|| *Comments on the 1995 Pepsi 400:* View the most recent comment <#20> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. je24go posted: 07.18.2005 - 8:13 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) One of two times in the year that the top 5 in the race were the top 5 in points...It seemed that in the beginning of the year, the 3, 4, 24, 6 and 16 were the only really consistent drivers...Of course Wallace and Terry Labonte picked it up at the end and Musgrave faltered. Just goes to show that you never know how the points will turn out until the final lap of the final race is complete... 2. Dalejrfan14 posted: 03.24.2006 - 7:58 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) 8 lead changes!BULS&!7! 3. myself posted: 02.19.2007 - 3:02 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) I received "Rock Star" treatment from DIS for this one. I had a torn achilles & was on crutches. We contacted the track. They gave us handicap parking right in front of the Weatherly Tower. They golf carted us to our seats. It was nice. This was also Jeff Gordon's first points win @ Daytona! 4. adamal82 posted: 01.23.2008 - 2:44 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) I remember ESPN did a similcast on ESPN2 for this race but the ESPN2 feed was with in-car cameras. pretty much a pre-cursor to the Hotpass 5. Roger posted: 04.30.2008 - 12:39 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This is the race where Bill Elliott had to take a champs prov. and he came through the field. He was in third running down the top two cars when his car just seemed to go away. He also had to do the something at the Die Hard 500 later on that year with similar results but managed a fifth place finish in that race. 6. Turn 4 posted: 02.18.2009 - 9:46 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The rundown shows the #29 car out due to crash on lap 34 but the results showed the 1st caution flew on lap 40 due to the #28 blowing an engine. My only guess, is that the #29 car was several laps down and might have got in to the oil dropped by the #28 car and crashed. 7. Billy posted: 03.03.2009 - 3:21 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I have the ESPN broadcast of the race. The #29 tagged the wall around lap 34, and came to pit road with significant damage to the right front fender. There was no immediate caution for the #29. Then on lap 40, the caution came out for for debris and oil on the track. Presumably the debris came from the #29 and the oil can from the #28. 8. Unser1 posted: 05.11.2009 - 11:40 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jeff Purvis spun off Turn 4 and blew both front tires. Adding insult to injury, he got stuck in the grass when his #44 Chevy Monte Carlo highsided as he tried to reenter the track in the trioval. 9. Art D posted: 06.26.2009 - 8:56 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sixth career win for J. Gordon 10. SoxFan24 posted: 11.18.2009 - 3:17 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Not only is it the 6th career win for Jeff Gordon but first at Daytona 11. 18fan posted: 03.19.2010 - 11:29 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) ESPN also did the ESPN2 in car feed at the Southern 500. 12. AutoRockinRacing94 posted: 04.12.2010 - 2:35 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Last race that two drivers were tied for leading the most laps until the 2010 Subway Fresh Fit 600 with Jimmie Johnson and Kyle Busch. 13. Ryan W posted: 07.25.2013 - 12:19 am Rate this comment: (0) (1) Damn, you must have taken some time to look that up. 14. Ryan W posted: 07.25.2013 - 12:20 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Not the best idea to restart the race with one to go, but Nascar did. They got the caution over quickly. 15. wrank fakefield posted: 08.12.2014 - 4:20 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) back when they ran the summer race in the day, the 400 was always a completely different race from the Daytona 500. Hotter, slicker conditions made it so only the cars handling perfectly could hold it wide open through the corners, stringing out the field. Marlin and Gordon dominated this race because they had the best cars, and track conditions didn't allow the draft to compensate for ill handling race cars. Some may consider it more boring. But it also made for a more legitimate result than the lottery conditions restrictor plates have produced at all the plate races since they stopped running this one during the day. 16. WardBurtonfan posted: 11.25.2014 - 12:10 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Heartbreak run for Dick Trickle running 4th, solidly in the top 5 with one lap to go but makes contact with wall off turn 2 17. Anthony Nagle posted: 07.16.2015 - 12:46 pm Rate this comment: (1) (1) The lucky number here is 6. Jeff Gordon's sixth career win, AND the first of six straight seasons he went to victory lane in a points-paying restrictor plate race. 95- Pepsi 400 96- Diehard 500 97- Daytona 500 98: Pepsi 400 99: Daytona 500 2000: Diehard 500. No other driver has ever done that, not even an Earnhardt. 18. RaceFanX posted: 12.31.2016 - 4:29 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Former Firecracker 400 winner Greg Sacks scores a 17th-place finish, his best of the season, doing a one-off in the defending Pepsi 400-winning Junior Johnson #27 Ford entry. The Hooters team drafted in Sacks for this one because regular driver Elton Sawyer couldn't make it due to a prior commitment to run the Busch series race the next day at the Milwaukee Mile. This was the second time in the course of three races that the more standalone nature of the Busch series schedule at the time kept Sawyer out of the Cup race the same weekend but Elton would be in the #27 for the rest of the season. 19. Bramblegrunt posted: 02.01.2017 - 6:13 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) The late caution brought on by Mike Wallace's contact with the wall led them to the aforementioned 1 lap green flag run to the checkers. Unlike 1993 at Talladega where they did this same thing, this race went a bit cleaner though that lap certainly had its share of contact which included a heartstopping fight for 2nd place between then-title-fighters Marlin and Earnhardt as it was a photo finish for 2nd that included a bit of contact coming to the wire. This wasnt the only contact as they got to the line. Robert Pressley, who had just about a career day running top 5 for a good portion of the race, ended up scrubbing fenders with Jimmy Spencer just about the entire way from the start/finish into turn 1. Remarkably, nobody crashed 20. Rich posted: 12.17.2020 - 7:20 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Bob Jenkins, Ned Jarrett and Benny Parsons were the commentators. Dr. Jerry Punch, John Kernan and Bill Weber were the pit road reporters. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: