|| *Comments on the 1986 TranSouth 500:* View the most recent comment <#11> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. scdvn sn posted: 05.10.2005 - 9:03 pm Rate this comment: (0) (4) djicdhabcadljbcbad cdshvc sdhvc sd hsdc hsd sd sd hvsdhcsdaocv sdcfvrweufrc wref r f vfsd vfs vuhy vh we huh23 vs v fsv h uh3 fdhu vhfusvhuhv sf hvus 3 dale earhharrt vfhvfdskb xchb dbsfv ndfverpooevhuv fdvfdshvhd 2. Steve posted: 05.05.2006 - 5:58 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was Dale's most dominating victory. 91.3% of the laps led. Alan Kulwicki scored his best career finish until a few weeks later at Martinsville. H.B. Bailey finishes 12th, his best finish since 1973! Mark Stahl's best finish ever. 3. Steve posted: 08.02.2006 - 12:12 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) First ever front row sweep for Hendrick Motorsports. Bodine on the Busch Pole and Tim Richmond outside. Bobby Wawak's best season finish (19th). 4. Ryan posted: 06.23.2013 - 9:51 pm Rate this comment: (2) (2) Now this is domination Bill Elliott fans 5. 83andJoe posted: 07.06.2013 - 4:57 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) #88 crew chief: Roland Wlodyka 6. SRT posted: 10.27.2013 - 7:05 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Around 50 cars showed up, so there were several DNQs. Now if I could just find a list of the DNQs... 7. BradTeagueFan~ posted: 12.31.2016 - 6:38 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) The sponsor for Davey Allison's car in this race was actually the "Martha Washington Inn", located in Abingdon, Virginia~ Here is a picture of the car~ http://images16.fotki.com/v3/photos/8/1352268/7960031/IMG_3393004-vi.jpg 8. robbyburns posted: 10.20.2018 - 8:49 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Awesome this race in it's entirety is now available on YOUTUBE thanks to smifftv 9. Gray Gaulding's Distant Cousin posted: 12.09.2018 - 7:49 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @7 while your right, that picture is from Atlanta I think. 10. NewGuyOnTheBlock posted: 05.11.2020 - 6:34 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) ESPN broadcast this race. Bob Jenkins and Jack Arute were in the booth with Dick Berggren in the pits. 11. NewGuyOnTheBlock posted: 05.11.2020 - 11:29 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Dale Earnhardt put on one of his all-time greatest showings of dominance in this race, leading 335 of the 367 laps. 91% of all laps. Jeez. Hendrick Motorsports achieved a front-row lockout in qualifying, with Geoffrey Bodine winning the pole and Tim Richmond lining up second. It would be the first of many front-row lockouts for the organization in the decades to come. Unfortunately, Bodine broke a camshaft on the initial start, resulting in a last-place finish, while Richmond fell down the running order after leading the opening 5 laps. Bodine's problems at the start led to a stack-up on the inside line that led to Davey Allison and Ron Bouchard crashing in turn 2. On the restart, Dale Earnhardt charged around Richmond to take the lead, which he would only relinquish during cautions and green-flag pit cycles for the rest of the race. Behind Earnhardt, it became a battle to see who could finish second. Harry Gant, Neil Bonnett, and Joe Ruttman emerged as early contenders, while Benny Parsons, who originally qualified fourth but was forced to restart way down in 12th after Bodine's start issue, charged through the field into the top-5. Parsons would lead a lap under yellow when Bobby Hillin crashed out, but eventually would develop motor issues that put him out of the race. Around midway, Earnhardt continued to dominate, while Harry Gant was slowly reeling in the #3. Gant managed to stay out longer than anyone else during an early long green-flag run, leading for a handful of laps before he pitted. Eventually, thanks to a series of quick cautions for Sterling Marlin brushing the wall and Phil Parsons crashing hard on the frontstretch, Gant caught up to Earnhardt, giving the rest of the field some hope. But following a restart after Tommy Ellis crashed, Gant tangled with the lapped car of Mark Stahl, leading to the #33 spinning in turn 1 right into the path of Ricky Rudd, who was easily the fastest Ford on the track that day. The accident eliminated Rudd and crippled Gant's Chevy, ending any chance of a victory. With Gant out of the picture, Earnhardt continued to dominate the event, while Darrell Waltrip, Bobby Allison, Joe Ruttman, and Bill Elliott battled for second place. Ruttman, who had been fast early, was eliminated following a tangle with Morgan Shepherd which punctured his radiator. Following Ruttman's accident, Darrell Waltrip assumed the lead on the restart but nearly wrecked while trying to keep Cale Yarborough a lap down, enabling Earnhardt to slip past into the lead. Yarborough would lose the lap he had fought so hard to get back, eventually falling out with a blown engine a few laps later. A lengthy stretch of green-flag racing followed, in which Earnhardt was mostly uncontested up at the front, save for a round of green-flag pitstops in which Waltrip briefly assumed the lead. Earnhardt nearly lapped the field at one point, showing just how dominant he was that day. A pair of late-race yellows did little to slow Earnhardt down, as he cruised to his first points-paying victory of the season (Earnhardt already had won the Busch Clash and a Daytona Duel that year). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: