|| *Comments on the 1996 MBNA 500:* View the most recent comment <#25> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. Jeff posted: 01.10.2006 - 12:26 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I remember seeing a four car wreck in this race that involved Jimmy Spencer and Wally Dallenbach,and Spencer wanted to punch Wally really bad,but an official stopped him. 2. Steve posted: 05.26.2006 - 12:00 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) In both Dover races in 1996, the #29 Cartoon Network Chevrolet finished last. Boy, that station really has become warped. 3. Anonymous posted: 08.19.2007 - 10:39 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ha ha. Good joke. 4. john posted: 09.01.2007 - 7:38 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) one of the all time greats atthis race http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bio2drjLEfk Wally is an idiot 5. Anonymous posted: 01.22.2009 - 9:55 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Great day for Rick Mast who started on the outside pole and finished sixth. 6. Miller2Lite posted: 03.16.2009 - 1:52 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) There was nasty crash on the fifth lap of this race. Chad Little nearly went through the inside wall in fact. Caused a long caution. 7. Art D posted: 06.26.2009 - 9:06 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) 17th career win for J. Gordon 8. SoxFan24 posted: 11.18.2009 - 3:40 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) 17th career win, 3rd win at Dover, 4th time he wins back to back races in a season and first time he sweeps at a track during the season. 9. Ryan W posted: 07.25.2013 - 2:17 am Rate this comment: (1) (3) Just when you thought Jeff Gordon would get the points lead he would not look back... Nope. He choked this one away. 10. 18fan posted: 03.20.2014 - 4:13 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Because the engine failure that cost him 110 points was totally his fault, right? 11. RaceFanX posted: 10.13.2015 - 5:43 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Eric Smith's last attempt to race in Cup ends in a DNQ. The New York modified racer failed to qualify in all seven of his attempts to run with NASCAR's big boys. 12. SuperG posted: 09.27.2016 - 10:47 pm Rate this comment: (1) (5) #9 - And then he proceeded to win 23 races over the next 2 seasons while Dale Earnhardt was stumbling all over himself. Hurts, doesn't it? 13. Bramblegrunt posted: 03.24.2017 - 1:25 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) Ernie Irvan was quite upset at Derrike Cope in this race after he was lapping Cope and felt he got pinched on the inside causing him to spin while leading. Later in the event Cope had a crash and fire under his hood causing him to retire from the event. When Cope was in the garage he apparently got into a verbal and nearly physical scuffle with Irvan's crew chief Larry McReynolds. McReynolds approached Cope, TNN reported Cope then said "Im going to tear you up" where then officials got involved and McReynolds left the confrontation without it turning into a fight 14. RaceFanX posted: 05.23.2017 - 10:58 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Kyle Petty FINALLY picks up his first top-10 finish of the season, fittingly coming at the track he won at a year and a half earlier. Petty went over a year without a top-10, his last one had been at Talladega the prior August. 15. Chunks posted: 10.25.2017 - 10:08 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Does King Cuervo 88 have the full race on YouTube? 16. 48johnsonfan posted: 10.26.2017 - 12:30 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) If you can check the video links on this page, you can see that it is. 17. Amanda K posted: 06.22.2018 - 7:00 am Rate this comment: (1) (1) One of the extremely rare times that Jimmy Spencer had a wreck that could legitimately be shown to not be of his own doing. He checked up to miss a spinning car and was run over by Dallenbach. Still makes a complete fool of himself by acting like Dallenbach did it on purpose when there was no way anyone was gonna miss that wreck in the position they were both in. @12 Try running at a championship level with the injuries Earnhardt had after the One Eyed Bandit attempted to kill him at Talladega, including his back injuries that weren't diagnosed until much later. 18. Anonymous posted: 06.22.2018 - 2:19 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) 17, no one attempted to kill Earnhardt. It's called an accident. May I suppose that you're one of those people who believes it was just racing when Dale used the bumper, but screamed every time someone returned the favor? Your comment is ludicrous. 19. Ryan posted: 06.22.2018 - 2:52 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) I believe what Amanda K is saying harshly is that Irvan had no business racing then. His eye hadn't fully recovered. Using the bumper at short tracks is one thing and taking out half the field at Talladega/Daytona/Darlington (before and after his '94 Michigan accident) on four different occasions is another while severely hurting other drivers is another. Ernie even apologized to the drivers in a drivers meeting about his aggressive and ill-mannered driving. Ask Sterling Marlin if Irvan had any business racing then. 20. Anonymous posted: 06.22.2018 - 3:39 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Yeah, I get that Ryan, but the difference is intent. "Tried to kill", is just stupid. 21. Mike posted: 06.22.2018 - 4:00 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @Ryan: "Ask Sterling Marlin if Irvan had any business racing then." Interesting that you mention Marlin here. After the wreck in the 1992 Daytona 500, Marlin's own team owner, Junior Johnson, made it very clear that he believed that the wreck was Marlin's fault and not Irvan's. 22. Ryan posted: 06.23.2018 - 1:05 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) @20 Yeah I agree kill is a little out there. It was a pretty bad deal, though. Fans and drivers both were tough on Ernie after that (and still are). NASCAR was up in arms and didn't know what to do with him and really didn't know how to approach Yates about it where he had just come back not too long since his bad crash at Michigan. @21 Mike, that's the first time I've ever heard Sterling Marlin getting any blame for it. Marlin was just trying to pass Elliott. If Junior Johnson said that then really shows how out of touch or even senile he was then. Honestly I believe Marlin or Elliott would have won that day without Ernie trying to make it three wide coming off turn two when there wasn't even 200 miles in. Going three wide then even with the restrictors was considered very dangerous. It's more common now and the last decade or so where the cars handle so much better. He took a lot of good cars out and pretty much sealed the win for Davey. Ernie about killed Bonnett at Darlington in 1990 when he was several laps down, was the reason Kyle's Petty's leg got broke at Talladega in '91, the '92 500 took out a lot of good cars, and at Talladega in '96 his mistake about caused Earnhardt to die. It's still unbelievable that Dale survived that particular crash. Anyways, most NASCAR drivers, fans, media, and historians consider Ernie to be at fault for that. I was referring more to the '96 dega crash though when at the next race at Indianapolis, Marlin, who was in the wreck with Earnhardt (more than like Dale or Sterling would have won that day) threw a pair of glasses at Irvan in Gasoline Alley during practice basically saying Ernie need to wear them when he raced. 23. M posted: 07.25.2018 - 11:32 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I would argue Dale Earnhardt had no business competing after purposely crashing Rusty Wallace and Terry Labonte on numerous occasions. In the late-80s to early-90s, Earnhardt didn't really have anybody who could consistently run with him and challenge him besides Rusty Wallace, and Earnhardt did his share to eliminate Rusty from races that would help him win championships. All that changed when Jeff Gordon came on the scene. Earnhardt found out that he could no longer compete with a younger, faster, smarter, and cleaner version of himself, and the pressure got to him. During 1995 he got his ass kicked, and resorted to plowing through drivers like he did with Terry Labonte at Bristol. The next year he smashed Bobby Hamilton out of the lead because he couldn't cleanly pass drivers like Gordon, Martin, Jarrett, Labonte, Burton, etc. could. Ernie Irvan did nothing wrong at Talladega in 1996. He, Marlin, Gordon, and Earnhardt were racing hard for the position. If the roles were reversed, and Dale Earnhardt sent Ernie Irvan flying into the wall breaking numerous bones in his body, he would say, "Who Me? That's just hard racing?" But because Saint Dale was the one on the receiving end, we all have to blame Ernie Irvan and say asinine things like he shouldn't be on the race track. Earnhardt at Talladega in 96 was on the receiving end of everything he used to dish out to other people for YEARS. Live by the sword, die by the sword. To quote Dale himself, maybe he should've "tied some kerosene rags around his ankles so the ants won't crawl up there and eat his candy ass." 24. GregSacksIsYourGod posted: 07.16.2020 - 8:23 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) There were a few altercations off track after a pretty rough race with 14 cautions - Jimmy Spencer and Wally Dallenbach were pretty angry at each other despite the incident that took them out basically being a racing incident. The whole 28 team had a bone to pick with Derrike Cope when he tangled with Ernie Irvan while Irvan was leading - they felt he didn't give Irvan enough room, though Cope insisted he just held his line, and after the race, Michael Waltrip and Kyle Petty were arguing over a close finish for 8th which saw them cross the line side by side, Petty just edging Waltrip for the position. 25. Rich posted: 08.09.2020 - 8:49 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The commentators were Eli Gold, Buddy Baker and Dr. Dick Berggren. The pit road reporters were Glenn Jarrett and Randy Pemberton. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: