|| *Comments on the 1995 Purolator 500:* View the most recent comment <#26> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. Jeff posted: 02.14.2006 - 2:33 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Before the field even took the green,Mike Wallace got turned into the inside wall on the fronstretch,damaging his car before he even got a chance to race. 2. Anonymous posted: 07.19.2007 - 4:11 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) ernie irvan waved the green flag 3. myself posted: 02.22.2008 - 3:01 pm Rate this comment: (0) (2) I'm shocked he didn't drop the flag & cause a major wreck! I watched this un' from the Bahamas. 4. Clayton posted: 03.12.2008 - 12:51 am Rate this comment: (0) (1) Nice Joke!! lol! 5. jeff posted: 04.19.2008 - 12:40 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jeremy Mayfield, Michael Waltrip, and Jeff Purvis were involved in a vicious crash on the backstretch on lap 144. Mayfield got turned head-on into the wall off of turn 2 so hard, the rear tires came off the ground. When he came off the wall, the car was running straight down the backstretch but he had no brakes or steering, and he veered up towards the wall again right in front of Waltrip and Purvis and got t-boned extremely hard. 6. Bill posted: 09.24.2008 - 6:25 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I used to have a poster of the Mike Wallace spin....I think I got it out of a magazine. I just re-watched this race. Mayfield's car was demolished by Waltrip & Purvis. 7. Anonymous posted: 06.26.2009 - 8:54 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Fourth career win for J. Gordon 8. myself posted: 08.17.2009 - 12:50 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Maybe The Squeal was all hopped up on Meth! 9. SoxFan24 posted: 11.18.2009 - 3:14 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) 4th career win for Jeff Gordon and first at Atlanta 10. James-O-Matic posted: 01.22.2010 - 9:22 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ward Burton was 10th in points and DNQed. 11. 18fan posted: 03.19.2010 - 11:06 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Bobby certainly made Jeff earn it. Both of Gordon's wins to this point in 1995 had Bobby finish second. 12. Schroeder51 posted: 06.10.2011 - 3:24 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Among the incidents in this race, Mike Wallace got spun at the green flag and pounded the inside wall. A few laps after the restart, Brett Bodine got into Steve Kinser in turn 1 and turned him into the wall, while behind him, Jimmy Spencer, Phil Parsons, and Randy LaJoie got together and crashed as well, also collecting Dave Marcis. Afterwards, only a debris caution interrupted the green flag stretch until lap 149 when Jeremy Mayfield lost it off of turn 2 and slammed the outside wall hard. He drove down the track but his car drifted back up the backstretch and was tagged hard by Michael Waltrip and Jeff Purvis, who had been racing back to the line. Afterwards, a nearly 150 lap green flag run ensued, ended when Ken Schrader brought out the final caution when he had a flat tire and spun into the turn 1 wall. 13. 83andJoe posted: 06.24.2013 - 11:58 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) #90 crew chief: Freddy Fryar 14. 83andJoe posted: 06.25.2013 - 12:01 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) #41 crew chief: Waddell Wilson 15. 83andJoe posted: 06.25.2013 - 12:02 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) #26 crew chief: Rick Ren 16. Nascar Lead Lap Points posted: 04.19.2016 - 2:01 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This would be the last time #76 attempt a cup race. Johnny Champman DNQ a second Ray DeWitt car, the car was rumor to be blue but there are no photos of car 17. 18fan posted: 09.02.2016 - 2:11 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Third 5th place finish for Dale Jarrett in the first 4 races of the season. 18. Bramblegrunt posted: 01.18.2017 - 6:14 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) End result was almost identical to Rockingham 2 races before, Jeff Gordon had the lead, Bobby Labonte appeared to suddenly able to gain on him in the closing laps but Gordon hits the pedal once again snatching the win away from a hungry Labonte looking for his first career win. In both cases Gordon was the dominant car and showed why he was clearly a rising star arriving in 1995. The crash with Mayfield-Waltrip-Purvis was one of many of the mid 90s that could have easily been a prime example of why running back to the caution when theres a wrecked car on track is a bad idea as both Waltrip and Purvis crashed well after Mayfield's car had been wrecked. What blew my mind most of all of this was Waltrip said the spotter didnt even say Mayfield had wrecked, he stated in the post race interview he was focused on racing Purvis and he saw smoke, looked up and there was Mayfield. Another incident which shows this race is dated for safety reasons, on one of the closing pitstops of the day Dick Trickle's car had lost a tire due to a lug getting stuck in the airgun and his car was totally stranded in the middle of pit road in the middle of a green flag cycle of pitstops and yet, the entire crew ran out to the middle of pit road to service the car to get it running again with cars going by them on both sides. Again this was a relative common place in the 90s but looking back today, it really makes you go 'WOW this would never happen today' 19. RaceFanX posted: 11.05.2017 - 7:05 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was the first of five wins for Jeff Gordon at Atlanta in Cup competition and his only one here before the track's mid-1997 reconfiguration. It's fitting one of his first Cup wins was right here since his 1992 Busch win on this track was the one that first brought him to Rick Hendrick's attention. 20. RaceFanX posted: 12.18.2018 - 9:27 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Gordon's win here was very well timed. Despite his dominant win at Rockingham the Rainbow Warriors came into this race sitting 13th in points after their issues at Daytona and a DNF at Richmond. Gordon's dominant performance that landed the #24 DuPont Chevrolet in victory lane vaulted him straight up to sixth in points standings as he worked his way toward the 1995 championship. 21. Jimnsimforever posted: 02.27.2019 - 3:42 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) As was pointed out above, Ward Burton DNQ'd this race when he was 10th in points coming in. The previous race at Richmond, Steve Grissom DNQ'd when he was 5th in points coming in. Had to be extremely discouraging for those two teams with 2nd year drivers, both starting just their 2nd year of full time Cup competition to have early success after struggling to build a new team in the first year and have that happen. 22. Jimnsimforever posted: 02.27.2019 - 6:54 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @8 There will be a time, and it's coming soon, that your comment, and tons and tons of other comments that I've seen you make nonstop through these boards making fun of alcoholics and drug addicts, will be as unacceptable as making fun of homosexuals and people with mental disorders. It's been proven by science that it's hereditary to be predisposed to these problems and been proven and passed as law all over the place that it's a disease. I can't wait until that time, so you are frowned on and people ridicule you as you so richly deserve. 23. RaceFanX posted: 03.21.2019 - 3:46 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Loy Allen, Jr. won the pole for this race in 1994 but a year later in 1995 he fails to qualify. This DNQ was Allen's penultimate outing in Junior Johnson's #27 Hooters Ford before the pair split up. 24. Chris posted: 07.15.2019 - 11:05 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I remember this race. Wasn't Mark Martin as fast as Gordon and Earnhardt Sr. at one point in this race and than he had to pit for some reason? I think he had to pit for a flat tire or a loose wheel. He still finished 9th though. 25. SweetRich posted: 02.15.2020 - 4:02 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The Commentators For The Race Were Bob Jenkins And Benny Parsons. The Pit Road Reporters Were Jerry Punch, John Kernan And Jack Arute. The Studio Host Was Paul Page. 26. SweetRich posted: 07.07.2020 - 4:22 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The final career race for team owner Joe Horner, the owner of Active Motorsports. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: