|| *Comments on the 1991 Valleydale Meats 500:* View the most recent comment <#33> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. Aaron Camp posted: 04.17.2005 - 11:48 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sterling Marlin's car caught fire after a hard crash 2. HomeDepotKid posted: 05.14.2005 - 11:45 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) The most competitive race of 1991 took place here. At Bristol. 40 Lead Changes. Don't laugh, people. There were 40 Lead Changes AT A SHORT TRACK. Stop laughing. OK, I'm laughing, too. :P 3. Chicago posted: 06.28.2005 - 9:13 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) If I remember right, it was in part because of the one-time use of double-file restarts for the leaders, wasn't it? 4. Anonymous posted: 09.15.2005 - 12:20 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Wallace and Irvan swapped the lead 3 times on the final lap, Wallace beating Irvan to the line by 12 inches... 5. SPENCER posted: 01.01.2006 - 12:02 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Another Spencer top 10 6. Matthew Sullivan posted: 11.09.2006 - 9:49 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) The rule that was in effect for this race was for cars that started in odd positions would pit and then the next lap the even ones would pit. Dumb rule. The restarts had odd qualifiers starting inside and even ones outside. It's something that would be easier to explain with a visual. Dumber rule. Let's hope Brian Frace doesn't remember these rules, because I'm sure he'd think that they're pure genius. 7. Steve posted: 12.11.2006 - 11:03 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I'm glad that set of rules didn't last long. Really; it didn't last more than 6 or 7 races! I saw the April race at Martinsville (2 weeks after this one) on ESPN Classic and there was no mention of those rules. 40 lead changes at Bristol! The previous record was 34 LCs (lead changes) in the spring of 1989. The best since then has been 19 LCs, 4 times. The spring race in 1993, 1998, and 2006, and the night race in 2000. 8. Rusty posted: 02.22.2007 - 2:45 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Rusty Wallace's first win with Roger Penske. 9. FHgrad99 posted: 08.20.2007 - 4:32 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Another interesting tidbit about the spring Bristol races in 1990 and 1991 is that they had a combined margin of victory of less than 2 feet. The year before Davey Allison edged out Mark Martin for the win. 10. Chris posted: 10.24.2007 - 4:48 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The dumb rules being referred to were gone by the next week at North Wilkesboro. The fiasco at Bristol finally showed Nascar the error of their ways and they implemented the pit road speed limit the next race. 11. Anonymous posted: 12.28.2008 - 4:55 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Caution flag #6:Umbrella on track Did that actually happen? 12. Kit posted: 04.27.2009 - 3:00 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sterling actually got burnt in his wreck and needed a relief driver for the next couple of weeks. 13. WillG46 posted: 02.17.2010 - 1:11 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Rusty won by half a car length, not a foot. 14. Anonymous posted: 08.06.2011 - 10:36 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @6, yes @12, Sterling didn't end up missing any races. He spent three days in the ICU from the burns he received in the crash. 15. Anonymous posted: 12.31.2011 - 4:39 am Rate this comment: (1) (2) It's a shame Sterling didn't need a relief driver for the rest of his career. 16. Dave posted: 05.21.2012 - 8:06 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) @Anonymous I just watched the finish on YouTube & they definitely didn't swap the lead 3 times on the last lap. Irvan got along side Wallace in 3&4 and they raced to the line.... 17. autryvilleracefan posted: 07.26.2013 - 1:23 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Hey No. 11 Anonymous: There really was an umbrella on the track. I remember seeing the video of it. It was folded up close to the wall. 18. Anonymous auto racing fan posted: 10.28.2014 - 7:59 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I think this was one of the wildest races I've ever seen due to the rules and the weather and the crashes. Great finish with irvan and rusty. It was the first win in nascar for Penske in a long time. 19. HD11 posted: 01.03.2015 - 1:39 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) It is funny to see the interviews during the late red flag and how stressed the drivers were about the double file restart rules for this race. If they only knew how commonplace these would become years later, lol. 20. nascarman posted: 05.26.2015 - 1:12 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Qualfying Results: Pos. Driver Speed 1. Rusty Wallace 118.051 2. Dale Earnhardt 117.222 3. Davey Allison 112.186 4. Ricky Rudd 117.107 5. Alan Kulwicki 117.064 6. Mark Martin 116.950 7. Brett Bodine 116.935 8. Ernie Irvan 116.872 9. Rick Mast 116.801 10. Harry Gant 116.751 11. Geoffrey Bodine 116.694 12. Kyle Petty 116.623 13. Hut Stricklin 116.517 14. Ken Schrader 116.517 15. Sterling Marlin 116.418 16. Rick Wilson 116.270 17. Mickey Gibbs 116.206 18. Dale Jarrett 116.122 19. Bobby Hillin, Jr. 115.702 20. Jimmy Spencer 115.618 21. Dick Trickle 115.604 22. Darrell Waltrip 115.576 23. Joe Ruttman 115.347 24. Lake Speed 115.347 25. Michael Waltrip 115.140 26. Morgan Shepherd 114.919 27. Ted Musgrave 114.871 28. Bobby Hamilton 114.829 29. Bill Elliott 114.699 30. Terry Labonte 114.350 31. Chad Little 113.977 32. Derrike Cope 113.855 33. Richard Petty 113.424 21. Josh posted: 02.06.2017 - 7:30 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ted Musgrave's best finish of 1991 in basically an unsponsored vehicle. 22. Jolly Mean Giant posted: 08.27.2017 - 4:22 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Aside from the Marlin crash, there was another scary moment in the late stages when Ken Schrader, who was already 150+ laps down after crashing on a restart into the inside wall, lost a wheel and slammed hard into the fourth turn wall and slid back down hard into the inside wall as well. Schrader's errant wheel went bouncing over the pit wall but fortunately bounced off a couple of pit boxes before it hit anybody. There were no injuries. 23. Jimnsimforever posted: 01.09.2019 - 5:16 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The pit road rules were brand new for this race. Nascar changed the rules to the ones for this race due to the backlash from drivers and their teams and more importantly the fans about the brand new pit road rules that were used in races 1 through 5 in the 91 season. In the rules for this race you were allowed to change tires during cautions. Plus some other stuff changed. And I guess the very next race after this they changed again due to this race being a disaster. All these rules were changing in the Busch Series at the same time. So if you count the final race of the 1990 season, then the first 7 races of this season, Nascar had 4 different sets of rules for pit road in a matter of 8 races. Wow, what a confusing time this had to be for fans, drivers and everybody. 24. Jimnsimforever posted: 01.10.2019 - 10:33 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsorship correction: During the broadcast of this race they show and talk about Ted Musgrave being sponsored by Alka-Seltzer because Jimmy Means didn't qualify and handed the sponsorship over to him for this race. He then did the same thing the next race at North Wilkesboro. I see you already have it listed as Alka-Seltzer in the NWS race. 25. spinpsychle posted: 01.29.2019 - 10:27 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The pit rules for this one were far worse than the previous tries this year. They lined up cars odd and even on restarts, without separating out the lap down cars. There was nowhere for the lap cars to go to get out of the way. There were some crashes caused specifically by this. Schrader's being the biggest one. There's also a big problem with fairness. For example, on the first restart, the top three had all been inside line cars and they all started on the inside because they were odd, while Rudd got to go to second spot because he was top even. A few minutes with some toy cars on a table and a crew chief or two would've been enough to make them realize this plan wouldn't hold water. The previous races weren't bad, but they did typically lead to only two or three cards in the lead lap because of the green flag tire changes. I like fewer cautions rather than more generally. 26. SweetRich posted: 07.09.2020 - 9:22 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ted Musgrave's finish of 12th would be the best of the driver's rookie season in NASCAR's Winston Cup Series. 27. SweetRich posted: 07.09.2020 - 9:25 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The start of Jimmy Spencer's run of four straight top ten finishes, a sharp contrast to how his 1991 season had started, with five finishes of 11th or worse with three of those finishes being did not finishes. 28. SweetRich21/43 posted: 08.01.2020 - 4:54 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The commentators were Bob Jenkins, Ned Jarrett and Benny Parsons. The pit road reporters were Dr. Jerry Punch and John Kernan. 29. QFH posted: 08.09.2020 - 7:11 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Rusty had a rather improbable comeback in this race, falling 2 laps down early due to a tire issue. He regained one lap on lap 400 and then got the other lap back just before the rain hit on lap 460, then by virtue of beating Davey Allison off pit road and thus being the highest running odd-parity qualifying driver, he was lined up on the inside of the front row and Rusty took advantage of the opportunity and won. Irvan gave him a bump 'n run and came up side by side off Turn 4 with Irvan having a tiny edge over the 2, but the outside momentum carried Rusty past. These dumb rules would go away in favor of the pit road speed system which has hung around until the present. Darrell Waltrip proposed a rule which would freeze the field and allow pit stops then line up in the order of the field before the caution came out, which was a change that was tried in the 2020 Henry 180 at Road America in the XFinity Series along with many other pit road changes which were also very polarizing. 30. Jay posted: 09.04.2020 - 3:00 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Based on the qualifying speeds how did Davey start 3rd? 31. Corey posted: 09.04.2020 - 3:24 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @30 Probably a typo. 32. possum posted: 09.04.2020 - 7:30 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @31 - agree - Davey's speed should be 117.186. 33. Jimmie4life posted: 10.23.2020 - 11:41 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Qualifying times: 1. Rusty Wallace - 16.254 Sec. 2. Dale Earnhardt - 16.369 Sec. 3. Davey Allison - 16.374 Sec. 4. Ricky Rudd - 16.385 Sec. 5. Alan Kulwicki - 16.391 Sec. 6. Mark Martin - 16.407 Sec. 7. Brett Bodine - 16.409 Sec. 8. Ernie Irvan - 16.418 Sec. 9. Rick Mast - 16.428 Sec. 10. Harry Gant - 16.435 Sec. 11. Geoffrey Bodine - 16.443 Sec. 12. Kyle Petty - 16.453 Sec. 13. Hut Stricklin - 16.468 Sec. 14. Ken Schrader - 16.468 Sec. 15. Sterling Marlin - 16.482 Sec. 16. Rick Wilson - 16.503 Sec. 17. Mickey Gibbs - 16.512 Sec. 18. Dale Jarrett - 16.524 Sec. 19. Bobby Hillin, Jr. - 16.584 Sec. 20. Jimmy Spencer - 16.596 Sec. 21. Dick Trickle - 16.598 Sec. 22. Darrell Waltrip - 16.602 Sec. 23. Joe Ruttman - 16.635 Sec. 24. Lake Speed - 16.635 Sec. 25. Michael Waltrip - 16.665 Sec. 26. Morgan Shepherd - 16.697 Sec. 27. Ted Musgrave - 16.704 Sec. 28. Bobby Hamilton - 16.710 Sec. 29. Bill Elliott - 16.729 Sec. 30. Terry Labonte - 16.780 Sec. 31. Chad Little - 16.835 Sec. 32. Derrike Cope - 16.853 Sec. 33. Richard Petty - 16.917 Sec. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: