|| *Comments on the 1992 Champion Spark Plug 400:* View the most recent comment <#31> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. James Reisdorf posted: 03.07.2005 - 1:45 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Oldsmobile's last win in NASCAR, and Harry Gant's last win as well. At 52 years and 8 months at the time of this race, he is the oldest driver to ever win in the Cup series. 2. HomeDepot20TS posted: 04.24.2005 - 8:44 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Davey Allison took 5th place just a couple of days after his brother Clifford lost his life. 3. Chicago posted: 02.24.2006 - 10:07 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Yet another tragic turn for the "cursed" Alabama Gang ... 4. Steve posted: 07.12.2006 - 6:22 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I think that if Earnhardt had not been killed in his crash, he would have smashed that oldest winner record to smithereens. If he had won any race after Dale Jr. won his first Phoenix race in November 2003, Dale Sr. would have set the record. 5. Chevy posted: 07.27.2006 - 2:31 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Somewhere I read that Earnhardt was planning to retire at the end of 2002 and had already told Childress to pick Jeff Burton as his replacement. Burton got his Childress ride a little late but looks a decent replacement in 2006. 6. Frogger49 posted: 09.16.2006 - 1:29 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Harry Gant won this race on fuel mileage for his final career victory. 7. RaceFanX posted: 12.25.2007 - 11:57 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Only Cup start for Jeff McClure 8. stricklinfan82 posted: 04.21.2008 - 5:12 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) If you don't believe in fuel mileage wins, this was certainly one of the "cheaper" wins in NASCAR history. Gant wasn't even a top 10 or 15 car but stretched the fuel mileage to take the final victory of his career. During the commercial break right after the race ended Benny Parsons made the comment to his fellow ESPN booth-mates that "Harry should apologize for stealing these guys' money", which I found to be a very funny line. 9. Clayton posted: 08.16.2008 - 12:37 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was the farthest anyone had come from to win at Michigan at the time. Before Handsome Harry the furthest anyone came from was 10th, when Bobby Allison did it in 1982. Gant's record stood until 2000, when Tony Stewart came from 28th to win at Michigan. Gant's record was pretty impressive for a 52 year old man!! 10. Frank posted: 06.07.2009 - 7:22 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) "Before Handsome Harry the furthest anyone came from was 10th, when Bobby Allison did it in 1982." Actually Dale Jarrett held the record previously. He started 11th in this race a year ago and won in that dramatic photo finish for his first win. 11. Sébastien posted: 06.20.2009 - 5:01 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Lyn St James was the grand marshal for this race. 12. 18fan posted: 02.22.2010 - 7:42 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Darrell finished second in both Michigan races in 1992. 13. 18fan posted: 02.26.2010 - 6:00 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Dale Jarrett led laps 138-141, not Dale Earnhardt. 14. rlnau62 posted: 12.23.2010 - 11:54 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) First race I went to at Michigan, I have only missed 1 since because of rain. Elliott should have won this race but to pit for gas. 15. Walleyewacker posted: 05.26.2011 - 3:20 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The next race at MIS was also a fuelee win and Ricky Rudd's only win at MIS(June 1993). 16. Cole posted: 08.14.2011 - 8:31 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Harry Gant Wins. 17. rm posted: 07.24.2016 - 10:17 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jeff McClure's lone Cup start. 18. BlackChevy14 posted: 12.01.2016 - 12:13 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Last victory, it can be safely presumed nearly a quarter century later, for a tobacco-branded car in the Cup Series. Fittingly it came with Harry Gant, the most-famous pilot of a tobacco car (Rusty's title and Winston victory in '89 and many other wins were with Kodiak, but I think everyone associates him with Miller). All 18 of Harry's wins came in the Skoal Bandit, making him (at least from the '80s on) the only driver to get each of his multiple Cup wins for a tobacco brand. Phil Parsons' only victory came in the Skoal Classic colors at Talladega, though. 19. RaceFanX posted: 12.01.2016 - 12:45 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I think your statement will always be accurate for points-paying races since I believe tobacco advertising laws make it actually illegal for race cars, or other sporting events and venues in general, to have tobacco sponsorships. Jimmy Spencer won some all-star race preliminary events later in cars backed by Camel and Winston but those weren't full-caliber races like this one. 20. BlackChevy14 posted: 12.02.2016 - 3:43 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Indeed. When I saw people clamoring for a return of Winston when Sprint announced it wouldn't sponsor the sport in 2017 and beyond, I could only assume that they were completely unaware of the fact that it could have absolutely no signage or television advertising that showed the name (I'm not sure about verbalizing it, my video games in the early 2000s had the announcers say "Winston Cup" but it was never written, even in standard typeface, but the rules may have even changed for that). I only said "safely presumed" because in this crazy world we live in, nothing's a sure thing. Smoking could rise again, we could have the first National Anthem performed by someone with an electrolarynx. But I'm safely sure we'll never see another tobacco branded car in the Cup Series, or at any high level of motorsport. I forgot about Jimmy's wins at The Winston and his Bud Shootout qualifier win. It's funny, for someone who's never used any tobacco product (particularly out of an intense phobia of the above-mentioned side-effect of prolonged smoking) I've always been fascinated by the tobacco cars. Ditto the beer rides, never had a drop of alcohol but I like those too and have since I was a child. Maybe - gasp - the politicians were wrong. 21. Niles Y93 posted: 12.02.2016 - 3:49 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) @18 Phil Parsons won in a Crown Petroleum sponsored Oldsmobile, not Skoal Classic. 22. Dedphesant posted: 12.02.2016 - 5:21 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) @21 Phil's car was co-sponsored by Crown Petroleum and Skoal Classic. 23. Josh posted: 05.08.2018 - 10:11 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Lake Speed's "crash" actually resulted in Speed bailing from the car mid-roll in Turn 3 after it caught fire. Speed seemingly harmlessly spun on the backstretch and was bringing the car back around when the blaze started and Speed hopped out. Gant may have run out of fuel coming out of Turn 4 on the final lap; he was trying to draft behind Schrader, but started losing ground to him and bobbing side to side to get the fuel to the pickup. Dale Earnhardt started 41st after failing post-qualifying inspection after second round qualifying. His time would have been good enough for fastest in the second round and 21st overall. 24. Aaron posted: 05.21.2018 - 1:49 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Greg Sacks was injured in this race, and Dave Marcis filled in for the next several races. 25. Matthew Lewis posted: 08.31.2018 - 3:05 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Sponsors for this race: 31-MAXX race Cards (1/4 panels) https://thracingphotos.smugmug.com/NASCAR/NASCAR-1992/i-SrJ2Mnd 52-Suburban Printery (1/4 panels) https://thracingphotos.smugmug.com/NASCAR/NASCAR-1992/i-wsrv3Bk 27-Showcase Racing Collectables (hood) https://thracingphotos.smugmug.com/NASCAR/NASCAR-1992/i-WV4fqRj 9-1-800-4-A-CHILD Child Abuse Hotline (whole car) 26. T Ferguson posted: 10.26.2018 - 1:11 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Angry post race comments from from Kyle Petty about the fuel mileage win: "We had a Top 5 car and finished sixth because someone was conducting a mileage test," Petty said. "It burns us because we race hard and run hard..Ernie (Irvan) ran well and deserved to win. (Bill) Elliott ran hard and(deserved to win. Darrell (Waltrip) deserved to win and got a good finish. "The fans deserved to see a good race. Instead of getting it, all of a sudden they saw a guy win, who ran 20th all day. It's not fair to the race fans," Petty said. 27. Scott B posted: 10.26.2018 - 3:17 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) I'm surprised there was this much anger. Gant led twice for a total of 23 laps, including the last 15. It's not like he won it in the final two or three laps, he committed to the fuel strategy much earlier. It was a smart call by Harry and his crew, if others didn't think of it, that's on them not him. 28. Evan posted: 05.01.2020 - 5:58 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Harry Gants 1993 Racing Champions card is from this win. It shows Harry proudly holding his winner's trophy from this race. 29. Anonymous posted: 05.22.2020 - 2:07 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This is a record that I think will never be broken. Most drivers don't race at age 50. The only driver I could see in an upcoming year would be Harvick. If that's the case, Harvick would have to win a race in 2028. I don't see that happening and he will probably retire, there might be a chance, but it's unlikely. Another driver that might happen but it's unlikely, would be Joey Logano. If that's the case, he would have to win a race in 2043. Yea, this is a record that will NEVER be broken. 30. RaceFanX posted: 06.14.2020 - 7:59 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) After Clifford Allison was killed in a practice crash for the Busch race on the undercard for this event the Robert Yates Racing team offered Davey Allison the weekend off to be with his family to grieve and handle a funeral for him. The team asked Allison who he wanted for a substitute driver only for Allison to tell them he would drive in the race first and then go to be with his family since this is his job. Davey posted a top-5 finish amidst all this and then immediately went to Hueytown to be with his family. 31. SweetRich21/43 posted: 07.29.2020 - 4:37 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The commentators were Bob Jenkins, Ned Jarrett and Benny Parsons. 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