|| *Comments on the 1995 Food City 500:* View the most recent comment <#31> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. Mr. Etc posted: 08.25.2006 - 8:44 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Steve Kinser DNQ's, which leads to his departure from Kenny Bernstein racing, and NASCAR. 2. biffle16 posted: 05.17.2007 - 1:50 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jeff Gordon won, and it was also the first time he had ever finshed a race at Bristol. 3. myself posted: 05.17.2007 - 7:44 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Kinser was in over his head. I remember visualizing that Jeff Gordon's trophy was nearly as big as he was in victory lane. 4. Anonymous posted: 06.03.2007 - 12:54 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) "Jeff Gordon won, and it was also the first time he had ever finshed a race at Bristol." Yeah, except that he finished the fall 1993 race. 5. kenneywallace posted: 06.12.2007 - 11:23 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Dale Earnhardt crashed early while running in the top 5 when Jeff Burton spun in front of him. Earnhardt's car was seriously damaged, and he took it to the garage. He returned after only 20 laps behind the wall running 36th of 36 minus a hood or front sheet metal, but moved up to 25th by the end of the race, 21 laps down, and kept the points lead. Tough guy. 6. Anonymous posted: 06.13.2007 - 8:24 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) And, even without the front end, he was running lap times that were as fast as the leaders. 7. MegaRacer posted: 08.19.2007 - 9:00 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) The name of April 2, 1995 was....Gordon. Jeff winning at Bristol while Robby won his first CART race at Phoenix. 8. Anonymous posted: 09.09.2007 - 7:58 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Craven crashed over Shepherd under caution. The caution had come out because Ted Musgrave got into the back of John Andretti, causing both to spin into the inside wall on the backstretch. Both had been running in the Top 10. Coming back to the caution, Jimmy Spencer and Geoffrey Bodine raced to get their laps back. They went 3 wide with Bobby Labonte's crippled car. Spencer clipped Bodine, and Bodine spun and crashed into the inside wall. Spencer did manage to make up a lap anyway, he did beat the leader back to the caution. 9. Anonymous posted: 09.14.2007 - 10:27 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Also, to add to that... Dick Trickle brought out caution no. 5 when he spun in Turns 1/2 and hit the wall, clipped Randy LaJoie, and also clipped Steve Grissom and tore his rear bumper off. A lap after the restart, Kyle Petty got bumped from behind and slid up high and slammed the wall hard, or as the announcers said "Kyle Petty has banged the wall!" Behind that, Brett Bodine hit the back of another car and broke his radiator and cut an oil line. Coming down the backstretch, Bodine spun in the oil coming out from under his car and stopped near the entrance of the pits. And, after Craven hopped over Shepherd and landed on Schrader's back bumper, there wasn't very much left of Schrader's back end. Only the spoiler and part of the bumper and the bumper bar remained attached on his car, and the incar camera showed how badly taped up the rear end of the 25 was/ 10. Anonymous posted: 09.22.2007 - 8:02 pm Rate this comment: (1) (1) One more note, Jeff Gordon won his 5th race, and it was the day after my 3rd birthday. I got most of this info from watching the race on ESPN Classic. 11. Billy Kingsley posted: 02.04.2008 - 2:34 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) DNQs for this race: #26 Steve Kinser #27 Hut Stricklin #47 Billy Standridge #52 Brad Teague #66 Butch Miller #87 Joe Nemechek #98 Jeremy Mayfield 12. haywood posted: 06.02.2008 - 4:18 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) how come only 36 cars started back in 95 at bristol?? was the track not equipped to handle more until later years? 13. Art D posted: 06.26.2009 - 8:55 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Fifth career win for Gordon 14. myself posted: 08.17.2009 - 12:52 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Well, Haywood, they used to only race 36 @ Bristol, N.Wilkesboro, Martinsville, & Richmond. 15. SoxFan24 posted: 11.18.2009 - 3:16 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) 5th career win for Jeff Gordon and 1st at Bristol 16. 18fan posted: 03.19.2010 - 11:09 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Bodine was pissed at Spencer, based on his interview. 17. Anonymous posted: 08.17.2010 - 10:52 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Bobby Labonte was suffering from a broken shoulder (suffered in a crash the previous week at Darlington) and pneumonia, so David Green got in the 18 car during the first caution. 18. 18fan posted: 09.07.2010 - 12:48 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) My bad on the Bodine-Spencer crash. Spencer wrecked Bodine in 1997 and that is when Bodine went off about Spencer in his interview. 19. Schroeder51 posted: 07.19.2011 - 1:42 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) David Green actually qualified Labonte's car for the race, and qualified it well, too-in the 5th position. However, Labonte had to go to the back of the field due to the driver change. They probably figured this wouldn't hurt them much since it was Bristol and an early caution was not unexpected. They probably didn't count on the race going green a quarter of the distance before the first caution. As such, Labonte struggled and got lapped twice. Green finally replaced him under the caution, but not too long after getting in the car he lost control and backed it into the fence. A number of cars had flat tires at the end of the race-Sterling Marlin, Mark Martin, Ward Burton, and Derrike Cope all blew tires in the final laps. Gordon actually had lapped Dale Jarrett and Ricky Rudd and was on the rear bumper of Bobby Hamilton and Darrell Waltrip, but he backed off some since he had a large lead and Hamilton and Waltrip got away and Rudd and Jarrett unlapped themselves. 20. Terry Maynard posted: 03.07.2013 - 10:51 pm Rate this comment: (0) (4) 10. Anonymous posted: One more note, Jeff Gordon won his 5th race, and it was the day after my 3rd birthday. I got most of this info from watching the race on ESPN Classic. Yes Anonymous I remember Benny Parsons commenting to Ned Jarrett that the day before was your birthday. I don't understand why some people think anybody cares about some of the stuff they post on here. 21. Ryan W posted: 07.24.2013 - 11:47 pm Rate this comment: (2) (1) Dale had the field covered. He was catching Gordon and then got caught up in someone else's mess. And as someone mentioned he had faster lap times than the leader at the end of the race. This race and the Talladega race where the Fords and Chevrolet ganged up on him at the end of the race cost him the championship this year. Morgan Shephard won the bounty by taking him out on the last lap of the Talladega race. 22. Evan W. posted: 05.07.2014 - 6:38 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor Winner #24 Jeff Gordon DuPont Refinishes/Food City Gordon had Food City on as an associate sponsor here, as the store chain always made it on a car in this race at Bristol. Interesting that Jeff's first Bristol race he finished on the lead lap was a win. 23. RaceFanX posted: 02.23.2017 - 8:44 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Darrell Waltrip's third-place finish was his best of the 1995 season. It was the last time he would post a "podium finish" in NASCAR competition. 24. RaceFanX posted: 02.28.2017 - 4:28 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Rookie Randy LaJoie salvages a 12th-place run despite a crash, earning the best finish of his ultimately unsuccessful tenure in Bill Davis' #22 MBNA Pontiac. 25. esayem posted: 08.02.2017 - 4:10 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Loy Allen resigned from Junior Johnson's team the Thursday before the race and was replaced by Hut Stricklin in the #27 Hooters Ford. Stricklin failed to qualify. https://newspaperarchive.com/bluefield-daily-telegraph-apr-01-1995-p-56/ 26. Jahn1234567890 posted: 12.03.2017 - 9:53 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) @25 I can't read that source but did Stricklin only enter with the 27 team or did he also drive the 78 car? 27. Gray Gaulding's Distant Cousin posted: 05.05.2018 - 10:49 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Driver change #18 David Green Interstate Batteries Chevrolet (Joe Gibbs) Labonte was hurt and had Green Qualify for him. 28. Josh posted: 05.08.2018 - 2:27 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Hut Stricklin DNQed for two different teams? 29. SK posted: 05.08.2018 - 3:19 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Not sure if he was entered with the #78 as he'd been a free agent up to this point in the season, but as an earlier comment brought up Loy Allen quit the #27 team mid-week and Hut took over on the Thursday before the race, so it was definitely the 27 he drove on qualifying day. 30. Chap904 posted: 08.22.2018 - 10:10 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) ADMIN: The wrong David Green is listed as the DC for the #18 31. SK posted: 07.15.2020 - 4:02 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Robert Pressley's first Winston Cup top-10 (and best finish of his rookie season). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: