|| *Comments on the 1995 Miller Genuine Draft 500:* View the most recent comment <#34> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. tquievryn posted: 01.03.2005 - 9:15 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Kyle Petty won his last race (as of 2004)at Dover's first race on concrete. Petty absolutely dominated in route to his win 2. Anonymous posted: 03.13.2005 - 6:43 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) He also had to receive oxygen in victory lane after his victory due to the double pnuemonia that he drove with for the majority of that year (which sparked the Kyle and AIDS rumors). 3. Josh posted: 05.04.2005 - 4:02 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Contact between Ricky Craven and John Andretti set off a 20-car accident in turn four of lap 2. 4. MASH_guy posted: 06.08.2005 - 1:40 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Kyle started 37th in this race, but it turned out to his benefit, as he was far enough back to miss the 20-car wreck. From there, it was smooth sailing to victory. This was also Pontiac's first win since Penske switched to Fords - over a year! 5. Chicago posted: 11.14.2005 - 11:31 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The Pontiac's were especially underfunded back in the '90's, but especially '94 and '95. Mike Waltrip and Chuck Rider, Bobby Hamilton (especially in '95) pretty much carried the banner. Kyle Petty showed flashes of excellence in '95, but was bitten by atrocious bad luck, pnuemonia and fatigue, and honestly a lack of ambition and Sabates' continuing attempt to start a second team. This would be the bright spot in what was otherwise a terrible year. 6. Matthew Sullivan posted: 03.12.2006 - 5:03 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Those AIDS rumors were dumb. I have several races where Kyle gives out. Daytona in July '93 is one that comes to mind. 7. HomeDepotKid posted: 04.26.2006 - 12:23 am Rate this comment: (2) (0) Well, it should be noted that Tim Richmond had double pneumonia before it was revealed he had the AIDS virus... 8. Matthew Sullivan posted: 06.18.2006 - 5:00 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Maybe, but you can't compare Tim Richmond's lifestyle to Kyle Petty's. 9. Mr. Etc posted: 09.10.2006 - 7:56 am Rate this comment: (3) (0) Kyle Petty FTW. 10. biffle16 posted: 12.25.2006 - 11:26 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Worst start by a winner in 1995. 11. Anonymous posted: 06.22.2007 - 7:40 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) John Andretti suffered some injuries in the 20-car crash and was kept overnight in the hospital for observation. What happened to Ward Burton in this race? Does anyone have a video or something of him crashing? 12. FHgrad99 posted: 09.11.2007 - 6:13 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) It's pretty amazing that only 4 of the 20 cars involved in the wreck were out of the race as a result of it. It was a case of Andretti getting loose and Craven got together with him and all heck broke loose. It turned into a parking lot along the inside wall on the front stretch. Kyle Petty, Bobby Labonte and Ted Musgrave ended up having a good battle for the win. 13. Anonymous posted: 09.14.2007 - 10:15 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Technically, 5 cars. Terry Labonte was involved in that crash, and he also failed to finish the race, although he came back out on the track. Ward Burton was the leader at the time of the crash. These are the ones involved in the crash (I...think...): John Andretti, Ricky Craven, Dale Jarrett, Elton Sawyer, Bobby Hillin Jr., Terry Labonte, Mark Martin, Lake Speed, Chuck Bown, Dick Trickle, Ricky Rudd, Todd Bodine, Jimmy Spencer, Greg Sacks, Geoffrey Bodine, Morgan Shepherd, Bobby Hamilton, Jeff Burton, Randy LaJoie, and Joe Nemechek. 14. CHAD posted: 11.22.2007 - 2:09 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) DID THEY RED FLAG THIS RACE 15. Anonymous posted: 11.23.2007 - 10:12 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Yes, I think so... 16. RaceFanX posted: 01.04.2008 - 1:51 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) TNN had two on-board cameras in this race, in Terry Labonte and Mark Martin's cars. A lot of good those did them after the lap 2 crash... 17. myself posted: 02.22.2008 - 3:05 pm Rate this comment: (1) (1) The Aids Awareness Pontiac! 18. Clayton posted: 06.04.2008 - 10:22 am Rate this comment: (8) (1) I believe this is former Championship crew chief Barry Dodson's last Cup Win!! He currently is the crew chief for Steven Wallace in the Nationwide Series. A Wonderful story about Dodson before this race. I saw this on NASCAR This Morning on Fox Sports Net, in like 2001. Dodson lost both of his children in a auto mobile accident near Darlington, South Carolina in 1994. His daugthers name was Tia she was 16 years old and his son was Trey and he was 17 years old. The 1995 season had been a tough year for the 42 team. They came to Dover, struggling. Kyle started 37th and it was just a tough season for Dodson. Dodson thought maybe his job was in jeopardy. Before the race Dodson was sitting alone on the pit box as the clouds opened up on a gloomy day. Barry whispered, "Trey, Tia, I know you are up there, but if you can make us run good today, just a solid run, it would really mean a lot to me!" The clouds closed as almost in a movie. Kyle of course went on to lead 271 laps and win this race! Dodson has said he has never prayed to his children again and never will. He has come to a little bit of closer since this win, knowing his children are still with him no matter what!! I remember hearing this thinking this was incredible!! RIP Trey and Tia Dodson! God Bless Barry Dodson!! 19. CHAD posted: 07.08.2008 - 12:21 pm Rate this comment: (0) (2) I REMEMBER THAT RACE I WAS 4YRS OLD I HOPE ANDRETTI WAS OKAY BUT THAT WAS THE BIG ONE I EVER SAW 20. Russ Shurtliff posted: 09.21.2009 - 10:51 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) THE LAP 2 CRASH PART 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ8VWNPSRRw&feature=related PART 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UE4AfpiDzc 21. SoxFan24 posted: 02.17.2010 - 5:39 pm Rate this comment: (1) (2) 17. myself posted: 02.22.08 - 3:05 pm The Aids Awareness Pontiac! You are a moron. Kyle doesnt' have aids and if he did its nothing to make fun of. 22. 18fan posted: 03.19.2010 - 11:24 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Third second place finish for Bobby Labonte. 23. jensenators posted: 04.18.2011 - 2:22 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) kind of funny that davy jones got fired from the 77 car and bobby hillin promptly finishes last in the car. lol. 24. 18fan posted: 01.16.2012 - 10:48 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Kyle Petty would not lead a Winston Cup race again for almost a year, until Martinsville in the spring of 1996. 25. 18fan posted: 01.18.2012 - 5:52 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) I believe Ted Musgrave would've won this race had he not run out of gas on the backstretch on the lap he made his final pit stop. He was flying at the end when he ran down Bobby Labonte and Kyle Petty from a long way back, but he just couldn't get by Bobby. 26. Schroeder51 posted: 02.05.2013 - 6:08 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Ward Burton started on the front row and had a strong run early, leading all but one of the first 44 laps. He was still running around the top 10 when the suspension failed in his car and he slapped the turn 4 wall. No caution came out, but Burton was done for the day. 27. Anonymous posted: 05.14.2016 - 10:29 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jimmy Hensley finished out the race in the 17 car subbing for DW, who started the event. 28. RaceFanX posted: 06.10.2016 - 12:12 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Kenny Wallace dodged through the big one at the start of the race. His quick thinking was rewarded as Wallace went on to record his best finish of the season in 18th, he had only three top-20s all year. 29. HD11 posted: 07.14.2016 - 4:44 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) The race was not red flagged for that massive lap 2 crash. There was great debate between Barry Dodson and NASCAR about the 42 team getting another set of fresh Goodyear late in the race. Goodyear had to swap out their entire inventory before the race on short notice (there was even a practice session the morning of the race!) and I don't believe they'd brought back an adequate amount. NASCAR told the teams not to make any suspicious deals for tires and asked teams to report any such activity. Ted Musgrave's team ratted out Kyle's team and cost them a set. Ultimately it didn't matter and Petty got his 8th and final win. 30. RaceFanX posted: 03.17.2017 - 1:59 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was the very first race at Dover after the track was repaved, converting from black asphalt to its now famous white concrete. The switch was accompanied by a brief push to change the track's famous nickname from the "Monster Mile" to "White Lightning" but as that huge crash on Lap 2 showed the monster still had plenty of bite in it despite its new look. 31. Jimnsimforever posted: 03.04.2019 - 11:59 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I have an entirely new perspective of Kyle Petty. Of course he could drive a race car, but I didn't know until watching him back when he could win just how much more talented he was than I assumed. I think quite possibly this season right here ended his career as far as being a driver capable of winning races and even competing for a championship, as he had that level of talent. I know something about this, not from me, but from somebody close to me. Double pneumonia is nothing to mess with. It likely started out as either a bad cold or bronchitus and morphed into pneumonia then double pneumonia. No matter what job you have, if you have pneumonia and keep pushing yourself to go to work every day and exert yourself, you could go into respiratory failure and even die. Being a race car driver is definitely exerting yourself. No matter what, if it gets that bad to the point that the illness turns to double pnuemonia, and you don't rest and get treatment, it will do permanent damage to your lungs. You will never have the lung capacity and stamina that you once had ever again. 32. RaceFanX posted: 05.05.2019 - 6:15 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Dale Jarrett's Texaco/Havoline #28 Ford was so bent up and destroyed on both ends from the Big One it took the crew about 300 laps to repair it enough to even get it to fit in the hauler to take it home. Supposedly crew chief Larry McReynolds actually asked owner Robert Yates at one point if he just wanted them to cut the engine out and leave the rest in Dover but he insisted they take the car back. 33. SweetRich posted: 02.14.2020 - 12:10 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The Commentators For This Event Were Mike Joy, Ernie Irvan And Buddy Baker. The Pit Road Reporters Were Glenn Jarrett And Randy Pemberton. 34. Bryan posted: 06.04.2020 - 11:55 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Today marks 25 years ago since Kyle Petty won his last Winston Cup Race at Dover and it was his 1st year with Coors light in 1995 too #42----- Coors Light Pontiac June 4th 1995-------- June 4th 2020 25 years ago wow how time really goes by but i hope to see Kyle petty get into the NASCAR Hall of Fame Someday ..... plus the other day June 2nd 2020 Kyle turned 60 Happy Birthday Kyle hope your day was great and you are doing good too ........ God Bless The USA 2020..... June 4th 2020 Thursday ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: