|| *Comments on the 1986 Goody's 500:* View the most recent comment <#10> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. Mark O. posted: 12.02.2007 - 12:54 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ricky Rudd was pissed off after getting turned into the frontstretch wall by Kyle Petty. In his post race interview, he referred to Petty as "a spoiled brat". If I find the time, I'll upload video of the wreck. 2. Clayton posted: 07.10.2009 - 9:36 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Something broke on Michael Waltrip's car. He brought out a caution and was pushed by the tow truck. He got his car going and salvaged a 14th place finish. 3. jessie henry posted: 02.13.2010 - 12:04 am Rate this comment: (0) (3) helen ran spcial dodge 4. RaceFanX posted: 10.30.2015 - 10:43 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Rusty Wallace tallies his second NASCAR Winston Cup victory. Rusty said this was the race that really proved to him he'd make it in the Cup series. While he won at Bristol in the spring he regularly thought about all the "underdogs" who won a single NASCAR race over the years then never won again so his second triumph took that weight off his shoulders for good. This was Wallace's last win of the 1986 season and his last in the blue #27 Alugard Pontiac before Blue Max got a new sponsorship from Kodiak for the next season. 5. myself posted: 03.01.2016 - 12:56 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Wonder if Derrike Cope thought the same thing after his 2nd win, which occurred @ Dover in the spring of '90? 6. Jim posted: 09.15.2016 - 10:39 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Only 2 wins for Pontiac in 1986, and Rusty got them both. ( short tracks) I though the 2 + 2 Fastback would have been better on super speedways. 7. NewGuyOnTheBlock posted: 07.12.2020 - 8:40 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) SETN broadcast this race. Eli Gold and Jerry Punch were in the booth with Dick Berggren in the pits. 8. NewGuyOnTheBlock posted: 07.13.2020 - 12:03 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Rusty Wallace and the Pontiac 2+2 both claimed their second and final victory of the 1986 season. Wallace led 171 laps and dominated the latter stages of the race. It would be the first of 7 wins at the paperclip for Wallace. Geoff Bodine led 226 laps from the pole, but, as had happened throughout the season, bad luck struck again. Bodine fell behind Wallace on a late pitstop and was unable to get around the #27 in the closing laps, losing out on victory by just two car lengths. Defending fall race winner Harry Gant ran inside the top-5 all day, leading 4 laps and coming home with a third-place finish, the last car on the lead lap. After leading 31 laps early on, Darrell Waltrip would fade from contention, falling a lap off the pace in fourth. Waltrip was hindered aerodynamically thanks to front-end damage he suffered after contact with another car. Joe Ruttman put in a strong performance, coming home a lap down in fifth after running as high as second. An accident with Ken Schrader would knock him off the lead lap. Kyle Petty came home a lap down in seventh, though not without controversy. On lap 322, Petty aggressively turned Ricky Rudd into the outside wall while battling for position. Rudd would call Petty an "idiot" in a post-wreck interview. Ken Schrader had one of his best performances of his sophomore season, running as high as third and finishing in seventh, 2 laps down after a run-in with Joe Ruttman. Neil Bonnett came home 3 laps down in eighth, having run inside the top-10 throughout the day. Handling issues and a flat tire ruined his chances for victory. Dave Marcis led two laps and finished 3 laps down in ninth, his third top-10 finish of the year. Tim Richmond somehow managed to come home with a top-10 finish, despite a flat tire and two spins knocking him 4 laps off the pace. With his tenth-place finish, Richmond managed to knock two points off of title rival Dale Earnhardt's point lead. Bill Elliott was off the pace from the very beginning, going a lap down within the first 100 laps and finishing 5 laps down in eleventh. Despite being the worst-finishing title contender, Dale Earnhardt still managed to hold a 136-point lead thanks to the bonus points from 56 laps led. Earnhardt spun early in the race, eventually falling 6 laps down and finishing in twelfth. Rookie Alan Kulwicki continued to show his skills on the short tracks, leading a lap and finishing 7 laps down in thirteenth. Michael Waltrip came home 7 laps down in fourteenth after mechanical issues kept him off the pace throughout the day. Terry Labonte and Hagan Racing continued to struggle with their Oldsmobile, finishing 9 laps down in fifteenth. Richard Petty smashed up the front end of his car after a run-in with another vehicle, but still fought back to finish in sixteenth, 10 laps down. Bobby Hillin Jr. struggled all day with engine issues, falling 12 laps down and finishing in seventeenth. Busch Series regular Jimmy Hensley crossed over to the Winston Cup ranks to drive the #64 Elmo Langley entry for this race. Hensley would give the struggling team a solid run, finishing 18 laps down in eighteenth. Martinsville native Buddy Arrington was in and out of the pits all day with engine troubles, eventually finishing in nineteenth, 18 laps off the pace. J.D. McDuffie had handed the ownership of the #70 entry to Tom Winkle beginning at Richmond. The pair's twentieth-place finish was their best result yet, though McDuffie was 19 laps down at the finish (which was standard for a backmarker in the 1980s). Bobby Allison was still searching for his first Martinsville victory and hoped that his 9th in qualifying would translate to a win. Instead, his Buick fell 19 laps down at the finish due to mechanical issues, placing twenty-first. Jimmy Means was easily the slowest car on track, finishing 23 laps down in twenty-second. He will receive the "NewGuyOnTheBlock Snail Award" for this race. Modified driver Jerry Cranmer made his final start of the season and his final start for James Hylton's #48 team. Cranmer suffered damage in a first-lap accident and would never recover, finishing 30 laps down in twenty-third. Eddie Bierschwale had the distinction of carrying SETN's onboard camera for this race. Bierschwale promptly spun out twice and finished a dismal twenty-fourth, 50 laps down. Virginia native Phil Good made his second and final start of the season, falling out of the race with engine failure after 427 laps. Tommy Ellis would lead the final lap of his Winston Cup career before falling out with engine troubles after 395 laps. D.K. Ulrich spent much of the afternoon in the garage, finishing 164 laps down in twenty-seventh. Ricky Rudd was none too happy with Kyle Petty after their previously mentioned run-in. Before the crash forced him to retire, Rudd was running well, as he usually did on the short tracks. Morgan Shepherd continued to show the true strength of the RahMoc #75, leading 8 laps before a blown engine sidelined him after 115 laps. Mike Skinner made the second start of his career, though a second-lap crash would end his day early. Skinner only made it 34 laps before high oil pressure, caused by the crash damage, would put him out of the race. 9. GGDC posted: 09.04.2020 - 2:20 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) SPONSOR UPDATE #6 D.K. Ulrich USRacing Chevrolet #17 Eddie Beirschwale KMart / Wynns / TRW Oldsmobile 10. Rich posted: 04.22.2021 - 2:09 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Eli Gold and Dr. Jerry Punch were the commentators. Dr. Dick Berggren was the sole pit road reporter. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: