|| *Comments on the 1994 UAW-GM Teamwork 500:* View the most recent comment <#35> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. Thomas posted: 11.04.2005 - 3:02 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) This race featured a crash that basically ended Chuck Bown's career. He and Sterling Marlin got together in the tunnel turn and Bown went driver's side first into the wall. He did a few TNN broadcasts after that but most were with an eye patch as he had lingering head injuries resulting in double vision. 2. Mr. Etc posted: 01.15.2006 - 7:10 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Race was delayed due to fog 3. Thomas posted: 03.06.2006 - 9:40 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Correction, Chuck Bown just didn't run very many Winston/Nextel Cup races after that. He ran a good number of Busch races, and a full season of trucks in 1997 for Jack Roush, finishing 9th in points and getting a pole at Disney World in 1998. 4. Darrell posted: 03.11.2006 - 11:37 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Bown's career ended with Hensley Motorsports, with whom he won a Busch championship in 1990. 5. Anonymous posted: 06.22.2007 - 7:25 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) No, Chuck Bown was hurt in this crash. I remember reading somewhere that he got hurt in a crash at Pocono, so this has to be it. Bown's rookie season ends here. A 40-year old rookie indeed... 6. Anonymous posted: 09.03.2007 - 8:11 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) John Andretti's 8th DNF Ward Burton's 5th DNF Jimmy Spencer's 5th DNF 7. James W. McLaughlin posted: 01.11.2008 - 2:34 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Poor Chuck. 8. RaceFanX posted: 03.20.2008 - 9:50 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Only Winston Cup start for Bob Keselowski. Driving Jimmy Means' #52, Keselowski finished next to last after the motor blew on lap 16. He'd go on to much greater things in the new Truck series the next year. 9. Brandon posted: 12.26.2008 - 10:44 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Bob Keselowski (Brad and Brian Keselowski's dad) makes his only ever series start. 10. MGD2Wallace posted: 02.17.2009 - 1:01 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Rusty Wallace dominates the entire race and almost loses because of confusion on NASCAR's part. That year, NASCAR implemented a rule that allowed cars on the tail end of the lead lap to be in front of the leaders if they didn't pit. When the leaders came down pit road for a final time, Dale Earnhardt took two tires, Wallace took four and came out behind Earnhardt. While NASCAR was trying to figure out the rule, the laps were dwindling away under caution. The field got the green with one to go and Rusty dove to the inside of Earnhardt in Turn 1 and took the lead and held on for victory. Notes: Ernie Irvan was the only driver who could keep up with Wallace all day, but had engine trouble near the end of the event. Jeff Gordon spun out under caution and was told to go to the end of the lead lap. He refused and was black flagged by NASCAR. However, he did not heed the black flag in due time. He finished third on the track but NASCAR credited him with sixth. It's beyond me why they didn't pull his scorecard and DQ him. That's the rule. 11. Anonymous posted: 10.28.2009 - 3:34 am Rate this comment: (0) (2) because hendricks is nascars favorite 12. RaceFanX posted: 06.02.2010 - 10:46 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The race went green on lap 16 so Ward Burton basically had a "lap 1 crash" when he backed the Hardee's Chevrolet into the Turn 3 wall after contact from another car. The dark blue Lumina caught a good deal of air under the back end from the impact with another bounce along the wall again almost putting the #31 upside down. 13. Chris posted: 10.27.2012 - 12:48 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Anonymous, it's Hendrick. No s on the end, just Hendrick. Rick Hendrick!! 14. Josh posted: 03.10.2017 - 10:21 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Shame to see Bown's season end here. He was performing well in Bobby Allison's car to this point in the season with patchwork sponsorship. 15. Greg9Fan posted: 05.20.2019 - 9:08 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I was a huge Rusty Wallace fan and I remember this race big time. I was screaming at the TV at the end. My uncle was convinced NASCAR tried to give Dale the win. 16. Greg9Fan posted: 05.20.2019 - 9:12 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I also remember pole sitter Rusty Wallace being the rabbit so to speak before race gets going. Going out full speed to test the wet pavement. Imagine doing that today? No pole sitting race potential winning car/drive would do that! haha 17. Greg9Fan posted: 05.20.2019 - 9:56 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) #10, i don't get the rule. If you are on the tail end of the lead lap, and you don't pit and the leaders do, you get put in front of them. Why? Wouldn't that make you the leader? I do remember guys a lap down not pitting if cars on the lead lap did restarting on the tail end of lead lap in front of the leader, but guys still on lead lap restarting in front of leader? Don't get it? 18. MarkMartinFan posted: 05.20.2019 - 10:44 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) @17 you answered your own question. That was the rule. The pace car always picked up the leader, never a car that was tail end of the lead lap. You're over thinking it. The caution came out and Rusty Wallace was picked up as the leader. Then when the lead lap cars pitted, there were now tail end of the lead lap cars in front of the leaders. 19. possum posted: 05.20.2019 - 7:12 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) @17 - honestly, I think people must have been smarter years ago, because this rule wasn't complicated. Anyway, the first thing is that comment #10 is wrong. NASCAR did not "implement a rule that year", the rule was the same as it had been from the start of NASCAR racing. And the rule was very simple: you may not pass the pace car. So, imagine there are two cars on the track - me, leading, and you, right behind me but a lap down. The caution comes out, we line up behind the pace car, and I go into the pits. You pull up behind the pace car. I come out of the pits, roar around the track, and pull up behind you. Now we are on the same lap (because you passed me and got your lap back), but I am almost a whole lap ahead of you (because I completed the lap we're on before you did, so I'm ahead of you in the scoring). You couldn't make up any time on me, because you were stuck behind the pace car. And that's how we take the green, you in front and me leading. That rule worked for decades, but now we have free pass cars and wave around cars and god knows what-all other reasons why cars can pass the pace car. Kind of makes you wonder why we even have the pace car now. 20. ShinyMew151 posted: 05.20.2019 - 8:06 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) It really doesn't 21. Mile501 posted: 05.20.2019 - 8:53 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @19 "Honestly, I think people must have been smarter years ago, because this rule wasn't complicated." They were. People were much smarter before we were introduced to smart phones and social media. NASCAR eventually instituted the wave-around rule because they no longer wanted cars at the tail end of the lead lap. Supposedly it was done for safety reasons, although I don't recall it ever being a major safety issue, except at Dover in June 2004 (when NASCAR ran 25 laps under caution, unable to figure out what the correct running order was supposed to be after the leader crashed during green flag pit stops). 22. joey2448 posted: 06.12.2019 - 9:23 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) The major reason for creating the wave-around rule was to avoid having a situation where the leaders would restart behind a pack of cars that were tail-end of the lead lap. We saw time and again that it would just create a big mess at the front of the pack where the leader was stuck in a pack of cars that were racing to stay on the lead lap. Sometimes it changed the complexion of the race, like the aforementioned 2004 race at Dover where half the field was wiped out in a crash. With the introduction of double-file restarts in 2009, that pretty did away with tail-end cars mixing it up with the leaders. Now 1st-2nd-3rd and on back can race without having to fight through a pack of cars. 23. Steve posted: 08.17.2019 - 6:27 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) If I could write the rules, "tail end of" (the lead lap, one lap down, etc) cars would be waved around. Those cars would not be allowed to pit until after taking the restart, except for replacing a flat tire, repairing damage, or adding a brief splash of fuel if they're almost empty. That way, it's a gamble rather than a freebie; they get a lap back, but they have to hope for another caution flag before making their next pit stop. Also the leader gets to be the one who takes the restart. 24. Corey posted: 08.17.2019 - 6:43 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @23 That's what the rule is now. 25. SweetRich21/43 posted: 08.03.2020 - 11:06 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The commentators were Mike Joy, Buddy Baker and Kenny Wallace. The pit road reporters were Glenn Jarrett and Randy Pemberton. 26. Joseph posted: 08.21.2020 - 7:46 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @ possum #19 I agree. I wish we could get rid of the wave around and go back to the wave arounds starting before the leaders. It's easier to follow and would allow any car to gain a lap. Take a chance. NASCAR is filled with gimmicks now. Just wish they would try to add more natural elements to the season. IE the wave around rule change and make the entire season matter for the title. I know a lot of people now follow Indycar or even F1 because they don't have point reset and gimmicks like the choose rule now. 27. ShinyMew151 posted: 08.21.2020 - 7:55 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The leaders should start up front, not lap cars 28. Corey posted: 08.21.2020 - 8:52 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @26 F1 has their own version of the wave around. At the given signal, all lapped cars are allowed to over take the leaders and safety car and get a lap back. Doesn't matter if the are between the leader and the safety car. 29. Joseph posted: 08.22.2020 - 7:37 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Thank you Corey. Had I actually read my original post I would've just said it better that way. Thanks again. 30. possum posted: 08.22.2020 - 8:26 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @26 - this is one of the things that's weird about a lot of NASCAR fans - they're super inconsistant, and they don't realize it. I'll bet ShinyMew loves a qualifying inversion - make the fast cars start behind the slow, so we can see how the drivers handle getting thru traffic. But start the leaders behind the end-of-the-lead-lap cars? No way! They'd have to get thru all those slower cars! I'm actually a bit surprised NASCAR hasn't brought it back. It'd add some excitement to the race, seeing the fast cars work traffic, and we'd see who the better drivers are. At the mile-and-a-half tracks it'd help stop the field getting all spaced out due to aero, because the leader wouldn't start in clean air. And every once in a while we'd see someone get a lap back on-track, simply because they had fast car and could drive away from the pack. 31. 1995-Subaru-WRX-Sti posted: 08.23.2020 - 12:36 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) "This is one of the things that's weird about a lot of NASCAR fans - they're super inconsistent, and they don't realize it." So the fandum complains about the very same thing NASCAR does the fandum does itself. Duly noted. 32. zuel660 posted: 09.10.2020 - 7:29 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) My last race at Pocono...I had been going every year there since 1985, but that year we got mired in traffic on I-80 a few miles from the Long Pond exit at 9am, and even with the brief rain delay, it was around lap 40 by the time we got to our seats. Parking lot was a swamp, and it was a mess leaving after the race as well. I was not a happy camper. 33. Seybert3232 posted: 09.10.2020 - 9:10 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) @32- We had a similar experience at that race and I have yet to return to Pocono either. We went to Dover the week before as well but after I went to Martinsville for the first time a year later, short tracks became my destination of choice. 34. QFH posted: 09.25.2020 - 5:35 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) During the 1991 race they noted that the only driver to win the first Pocono race from pole was Bill Elliott in 1985. That changed in 1994, the first Pocono race was won by Rusty Wallace from pole in quite a dominant way. (There had been wins from pole in the fall race prior to the aforementioned Elliott win). The other times the first Pocono winner has done it from the pole were in 1996, 2001, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2012, and 2013. 35. Rich posted: 11.27.2020 - 10:20 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This race marked the first time that the Nashville network would air the NASCAR cup series Pocono June race, which lasted until 2000. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: