|| *Comments on the 1998 Texas 500:* View the most recent comment <#53> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. Darrell posted: 11.11.2005 - 3:02 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Greg Sacks almost lost his life in an accident here. I remember reading how he couldn't walk for months Also, career-best finishes for Chad Little and (at-the-time)Robert Pressley. 2. Matthew Sullivan posted: 12.21.2005 - 3:15 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The track was still having issues. There was heavy rain storms leading up to this event and in qualifying it showed. Water seeped through the track during qualifying and several drivers paid the price including Derrike Cope, Lake Speed and Dick Trickle. 3. mcmurrayfan posted: 06.15.2006 - 4:11 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Wasn't Mike Skinner injured in this race? 4. Darrell posted: 07.10.2006 - 7:48 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Actually, I think he was injured at Atlanta. I remember Morgan Shepherd filling in for him at Darlington. His wreck here did nothing to help his recovery though. 5. Steve posted: 07.18.2006 - 10:29 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) According to Mike Skinner's 1998 race statistics, he missed the next three races after Texas. Shepherd filled in at Martinsville and Talladega, and Richard Childress' nephew (I think) Mike Dillon raced the #31 at California. 6. Darrell posted: 07.24.2006 - 8:55 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Dillon is indeed Childress' nephew. What happened to Jeremy Mayfield in this race? 7. Frogger49 posted: 10.05.2006 - 1:45 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Mayfield had one of the dominant cars in this race, if I remember correctly, but he had some problems with his engine towards the end. I think he lost a cylinder a little after halfway. 8. Matt posted: 11.06.2006 - 3:14 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Skinner re-injured himself in this race as well as picking up some additional injuries. 9. Nascar Man posted: 12.29.2006 - 12:05 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Did Jeff Gordon crash in this race? 10. Bill posted: 01.04.2007 - 4:53 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Yes Gordon crashed. Gordon had a string of wrecks at this track for a while. 11. nascarman posted: 01.06.2007 - 5:51 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This win got Roush Racing The First two wins at Texas Motor Speedway. 12. Thomas posted: 05.01.2007 - 7:50 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Mayfield dropped a cylinder after cutting a tire in the dogleg on the frontstretch. 13. Anonymous posted: 06.30.2007 - 3:59 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Greg Sacks hit the outside wall at a critical angle after contact turned his car sideways. As Greg cut the wheel to correct, The car took a set or caught grip in the the tires and was sent head on against the outside wall with great force. He suffered 5 broken ribs and critical damages to his spinal nerves from the force of the impact. Greg was basically paralyzed for the next 2 months and it was years before he got back in a race car. 14. JPMROTY2007 posted: 07.26.2007 - 1:37 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Didn't Craven wreck in qualifying here? 15. Anonymous posted: 08.19.2007 - 9:36 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) craven wrecked the year bfore. 16. Anonymous posted: 09.04.2007 - 5:57 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) This was back when Texas was still having problems. The track was poorly designed. After this race they redone it. I never will forget what Rusty said about it "This is a (messed) up place" he did not use the word messed though. 17. most posted: 11.06.2007 - 3:31 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Dillon is Childress' son in law, not nephew. Track was terrible that day, causing Bruton to have shirts made that said Shut up and drive... 18. RaceFanX posted: 01.28.2008 - 7:38 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Dale Jr won his first NASCAR race the day before this event in the Busch race. As with the 1997 race, a "Big One" hit on lap 2, ending the day (or least contention) of many of the cars who started in the front half of the field including Dale Earnhardt Sr. 19. Josh posted: 04.05.2008 - 10:56 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Best runs ever for Chad Little and Robert Pressley. Good runs for the 5,23,21,and 41 who started in the back and moved their way through all the mess. Congrats on Mark Martin winning this one. 20. Anonymous posted: 10.22.2008 - 10:49 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Chad Little's best career finish. I miss the look of that John Deere #97. 21. Rob posted: 11.18.2008 - 2:11 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The honorary starter of this race was Jim Roper who won the very first NASCAR race. 22. Anonymous posted: 04.12.2009 - 9:11 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Several drivers were screwed by NASCAR with the track issues in qualifying. Both Lake Speed and Derrike Cope tore their race cars up due to water coming up through the track. Neither driver was allowed however to requalify the next day. Speed was fortunate to have enough owner points to get a provisional, Cope wasn't. Shame on NASCAR for not doing the right thing. 23. CHAD posted: 10.16.2009 - 6:45 pm Rate this comment: (0) (2) DID THEY HAD THE NATIONAL ANTHEM 24. 18fan posted: 01.05.2010 - 9:11 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Eight laps after Mayfield cut a tire, Burton blew a right front tire going into turn three leading the race. Under the caution for Schrader hitting the wall and Dave Marcis blowing an engine, Martin, Little, Pressley, and Nemechek took two tires, while Jarrett took four. Jarrett quickly got up to Pressley to battle for third, then his car got tight and he backed off a little bit. Then the #88's engine developed a miss and he fell back to 11th. 25. Schroeder51 posted: 11.06.2010 - 10:40 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Very bad race. A big crash in the opening laps wiping out Darrell Waltrip, Earnhardt, Stricklin, Musgrave, Gordon, Irvan, Andretti, Mast, Kenny Wallace, and Lepage. Andretti's car burst into flames in the accident and the race got red flagged. Then Greg Sacks made contact with Geoff Bodine going into turn 1 and pounded the wall incredibly hard, nearly losing his life as a result of the accident. Mike Skinner blew a tire in turn 4 later in the race and pounded the wall in turn 4 and on the frontstretch so hard he knocked the windshield out. He was injured his crash too. A brutal race. 26. Will posted: 02.07.2011 - 11:14 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Mayfield and (Jeff) Burton had the cars to beat that day. Mayfield had a tire go down midway through the race and had to limp the car to pit road under green. His car was never the same and couldn't make up the laps he lost. Burton had his tire go down less than 10 laps later. He was less fortunate than Mayfield as he got into the wall and lost his brakes. Again Nascar threw no caution. The 1st lap wreck (technically 2nd lap) was pretty nuts. Same thing happened the year before. And the Sacks wreck looked nasty. So glad to see he survived that. Great runs for Little and Pressley. Nice win by Martin. 27. kevin posted: 10.21.2011 - 12:07 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) ouch...sounds brutal seems like a curse for NASCAR 28. Thomas posted: 01.09.2012 - 2:04 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Texas should have lost its race after this fiasco on the heels of the 1997 mess. It definitely shouldn't have two races. 29. CBASS posted: 05.14.2012 - 9:50 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Some sponsor corrections using CIA Stock Photography's photos #5 Corny/ Kellogg's 30. Boogity Boogity Let's Go Racin Boys! posted: 05.18.2012 - 4:49 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) * This race had the big wreck AGAIN at the start of the race and took out Dale Earnhardt and Ernie Irvan among others. Earnhardt was running but with a damaged car. * Bruton Smith has always been a jerkoff, he don't care about fan comfort and all that, he bought a bunch of racetracks and took dates from others and hurt a lot feelings. He's just greedy. 31. 1995z71 posted: 06.05.2012 - 12:17 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Johnny Benson had 5 straight Top 10s after this race including 2 Top 10s. Despite missing the Daytona 500 he was already in the Top 10 in points after just 7 races, but it didn't last long. 32. Anthony posted: 01.19.2013 - 6:47 am Rate this comment: (0) (4) If Chad Little won the race I be proud of him. But this was Chads only career Top5 Finish so he missed 1 race that year that was Atlanta in March. But more importantly Chad would continued to struggle. If he did win than he would sit 17th in points 301 behind Rusty Wallace. So I feel bad for Chad Little Mark should have givin him the win if I was mark martin I would let Chad win his first race & that would make Mike Skinner look embarrsing because Mike never won a race. 33. Evan posted: 01.02.2014 - 1:24 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) A bad race all around, you want to beat your competitors on the track, not wad them all up in Turn 2, Mark Martin rules new tracks. A day after this race, I was like, "NASCAR has to do something! You can't have cars wrecking at the start of the race, this was terrible!" The track managment team finally got their heads our of their a$$$ and fixed the issues in time for the 1999 event in which there was no first turn accident. 34. Windows Millennium Edition posted: 07.26.2016 - 10:02 am Rate this comment: (2) (0) The cause of the lap 31-34 caution was a competition caution. 35. JSPorts posted: 07.26.2016 - 12:10 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) It seems like Texas had some interesting races in the beginning. Chad Little, Robert Pressley, Joe Nemechek, Johnny Benson, Jr., Jimmy Spencer, Michael Waltrip and Steve Grissom all finished in the top 10 while Ricky Rudd, Jeff Gordon, Geoffrey Bodine, Darrell Waltrip and Ernie Irvan all DNFd. 36. Josh posted: 07.26.2016 - 2:39 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Maybe the one race involving Mark Martin for the win that I deliberately was pulling against him. I was basically rooting for the field against Mark, as a lot of those guys didn't sniff a win every week like Mark did. This was also still back when it was really cool to either see a first time winner or a rookie win. 37. CJ posted: 04.18.2018 - 10:26 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Career best and only Top 5 finish for Chad Little. Season best and only Top 5 of 98 for Robert Pressley and Joe Nemechek. Michael Waltrip equals his season best finish. Season best finish for Steve Grissom. Final start for Greg Sacks in the 98. 38. @Statscrash posted: 11.26.2018 - 12:01 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I remember seeing this race as a 7 year old and wanted Chad Little to win. 39. ARosser14 posted: 12.16.2018 - 1:49 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Just watched a bit of this race on YouTube. My gosh. It will be legal drinking age come April, but those hits Sacks and Skinner took made me shudder even now. Just brutal. I missed the end of the race for some reason (about the last thing I saw was Skinner getting out after his wreck)so it was neat to watch now and see Chad Little run so well there at the end (even though he passed my favorite at the time, Dale Jarrett, to take the top spot). You could tell that, while they have to be impartial, the CBS booth and Buddy Baker in particular would have loved to see him get that first win. I think most people would have, as beloved is Mark is in his own right. Remarkable that it was his only career top-five, but he had quite a few nice runs that year. People can credit the Taurus' advantages or call it a fluke or whatever, but it was fun to see him have a solid year by his standards. 40. Wil posted: 12.16.2018 - 11:15 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) @39 What does legal drinking age have to do with the rest of that comment? 41. zuel660 posted: 12.16.2018 - 12:30 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @40 that's just a clever way of stating something is 21 years old... 42. 52 posted: 12.16.2018 - 1:09 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) He made a joke about how long ago the race took play. Just a joke. 43. CJ posted: 08.24.2019 - 11:55 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) A lot of drivers ran and finished well that weren't often up there at that time which was one of the great things about NASCAR back then. Little, Pressley, Nemechek, & Grissom, among others, have already been mentioned. One name not yet mentioned here is Gary Bradberry. This was his first career top 10 start and it was another in a string of solid qualifying efforts on 1.5 mile tracks. The difference here is he actually backed it up in the race. Although he did have some involvement in the lap 2 mess, he spent the first half of the race well inside the top 15 and even top 10 for a bit and passed guys like Bobby Labonte, Ricky Rudd, Sterling Marlin, and Jeff Burton under green. He would eventually drop 3 laps down by the end of the race, no explanation was ever given as far as what happened. 24th place is certainly nothing spectacular but this was easily the best run he ever had in Cup. 44. Corey posted: 08.24.2019 - 2:21 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Wasn't this race called the Radio Shack 500? I don't think it was sponsorless. 45. Anonymous posted: 01.12.2020 - 1:21 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) In response to comment 44, CBS referred to the race as the Texas 500 on their broadcast of the race. 46. Corey posted: 01.12.2020 - 2:36 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @45 They'll say that if they don't any sort of agreement with said title sponsor. Even today, you hardly hear them say the race sponsors name. 47. Corey posted: 01.12.2020 - 2:36 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Having said that, it looks like Radio Shack came in for 2002-2006. 48. Chunks posted: 01.16.2020 - 12:31 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) What was your opinion on Black Flags Matter's new video called NASCAR Busts: Chad Little? 49. Anonymous posted: 01.16.2020 - 1:26 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) A little unfair IMO. The best Roush cars always went to Mark and Jeff. And he did beat out LePage and Benson in similar equipment. 50. HD11 posted: 02.01.2020 - 5:17 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Chad Little was very talented but never could quite duplicate his success in the Busch Series. Roush cars weren't all that great if you weren't in the 6, or 99 so it's fair to question just how good those cars really were. He works for NASCAR now and is doing very well in that spot. 51. LinuX posted: 05.27.2020 - 6:18 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Chad Little's only Cup-Top-5, and his perhaps only chance to win a race, but in the end he lost against his temmate Mark Martin on Mark's hometrack. 52. Doc posted: 12.21.2020 - 6:53 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Other than Mark Martin, that is the oddest top five I've ever seen. 53. Rich posted: 12.30.2020 - 3:57 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Mike Joy, Ned Jarrett and Buddy Baker were the commentators. Dr. Dick Berggren, Ralph Sheheen and Bill Stephens were the pit road reporters. Ken Squier was the studio host. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: