|| *Comments on the 1990 DieHard 500:* View the most recent comment <#26> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. STbastien posted: 10.22.2004 - 10:48 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) During this race rookie Stanley Smith hit hard several pit crew members of Tracy Leslie. It was his first Winston Cup start. 2. STbastien posted: 02.03.2005 - 10:08 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) That was the beginning of the Interstate Batteries Race Car Also. 3. Jeff posted: 11.30.2005 - 8:31 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Although the TV cameras didn't catch it,Jimmy Spencer flipped his car down the backstretch on the last lap and still finished the race after landing on his wheels. 4. Matthew Sullivan posted: 03.09.2006 - 4:04 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) Tempretures for this race were at a comfortable 108 degrees. 5. Steve posted: 08.01.2006 - 11:35 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Rusty Wallace's 200th start. 6. Steve posted: 11.27.2006 - 8:18 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) are you sure your not mistaking the spencer flip for his air show he put on in the spring race at dega in 92? 7. IROC Fan posted: 12.11.2006 - 12:09 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) No, Spencer flipped in this race, too. There is at least one picture of him on his roof, with Schrader up under the front of his car. 8. Steve.M. posted: 05.01.2007 - 10:12 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) it says spencer was running at the end 9. Debo posted: 05.04.2007 - 1:22 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) He was running because he limped his car past the finish line once it flipped back on its wheels 10. Patrick posted: 02.28.2008 - 11:51 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) the last race Rob Moroso led a lap in. 11. JCS posted: 09.02.2008 - 11:25 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Stanley Smith crashed into Tracy Leslei's pitted No. 72 car. It was amazing no one was badly hurt. It was darkly forboding, as it occurred a few months before the fatal pit accident at Atlanta in November. 12. RaceFanX posted: 11.08.2008 - 1:35 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) A.J. Foyt's last laps led 13. Barry Avery posted: 03.23.2010 - 11:03 am Rate this comment: (0) (1) I was there and it was a hot day. Greg Sacks drove the Hendrick R&D SlimFast Chevy and led a bunch of laps. He hung with Earnhardt all day. Buddy Baker and Charlie Glotsbach raced in this event also. I never saw Spencer flip. I know he did in the Spring '92 event driving the Moly Black Gold Chevy owned by Travis Carter # 98. 14. Barry Avery posted: 03.23.2010 - 11:27 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Correction: Glotsbach was in the '92 race. 15. Flywheel posted: 08.16.2010 - 5:29 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Greg Sacks led exactly 0 laps. You must be thinking of the spring race, Barry. 16. Ryan posted: 08.13.2011 - 5:12 am Rate this comment: (2) (0) Dale went 3 out of 4 at the restrictor plate tracks, would have been perfect if not for the flat at the 500 on the last lap. 17. autryvilleracefan posted: 12.20.2011 - 11:20 am Rate this comment: (3) (0) Buddy Baker started in 36th place and moved all the way up to 6th before the Junie Donlavey #90 Ford had ignition problems. Baker, always a superspeedway ace, gave the Donlavey Ford one of its best runs in the '90 season. 18. Goernie28 posted: 02.10.2012 - 8:26 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Beginning with this race, Morgan-McClure Motorsports and Ernie Irvan switched to Chevrolet from Oldsmobile. 19. dozierthegreat posted: 07.31.2012 - 6:01 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) What happened to DW? Jimmy Horton was in his ride starting this race for several in a row. 20. Spen posted: 08.19.2012 - 2:32 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) He was injured in a practice crash at Daytona. He did manage to start the race at Pocono, but decided that running one lap was too much, so he sat out the next few races entirely. 21. Flywheel posted: 06.04.2013 - 12:21 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) To the moderator--in viewing the race, it appears that Plasti-Kote was the sponsor for Buddy Baker. He also mentions them in his interview. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AnldoOupgE 22. Dylan posted: 08.19.2014 - 11:34 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) I have a photo of Jimmy Spencer's flip in my book NASCAR The Complete History. 23. Mark O. posted: 11.20.2015 - 9:37 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jim Sauter relieved Dave Marcis during this race, due to Marcis still recovering from injuries in a practice crash at Daytona. 24. Josh posted: 07.15.2016 - 3:57 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Smith and Leslie actually retired from the race after the pit incident. Not knowing how the crew members were doing, both Leslie and Smith were unwilling to continue in the race until they could find out all the crew members would end up being okay. Smith was interviewed on the telecast and actually confirmed that. 25. Nascargavin8 posted: 01.16.2020 - 12:31 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Here's a newspaper article I came across several years ago: When Jimmy Spencer crossed the startfinish line at the end of the DieHard 500, it ended the most amazing bit of driving and good fortune of the day. Spencer had collided with a careening Ken Schrader on the backstretch during the final lap and flipped four times. He then landed on his wheels, restarted the car and lumbered the rest of the way home. "I could count how many times the car turned over because it really wasn't a bad flip," said Spencer. "I was really lucky. Let's put it this way, I counted three times that I saw the asphalt. I'm just glad the car started again, and that I didn't land on my roof." The blame for Spencer's crash was placed on Michael Waltrip with some, such Lake Speed, sounding bitter. Waltrip ran out of gas on the backstretch and as he slowed he was hit by Schrader, who then lurched into the wall and pinballed into Spencer. "Michael Waltrip was in front of us, holding us all up," said Speed. "It was like he was trying to win the race, and he was blocking everybody. He just about put Bobby Hillin and me into the fence. Going down into one on the last lap, none of us knew where he was going to go. "Spencer and Schrader were trying to go by me on the inside and me and Bobby were on the outside. The 30 (Waltrip) dropped low and ran out of gas. We went flying by him, and I looked in my mirror and just saw somebody flipping." For his part, Waltrip said, "I ran out (of gas) right in front of those guys and probably caused them to take evasive action and might have had something to do with the wreck. I'm sorry, (but) there wasn't anything I could do about it. The car stopped running and that's a bad place to have that happen." 26. SweetRich posted: 03.11.2020 - 4:50 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The commentators for the race were Ken Squier, Ned Jarrett and David Hobbs. The pit road reporters were Mike Joy and Dave Despain. And the studio host was Chris Economaki. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: