|| *Comments on the 1989 The Budweiser At The Glen:* View the most recent comment <#49> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. STbastien posted: 11.27.2005 - 3:19 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The King best finish that year.... 2. Matt posted: 02.07.2006 - 3:15 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Geoff Bodine had a vicious crash that was very similar to J.D. McDuffie's in the same turn after cutting down a tire on lap 89. Unlike J.D., Geoff still had brakes and also spun twice before slamming into the guardrail which prevented Geoff from any injury. 3. MOST posted: 06.10.2006 - 4:38 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Geoff went all the way through the guard rail, horrible crash 4. nascarman posted: 06.13.2006 - 12:00 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Tim Richmond died of aids at 5:12 a.m. that morning. 5. driver1 posted: 06.29.2006 - 11:24 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Does anyone have a cilp of Geoff Bodine's crash. 6. Destiny posted: 06.23.2007 - 5:12 am Rate this comment: (0) (2) It's Rusty's early birthday and guess what Tim Richmond passed away. 7. FHgrad99 posted: 09.13.2007 - 6:31 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jim Sauter equals his best career finish which is kind of surprising considering that he rarely ran road course races. 8. SK posted: 12.08.2007 - 3:11 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Though Morgan Shepherd was about to reel off a career-high string of eight consecutive finishes in the top-20 in points, this would be his last pole in Winston Cup racing. 9. Steve.M. posted: 02.18.2008 - 12:28 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) im actually kinda surprised that during the broadcast of this race how it wasnt mentioned at all that Tim Richmond had died, unless they didnt know yet, but you would think they did. Also yea that Geoff Bodine crash was something 10. Frogger49 posted: 02.19.2008 - 7:04 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) With Sauter's 9th place finish, keep in mind that he was driving the #44 for Group 44. This was a notable sports car team that ran the factory Jaguars in IMSA in the early to mid 1980's. The car was even painted up similar to the Jaguars of the early 1980's. Group 44 would have been very skilled in setting cars up for road courses (especially Watkins Glen, since they raced the Jaguars there), although I'm not really sure what could be transferred to a Winston Cup car from a sports car. 11. myself posted: 02.22.2008 - 10:08 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Does anyone who's watched this race recall how the announcers said anything about Richmond's death during the broadcast? 12. Destiny posted: 03.16.2008 - 6:34 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) No, After the race. 13. most posted: 03.19.2008 - 11:11 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Richmond was not on the best terms with NASCAR towards the end, remember that he was suing them for pulling his license, plus AIDS being what it was in the 80's I am thinking NASCAR would like to forget Tim Richmond.... :( 14. RaceFanX posted: 10.22.2008 - 5:27 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Best career finish for Darin Brassfield, 12th 15. jp posted: 03.14.2009 - 1:38 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Brassfield matched that finish, didnt he? 16. Clayton posted: 04.30.2009 - 3:56 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) unfortuatly most is right. NASCAR didn't really care about Richmond. It's a shame. He was a great racecar driver and NASCAR screwed him. I miss ole Tim! 17. Russ Shurtliff posted: 09.16.2009 - 12:18 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Here is the Finish of the race WITH Geoffrey Bodine's crash. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbNWkDZ8e_o 18. RaceFanX posted: 12.08.2009 - 11:20 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Brassfield ran just three Cup races, all in 1989, and this was his only top-20 19. Bobby posted: 03.17.2010 - 10:10 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I'm pretty sure that Tim Richmond's death wasn't made known to any media outlets until a couple of days later. He was in virtual seclusion because of the stigma attached with AIDS. 20. Stadler & Waldorf posted: 09.10.2010 - 9:36 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Just thought I'd share this article. Remember Tim and Enjoy Remembering Tim Richmond By Jim Kerekes jkerekes@prairie.lakes.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (June 25, 1998)- - It has been almost 11 years since Tim Richmond raced in a NASCAR event. Recently, a group of fans requested that the Pocono 500 at Pocono Raceway on June 21 be dedicated to Tim Richmond, the very same track where Tim won 4 of his 13 Winston Cup victories. NASCAR and Pocono Raceway ignored their requests, just as they have practically denied Timâ??s existence in the sport since his passing on August 13, 1989. Before the race started on Sunday, the forecast was for sunshine throughout the afternoon. Rain wasn't even an issue in the pre-race forecast, but the storm clouds came in. It was as if someone "up above" had said, "You can choose not to honor my memory. So, how about a little rain on your parade?" When I think of Pocono, I think of Tim Richmond. When I see the #25 Hendrick car, I think of Tim Richmond. Tim was, without a doubt, one of the best drivers to ever compete in NASCAR. I have never seen another driver with so much natural driving talent as Tim. He could make a stock car do things that no one else could; he would run high, run low, basically anywhere he wanted to go. Anyone who raced against Tim knew he was a real threat to win anytime and at any track. He always pushed the car to the edge, just like he lived his life, burning the candle at both ends. Unfortunately, Tim was taken away from us much too early in life, one of the countless victims of AIDS. NASCAR has shunned Tim since learning that he had the virus, but his peers have voted him as one of the 50 top drivers in the history of NASCAR. Tim didnâ??t start racing until the age of 21. He ran his first laps in a friendâ??s sprint car on what was supposed to be a lark. Tim was soon turning laps faster that the regular driver. He was hooked, this is what he wanted to do with his life. During the late 70â??s and early 80â??s, Tim raced Mini Indy cars, USAC sprint cars, eventually moved up to Indy cars. After an impressive debut in the 1980 Indy 500, Tim earned Rookie of the Race honors. One of those in attendance that day was Dr. Joesph Mattioli, founder and president of the Pocono Raceway in Pennsylvania. Dr. Mattioli was so impressed with Tim that he asked if he might be interested in driving a NASCAR stock car race there that July. Tim took him up on his offer. Tim finished 12th in the Pocono race that year in the DK Ulrich owned entry, and he never looked back. He would later describe the difference between Indy cars and stock cars as being that you "drove" an Indy car, but "raced" a stock car. Tim began driving full time in Winston Cup in 1981 for DK Ulrich, then moved on to other teams during that year. Driving for Ulrich, Kennie Childers, and Bob Rogers, Tim had 6 top 10â??s in 29 starts and wound up 16th in the points in 1981. He was without a ride in the 1982 season, but his fortunes were about to change. Joe Ruttman had a falling out with car owner JD Stacey, who then gave Tim a ride in one of the two teams that he owned. At Pocono that year Tim Richmond was engaged in a battle with Bobby Allison for the win. Tim might have won the race that year, as Bobby Allison had run out of fuel trying to stretch his gas mileage. Dave Marcis pushed Allison back to the pits, and Allison went to win by 3.1 seconds over Tim. But in the very next race that year in Riverside, Tim out drove Terry Labonte for his first win. After making the decision to leave Stacey at the end of the season to drive for Raymond Beadleâ??s new Blue Max team, Tim went out in style, winning the season ending race at Riverside, completing the sweep. Richmond had 2 wins, 7 top 5â??s and 12 top tens that year, placing him 26th in points in only 26 starts in 1982. Racing for the Old Milwaukee beer sponsored Blue Max team in 1983, Tim won one race, which just happened to be at Pocono. He finished the season with 10 top 5â??s and 15 top 10â??s, placing him 10th in the points that year. He signed on to drive for Blue Max again in 1984, winning another race, with 5 more top 5â??s, 11 top tenâ??s and a 12th place finish in the points battle. Many drivers would be happy with those numbers, but Tim was wanting more. Little did he know then that good times were on the way. He drove one more year for Blue Max in 1985, although he didnâ??t have any wins that year, he finished with 3 top 5â??s and 13 top 10â??s, good enough for 11th place in the points. It was also good enough to catch the attention of Rick Hendrick, who realized that with the right team, Timâ??s potential was unlimited. Tim signed with Hendrick in 1986 to drive the #25 Folgers Coffee car. After a slow start to the season, Tim came on strong and was a serious contender for the Winston Cup championship that year. Richmond won both Pocono races in 1986, a track where he was clearly dominant. Tim went on to win a total of 7 races and had 8 polls in 1986, more that any other driver. Even though Tim had 13 top 5â??s and 17 top 10â??s in 1986, a series of mechanical mishaps near the end of the season placed Tim a disappointing 3rd in the points that year, only a mere 6 points behind 2nd place Darrell Waltrip. Dale Earnhardt won the championship that year. It was the only championship that Earnhardt won while Richmond was on the track for a full season. Just as Timâ??s future seemed so bright, the 1987 season brought disaster. He was diagnosed with HIV during the winter of 1986, but the racing world was told that he had double pneumonia. Tim was so sick that he missed most of the early part of the season. During a spring test session, he was too weak to run the outlined distance. His first full length race of 1987 came at Pocono in June. In triumphant style, Tim held off a hard charging Bill Elliot for the win and admitted to reporters that he never even saw the checkered flag with all the tears in his eyes. In victory lane, Tim was so emotional that he was reduced to speechlessness for one of the very few times in his life. Little did anyone know at the time that Tim was a dying man. The very next week Tim Richmond fought off Ricky Rudd for his last Winston Cup win, at Riverside. Tim dedicated the Fatherâ??s Day victory to his Dad. However, the effects of the illness began to take its toll on him. By August, NASCAR said that he "was in no shape to drive a car." Richmond resigned from Hendrick Motorsports in the fall of 1987. Tim tried one more comeback in February 1988, at the Busch Clash in Daytona. But rumors were flying around the garage that Tim was a drug user. NASCAR then developed its first drug testing policy, which some felt was designed to oust Tim from the sport. He stopped taking his medication in order to be clean for the test. NASCAR suspended him two days later for testing positive for a banned "substance." Days later, NASCAR announced that the first test detected nothing more that an over the counter cold medicine, Timâ??s second test was clean. But the damage to Timâ??s character had already been done. NASCAR would not let Tim race until he turned over his medical records. To this date, it seems that Tim Richmond has been the only driver to have ever taken a NASCAR drug test. Tim tried desperately to find a ride for the Clash and several car owners wanted to help him. However, NASCAR didnâ??t want to see Tim in a car. Tim never did get a ride for the Busch Clash in 1988, instead he hired a plane to fly over Daytona displaying a banner that read "Fans, I miss you -Tim Richmond." Tim died on August 13, 1989 in south Florida. Few from the NASCAR world wanted anything to do with him that final year, because of the stigma and ignorance of AIDS. Kyle Petty said, "It all boils down to AIDS. I donâ??t care what anybody tells you. Nobody knows how to handle AIDS, especially in a sport as backward-thinking on so many things as this sport is." As for NASCAR Inc, theyâ??re a rotten crowd. Tim Richmond was, to paraphrase F. Scott Fitzgerald, worth the whole damn bunch of them put together. Tim, we the fans of NASCAR, miss you. Copyright ©1998 gordonline.com 21. RaceFanX posted: 06.15.2011 - 12:00 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Geoff Bodine's late crash really helped to popularize the closed-face helmet into the stock car racing standard. Bodine was one of the only Cup drivers who woar a full-face helmet in 1989, and his was basically a Motocross/ATV-style one, and in hard wreck his head hit the steering wheel (although his on-board camera mostly but not entirely missed it). Without that face protection Geoff's crash would have been much worse. After Geoff's near miss, almost all drivers made the switch and by 2004 or so every driver used one, after Dale Earnhardt's 2001 passing Jimmy Spencer may have been the last Cup-level holdout (other drivers to wear them into the 2000s were Ron Hornaday Jr. [he wears a closed one now], Dale Earnhardt Jr. [who switched at NASCAR's advice after his dad's death] and Dave Marcis who retired wearing one in early 2002). NASCAR was one of the last forms of motorsport where drivers commonly used open-face helmets. Normally NASCAR roof numbers face to the left, the green #27 on Rusty's car in this race faced right instead (probably because they run clockwise at Watkins Glen). Road racer Oma Kimbrough makes his Winston Cup debut but drops out and finishes 30th. Kimbrough made two more Cup starts at the Glen in 1990 and 1991 but didn't finish any of them. 22. Pacer posted: 12.13.2011 - 8:43 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Eddie Bierschwale makes his lone start in Lake Speed's #83 Bulls Eye Oldsmobile, Lake still on the mend from his Daytona roll and hard crash at Pocono, and parks it after six laps for some reason. A.J. Foyt also makes his only Winston Cup start at the Glen. This was his first Cup race on a road course since the season opener at Riverside in 1972 (one race before his Daytona 500 win) but engine woes quickly sidelined Super Tex. 23. RaceFanX posted: 12.25.2012 - 8:52 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sauter's Group 44 Pontiac that he had a such a strong run in this race with has been preserved... http://www.canepacollection.com/detail-1989-pontiac-group_44-nascar_pontiac_grand_prix-used-5122476.html This was apparently the first-ever race for the Grand Prix. Group 44, whose fabled Jaguar IMSA program ended after the 1987 season, designed and built the Pontiac from the ground up. This was only the team's second NASCAR race. 24. Biscuits In A Red Bull posted: 05.27.2013 - 11:57 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Darin Brassfield's best ever Winston Cup series in 12th. 25. saltsburgtrojanfan posted: 06.27.2014 - 10:27 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Caution 1: #43,57 spin turn 7 Caution 4: #38 accident esses Caution 5: #26 engine failure Caution 6: #18 spin backstetch 26. 23andJoe posted: 09.14.2014 - 4:59 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) #40 sponsor: Dale Earnhardt Chevrolet 27. saltsburgtrojanfan posted: 11.07.2016 - 1:38 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Caution 2: #70 spun turn 7 Caution 3: debris turn 1 28. RaceFanX posted: 01.03.2017 - 11:04 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ted Thomas makes his lone Winston Cup start, qualifying to last and ultimately having his T-Bird sidelined by mechanical woes. 29. RaceFanX posted: 12.17.2017 - 8:45 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was Foyt's last Cup series road course appearance. 30. RaceFanX posted: 03.09.2018 - 3:11 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was Shepherd's only pole of 1989 and his only one on a road course...and as mentioned above it turned out to be his last in Cup competition. 31. RaceFan98 posted: 06.02.2018 - 5:21 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) #18 crew chief: Jake Elder 32. Matthew Lewis posted: 06.03.2018 - 2:03 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Qualifying times: https://www.upi.com/Archives/1989/08/11/NASCAR-qualifying-times/9547618811200/ 33. Jimnsimforever posted: 12.21.2018 - 5:57 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The public didn't even know that Tim Richmond had AIDS until days after he died when his family let the media and public know. People very close to him i'm sure knew. Heck, a couple races before this during the broadcast of the 2nd Pocono race on ESPN in the middle of the race they went down to Jerry Punch who said Tim Richmond was in the hospital in Florida trying to recover from injuries suffered in a motorcycle accident and said Tim, we know you're watching buddy, get better. The very race before this on CBS at Talladega Ken Squier said, Tim Richmond, I'm sure you're watching from the hospital and we hope you feel better and recover soon, or wish you the best or something along those lines. 34. Jimnsimforever posted: 12.21.2018 - 6:24 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Honestly dont think espn knew yet that he had died when the broadcast started. It had only been a few hours before. It was 1989, a completely different world then. They opened they broadcast with Bob Jenkins talking about the trifecta trio. The three guys that have won the last 8 road course races in the Winston Cup, showed a graphic with his name, said and showed he had 3 of the wins and did it with a smile and no mention at all. 35. RaceFanX posted: 08.15.2019 - 1:43 am Rate this comment: (2) (0) Some fan climbed up a 20-foot pole to watch the closing laps of this race while sitting atop one of the track's loudspeakers. I cannot see a scenario where beer wasn't involved in that bad decision. 36. Seb posted: 08.26.2019 - 8:48 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Monte Carlo bodies : #13 Kimbrough #18 Kendall #71 Marcis Crew Chief of #13 Kimbrough was Tom Pistone. 37. Anonymous posted: 10.12.2019 - 9:58 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Wasn't it the race that Billy Hagan chased Tommy Kendall with a kane? 38. SweetRich posted: 02.14.2020 - 4:28 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The Commentators For The Final Road Course Event In The Decade Of The 1980's: Bob Jenkins, Ned Jarrett And Benny Parsons. The Pit Road Reporters: Jerry Punch And Jack Arute. 39. Senninha posted: 04.03.2020 - 9:51 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Lake Speed's team crashed three cars in the three previous races, destroying two of them and injuring Lake. I'm sure he had Bierschwale park the car just to stop the bleeding on a track where they knew they wouldn't be competitive. 40. rateus posted: 04.25.2020 - 11:20 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) It might have been even more painful for Lake - looking at the qualifying times from post 32 there's no mention of Eddie Bierschwale but lurking in P39 is Tom Rotsell in a Ford. Looks like the #83 might have had to buy in to start and park. 41. BOBO83329521 posted: 05.20.2020 - 6:40 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Amazing that Darin Brassfield got a top 15 in this race. He had a... "adventurous" start. 42. BOBO83329521 posted: 05.20.2020 - 9:48 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) This one officially ended under Caution #7: #5 crash turn 5. Can be seen in the video that Harold Kinder is holding the caution flag as the leaders cross the line. Does anyone know whether or not Dick Johnson or the Casanova guy that was working of DW's car got injured in this race? I noticed they both got taken to the ICC in gurneys 43. Chase9Fan posted: 06.25.2020 - 2:31 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Can't believe this was Rusty's last win at Watkins Glen. As good as he was there, he couldn't get another win in the next 15 years before he retired. 44. HD11 posted: 07.05.2020 - 12:52 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Tom Cruise, incognito with a hat pulled down and sunglasses, shadowed Jerry Punch as he wanted to do a NASCAR movie and wanted to learn all he could about it. This was his first ever race. It was extremely hot and at some point Cruise took off his hat to wipe away sweat and he was spotted. Within minutes the track big screen displayed his picture with the words, ?Welcome Tom Cruise!? He told Punch, ?We gotta go!? and left the track. Days of Thunder was soon made and the rest is history. 45. Anonymous posted: 07.25.2020 - 12:03 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) A 04 Tbird practiced for this race. 46. MSportRev posted: 01.21.2021 - 8:46 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) To confirm what @45 said, there was at least one DNQ from this race. #04 Ford. Dirver/Owner currently unknown. Source: https://twitter.com/CarSDS2078/status/1352428265219223552 47. PCRF0006 posted: 01.22.2021 - 7:48 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) DNQ Update #04 Tom Rotsell Owner: George Hakes Manufacturer: Ford Sponsor: Learn Confirmed with the race program for this event and the qualifying times found by #32, Rotsell was 39th fastest in time trials but did not receive a provisional. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1989/08/11/NASCAR-qualifying-times/9547618811200/ 48. Tigerman posted: 01.22.2021 - 7:48 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) @45 and @46 Tom Rotsell had qualified for the race in the #04 Ford. He apparently had the 39th fastest time in qualify but must've not made it. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1989/08/11/NASCAR-qualifying-times/9547618811200/ 49. rateus posted: 02.06.2021 - 3:56 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I think the qualifying times from the upi link are from first-round qualifying only - Jimmy Spencer is missing and quite a few drivers in the lower reaches are in a different order from where they started. The line-up as printed in race-day newspapers matches the order on this site, but still shows Tom Rotsell in P39 and no Ted Thomas - I doubt Thomas had a provisional to use so think Rotsell was a non-starter rather than a non-qualifer. One confirmed driver change - it was Joe Ruttman who crashed Lake Speed's original entry (he's P13 on the upi times) so Lake had to change both car and driver for race day. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: