|| *Comments on the 1987 Talladega 500:* View the most recent comment <#34> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. Matthew Sullivan posted: 12.16.2005 - 4:31 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) NASCAR's last race without the use of restrictor plates. 2. nascarman posted: 05.15.2006 - 11:11 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Cale's last top 5. 3. MOST posted: 06.06.2006 - 2:03 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Can someone confirm that Brett Bodine flipped several times early in this race? 4. smiff posted: 12.14.2006 - 8:07 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I can't confirm whether he flipped or not, but right after the wreck, CBS showed his car and the roof's a little caved in on the side. I'd say he must've at least gotten up on his side, but they never showed a replay of it. 5. most posted: 12.16.2006 - 7:31 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Thanks, was not sure, I have the race on tape but the first little bit is cut off and all I heard was them talking about his "wild Ride". 6. Matt posted: 12.22.2006 - 5:34 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) DNQ: Connie Saylor 7. COOL MAN 12 posted: 08.09.2007 - 4:28 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Yes Brett flipped 4 times down in this race. I have it on DVD as well. 8. RaceFanX posted: 03.05.2008 - 9:40 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Last NASCAR race for Chet Fillip, he finished 20th in Buddy Arrington's #67 Ford 9. Mamorese posted: 03.07.2008 - 10:58 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was the last race without restrictor plates, however, NASCAR did implement a special carburetor in order to reduce speeds. 10. Clayton posted: 06.09.2008 - 10:52 am Rate this comment: (3) (3) Awesome Bill Kicks Butt again! The last unrestricted SuperSpeedway Race!! :( AWESOME BILL is the reason why there are restrictor plates!! The truely talented won at these tracks when it was unrestricted. Some guys get a lot luckier because of the damn Follow the Leader garbage we are watching today! 11. Anonymous posted: 12.19.2009 - 9:57 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) DNQ 6 Connie Saylor 192.058 12. Ryan posted: 03.07.2010 - 12:32 pm Rate this comment: (2) (3) Another dumb comment by Clayton. Damn, he has a bunch of them on here 13. Doc posted: 05.11.2010 - 2:15 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Last race for Chet Fillip. 14. Chris posted: 09.30.2010 - 5:35 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Planning on watching this race on DVD tonight 15. MegaRacer posted: 06.17.2012 - 3:49 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The last 200+ mph pole qualifier until June 16, 2012 at Michigan. 16. Ed posted: 09.28.2012 - 12:04 am Rate this comment: (0) (1) Can one of you guys who has this race on DVD upload Bodine's flip to YouTube? 17. Roger posted: 10.08.2012 - 12:21 pm Rate this comment: (3) (0) Clayton isn't all wrong. While I believe we can all agree Bobby Allison's accident in the Winston 500 caused RP's to be introduced Nascar had tried everything under the sun to slow Bill Elliott down on superspeedways since 1985 including that sorry excuse for holding Bill in the pits of the 1985 Daytona 500. When the tires were slick and the cars were fast there were very few better than Bill...let us not forget he didn't have the major backing if a Hendrick or Roush.... 18. Chris posted: 10.16.2012 - 7:45 am Rate this comment: (1) (1) Oh my goodness!!! Get off of Elliott's nuts, Clayton. NASCAR actually first used restrictor plates from 1970-1974 because of escalating speeds. The Bobby Allison crash was the reason they brought them back at Daytona and Talladega and the deaths of Adam Petty and Kenny Irwin made NASCAR decide to use them once at New Hampshire. It had NOTHING to do with Elliott. 19. tomasher posted: 08.30.2013 - 4:18 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Was Benny Parsons really sponsored by Skoal Classic in this race, and not Folgers? 20. zuel660 posted: 12.07.2013 - 10:51 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) @ 19 - if he was, that would be a unique paint scheme for the #35 in '87 - but I'm thinking he should have been in the green Folger's car instead 21. Aldo posted: 01.04.2014 - 6:43 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Tracy Read died in an accident during the support saturday's ARCA race. Read was also a member of the Cale Yarbotough's team crew. 22. Walleyewhacker posted: 04.06.2014 - 12:28 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Those 1987 Thunderbirds were whicked fast at Daytona and Talladega. I think the GM teams were shocked how much of an improvement they were compared to the 1986 Thunderbirds that were aerodynamically unbalanced with the front spoiler, unlike the 1986 GM cars that were helped by it along with the Monte Carlo SS aero cuope rear window and special Pontiac Grnad Prix rear window. Had Bill Elliott not had the engine problems he had in the first half of 1987, he would have won 9-10 races in 1987 instead of only 6. He got them fixed in the second half of 1987 and won 5 times with wins coming at Talladega, MIS, Charlotte, Rockingham and Atlanta. 23. Jeff Wagoner (ARCA Results Archive) posted: 03.29.2015 - 12:54 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Caution #1: #8 Blown Engine, Turn 1 Caution #2: #1,#75 Crash, Backstretch Caution #3: Debris Caution #4: #01 Crash, Backstretch 24. The Great Dave posted: 01.08.2017 - 8:21 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Jeff Swindell's lone NASCAR start. Sort of by accident, but I discovered that his sponsor "ATPSI / Guissin" were involved in Hporse Racing and were inovled with the legendary Calumet Farms horse stable. 25. Brad R. posted: 01.08.2017 - 9:15 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Post # 24 Actually it was Jeff Swindell's second and last start. He was also in the the second Atlanta race in '86 26. RaceFanX posted: 05.28.2017 - 8:18 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) While originally aired by ESPN thiis race lated aired nationwide on broadcast TV on FOX...30 years later. FOX used a 30-minute highlighted version of this one as filler during a rain delay during the 2017 Coca-Cola 600. 27. Anonymous posted: 07.27.2017 - 12:38 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Actually, Fox showed the earlier Talladega race won by Davey Allison. 28. Jordan posted: 01.25.2018 - 4:11 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) As mention earlier the 87 Thunderbirds were super slick compared to the older style Monte Carlos and Grand Prix's. While the aero coupe body styles did help somewhat for the two main GM cars, even the Buicks & Oldsmobiles were more aerodynamic. This would change in 1988 with the introduction of the front wheel drive Grand Prix's new body style & in 1989 for Chevy with the new Lumina. I still wish they would not have gone to restrictor plates and used softwalls, better double layer catch fencing and HANS devices instead. Before anyone says this is pushing modern technology backwards, it is not. Ontario Motor Speedway in California had soft walls in the 1960s upon opening. The HANS device was being developed during the late 80s and several IMSA drivers worn them in competition. 29. 1995 Subaru WRX STi posted: 01.25.2018 - 5:21 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) ^ Back in 2004 Rusty Wallace toke a then modern Cup car around Dega without a plate and did on average about 227mph, reached maybe 240mph. I firmly believe a Cup car today could go faster then in 2004. Plates are safer then not having them. Another option is too simply not racing at Daytona and Talladega. not racing is the cheapest way too go, everything else costs money. Money that fans love spending when they don't have it. If all of us were geniuses it would have been fixed a long time ago. Now you are right that safer walls were around. Pocono used too have steel walls and yes the HANS was around in the last 80's but from what I've heard it was a cumbersome thing and was uncomfortable. 30. RaceFanX posted: 01.25.2018 - 10:19 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) "and yes the HANS was around in the last 80's but from what I've heard it was a cumbersome thing and was uncomfortable." That argument remained right through the early 2000s, while NASCAR saw some early adopters others held off amid concerns it wasn't comfortable or restricted their ability to move their head too much, costing them the ability to see as much as they needed to. Tony Stewart was a very vocal critic of it but NASCAR mandated it on all levels after Blaise Alexander died in an ARCA crash. 31. nascarman posted: 01.26.2018 - 9:59 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) From what I've read, the HANS came in small, medium, and large and drivers had to find the one closest to their size. It was likely that if they wore one, their neck would be bent the entire race because it didn't fit perfectly. Once Earnhardt died, they started making them custom sized for each driver so they would be more comfortable and it wouldnt be a pain to wear. 32. Ryan posted: 05.04.2018 - 9:02 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Walleye, good engine or bad engine, no one was no match for Earnhardt in the first half of 1987. A lot of the races was on short tracks and Elliott only had two career short tracks wins (Bristol '88 and Richmond '92). He just wasn't a bullringer. He was good when he had unbelievable power. 33. SweetRich posted: 02.20.2020 - 5:34 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The Commentators For The Race Were Ken Squier And Ned Jarrett. The Pit Road Reporters Were Chris Economaki And Mike Joy. 34. Jordan posted: 11.06.2020 - 11:59 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The whole race is on youtube with the original commercials. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhHscHfbcRc ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: