|| *Comments on the 1981 Atlanta Journal 500:* View the most recent comment <#15> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. MOST posted: 05.07.2006 - 3:21 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Neil won this race on a flat tire, it was totally flat by the time he got to victory lane. 2. Matt posted: 12.13.2006 - 3:27 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Check out Buddy Arrington's sponsor for this race. 3. Thomas posted: 12.19.2006 - 12:01 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Kyle Petty's Boot Barn? HA! Anyway, this was ESPN's first ever live, flag-to-flag broadcast of a NASCAR race. 4. Steve.M. posted: 05.09.2007 - 5:00 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) ESPNs 1st ever live flag to flag broadcast, in there 4th ever broadcast of a cup race 5. Steve.M. posted: 10.28.2007 - 3:56 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Finish of the race http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcLk--vBwLk 6. RaceFanX posted: 12.05.2007 - 3:06 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) This was the first race for the "Zero Hero" Delma Cowart. Alright, technically the "Zero Hero" was ASA driver Tom Jones but ah, it works for Delma too. 7. RaceFanX posted: 11.14.2008 - 12:38 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Next to last NASCAR race for Johnny Rutherford. He'd return for one more race 7 years later at Phoenix. 8. Matt_1986 posted: 02.10.2009 - 8:50 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) 300th Win for the Ford nameplate. 9. Mike Daly posted: 08.04.2010 - 1:15 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Bonnett and Petty went at it nose to nose for a bunch of laps early. Tim Richmond raced doggedly to stay in the top ten before he spun out and then nearly hit Waltrip on pit road. ESPN had a pitstop bit during the Tommy Ellis/Gary Balough caution where Larry Nuber put on just one lugnut and said that David Pearson told him just one lugnut was needed - Mike Joy teased him in the bit and KEPT teasing him during the racecast. H.B. Bailey's post-wreck interview was funny - calmly explained everything yet looked weird in that big hat of his. 10. b4il3y posted: 01.10.2014 - 4:22 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Would love to see this full race. 11. Anthony posted: 02.13.2016 - 1:41 am Rate this comment: (2) (1) 13 top 3's in a row for DW, pretty impressive. 12. Ryan Daley posted: 09.21.2016 - 10:05 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) DNQ List: #97 Bob Schacht - Test Tube Oldsmobile Owner: Bob Schacht #24 Mike Alexander - Gordon Racing Buick Owner: Cecil Gordon #50 Bruce Hill - Hill Racing Buick Owner: Bruce Hill #40 Dick May - Price Racing Buick Owner: D.K. Ulrich #94 Bobby Wawak - Louise Smith Buick Owner: Bobby Wawak #31 Billie Harvey - Graf Lear Jets Pontiac Owner: Billie Harvey #18 Ronnie Sanders - Sanders Racing Buick Owner: Ronnie Sanders Source: Grand National Scene 13. RaceFanX posted: 09.01.2019 - 5:31 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Delma Cowart was running in the Sportsman series but as they were dialing back its schedule he decided to take a stab at the Cup series since the costs were close back then, the difference was only about $5,000 to him. He sold his Sportsman car, built a Cup car, and made the field here at Atlanta in his first attempt at the top series. His top-20 on debut would turn out to be his second best finish ever in the series. 14. RaceFanX posted: 10.03.2019 - 8:43 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Neil Bonnett's victory here was the 90th in NASCAR Grand National/Cup competition for the Wood Brothers team. 15. rateus posted: 02.10.2021 - 4:29 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) For the third race running Slick Johnson qualified for someone else, as at Rockingham it was James Hylton who took over for the race. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: