|| *Comments on the 1992 Food City 500:* View the most recent comment <#31> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. Darrell posted: 04.21.2006 - 2:24 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Alan Kulwicki breaks Bill Elliott's win streak in dominating fashion. 2. Steve posted: 05.17.2006 - 6:43 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Alan Kulwicki also won his second consecutive Bristol race, and the last two races run at Bristol on the asphalt, before it became concrete. Joe Gibbs Racing got its first Top 5 with Dale Jarrett, and Dave Mader III scored his best career finish (16th, 13 laps down). 3. Jeff posted: 06.28.2006 - 10:08 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) DNQ for this race: #98 Jimmy Spencer only one. 4. Steve posted: 12.07.2006 - 6:45 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jimmy must have had a mechanical failure or a spinout during qualifying; Mr. Excitement ALWAYS runs good at Bristol. 5. Anonymous posted: 03.12.2007 - 7:17 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I do believe that Spencer backed his car into the wall in turn 2 (it was either 2 or 4, not sure.) 6. Anonymous posted: 11.03.2007 - 6:37 pm Rate this comment: (0) (2) I was born only 4 days before this race... 7. RaceFanX posted: 01.01.2008 - 10:33 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Dave Mader III scores a career best 16th place finish. Technically, he'd match it in the Winston later in the year 8. Anonymous posted: 05.19.2009 - 6:58 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) This was the first time this race was called the Food City 500. Since then, the name hasn't changed making it one of the longest race sponsorships in NASCAR. 9. Anonymous posted: 12.17.2009 - 12:39 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Qualifying Results 7 Alan Kulwicki 122.474 mph 26 Brett Bodine 121.659 mph 2 Rusty Wallace 120.915 mph 18 Dale Jarrett 120.392 mph 12 Hut Stricklin 120.218 mph 28 Davey Allison 120.188 mph 4 Ernie Irvan 119.850 mph 25 Ken Schrader 119.641 mph 6 Mark Martin 119.581 mph 30 Michael Waltrip 119.470 mph 11 Bill Elliott 119.462 mph 33 Harry Gant 119.417 mph 21 Morgan Shepherd 119.395 mph 43 Richard Petty 119.380 mph 94 Terry Labonte 119.314 mph 17 Darrell Waltrip 119.314 mph 5 Ricky Rudd 119.299 mph 3 Dale Earnhardt 119.262 mph 22 Sterling Marlin 119.151 mph 66 Chad Little 119.151 mph 71 Dave Marcis 118.796 mph 8 Dick Trickle 118.686 mph 42 Kyle Petty 118.672 mph 55 Ted Musgrave 118.613 mph 9 Dave Mader III 118.584 mph 52 Brad Teague 118.547 mph 15 Geoff Bodine 118.240 mph 68 Bobby Hamilton 118.167 mph 41 Greg Sacks 118.029 mph 1 Rick Mast 117.107 mph 10 Derrike Cope 116.715 mph 16 Wally Dallenbach Jr. 116.595 mph DNQ 98 Jimmy Spencer 112.937 mph 10. Anonymous posted: 12.20.2009 - 12:38 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) More Info Spencer drove the Moly Black Gold Chevrolet for Travis Carter 11. Rob posted: 10.21.2010 - 2:58 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sterling Marlin relieved Davey Allison in the #28 after Davey suffered sore ribs after a mid race crash. If Junior had known how close things were going to be heading into Atlanta, I doubt he would have let Marlin help Davey's team out... 12. Patrick posted: 12.11.2010 - 9:46 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Chad Litle's last race with Cale Yarborough Motorsports and the #66 TropArtic ford, he was replaced the next week. 13. Flywheel posted: 01.30.2011 - 3:35 pm Rate this comment: (0) (2) Why not, Rob? Davey still got the points. And you can't predict the future, so your comment is pretty much worthless. 14. Billy posted: 03.20.2011 - 4:10 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) It Was Kulwicki Beat Jarrett. 15. Anonymous posted: 12.31.2011 - 4:44 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) "so your comment is pretty much worthless." Which is true of more than most comments here. 16. autryvilleracefan posted: 09.19.2012 - 1:23 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Rob just made an insightful comment, Flywheel. There is no reason to bash him for it. This is a place where race fans can who actually remember these races discuss past races and scenarios and "what ifs." Davey Allison did hurt his ribs in this race. He suffered broken lower ribs, cartilage separation and a bruised lung. He drove in pain to victory at North Wilkesboro the next weekend. 17. David posted: 07.08.2013 - 12:11 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Flywheel what Rob was saying actually is a very good point. Yes Davey got the points, but Marlin finished the race. Elliott and Marlin were teammates and if Marlin purposely finished badly it would have cost Davey points. Therefore, it is YOUR that has no worth lol 18. cjs3872 posted: 03.16.2014 - 7:12 pm Rate this comment: (1) (1) In fact, it was even mentioned in the broadcast that there might be issues with Junior Johnson letting Marlin drive Davey's car because of how that might hurt Bill Elliott in the points race, but Junior did allow Sterling to drive Davey's car, but it really didn't make that much of a difference. It is interesting to note that the sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth place cars were three, four, five, and six laps behind. That would never be allowed to happen today, because NASCAR would throw cautions to keep that from happening, instead of letting the race play out in a natural course. Rusty Wallace had a difficult day, but ended up ninth, five laps behind the winner, Mark Martin had what was termed a "lousy day", yet he still wound up 15th (12 laps behind), and Bill Elliott, despite his problems, ended up finishing 20th (30 laps behind), which was considerably better than his championship rivals at the time fared (Alan Kulwicki could not yet be considered a true championship contender), as both Davey Allison and Harry Gant suffered mechanical problems, and finished 28th and 29th. 19. WardBurtonfan posted: 09.25.2014 - 6:06 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Dick Trickle had finished top 5 in half of the races so far in 1992 ð??? 20. HD11 posted: 02.25.2015 - 12:50 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) This crash started a rough year of accidents for Davey, most notably after winning The Winston and flipping wildly at Pocono. Regardless, he had a hell of a season. Cale must've been tough to work for, he chewed through drivers like Darlington chews through tires. 21. Anonymous posted: 05.23.2016 - 1:04 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) It actually would have made no difference if Junior had not allowed Sterling to sub for Davey. The #28 would have finished in the same position even if it hadn't returned to the track. 22. Zachary posted: 10.26.2016 - 1:28 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The first race of the 1992 season where Dale Earnhardt led a lap. 23. Altracing posted: 01.06.2019 - 5:21 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Only time in Kulwicki's career that he would win a cup race starting from the pole 24. Altracing posted: 01.07.2019 - 8:46 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Dale Jarrett's second place finish in this race would be Joe Gibbs Racing's best finish in their inaugural cup season 25. Altracing posted: 01.07.2019 - 11:45 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was also the first time a Joe Gibbs Racing car would lead a lap in the cup series 26. James posted: 11.14.2019 - 8:09 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) @ HD11 Hindsight 20/20 Id love to know what Cale was thinking. He fired Dick Trickle in 1991 early, early in the season. Lake Speed filled in until he too, got fired. In 92 he opens with Chad Little, fires him, and eventually winds up with Jimmy Hensley. With the exception of Chad Little (although Trickle and Hensley were new drivers) they were ALL old. In 93 he ends up with Derrike Cope. In 94 he fires him mid-season and gets Jeremy Mayfield. I mean, did any of those fires do anything to improve his team in the Points Standings? One could argue he should have stayed with Trickle. 27. Jacob posted: 04.03.2020 - 11:36 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) During the race, Bob Jenkins mentioned the death of "Pop" Allison (father of Bobby and Donnie, grandfather of Davey and Clifford); while noting Davey had a "Pop" decal in his grandfather's memory. Unfortunately, this would mark the start of a tragedy-marred year for the Allison family, as a few months later Clifford was killed in a practice crash for the Busch Series race in Michigan, followed nearly a year later when Davey himself lost his life in a helicopter crash. 28. Ryan posted: 07.03.2020 - 10:42 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Alan Kulwicki breaks Bill Elliott's four race win streak by winning his second career race at Bristol. Kulwicki won the pole and won an extra $22,800 Unocal bonus money for winning from the pole position. If people aren't familiar with how the Unocal bonus worked here's how. Union Oil introduced "76" gas in 1932. The named referred to the 1776 U.S. Declaration of Independence and was also the octane rating of the gasoline in 1932. Unocal 76 was the official fuel of NASCAR like Sunoco is today. Unocal introduced the orange ball with "76" written on it in blue as their symbol and sign. It was at several NASCAR tracks. Unocal offered a bonus of $7,600 to the driver that won the pole and won the race. However, if a driver didn't win the race the bonus would carry over to the next race along with $7,600 more for that race and so on (7,600, 15,200, 22,800, 30,400, etc.). Unfortunately for Kulwicki, Elliott had just won the pole and race at Richmond three races prior. For the Richmond race the bonus was up to $197,600 where it hadn't been won in 26 races prior early in the 1991 season won by Rusty Wallace at... Bristol. Elliott beat Kulwicki of all people by 18 inches to win the big prize (however we all know it wasn't his biggest) and winning $272,700 total for the race. Had Kulwicki been able to get by or ahead of Elliott at Richmond the "Unocal 76 money" would have been $220,400 at Bristol and Kulwicki would have won it. Although Kulwicki wouldn't win as much as Elliott then, he would get his revenge at Atlanta in November. 29. SweetRich posted: 07.05.2020 - 9:23 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The swansong for Chad Little in The #66 Ford for Cale Yarborough. The six-race run was lackluster: no finishes above 22nd with an average finish of 27.1, two did not finishes and no laps led. What a shame for Chad, who left his family-owned team to go full-time, only to hit the brick wall and lose his ride. Thankfully, he got the call to compete for the Melling team and had some good runs in the #9 machine. 30. QFH posted: 11.11.2020 - 10:28 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Technically, the race name of "Food City 500" only lasted for 19 years and alternative names have been used a total of 3 time (2011, 2015, 2020) although they have been IN the name of the race in some capacity for all 29 years since. (Response to the @8 post from 2009) 31. Rich posted: 12.26.2020 - 10:24 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Bob Jenkins, Ned Jarrett and Benny Parsons were the commentators. Dr. Jerry Punch and John Kernan were the pit road reporters. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: