|| *Comments on the 1987 Winston Western 500:* View the most recent comment <#33> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. mcmurrayfan posted: 06.14.2006 - 4:38 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Last Winston Cup Top 5 for Benny Parsons. 2. mcmurrayfan posted: 07.09.2006 - 8:08 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Last race that the number 6 wasn't owned by Roush and driven by Mark Martin. 3. Matt posted: 11.01.2006 - 1:37 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Bill Elliott's crew was involved in a pit crash with Michael Waltrip: "The only serious accident occurred in the pits on lap 8, during the first of four full-course caution flags. Three of Bill Elliott's crewmen were injured, one critically, when Jim Robinson ran into the rear of Michael Waltrip's car, sending the latter care spinning into Elliott's pit. The impact knocked Elliott's car off the jack and onto Charles Hill, 22, of Dawsonville, Ga., the team's rear tire-changer. Hill was reported in critical but stable condition in Riverside Community Hospital following surgery Sunday to remove his spleen and repair tears to his liver. He also suffered a broken right arm and dislocated hip. Steve Colwell, 35, of Blairsville, Ga., the team's jackman, suffered a broken jaw, a fracture to his right knee and lacerations on his chin that required stitches. Tire carrier Butch Stevens, 36, of Charlotte, N.C., suffered three fractures to his right leg below the knee." 4. Matt posted: 12.22.2006 - 5:28 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) DNQ: Trevor Boys, John Krebs, Brad Noffsinger, St. James Davis, and Jack Sellers. 5. Hollywood posted: 06.04.2007 - 7:25 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Rick Hendrick takes the reins of the #25 for himself in his first Cup series start. 6. SK posted: 12.13.2007 - 6:31 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Tommy Kendall's first Winston Cup start. 7. Steve.M. posted: 05.28.2008 - 5:14 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Intro = http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=nQWnOKK7MxQ Start = http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=nNXHvWv4GE8 Pit Road Accident = http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=-5tBT-_kH-8 Earnhardt vs Bodine = http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=5Koly3NlXUM Bodine Blows Tire = http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=rFgEnm0qfx8 Finish = http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=LPFs-hLhMXU Post Race = http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=BVjFZm4PzNc 8. Steve posted: 08.20.2008 - 12:11 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Jocko Maggiacomo earned $975, Tommy Kendall received $950, and Glen Steurer got $925. Nobody would ever again be awarded with less than $1000 for a Winston Cup race. 9. RaceFanX posted: 07.21.2009 - 11:59 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Final NASCAR Cup race for 3-time Winston West champion Jim Robinson 10. Anonymous posted: 12.19.2009 - 10:14 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) DNQ 12 Trevor Boys 113.159 66 John Krebs 112.448 98 Brad Noffsinger 109.360 St. James Davis 105.828 Jack Sellers 102.736 11. Anonymous posted: 03.19.2010 - 6:25 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Until today, I never knew Rick Hendrick drove a Cup race 12. Jeremy Siple posted: 06.06.2010 - 9:13 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Final Cup start for the great George Follmer. 13. 00andJoe posted: 07.25.2011 - 8:45 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ernie Irvan's #6 was the Dale Earnhardt Chevrolet Chevrolet (the sponsor was Dale's dealership). 14. The Great Dave posted: 09.07.2011 - 10:45 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) DNQ Brad Noffsinger 15. The Great Dave posted: 02.09.2012 - 1:15 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) DNQ 12 Trevor Boys 113.159 66 John Krebs Skoal Olds112.448 98 Brad Noffsinger Curb Records / Ultra Limo Chevy 109.360 16 Reno Fontana Quaker State Pontiac St. James Davis 105.828 Jack Sellers 102.736 16. Matthew Lewis posted: 04.01.2012 - 11:24 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Bob Howard also entered (and at least practiced) his #89 Pennzoil Oldsmobile for this race. I'm not sure why he wasn't mentioned in the DNQ's. Maybe he had to withdraw before qualifying for some reason? But regardless, here's the proof http://martinsactionphotography.smugmug.com/Cars/Autoracing/Nascar-Winston-Cup-Rverside/i-f67Vkw9/1/XL/stock-cars-050-XL.jpg Man! Three Quaker State cars (#16, 26 & 32) Two Coors cars (#9, 95) Three SKOAL cars (#33, 55, 66) Two Levi Garrett cars (#5, 51) Two Folgers cars (#25, 35) with Rick Hendrick driving one! I miss those days! 17. myself posted: 05.20.2013 - 11:26 am Rate this comment: (0) (2) 3 road races out of 29?! 18. dUDE gUY posted: 06.02.2013 - 12:28 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) What's wrong with three road courses? I would love to see at least another road course on the schedule. 19. Anthony posted: 04.05.2014 - 4:13 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) NASCAR loves mile and a half tracks 20. Walleyewhacker posted: 04.06.2014 - 12:50 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) I would love to see a race in Wisconsin at the Road America road course and in Ohio at the Mid-Ohio roard course. Nationwide series is racing there now at both tracks. Dump a race at Dover and New Hampshire or the second Talladega event. There should be at least one road course event during the Chase. 21. Matthew Sullivan posted: 11.08.2015 - 12:08 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Noffsinger's DNQ car was a Pontiac. 22. MattJ posted: 05.10.2016 - 10:55 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Last win for the short lived Pontiac 2+2. All four of the car's victory came with Rusty Wallace driving, and all of them were either on short tracks or road courses. Kind of an odd stat for a car that was designed to be better aerodynamically at super speedways. 23. RaceFanX posted: 05.11.2016 - 12:53 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Neil Bennett did win one of the exhibition NASCAR races at the Calder Park Thunderdome superspeedway in Australia with a Pontiac 2+2 but yeah it's still weird that the car designed for speedway racing didn't run all that well on them. 24. John Royal posted: 05.11.2016 - 4:00 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I think what Wallace did with the Pontiac was fairly good feat if you look at the other teams and drivers with Pontiac. Not very strong fleet. 25. 00McDowellFan posted: 09.01.2017 - 5:31 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Never knew Rick Hendrick drove a cup race, the more you know 26. Maverick19 posted: 09.25.2017 - 10:52 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Benny Parsons' 199th and final top 5. One more and he would've hit 200. 27. RaceFanX posted: 11.12.2017 - 5:57 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Rusty Wallace backs up his win at Watkins Glen earlier in the year with the first of his two victories at Riverside, scoring both of his 1987 wins on road courses. This was the penultimate Cup race at Riverside and the last fall event for the historic track. 28. Dorsal Fin posted: 08.22.2018 - 11:25 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) A very rare instance of Elmo Langley campaigning a non Ford product since the late 50's. 29. RaceFanX posted: 03.29.2019 - 2:29 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Geoff Bodine and Cup series champion Dale Earnhardt had an epic, door banging battle for the lead throughout the middle stages of this race. The titanic battle of yellow Chevrolets was the highlight of the race but both drivers would pay the price for it, Earnhardt used up his car blew the #3's motor, he had already locked up the series title one race earlier at Rockingham and had decided to go for broke in this one with nothing to lose. Bodine's #5 Monte Carlo was the fastest car on track after that but he would then blow a tire in the closing laps and went screaming off the track into a large mud puddle at Turn 1 as a result. Bodine's hopes of victory were dashed but he limped back to the pits and salvaged a top-10. With both Geoff and Dale out of contention Rusty Wallace inherited the lead and drove to victory, Benny Parsons and Kyle Petty were too busy racing each other for second place to make a serious run at Wallace for the victory. Ken Schrader won the NASCAR Southwest Tour race the day before this one but had a rough Cup weekend. He qualified near the back and failed to finish with an engine failure in his penultimate outing in Junie Donlavey's #90 Ford. 30. SweetRich posted: 02.20.2020 - 4:32 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The Commentators For The Race Were Ken Squier, Johnny Hayes And Buddy Baker. The Pit Road Reporters Were Pat Patterson And Jerry Garrett. 31. Kevin posted: 03.17.2020 - 5:42 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Caution #1 was for oil from Hershel McGriff's engine failure Caution #3 was for Bobby Hillin Jr. stalled on track Caution #4 was for oil from Ricky Rudd's engine failure 32. saltsburgtrojanfan posted: 08.13.2020 - 1:24 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Caution 2 was for debris 33. RaceFanX posted: 08.20.2020 - 2:43 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Future seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson attended this race as a spectator, the first time he was ever at a NASCAR race. Jimmie, then age 12, said he doesn't remember much about it, other than getting to see Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt racing, but his dad apparently thought it was really cool Rick Hendrick entered the Folgers #25 Chevrolet for himself. About 14 years later Johnson would start racing for Hendrick. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: