#48-Jimmie Johnson won the Sylvania 300 at New Hampshire. It is Johnson’s third win of 2003 and 6th of his career. Johnson is the first driver to sweep both season races at New Hampshire. #21-Ricky Rudd finished 2nd, his 2nd top five in a row. #25-Joe Nemechek ended up third, followed by #9-Elliott and #8-Earnhardt Jr., who was running down a cylinder. Points leader, #17-Matt Kenseth finished 7th, and lost a few points to Dale Jr., but still leads the points standings by 404 points with 9 races to go. A scary moment early in the race while coming in to pit during the 1st caution, #24-Gordon mis-calculated and hit #15-Waltrip while they were going to their pit stalls, Waltrip had to go around #48-Johnson, Gordon, who is pitting right in front of Waltrip didn’t realize that and tried to go inside Waltrip, hitting two of Johnson’s pit crew members. TNT is reporting both are ok but one crew member Cory Quick went to the infield care center, has a bruised shin. Gordon had to wait for the rest of the cars to come in, back up and proceed to his pit. Waltrip’s crew was able to fully complete their stop and go on. The crew was back to full strength for the next stop. See my Sylvania 300 Race Info page for my race run down, includes top 10, cautions and narrative, notes, cars off track. Race Re-air: NOTE: Speed Channel changed their lineup starting in August – so there is now a one-hour recap [called Fast Forward] of the race, scheduled this week for: Wednesday, September 17th at 7:00pm/et and again on September 18th at 1:00am/et; a full three-hour race show will re-air at 12:00pm/et on Thursday, September 18th. Race Results at JAYSKI’s New Hamsphire/Sylvania 300 Race Results and see full standings at JAYSKI’s Driver/Owners Points after New Hamsphire .(9-14-2003)
