|| *Comments on the 1999 Save Mart / Kragen 350:* View the most recent comment <#35> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. HomeDepot20TS posted: 04.10.2005 - 4:18 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) At the entrance to turn one, both Steve Park and Ken Schrader spun in seperate incidents and flipped. 2. Darrell posted: 12.11.2005 - 1:56 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jeff Gordon won this race despite being ill all weekend. That ladies and gentleman requires TALENT! Some other notables: Butch Gilliland's car just died on lap 4. No warning, just came to a halt. Darrell Waltrip has his best qualifying run of the year, then fades back to 42nd with mechanical issues, but rebounds to 12th by the end of the race. Probably the last time we'll ever see a mass amount of Winston West drivers attempt a Cup race again. Also: In regards to Ken Schrader's crash, wasn't there some running gag about him unbuckling his seat belts when the car was upside down and he fell or something like that? 3. nascarman posted: 06.28.2006 - 6:23 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Is Butch Gilliland related to David Gilliland. 4. Darrell posted: 06.28.2006 - 11:26 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Yep. Butch is his father. 5. Steve posted: 09.01.2006 - 5:58 am Rate this comment: (0) (2) How ironic that Butch Gilliland drove a Ford numbered 38 in the Cup Series (though he did so on a limited basis), and now, for Robert Yates, Butch's son David drives a Ford numbered 38. 6. Frogger49 posted: 09.16.2006 - 1:13 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) This race was the only Sears Point race with a 4:30pm eastern start time. Since the race ran long (there was a late red flag due to a multi-car wreck involving Rudd, Rusty Wallace (slightly), and Ward Burton), it actually encroached on Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN. Needless to say, they moved the start back to 4pm eastern the next year. 7. Brock posted: 01.18.2007 - 6:06 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) In that red flag, Ricky Rudd's beautiful Peroxide car got loose in the Esses when Rusty ran him off course and he crashed into Ward Burton, whose back end smashed a hole in the catchfence several feet wide. Fortunately, it was on the side without any spectators. 8. Brock posted: 02.03.2007 - 9:03 am Rate this comment: (2) (0) Jimmy Spencer in the top 5 at a road course? It IS possible! 9. SK posted: 05.20.2007 - 9:33 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) 61-year-old road racer R.K. Smith attempted and failed to qualify for the race in Dave Marcis' #71 Realtree Chevy, after Marcis elected to sit out the weekend following a fierce crash in the Pocono 500 days earlier. 10. Thomas posted: 05.22.2007 - 11:55 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The 4:30pm eastern start was initiated by the CART race from Cleveland on the same day. 11. biffle16 posted: 05.29.2007 - 4:12 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Also, this was Butch Gilliland's last NA$CAR start. And, this was his owner, Richard Hilton's only NA$CAR start as an owner. 12. Bill posted: 06.23.2007 - 8:32 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) And Jimmy Spencer's best finish on a road course. The man hates them, yet he had one good run in his career. 13. Bill posted: 06.23.2007 - 8:32 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I stand corrected, he has a 3rd in 93 at the Glen 14. Brock posted: 12.12.2007 - 6:19 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) With 10 laps to go, Ricky Rudd, Bobby Labonte, and Joe Nemechek were all running in the top 5 and Ward Burton was in 7th before two spectacular incidents took all four out from competition. Rudd and Burton were involved in the red-flag wreck in the Esses I mentioned earlier while Bobby Labonte wrecked a few laps before. Labonte was trying to pass Joe Nemecheck on the inside coming into turn 11 when he came in too fast. Locking up his brakes, Labonte ran right into two of the piles of tires in that turn, annihilating the right-front of his Pontiac. With the tire bundles bouncing everywhere, Labonte then clipped Nemechek, who kept his car straight just long enough so that he spun instead coming off turn 11 with a cut tire. 15. JCS posted: 09.02.2008 - 11:22 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Hard crash for Ken Schrader in this race. He flipped. 16. Matthew Lewis posted: 11.24.2008 - 1:10 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Some sponsor notes for this race: #98-Jelly Belly #90-Acuturn #19-Bradford White Water Heaters/Pro Motor #92-Jeff Davis-Race Car Cafe/Big Daddy's BBQ Sauce-Ford #38-Coca Cola/Ralph's Grocery Store-Chevrolet #68-Ron Burns was driving a Ford #91-Performance Gear/Textilease Uniforms 17. jp posted: 02.18.2009 - 1:18 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) in response to the flips, they arent the only ones. michael waltrip flipped in qualifying in '89,mark flipped in '89 as well, a winston west driver named rich woodland jr. flipped in '94,john krebbs, another WW driver flipped in the race, a craftsman truck series driver (i cant think of his name) went through a guardrail & flipped, then these two, then ward burton flipped in qualifying a year later. what was the truck series driver that went out of track??? 18. jp posted: 02.19.2009 - 4:49 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) look at kevin lepage's sponsor, besides tv guide. tv CHIHUAHUA!!?! that has pathetic written all over it :) 19. Art D posted: 06.26.2009 - 11:30 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) 46th career win for J. Gordon 20. BiffreyIndiana posted: 02.16.2011 - 10:36 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Interestingly, the Cup, Busch, Truck, Cart and F1 series ran 5 races this weekend on 4 different road courses at Sonoma, Watkins Glen, Cleveland and Magny-Cours. Fun fact! The IRL had to be different and run an oval at Pikes Peak. >:( 21. Schroeder51 posted: 03.23.2011 - 2:56 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) It's very rare to see two flips in one race. Much less in the same spot. 22. Brandon posted: 08.28.2015 - 2:54 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) First race w/o a Junie Donleavy entry since 1975. 23. RaceFanX posted: 11.12.2015 - 7:09 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Darrell Waltrip's 12th-place run matched his best of the season. Gordon wins at Sonoma for the second year in a row. 24. Anonymous posted: 11.08.2016 - 1:09 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) "First race w/o a Junie Donleavy entry since 1975." Not true, the team ran partial schedules in the early 90s. 25. TeamDCR fan posted: 04.11.2017 - 1:26 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Harry Mellings final race owning a car of his life 26. TeamDCR fan posted: 04.11.2017 - 1:32 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Correction: last race as listed owner. Harry had passed about a month before 27. Jimmie4life posted: 01.14.2018 - 9:50 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I know 5 crashes that have happened in turn 1(Steve Park and Ken Schrader count separate). 1989 - Mark Martin flips because of crewman's mistake with tire. 1991 - Richard Petty nails the wall head-on, and comes to a dead stop 1999 - Both Schrader and Park flip over. 2017 - Kasey Kahne crashes into wall. 28. TeamDCR fan posted: 03.26.2018 - 3:20 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Lone Cup attempt for Busch series wrecking ball Mike Borkowski 29. Darrell posted: 10.11.2018 - 8:13 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Driver Change: Loy Allen qualified the No. 58 in the first round of qualifying. Also, I find no evidence that No. 61 car attemped to qualify for this particular race. 30. Cash posted: 08.03.2019 - 1:19 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Even in a year muddled with inconsistency, Gordon had a streak of finishing in the top-2 in 4 straight races. Tough to believe that after this stretch, he'd never do this again in his career. 31. Darrell posted: 09.28.2019 - 10:51 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Loy Allen's 1st round qualifying time was 1:16.619 (91.575 mph). 32. Darrell posted: 11.24.2019 - 3:02 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Driver Change: Loy Allen was the original entrant qualified the No. 58 in the first round, Sean Woodside ran the second. Withdrew: David Murry (No. 61) http://web.archive.org/web/19990902170044/http://jayski.com/stats/dnq99.htm 33. Darrell posted: 12.01.2019 - 1:51 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Withdraw: No. 90 Eric Comas Ford (Junie Donlavey) 34. Corey posted: 04.19.2020 - 9:05 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This race was part of an ESPN television triple header. The day started with the NASCAR Busch series at Watkins Glen and continued with the CART series at the Burke Lakefront Airport. 35. Rich posted: 12.30.2020 - 3:52 pm 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: