|| *Comments on the 1987 Second 7-Eleven Twin 125:* View the most recent comment <#7> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. Anonymous posted: 01.22.2009 - 10:50 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Benny Parsons final win in a NASCAR race. 2. Matthew Lewis posted: 03.01.2009 - 6:10 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) #51 should be listed as "MOUND" Steel (with an "N") 3. RaceFanX posted: 11.14.2013 - 7:02 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) A blown engine keeps Donnie Allison out of the race he once came so close to winning eight years earlier. 4. Rob McKeever posted: 02.22.2016 - 8:32 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Benny Parsons led 23 laps - taking the lead for good on lap 42. (Spartanburg Herald-Journal, 2-13-1987, Pages D1 & D4 https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Bj0sAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mM4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=7164%2C5177311 Also - Schrader led from pit stops during the lap 18 caution (Ellis, Foyt, Sauter, Sacks) to the end in the other Twin 125 per same article. 5. zuel660 posted: 12.15.2018 - 2:10 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Though not a points race, the only Cup win for a car #35 through the end of 2018. 6. NewGuyOnTheBlock posted: 08.06.2020 - 12:39 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) CBS broadcast this race. Ken Squier, Ned Jarrett, and David Hobbs were in the booth with Dave Despain and Chris Economaki in the pits. 7. NewGuyOnTheBlock posted: 08.06.2020 - 2:53 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) Benny Parsons scored the final win of his NASCAR career, and his only win driving for Hendrick Motorsports. Similar to the first Twin 125, Parsons dominated the race, taking the lead during an early round of pitstops and never looking back. Bobby Allison finished a strong second after a great duel with son Davey in the opening laps. Defending Daytona 500 winner Geoff Bodine locked himself into a top-10 starting spot with a great third-place finish. Sterling Marlin finally got the chance to prove himself as he joined Hagan Racing for 1987, replacing Terry Labonte. Marlin would show great speed in his duel race, finishing in fourth. Harry Gant clawed his way to a fifth-place finish, one of the lone bright spots of his abysmal 1987 season. Rookie Davey Allison dueled with father Bobby in the opening stages for the lead before he spun midway through the race. Allison recovered to finish sixth. Terry Labonte ran up front all race, finishing where he started in seventh. Dave Marcis left the Helen Rae team after 1986 to field his own cars for 1987. With new sponsor Lifebuoy onboard, Marcis placed himself into the field for the 500 with an eighth-place finish. Michael Waltrip and Bahari Racing lost Hawaiian Punch as a primary sponsor after 1986 ended. With no major sponsorship, the team signed a one-race deal with Oxford Plains Speedway to sponsor them for the 500. Waltrip placed ninth in his duel. Kyle Petty and the Wood Brothers had a new look to their car for 1987, as the famous #21 was back after a two-year absence. Petty qualified 3rd for his duel, eventually finishing tenth. Cale Yarborough struggled to find speed throughout the afternoon, eventually coming home eleventh. Ken Ragan had ended his partnership with James Hylton during the offseason and returned to driving his own cars for 1987. Ragan successfully qualified for the 500 with a twelfth-place finish. After having his rookie season end with a shattered knee at Charlotte, Chet Fillip returned to NASCAR competition as an owner-driver. Fillip managed to transfer into the 500 thanks to a thirteenth-place finish. Trevor Boys joined D.K. Ulrich to drive the #6 Chevy for the 500. Although he was a lap down at the finish, Boys would still make the 500 as the last driver to transfer. Rookie Mark Stahl would have to fall back on his time trial speed to make the 500, as he finished just outside the transfer spot in fifteenth, 1 lap off the pace. Rodney Combs joined DiGard to attempt the full season as a rookie for 1987, though everyone was well aware that the team was not going to be able to run the full season. Combs missed the transfer spot for the 500 by finishing a lap down in sixteenth, but he would make the field on qualifying speed. Another driver who had to make the 500 on speed, Eddie Bierschwale finished a lap down in seventeenth in his first outing with Buddy Arrington's team. David Sosebee would be in the field for his first 500, making it on speed after he finished a lap down in eighteenth during the duel. ARCA regular David Simko just missed the field for the 500, as he placed nineteenth, a lap off the pace. Ralph Jones had high hopes entering his duel, as he had won the ARCA race a week earlier and was confident he could make the 500 field. Unfortunately, it turns out that running the same car that he had run in the ARCA event was a bad idea. Jones was hopelessly slow, finishing 2 laps down in twentieth and missing the field. Blackie Wangerin's chances of making the 500 ended in a shower of sparks when he spun and hit the wall on the final lap. Wangerin would limp around to finish twenty-first, 2 laps down. Plagued by mechanical gremlins, Morgan Shepherd dropped all the way down to twenty-second, 2 laps down at the finish. The veteran would still make the 500 on speed, though he would start way in the back. Rookie Steve Christman would miss the field for the 500 as he was brutally slow, finishing 4 laps down in twenty-third. Delma Cowart strangely ran a car not number #0, which was his usual number during his career. Cowart would miss the field for the 500 after a mechanical problem knocked him 9 laps down at the finish. He placed twenty-fourth. World of Outlaws regular Jeff Swindell made his lone attempt at the 500, missing the field after he finished his duel in twenty-fifth, 10 laps down. Alan Kulwicki had already clinched a spot in the 500 thanks to his time trial speed, though he would have to drop to the back of the field after his engine expired on lap 30. Ed Pimm crossed over from the IndyCar ranks to attempt his first 500. Driving for Mike Curb's team, Pimm made it 22 laps before his engine expired. He would miss the field. Rusty Wallace was lucky his qualifying speed had been so high, as he dropped out of his duel with a blown transmission after 20 laps, forcing him to start the 500 from the back. Ronnie Thomas made his final attempt at the 500, though he would miss the field after an engine failure on lap 10. Donnie Allison had a solid chance of making the field for the 500, but the young Allison brother would fail to qualify when his Henley Gray-prepared Chevy blew its motor on lap 6. Dick McCabe, a star in the former NASCAR North Tour, made his lone Winston Cup attempt in this race. McCabe laster just 2 laps before his engine expired. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: