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  1.   Bill posted:
  05.03.2007 - 12:52 am
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Dale Earnhardt and Darrell Waltrip wrecked while battling for the lead,
which opened up the doors for Jeff Gordon's first All-Star win. Ol'DW
broke a few ribs in this wreck.


  2.   3fan4eva posted:
  05.03.2007 - 8:57 am
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Car Numbers

#24 Jeff Gordon
#4 Sterling Marlin
#10 Ricky Rudd
#2 Rusty Wallace
#7 Geoff Bodine
#33 Robert Pressley
#90 Mike Wallace
#23 Jimmy Spencer
#11 Brett Bodine
#5 Terry Labonte
#27 Elton Sawyer
#17 Darrell Waltrip
#3 Dale Earnhardt
#18 Bobby Labonte
#9 Lake Speed
#75 Todd Bodine
#6 Mark Martin
#88 Dale Jarrett
#25 Ken Schrader


  3.   Steve.M. posted:
  05.07.2007 - 8:56 pm
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Earnhardts silver bullet car which opened the doors for special paint
schemes, which have now kinda lost all meaning since there are about at
least 5 of em out there everyweek


  4.   Anonymous posted:
  05.20.2007 - 2:15 am
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Ken Schrader and Jimmy Spencer were side by side for the lead at the
start of segment 2 when Spencer got loose and wrecked Schrader and himself.

Kenny was so mad at Jimmy that he slammed his car into Spencer's as they
were driving away from the accident scene.


  5.   Anonymous posted:
  09.16.2007 - 7:46 am
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I believe DW himself said that this was the beginnig of the end of his
career. He didn't really recover physically from this injury for the
rest of the year. The team never recovered, and this led to a downward
spiral.


  6.   stricklinfan82 posted:
  04.28.2008 - 10:36 pm
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Eligibility Requirements for the 1995 All-Star Race:

- all active 1994 and 1995 race winning drivers:

1.) Sterling Marlin - 2/94 Daytona
2.) Rusty Wallace - 2/94 Rockingham
3.) Dale Earnhardt - 3/94 Darlington
4.) Terry Labonte - 4/94 North Wilkesboro
5.) Jeff Gordon - 5/94 Charlotte
6.) Jimmy Spencer - 7/94 Daytona
7.) Ricky Rudd - 7/94 New Hampshire
8.) Geoff Bodine - 7/94 Pocono
9.) Mark Martin - 8/94 Watkins Glen
10.) Bill Elliott - 9/94 Darlington
11.) Dale Jarrett - 10/94 Charlotte

- all active 1994 and 1995 race winning car owners:

12.) # 27 Ford - 7/94 Daytona (new driver Elton Sawyer)
13.) # 11 Ford - 9/94 Darlington (new driver Brett Bodine)
14.) # 18 Chevy - 10/94 Charlotte (new driver Bobby Labonte)

- all active former Winston Cup Champions:

15.) Darrell Waltrip - 3-time champion

- 1995 Winston Open results to fill out the 20 car field:

16.) Todd Bodine - 1st place '95 Winston Open
17.) Ken Schrader - 2nd place '95 Winston Open
18.) Robert Pressley - 3rd place '95 Winston Open
19.) Mike Wallace - 4th place '95 Winston Open
20.) Lake Speed - 5th place '95 Winston Open


  7.   rustyfan posted:
  05.09.2008 - 10:13 am
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Earnhardt was his typically wild self.He tried to crash Rusty on the
first lap and then triggered a crash when he ran over Jarrett.I'll have
to admit i enjoyed watching DW and Big E crash each other out.


  8.   RLB posted:
  06.18.2008 - 7:58 am
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Jeff Gordon won all 3 segments and is still the only driver to do so.
Dale Earnhardt drove the famous Winston 25th anniversary silver car not
the "silver Bullet".


  9.   Bobby posted:
  03.25.2010 - 4:55 pm
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A day or two before this race, Ken Schrader lost half of one of his
thumbs. He was working on one of his NCTS trucks and one of his crew
guys cranked it up, not knowing that Schrader had his hand down in the
engine. Despite that, he went on to finish second in the Open and ran
well in the Winston before being dumped by Jimmy Spencer. Then in the
Coke 600, he absolutely dominated and looked to be on his way to winning
when the engine blew.


  10.   Evan posted:
  12.14.2011 - 7:28 pm
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Dale Earnhardt's crash with Darrell looked eerily similar to his fatal
crash at Daytona. Earnhardt's aggressive driving self got the best of
him here even though he did walk away as did Darrell. When he tried to
do what he did here at a superspeedway at Daytona in 2001 with Sterling
Marlin and blocking him off, it'd eventually cost Dale his life. Anyone
see a coincidence?


  11.   Aldo posted:
  03.11.2012 - 6:39 pm
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It was cool to see a special scheme in one race. Nowadays we've got
dozen of them at every race and the majority of teams run multisponsor
operations, so you can't recognize your favourite driver.


  12.   RaceFanX posted:
  08.17.2012 - 3:00 am
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Sponsor:
#3 Dale Earnhardt- GM Goodwrench / Winston Cup 25th Anniversary

The trunk of Dale's car, nicknamed 'Quicksilver,' carried a thank you
message for Winston's support of the series. The car, or one painted in
its colors, is now preserved in the RCR Museum.


  13.   Jaws_fan posted:
  02.09.2014 - 10:31 am
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Dale just straight bodyslammed DW into the wall


  14.   wrank fakefield posted:
  08.04.2014 - 3:59 pm
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Earnhardt went low on the backstretch to make it 3 wide with Gordon and
Waltrip. This ruined his line into turn 3, which caused his car to wash
up the track. Waltrip was still on his outside, making the rear end
light, and with the extra steering input caused by the narrow entry, the
car broke loose. Also a possible factor in the incident is this was the
first race after Nascar had taken a half inch of rear spoiler and front
air dam away from the chevys, in an attempt to even the playing field or
to mollify the ford teams, depending on your point of view.


  15.   23andJoe posted:
  10.23.2014 - 1:14 am
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Also to the rear: #23 Jimmy Spencer (missed drivers' meeting)


  16.   23andJoe posted:
  10.23.2014 - 2:18 am
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Leaders: Rusty Wallace 1, Dale Earnhardt 2-5, Jeff Gordon 6-30; Robert
Pressley 31-46; Gordon 47-70

Cautions:
Lap 30 (End Segment 1)
Lap 33-36 (#23, #25, #3, #5 accident turn 2)
Lap 40-43 (#23, #6, #75, #28 accident turn 4)
Lap 60 (end segment 2)
Lap 60 (#17 jumped restart)
Lap 60 (#3, #17, #18, #9 accident turn 4)


  17.   saltsburgtrojanfan posted:
  05.03.2015 - 2:39 pm
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Good try 23andJoe, but you're a tad off

Segment 1: Lap 1-30 was all green

Caution 1: Lap 31: end segment 1 (caution laps do not count in segment
endings)

Caution 2: Lap 33-36: #3,5,23,25 accident turn 2

Caution 3: Lap 40-43: #6,23,28,75 accident turn 4

Caution 4: Lap 61: end segment 2 (caution laps do not count in segment
endings)

Caution 5: Lap 61: #17 jumped restart

Caution 6: Lap 61: #3,9,17,18 accident turn 4

(Caution flags do not count during the final segment)

But good try though.


  18.   saltsburgtrojanfan posted:
  05.04.2015 - 4:13 pm
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there are green laps you need to make corrections to


Lap 31-32

Lap 44-60


  19.   Jimnsimforever posted:
  03.02.2019 - 2:19 pm
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Long time car owner Junie Donlavey has his #90 in the main All Star race
for the first and what would be only time in 1995. He fielded a car
every year possible through the 2003 season trying to get in by the
Winston Open route due to not winning a points race. Mike Wallace gets
the car in by finishing 4th in the Open and ends up on the lead lap with
a respectable 8th place finish in the Winston Select.

Buddy Baker after Mike Wallace finished 4th in the Open to get in. "I'll
bet you Junie Donlavey is down there dancing all over the place."


  20.   Corey posted:
  11.23.2020 - 10:37 am
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To back up comment #5 from 13 years ago. Darrell mentioned this was the
beginning of the end for him on the Dale Jr Download. He broke three
ribs in the wreck and had the wind knocked out of him. He said the TV
doesn't do justice on how hard he hit the wall.


  21.   RaceFanX posted:
  02.03.2021 - 10:26 am
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The car in the RCR Museum indeed is Dale Earnhardt's real "Quicksilver"
#3 Chevrolet from this race. The historic "Silver Streak," as the team
dubbed the car, was repaired after its famous crash here and today is
preserved alongside a full collection of Earnhardt's 1990s all-star race
cars all still clad in their special paint jobs; a fine tribute to the
trend this car largely kicked off.

IIRC there was a push for years for Earnhardt to change the paint scheme
up on the #3 Goodwrench Chevrolet. He agreed to run the silver car once
for this race because it was just a non-points race but the car, and all
the merchandise that was sold featuring it, popularized the idea of
special paint schemes. It was a trend who's time had come, even before
this race Bill Elliott and McDonald's already had a deal in place for
the following week's Coca-Cola 600 to turn their red #94 Ford
Thunderbird black and green as the "Thunderbat" as part of McDonald's
tie-in promotion with the release of the blockbuster movie "Batman
Forever." Special paint schemes in the Winston became a very big deal in
the following years as many of the sports top drivers starting doing
one-off liveries for this race. Jeff Gordon became the first driver to
win the Winston using one in 1997.


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