|| *Comments on the 1998 Winston 500:* View the most recent comment <#28> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. Anonymous posted: 06.15.2005 - 4:36 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ernie Irvan was in a very scary wreck in this race. It took a long time to get him out of the car and I think he missed the rest of the season. 2. Anonymous posted: 09.14.2005 - 7:00 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) no ernie finished 6th at daytona the next week and then missed the last 3 races. 3. HomeDepot20TS posted: 02.26.2006 - 3:04 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ricky Craven was the one that finished the race 8th, Irvan just gets credit for running the first couple laps. 4. HomeDepot20TS posted: 04.28.2006 - 10:06 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) ^To eliminate any confusion, that means he gets credit just because he ran a few laps. 5. Cecil Davis posted: 02.22.2007 - 10:02 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) List of cars in the big one by car#. #2,3,6,16,22,26,36,47,50,77,90,91,96. Total: 13. 6. Zed posted: 03.06.2007 - 7:13 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Geoff Bodine started his 500th career race that day. 7. Anonymous posted: 03.07.2007 - 6:55 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The race that ended any hope of Mark Martin winning the championship. 8. Mike posted: 05.11.2007 - 3:24 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) As of May 2007 (and probably ever) Derrike Cope's last lead-lap finish. 9. Mike posted: 05.11.2007 - 3:25 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Never mind, last one was at Atlanta a few weeks later. 10. ChazzyJoe posted: 01.25.2009 - 7:03 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This race featured Sterling Marlin driving an early version of the "Silver Bullet" Coors Light car that would become popular in the coming years. 11. James-O-Matic posted: 11.29.2009 - 5:09 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Andy Hillenburg's best cup finish, in 22nd. 12. Anonymous posted: 04.07.2010 - 2:03 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Bobby Gerhart tried to make his first race in six years and didn't make the field. He hasn't since 1992. 13. Matthew Sullivan posted: 12.02.2010 - 5:22 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Dale Jarrett was able to thwart Jeff Gordon's effort to win the Winston Million for a second time. Gordon won the Coca Cola 600 and the Southern 500 which made him eligible for the million dollar bonus in this race. 14. Andre posted: 07.06.2011 - 10:45 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was a different Million dollar bonus era, however... there were 5 drivers elligible for the million dollar No Bull 5 bonus, having qualified for it by finishing in the top 5 at Darlington (at least, I think it was Darlington). Gordon and Jarrett were both eligible, and Jarrett held off Gordon to win $1 million. 15. RedChevy14 posted: 01.12.2012 - 10:34 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This is one of my all-time favorite Dale Jarrett wins. That had been such a disappointing year after he nearly won the title in 1997, and with Gordon winning everything in sight (and still having three wins left), once he got to second I didn't think there was any way Dale would hold him off. The high from him winning that race lasted for days, it's one of my favorite memories if not the number one memory from what all around was a very frustrating season as a NASCAR fan. Aside from Atlanta in 2000, this might've been Mike Skinner's best race. He always seemed to run well at Talladega, and Daytona for that matter. A lot of that was due to the car but he's a pretty good restrictor plate racer. Never cared for him, at first it was because he was Earnhardt's teammate, then it was because he drove the Lowe's car while my guy was in the Home Depot car, but in retrospect I wish he had gotten to victory lane a couple of times. 16. RaceFanX posted: 03.11.2012 - 7:56 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsors: #18 Bobby Labonte- Interstate Batteries / Small Soldiers #42 Joe Nemechek- BellSouth / Americast #9 Jerry Nadeau- Cartoon Network / Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island Because of the Pepsi 400's delay from July to October several of that race's intended one-off schemes, such as Bobby Labonte's Small Soldiers paint job or a special reverse STP scheme John Andretti was running featuring some purple-tinted ChromaLusion paint, were run here as well as the following race at Daytona. Labonte's scheme was supposed to be a one-off to promote the theater release of Small Soldiers, a movie about advanced action figures that come to life, but instead was run in the fall here to promote the film's video release. 17. CBASS posted: 05.14.2012 - 10:42 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Some sponsor corrections using CIA Stock Photography's photos #18 Small Soldiers/ Interstate Batteries #40 Coors Light Silver Bullet #43 STP "Purple" (this was the car that was supposed to change colors under the lights, it also ran during the day at Dega) #22 MBNA Platinum/ Ducks Unlimited 18. 10andJoe posted: 06.05.2012 - 8:46 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) To the back: #36 Ernie Irvan (driver change) 19. UnderdogFan89 posted: 03.25.2013 - 2:53 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) A great run for Dave Marcis, scoring his first lead lap finish of the season (his second would be at the last race of the season), and almost scoring a top 10 finish. 20. rateus posted: 11.05.2013 - 6:25 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Correction - Ernie Irvan dropped to the back at the *next* race as a result of missing qualifying because of the injuries sustained in *this* race. 21. Gabriel Nunes posted: 03.17.2014 - 8:15 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Back to Back Restrictor Plate Races! 22. Bad Booking posted: 01.01.2016 - 7:09 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Todd Parrott was fined 5K for saying the mf'er bomb live on air during the race! Unlike Rusty, Todd did not pay his fine with nickels, but with an apology instead. 23. Will posted: 02.09.2016 - 11:52 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) A rough day for the rookies... Lepage 35th Park 41st Nadeau 42nd Irwin 43rd 24. Mitchell posted: 10.11.2017 - 10:53 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Bobby Gerhart's owner was AJ Foyt for his DNQ. Per NASCAR's old owner points records. 25. CJ posted: 04.18.2018 - 7:41 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Season and career best finish for Andy Hillenburg. Season best finish and final career top 15 for Derrike Cope. Season best finish and final career top 15 for Dave Marcis. Season best finish for Billy Standridge. 26. Anonymous posted: 01.03.2020 - 1:25 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) It was this race where we first heard The Big One In Nascar!Ever since then after Bob Jenkins said this the big one we hoped would not happen, and then the following week the late Steve Byrnes said it before the Daytona race when was working for TNN. But folks they were the first times they mentioned it. I think it was ESPN's folks who were using the term more before it reached everybody else by 2001. And we still love seeing and saying it when were watching those races. Old Or recent. 27. Jimnsimforever posted: 04.29.2020 - 8:05 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) #23 Jimmy Spencer, #97 Chad Little, #77 Robert Pressley, and #47 Billy Standridge all drove Ford Thunderbirds in this race rather than the Taurus. Geoff Bodine's 500th career start saw him have to start from the back of the field in a backup car after crashing his primary car in practice. Ned got to call his son Dale winning one of the big ones he hadn't won with the million dollar bonus on top and apparently half of the Jarrett family had a birthday in the couple days before or the couple days after this win. 28. SweetRich posted: 06.29.2020 - 4:26 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The commentators were Bob Jenkins, Ned Jarrett and Benny Parsons. The pit road reporters were Dr. Jerry Punch, John Kernan and Bill Weber. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: