|| *Comments on the 1988 AC Spark Plug 500:* View the most recent comment <#19> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. MOST posted: 05.06.2006 - 5:48 am Rate this comment: (0) (1) This may be the race where Greg Sacks tumbled and landed upside down, he burned his hand on hot oil that was spraying out of the engine. 2. driver1 posted: 06.22.2006 - 9:07 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) That was the race a year later. 3. Clayton posted: 02.26.2008 - 1:16 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Why was Morgan Shepherd in the 75 and not Neil Bonnett? 4. SK posted: 03.12.2008 - 9:05 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Kenny Schrader records his career-best finish in Winston Cup racing, but he wouldn't have to wait long to top it -- his stunning drive from 4th to 1st on the final lap at Talladega was only one week away. 5. Taylor posted: 08.09.2009 - 5:54 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) What was up with the 25 lap caution from lap 80 to 105? 6. Clayton posted: 10.05.2010 - 11:40 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Every car in the field had Hoosier tires on. Goodyear brought tires to the track that were 15/100 of an inch too wide for NASCAR specs and they were told to go home. First time Goodyear was not fielding in a NASCAR Race since the late 1960's and had nearly 570 consecutive starts. 7. Walleyewhacker posted: 05.26.2011 - 11:25 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I paid bonzo bucks to my local cable channel to watch this race, but you got the entire race without any commercials. I still have my tape. The race was halted for an hour to replace and weld in a new section of boiler plate between turn one and the tunnel turn thatg was damaged from a nasty crash. Pocono was really a rough track back then, and it was around this time that CART finally had enough with the substandard and dangerous boiler plate walls and bumpy track surface that it dropped Pocono from it's schedule. 8. Terry Maynard posted: 02.02.2013 - 11:58 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Morgan Shepherd would fill in for Neil Bonnett here and at Talladega the next week. Bonnett was recovering from gall bladder surgery. He would return by the time they raced at Watkins Glen on August 14th. 9. Anonymous auto racing fan. posted: 05.24.2016 - 9:35 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Bonnett was originally planning on running the 1st lap for the points but when shepherd qualified the car on pole bonnett decided to forego the points and let morgan run the entire race. 10. Ryan posted: 02.07.2017 - 8:56 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Race was on Viewers choice PPV with Mike Joy and Ron Bouchard in the booth 11. saltsburgtrojanfan posted: 02.08.2017 - 2:25 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Caution 1: debris turn 1 Caution 2: #52 engine Caution 3: #29 spun turn 3 Caution 4: #8 stalled turn 2 Caution 5: #80 accident turn 1 12. jensenators posted: 02.23.2017 - 2:28 am Rate this comment: (3) (0) In one of the best cases of irony, This race had every car run on Hoosier tires, but aerial coverage was by the Goodyear blimp. 13. jensenators posted: 02.23.2017 - 2:51 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Watching the race now on youtube. From what I see the caution at lap 80 ended at lap 86, then on lap 92 was a crash between 3, 15, 83, 68, and 43. After a red flag to fix the wall that broke from lake speed hitting it, and to fix a scoring issue the green flag came out on lap 102. 14. NEPAracefan posted: 03.14.2017 - 2:30 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The Lake Speed accident was vicious. After he made contact with Petty he went straight on into the wall then nearly flipped over it after the boiler plate gave way. The next year he had one of the hardest hits I've ever seen in motorsports. Turn 1 in general has been home to huge hits over the years. Had Pocono had concrete walls in the late 80's either this or the '89 accident would have killed Speed imo. 15. Gray Gaulding's Distant Cousin posted: 07.02.2018 - 12:13 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was Harry Gant's first lead lap finish since the Firecracker 400 the previous year. 16. Jimnsimforever posted: 12.11.2018 - 6:42 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) You can blame Goodyear and Hoosier and their 1988 tire war for many of the nasty crashes that happened that season from blown tires. They were throwing safety out the window to see who could make the softest tire that would go faster but may blow up at any time. Seemed every race up to this point had pit reporters showing blistered tires that were taken off cars. Blistered and cut tires cost Dale Earnhardt the 8th title he could've had this year. It was a conspiracy to get Bill Elliott a title. :) :) :) 17. Tigerman posted: 05.20.2020 - 12:48 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ben Hess drove a self-owned #40 Oldsmobile. 18. Rich posted: 09.17.2020 - 3:03 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Mike Joy and Ron Bouchard were the commentators. Pat Patterson and Bob Heiss were the pit road reporters. Pat Scanlon was the network host. 19. Ivan_Ball posted: 02.09.2021 - 4:37 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) GNS race report gives the following cautions rundown: Cautions: 6 for 37 laps: 15-16 (debris T1), 29-32 (#52 engine), 80-88 (#29 spun T3), 93-105 (#3, #15, #68 #83 crash T1), 128-130 (#8 stalled T2), 144-150 (#80 crash T1) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: