|| *Comments on the 1981 Old Dominion 500:* View the most recent comment <#10> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. Steve posted: 05.04.2006 - 9:26 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Mark Martin starts and finishes in the Top 5 in his 5th career Winston Cup start. After leading 40 laps, he earns his first Top 5. As of today, he has 228 Top 5s. 2. Anonymous posted: 11.28.2007 - 9:41 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Harry Gant's seventh 2nd place finish in 1981 alone. 3. ams391221 posted: 06.15.2010 - 10:27 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) First of DW's 4 consecutive wins in 1981 4. 1995z71 posted: 04.22.2013 - 9:18 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Side note, all of those 4 wins came from the pole. 5. Anonymous posted: 01.29.2014 - 7:08 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Morgan Shepherd blew a right front tire while leading and hit the wall so hard his car got up on two wheels. 6. jp posted: 02.02.2015 - 9:17 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Harry Gant gets snake-bit again........ He came in for a pit stop with less than 10 to go, then he ran over a piece of metal leaving pit road and had to pit again, handing the win to Darrell Waltrip. 7. myself posted: 04.07.2015 - 12:41 pm Rate this comment: (1) (1) Morgan Shepherd will fight at the drop of a hat. 8. RaceFanX posted: 07.27.2017 - 11:25 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Geoff Bodine outfitted his #01 Buick in this race with the NASCAR Cup Series' first-ever power steering system for this race. It paid off, becoming a series standard within a year, and Bodine ran great early in this one before a different mechanical issue put him on the sidelines. 9. ThomasNester posted: 04.20.2020 - 7:07 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This race marked 300th consecutive start for the King and Benny Parsons 10. rateus posted: 02.10.2021 - 3:57 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Gary Balough qualified P17 before withdrawing, he was not replaced in the line-up. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: