|| *Comments on the 1986 Wrangler Jeans Indigo 400:* View the most recent comment <#15> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. most posted: 01.06.2007 - 10:32 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) 10 drivers lead more than 10 laps, does not happen these days. 2. myself posted: 03.15.2007 - 2:28 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I'm bettin' that this is the only time in Nascar history that a race winner had the same name as the track. Mark Martin winning at Martinsville is the next closest thing. 3. RaceFanX posted: 08.17.2008 - 8:17 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Eddie Bierschwale scores his "best career finish," an 11th. While technically Bierschwale finished 10th at the 1989 Daytona 500 he'd actually been relieved by Kyle Petty early in that race and didn't run it. 4. MegaRacer posted: 12.12.2008 - 8:07 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The last Cup race to have less than 30 cars. 5. Ryan posted: 12.24.2008 - 10:30 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) What a race 6. Anonymous posted: 03.28.2009 - 12:19 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) I recorded this race and amazingly still have the tape. I dug it out a while ago, and I would say the margin of victory was more like 10 cl rather than 2, and Michael Waltrip lost his driveshaft. 7. JSSIE HENRY posted: 10.22.2009 - 9:59 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) coors chevrolet 28 8. Ed posted: 10.02.2014 - 7:20 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Richmond definitely won by about 10 cl 9. Ryan posted: 08.23.2018 - 9:48 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) It would be cool if they had full race coverage of this race. Not sure if they do or not. 10 drivers led in laps in double figures. Wow. One of the most competitive eras for sure. 10. BadBooking posted: 03.20.2020 - 7:55 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Last caution was not for #22 spin, it was for the driveshaft that fell out of the #30. This was clarified in the SETN coverage of the race. 11. GuidoFan posted: 04.05.2020 - 1:04 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) This is the only time Richmond won at Richmond. 12. Ryan posted: 04.15.2020 - 11:48 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Richmond lit it up during the Summer of '86. Six wins over a ten race stretch. Impressive for sure. 13. NewGuyOnTheBlock posted: 07.09.2020 - 7:39 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) SETN broadcast this race. Eli Gold and Benny Parsons were in the booth with Jerry Punch in the pits. 14. NewGuyOnTheBlock posted: 07.10.2020 - 12:24 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Caution 1: #75 spin frontstretch Caution 2: #17 crash frontstretch Caution 3: #11 engine Caution 4: #26 crash turn 4 Caution 5: Debris frontstretch 15. NewGuyOnTheBlock posted: 07.10.2020 - 11:03 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Tim Richmond picked up his 6th win in the last 10 races, completing one of the most dominant streaks in NASCAR history. Richmond led 51 laps and ran up front all day, pulling away on a late-race restart to take his penultimate win of the season. Dale Earnhardt had played it conservatively all summer long, but all that changed entering Richmond. Knowing that the points chase had tightened up, Earnhardt took advantage of his rival Darrell Waltrip's misfortunes and went all in, leading 24 laps and banging Morgan Shepherd out of the way to score a crucial runner-up finish. Morgan Shepherd took over the RahMoc #75 full-time for the rest of the season starting with this race, scoring the team's best result of the year in third. Shepherd led 21 laps for good measure, and also fought back from an early spin courtesy of Richard Petty. Richard Petty had one of his best performances of the 1986 season, leading 37 laps and finishing in fourth. Petty was uncharacteristically aggressive during this race, spinning out both Morgan Shepherd and Tommy Ellis at separate points. Neil Bonnett kept his nose out of trouble as he scored a fifth-place finish, leading 11 laps in the process. While the year had been a rough one for Bonnett, the final stretch would prove to be much better performance-wise. Joe Ruttman had a great run, leading 28 laps and coming home with a solid sixth-place finish. A brush with the wall was the only downside of an otherwise solid day. Harry Gant led the opening 37 laps of the race before fading into the midfield, finishing down in seventh. Bobby Allison survived multiple unscheduled pitstops for flat tires and a late spin to finish in eighth, the last car on the lead lap. Bill Elliott fell a lap down early after pitting with a blistered tire under green. He was never able to recover that lost lap but did manage to finish in ninth thanks to the attrition. Bobby Hillin Jr. ran a usual quiet race, finishing 3 laps down in tenth. Eddie Bierschwale was involved in an early accident that shortened up the front of his Chevy. Despite the damage, Bierschwale would score a then career-best finish of eleventh, 5 laps off the pace. Buddy Arrington capitalized on the usual Richmond madness to score his best finish of the 1986 season, coming home 6 laps down in twelfth. Geoff Bodine had a surprisingly poor qualifying performance, but it didn't seem to phase him as he charged to the front and led 35 laps. But a late mechanical issue would knock him down the running order, as he finished 8 laps off the pace in thirteenth. Michael Waltrip had the honor of carrying SETN's onboard camera for this race. He ended up giving the television audience quite a show, bouncing off the wall at one point and eventually dropping out with a broken driveshaft. Thanks to the attrition, he placed fourteenth. Alan Kulwicki usually performed well on the short-tracks, but not this weekend. Kulwicki struggled with speed all race long, finishing 13 laps down in fifteenth. Busch Series regular Jimmy Hensley took over the #64 for this event, bringing the car home in sixteenth, 14 laps down. D.K. Ulrich suffered an early tire problem that kept him in the pits for some time, eventually finishing 21 laps down in seventeenth. Terry Labonte was the only leader of the race to not lead for more than 9 laps, as he only led for a single circuit. His Oldsmobile would exit the race after 378 laps due to a late crash. Rusty Wallace led 33 laps in the early going and was looking for a possible top-5 finish. However, he suffered serious damage after skidding on oil dry and slamming the wall, sending him to the garage. Wallace's crew would send him back out, where he finished in nineteenth, 29 laps down. Defending Richmond winner Kyle Petty was a non-factor, retiring after 369 laps with a broken rear end housing. Tommy Ellis was intentionally spun out of the race by Richard Petty after he had been leaking oil all over the track. It was determined that Ellis had blown a head gasket and he retired after 362 laps. James Hylton was excruciatingly slow, finishing down in twenty-second, 38 laps down. For his pitiful performance, he receives the "NewGuyOnTheBlock Snail Award". Dave Marcis had an excellent run, leading 9 laps early after staying out under caution. Unfortunately, he would suffer a broken head gasket that put him behind the wall after 359 laps. Ricky Rudd had easily the faster car of the race, leading 113 laps. However, three events would put him out of contention. First, he lost a headlight after contact with Joe Ruttman (Really not an issue, but it did bring out a debris yellow). Then, he was knocked out of the lead on a restart when the lapped car of Ken Schrader crashed in front of him. Finally, Rudd would lose control on oil dry laid out to clean up Tommy Ellis's mess, sending him into the outside barriers and out of the race. Ken Schrader was involved in the day's nastiest wreck, spinning into the inside wall on lap 310 and then going back into the outside wall, nearly collecting the leaders. Jimmy Means was one of many drivers who had mechanical problems in the early running, falling out of contention with a broken rear end after 292 laps. Ron Shepherd, a former modified star, made his Winston Cup debut for AAG Racing (who were also making their first appearance). Shepherd's first race ended after just 282 laps when his Olds began overheating. J.D. McDuffie was unable to get up to speed, eventually dropping out after 216 laps with rear end troubles. Darrell Waltrip suffered a major setback to his championship hopes when his transmission blew on lap 62. Waltrip's last-place finish would drop him from second to third in the Winston Cup points. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: