|| *Comments on the 1988 Valleydale Meats 500:* View the most recent comment <#26> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. MOST posted: 05.07.2006 - 5:37 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Wild finish, Bill's only short track win. 2. Darrell posted: 09.02.2006 - 9:15 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Only career Cup pole for Rick Wilson. 3. myself posted: 02.13.2007 - 3:25 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Why is Handsome Harry's status, who led the most laps in this race, by the way, listed as "quit?" 4. Matt posted: 03.06.2007 - 12:44 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Gant got wrecked by Dave Marcis while he was leading and then tried to beat Bill Elliott back to the line to not lose the lap. NASCAR said he lost the lap while Harry didn't think he did. NASCAR gave Gant a 1 lap penalty for not giving the lap back in addition to the lost lap from the crash. Gant was so angry about NASCAR's decision that he parked the car. 5. RaceFanX posted: 03.16.2008 - 6:15 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Mark Martin finishes a career-best to that point 2nd. It would take more than a year to finally beat that 6. Ryan posted: 08.18.2008 - 1:20 am Rate this comment: (3) (1) Wrong, Bill Elliott won at Richmond in a great duel with Alan Kulwicki in 1992 7. Matthew Sullivan posted: 08.14.2011 - 11:38 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Of further note, Marcis was three laps off the pace before he drove into Gant and ruined the 33 car's day. Pretty rediculous that a driver multiple laps down would ruin the chances of a driver who was not only on the lead lap, but was looking for his first victory in many races. 8. Unser1 posted: 12.06.2011 - 6:10 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was Mark Martin's first top-5 driving for Jack Roush and his first overall since Darlington back in the spring of 1983 when he drove for J.D. Stacy. 9. Schroeder51 posted: 04.10.2012 - 3:31 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Here's the caution flags for this race: Laps 31-37: #52 Jimmy Means, #4 Rick Wilson, #10 Ken Bouchard crash Turn 2 Laps 63-73: #17 Darrell Waltrip crash Turn 3 Laps 111-116: #4 Rick Wilson crash Turn 2 Laps 118-125: #29 Dale Jarrett, #15 Brett Bodine, #71 Dave Marcis, #27 Rusty Wallace crash Turn 1 Laps 183-186: #7 Alan Kulwicki crash Turn 4 Laps 257-261: Debris, frontstretch Laps 273-278: #31 Brad Teague crash, fronstretch Laps 283-285: #30 Michael Waltrip (Dale Jarrett driving in relief) spin, Turn 2 Laps 291-295: #2 Ernie Irvan, #10 Ken Bouchard crash, fronstretch Laps 379-383: #26 Ricky Rudd crash, Turn 4 Laps 419-424: #33 Harry Gant, #71 Dave Marcis crash turn 3 Laps 493-496: #9 Bill Elliott spin, Turn 3 10. cbtbartley09@gmail.com posted: 04.14.2012 - 9:29 pm Rate this comment: (0) (2) We named this race "the spin to win race". the kind of race Bill needed to win to go on to win a championship!!! 11. Nascar Lead Lap Points posted: 09.29.2014 - 3:57 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Mike Potter drove a #64. Owner was Mike Potter and car was a Chevy (Same for all the races he DNQ and WD in 1988) 12. Jimmie Jameson posted: 08.23.2015 - 4:35 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Morgan Shepherd relived Kyle Petty at the lap 273 caution 13. Jimmie Jameson posted: 08.23.2015 - 4:39 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Also Dale Jarrett relived Michael Waltrip before spinning and bringing out a caution. 14. Gulf Coast Marc posted: 01.12.2016 - 4:55 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-P6gP3IYNs 15. Evan posted: 01.12.2016 - 11:06 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Bill Elliott's only short track win, because short track racing was never Bill's cup of tea. All of the close quarters racing and bumping and grinding just never was his oyster when his competitors Rusty Wallace, Dale Earnhardt and Harry Gant made it theirs. 16. Minnowfur posted: 01.12.2016 - 11:14 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) What happened to the 3 car in this race? 17. 52 posted: 01.13.2016 - 9:06 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Not his only short track win. The Pontiac excitement 400 at Richmond in 1992. 18. Conspiracy? posted: 06.03.2016 - 9:07 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) I have watched this race on the internets machine box - youtube. That whole Gant/Marcis thing is weird. Did Marcis spin Gant intentionally? I think Gant was the only car on Hoosier tires, Marcis is a lifelong Goodyear man - I think he did a lot of tire testing for them. 19. 52 posted: 04.10.2018 - 12:04 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Only 4 drivers in this race did not win a race in their career. That is an impressive lineup. Of the 4, Rick Wilson would come within 18 inches later that season. 20. Jimnsimforever posted: 12.09.2018 - 7:47 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Two people have said this was Bill Elliotts' only short track win in his cup career and two people have come back and said he won in Richmond in 92. Remember, the first Richmond race in this 88 season was the final 1/2 mile race there and when they went back there in the fall it was what it is now. Many people really consider the 1/2 mile tracks and the 1/3 mile tracks as true short track racing. Richmond turned into a 3/4 mile track and made it kind of a hybrid. A lot of people quit thinking of it as a true short track. 21. Jimnsimforever posted: 12.09.2018 - 8:40 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @16 After running 1st or 2nd for a little over 300 laps the 3 car of Earnhardt broke a fuel pump and ended his chances to win. They did get the car back out there and made what would've been a 24th place into a 14th place finish and kept the points lead heading out of this race. 22. @20 posted: 12.09.2018 - 9:05 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) I've never heard anyone NOT call Richmond a short track - where in the world are you hearing that? 23. Jimnsimforever posted: 12.09.2018 - 9:14 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) @ 18 Marcis didn't spin Gant intentionally. If you watch closely right before the wreck happens you see Dave Marcis back end start to go out, so I think he just lost it and of course the person he would take out would be Harry Gant who not only had bad luck and hadn't won a race in 3 years at this point, but hadn't even had a top 5 in 2 years. For like 4 years straight Harry Gant had the worst luck in the world. 24. SweetRich posted: 02.20.2020 - 4:32 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The Commentators For The Race Were Bob Jenkins, Ned Jarrett And Gary Nelson. The Pit Road Reporters Were Jerry Punch, Dick Berggren And Larry Nuber. 25. DantheMan posted: 03.14.2020 - 2:59 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Richmond is a short track. I have literally never met a Nascar fan that didn't consider it a short track. The two were 100% right and the rest 100% wrong. Bill has two short track wins and should have had a third in 1990 at Martinsville but he got the Hamlin treatment himself in that race. Bill didn't win a lot at short tracks but he ran well at most of those races. Not winning doesn't equal no top 5's or top 10's. His smaller operation couldn't afford to focus on them as much as the speedway stuff but they brought a specialist in at the end of '86 and he helped them improve that aspect of their team. 26. Anonymous posted: 12.20.2020 - 8:33 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Someone asked Bill how he was able to save the car when Bodine spun him. Bill said: "I don't know, I had my eyes closed." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: