|| *Comments on the 1987 The Winston:* View the most recent comment <#28> | Post a comment <#post> 1. MegaRacer posted: 04.30.2007 - 11:00 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The (in)famous Pass In The Grass!! 2. 3fan4eva posted: 05.03.2007 - 8:42 am Rate this comment: (3) (0) One Of The Greatest Moments in the Legendary Career of The Intimidator. Also I that might be the maddest Bill Elliott ever was 3. Steve.M. posted: 05.07.2007 - 8:46 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) even though it was a block and not a pass 4. Matt posted: 05.13.2007 - 6:25 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Car numbers for this race #3 Dale Earnhardt #5 Geoff Bodine #8 Bobby Hillin Jr. #9 Bill Elliott #11 Terry Labonte #15 Ricky Rudd #17 Darrell Waltrip #21 Kyle Petty #22 Bobby Allison #25 Tim Richmond #26 Morgan Shepherd #27 Rusty Wallace #28 Davey Allison #29 Cale Yarborough #33 Harry Gant #35 Benny Parsons #43 Richard Petty #50 Greg Sacks #75 Neil Bonnett #88 Buddy Baker 5. biffle16 posted: 05.15.2007 - 2:33 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Bill Elliott led 121 laps, not Terry Labonte. I remember this because they lad a special on the 1987 The Winston, and Elliott led all but four laps of the first two segments, which, combined, were 125 laps. And 125-4=121. 6. Bill posted: 05.22.2007 - 7:41 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Tim Richmond's first race in his comeback 7. stricklinfan82 posted: 04.28.2008 - 10:21 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Eligibility Requirements for the 1987 All-Star Race: - 1986 Atlanta Invitational winner: 1.) Benny Parsons - all 1986 and 1987 race winning drivers: 2.) Geoff Bodine - 2/86 Daytona 3.) Kyle Petty - 2/86 Richmond 4.) Terry Labonte - 3/86 Rockingham 5.) Morgan Shepherd - 3/86 Atlanta 6.) Rusty Wallace - 4/86 Bristol 7.) Dale Earnhardt - 4/86 Darlington 8.) Ricky Rudd - 4/86 Martinsville 9.) Bobby Allison - 5/86 Talladega 10.) Darrell Waltrip - 6/86 Riverside 11.) Tim Richmond - 6/86 Pocono 12.) Bill Elliott - 6/86 Michigan 13.) Bobby Hillin - 7/86 Talladega 14.) Neil Bonnett - 10/86 Rockingham 15.) Davey Allison - 5/87 Talladega - Since the field did not meet the minimum requirement of 19 cars, they filled the field with the most recent winning drivers not already in the field: 16.) Cale Yarborough - 10/85 Charlotte 17.) Harry Gant - 9/85 North Wilkesboro 18.) Greg Sacks - 7/85 Daytona 19.) Richard Petty - 7/84 Daytona - 1987 Winston Open winner: 20.) Buddy Baker 8. Scott posted: 05.04.2008 - 7:15 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Earnhardt was so good that I had to go to the race, but because I had already been to 'Dega, I couldn't take more time off from work. What a race. I'm still amazed at how he corrected that car. 9. rustyfan posted: 05.09.2008 - 10:21 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Bill was as mad as an old wet hen.He clobbered Earnhardt after the race was over .Insane save by the Intimidator. 10. Clayton posted: 07.09.2008 - 10:44 pm Rate this comment: (2) (7) Earnhardt came down and blocked awesome Bill and nearly wrecked him. If that wasn't bad enough, He then came up about a lap later and came up the track to try and block him again and hit his tire. Bill's tire blew up and it cost him the race. Elliott had every right to be mad at Earnhardt. That is cheap dirty driving. 11. Ryan posted: 01.27.2009 - 2:56 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) Actually Clayton you are wrong, Bill hit Dale coming out of four. Had Bill been more patient he could have eventually got by Dale. Dale got mad when Bill hit him and then he let Bill get up along side him and that's when Dale flattened Bill's tire on purpose. I thought him being able to flatten Bill's tire was even more impressive than Dale saving his car when Bill hit him and he went into the grass. It was the All-Star Race and it was for the fans, and Dale put on a show for the fans. Glad I was there to witness it. 12. Roger posted: 05.19.2012 - 11:42 pm Rate this comment: (2) (7) Any one that couldn't see Earnhardt was the idiot in that mess is either stupid, uneducated, dumb, or an Earnhardt fan. Elliott by far had the dominate car that would have ran laps around what Earnhardt was driving. His over aggressiveness got him the lead in the last segment. All the contact was by Dale till after the race....he took out Bodine clear as day and blamed that on Bill then tried to blame everything else on Bill. Earnhardt a hell of a racer, not driver, racer but couldn't admit he was wrong to save his life. 13. Roger posted: 05.19.2012 - 11:44 pm Rate this comment: (1) (2) BTW Earnhardt did not intentionally flatten anyone's tire I don't care what you are anyone else wants to dream up.... 14. Anonymous Moonbat posted: 09.06.2013 - 3:42 am Rate this comment: (2) (0) The "Pass" in the grass, even though it's not a pass when you were ahead of the other guy before the move AND after! 15. wrank fakefield posted: 10.05.2013 - 10:22 pm Rate this comment: (4) (0) I was never a big Earnhardt fan, but when the sanctioning body advertises the race as "anything goes in the last 10 laps," you can't really gripe about some blocking. Everyone else should have taken that as seriously as Earnhardt if they wanted to win. 16. Anonymous posted: 01.11.2014 - 12:04 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Bill's face was as red as his hair after this one. 17. wrongwaywillie posted: 07.03.2014 - 11:23 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Dale Sr. will always be my favorite driver. But I do believe he cut down on Elliott coming off 2 and on the frontstrech. Bodine wrecked himself by coming down on Elliott, in my opinion. That being said, I'm glad Earnhardt won and everybody else lost. 18. saltsburgtrojanfan posted: 07.09.2015 - 11:36 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Green flag: Lap 1-65 Caution 1: Lap 66-71: #43,75 accident turn 3 Green flag: Lap 72-75 Caution 2: Lap 76: end segment 1 (caution laps do not count in segment endings) Green flag: Lap 76-125 Caution 3: Lap 126: end segment 2 (caution laps do not count in segment endings) Green flag: Lap 126 Caution 4: lap 127: #5 spun turn 3 (caution laps do not count in final segment) Green flag: lap 127-135 19. Ryan W posted: 09.25.2015 - 2:50 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) No Roger you're wrong, Earnhardt let Elliott pull up beside him and then cut Bill's tire. He was that good. Elliott had the most illegal car in NASCAR and didn't have the balls to race Dale hard. That's why he didn't win & that's why he was never in Earnhardt's league. If Dale was driving the 9 car, he would have won by 3/4 of a lap. Not saying he isn't a Hall of Fame racer, but he's no Dale Earnhardt. 20. James W. McLaughlin posted: 07.12.2016 - 1:21 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) "I was plum down on the apron!" -- Bill Elliott in his post-race interview with Dr. Jerry Punch 21. nascarman posted: 07.24.2016 - 11:40 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) As a present for winning this race, Richard Childress gave Dale Earnhardt a 1,200 pound black angus bull named "Mr. Winston Wrangler." 22. @Statscrash posted: 09.13.2018 - 7:52 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) If Bill wasn't the class act that he is, he should of turned Earnhardt when he made that move. 23. letmeby posted: 10.13.2018 - 2:03 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Anyone know why Kyle Petty and Rusty Wallace fought after the race? 24. Jimnsimforever posted: 11.30.2018 - 3:57 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Dale Earnhardt in his post race interview with Dr. Jerry Punch: "Well that was somethin else. You know bill spun that #5 car out and caused a big mess, and then he come up there and tried to spin me out twice. I didn't take it." Takes some time to thank his sponsers and pit crew. "You know Bill and them got into it and spun around and I just missed them, and then I'll be derned if Bill didn't try to knock me out twice. He had me sideways goin off of 2 over there, AND THEN TURNED ME THROUGH THE TRI-OVAL. And I just lifted him up high just to let him know I was mad, I mean, I didn't try to wreck him, run him in the wall or nothin. Then he tried to wreck me after the caution, I think he was a little upset." " Well I hate that happened, but the man hit me after we got the checkered flag, he hit me on the backstretch, I think that's a little beyond what we should've been doin." Bill Elliott in his post race interview with Dr. Jerry Punch: "But the thing of it is, Dale spun Geoff out down there, then he come back, and then whenever he got... I was clearly under him down in 1 and 2 and I'm plum down on the apron, he cut down on me, and he claimed I went up on him and I was plum down on the apron. You know, and he cut down on me, then we come down the front straightaway, and I was clearly under him right here, then he cut down on me there an nearly spun himself out, and then he let me on the outside of him down the back straightaway and run me right straight in the wall." Dr. Punch then tells Bill Dale said he was just trying to keep the lead (must've been off camera) and Bill says "Yeah, but the thing of it is, I was clearly under him and I had, I was goin home. I clearly had the quickest car. You know, he was tryin to cut me off every way he could." Punch asked if anyone could've run with him the way his car ran the first 2 segments, Bill said. "I don't think so. I had him covered, but you know, thats the thing about it, if we're gonna let stuff like that go we'll see what happens next week." Punch asked him how his tire got blown. Bill said, "Well thats when he nearly run me in the wall down there and started rubbin the fender and that's when it blew up." Punch tries to calm Elliott down and ask if it will really carry over into future races, Bill said "Well I don't know, you know it's time for this to stop. You know, the thing of it is, I have been not the aggressive driver all my life. You know, I try to give and take with the best of the things, but when a guy cuts you off that bad and that obvious, its time to to take the other cheek. You know, the thing of it is, you go out and you run as hard as you can all day long and then him tryin to cut you out from it, thats not the way I was brought up racin" Priceless. 25. Jacob posted: 05.11.2019 - 7:21 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Potentially scary post-script to this race. Not long afterwards, Bill France Jr. got a letter from a writer who had made a death threat towards Dale Earnhardt at races at Dover, Pocono (the next two tracks after NASCAR finished its trip to Charlotte with the Coca-Cola 600 the week after the Winston) or Watkins Glen; resulting in the FBI assigning Earnhardt security for each of those races, ultimately closing the case after Earnhardt ran all of those races at the tracks without incident. 26. saltsburgtrojanfan posted: 07.15.2020 - 5:36 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) LAP LEADERS Bill Elliott: Lap 1-55 Geoff Bodine: Lap 56-58 Kyle Petty: Lap 59 Bill Elliott: Lap 60-125 Dale Earnhardt: Lap 126-135 27. RaceFanX posted: 07.15.2020 - 5:39 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) When NASCAR was still planning to move the All-Star Race around year to year the original plan was to have this race be run at Rockingham. After the Atlanta race in 1986 failed the event moved back to Charlotte where it had been a success in 1985. The race remained at a May staple in Charlotte every year a week before the Coca-Cola 600 afterward until 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic saw it moved to Bristol in the middle of July as a one-off during the restructuring of the schedule. 28. Jimmie4life posted: 11.18.2020 - 12:18 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I've never understood why it was called a "Pass in the Grass", when if you ever even saw a replay of it, he never even passed him. It's a misnomer still perceived to this very day. Not saying the save wasn't anything to note, it was a good save, but it is a misnomer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: