Best race of the decade - you decide

[CMennie47]

As another decade of NASCAR racing draws to a close this weekend, I thought I'd put up a post for members to nominate what they think the best race of the last 10 seasons was

Any Winston/Nextel/Sprint Cup, Busch/Nationwide and Craftsman/Camping World Truck Series race is elligible for nomination, from Daytona 2000 to Homestead-Miami 2009

Once everyone who wants to have their say has had their say (by 31/12/09), the votes will be totalled and a winner will be decided. In case of a tie-break, races will be put against each other in one final vote

There were many great races across all 3 divisions, but my vote goes to the 2007 Daytona 500 for one of the most heart-stopping final parts of the race I've seen

Now it's your turn...

 

[Brak61]

Kurt Busch/Ricky Craven at Darlington in (I think) 2003. THE closest finish in NASCAR history and an awesome last few laps.

 

[dalejrgamer]

2000 Winston 500 - URNHARDT!!!
2001 Talladega 500 - No cautions with spectacular racing AND Bobby Hamilton winning?
2001 EA Sports 500 - JOOOOONYEEEEEEERRRRRR!!!
2003 Carolina Dodge Dealers 400 - Closest finish in NASCAR history...hell yes
2007 Daytona 500 - UP-SIDE DOWN AND ON FIER!!!

 

[Scar7752]

Its either the 03 Darlington race with Craven (what happened to that guy, anyway?) and Busch or the 07 Daytona 500

 

[Michael James]

2005 Golden Corral at Atlanta
2007 Daytona 500
2007 Autism Speaks 400 at Dover

 

[dalejrgamer]

Its either the 03 Darlington race with Craven (what happened to that guy, anyway?) and Busch or the 07 Daytona 500

He's now a writer for Yahoo! Sports.

 

[David Brown]

03 Darlington w/ Craven and Busch or 01 Atlanta w/ Harvick and Gordon get my votes. oh, and 01 Daytona Pepsi 400 w/ Jr. and Waltrip getting 1-2

 

[Darrell Pace]

Craven/Busch at Darlington! I was there and a close second would be Harvick/Gordon at Atlanta!

 

[TheJ]

2001 daytona 500. other than the last lap, it has to be considered one of the best races ever

 

[JRRacing64]

To me the two best races of this decade was the 2003 and 2007 Truck races at Daytona 3 wide for the win! can't beat that, lol
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaLzZlQ2ReE"]YouTube- 2003 Florida Dodge Dealers 250 Photo Finish *Live*[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4nyCJwEW2E"]YouTube- 2007 Daytona Chevy Silverado HD 250[/ame]


Also the 2004 July Nationwide race at Daytona when Mike Wallace snuck by for the win and the 2003 BGN race at Darlington when Jamie Mac and Todd Bodine wrecked coming off of turn 4 and cross the finish line crashing.

Couldn't find video of those two.

 

[dalejrgamer]

daytona pepsi 400 w/ jr. And waltrip getting 1-2

that race is rigged! Nascar fixed it!

lol can't do all caps anymore

 

[DannyM]

*Busch and Craven at Darlington-2003- Cup
*Edwards and Johnson at Atlanta-2005- Cup
*Kenseth, Edwards, and Biffle at Dover-2008- Cup
*Darnell and Benson at Michigan-2008- Trucks
*Martin, Burton, and Kenseth at Darlington-2000- Busch

There's many others, but I just can't think of them.

 

[HerPengu]

that race is rigged! Nascar fixed it!

lol can't do all caps anymore

the only problem with a race being "rigged" is the fact that anything can go wrong during a 400 mile race so there is absolutely no way anyone can rig a race

I seriously hope you were being sarcastic anyone who works on cars can easily tell you anything can go wrong at any second.

A number of factors could have happen
-he could have gotten ill before the race
- he did just narrowly miss crashing in that race cant script how those cars move when they wreck
-could have blown an engine

as for my race of the decade is Jrs 500 win that was a close to an old fashion daytona race as you could have gotten when 4 cars broke away to settle the victory.

I closely follow that by the Win from Harvick in the 500 and Stewart's Victory at Indy

 

[wslates]

'01- Gordon vs. Harvick (Alanta)
'03-Craven vs. Busch (Darlington)
'06-Gordon vs. Kenseth (Chicago)
'07-Harvick vs. Martin (I wish Mark won)(Daytona)
'07-Mcmurray vs. Busch (Daytona)

My all time favorite:

'01- Jr. and Waltrip 1-2 in the 400

 

[DBReaver35]

07 Daytona 500
01 atlanta
01 Rockingham not because of close battle but for all the emotions running that week leading to Park winning for DEI
03 Darlington come on besides the 07 Daytona I will never forget those 2 beating eachother up to the line

 

[HerPengu]

07 Daytona 500
01 atlanta
01 Rockingham not because of close battle but for all the emotions running that week leading to Park winning for DEI
03 Darlington come on besides the 07 Daytona I will never forget those 2 beating eachother up to the line

I can't believe i forgot the 01 atlanta race or the 03 darlington

01 second Dover race cause of the emotions running through the nation at the time
01 Dega 2 cause I mean one heck of an ending decided on which way burton went after the big one
Gordon and Rusty at Bristol lol who could ever forget that ending.
07 Phoenix Spring race Gordon finally winning there and his tribute to Dale
though I hate the guy the 08 spring Daytona nationwide Race buschs move to block for Tony, Which i thought it was dumb in one aspect it was exciting to watch someone just give for his teammate I hate Kyle but that was one of his best moves by far.
07 400 at daytona with Jamie just beating out Busch that was nail bitting and had the whole bar rockin

 

[JeffJordan]

Kurt Busch/Ricky Craven at Darlington in (I think) 2003. THE closest finish in NASCAR history and an awesome last few laps.

Actually, the closest was a truck race in 1995.

2000 Winston 500
2001 Atlanta (Spring)
2002 UAW-GM Quality 500

I'll think of more later...

 

[dalejrgamer]

Actually, the closest was a truck race in 1995.

To be fair, that's before the electronic timing system got into full swing in the Trucks.

 

[JeffJordan]

Electronic scoring was in the trucks since it's conception.

 

[David24]

01 second Dover race cause of the emotions running through the nation at the time

Why in the world would that be the "best race of the decade"?