike Wallace crash. Good break for Jeff Gordon, who will come in and get tires. Sterling Marlin gets the free pass.

Lap 406: Biffle has checked out. He leads Jimmie Johnson by 1.939 seconds.

Lap 397: Greg Biffle takes lead from Jeff Gordon. This is the second time today Biffle has led.

Lap 386: Green flag. Jeff Gordon leads. Biffle in second.

Lap 380: Caution is out for Tony Stewart spin. No other cars involved. 12th caution. Stewart will make a pit stop under the yellow. All other lead-lap cars stay out.

Lap 376: Green flag. Jeff Gordon leads.

Lap 368: Jeff Gordon takes the lead by staying out. He becomes the ninth different leader. Greg Biffle enters the pits first, exits first, so he will restart second. Kevin Harvick will restart third, and Jimmie Johnson will be fourth.

Lap 362: Jeff Burton spins after contact from Jimmie Johnson, is hit flush by Kurt Busch. Both drivers climb from their cars under their own power. The 11th caution is out.

Lap 359: Kasey Kahne is in the fence. Race stays green.

Lap 358: Harvick is in second, knocks on Biffle's door

Lap 343: Green flag. Greg Biffle leads. Only 12 cars on the lead lap.

Lap 334: Race is back under yellow.

Lap 333: Red flag is displayed.

Lap 332: Huge crash on the backstretch brings out of the 10th caution of the day. Bobby Hamilton Jr. and Ken Schrader get together, triggering huge crash. Also involved are Ricky Rudd, Mark Martin, Rusty Wallace, Jamie McMurray, Dave Blaney, Bobby Labonte, Kurt Busch, Sterling Marlin, Michael Waltrip, Jeff Gordon, Kasey Kahne and Mike Wallace.

Lap 330: Green flag. Greg Biffle leads.

Lap 323: Caution is out for Ricky Rudd and Matt Kenseth spin. This is the ninth caution of the day.

Lap 314: Greg Biffle takes lead from Kenseth. He becomes the seventh different leader.

Lap 314: Green flag. Matt Kenseth leads.

Lap 302: All lead-lap cars in for stops. Kenseth retains the lead. Greg Biffle takes second with a quick stop, and Harvick is third. Jimmie Johnson comes out fourth.

Lap 300: Jeff Green hits the wall. Caution is out. Dale Jarrett gets the free pass.

Lap 295: Heartbreaker for Rusty Wallace. He cuts a tire, heads to pit road. Loses a lap.

Lap 290: Only 17 cars on the lead lap.

Lap 286: Ricky Rudd has a tire problem and will have to make an unscheduled stop.

Lap 283: Now Kenseth is stuck in traffic. Wallace challenging for the leqd again.

Lap 265: Matt Kenseth takes lead from Rusty Wallace. Kenseth leads for the first time today. He is the sixth different leader.

Lap 260: Jeff Burton makes unscheduled pit stop, will go two laps down.

Lap 255: Rusty Wallace is in heavy lapped traffic

Lap 243: Only 27 cars on the lead lap

Lap 232: Wallace leads Kenseth by 1.113 seconds

Lap 207: Rusty Wallace leads his 100th lap.

Lap 199: Rusty Wallace takes lead from Labonte. Kenseth is in second.

Lap 193: Green flag. Terry Labonte leads.

Lap 187: All lead lap cars except Terry Labonte come into the pits for service. Wallace leads the race out of the pits. Kenseth comes out second. Harvick loses time in the pits -- he falls from second to fifth.

Lap 185: Caution out for debris. Jeff Gordon gets the free pass.

Lap 177: Wallace takes lead back from Harvick.

Lap 171: Harvick leads Wallace by a half-second.

Lap 168: Jeff Gordon is the first car a lap down.

Lap 160: Green flag. Kevin Harvick leads. Wallace is second.

Lap 150: Caution is out for a Ryan Newman spin. Newman has front-end damage.

Lap 144: Jeff Gordon bumps Rusty Wallace, gets a lap back. Kevin Harvick comes through, takes lead from Wallace.

Lap 143: Green flag. Rusty Wallace leads.

Lap 139: All lead-lap cars are in. Rusty Wallace retains the lead with a beautiful 13.8 second stop. Kevin Harvick retains second place and is now on Wallace's pit cycle. Kenseth is third and McMurray is fourth.

Lap 137: Scott Wimmer is back in ther race.

Lap 135: Stanton Barrett scrapes the wall. Caution is out.

Lap 134: Bobby Labonte takes third from Kenseth.

Lap 130: Rusty Wallace has a one-second lead over Harvick. Kenseth runs third.

Lap 122: Jeff Gordon makes unscheduled stop for vibration. He will go two laps down.

Lap 115: Jason Leffler returns to the race -- 114 laps down.

Lap 115: Wallace leads his 50th lap.

Lap 101: Wallace back in lead.

Lap 100: Rusty Wallace is in second, on Harvick's bumper.

Lap 95: Matt Kenseth takes second. Waltrip falls to fourth.

Lap 92: Harvick takes lead from Waltrip

Lap 90: Michael Waltrip continues to lead. Harvick is second.

Lap 75: Green flag. Michael Waltrip leads. Rusty Wallace restarts 10th.

Lap 74: Scott Wimmer to the garage

Lap 71: 10 cars didn't make a pit stop: Waltrip, Martin, McMurray, Harvick, Kenseth, Jarrett, Rudd, Earnhardt, Labonte, Schrader.

Lap 71: Leaders in for pits. Michael Waltrip stays out and takes the lead. Rusty Wallace is first in, first out. Blaney stalls the car exiting the pits and goes from third to 33rd.

Lap 69: The fourth caution is out for a crash involving Mike Bliss and Kyle Busch. Bliss has heavy front-end damage. Busch heads to the garage.

Lap 60: 36 cars are on the lead lap.

Lap 54: We're back under green. Rusty Wallace leads. Elliott Sadler is second and Dave Blaney is third.

Lap 53: Leaders opt for track position. A handful of cars make pit stops, but none of the top-10 cars.

Lap 50: Hermie Sadler is back on the track.

Lap 49: Caution is out for a single-car crash involving Stanton Barrett.

Lap 48: Tony Stewart has moved into fifth.

Lap 36: Rusty Wallace takes lead from Sadler.

Lap 36: We're back under green. Elliott Sadler leads. Rusty Wallace runs second, and Dave Blaney is third.

Lap 30: Carl Edwards has returned to the track. He is 25 laps down.

Lap 22: Caution. Multi-car crash in Turn 1. Casey Mears and Joe Nemechek involved. Kyle Busch and Joe Nemechek spin, Mears plows into Nemechek. Looks like Busch will stay on the lead lap with minimal damage.

Lap 20: Sadler has led all 20 laps.

Lap 10: Mike Wallace black-flagged for jumping the restart. Wallace will go a lap down.

Lap 10: We're back under green. Elliott Sadler leads. Rusty Wallace runs second, and Dave Blaney is third.

Lap 3: Looks like Carl Edwards has a busted radiator -- he is also in the garage for repairs and will fall at least two laps down.

Lap 2: Caution out for Jason Leffler-Hermie Sadler-Jimmy Spencer crash. Sadler and Leffler to the garage to fix the damage.

Lap 1: Green flag. Elliott Sadler leads from the pole.

Pre-race: Carl Edwards (accident) and Kevin Harvick (power steering pump) are going to the rear of the field.

 

BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) -- Down but not out, Kevin Harvick pulled his team out from an embarrassing cheating scandal by taking Richard Childress Racing back to Victory Lane.

Harvick scored his first victory since 2003 on Sunday, winning the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway despite a stack of obstacles against him.

Final lapsKevin Harvick takes the checkers at the Food City 500
Top finishersElliott Sadler and Tony Stewart on their day at Bristol
Busch, Burton KO'dKurt Busch slams head-on into a spinning Jeff Burton
The big oneOn Lap 332, Bristol collects several top drivers in a multi-car wreck
More Bristol troubleRicky Rudd and Matt Kenseth get tied up on Lap 323
Tire troublesRusty Wallace has tire troubles that put him two laps down
Tough dayBad day for Kyle Busch and Casey Mears
Edwards gets caught up in someone else's mess
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His crew chief, Todd Berrier, was stuck at home serving a four-race suspension for cheating last month in Las Vegas. His car owner, Childress, spent most of the weekend complaining about the penalties against his team and driver.

And when the crew uncovered the No. 29 Chevrolet hours before the race, they found a puddle of leaking power steering fluid. The team had to fix it, and the unapproved repairs forced them to start last in the 43-car field.

But with Childress back on the pit box for the first time since 2001, filling in for Berrier and calmly coaching Harvick, the brash young driver stayed calm during a tense, wreck-filled race.

He took the lead with 66 laps to go, pulled away from the pack and easily beat pole-sitter Elliott Sadler to the finish line: Seven lapped cars separated the first- and second-place cars.

It was Harvick's first victory since he won at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in August 2003, and it was RCR's first win at Bristol since the late Dale Earnhardt brashly bumped Terry Labonte out of the way here on the final lap in 1999.

Harvick didn't need such drastic measures to snap his 55-race winless streak.

He won this race with patience and a fierce determination that's been brewing since Berrier was caught illegally rigging Harvick's fuel tank to appear full when it actually wasn't during qualifying in Las Vegas.

NASCAR cracked down on the blatant cheating, fining Berrier $25,000 along with the suspension, and docking Harvick 25 points in the standings.

Childress was livid, calling the penalties way too severe and objecting to Harvick being punished for something with which he had nothing to do. He appealed, but a committee ruled against him earlier this week.

So they headed on to Bristol with a chip on their shoulder and something to prove.

They did it with the win.

"It's big, Todd put so much hard work into this thing and to be home watching this on TV," Harvick said. "It's pretty awesome. We fought a lot of adversity."

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Tony Stewart finished third in a Chevrolet, Dale Earnhardt Jr. was fourth in a Chevrolet and Dale Jarrett finished fifth in a Ford. Jimmie Johnson was sixth and was followed by Travis Kvapil, Kyle Petty, Greg Biffle and Scott Riggs.

The race was stopped for almost 14 minutes with 167 laps to go when Bobby Hamilton Jr. slammed into the back of Ken Schrader, starting a 14-car pileup. The crash collected many of the favorites, including Kurt Busch, who was looking for his fourth straight victory here.


Greg Biffle (top) looked poised to win -- until he failed to make a pit stop with less than 100 laps to go. Credit: Autostock

"I'm sure I'm a pretty good S.O.B right now with everybody," Hamilton said. "I just screwed up and I'm going to tuck my tail between my legs and head back to Nashville."

Nine-time Bristol winner Rusty Wallace and Jeff Gordon, a five-time winner, both had slight damage to their cars but were able to continue.

But Wallace already was struggling: The right front tire on his Dodge went flat after a long green flag run and he lost two laps while pitting to have it changed.

Then, after the wreck, he pulled into the pits under the red flag and was penalized. Wallace fell back to 18th place after the accident. Despite leading a race-high 157 laps and looking like the driver to beat for most of the afternoon, he ended up finishing 13th, two laps down.

Because the accident collected so many contenders, the race restarted with just 12 cars on the lead lap.


Rusty Wallace dominated at Bristol but was left without his 10th win at the half-mile track. Credit: Autostock

Busch was one of them, but his day ended when Johnson and Jeff Burton made contact and Burton's car banged off the inside wall. As it ricocheted back onto the track, it moved directly into Busch's path and Busch couldn't avoid hitting him.

Busch sounded woozy when he slowly radioed his crew to tell them he was OK, and his steps seemed deliberate as he walked off the track.

"It was a hard hit, it took the wind out of me," Busch said. "I feel horrible, I've never hit that hard before."

Burton, meanwhile, waited for Johnson to come back around the track under caution and angrily pointed at him as he passed.

"Jimmie is a great driver and I know he didn't do it on purpose," Burton said. "He's got to be better than that and I won't put up with it. I know he didn't do it on purpose, but we're responsible for driving these race cars and when something happens behind the wheel, it's his fault."

 

The Busch race on Monday had a couple of interesting "issues" near the end.........

 

damn..i meant to watch it and i forgot..what happened dusty??

and for teh record, i thought the nascar race was kind of boring...too many wrecks..

 

I was surprised that he won. With him having the replacement crew chief and all. If I was his crew chief I would be fearing for my job. They didn't win a race since 2002 and the backup crew chief wins a race within two races of starting. Also I can imagine Richard Childress might be mad that he would alter the car and take the chance of being fined. NOT A SMART MOVE lol

 

Shane Hmiel was driving very, very aggressively and bumped 2 or 3 slower cars in front of him out of the way near the end of the race. Then he did the same thing to Dale Jarrett and spun him out which resulted in a red flag. Dale got out of his car, calmly walked over to Hmiel's car (with NASCAR officials alongside) and got up in his face and read him the riot act!!! What was cool was the camera in Hmiel's car caught the whole thing on TV!!! Hmiel was all strapped in his car so all you could see were his eyes.....which got VERY BIG!!!

 

wow...i didnt think dale jarret woudl have it in him!

 

To Dale's credit, he reminded me of a father scolding a little child. No showing off to the crowd (although they were all cheering him on) and no temper tantrums. That's the difference between the veterans and the rookies, I guess.

 

well, thats why im a bit surprised...while i am, by no means a DJ fan, i dont think ive ever seen him do anything that wasnt completely professional. good for him.