|| *Comments on the 1987 Budweiser 400:* View the most recent comment <#31> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. MASH_guy posted: 06.10.2005 - 8:58 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The final win of Tim Richmond's career. It's a little ironic that it came (As well as his first win) came at Riverside, which would disappear as well after 1988. 2. Potato posted: 06.24.2006 - 10:20 am Rate this comment: (1) (1) Also his fourth win at Riverside, one of the toughest courses the modern series has ever raced on. 3. Matt posted: 06.28.2006 - 7:48 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) 65 year old Jim Fitzgerald finished 17th in a fifth Hendrick Motorsports entry. 4. Bill posted: 07.14.2006 - 5:44 am Rate this comment: (2) (0) Richard Petty is credited with the 6th place finish, but it was actually Joe Ruttman driving the car. Petty turned the car over to him during the pace laps and then went to the broadcast booth to join the worst announcer ever, Larry Nuber. 5. Kevin posted: 08.14.2006 - 5:42 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Larry Nuber sucked!!!!! The week after Rich Vogler was killed, he asked Jeff Gordon how it was like to finish 2nd to a dead guy. Or something like that! Jeff was cool and said that Vogler won that race and was a true winner! Larry Nuber for the most part disappeared!! 6. Matt posted: 08.17.2006 - 4:33 am Rate this comment: (0) (1) Nuber was still 1,000 times better than Bill Weber. 7. Thomas posted: 08.28.2006 - 8:48 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) All I remember about Larry Nuber was that he gave the classic "Bill Elliott has won an additional million dollars in 1985" declaration when Awesome Bill won the Winston Million at Darlington. Then I remember hearing on RPM 2Night that he died of a heart attack. Anyway, I only saw a few of his broadcasts, but Larry Nuber was definitely 1,000 times better than Bill Weber, as Matt said. A piece of celery is about 250 times better than Bill Weber, by comparison. 8. Bill posted: 09.20.2006 - 5:57 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) If you think Nuber is better than Weber, you obviously don't remember Larry Nuber that well. Nuber is the worst announcer I've ever heard 9. Bill Weber--I mean--Steve posted: 11.08.2006 - 5:35 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) We'll see what happens when other people respond! 10. Matt posted: 01.01.2007 - 9:57 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) While Nuber wasn't very good at announcing, he knew a heck of a lot more about racing than Weber ever did, hence why I give Nuber the nod. Trust me, I've seen a bunch of races with Nuber and Weber doesn't even come close. On the Nuber asking Gordon that question about Vogler, I'm sure Larry meant no harm in asking that question as he was great friends with both Vogler and Gordon. Nuber was close enough to Vogler to almost fight Steve Chassey on a Saturday Night Thunder telecast over Chassey calling some of Vogler's moves dirty. 11. Bill posted: 05.10.2007 - 6:07 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I still disagree about Nuber. He was awful. My favorite was the Larry Nuber field summary....where he would just start annoucing random cars he saw on the track....and half the time he was wrong. I work with some people who used to work with Nuber and when it came to discovering talent....he did have an eye for that. But for annoucing? He never took it seriously. 12. Zed--3_8fan4eva posted: 06.21.2007 - 10:25 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Was Nuber the guy that called the fnish to the 84' Pepsi 400 if so..yes he wasnt any good 13. MontanaNASCARFan posted: 03.07.2008 - 5:28 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) It was Jim Lampley and Sam Posey that called the 1984 Firecracker 400 for ABC, not Larry Nuber. 14. most posted: 03.24.2008 - 6:35 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Yeah, Larry Nuber was WAY better than what we have now (don't even get me started on the much worse Indycar announcers!). It should be noted that Larry died on 6-8-00 of a Cerebral hemorrhage. So, while many are bashing him, I want to give him props for being a great voice on the team! 15. clayton posted: 06.20.2008 - 11:19 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Bill Weber I am sure is WAY Worse then Larry Nuber! Weber is an idiot!! I can't believe he still has a job, which is why TNT sucks so bad! 16. DIM#666 posted: 05.12.2009 - 12:03 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) RIP tim richmond forever!!!!!!!!!!! 17. Chris posted: 07.01.2009 - 8:12 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Anyone have this race on DVD? 18. 18fan posted: 11.03.2009 - 11:42 pm Rate this comment: (0) (2) Bill "The Caution is Out the Race is Over" Weber got fired by TNT for disputing the quality of his hotel room in New Hampshire this summer. 19. Anonymous posted: 12.19.2009 - 10:57 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) DNQ 77 Ray Kelly 76 Roman Calczynski 2 St. James Davis 41 Jack Sellers 20. Anonymous posted: 05.14.2010 - 5:51 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jim Fitzgerald makes his last of two NASCAR starts, driving a car painted identical to Geoff Bodine's. Jim was killed in an accident just five months later in the Trans Am St. Petersburg Grand Prix. 21. the Great Dave posted: 11.25.2012 - 7:34 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Two notes here. http://bakerracingpix.com/data/images/1987bud006.jpg According to this picture the #64 was a Chevy http://bakerracingpix.com/data/images/1987bud056.jpg According to this pic the #62 was entered in the race, Probably with Steve Christman Driving(given the rookie stripe there). 22. Zach posted: 12.16.2012 - 6:29 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) One out of only two races where Dale Earnhardt did not lead atleast one lap in the whole 1987 season. 23. myself posted: 05.20.2013 - 10:57 am Rate this comment: (1) (2) Then it was a good race. 24. The Great Dave posted: 06.27.2013 - 10:22 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) DNQ #62 Steve Christman 25. Josh posted: 06.06.2017 - 10:41 pm Rate this comment: (1) (3) I was born in the evening of the day this race was run! 26. RaceFanX posted: 08.17.2017 - 2:30 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I have to wonder if Petty's pace lap driver change played into NASCAR's decision to change the rules so a driver had to start the race to get the credit and the points (leading into some later start and pit right away to change drivers substitutions in later years). 27. RaceFanX posted: 11.12.2017 - 6:00 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Rusty Wallace blows up in the opening lap and finishes dead last. It's a notable result because this was the third-to-last NASCAR Winston Cup race at Riverside and Rusty would bounce back to win both of the last two. 28. Louis Novotny posted: 11.18.2017 - 11:40 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) ...no one ever went from 2 to 6 at Riverside in a stock car like Tim Richmond did that day - the front end on the #25 was steppin' over every red and white strip it came to, lap after lap 29. bbigjohnson posted: 02.23.2019 - 9:40 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @ Louis Novotny - In the previous race at Riverside ('86 Winston Western 500) Tim Richmond won the pole and set a track record breaking the old one by over a full mph (1.241 mph). People that saw him qualify said it was incredible and they'd never seen anyone turn a lap like that, he was balls out, all over the track, right on the edge of control/out of control. I've been watch NASCAR since mid '70s. He's certainly one of the top 5 most talented drivers IMO. I'd don't say best because the knock on him was he was hard on equipment. 30. Rich posted: 09.25.2020 - 11:32 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Larry Nuber and Dr. Dick Berggren were the commentators. Marty Reid was the sole pit road reporter. 31. NewGuyOnTheBlock posted: 04.01.2021 - 10:19 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Cautions: 1 - #32 spin turn 6 2 - #30 engine 3 - #7 crash turn 2 4 - #5 stopped on track ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: