|| *Comments on the 1997 Dura Lube 200 Presented by Trak Auto:* View the most recent comment <#12> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. Dave posted: 01.05.2005 - 3:43 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was the first event contested at Darlington after the start/finish line swapped from the frontstretch to the backstretch. 2. Jacob posted: 12.02.2006 - 6:48 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Johnny Chapman got major air in this race. 3. Dodge posted: 10.11.2007 - 3:28 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) What is the deal with Keller. On the bottom of the result page it said an illegal driver change was made. Anyone knows anymore? 4. stricklinfan82 posted: 05.11.2008 - 7:05 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The facts of the Jason Keller situation are that for some reason the #57 car didn't start the race with the rest of the field. When they finally had the car ready to join the race several laps in, Jeff Fuller (who had already fallen out of the race) started the car. Since Fuller could not get driver's points twice for starting both cars, no one received driver's points for the 57 car (but the team did receive owner's points). I vaguely remember watching this race 11 years ago and I seem to recall Keller crashing the 57 car into the pit wall for some reason during the pace laps. Hopefully someone with a tape of the race or a better memory than me can clarify the last part, but I do know as a fact that they didn't receive driver's points because Fuller started the 57 car after he had already started the 45 car. 5. Goernie28 posted: 10.02.2011 - 6:52 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I'm watching that race now. Keller stopped on the pace lap because he thought he had a tire going down. As he was leaving the pits, something in the steering broke and he hit the outside pit wall. 6. 44andJoe posted: 01.03.2013 - 12:47 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) #57 money: $0 7. Alex posted: 02.12.2014 - 6:40 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jim Bown had a great run going in his unsponsored #51 before he broke an axle. 8. sam posted: 10.31.2017 - 7:32 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) What i remember about this race is that during a caution, they announced that Princess Diana had been seriously injured in a car crash 9. Corey posted: 10.31.2017 - 11:39 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) @8 I don't remember it myself, but I see it possibly happening. It would be another 6 years before Darlington received its lights, so the race itself was run in the afternoon. I don't know the exact times in the afternoon. Diana's crash happened at 12:23a.m. Paris France, or 7:23p.m. Darlington, SC time. Although given communications at the time, I'm sure there was some sort of delay between the accident and when word was received. There should have been enough daylight for the race to still be running. The other possibility is that they announced it during post-race coverage? 10. RaceFanX posted: 10.31.2017 - 12:55 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) It's possible ESPN aired this race on tape delay. They did the Darlington races back then and IIRC for at least one of them they aired the race on ESPN2 then reaired it on ESPN later, retaining those edgy everything lower case "espn2" graphics "the Deuce" used at the time. 11. RaceFanX posted: 10.31.2017 - 12:59 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jeff Burton kicks off a good weekend at Darlington, scoring his second Busch series win of the year. Burton also ran well in the Southern 500 the following day and came up just one stop short of a weekend sweep, losing to Jeff Gordon in a door-banging finish where Gordon won the Winston Million. 12. Rich posted: 09.18.2020 - 6:17 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Dr. Jerry Punch, Ned Jarrett and Benny Parsons were the commentators. John Kernan, Bill Weber and Kyle Petty were the pit road reporters. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: