|| *Comments on the 1995 Coca-Cola 600:* View the most recent comment <#33> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. James Reisdorf posted: 03.16.2005 - 10:47 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jeff Gordon's team got fined a record $60,000 (remarkably, it's still a NASCAR record 10 years later) the week of this race after it ran an illegal suspension at the Winston. As an aside, that Winston started the modern trend of running special paint schemes, after Dale Earnhardt ran a silver car in the race. 2. MASH_guy posted: 06.08.2005 - 1:38 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) This was Bobby Labonte's first Winston Cup win - and the 2nd straight year that the World 600 winner was a first-timer (J. Gordon in '94). 3. Matt posted: 11.28.2005 - 2:35 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jimmy Hensley replaced Darrell Waltrip during the first caution flag. DW was nursing some broken ribs after his hard crash with Earnhardt in The Winston. Bill Elliott continued the special paint scheme trend when he ran the "Thunderbat" scheme to promote the Batman Forever movie. 4. Matt posted: 12.13.2005 - 8:41 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) And the DNQ's... Johnny Champman (#?), Jimmy Hensley (#32), Bobby Hillin Jr. (#?), Davy Jones (#77), Jeff Purvis (#44), and Greg Sacks (#40). 5. CanucksAndNASCAR Fan posted: 05.17.2006 - 7:13 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) And just like Dale Sr. in The Winston a week earlier, Awesome Bill crashes out with his special paint scheme after completing 134 laps. 6. HomeDepot20TS posted: 07.27.2006 - 12:03 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Days after losing the thumb on his left hand in the engine of his Craftsman SuperTruck (as they were then known), Kenny Schrader dominated, looking like he would win for the first time since 1991, before the engine let go. How about the Labonte 1-2? 7. Wyatt posted: 05.29.2007 - 9:17 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) [Jeff Gordon's team got fined a record $60,000 (remarkably, it's still a NASCAR record 10 years later) the week of this race after it ran an illegal suspension at the Winston.] You got the fine part right, but the infraction is wrong. The fine was for "unapproved titanium wheel hubs". It was a safety concern more than a performance thing after the hubs broke. The car you are thinking about at the Winston was actually perfectly legal. NASCAR made it illegal AFTER the race and told them to never bring it back. Knowing the history of NASCAR, it's not surprised they laid that huge fine on them right after the Winston thing. All kinds of convienent infractions seem to happen to teams that do or say something NASCAR doesn't like. :) 8. Anonymous posted: 06.03.2007 - 1:05 am Rate this comment: (0) (1) Jeff Gordon's car was so good that it seemed like he could just go whenever he felt like it. It was like that in the 1997 Winston, too. I'd rank the 1995 car the second best race car I've ever seen, next to Dale Earnhardt's car in the 1990 Daytona 500. 9. SK posted: 12.09.2007 - 10:06 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ricky Craven's first career top-10. 10. Destiny posted: 03.11.2008 - 11:53 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) It's like this, Bobby and Terry Labonte beats for the first time for 1-2 since 1971, that's when Bobby and Donnie Allison made 1-2 finishes. 11. 4320 posted: 03.18.2008 - 6:56 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Congratulations to Bobby on his first career win in just his 74th career race. He would later win his second only 3 races later at MIS; finishing the season with 3 wins (third highest amount in a season in his career). 12. rustyfan posted: 05.09.2008 - 11:41 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I remember Bobby Labonte almost dumped Earnhardt,and Robert Pressley did dump Rusty out of the race. 13. JCS posted: 08.27.2008 - 8:31 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Bobby Labonte was as cool and low key in victory lane as his brother Terry, even after winning his first race. 14. Andre posted: 09.17.2010 - 10:41 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) About the 24's fines and penalties, I think we're all getting a bit mixed up. The '95 Winston car was perfectly legal (if memory serves me right), and it wasn't that race for which they were penalized. I believe the illegal suspension was for this Coke 600, and not The Winston as mentioned before, and was noticed after the 24 wrecked. Also, it was the T-Rex car in the 1997 running of The Winston they told them never to bring back. That car was bloody insanely fast. Then again, this post might be a whole bunch of hot air. It's just how I interpreted the above comments that confused me. lol 15. Patrick posted: 05.28.2011 - 10:16 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Johnny Champman DNQ'd driving the #67 car I believe. 16. KurtBusch22Fan posted: 07.04.2011 - 11:55 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I love first time winners. I love it even more when someone gets their first win with their team 1-2. I love it EVEN more when someone gets their first win and a family member is 2nd. 17. Mike posted: 11.03.2011 - 11:14 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Great first win by Bobby.He also roughed up Earnhardt in taking the lead.Robert Pressley dumped Rusty. 18. RaceFanX posted: 05.23.2012 - 1:58 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor: #94 Bill Elliott- McDonald's / Batman Forever This was first of three races that Elliott ran the black 'Thunderbat' in. McDonald's went all in promoting that movie with Bill's new look, Happy Meal toys, collectable glasses themed to the movie and a very brief blink-and-you'll-miss-it product placement in the film itself. 19. Unser1 posted: 11.21.2012 - 2:54 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) NASCAR rookie Davy Jones apparently tried to replicate John Andretti's feat of a year earlier and run both the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 in the same day in 1995. While Jones qualifed at Indy, and finished 23rd there, he DNQed the #77 USAir Ford here. As strong a racer as he was that result ended his time in NASCAR's Cup series, owner DK Ulrich fired him before the next race at Dover and replaced him with Bobby Hillin Jr. 20. wrank fakefield posted: 08.09.2014 - 2:44 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) the "dumping" referred to above was a product of the draft being suddenly so effective at CMS that it caught drivers by surprise. There was a bunch of radio chatter about that during this race. It also made for great racing in the first half of the races, often with a 6-8 car pack fighting for the lead, until green flag pit stops and attrition finally spread the field out. The race I always think of first when I think of Ken Schrader. Just seems to sum up his career. Fastest car that day easily, and was getting better as the night wore on. Often wonder if that engine had lasted just 42 laps if it might have triggered a career rejuveation for him. 21. HD11 posted: 07.13.2016 - 12:07 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I agree Wrank, that was Schrader's race to win and like so many other times, rotten racing luck prevented it. 22. Bramblegrunt posted: 01.26.2017 - 4:18 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) This race featured many of the leaders suffer bad luck throughout the race. Early leader Gordon had all kinds of mechanical and tire issues. Rusty Wallace got hit by Pressley in turn 1. Todd Bodine who won the open the prior week crashed while leading and lapping Ward Burton. Mark Martin was in the running until an oil hose was disconnected and of course there was Schrader who had this race all but won. This race also featured one of the many very hard crashes Brett Bodine would suffer in his career when he got hit twice by Loy Allen in turn 4, turning him into the wall driver's side. Bodine drove his car to pit road and then collapsed as he was trying to walk to his pit. He was well enough to be interviewed a few minutes later. 23. esayem posted: 07.04.2017 - 10:40 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jimmy Hensley attempted to qualify in a Pontiac owned by Billy Hagan and sponsored by Teamsters. #14, of course. http://articles.dailypress.com/1995-05-27/sports/9505270102_1_johnny-rumley-sportsman-race-winston-cup 24. SK posted: 07.09.2017 - 5:32 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Can confirm that Hensley did in fact attempt the race in Billy Hagan's #14 Pontiac, and not the #95 owned by Earl Sadler. Haven't found any evidence that the 95 attempted this race with any driver. As it happens, a post from 1995 on rec.autos.sport.nascar states that the Teamsters had allegedly signed a SIX-YEAR deal with Hagan to sponsor his racecars. Naturally, they never made it to the track again after this DNQ (though Hagan would a couple more times after this). 25. Greg9ChaseFan posted: 06.23.2018 - 12:12 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) What a neat race this was. Commentary team this night was unreal. Ernie Irvan and Richard Petty guest commentating. 26. Greg9ChaseFan posted: 06.23.2018 - 12:13 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jeff Gordon with a weird wheel issue. 27. Jimnsimforever posted: 03.03.2019 - 5:19 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) To the comments above, it must've been after this race Gordon was fined because he was interviewed right before the race sitting in the car on the pole. They started by talking about him winning all 3 segments of the Winston and that he was running the same car with the same setup. This race marks the 1 year anniversary of Gordon getting his 1st career win in this race on TBS with the broadcast team of Ken Squier and Richard Petty. After the race Ken Squier was really praising Gordon and went so far after just one win to say "Richard, there may never be another King but we may be looking at the next Dale Earnhardt in victory lane". Richard's ego must've gotten the best of him after that because he responded with, "Yeah, but you have to understand, he has the very best equipment there is. I guess we could give him credit for finally learning how to handle it." 28. RaceFanX posted: 05.06.2019 - 3:14 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) After Jeff Gordon followed up his dominate win in the Winston Select all-star race victory with a pole-winning run in qualifying Michael Waltrip said that "compared to him, everybody else is racing in a different league." While Gordon was on his way to the series title this year the he and the other Rainbow Warriors' bid for back-to-back Coca-Cola 600 wins ended with a busted suspension and a rare DNF. This was his third, and last, DNF of 1995. The Silly Season rumors were already swirling at the time of this race with many focused on Dale Jarrett, who told the press in the week leading up to this race he didn't expect to be racing for Robert Yates Racing again in 1996, once Ernie Irvan returned from injury, and was looking to start his own team if he could find the sponsorship. The media at the time suggested Jarrett could have bought Kenny Bernstein's #26 Quaker State Ford team since the NHRA Top Fuel Dragster ace was looking to sell his team and get out of NASCAR. Ultimately Jarrett would come very close to setting up his own team, supposedly he was lining up Hooters as the sponsor he needed, but would stay at Yates when it decided to expand to two-cars, a move that proved championship winning. 29. RaceFanX posted: 05.06.2019 - 3:18 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Dale Earnhardt also quipped about his title rival that "If he stays healthy and with the right team, Jeff Gordon can probably accomplish more than Richard Petty and I ever thought about accomplishing." It's hard to say the Intimidator was wrong there. 30. Altracing posted: 11.18.2019 - 8:36 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Todd Bodine looked good early on in the race coming through the field on the first run of the day to the lead until he crashed with Ward Burton trying to lap him and cost him any shot of possibly winning 31. SweetRich posted: 03.11.2020 - 1:47 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The commentators for the race were Ken Squier, Richard Petty and Ernie Irvan. The pit road reporters were Steve Byrnes and Randy Pemberton. And in The STP Pit Communication Center was Rick Benjamin. 32. Schraderfan posted: 05.20.2020 - 6:40 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) This race summed up Ken Schrader's career as far as racing luck went. Seemed like the engine blew or he got wrecked in nearly every race where he had the fastest car. The season would go on to be a disaster for him. He had 5 blown engines that year while Labonte had 1 and Gordon had 0. Back then the rumor was that the 25 car's engines were built in a different shop than the other 2 cars and the 95 season kind of proved it. 33. Trickledown posted: 08.27.2020 - 7:35 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was like the 1994 Southern 500, one of the last times it seemed like Ken Schrader would win the race, never again would he lead more than 100 laps in a cup race. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: