|| *Comments on the 1990 Tyson Holly Farms 400:* View the most recent comment <#29> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. Anonymous posted: 12.29.2004 - 4:37 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This race was bittersweet. I remember seeing it on ESPN Classic. Dale Earnhardt dominated the event, and was even speeding on pit road one time just so he could beat Mark outta the pits. In the end, Mark ended up winning, but just hours later, rookie Rob Moroso was fatally injured in a highway crash. He became the only rookie to win Rookie of the Year honors posthumously. 2. Matt posted: 12.17.2005 - 3:21 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) DNQ: (#2) Ron Esau, (#40) Tommy Kendall, (#41) Larry Pearson, (#47) Jack Pennington, and (#70) J.D. McDuffie. 3. brandon posted: 03.16.2006 - 12:29 am Rate this comment: (2) (0) there was no pit road speed limit in 1990 4. CanucksAndNASCAR Fan posted: 05.18.2006 - 11:17 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Pit speeds became mandatory starting with the 1991 Daytona 500, because one of Bill Elliott's crew members was killed during the 1990 finale at Atlanta. 5. Dub posted: 10.12.2006 - 6:08 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) As a long-time Martin fan, this is my favorite race of all time, I would love to have a copy of it.... 6. spencer posted: 02.24.2007 - 3:59 pm Rate this comment: (3) (0) Earnhardt dominated the day, but during the last pit stops, Martin's crew either removed or added a rubber spacer on one of his springs and his car took off. He passed Earnhardt in turn 3 and Dale gave him a bump after the pass. At Richmond earlier that month, Earnhardt was 1st, Martin 2nd.The next race at Dover, Martin 2nd, Earnhardt 3rd. At Martinsville, Earnhardt 2nd, Martin 3rd. North Wilkesboro, Martin 1st, Earnhardt 2nd. Wow! 7. Anonymous posted: 06.22.2007 - 7:38 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Rob Moroso is the only Rookie of the Year to win the award posthoumously. 8. Chris posted: 08.30.2007 - 4:56 am Rate this comment: (2) (0) Pit road speed limits were not put in place until the first North Wilkesboro race in 1991. In the offseason, Nascar had developed a convoluted scheme where drivers who qualified in the odd-numbered spots pitted on one lap under caution, then those who qualified in the even-numbered spots pitted the next lap. The biggest detriment was that nobody could change tires under caution. The rules screwed up the Daytona 500 for one and races started turning into who could make the best fuel mileage. The problems really hit at Bristol because the race had 20 cautions, and most of the drivers on the lead lap at the end were odds rather than evens and it was a mess. Nascar finally figured out that their scheme sucked, so they scrapped it and implemented pit road speed limits. I have no idea why they didn't do that in the first place. 9. Anonymous posted: 10.29.2007 - 8:40 pm Rate this comment: (1) (3) If Brian France discovers this rule, he'll probably think it's brilliant and pure genius and implement it for all eternity, just like the Lucky Dog rule. 10. DaleSrFanForever posted: 09.02.2008 - 8:32 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) My second race ever. What I remember about this one is Davey Allison being involved in about 4 different cautions. He got it figured out though, and eventually won here. I also remember Harry Gant and Terry Labonte crashing right in front of me. I still have a picture of their two Skoal cars crashed right next to each other directly in front of us. Terry got out, stuck his head in Harry's car and had some words for him. Shame about Rob, he would have been really good if he could've harnessed that incredible talent. 11. jamie88fan posted: 08.13.2010 - 1:38 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Did you anyone this that after rob moroso death his father offerd his ride to jack pennington for the rest of the season but he said no it woudnt be right to win the rockie of the year ... 12. zuel660 posted: 07.03.2013 - 2:42 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Last race for the Morgan-McClure team to run an Oldsmobile. 13. Anonymous posted: 06.17.2014 - 11:44 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Was this the Gary Nelson buckshot lead race? 14. RaceFanX posted: 05.25.2016 - 10:14 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Martin, the points leader at the time of this race, overcame mid-race handing issues that dropped him back from Earnhardt to win this one. His victory for was the first for a Ford driver at North Wilkesboro since Bobby Allison won here in 1980. Kyle Petty earns his second career pole and his first on a short track. Petty led early and brought his fast Pontiac Grand Prix home with a top-10. SCCA Trans-Am champion Tommy Kendall attempts to qualify for a NASCAR Cup oval race for the first time but doesn't make the field. 15. SMIFF TV posted: 02.06.2017 - 1:08 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The condensed ESPN Classic version of this race is now up on YouTube. It's not the FULL race, but it's better than nothin'. 16. Jay posted: 02.13.2017 - 3:15 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Technically Terry was not involved in the lap 19 crash. He was driving through the crash scene after caution and made contact with Gant. 17. Jay posted: 02.16.2017 - 6:10 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) *Edit I meant to say he wasn't involved in the lap 19 caution. Caution was already out when he made contact with Gant. 18. Josh posted: 08.07.2017 - 3:17 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Link to the condensed ESPN Classic version on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU_gW2MDUwI 19. Josh posted: 08.07.2017 - 3:29 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Watching the race, what happened with Terry and Harry was that Rick Mast had already lost it and collected Harry Gant on the frontstretch long before Terry arrived. When the field came back around to take the caution, simultaneously, Mast was backing from the inside wall and Harry was pulling down from the wall, getting closer to each other. Sterling Marlin squeezed through the two, but Terry was not so lucky and plowed into Mast. 20. djar87 posted: 08.14.2017 - 12:23 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Looks like Irvan and the Kodak team ran a Chevrolet in the race from watching the race replay 21. Gray Gaulding's Distant Cousin posted: 05.04.2018 - 12:08 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Qualifying Results 1. #42 Kyle Petty 116.387 2. #6 Mark Martin 116.147 3. #94 Sterling Marlin 116.045 4. #21 Dale Jarrett 115.884 5. #1 Terry LaBonte 115.878 6. #7 Alan Kulwicki 115.812 7. #9 Bill Elliott 115.776 8. #3 Dale Earnhardt 115.574 9. #25 Ken Schrader 115.551 10. #30 Michael Waltrip 115.545 11. #17 Darrell Waltrip 115.521 12. #26 Brett Bodine 115.456 13. #28 Davey Allison 115.290 14. #71 Dave Marcus 115.249 15. #5 Ricky Rudd 115.207 16. #27 Rusty Wallace 115.201 17. #33 Harry Gant 115.143 18. #8 Bobby Hillin 115.042 19. #11 Geoff Bodine 114.931 20. #98 Rick Mast 114.931 21. #66 Dick Trickle 114.901 22. #75 Rick Wilson 114.872 23. #4 Ernie Irvan 114.784 24. #51 Jeff Purvis 114.644 25. #10 Derrike Cope 114.550 26. #15 Morgan Shepherd 114.486 27. #12 Hut Stricklin 114.347 28. #43 Richard Petty 114.231 29. #19 Chad Little 113.970 30. #52 Jimmy Means 113.918 31. #57 Jimmy Spencer PROV 32. #20 Rob Moroso PROV Figured this could help 22. Greg9ChaseFan posted: 06.05.2018 - 8:28 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Is this the "buckshot" race that Sabates once mentioned? When Kyle Petty hit a lever and dumped buckshot all over the track to make his car lighter? 23. RaceFanX posted: 12.18.2018 - 9:36 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was the first of two wins for Martin at North Wilkesboro, the track where he made his Cup debut back in early 1981. Martin's win here was the fourth of his career and his third and last one of 1990. 24. Jimnsimforever posted: 01.05.2019 - 3:52 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @22 I have no idea if that happened this race but it wouldn't surprise me. When that team was in its first year in 89 running a partial schedule, they once took weight out of the car after the pre-race weigh in and got caught and had to start from the rear of the field. They interviewed crew chief Gary Nelson and he just laughed and said, yep, we tried to cheat and they caught it. Benny Parsons and Ned both said, well at least they admitted it and they have to pay the price now. Off the subject but I think the big reason there is controversy about Mark Martin being penalized 46 points for getting caught cheating in post race inspection in the spring Richmond race is because of ESPN's coverage of it the next race, mainly Benny Parsons. He made a statement that the points penalty plus the hefty fine was like hanging a man for something small, or some statement along those lines. Benny also said "it probably only added 5 horsepower". Benny wouldn't have any idea how much power it added to the car because many times before this he stated he just drove the car and didn't know all the intricacies of setup in his career. Also if you look at TBS's coverage of it when they went back to Richmond, they treated it like it was justified. Just by common sense, looking at that Richmond race, Martin was able to stay up front all day but never showed he had a car strong enough to take the lead at all and didn't lead until those final laps. On that final caution he only took 2 tires, so he got the lead. The 3 other cars who all were stronger all day and showed they not only could take the lead, but hold it, all took 4 tires. Martin fans and Earnhardt haters alike, please tell me how Mark Martin was then able to somehow not only hold onto that lead until the end, but pull away easily from the seemingly 3 stronger cars that had 4 fresh tires to his 2. When has that ever happened in any race in history? 25. GoPM21 posted: 01.05.2019 - 4:47 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) https://bleacherreport.com/articles/428582-nascar-are-two-tires-better-than-four-late-in-the-race At least twice, and I seem to recall other instances as well. 26. Corey posted: 01.05.2019 - 9:59 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @24 I remember a couple of memorable instances at Loudon. One involved the infamous Tiregate, and the other saw Ryan Newman win on the same left side tires he started on. 27. Jimnsimforever posted: 01.06.2019 - 4:46 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Link went to instances that happened an entire decade later for one, so much difference in racing and racing tires themselves but still. None were on a short track, like this one. And one of the instances (once again on a speedway) said Kyle Busch had been dominating all day and took four while several took two that were in front of him. 1990 spring Richmond is the complete opposite not even considering the changes in racing tires, several stronger cars, showed they could take and hold the lead all day on a short track, took 4 tires and were directly behind a single car that took just 2 tires, never once had been able to take the lead all day long. That one car not only holds onto the lead, it pulls away easily all of a sudden. So far ahead in the 10 to 15 laps or whatever there were left that it was only the battles for 2nd on back they showed just a few laps in. The most important fact of all. I didn't see where the driver that did that had their car fail post race inspection. The motor itself failing. 28. GoPM21 posted: 01.06.2019 - 9:26 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) @27 Your exact comment was: "...but pull away easily from the seemingly 3 stronger cars that had 4 fresh tires to his 2. When has that ever happened in any race in history?" Another poster, along with myself gave you examples. It helps to keep track of what you ask 29. Jimnsimforever posted: 01.06.2019 - 3:28 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) You left out what the scenario was before the "..." in your post. The entire last paragraph has important stuff in it that leads to my final question in the last sentence. Actually only starting midway through the paragraph at "Just by using common sense" from that point on covered it. I explained the 90 Richmond situation better in my 2nd post. Trust me, I'll be the first one to admit these days I am having more and more trouble keeping track of anything and its only going to get worse. But I think I did a good job here. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: