|| *Comments on the 1995 Hoosier General Tire 500k:* View the most recent comment <#32> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. Dodge posted: 02.20.2013 - 6:03 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The only thing I remember about this race is the freightening wreck Jimmy Horton had. That was a gnarly wreck that hurt him bad. 2. FHgrad99 posted: 02.20.2013 - 7:23 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I remember that wreck too. It was wreck off of turn 2 and his car flipped over and another car hit the bottom of his car. 3. Jeff Wagoner posted: 02.21.2013 - 1:04 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Cautions: 19-23 38-47 (#3,#12,#52,#62 crash, Turn 2) 63-67 73-76 84-87 111-117 121-125 132-135 172-175 186-195 200-202 I'll have to watch my copy of the race again to get the reasons for each caution. 4. Jeff Wagoner posted: 02.21.2013 - 1:05 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Did Not Qualify: Rick Sheppard, Rick Heuser, Doug Reid III, Brad Smith, Phil Massuch, David "Frog" Hall, Billy Venturini 5. 83andJoe posted: 02.21.2013 - 3:15 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) DNQ numbers: #70 Rick Sheppard, #99 Rick Heuser, #05 Doug Reid III, #06 Brad Smith, #01 Phil Massuch, #61 Frog Hall. Billy Venturini was not listed in the DNQs on the ESPN broadcast. To the rear: #50 Jerry Hill (pitted before green) 6. Jeff Wagoner posted: 02.21.2013 - 5:41 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) I got my DNQs from an ARCA magazine called SuperCars Today. Venturini may have withdrawn before qualifying, I'm not sure. I have the lineup for the race if there's interest. 7. Anonymous posted: 02.27.2013 - 12:14 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Horton suffered a basilar skill fracture in that crash, which is the same injury that killed Dale Earnhardt. 8. RaceFanX posted: 02.27.2013 - 7:12 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The multi-car crash that put Horton upside down was triggered when the lapped car of Curt Dickie spun in turn 2. This set off a chain reaction in which first Loy Allen Jr. spun then a trio of cars including Horton piled in. Horton's #52 AC-Delco Chevrolet clipped the front of Dickie's demolished car with enough force he rolled on his lid and keep sliding down the race track. Eventually the #52 rolled back on all fours but with enough momentum to go back up on two wheels. Before it could come back down Ed Dixon in the #12 Chevrolet, driving this race with a broken arm in a custom cast after a sprint car wreck, crashed into the underside of Horton's car destroying it and causing the injuries. In a sad twist of fate Horton was originally to pull double-duty on this weekend and had already qualifed a one-off Rick Hendrick #58 Chevrolet for the next day's Cup race. The car, basically a backup effort that went out of its way to finish behind Jeff Gordon to help increase his title chances, ended up being run by Jeff Purvis. The wreck was the basically the end of Horton's pavement racing career, he never ran in a higher-level stock car again in ARCA or NASCAR...but he did keep racing back on the lower dirt-track levels and even got to attempt an unsuccessful Winston Cup comeback at Pocono in 1998 (he DNQed in the infamous Tabasco #35). Outside polesitter Allen was not eliminated in the crash but his #1 eventually went out with mechanical woes. He had already moved up to running in Cup at the time and this was his final ARCA start. 9. 83andJoe posted: 06.16.2013 - 2:02 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) #80 owner: Stan Hover 10. 83andJoe posted: 07.08.2013 - 6:14 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) #9 owner: Joe Bessey. 11. Jeff posted: 01.09.2014 - 12:09 am Rate this comment: (4) (0) Just watched this race on YouTube for a refresher of the old days. I miss the '90s! The DNFs and lost laps don't tell the whole story... - There was supposed to be a competition caution at lap 25-30, but when the yellow flew on lap 19, teams pitted anyway. Bob Hill and the Clement team stayed on the track because they thought that teams were only allowed to check tires, and not to change them; most teams pitted and changed tires. - The wreck with Jimmy Horton was always memorable for me because the car that ran under him was Ed Dixon's #12. Horton was in a #52 AC-Delco-sponsored Monte Carlo for Ken Schrader; Dixon's car, purchased from Kenny Schrader (per the TV crew), bore the same AC-Delco colors on a Lumina. - Loy Allen was in a Chevy Monte Carlo (not a Pontiac) prepared by James Finch. - Mike Wallace had a strong car until a bad radiator cap resulted in eventual overheating problems and apparently a blown head gasket to wrap up the day. Wallace would still clinch the Superspeedway Challenge honors for the season. - Mark Thompson fought back from damage in an early wreck to run in the top five. Not long after halfway, Mike Skinner got under Mark's missing rear bumper in turn four, loosening the #66 Ford and sending the former fighter pilot into a spin that would end his day. - Kevin Ray actually started his #2 on Doug Reid's former Yates Ford, handing the wheel over to Reid on an early caution. Reid ran just back from the lead lap until a spin ended his day on lap 128. - Shane Doles pitted with a burned (or burning) wheel bearing while running eighth on the lead lap. - Richard Brickhouse, the 56-year-old veteran who had won the first-ever Talladega Cup race in the late '60s, was running in the top ten at one point (though many laps down), and was somewhere just outside the top ten when he wrecked on lap 186. - Frank Kimmel never threatened for the lead, but the future champion was running close to the top ten around halfway. He dropped off the pace dramatically somewhere around lap 120, when he went from a lap behind to several laps down. It was a far cry from the Kimmel we know today. - Jerry Hill was in the pits before the race began, with his crew apparently topping oil off (or taking oil out, Benny wasn't sure). He would end the day in twelfth. - Bobby Bowsher was in contention for the championship, but he never had a prayer of racing for it. Bowsher was in danger of losing a lap when the early yellow flags flew, and he was slow all day, making a couple pit stops under green for adjustments. He would end the race nine laps off the pace, finishing 11th. - Blaise Alexander had a top-five run in hand at the end of the race. On their last scheduled pit stop of the day, the tire changer dropped the air gun at the right front of the car on the way around after the pit stop. Blaise ran over the gun and dragged it, an air hose, the pit board and a jack out of the pit stall. Alexander was black-flagged as they brought out a caution to clean up the errant equipment, and a couple crew members were injured (presumably when the air hose came free from its air tank over the wall). He lost six laps in the ensuing pit stops, but still managed a top-ten finish. - Mark Stahl, running a 1993 nose on his T-Bird, took a seventh-place run after losing a few laps on a late green-flag pit stop. - Mike Skinner, running a black-and-silver #31 Monte Carlo, had the best car on the track all day. He went a lap down when green-flag pit stops were interrupted by Alexander's error, but got that lap back coming to the caution for Richard Brickhouse's wreck. Skinner restarted fourth with under ten laps to go, and as he charged toward second place, he closed in quickly on the #46 of Bob Hill. Skinner may have tagged Hill, or Hill might have just lost the air off turn two, but the #46 went around and ARCA officials black-flagged Skinner for the contact. With no chance to win, RCR parked the #31 for the rest of the day. - Andy Hillenburg was the title leader coming into the day, and played conservative all day, running in or around the top ten but never flirting with the lead. He led a single lap under caution, finally losing a lap under the long green-flag run toward the end of the race. With ten laps to go, Hillenburg clinched the title as there was no way Bowsher (who never led a lap) could finish ahead of him. - Dave Blaney came back from a spin to finish third in his first ARCA start in the Stan Hover-owned #80 Vivarin car (I think Vivarin was sponsoring Blaney's WoO efforts at the time). - Joe Bessey improved on the previous year's third-place finish with a second-place run in his #9 Monte Carlo, despite some late damage from the Bob Hill spin. - Tim Steele endured a frustrating 1995 season; he missed some races (supposedly due to lingering knee troubles and kidney stones), and struggled in the summer with his short-track program with a new Chevrolet Monte Carlo. He closed the season out with his familiar Fords, though, winning the last three races of the season in anticipation of a 1996 title run. Some of the reasons for the cautions: Lap 121-125 - #66,31 accident, turn 4 Lap 132-135 - #2 accident Lap 172-175 - debris (pit equipment from #26) on track, turn one and two Lap 186-195 - #03 accident, turn 2 Lap 200-202 - #46, 31, 9 accident, turn 2 (#31 spun #46) 12. RaceFanX posted: 01.14.2014 - 7:32 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor Spelling Change: #80 Dave Blaney- Vivarin / Tagament (Jeff's right, Vivarin caffeine pills were Blaney's World of Outlaws sponsor at the time) Blaney caps his 1995 season, which saw him win the World of Outlaws title, by coming to Atlanta for his only ARCA start of the year and finishing in the top-5. 13. RaceFanX posted: 02.03.2014 - 6:54 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Rick Ware, best known as a NASCAR team owner, makes his only ARCA start and finishes in the top-10. 14. Schroeder51 posted: 05.01.2014 - 9:57 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Filling in the rest of the cautions... 1: #33 Harris DeVane, #85 Bobby Gerhart accident, turn 2 (They ran through the oil from Phillip Young's engine) 3. #19 Stanton Barrett, oil on track 4. #80 Dave Blaney spin, turn 3 5. Debris, frontstretch 6. #18 Howard Rose accident, turn 2 15. Schroeder51 posted: 05.01.2014 - 10:02 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Also, for the eighth caution, the #2 car crashed in turn 1. 16. 23andJoe posted: 06.04.2014 - 8:26 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) #52 crew chief: Tim Kohuth 17. 23andJoe posted: 06.08.2014 - 4:30 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) #31 status: Parked #1 was a Chevrolet #01 sponsor: Motorkote Chevrolet #05 sponsor: Long-Lewis Ford #06 sponsor: Nealco Pontiac #25 make: Chevrolet #61 sponsor: Frog's Import Salvage #70 sponsor: Sheppard Motor Sales Chevrolet #99 sponsor: Quic Shine 99 Chevrolet #01 owner: John Assiff #03 owner: Dick Skillen #05 owner: Eugene Reid #06 owner: Wayne Peterson #1 owner: James Finch #12 owner: Ken Schrader #25 owner: Bill Venturini #31 owner: Richard Childress #38 owner: L.W. Miller, Sr. #61 owner: Greta Hall #70 owner: Dick Sheppard #80 owner: Stan Hover #84 owner: Norm Benning #99 owner: Rick Heuser Winnings: Steele, $16,100 Bessey, $8,500 D.Blaney, $6,000 B.Hill, $4,200 Hillenburg, $4,475 Skinner, $3,600 Stahl, $2,900 B.Alexander, $2,900 Ware, $2,700 B.Schacht, $2,975 B.Bowsher, $2,150 J.Hill, $2,500 Dodds, $2,300 Kimmel, $2,600 Weinbroer, $2,100 D.Cowart, $2,000 Whittymore, $1,800 Brickhouse, $1,750 Doles, $1,700 K.Ray, $1,650 M.Thompson, $1,600 M.Wallace, $1,550 Rose, $1,500 Benning, $1,450 Mayfield, $1,400 Bobby Gerhart, $1,350 LW.Miller, $1,300 L.Allen Jr, $1,250 B.Thomas, $1,300 DeVane, $1,150 Barrett, $1,100 Neal, $1,100 Horton, $1,050 K.Allen, $1,200 Dixon, $1,380 Dickie, $960 G.Brewer, $1,340 Tripp, $1,120 G.Miller, $900 Young, $800 Bradberry, $1,150 M.Gibson, $1,100 18. RaceFanX posted: 12.17.2017 - 10:59 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Pennsylvania racer Norm Benning makes his ARCA debut. After he spent the early 1990s attempting NASCAR Winston Cup races, and failing to qualify almost all the time, Benning moved down to ARCA and change paid off as he became a modestly successful staple in the series through the mid-2000s. 19. Timothy Eklund posted: 05.25.2018 - 3:26 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Any mention of Richard Brickhouse? 20. Gray Gaulding's Distant Cousin posted: 06.24.2018 - 9:09 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Owners #86 Cale Yarborough #98 Rick Ware 21. Gray Gaulding's Distant Cousin posted: 06.24.2018 - 9:14 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jerry Hill did not go to the back of the field Two drivers did, the #2 of Kevin Ray and the #84 of Norm Benning. Ray was in a backup car they got from Doug Reid and Norm stopped on track. 22. Gray Gaulding's Distant Cousin posted: 06.24.2018 - 9:37 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Caution 2 should be 1,3,12,52,62,66,80 Accident turn 2 23. Gray Gaulding's Distant Cousin posted: 06.24.2018 - 11:04 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) SPONSOR Update #2 Kevin Ray L.A. West / Long-Lewis Ford #11 Andy Hillenberg Budget Banquet / First Bank Chevy #19 Stanton Barrett High Five / Operation Christmas Chevy Richard Brickhouse had sponsorship but I couldn't read it. 24. Gray Gaulding's Distant Cousin posted: 06.25.2018 - 12:26 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Found Brickhouse's sponsor #03 Richard Brickhouse Bill Ellis BBQ / Bill's Catering Chevy 25. BAV posted: 11.01.2019 - 2:25 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Rick Ware's only top 10 as a driver in a currently NASCAR sanctioned series 26. Mile501 posted: 11.01.2019 - 3:35 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @25 - It's interesting to think about Rick Ware's top 10 finish as an example of how racing has changed over the years. In this race, he finished 6 laps down but was in the 9th position. Nowadays, the cars he owns often finish around 6 laps down as well, but they're usually around the 30th position. In fact, as a timely example, 2 of Rick Ware's cars (#51 and #53) finished 6 laps down at Martinsville, but they were 28th and 29th. The #51 finished 6 laps down the week before at Kansas, but was 30th. 27. @26 posted: 11.01.2019 - 4:10 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Except this is an ARCA race, not Cup - hard to compare. 28. Mile501 posted: 11.01.2019 - 8:28 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @27 - We all know that Cup races used to have few cars finish on the lead lap as well. It is simply an interesting comparison to ponder. 29. rm posted: 04.12.2020 - 9:01 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Horton's wreck was scary, but Blaise Alexander taking the pit board and air hose with him was pretty terrifying itself. Sometimes it's easy to forget just how fast these cars are when they're slow. At just pit road speed, Alexander sent the pit board flying when he pulled away. The shot from the camera that was in his stall to cover the pit stop actually does it justice, I would have hated to be someone down in that pit that suddenly saw (or didn't see) the board flying towards them at frightening speed. Those boards are bigger and heavier than they look on TV and I really don't think it's an exaggeration to say that the sign & pole could have potentially killed someone down there when it took flight. 30. Rich posted: 09.11.2020 - 3:05 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Dr. Jerry Punch, Ned Jarrett and Benny Parsons were the commentators. John Kernan and Bill Weber were the pit road reporters. 31. RaceFanX posted: 03.20.2021 - 7:32 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The #46 Jim Dandy Chevrolet Bob Hill drove in this race was the same car Derrike Cope drove to victory in the 1990 Daytona 500. After this top-5 run, despite the late spin, Hill and the Clement team would opt to use the car again in the next race at Daytona the following February...where the car would be destroyed when Hill rolled over at the end of the event. 32. Ed posted: 04.24.2021 - 9:18 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) #7: where can you find proof that Horton suffered a basilar skull fracture in that crash? Everything I've seen says he was not seriously injured ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: