|| *Comments on the 1991 Daytona 500 By STP:* View the most recent comment <#78> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. HomeDepotKid posted: 01.09.2005 - 1:23 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) In all actualities, the military-sponsored cars were sponsored by Winston as a goodwill gesture. 2. Mr. Etc posted: 02.09.2005 - 9:46 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ernie Irvan wins his only Daytona 500. A classic race, etc. :) 3. Anonymous posted: 03.04.2005 - 7:45 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Kyle Petty was running 4th and gaining on the leaders when Davey Allison tapped Dale Earnhardt coming out of turn 2 and caught up Petty, ending his chance at victory after dominating in the middle part of the race. 4. MASH_guy posted: 08.15.2005 - 4:41 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) In response to Mike Rich's pit road death at Atlanta, rules were in place for this event that anyone who changed tires under caution would lose a lap. Needless to say, NO ONE changed tires under caution, even when they were badly worn or flat. Kyle Petty, for example, ran the entire race on the same left-side tires. Needless to say, the rule was short-lived. 5. NascarF1Fan posted: 12.30.2005 - 6:47 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Dale Earnhardts cars left front fender got damaged on Lap 2 or 3 on the backstrech after hitting a seagull. 6. je24go posted: 03.01.2006 - 3:32 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Darrell Waltrip had one of the fastest cars in this race but on lap 190 Rusty Wallace, then 2 laps down, lost it coming out of turn 4. Darrell just barely clipped Rusty's left-rear quarterpanel, but it was enough to take them both out of the race. Derrike Cope spun trying to miss the crash and came right back up on the track. Harry Gant had nowhere to go and slammed into Cope, ending both their days 10 laps early as well. 7. nascarman posted: 05.26.2006 - 1:40 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Robby Gordon's first start. 8. Anonymous posted: 12.04.2006 - 5:23 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) You guys list Geoff Bodine's reason for not finishing as an Oil Leak. However, on the broadcast, CBS stated it as Fatigue. Bodine was spent by the time he dropped, requiring oxygen after he got out of the car. 9. Senninha posted: 01.07.2007 - 10:47 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sammy Swindell's second and final career start. He was involved in two incidents. He was sacked after this race as Dick Moroso consolidated to one team with Bobby Hillin, Jr. 10. Brock posted: 01.16.2007 - 6:58 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The "Operation Desert Support" cars "sponsored" by the armed forces via R.J. Reynolds, allow five unsponsored teams including Alan Kulwicki to enter the race. 11. Brock posted: 01.16.2007 - 6:59 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) One of Joe Ruttman's best Cup finishes, having hung with the leaders all day. 12. myself posted: 02.13.2007 - 6:38 pm Rate this comment: (3) (0) A correction is needed! Anonymous stated that Davey Allison tapped Dale Earnhardt w/ just a couple of laps remaining. NOPE! Earnhardt lost it coming off of 2 while racing side to side w/ Davey, knocking Davey into the wall & collecting several others, including Kyle Petty, who led the most laps that day. The crazy pit rules completely screwed up this race! The best 2 cars....Allison & Earnhardt, fought funky pit procedures all day! One of them, all things being equal, should've won that race! 13. myself posted: 03.15.2007 - 4:20 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was also the first Daytona 500 that had corporate naming rights added to the races title. I'm glad that only lasted a couple of 500s! Sounds like a brian france thing! 14. Eric posted: 04.28.2007 - 1:27 am Rate this comment: (3) (0) Perhaps, but at least STP was smart enough to leave it the "Daytona 500", and not the STP 500, as Allstate has done with the Brickyard. 15. biffle16 posted: 05.13.2007 - 2:50 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Rusty wasn't 2 laps down at the time. He had led the previous lap and had got shut out of the draft when he was tapped by Kyle Petty and spun. 16. myself posted: 05.17.2007 - 3:29 pm Rate this comment: (0) (2) Eric, the brickyard doesn't matter....WE'RE TALKING THE DAYTONA 500 HERE!!!!! 17. who posted: 07.25.2007 - 4:13 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) I just saw the replay on ESPN Classics. It was Earnhardt who caused the accident. He broke loose when Joe Ruttman followed by, Marlin & Kyle Petty (who gets taken out as well in his mellow yellow Pontiac, after knocking out Rusty Wallace two laps earlier) decided he wasn't gonna to push Earnhardt past Allison and drifted up to the high sidebehind Allison. Then Earnhardt begins to get loose, loses control, his rear slides out and takes out Allison, then Petty. Makes you remember clearly how Dale surely had tough luck back then at Daytona...I saw the 1990 race on ESPN Classics as he ran over debris in the lead of the last lap on turn four and Derrick Cope ended up winning. I just have to thank ESPN for showing all these great races when NASCAR was truly a grassroots American sport...I watch today but the heroes of the 70's, 80's and early 90's are gone. Money has ruined another great American Pasttime, and the best one in my opinion. I wanted to puke last night watching Ultimate Nascar and listening to Jeff Gordon's stepfather say when asked by other driver's parents what they could to help their sons to be successful: ?If your boy doesn't look like he could appear in an issue of GQ, I tell the parent to do whatever you have to, just fix it. He's another JerkOff like Brian France. Just the message we want to send our youth. Hey kid, doesn't matter if your the best driver, if your butt ugly, Forget about driving cup. You ain't got a chance in hell to get a sponsor and earning your due. Of the new generation, the only driver that truly seems to down earth and still genuinely appreciative is Carl Edwards. Otherwise, humility is another lost virtue. 18. Douche Bagolow posted: 09.16.2007 - 4:58 pm Rate this comment: (3) (0) Certainly a Kodak moment. :) 19. Anonymous posted: 10.29.2007 - 8:44 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) First race for Kyle Petty and the Mello Yello sponsorship. 20. SK posted: 12.09.2007 - 2:48 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Rick Mast's first career top-5. 21. Steve posted: 12.14.2007 - 5:28 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Tell Mario Andretti that "the Brickyard doesn't matter". Most Cup teams highlight the Brickyard 400 as the race they most want to win. Why? It's Indianapolis!!! 22. Jeff posted: 02.12.2008 - 12:13 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) A pretty good day for Oldsmobile,with 6 cars in the top 13. Never really think of them with Superspeedway potential,seeing how at the time it was the Chevrolets & Fords doing the winning. 23. myself posted: 02.15.2008 - 2:33 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Mario Andretti can keep the brickyard, Steve! 24. most posted: 03.18.2008 - 5:06 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Does anyone know if Davey flipped at the end, it looks like it on the in car shot but I don't remember... 25. jeff posted: 03.30.2008 - 1:12 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Well, here's a video of the end of the race including the crash. From the in-car, he definitely hit that bank and got in the air, but it's hard to tell if he flipped or not. 26. Ryan posted: 07.29.2008 - 9:30 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Earnhardt hits seagull... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxGsfpVyI5I&feature=related 27. Clayton posted: 08.09.2008 - 10:39 pm Rate this comment: (4) (0) Winston takes money out their own pockets and funds five cars for the Daytona 500 and gives free advertising to the armed forces. This is why Winston was the best sponsor in any sport!! 28. RaceFanX posted: 08.17.2008 - 8:19 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Great 12th place run for Eddie Bierschwale! 29. JCS posted: 08.26.2008 - 1:40 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was one of the best Daytona 500s ever, filled with more suspense than most others. There were so many unexpected twists as top contenders like Earnhardt, Allison and Waltrip crashed out. 30. Ryan posted: 12.16.2008 - 2:52 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) This race was won by Ernie when he didn't get off to a very good restart on lap 193 and Earnhardt did, the result Ernie and the freight train would catch up with Dale and Ernie blew past him and left Dale and Davey fighting for second. 31. myself posted: 02.13.2009 - 12:39 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Davey didn't flip. 32. jp posted: 02.19.2009 - 3:56 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) rusty wallace did not get back in. the only reason why was he had a bent right rear tire. 33. Jim posted: 09.13.2009 - 12:47 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I bet Terry Labonte was glad to be back with Billy Hagan after suffering 2 seasons with the Jackson-Skoal team. 34. myself posted: 02.09.2010 - 1:03 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) He did far worse in '91 in the Hagan car there, Jim. 35. Sebastien posted: 02.12.2010 - 4:39 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Barkdoll #73 sponsor was X-1R. 36. jp posted: 07.31.2010 - 5:19 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) If Earnhardt, Allison and Petty crashed 10 laps earlier, Marlin could have won. 37. Evan posted: 09.11.2010 - 10:16 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) No Allison did not flip in this race, you're referring to the 1989 event where he flipped over, he just got stuck on the bank of Lake Lloyd and he had to wait for the rescue guys to get him off the bank. It was a grassroots American sport, that's why many were drawn to it. I never feel the same about the sport now than I used to. Then it was about if you could drive a racecar, now its about being marketable, selling products and being able to speak and everything as well as drive a racecsr. 38. evan posted: 02.05.2011 - 5:54 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) 20 years since this race Whats everybody doing now? Ernie Irvan, an advocate for driver safety and a crew chief for his son's quarter midget. 22 Sterling Marlin-announced he was done racing in 2010. 1 Rick Mast-wherabouts unknown, probably living at his home. 3 Earnhardt died in 2001 10 years later. 21 Dale jarrett is an analyst for ESPN. 27 Bobby Hillin occasionally races, but has not tried since 2007 or '08. 5 Ricky Rudd Retired 68 Bobby Hamilton died from neck cancer in 2008. 7 Alan Kulwicki died in a plane crash 66 Dick Trickle I think he lives in Wisconsin and is retired. 23 Eddie Bierschwale Not sure 94 Terry Labonte co owns Stavola Labonte Racing a newly formed team. 19 Chad Little did some driving and was an analyst for football and racing has done much broadcasting work. Davey Allison died in a helicopter crash in 1993. Kyle Petty is an analyst for TNT Mickey Gibbs wherabouts unknown Robby Gordon races for his own team the number 7. Mark Martin will race for two more years and possibly more. Richard Petty is co owner of Richard Petty Motorsports Jim Sauter Patriarch of one of the biggest racing families. Darrell waltrip analyst for FOX broadcasts 39. CBASS posted: 03.10.2011 - 7:30 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsors (from what I saw from the broadcast)- Jim Sauter- #83 Tiki Tan/ Evinrude Phil Barkdoll- #73 X-1R/ Metal Center Bobby Hillin Jr- #27 Rob Moroso Memorial 40. Schroeder51 posted: 03.21.2011 - 2:57 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jimmy Spencer had a scary moment early in the race when his engine failed and he caught fire. He was able to get out, but a multi-car crash happened behind him. 41. Flywheel posted: 08.12.2011 - 3:34 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Labonte only drove one season for Richard Jackson. He was with Junior Johnson in '89. 42. Matthew Lewis posted: 03.01.2013 - 7:12 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The #55 of Ted Musgrave picked up sponsorship for the 500. On the hood it read: Mr. Rooter America's Trouble Shooter Quick As A Wink Musgrave also had Bobby Fisher Distributing on his trunk all of speedweeks along with We Support Our Troops on the C Pillar & 2d Battalion Saudi Arabia on the TV panel. Pictures: http://simracin40.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=90wcp&action=display&thread=750&page=19 43. Anthony posted: 03.30.2013 - 8:30 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This race was about 2 days away from Future Daytona 500 Trevor Bayne being born. 44. Autryvilleracefan posted: 07.26.2013 - 8:46 am Rate this comment: (2) (0) Last race for Rod Osterlund as a car owner. He owned the No. 88 USMC Pontiac driven by Buddy Baker. Osterlund owned the car in which Dale Earnhardt won his first championship in 1980. 45. 83andJoe posted: 09.15.2013 - 7:59 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) #9 crew chief: Ernie Elliott (same for all races this year) 46. nascarman posted: 02.06.2014 - 10:30 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) #11 Crew Chief: Tim Brewer (for all races) 47. Evan posted: 04.03.2014 - 8:58 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) * Kyle Petty ran the race in its entirety, on the SAME left side tires! You would never see that today, in fact those pit rules screwed a lot of things up, they thought they could break up the traffic on pit road, and help make it safer however drivers and crews always caught the wrong end of the stick and they did not want to forfeit track position. I was not a fan in '91 but I have watched several events and I can't even understand those asinine pit rules in 1991, I started watching in 1993 when they fixed them. * Ernie Irvan's first diecast release for Racing Champions came with a card in 1992 had a picture of him celebrating in victory lane with his Morgan McClure Racing team after winning this race. * The car that Irvan won this race with also won the ARCA 200 with Jeff Purvis obliterating the field in the 1994 ARCA event. 48. binkerbo posted: 03.25.2015 - 1:27 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The sponsor of the DNQ #69 was Valvoline 49. RaceFanX posted: 05.05.2015 - 11:35 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was Ruttman's only top-5 of 1991. 50. nascarman posted: 05.26.2015 - 1:05 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Qualifying Results: Pos. Driver Speed 1. Davey Allison 195.955 2. Ernie Irvan 195.639 3. Harry Gant 195.465 4. Sterling Marlin 194.830 5. Rick Mast 194.502 6. Dale Earnhardt 194.368 7. Ricky Rudd 194.359 8. Mark Martin 193.890 9. Alan Kulwicki 193.753 10. Phil Barkdoll 193.723 11. Darrell Waltrip 193.703 12. Bill Elliott 193.557 13. Joe Ruttman 193.519 14. Richard Petty 193.345 15. Terry Labonte 193.228 16. Dale Jarrett 193.224 17. Rusty Wallace 193.079 18. Hut Stricklin 193.054 19. Mickey Gibbs 193.053 20. Dick Trickle 192.967 21. Ken Schrader 192.852 22. Sammy Swindell 192.740 23. Michael Waltrip 192.575 24. Kyle Petty 192.382 25. Derrike Cope 192.336 26. Morgan Shepherd 192.254 27. Robby Gordon 192.238 28. Bobby Hillin 192.160 29. Ted Musgrave 192.127 30. Chad Little 192.016 31. Jimmy Spencer 191.881 32. Bobby Hamilton 191.783 33. Jimmy Means 191.697 34. Geoff Bodine 191.689 35. Eddie Bierschwale 191.608 36. Rick Wilson 191.461 37. Dorsey Schroeder 190.880 38. Dave Marcis 190.763 39. Brett Bodine 190.654 40. Chuck Bown 190.295 41. Rich Bickle 189.873 42. Buddy Baker 189.841 43. Greg Sacks 189.346 44. Jim Sauter 189.151 45. Jeff Purvis 188.438 46. Mark Stahl 188.229 47. Bill Venturini 187.469 48. Dave Mader III 186.885 49. Gary Balough 186.629 50. Brian Ross 186.559 51. Jimmy Horton 185.893 52. JD McDuffie 185.277 53. Phil Parsons 184.578 54. Delma Cowart 181.690 55. Brad Teague 180.390 56. Rick Jeffrey 182.452 57. Phillip Duffie 178.154 58. Blackie Wangerin 175.043 51. Ryan W posted: 09.10.2015 - 12:21 am Rate this comment: (0) (1) If Ruttman would have bump drafted Earnhardt he would have got by Davey. It seemed to me Ruttman couldn't make up his mind who he wanted to go with for a few laps and Ernie got away because of it. 52. Aldo posted: 01.25.2016 - 3:00 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Gerald Smith entered a Ferrari sponsored Chevy (#96) for Phil Parsons at the wheel but didn't make the show. That same car was entered the previous year at Phoenix (#69). I think the #96 was on the sides of the car but the #69 still on the roof in during qualifying. 53. AD posted: 06.07.2016 - 11:17 pm Rate this comment: (1) (1) These pit road rules are absurd!! Ha omg who thought of that? Their answer to making pit road safer was to force green flag tire change pit stops, while still enforcing no pit road speed limit.. What a joke. The chase for the cup looks good in comparison. Weird race resulted. 5 cars finished on the lead lap. Kyle Petty never changed left side tires.. Ned Jarrett explaining the rules is tv gold too! Hes just as confused as everyone else!! 54. AD posted: 06.07.2016 - 11:23 pm Rate this comment: (0) (2) On another note.. I hate how pit stops change track position anyway.. I want to see on the track passing. I am for keeping positions on pit stops, and if you stay out you move up. Whatever order you come onto pit road. That is the order you go out, falling in line behind the cars on the lead lap that stay out. 55. Josh posted: 06.24.2016 - 4:27 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) So if the leader takes 4 tires and fuel and the 15th place guy takes fuel only, the leader should stay the leader? I don't think so. You should have a consequence with whatever strategy you choose. 56. Bramblegrunt posted: 08.23.2016 - 11:02 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Very small correction to post #6, Cope spun out came up the track and hit Hut Stricklin, not Harry Gant. Gant was drafting off Stricklin and had no choice but to rear-end Stricklin, whose car was totally destroyed after hitting Cope. Was very sad for Stricklin as he was fast all speedweeks and was easily the 3rd best car heading into the day after an impressive Twin race (after Earnhardt and Allison. Of course Irvan and Ruttman eventually played into the equation) Was a very treacherous race, probably because of the pit rules and people on old tires. Barkdoll and Stricklin both had spins earlier in the race where the both blew out their windshields, nearly flipping over. Compile that with Allison who also nearly flipped on the embankment and you have 3 near-flips in the race 57. AD posted: 09.14.2016 - 11:38 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Josh. My idea isnt great. But its better than whatever this was!! 58. RaceFanX posted: 12.30.2016 - 9:02 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Darrell Waltrip returned to being an owner-driver in 1991, bringing his self-owned #17 Chevrolet back on the grid for the first time since mid-1975 with this race. Waltrip's new team was backed by Western Auto, an auto parts chain that was new to NASCAR Cup sponsorship, and as shown here his stylish new white, gray, black, and orange Lumina ran great before crashing out. Terry Labonte and Billy Hagen revive their championship-winning partnership after four years apart with a top-15 run. 59. David posted: 02.22.2017 - 12:20 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) David Hobbs goofed and called Joe Ruttman "Troy Ruttman" twice during the broadcast of this race. 60. Pacer posted: 02.23.2017 - 8:31 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jimmy Spencer and Travis Carter would prove to be a moderately successful combination in Cup but as noted above Spencer's first outing behind the wheel of Carter's cars ended with the new #98 Banquet Frozen Foods Chevrolet Lumina burning in the infield grass. 61. Jimmie Jameson posted: 04.05.2017 - 2:23 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) First career top 10 for Bobby Hamilton 62. Turn 4 posted: 10.10.2017 - 4:00 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Does anyone on here believe that Dave Marcus should've had the US Air Force sponsor and Mikey Gibbs should've had the US Coast Guard sponsor and why they omit the National Guard from sponsoring any remaining car that didn't have a sponsor. 63. A posted: 10.28.2017 - 1:04 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) One of Eddie Bierschwale's best races, and at the tail end of his cup career. 64. Jolly Mean Giant posted: 06.02.2018 - 11:40 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) First Daytona 500 starts for Bobby Hamilton, Robby Gordon, Ted Musgrave, and Jeff Purvis. Only Daytona 500 start for Sammy Swindell. Last Daytona 500 starts for Mickey Gibbs, Buddy Baker, and Jimmy Means. 65. Jolly Mean Giant posted: 06.02.2018 - 11:41 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Last 500 start for Bierschwale as well. 66. T Ferguson posted: 10.31.2018 - 9:38 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Interesting relationship with Sacks/Hendrick continued in this race: "Gary DeHart, who runs the research and development program for Hendrick Motorsports and chassis shop for Hendrick Engineering, is on loan as crew chief for Greg Sacks in an effort to get Sacks' U.S. Navy-sponsored Chevrolet in the 500. Sacks, of Mattituck, N.Y., fired Bobby Jones as crew chief after Sunday's Busch Clash. "I bought the car from Rick (Hendrick) and he's let me borrow one of his engines," said Sacks, who drove for Hendrick last season and DeHart was the crew chief. "But none of those material things can compare to the knowledge he has given me with Gary." 67. Jimnsimforever posted: 01.07.2019 - 8:54 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) It was pretty simple to see what happened in the final wreck. Earnhardt's car was dominate all week. He immediately took the lead at the start of the race. Hitting a huge seagull not only messed with the aerodynamics, but it had to get guts and stuff crammed up in there. It looked like at the end Earnhardt's was the weakest up front. Irvan's was obviously better. Allison's car was too. Ruttman finally had his decision made for him on who to go with between Dale and Davey. The whole line went with Allison on the outside. Earnhardt started doing the only thing he could do to keep up with no drafting help behind. He started side drafting down the front stretch with Allison's car. It worked. The commentators were yelling "he's hitting him" because everybody during those years were ignorant to the technique of side drafting except the pioneer himself, Dale Earnhardt. Including Davey Allison who got mad. (Look it up, Dale was the pioneer of side drafting) Dale obviously backed off the side of Davey's car through turn 1 to avoid wrecking, then coming off turn 2 Davey thought he would retaliate to what he thought was Dale trying to "intimidate" him and came down hard into the side of the 3 car and caused the entire wreck. That is exactly what happened. I'm sticking to it. Dale is awesome. 68. Jimnsimforever posted: 01.07.2019 - 9:15 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) No, I can't let that one stand, people will take it dead serious. What a crazy race though. It is great to be able to watch these for the first time. I don't know what in the world Nascar was thinking with their "solution" to the dangers in pit road. I can only imagine how some of these races are going to look with that rule change. I wonder if anybody even discussed instituting a pit road speed limit. 69. Corey posted: 01.07.2019 - 11:20 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I think the rules only lasted 5 races. 70. James posted: 11.17.2019 - 4:28 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) I just watched this race again this morning. The Broadcast crew seemed over the new pit rules about halfway through the race. There were multiple cautions early, but a long green flag stretch spread the field out with none of the packs of drafting cars Daytona has become famous for. There was no set pit strategy as many teams tried running on no tires changes or only one due to the new radial tires and the rule that tires may not be changed under caution. The broadcasters also commented on the need for electronic scoring as the long green flag stretch combined with the pit rules confused fans and commentators alike. There were many times they argued about who was still on the lead lap. Dale Earnhardt and Davey Allison had the best cars almost all day. Ernie Irvan and Kyle Petty had decent cars and Kyle benefitted from pit strategy that enabled him to lead the most laps. Darrell Waltrip and Rusty Wallace were gambling on fuel mileage toward the end while other drivers were still pitting at odd times for fuel and tires before Robby Gordon (who was running surprisingly well near the lead lap most of the day) and Richard Petty spun bringing out a caution that bunched up the field. Rusty Wallace lost control soon after coming in contact with Kyle Petty a few laps later taking out himself and Darrell Waltrip along with several other cars who had managed to stay near the lead lap all day. Ernie Irvan managed to get out front while Dale and Davey battled for second and Dale spun with three laps to go collecting Kyle Petty while Davey hit the wall. Earnhardt managed to keep moving while the other two were knocked out allowing him to settle for 5th. Ernie Irvan cruised to victory under caution with low fuel. Of note: Joe Ruttman, Rick Mast and Hut Stricklin had really good cars all day. Stricklin spun early and lost a few laps but gained one back before being caught up in the Wallace/Waltrip spin. Joe Ruttman was a big story coming out of semi-retirement to land a full time ride. This would be his best race of the season. Sterling Marlin was beneficiary of last few cautions. He managed to stay on the lead lap all day but was largely a non-factor. He got around Ruttman on the final accident allowing him to finish 2nd. In my opinion, the best cars were Earnhardt, Allison, Irvan, Petty, Ruttman, Mast and Stricklin. 71. Kellen posted: 07.23.2020 - 12:56 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Ray Evernham quit Alan Kulwicki's team the day before this race. Through Ford connections Ray got hired by Bill Davis Racing and became Crew Chief 1 year later. 72. Jimmie4life posted: 07.25.2020 - 4:22 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Daytona 500 Qualifying times: 1. Davey Allison - 45.929 Seconds 2. Ernie Irvan - 46.003 Seconds 3. Harry Gant - 46.044 Seconds 4. Sterling Marlin - 46.194 Seconds 5. Rick Mast - 46.272 Seconds 6. Dale Earnhardt - 46.304 Seconds 7. Ricky Rudd - 46.306 Seconds 8. Mark Martin - 46.418 Seconds 9. Alan Kulwicki - 46.451 Seconds 10. Phil Barkdoll - 46.458 Seconds 11. Darrell Waltrip - 46. 463 Seconds 12. Bill Elliott - 46.498 Seconds 13. Joe Ruttman - 46.507 Seconds 14. Richard Petty - 46.549 Seconds 15. Terry Labonte - 46.577 Seconds 16. Dale Jarrett - 46.578 Seconds 17. Rusty Wallace - 46.613 Seconds 18. Hut Stricklin - 46.619 Seconds 19. Mickey Gibbs - 46.619 Seconds 20. Dick Trickle - 46.640 Seconds 21. Ken Schrader - 46.668 Seconds 22. Sammy Swindell - 46.695 Seconds 23. Michael Waltrip - 46.735 Seconds 24. Kyle Petty - 46.782 Seconds 25. Derrike Cope - 46.793 Seconds 26. Morgan Shepherd - 46.813 Seconds 27. Robby Gordon - 46.817 Seconds 28. Bobby Hillin, Jr. - 46.836 Seconds 29. Ted Musgrave - 46.844 Seconds 30. Chad Little - 46.871 Seconds 31. Jimmy Spencer - 46.904 Seconds 32. Bobby Hamilton Sr. - 46.928 Seconds 33. Jimmy Means - 46.949 Seconds 34. Geoffrey Bodine - 46.951 Seconds 35. Eddie Bierschwale - 46.971 Seconds 36. Rick WIlson - 47.007 Seconds 37. Dorsey Schroeder - 47.150 Seconds 38. Dave Marcis - 47.189 Seconds 39. Brett Bodine - 47.206 Seconds 40. Chuck Brown - 47.295 Seconds 41. Rich Bickle - 47.400 Seconds 42. Buddy Baker - 47.408 Seconds 43. Greg Sacks - 47.532 Seconds 44. Jim Sauter - 47.581 Seconds 45. Jeff Purvis - 47.761 Seconds 46. Mar Stahl - 47.814 Seconds 47. Bill Venturini - 48.008 Seconds 48. Dave Mader III - 48.158 Seconds 49. Gary Balough - 48.224 Seconds 50. Brian Ross - 48.242 Seconds 51. Jimmy Horton - 48.415 Seconds 52. J.D. McDuffie - 48.576 Seconds 53. Phil Parsons - 48.760 Seconds 54. Delma Cowart - 49.535 Seconds 55. Brad Teague - 49.892 Seconds 56. Rick Jeffrey - 49.328 Seconds 57. Philip Duffie - 50.518 Seconds 58. Blackie Wangerin - 51.416 Seconds 73. SweetRich21/43 posted: 08.01.2020 - 4:54 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The commentators were Ken Squier, David Hobbs and Ned Jarrett. The pit road reporters were Mike Joy and Dave Despain. The studio host was Chris Economaki. 74. CerealIsAmazing posted: 09.28.2020 - 2:54 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Brian Ross' #13 car was an unsponsored Linro car with an American flag on the front. 75. TennesseeMountainMan posted: 11.14.2020 - 7:09 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Just went back and watched this race on YouTube: A few things I noticed... Phil Barkdoll was running 11th place, on the inside going for 10th when he lost control spinning catching major air on lap 38 which was incredible. Jim Sauter had a decent fast car and likely would have finished in the top 10 way the race turned out, if not getting wrecked coming to pit road on lap 78 Robby Gordon in his first Cup start ran very well. Ran high as 5th driving for the legendary Junie Donlavey Dick Trickle with the weird pit road rules in this race ran incredibly well. Got a lap down during middle part of this race. Ran down, passed leader Kyle Petty (with no drafting help) and drove off. As the race progressed, Dick had to stop again and the late caution fell where he was trapped lap behind. Otherwise, he would've been looking at a possible top 5 finish D.W. led a decent part of the race, and was going for the lead with less than 20 laps to go when he got shoveled back. Then wrecked on the next lap. If the race had remained green, D.W. was running 1st among the cars who had already stopped and had a great chance to win. Kyle Petty had a great car. Led a large portion of this race. Petty's Mello Yellow Pontiac could've been the winner on this day if circumstances had played out sightly different. 76. RaceFanX posted: 11.20.2020 - 9:44 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Ernie Irvan's win here made his the first California driver since Marvin Panch in 1961 to win the Daytona 500. The influx of West Coast talent into NASCAR's higher levels in the years that followed assured he was far from the last Golden State victor in the Great American Race with Jimmie Johnson and Kevin Harvick both scoring victories in the 500, as did California-born but Indiana-raised Jeff Gordon. The yellow Kodak #4 Chevrolet Lumina Irvan drove to victory here would be reused by the Morgan-McClure team in a few more plate races later in the season before being sold off. Jeff Purvis would win the Daytona ARCA race here in the same car in 1993 before it was eventually retired from racing and restored back to its Kodak colors and preserved. Derrike Cope crashed in the Busch Clash but his team repaired his #10 Purolator Chevrolet Lumina, the exact same chassis he drove to his 500 win here in 1990, during the run up to the 500. Cope was running in the back of the top-10 late in this one when he wiped the car out in the big trioval pileup with Rusty Wallace and company. That was the likely the end of his Lumina's days racing in Cup but the car returned to competition in ARCA a few years later after a rebuild. 77. JSPorts posted: 11.20.2020 - 10:02 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Kind of crazy how where drivers were from shifted. 1 California winner of the Daytona 500 in the first 32 years, but there have now been 7 in the last 30. 78. Rich posted: 11.27.2020 - 9:55 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Along with his hosting duties, Chris Economaki was one of the three pit road reporters along with Mike Joy and Dave Despain. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: