|| *Comments on the 1991 The Winston:* View the most recent comment <#22> | Post a comment <#post> 1. Steve.M. posted: 05.07.2007 - 8:51 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) last time the Winston is run in the day and Allison gets his first of 2 2. stricklinfan82 posted: 04.28.2008 - 10:30 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Eligibility Requirements for the 1991 All-Star Race: - all active 1990 and 1991 race winning drivers: 1.) Derrike Cope - 2/90 Daytona 2.) Mark Martin - 2/90 Richmond 3.) Dale Earnhardt - 3/90 Atlanta 4.) Davey Allison - 4/90 Bristol 5.) Brett Bodine - 4/90 North Wilkesboro 6.) Rusty Wallace - 5/90 Charlotte 7.) Harry Gant - 6/90 Pocono 8.) Ricky Rudd - 8/90 Watkins Glen 9.) Ernie Irvan - 8/90 Bristol 10.) Bill Elliott - 9/90 Dover 11.) Alan Kulwicki - 10/90 Rockingham 12.) Morgan Shepherd - 11/90 Atlanta 13.) Ken Schrader - 3/91 Atlanta 14.) Darrell Waltrip - 4/91 North Wilkesboro - all active 1990 and 1991 race winning car owners: 15.) # 42 Pontiac - 3/90 Rockingham (Kenny Wallace driving for injured Kyle Petty) 16.) # 11 Ford - 4/90 Martinsville (Tommy Ellis driving for injured Geoff Bodine) 17.) # 27 Oldsmobile - 5/90 Charlotte (Dick Moroso point swap with Raymond Beadle for driver Bobby Hillin) - 1991 Winston Open results to fill out the 20 car field: 18.) Michael Waltrip - 1st place '91 Winston Open 19.) Sterling Marlin - 2nd place '91 Winston Open 20.) Hut Stricklin - 3rd place '91 Winston Open 3. jasondean59 posted: 06.22.2009 - 5:14 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Bobby Hillin was car #27 not the #20 4. RaceFanX posted: 11.14.2012 - 6:29 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Davey Allison dominates and leads flag-to-flag for the victory. The win was his first with Larry McReynolds as his crew chief. McReynolds said later his only real concern of the day was slowing Davey down when he needed to, they wanted to win but not 'stink up' Big Bill France's show and as they knew how he tended to react to things like that. Allison went on to win again, in the exact same car, during the Coca-Cola 600 the next week. 5. RaceFanX posted: 12.29.2012 - 3:50 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Car number correction: Bobby Hillin, Jr.- #27 The Moroso team had the #27 for this race only as they were using the Blue Max team's entry earned by Rusty Wallace Coke 600 win the year before. Despite that win and the 1989 title Blue Max closed after the 1990 season when Rusty and the Miller Genuine Draft sponsorship moved to Roger Penske's new team allowing the swap to the Moroso team. The race was Hillin's fifth-straight All-Star race but ended up being his last start in the Winston, he didn't win again and never advanced out of the Open. This was the only Winston start for both Kenny Wallace and Tommy Ellis. Wallace attempted the race many other times but never advanced out of the Open but mostly being a Busch series racer this was Ellis' only time at the All-Star race. This was also the second and last Winston start for Derrike Cope. Mostly this running of the Winston has been overshadowed by the one-off NASCAR Legends race held earlier in the day. Pace car driver Elmo Langley won that race with a last lap pass on Cale Yarborough. 6. RaceFanX posted: 05.18.2013 - 1:53 am Rate this comment: (0) (3) Lap Leader: Davey Allison 1-70 7. ii posted: 07.28.2014 - 11:10 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ken Schrader's third straight runner-up finish in The Winston. He'd finish in the Top-4 in this event each year from 1989-1994. 8. RaceFanX posted: 08.29.2014 - 10:05 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was only Kenny Wallace's third race in a Cup car (he made one start in 1990 and ran the Winston Open that same year). It was the first of three races he would run in place of the injured Kyle Petty. 9. Aframe43 posted: 12.17.2014 - 9:58 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) They also ran the #27 in the Daytona 500 as a second car. Sammy Swindell drove the #20 10. nascarman posted: 05.26.2015 - 1:16 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Qualifying Results: Pos. Driver Speed 1. Davey Allison 133.704 2. Harry Gant 133.512 3. Darrell Waltrip 132.512 4. Dale Earnhardt 132.813 5. Tommy Ellis 132.602 6. Ken Schrader 132.572 7. Bill Elliott 132.476 8. Morgan Shepherd 132.407 9. Derrike Cope 132.278 10. Rusty Wallace 131.905 11. Ricky Rudd 131.832 12. Alan Kulwicki 131.575 13. Mark Martin 131.440 14. Bobby Hillin 131.206 15. Brett Bodine 131.162 16. Ernie Irvan 130.028 17. Kenny Wallace DNF 11. saltsburgtrojanfan posted: 07.09.2015 - 10:18 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Green flag: Lap 1-50 Caution 1: Lap 51: end segment 1 (caution laps do not count in segment endings) Green flag: Lap 51-70 12. MAR posted: 09.25.2015 - 4:49 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I heard a lot about Jeff Gordon's T-Rex car in the winston in 97 but i had no idea Davey smashed the field like this in 91. 13. Unser1 posted: 01.09.2016 - 10:03 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ernie Irvan's first time in the All-Star Race's main event sees him score a top-5 finish. @5 (correcting myself) Kenny Wallace made two All-Star starts. This was his only one during the Winston era but he got the fan vote in 2007. 14. myself posted: 03.18.2016 - 3:34 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The most dominant performance in the history of The Winston. Cold that day. 15. RaceFanX posted: 04.09.2016 - 5:26 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This race was so dull, on top of the early all-star races being unsuccessful at gaining long-term fan interest, that Winston legitimately thought the all-star race had run its course and did not intend to bring the race back again in 1992...until Humpy Wheeler saved the event by telling Winston they could make history and turn it into a night race... 16. RaceFanX posted: 05.16.2016 - 1:37 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Bill Elliott accomplishes the rare feat of finishing fourth in the Winston for the fourth year in a row. Awesome Bill from Dawsonville won the All-Star race in 1986 when it was held at Atlanta but never finished better than, you guessed it, fourth in the Charlotte runnings. 17. Bramblegrunt posted: 08.28.2016 - 3:54 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The 2nd consecutive year that the winner of The Winston would lead flag to flag despite there being rule changes to try and mix it up. (Earnhardt dominated it the prior year). It appeared the event had stagnated, little did we know what awaited us in 1992... 18. James posted: 12.20.2017 - 1:11 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This race was boring..so have the all Star races the last few years 19. RaceFanX posted: 05.18.2018 - 8:53 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was Derrike Cope's second and final appearance in the All-Star race's main event. He never made it out of the qualifier after this. 20. Jimnsimforever posted: 01.11.2019 - 3:14 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) No wonder they thought it was going to die off after this year. Earnhardt dominated it the year before making it boring, Allison did the same this year. Worst of all, they didn't even force some time to stay on the air long enough for an interview in victory lane to show fans and maybe first time spectators what it meant to Davey to win The Winston. Had to go off the air immediately after the checkered flag dropped. First thing that should've been on their minds is, why did we waste so long with the Winston Open? 21. BadBooking posted: 04.16.2020 - 11:53 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) The Winston Open was stupid long back then, thank goodness its that much shorter now. 22. SweetRich21/43 posted: 08.01.2020 - 7:16 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The commentators were Ken Squier and Ned Jarrett. The pit road reporters were Mike Joy and Neil Bonnett. The studio host was Chris Economaki. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: