|| *Comments on the 1997 The Bud At The Glen:* View the most recent comment <#24> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. JG24 posted: 02.26.2006 - 4:30 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) My 1st race to watch in person. I got to stand near the "S" turn and could see Earnhardt's face with his open mask. So cool! To top it off Jeff won the race!! 2. MOST posted: 05.07.2006 - 3:04 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) This race would cost Dale Jarrett the title. He was black flagged for what NASCAR thought was oil but it was a tire rub. Steve Park made his Cup debut in this one, the same track he got his first Cup win at. 3. DaleJrfan14 posted: 06.07.2006 - 8:17 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) lot of lead changes....for a road course. 4. Steve posted: 11.23.2006 - 11:43 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) this was the first of jeff gordons streak of 6 straight road course wins, we wouldnt loose another till park won at the glen in 2000 5. SK posted: 12.05.2007 - 8:08 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Robby Gordon records his first Winston Cup top-10, naturally at a road course. 6. SK posted: 12.07.2007 - 7:22 am Rate this comment: (4) (0) And how about Todd Bodine, entering the race in a one-off ride furnished by his BGN team and winning the pole position! 7. Art D posted: 06.26.2009 - 9:23 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) 27th career win for J. Gordon 8. RaceFanX posted: 11.13.2011 - 1:06 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was Jeff Gordon's first-ever win on a road course, not bad for a guy who came through the ranks in sprint cars on the complete other end of the spectrum. Ending up last after a blown engine early, this was Greg Pollex' last race as the owner of the #97 John Deere Pontiac of Chad Little. After having built the team in the Busch series over a few years and moving up to Cup full-time in 1997 Pollex sold the team to Jack Roush in the week after this race. Pollex would go on to field several successful teams again in the Busch series, winning a title with Jeff Green in 2000, but his attempt to return to Cup in 2005 with John Andretti quickly ended in failure. 9. 10andJoe posted: 10.23.2012 - 6:21 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) #34 owner: Frank Cicci 10. 23andJoe posted: 08.15.2014 - 7:55 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) #34 owner: Frank Cicci (The team was not "Cicci-Welliver" until 1999.) 11. MAR posted: 11.12.2015 - 7:58 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) A Busch team in a one off appearance wins the pole with Todd Bodine that's something that will never happen again. 12. Evan posted: 11.13.2015 - 8:30 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) So that's where the pole from Todd Bodine came from, I remember him being in the Shootout in '98 but had no idea why. 13. Anthony posted: 11.28.2016 - 4:57 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) That black flag for Jarrett at the end was a joke, it cost him the Cup come November. 14. Anonymous posted: 11.28.2016 - 5:48 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) "That black flag for Jarrett at the end was a joke, it cost him the Cup come November." This is as ridiculous as when people say the Chase champion is not a REAL champion because so-and-so earned more points during the season. You have no idea how the differing points situation would have affected how the top teams approached each and every event throughout the rest of the season. I mean really, there were still TWELVE races contested in 1997 after this one. 15. JA28 posted: 03.26.2017 - 7:15 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) #14 - Do you really think that the 24, 6, and 88 would give less than 100% in each race? 1997 was one of the better point battles in history. 16. HD11 posted: 12.18.2017 - 5:16 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Tough call by NASCAR black flagging the 88 but Jarrett had lost a tailpipe halfway through the race and was then reported as overheating later before the smoke so one could see where NASCAR would be concerned about oil. 17. Chad posted: 03.09.2018 - 5:00 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Still their fault for having a tire smoking, or just bad luck if he got hit by someone else. Your car shouldn't be smoking, whether it's from a tire or oil. 18. Bad Booking posted: 03.25.2018 - 3:52 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jarrett definitely got screwed here for the black flag, but realistically he would have been 20th-25th anyhow. He blew third gear in the transmission, and it was from what the announcing would believe, trans fluid causing the smoke. After this race though, Jarrett would emulate Earnhardt's run 2 years before to coming up just short of Gordon and the title. Mechanical gremlins kept Jarrett from the title in this year, the stats bear that out. 19. CJ posted: 04.23.2018 - 10:56 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Season best finish for Geoff Bodine. First Top 5 in the Cup series for Robby Gordon,his season best finish and only Top 10 during his time in the 40 car. Season best finish for Wally Dallenbach. It would be his only Top 10 of the year and his tenure in the 46. First start in the 1 for Lance Hooper. This would be his season and career best finish. Only Cup start of the season for Dorsey Schroeder. 20. RaceFanX posted: 05.25.2019 - 7:25 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Steve Park's Cup debut was a strong one as he ran inside the top-10 early on. At the time he was tenth with Rusty Wallace, a skilled road racer, running ninth leading Park's crew and that of his car owner Dale Earnhardt that was helping them out to advise him to run behind Rusty for a few laps and do as he does. Park's chances for a good finish to match his strong run ended at the race's 2/3rds mark when he got the car airborne briefly after hitting a rumble strip in the Inner Loop, leading to a spin that saw the Burger King #14 Chevrolet bog down in the kitty litter. He would continue but lost a few laps as they pulled him out and repaired the car. 21. RaceFanX posted: 01.18.2020 - 1:13 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The road course Monte Carlo Jeff Gordon won this race in was retired from competition afterward, although it would get to turn a wheel in anger again at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in England. Eventually the car was sold to a collector and sold again for $250,000 to raise money for an Arizona animal aid association during the 2020 Barrett-Jackson car auction in Scottsdale, Arizona. 22. SweetRich posted: 07.01.2020 - 9:36 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) One week earlier at Indianapolis, Ricky Rudd was on cloud nine, winning The Brickyard 400. The next race at Watkins Glen, the bottom fell out on what was at the time a great season for the veteran car owner / driver. The last three months of the year for Rudd were terrible with just two top ten finishes at Darlington and Dover. his other finishes were 40th or worse with five of those bad finishes made worse because he did not finish. Sadly, Ricky's win at The Brickyard in early August was his penultimate win as a car owner of The Tide Ride with his win at Martinsville in late '98 being the last before competing in The #28 Texaco Machine from 2000 to 2002 and reviving his career. A great year from Daytona to Indianapolis. From Watkins Glen to Atlanta, Horrible and nightmarish. 23. Rich posted: 12.30.2020 - 3:57 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Bob Jenkins, Ned Jarrett and Benny Parsons were the commentators. Dr. Jerry Punch and Bill Weber were the pit road reporters. 24. RaceFanX posted: 03.18.2021 - 10:20 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Joe Nemechek was having a tough year in 1997 but had a great run going in this race as he led a nice bit of laps and was running eighth in the closing laps. Front Row Joe's bid for his first top-10 of the year came up short though as he lost it under braking and ended up in the gravel trap at Turn 1 on the penultimate lap. Nemechek wisely kept his foot to the floor and powered the #42 BellSouth Chevrolet out of the trap, he'd lose his top-10 but salvage 12th place despite the excursion. Better times were thankfully ahead for him and the team. Poor Kenny Wallace had rough luck right at the end. He had the #81 Square D Ford running a respectable 13th but ran out of gas on the last lap, resulting in a DNF. Bobby Hamilton ran NASCAR Truck and All Pro races at Heartland Park Topeka to get ready for this race and improve his road course skills although he was still outside the top-20 in the closing laps. His race ended in a final lap crash at the Inner Loop when and his almost teammate Kyle Petty got together and wrecked. Lance Hooper was making his first start in Richard Jackson's #1 R&L Carriers Pontiac. He also went off course at Turn 1 on the last lap. He only lost one spot, ending up 24th but still on the lead lap. Hooper's outing in the #1 here was supposed to be a one-off deal but Jackson was impressed enough to bring him aboard for the next several races. Hooper made six starts for the team before Morgan Shepherd returned to it later in the season. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: