|| *Comments on the 1996 BellSouth / Opryland USA 320:* View the most recent comment <#20> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. RaceFanX posted: 12.04.2007 - 6:38 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) It was fun to see Bobby Labonte duel in the last laps with David Green, his former driver in the #44 the previous year. This was the last time Darryl Sage tried to qualify for a Busch race but he crashed during qualifing and DNQed. 2. adamal82 posted: 01.15.2008 - 8:03 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sterling Marlin's only pole in the Busch Series 3. Matt posted: 11.19.2008 - 11:45 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sterling Marlin's car owner in this race was Fred Turner. 4. Unser1 posted: 04.12.2010 - 3:40 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Bobby Labonte's only Busch win of 1996 5. RaceFanX posted: 11.03.2011 - 1:25 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Marlin won the pole and ran this race in an older 1995 Pontiac Grand Prix, the Grand Prix had been updated for 1996 and the other teams including Chad Little, Tracy Leslie and Rodney Combs used the newer body style. 6. Unser1 posted: 11.03.2011 - 1:35 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Mark Green triggered an early pile up when he got the turn 2 wall after cutting a tire. Jerry Nadeau (said by the announcers as "Nay-dough" as opposed to the normal "Nay-do") then clipped him and spun where before being t-boned by Mark's brother Jeff Green. Jeff's black Goodwrench #3 had a small fire after the collision but all drivers were unhurt although eliminated from the race. Mike Dillon also spun and got the inside wall in the accident but the damage wasn't terminal. 7. 10andJoe posted: 03.03.2012 - 8:43 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) #59 owner: Lee Smith 8. 10andJoe posted: 06.23.2012 - 3:28 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) 10 cars failed to qualify. I can't find a list of exactly which ones, though, just that 50 cars ran time trials... 9. 44andJoe posted: 12.27.2012 - 10:46 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) #4 sponsor: David Lee Murphy #22 sponsor: WSA Security Pro/McDowell Enterprises 10. Anonymous posted: 05.05.2013 - 9:09 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I believe this is the race where Mike Wallace was all angry at David Green when he was interviewed after wrecking his car. He said something like David Green is sponsored by a bulldozer company so he drives the car like one. I can't remember the exact quote. However Buddy Baker didn't seem to buy Mike Wallace's story. He defended David Green by saying that he is a very clean driver. 11. Anonymous posted: 03.17.2014 - 1:35 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Bobby led the laps, not Terry. 12. RaceFanX posted: 09.03.2016 - 5:48 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was Shell's first win as a NASCAR sponsor. Two decades later Shell brought back the paint job from Bobby Labonte's winning black, yellow, and white #44 as a throwback look for Joey Logano's Sprint Cup #22 car at the 2016 Southern 500. Labonte won three races in the Shell car but this would be the only one where the #44 was Chevy Monte Carlo, his other two wins came after he switched to Pontiac Grand Prixs in 1997. Bobby won only two Busch races in a Monte Carlo and his next win in the car wouldn't come for 11 years. 13. Will posted: 01.11.2017 - 7:15 pm Rate this comment: (1) (1) Kenny Wallace had the dominant car. Unfortunately engine gremlins cost him. 14. RaceFanX posted: 04.28.2017 - 7:20 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Todd Bodine had his unsponsored #81 right up in the lead of this one late but ran over a plastic bumper cover, likely from Randy LaJoie's car, that had brought out a justifiable caution for debris. The cover may have cut a tire because just after the restart Bodine's right rear blew out causing him to crash out of both the lead and the race. The wreck handed the lead to Bobby Labonte who never relinquished it again on his way to victory. Nashville was repaved for the first time in 23 years in the lead up to this race weekend. With Winston Cup off for the weekend allowing several of its racers to pop by the Busch series' St. Patrick's Day special here was the main event with a NASCAR All-Pro race the day before (won by Mike Garvey) as its undercard. 15. RaceFanX posted: 10.05.2017 - 9:12 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was the last year this race had a title sponsorship from Nashville's then-famous Opryland USA amusement park although a more general Opryland sponsorship remained through 1998. Opryland USA closed suddenly at the end of its 1997 season. 16. Aaron posted: 06.06.2018 - 2:31 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Curtis Markham matches his best series finish of 5th, leading 30 laps in the process. 17. SweetRich posted: 02.15.2020 - 6:57 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The Commentators For The Race Were Mike Joy And Buddy Baker. The Pit Road Reporter Was Randy Pemberton. 18. Menardfan15 posted: 03.15.2020 - 6:40 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Was this the race Tom Wopat AKA Luke Duke from Dukes Of Hazzard at this race promoting Prime Time Country on TNN? 19. saltsburgtrojanfan posted: 05.14.2020 - 1:47 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Caution 1: Lap 22-30: #3,37,59,72 accident backstretch Caution 2: Lap 34-36: #47 accident frontstretch Caution 3: Lap 55-60: #4,74 accident turn 1 Caution 4: Lap 68-74: #96 accident backstretch Caution 5: Lap 81-85: #64 spun turn 4 Caution 6: Lap 101-104: #10,40 spun turn 4 Caution 7: Lap 125-129: #48,95 accident frontstretch Caution 8: Lap 139-148: #25 accident turn 2 Caution 9: Lap 176-180: #4 accident turn 3 Caution 10: Lap 188-193: #90 accident turn 3 Caution 11: Lap 228-232: #34 spun frontstretch Caution 12: Lap 236-240: #34 accident turn 1 Caution 13: Lap 269-274: #48,92 accident turn 1 Caution 14: Lap 281-284: debris turn 2 Caution 15: Lap 288-290: debris Caution 16: Lap 293-296: #81 accident turn 4 Caution 17: Lap 303-309: #74 accident turn 2 20. Anonymous posted: 05.16.2020 - 8:00 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) this race had 17 yellows. in terms of this series you would not see an amount that high until 2006 at Martinsville in their most recent race there until this year 19 that day, I also see that no NASCAR race at the time since 1994 at Loudon. it was the 2nd most in this series in terms of yellows for the 1990's. There was only 4 races between Summer 94 to 2003 in NASCAR in the national series that had 17 or more yellow flags. All but one were at Bristol. The last NASCAR race that 17 or more yellows in the National Series was 2015 Southern 500 guess where Darlington where NASCAR is back. The last NASCAR race with over 15 Richmond 2016 in case you didn't know in terms of all of NASCAR's National Series. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: