|| *Comments on the 1995 DieHard 500:* View the most recent comment <#40> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. MrNascar40 posted: 05.02.2004 - 4:36 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The cars that missed this race was the #0 of Delma Cowart,the #22 of Jimmy Hensley and the #65 of Steve Seligman.I figured I'd let you all know. 2. Matt posted: 06.24.2005 - 4:53 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ken Schrader flipped on the back stretch in the big one on lap 138. 3. Djrfan posted: 09.07.2005 - 4:55 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Congrats to Sterling Marlin on win number 4! 4. Matthew Sullivan posted: 12.24.2005 - 3:41 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Schrader was "helped" by his teammate Jeff Gordon. 5. BC posted: 03.30.2006 - 1:13 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I was there! 6. MOST posted: 05.07.2006 - 3:12 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I remember Schrader's eyes were swollen shut during the interview, that one took a lot out of Kenny, probably lead to his release from Hendrick Motorsports. 7. CanucksAndNASCAR Fan posted: 05.17.2006 - 7:19 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Hello? Anyone notice that Bill Elliott started dead last and managed to get a top 5? That's Talladega for you. You can have a winning car regardless of where you start. Also, Jeff Gordon was the one who sparked Kenny Schrader's wild ride. Gordon's car was never the same after that incident. 8. J. Kircher posted: 05.18.2006 - 4:59 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Jeff Gordon's car may have been the same, but the driver wasn't. After a seemingly innocent bump to teammate Ken Schrader sent him sailing down the backstretch, Gordon was rattled and came close to tears because the thought Schrader may have been killed or seriously injured. Schrader himself had to get on the radio after he was in the infield care center to calm down his young teammate. 9. BP4EVER posted: 02.04.2007 - 11:46 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Here is a complete list of cars in that crash by number. 1,2,5,9,18,25, 27,32,33,37,41,90,98. 10. Barry Avery posted: 02.15.2007 - 1:38 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I was there in the Turn 2 infield. Schrader was tapped by Gordon right in front of me. It was a spectacular flip and crash. The racing was some of Talladega's best as Sterling went on to win. 11. Lawrence posted: 02.21.2007 - 8:59 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Sterling Marlin's best win after his 94 Daytona victory... Winning from the pole at that track... He must've been dialed in... He was really a good driver... He could still be if the equipment was right. 12. SK posted: 12.11.2007 - 7:13 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Elton Sawyer's career-best finish in Winston Cup competition. 13. RaceFanX posted: 01.03.2008 - 11:47 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The day after this race, the #4 Kodak car of Sterling Marlin and the #40 Kendall car of Greg Sacks gave NASCAR its first appearence on the cover of Sports Illustrated. 14. Mark posted: 03.08.2008 - 7:40 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) Bill Elliott was on the cover of Sports Illustrated in 1985. 10 yrs before that. 15. Roger posted: 04.30.2008 - 12:44 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Yeah you are right about Elliott. He brought the same car he had at Daytona where he he came through the field up to third before his car went away. Unfortunately I can't remember this race but looking at the laps Elliott lead looks like he came from worst to first without the help of any cautions. 16. mike72 posted: 05.09.2008 - 11:54 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Hellacious crash by Schrader.I remember Bobby Labonte pointing at Gordy when he drove by after the wreck. 17. Clayton posted: 07.22.2008 - 11:30 pm Rate this comment: (1) (1) Could be Talladega or that Bill is just the man!! Maybe a little of both! 18. Anonymous posted: 07.27.2008 - 3:46 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Kyle Petty got to the front faster than Elliott did that day from 41st 19. RaceFanX posted: 12.16.2008 - 10:40 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Nice top-20 by Busch series regular Chad Little. It was a good weekend for Little, he won the Busch race the day before. It was his last Cup race of 1995. 20. Anonymous posted: 12.18.2008 - 10:21 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Didn't Sterling's car sound like an Indy car in this race? 21. Ryan posted: 01.26.2009 - 8:46 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Yes, Marlin had a different kind of sounding car at the plate races than everyone that year 22. 18fan posted: 05.17.2009 - 1:37 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I have this race on tape and the lap leaders is off. This site has Bill Elliott leading laps 51-83 when Jeff Gordon actually led those laps. 23. myself posted: 08.17.2009 - 1:05 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Cale was the first Nascar driver on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Happened the week after his 500 win in '77. 24. 18fan posted: 09.02.2009 - 9:42 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) On a personal note, this was the first race after I was born. I was born July 18, 1995, five days before this race. It took me about ten years to become a fan. 25. 18fan posted: 09.08.2009 - 12:03 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) One more note. CBS had an in car camera in Dave Marcis's car. You never see this now except in Michael Waltrip's car because of NAPA. 26. Russ Shurtliff posted: 09.21.2009 - 11:12 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) THE BIG ONE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZNXEpj1srg 27. 18fan posted: 03.19.2010 - 11:35 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) For the first 111 laps, this race was run at record pace, and might have set a record at the time before the big one. 28. Barry Avery posted: 03.23.2010 - 1:42 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Mark Martin holds the winning Talladega race record speed. It was a caution free race in 1997 - 188+ MPH average. 29. jwdog posted: 06.25.2011 - 11:57 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) What made this race so boring was that none of the front runners would go with anyone that tried making a pass for the lead. 30. SG224 posted: 12.15.2012 - 5:37 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Who was the car who pulled a wheelie during the Schrader flip? Was it Todd Bodine or Lake Speed? Or someone else? 31. wrank fakefield posted: 08.17.2014 - 10:13 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) "its them 140 degree headers." 32. Mike posted: 07.24.2015 - 5:29 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) @30 (from three years ago): From the videos I've seen, I believe it was Chuck Bown in the #32. I'm about 99% sure it was either Chuck or John Andretti, and the car looked more like Chuck's paint scheme. 33. Anonymous posted: 07.24.2015 - 4:28 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) You can see the 32 up in the air in this picture: http://www.geocities.ws/jw_jess87/ff92.jpg 34. HD11 posted: 08.15.2016 - 12:21 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) It was the 32 of Bown. His Active Trucking team skipped Pocono to prepare their Talladega car. Earlier their borrowed Childress engine had some issues and they lost several laps before returning, which ended up being a costly mistake. I saw Schrader a few weeks later at Michigan and he still had horribly swollen eyes from the crash. 35. Bramblegrunt posted: 02.06.2017 - 1:58 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) Scrutiny against Schrader and his time in the Hendrick 25 car was starting well before this accident. There were rumors abound prior to the race at Pocono that he was going to be released at the end of the season, the rumors were so strong that Hendrick had to sign the contract early and release the information that he was signed for 1996 to be retained which was released for the race at Pocono the prior week. But it was clear the writing was on the wall for the long-term future. Shame that he couldnt win that Coke 600 like he should because that would have killed the rumors right there and then. The race was dominated by Marlin and Gordon. Earnhardt, Jarrett, and Michael Waltrip were constant fixtures in the top 5 too, but due to extreme slick hot conditions making it harder to pass and then the big accident taking out half the field, the remaining laps to close out the race were kinda mundane by Talladega standards and very few passes were made and no challenge mounted to topple the dominant Marlin who cruised to victory 36. RaceFanX posted: 02.28.2017 - 4:11 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor: #97 Chad Little- Neutrogena / Lever 2000 (The only NASCAR sponsorship outing for either of these brands) CBS themed the opening of their race coverage for this one after the film "Batman Forever," which had released a month earlier in the summer but was still in the top-10 at the box office. This was the same movie that had led to Bill Elliott's famous "Thunderbat" earlier in the year but Awesome Bill had long since switched back to his standard colors by this race. CBS joked that Dale Earnhardt and Jeff Gordon, still nicknamed "Wonder Boy" at this point, was possibly like that of Batman and Robin. 37. Newman31 posted: 10.16.2017 - 5:22 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) ^ That's just a movie. 38. Cal Naughton posted: 10.16.2017 - 5:22 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Results seem to be missing Terry Cheveaux finishing 3rd relief driven by Ricky Bobby. Surprised Racing Reference hasn't corrected this 39. Jimnsimforever posted: 03.08.2019 - 5:54 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) You can go back through each of these races and look at one little thing that happened in all of them that could've changed the season. On the first caution, for some reason Jeff Gordon was in the lead, but was the only car that didn't pit during that caution which left them out of sequence. It was such a strange decision that the commentators were wondering if Gordon's radio may be out and when they interviewed Evernham he seemed to be worried about the decision backfiring possibly. Had that 2nd caution, as much as Gordon may have hated to cause it, not come out he would've had to pit before everybody under green and not had anyone to draft with and his point lead over Marlin would've been gone and ultimately he wouldn't have won the championship. So Ken Schrader literally took one for the team. 40. SweetRich posted: 02.20.2020 - 7:53 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The Commentators For The Race Were Ken Squier, Ned Jarrett And Richard Petty. The Pit Road Reporters Were Dick Berggren, Mike Joy And David Hobbs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: