|| *Comments on the 1987 Goodwrench 500:* View the most recent comment <#13> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. myself posted: 02.16.2007 - 4:20 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Davey's 1st top 10, & also first pole, in the #28! 2. Shift into Top Gear posted: 09.19.2009 - 11:18 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jesse Samples Jr's Cup debut 3. Ryan posted: 07.31.2011 - 2:18 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Dale's first win at the Rock! 4. Matthew Sullivan posted: 08.12.2011 - 12:13 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Neil Bonnett could have won this race if not for several mistakes made by he and his pit crew. Under a green flag run, Bonnett ran out of fuel. While going to pit, Bonnett overshot his pit stall by a mile. Dale Earnhardt's crew actually fueled Bonnett's car and several members of other pit crews helped push Bonnett's car back going again. Given that the Earnhardt crew only put one can of fuel in his car, it's likely Bonnett had to pit again and lost even more track position. 5. Schroeder51 posted: 03.15.2015 - 8:50 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) A few of the caution flags: 1. #34 Jesse Samples, Jr. accident, turn 2 (Jerry Holden also spun in turn 4 after blowing his motor) 2. #22 Bobby Allison, #44 Sterling Marlin accident, turn 1 3. #26 Morgan Shepherd, #30 Michael Waltrip, #52 Jimmy Means, #67 Eddie Bierschwale, #87 Patrick Latimer accident, turn 4 4. #1 Ron Bouchard, #12 David Sosebee, #18 Tommy Ellis, #48 James Hylton, #52 Jimmy Means, #71 Dave Marcis, #81 Chet Fillip accident, backstretch 10. #33 Harry Gant, #50 Greg Sacks accident, turn 2 6. joebev910 posted: 04.22.2015 - 12:36 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Setn call the race 7. Ryan W posted: 09.12.2015 - 12:49 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Matthew Sullivan I can't imagine anyone doing that now days about fueling another car. They were such great frieds. Even their teams were. 8. Nascar Lead Lap Points posted: 05.26.2016 - 12:54 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) During the broadcast of the 2016 All-Star race, they mention this race inspired the quote from days of thunder. "You can't pit, where eating Ice Cream. When Parson was leading and said he needing to pit for tires. Hyde responded with that 9. RaceFanX posted: 02.06.2019 - 9:31 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Dale Earnhardt begins in earnest his 1987 reign of terror that would carry him to his second-straight NASCAR Winston Cup championship. This was the first of a career-high 11 wins that year for the Intimidator. The victory vaulted Earnhardt from fifth in points coming into this race into a tie for the lead with Daytona 500 winner Bill Elliott...and Earnhardt would not relinquish the points lead for the rest of the season. This was the first of three Cup wins at Rockingham for Earnhardt. Old Ironhead would have to wait more than seven years to visit victory lane here again...although that next win couldn't have come at a better time. 10. Steve posted: 12.16.2019 - 7:54 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sometime between the pileup on the backstretch and the Gant/Sacks incident, Lake Speed spun in Turn 4. The SETN broadcast is rather abbreviated, and did not note a lap count. 11. NewGuyOnTheBlock posted: 08.10.2020 - 5:37 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) SETN broadcast this race. Eli Gold and Jerry Punch were in the booth with Dick Berggren in the pits. 12. NewGuyOnTheBlock posted: 08.10.2020 - 7:06 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Lake Speed's spin in turn 4 was the cause of the ninth caution. 13. NewGuyOnTheBlock posted: 08.11.2020 - 12:53 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Dale Earnhardt began his 1987 title hunt with a dominating victory at the Rock. Earnhardt led 319 of 492 laps en route to his first victory at Rockingham, and his first of 11 wins in 1987. While he was never a threat to Earnhardt, Ricky Rudd still ran a solid race, leading 70 laps and finishing second. Neil Bonnett seemed to be the only driver capable of challenging Earnhardt at the front, but, as a previous comment mentioned, his pit road miscue knocked him out of contention. Bonnett would lead 36 total laps and rally from his mistake to finish in third. Bill Elliott recovered from a brush with the wall to finish fourth, keeping him tied for first in the Winston Cup points standings with Earnhardt. After a brutal speedweeks, Morgan Shepherd turned it around at the Rock. Despite an early spin, Shepherd would finish strong, leading 12 laps late in the running and finishing a lap down in fifth. Rusty Wallace rallied from a pitiful qualifying effort to score his first top-10 of the season in sixth, a lap down. Darrell Waltrip was a non-factor for the second straight race, finishing 2 laps down in seventh. Two races into the 1987 season and the switch to Hendrick Motorsports was not going as Waltrip had envisioned. After dominating this race in 1986, Terry Labonte was a non-factor in the 1987 running of the event, finishing 2 laps off the pace in eighth. Davey Allison had a breakout performance, winning his first career pole and leading the opening 29 laps. He would eventually fall off the pace, finishing 2 laps down in ninth. Ken Schrader would continue his hot start to the 1987 season, leading a lap and finishing 3 laps down in tenth for a second straight top-10 finish. Phil Parsons came home 4 laps down in eleventh, the second straight eleventh-place finish of his season. Lake Speed had another strong run, leading a lap before spinning in turn 4. Speed would come home 5 laps down in twelfth. Bobby Allison suffered damage in an early spin and was never able to recover, finishing 5 laps down in thirteenth. Bobby Hillin Jr. caught the attention of SETN's cameras thanks to his evasive maneuvers while battling through lapped traffic with his teammate. Hillin came home 6 laps down in fourteenth. Richard Petty kept out of trouble while running inside the top-15, coming home 6 laps off the pace in fifteenth. Kyle Petty suffered cosmetic damage to his Ford in the opening laps after a brush with the wall. The damage kept him from being a factor, as he finished 10 laps down in sixteenth. Michael Waltrip picked up new sponsorship for Bahari Racing for the weekend, as Domino's Pizza Came aboard for a multi-race deal. Waltrip qualified well but was hindered by damage after he hit the wall during a multi-car crash in the early laps. He would limp home 13 laps off the pace in seventeenth. Eddie Bierschwale damaged his radiator in the opening laps when he punted Patrick Latimer into the wall on lap 43. He would later spin out by himself, though no caution was called, resulting in the #67 falling 15 laps down. Somehow, Bierschwale still managed to come home in eighteenth, a great result for Buddy Arrington's team. After an early spin into the wall, Sterling Marlin suffered from neck pain throughout the event. Marlin eventually would be unable to keep his head up, and Benny Parsons would relieve Marlin from driving duties. Parsons would bring the #44 home in nineteenth, 16 laps down. J.D. McDuffie capitalized on the heavy attrition and the misfortunes of the other independents to score a rare top-20 finish, coming across the line in twentieth, 18 laps down. Truck racer Charlie Baker scored his best finish of the 1987 season in his first start, bringing the Salmon Racing #93 Chevy home 29 laps down in twenty-first. Jimmy Means had the front end of his car torn off after two separate accidents in the opening laps. Despite the damage, Means toughed it out to finish 31 laps down in twenty-second. After an aborted run for Rookie of the Year in 1986, former modified racer Jerry Cranmer returned for another attempt at the award, now driving for Elmo Langley's team. Cranmer was brutally slow throughout the day, finishing 31 laps off the pace in twenty-third after an early trip to the garage area. Chet Fillip suffered damage in an early pile-up and never recovered, finishing 51 laps down in twenty-fourth. Alan Kulwicki had another poor qualifying effort, then crashed into the wall shortly after halfway. The #7 Ford limped across the line to finish in twenty-fifth, 52 laps down. D.K. Ulrich made his first start of the season, struggling with pace and finishing 57 laps off the leader in twenty-sixth. Bobby Wawak's first start of the season saw him struggle to keep on the lead lap, finishing 74 laps down in twenty-seventh. For his efforts, he will receive the "NewGuyOnTheBlock Snail Award" for this race. Cale Yarborough ran well in the opening laps before fading late, eventually dropping out with a blown transmission after 339 laps. Harry Gant DNF Counter: 2. Gant was caught up in a crash with Greg Sacks and eventually dropped out with a blown engine after 335 laps. Greg Sacks was having a solid day, running inside the top-10 before he was collected in a crash with Harry Gant on lap 324. Buddy Baker led a lap and was running inside the top-10 when his engine blew on lap 244. Memories of 1986 came back to haunt Geoff Bodine as he had a fast car early, but would not make it to the finish. After qualifying on the front row, Bodine led 2 laps early before his engine blew on lap 229. Rookie Mark Stahl once again struggled to keep up with the rest of the field, dropping out after 127 laps with an overheating engine. Benny Parsons followed up his runner-up effort at Daytona with a solid performance in the opening stages at the Rock. Parsons led 21 laps and was running amongst the leaders when he suffered terminal engine failure on lap 80. Dave Marcis narrowly avoided several early crashes, but was eventually knocked out of the race when he couldn't avoid the lap 80 "Big One". Ron Bouchard had another forgetful run in the Ellington Racing #1 Chevy, running sub-30th throughout the early stages of the race and retiring after 79 laps due to damage sustained in the "Big One". James Hylton took over the reins of his #48 Chevy for this race after having Steve Moore attempt the Daytona 500 in the car. The 52-year-old Hylton qualified dead-last and was one of 7 cars eliminated in the lap 80 pile-up. Tommy Ellis made his first start of the season after failing to make the Daytona 500. Ellis was one of several cars eliminated in a lap 80 pile-up on the backstretch. David Sosebee was caught up in an early pile-up on the backstretch, suffering terminal damage to his Chevy. Patrick Latimer made his lone Winston Cup appearance, driving for Buck Baker's team. Latimer was running amongst the backmarkers when he was punted by Eddie Bierschwale into the outside wall on lap 43, putting him out of the race. Jesse Samples Jr. made his first career start after a successful career in the Dash Series. Samples struggled with handling in the opening laps, eventually crashing out on lap 9. Jerry Holden's race ended in a shower of sparks and smoke when his engine blew on lap 9, causing him to spin out at pit entrance. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: