|| *Comments on the 1990 Motorcraft Quality Parts 500:* View the most recent comment <#29> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. Darrell posted: 10.02.2005 - 4:26 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ernie Irvan's First Race with Morgan-McClure Motorsports. 2. myself posted: 05.17.2007 - 2:26 pm Rate this comment: (2) (3) ....& he didn't wreck, wreck another driver, injure anyone, end someone's championship chances, or end anyone's career. AMAZING! I hope somebody has this race on tape just to prove Irvan didn't screw somebody up on this day! 3. Clayton posted: 03.06.2008 - 1:31 pm Rate this comment: (1) (2) Ernie Irvan doesn't need to prove nothing to nobody!!! Let's not get into wrecking people because the man who won this race was king at it!! 4. RaceFanX posted: 03.12.2008 - 5:07 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Coming back after an absence of nearly two years, ironically to replace Ernie in Junie's #90, was former Daytona 500 winner Buddy Baker. Baker finished his comeback in 21st place. 5. Ryan posted: 08.24.2008 - 2:18 am Rate this comment: (1) (4) Ernie was a weapon on the race track... And yeah Dale did race hard and bump and grind, but he knew how to do it without ending someone's career like Ernie tried to do countless times... 6. Leeroy Jenkins posted: 03.07.2010 - 9:21 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was the race that I became an Earnhardt/NASCAR fan. I couldn't believe the finish as Shepherd fought with a lapped car (Kulwicki) on a restart with three to go and Earnhardt stuck it on the bottom, passed him, and pulled away. 7. Ryan posted: 03.08.2010 - 5:51 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Yep Dale put a nasty move on Shepherd. It's on youtube I believe. 8. Barry Avery posted: 03.23.2010 - 11:13 am Rate this comment: (0) (1) Irvan helped Chevy win the coveted manufacturers championship that year. This is why the team switched from Olds to Chevy. Irvan was a great racer and didn't take any crap from any other driver. I his early days he was a better driver than his equipment would allow. 9. myself posted: 06.05.2010 - 9:44 am Rate this comment: (2) (4) Irvan was a great racer? The man was a menace!! 10. 1995z71 posted: 12.16.2012 - 8:46 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Greg Sacks DNQ in a Days of Thunder car. 11. RedChevy14 posted: 09.05.2013 - 9:42 am Rate this comment: (0) (1) On pure, raw, unharnessed talent alone, Ernie was one of the top drivers before his injury. Yes he caused a lot of issues and the "Swervin' Irvan" nickname was well deserved in the early '90s, but he was a tremendous talent capable of winning on any type of track (rarer then than now) and if not for a blown tire on an August morning in Michigan, he probably would have been a shoe-in for the Hall of Fame. This was the last race for Atlanta under the original "Atlanta International Raceway" moniker. Bruton Smith bought the track and it became the Atlanta Motor Speedway. 12. RaceFanX posted: 01.20.2014 - 10:42 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was Irvan's first Top-5 finish. 13. b4il3y posted: 03.28.2014 - 3:44 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I want to know.. why did Phil get released from Morgan McClure? I've never been able to find a solid reason on the net about this. 14. HD11 posted: 09.20.2014 - 4:48 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The Ford executives could not have been thrilled with Alan Kulwicki hindering Morgan Shepherd's shot to win the Motorcraft race in the Motorcraft car, especially losing it to the GM Goodwrench car. Of course, Alan would make it up to them at that same track winning the title in 1992. 15. Mike posted: 02.27.2015 - 3:54 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) 13: Because he was God-awful in that car. 16. Ryan W posted: 01.18.2016 - 12:42 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Barry Avery, I thought as well as many other drivers an owners that he was in better equipment than his talent. Especially Feliz Sabates 17. Josh posted: 01.27.2017 - 10:21 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The full two lap final restart (what amounted to a green-white-checkered) is also on the Crash Course 3-VHS set. The finish is also on YouTube, but I can't find the full race anywhere. 18. Josh posted: 04.09.2018 - 2:16 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was the last time Neil Bonnett was running at the finish of a NASCAR Winston Cup race. 19. Gray Gaulding's Distant Cousin posted: 05.02.2018 - 1:13 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Additional DNQs There were taken directly from the 1990 Motorcraft 500 Program #0 Delma Cowart Masters Inn Ford (H.L. Waters) #53 Jerry O'Niel Aroneck Racing Oldsmobile (Alan Aroneck) #83 Lake Speed Speed Racing Oldmobile (Lake Speed) #96 Keith Thomas South Limo Buick (Keith Thomas) #99 Kenny Wallace Hope Motorsports Pontiac (Randy Hope) I would love to do some investigating into that #96 entry, I can't find anything about a driver named Keith Thomas. 20. Jimnsimforever posted: 12.28.2018 - 2:37 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) @15 Phil Parsons had only run 3 races in the #4 car. Each one with a better result than the last. Early crash at Daytona 42nd, trouble at Richmond 26th, then 14th at Rockingham and he was history. Gone just 3 races into his new contract to drive the car that year. I'm curious as to why as well. Just seems sudden. I'm not saying Phil Parsons was a great driver, but all those years he drove the #55 car before coming over to McClure in 90. You look at this one single year where Terry Labonte drove the old Phil Parsons car and had the worst season of his entire career up to that point. 21. Jimnsimforever posted: 12.28.2018 - 4:25 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) @14 Kulwicki definitely shouldve gone low and let Morgan and Dale race it out, Morgan was right to be mad about that. Alan was a really smart guy, he knew as a lap car with 2 laps to go after the caution he should've gotten low and stayed there until the leaders went by on top, he was only racing with one other car that was 1 lap down, Harry Gant. I think it stemmed from the caution before where Rusty's engine blew. I guarantee you that Kulwicki, with the bad luck they'd had so far in the year was irate at Morgan for racing so hard to not let him get his lap back. 22. SweetRich posted: 02.15.2020 - 11:31 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The Commentators For The Race Were Paul Page, Benny Parsons And Bobby Unser. The Pit Road Reporters Were Jerry Punch And Gary Gerould. 23. RaceFanX posted: 03.19.2020 - 12:41 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) nascarman pointed this out on Twitter: Footage from this race was featured in a 1991 commercial for McDonald's breakfast menu that starred Dale Earnhardt. 24. BOBO83329521 posted: 06.03.2020 - 2:51 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) @1 Irvan was an IMMEDIATE improvement for MMM (Morgan McClure Motorsports) as that team got nearly zero TV exposure in the 1990 season before this race if it wasn't in a field run down or a crash. Running in the top 5 all race long must have been a relief for those owners after the Parsons trainwreck. 25. BOBO83329521 posted: 06.03.2020 - 9:21 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Dale Earnhardt and his team were scheduling pit stops in regular 55 lap intervals in hopes of getting the halfway prize. He was able to, but soon afterward gave up the lead on pit stops to Geoff Bodine. It would be the back and forth between Dale and Geoff on pit road that would cause the majority of this race's lead changes. Geoff took the lead for good when Earnhardt's team had an issue with the tire gun on their final pit stop, giving Bodine a 7 second advantage. However, a caution came out with 10 laps to go and the whole field pitted except for Morgan Shepherd, and Dale Earnhardt came out just in front of Bodine and this pass on pit road would decide the race as Earnhardt went on to win while Bodine got caught up in a late race skirmish with Bobby Hillin. 26. Schmedlapp posted: 08.14.2020 - 11:04 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) How about Derrike Cope running in the top 5 for most of the race before his engine blew up? 1990 was his best year, but would have been an even better year with decent equipment. 27. Anonymous posted: 08.21.2020 - 10:22 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) That week Irvan had yet to test with the #4 car, went there for 3 days with the team but it rained, rained rained. The last day there Irvan even drove the tractor with the mounted brush before finally turning 5 laps in the middle of the afternoon. The lap times were really good and Irvan got the ride. 28. Shawn posted: 03.10.2021 - 9:41 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Is the the race record for the old Atlanta configuration? 29. Canadianfan posted: 03.11.2021 - 7:05 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) @28 No the 1995 NAPA 500 was the race record for the old configuration. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: