|| *Comments on the 1998 Exide NASCAR Select Batteries 400:* View the most recent comment <#26> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. Jack Lewis posted: 08.17.2004 - 5:07 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jeff Burton and Jeff Gordon have a great battle in the last few laps of the race, with Burton coming out on top. 2. HomeDepot20TS posted: 02.26.2005 - 9:14 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) That was easily the best finish of the '98 season and one of the best in recent memory 3. Darrell posted: 02.21.2006 - 4:51 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Robert Pressley was injured in a crash here, forcing him to miss a couple of races. 4. Anonymous posted: 04.19.2006 - 5:06 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was probably one of my favorite Jeff Burton wins in Nextel Cup at least. 5. Phathead posted: 11.07.2006 - 6:37 am Rate this comment: (1) (2) Winston Cup, wasn't Nextel Cup ;) 6. biffle16 posted: 02.04.2007 - 1:14 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Probably Ken Schrader's last top 5. :( 7. BurtonRuddFan posted: 09.24.2007 - 1:29 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Great run for Schrader. Even though I wasn't watching NASCAR at this time, I saw a clip that showed how exciting this was. 8. GJinVA posted: 08.25.2008 - 3:43 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Great race to watch from the stands. The battle at the end was awesome to see in person, especially with the sea of flash bulbs going off all around the track the whole last 5-10 laps. Burton had a pretty wild near-spin earlier in the race going for the lead, he had to take evasive action and cut across the apron in turn 3 and back up onto the banking at speed, it was a great piece of driving. He really earned the win that day. 9. Sean posted: 06.07.2009 - 1:38 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) My dad was at this race. He said it was a great finish even though he's a gordon fan. I miss the exide days with burton in the 99. the 31 is terrible its just a shame what has happened 10. Josh posted: 06.16.2010 - 1:35 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) biffle16 this was schraders last top 5. 4th at both richmond races in 1998 11. Josh posted: 06.16.2010 - 1:42 am Rate this comment: (0) (1) with the way gordon was back in those days, im actually surprised that this race ended clean. gordon has that "get out of my way" tendency and has done the bump and run several times, most notably to rusty wallace at bristol...twice, to bobby labonte at martinsville back in 03 and tried to do it to jimmie johnson at martinsville in 07. i was pleasantly surprised. jeff gordon has become a favorite of mine but at this time i heavily disliked him. 12. 18fan posted: 11.20.2010 - 4:35 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I bet nobody would've thought this would be Schrader's last top 5. 13. Schroeder51 posted: 03.24.2011 - 6:09 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Robert Pressley was hurt in an early crash when he blew a tire off of turn 2, pounded the wall, and collected Joe Nemechek and Dale Earnhardt. Jimmy Spencer was leading during a round of green flag pit stops when Dick Trickle crashed. 14. RaceFanX posted: 08.28.2011 - 7:30 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) A race after completing one series of special paint jobs Bill Elliott starts another as his #94 Ford was sponsored in this race by 'McDonald's Get Back with Big Mac' promotion for this race, the race at Dover where Matt Kenseth drove and the following race at Martinsville. The psychedelic 1960s look was designed to tie-in with the 30th anniversary of the McDonald's Big Mac hamburger. Sterling Marlin also had a different sponsor for this race as his car was sponsored by Coors Non-Alcholic. Marlin had previously run the near beer scheme at Pocono in July. 15. Anonymous posted: 10.22.2011 - 3:53 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jeff Burton's normally black and purple car was black and red for this race as he was carrying a special Exide Select Batteries scheme. 16. RaceFanX posted: 03.20.2012 - 2:08 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor: #99 Jeff Burton- Exide Batteries NASCAR Select The NASCAR Select battery was a branded one Exide produced at the time, their ads implied it was the one a lot of their NASCAR teams were using 17. Matt posted: 12.31.2013 - 1:57 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) I think Jeff Gordon is a pretty clean driver, but like any race car driver worth a damn, he will nudge you if a win is on the line or as retaliation�..I never thought Gordon had a "get out of my way" mentality. When he nudged Rusty out of the way at Bristol in '96 and '02, or even Bobby Labonte at Martinsville in '03��those moves were absolute textbook on how to move a guy for a win. Gordon only got those guys a little loose and out of the groove BUT HE DID NOT WRECK THEM. That's the key. There's only one groove at those racetracks, and Jeff Gordon was faster. Absolute textbook. The Jeff Gordon vs. Jimmie Johnson duel at Martinsville in '07 was very frustrating to Gordon. It was the first race with the COT at Martinsville. Gordon was the faster car but the bumpers on those cars lined up so perfectly, it didn't get Johnson out of shape when Gordon tried that same move to get him loose. Gordon was race Johnson pretty carefully but I remember him saying he was "pissed" off in post-race. As he should've been; he lost the race with the faster car to a teammate that has shown him up. I think Gordon thought he could beat Burton clean, and Burton raced him clean, so it was a real pleasure to watch. Burton was faster. And lets applaud Richmond - not many tracks have two competitive grooves like this. A battle like this wouldn't be possible at other tracks. 18. KyleLarson42Fan posted: 01.21.2015 - 10:20 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Ken Shrader's final Top-5 Finish 19. nejbucks24 posted: 01.26.2015 - 9:16 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Full disclosure-- I'm a huge Gordon fan and consider him a clean driver. He will move a guy if he is desperate for a victory (2002 Bristol night to break a lengthy losing streak) or if he knows he clearly has a better car (Martinsville 2003 with B. Labonte). With that being said Gordon ran Burton very clean due to their contact in the '97 Southern 500 for the Winston Million on the last lap. It was text book driving by Burton to keep Gordon pinned in the low line. In fact Gordon was running Burton down using the high line and Burton smartly moved to the high line in the last ten or so laps. 20. Taylor posted: 03.18.2016 - 1:26 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jimmy Spencer and Dennis Setzer started this race from the back of the field due to back-up cars 21. SK posted: 03.08.2017 - 7:25 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Relief driver: #91 - Dick Trickle 22. CJ posted: 04.18.2018 - 7:41 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Final top 5 for Ken Schrader in the Cup Series. Schrader equaled his best finish of the season. Final start for Steve Grissom in the 41. First start for Todd Bodine in the 91. Only start for Ted Musgrave in the 96. 23. Nathan8848 posted: 03.25.2019 - 7:29 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) This would be the first of 7 consecutive races that Jerry Nadeau would drive a car promoting Scooby Doo on Zombie Island. It was the first ever Scooby-Doo full length movie at 77 minutes. The film was released 2 weeks later on the 22nd. The slogan of the film was "This time, the monsters are real". The car wasn't monstrous however, as he would have 5 finishes of 35th or lower, 3 dnf's, and a best finish of 19th at Daytona. 24. JollyMeanGiant posted: 03.25.2019 - 1:40 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jerry did have a good run with the Zombie Island car at Dover, starting in the top 10 and spending well over 200 laps running there. However, his good run came to an end when he was taken out of the race late in a crash with Todd Bodine and Mike Skinner. 25. Ryan posted: 04.29.2020 - 7:41 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) I have a vague memory of six-year old me and my family jumping up and down in my grandparents living room cheering Jeff Burton on in the final battle 26. Rich posted: 12.29.2020 - 7:27 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: