|| *Comments on the 1981 World 600:* View the most recent comment <#23> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. Darrell posted: 12.11.2005 - 7:36 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Last start for 1970 Rookie of the Year Bill Dennis. 2. MOST posted: 06.05.2006 - 1:27 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Donnie Allison was almost killed in this race 3. SK posted: 12.06.2007 - 6:12 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Kyle Petty's first career top-5. 4. Bill posted: 02.28.2008 - 10:25 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Neil Bonnett had a great car that day and crashed trying to keep Cale a lap down mid way through the race. They were racing back to the flag when Bonnett hit a slower car. 5. JCS posted: 08.27.2008 - 8:22 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Donnie Allison's career was effectively over after this race. He sustained a serious head injury when his car hit the wall. In Bobby Allison's book "Miracle," it is said that Donnie looked almost dead after this wreck and was fortunate to pull through it and recover. 6. g048 posted: 10.18.2008 - 5:05 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) that slower car Bonnett hit was Rusty Wallace. 7. stricklinfan82 posted: 05.12.2009 - 11:51 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Rusty Wallace was actually involved in the crash that originally brought out that yellow flag. Bonnett was racing Yarborough back to the line trying to keep him a lap down. He succeeded, but unfortunately ran into the lapped car of Bobby Wawak just past the flagstand and crashed hard into the wall, ending his day. 8. 18fan posted: 01.23.2010 - 7:07 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Another second for Gant. 9. mkl62 posted: 04.21.2012 - 9:02 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) After the 1979 Daytona 500 fiasco, Donnie Allison never recovered. The Hoss Ellington team would party the night before the races and were not 100% on race day. Donnie's stint with Hoss came to an end at Atlanta in March 1980 after crashing with Terry LaBonte. After that, he could not find a real decent ride anywhere. He had become like a "saddle tramp" of NASCAR. Donnie was really never able to get out of Bobby's shadow, IMO. 10. RaceFanX posted: 11.05.2012 - 11:37 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) In a rather tasteless choice of editing the 1990 drama series The Bradys, an updated revival of the Brady Bunch sitcom, used footage of Donnie's crippling wreck to represent a violent stock car crash that in-story leaves Bobby Brady (the youngest one who in a previous reunion special took up car racing) paralyzed. The episodes were later edited together as the TV movie Brady 500, all of the racing shots are stock footage from 1980s NASCAR races put together haphazardly with little of it matching (Donnie's wreck is mixed in with in-car footage from Bristol). Why on Earth the producers used footage of a wreck that actually left the driver with serious injuries I'll never know. The Bradys aired on CBS, who televised NASCAR races at the time, but was cancelled after just six episodes with only the first involving racing. 11. myself posted: 05.23.2013 - 1:46 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) You...................watched that crap?! 12. Bobby B. posted: 04.01.2014 - 6:58 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The wreck used in The Bradys was actually David Ray Boggs in the 1986 spring Busch race at Rockingham. 13. Jim posted: 07.15.2015 - 11:53 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Only 2 cars on the lead lap. 14. Spen posted: 10.04.2015 - 4:55 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Odd that Kyle's first and last top fives both came in the World 600. 15. The Great Dave posted: 03.12.2016 - 11:27 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor update #19 Abe's Home Remodeling 16. AutoRockinRacing94 posted: 04.11.2016 - 1:50 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) This race was the subject of Dale Earnhardt's "One Tough Customer" documentary 17. FloridaFan88 posted: 05.20.2016 - 11:30 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) DNQ: #17-Tommy Houston - Kendall Motor Oil Oldsmobile 18. IvanBalakhonov posted: 05.19.2019 - 3:23 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Reasons for cautions according to the Grand National Scene race report: 5-10 (#37, #62, #47 crash T4) 14-16 (#5 hit the wall T3) 55-59 (#1 hit the wall) 152-160 (#41, #77 crash T4) 184-188 (#22 spun T4) 211-228 (#52, #98 crash T4) 260-263 (#6 spun T4) 19. Chase9Fan posted: 08.02.2019 - 11:53 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Medical assistance was different back then. Remember seeing them remove Donnie from the car and they were really anything but careful. 20. Jeff posted: 08.18.2019 - 12:44 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) NSSN listed a few more DNQs : Tommy Houston, Randy Ogden, Rick Newsom, Blackie Wangerin, Travis Tiller and Junior Miller 21. Shawn posted: 10.21.2019 - 12:34 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) This was the first race for Performance Racing Network covering the races at Charlotte Motor Speedway. 22. Tigerman posted: 05.20.2020 - 11:13 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I was looking at the other racers that DNQ'd and I like to think that this is their number, owner and manufacturer. Junior Miller, self-owned #79 Oldsmobile Rick Newsom, self-owned #20 Chevrolet Randy Ogden, Jack Ogden's #18 Oldsmobile Travis Tiller, self-owned #46 Oldsmobile Blackie Wangerin, self-owned #39 Ford 23. rateus posted: 02.09.2021 - 4:58 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) DK Ulrich again handled qualifying duties himself before handing the keys over on race day, this time to Dick May. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: