|| *Comments on the 1986 Holly Farms 400:* View the most recent comment <#8> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. Matthew Sullivan posted: 07.27.2006 - 6:49 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Darrell Waltrip's last win driving for Junior Johnson fittingly comes at Wilkesboro. 2. XAC33 posted: 09.02.2006 - 5:22 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) God Bless North Wilkesboro 3. myself posted: 02.21.2008 - 2:29 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) No better place for Waltrip & Johnson to enjoy victory lane together for the last time! 4. saltsburgtrojanfan posted: 09.20.2018 - 11:09 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Caution 1: #22 spun turn 4 Caution 2: #81 spun turn 2 Caution 3: #44 spun turn 2 Caution 4: #17 spun turn 4 5. Corey posted: 12.08.2018 - 9:39 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I suppose I can date myself and say that this is the first NASCAR race after I was born. Didn't actually watch a full one til the 1996 Daytona 500. 6. NewGuyOnTheBlock posted: 07.14.2020 - 9:51 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) ESPN broadcast this race. Larry Nuber and Benny Parsons were in the booth with Dick Berggren in the pits. 7. NewGuyOnTheBlock posted: 07.15.2020 - 6:51 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Darrell Waltrip scored victory #70, his third win of the year, and the final win of his tenure with Junior Johnson's team. Waltrip led just 18 laps, taking the lead for good with 11 laps to go after working the back bumper of Geoff Bodine for nearly 100 laps of green flag action. Geoff Bodine once again dominated a Winston Cup race in 1986, leading 218 of 400 laps. But victory would once again evade him as damage from contact with Waltrip forced him to fall to second. Richard Petty ran one of his best races of 1986, leading 38 laps and finishing in third. Petty damaged his front grille early on and fought overheating issues throughout the day, yet still came away with a top-5. Rusty Wallace fought back from an early flat tire to finish in fourth, his second straight top-5 finish. Harry Gant led 5 laps during a round of green-flag pitstops and was rewarded for his consistent pace with a fifth-place finish. Joe Ruttman's team hung a rabbit's foot in the rafters of the car, praying that they would finally get some good luck. While Ruttman didn't find victory lane, he did lead a lap and came away with a solid sixth-place finish, 1 lap down. Ricky Rudd ran in seventh pretty much all day, coming home in the position a lap down. Dave Marcis thrilled the gathered crowd with an incredible charge to the lead. While he would lead for 20 laps under green, Marcis would struggle with handling issues in the closing laps and fell to eighth, a lap off the pace. Still, it was easily his best performance of the 1986 season. Dale Earnhardt led 24 laps early in the running before making a pitstop that essentially ruined his race. Whatever his team did on that pitstop ruined the handling of his car, and he fell two laps down at the finish. A run-in with fellow title-contender Tim Richmond near the finish would result in him coming home ninth. Terry Labonte arrived in North Wilkesboro as the only Oldsmobile in the race (Other teams that had started the year with Oldsmobiles had switched once they realized how bad the car was that year). Despite a strong run in the early laps, Labonte would spin out, eventually crawling back to finish tenth, 2 laps down. Tim Richmond led 55 laps in the early running but would fade late in the race with handling problems. He eventually suffered damage after contact with Dale Earnhardt and would fall to eleventh, 2 laps off the pace. Neil Bonnett ran inside the top ten for much of the race before fading late, resulting in a twelfth-place finish, 2 laps down. Tommy Ellis put in a solid run in his final short-track race as a Winston Cup regular, finishing 2 laps down in thirteenth. Kyle Petty charged up from a poor qualifying performance to finish 2 laps down in fourteenth. Bobby Hillin Jr. was pretty much a non-factor, finishing 3 laps off the pace in fifteenth. Bill Elliott finally looked like he was going to erase his bad luck on short tracks, leading 21 laps early on from the outside pole. But his gremlins would eventually strike, with a flat tire forcing him to finish down in sixteenth, 4 laps down. Alan Kulwicki managed to qualify on the outside of the third row, but an early altercation with the wall would drop him down the running order. Kulwicki eventually finished 6 laps down in seventeenth. Ken Schrader ran well until a brake issue forced him into the pits. He eventually came home 10 laps down in eighteenth. Buddy Arrington toughed it out, finishing 12 laps down in nineteenth as the highest finishing of the backmarkers. Early engine trouble and a late spin made Eddie Bierschwale's day one to forget, as he finished 16 laps down in twentieth. Chet Fillip returned to the track after skipping Martinsville due to injuries suffered at Dover. Fillip was off the pace throughout the day and suffered a spin that ultimately led to him finishing twenty-first, 25 laps down. Bobby Allison had an early spin, went multiple laps down due to tire troubles, and eventually ended the day behind the wall with a broken axle. Not a day to remember for Bobby. Michael Waltrip's car caught fire under an early caution, putting him behind the wall. However, his team got the #23 back on track, with Waltrip finishing 48 laps down in twenty-third. Brent Elliott made the final start of his Winston Cup career. He was easily the slowest car on track, finishing 75 laps down in twenty-fourth. For his putrid performance, I award him the "Snail Award". Morgan Shepherd's quick pace in the RahMoc #75 once again was curtailed by engine failure, which put him behind the wall shortly after halfway. J.D. McDuffie was never a factor, dropping out with ignition failure just before halfway. Jimmy Means picked up a new sponsor for this week in Voyles Auto Salvage. However, he was unable to give the new sponsor a good ride, retiring with a broken axle after 155 laps. D.K. Ulrich was sponsorless for this race, as Finky's had left the team after sponsoring them for most of the year. With no more money to run the season, Ulrich's #6 made its final appearance of the year, retiring with an oil leak after 71 laps. Canadian Trevor Boys made his first start since Riverside in June, taking over James Hylton's #48 Chevy. Boys would drop out after just 17 laps with an oil leak. Joe Millikan made the penultimate start of his career in this race, joining forces with car owner Wayne Beahr for this race. The #37 Ford would last just 9 laps before its engine expired. 8. saltsburgtrojanfan posted: 12.21.2020 - 9:59 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This race was run in brutally hot conditions! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: