|| *Comments on the 1999 Winston 500:* View the most recent comment <#30> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. Matt posted: 12.09.2005 - 12:56 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The Intimidator completes the Talladega sweep on the season. 2. Brock posted: 01.19.2007 - 3:17 am Rate this comment: (5) (0) Jarrett's crew chief, during ESPN's short-lived "NASCAR Spotlight" segment during the race, was caught saying to his crew in frustration, "Give me some twenty-odd shocks for this motherf****r." 3. myself posted: 02.20.2007 - 4:33 pm Rate this comment: (0) (4) Cale's last race as a participant @ Talladega. His car, driven by his pathetic driver, finished 26th. :( 4. myself posted: 02.20.2007 - 4:35 pm Rate this comment: (0) (2) What's w/ Ricky Rudd?! In his own independent car, the guy qualifies on the outside pole for the last 2 restrictor plate races of 99'! 5. Anonymous posted: 03.03.2007 - 4:28 am Rate this comment: (2) (0) Rick Mast a pathetic driver? Did you ever stop and think that it might have been Cale's pathetic cars? He only won one race as an owner after all. Maybe he just had pathetic drivers in his cars all those years. Yeah, that must be it. 6. myself posted: 03.16.2007 - 4:21 pm Rate this comment: (1) (4) Lets look: Dale Jarrett (88' & 89'): was very early in his career; couple of decent runs Dick Trickle (90' & 91'): a pole & a couple of decent finishes Lake Speed (91'): well below an avg. Nascar driver Chad Little (92'): couldn't even win in Roush cars! Jimmy Hensley (92'): won Rookie of the Year; about as much as one could get out of him Derrike Cope (93' & 94'): couple of decent runs & qualifying performances Jeremy Mayfield (94'-96'): Cale discovered him & gave him a chance; started out poorly, but ended up getting a pole & having a couple of good runs; like all other car owners Mayfield has worked for, he wore out his welcome John Andretti (96' & 97'): couple of poles, won @ Daytona, led a good many laps, but sponsorship ran out & Andretti bolted Greg Sacks (98'): the epitomy of PATHETIC! Rich Bickle (98'): couple of nice runs, but team was very underfunded Rick Mast (99'): a pathetic racer by Nascar standards Cale's team was underfunded & driven by a few too many sub par drivers! 7. Mark O. posted: 11.11.2007 - 12:07 pm Rate this comment: (2) (1) You are an idiot. Those drivers have more talent in their pinky fingers then you do in your whole body. Never seen the '85 Firecracker 400, huh? 8. Darrell posted: 11.23.2007 - 10:50 pm Rate this comment: (4) (1) Speed drove lousy cars his whole career, and Sacks was pathetic enough to crush people in modifieds his whole career. myself is definitely pathetic by intelligence standards. 9. Anonymous posted: 02.17.2008 - 2:41 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Andretti did the best out of anyone with a yarbourough car. Speed was just ok, Little was underrated, Cope wasn't that great, Mast wasn't even a 4th-tier driver, Bickle and Trickle were too old, and Mayfield and Jarrett were still very green. I think overall, that team shouldn't have gone for the mid-carders. 10. myself posted: 02.28.2008 - 10:28 am Rate this comment: (0) (1) Y'all want some fan club flyers?! 11. rustyfan posted: 05.09.2008 - 10:03 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was the first ever Cup race i got to go to.I was surrounded by obnoxious Earnhardt fans.Big E put a nice move on DJ to win.He was hands down the best ever at Dega. 12. Ryan posted: 12.08.2008 - 12:32 am Rate this comment: (1) (1) read some of myself's posts and you will find that he really isn't intelligent. He is always hating on Earnhardt 13. Matthew Sullivan posted: 01.10.2009 - 11:47 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) myself is an idiot. I can't speak for the other drivers, but I can tell you that in Lake Speed's time with Yarborough's team, there were a lot of failures that were not his fault. Check his '91 statistics. He had four engine failures, was involved in two crashes not of his own making and had other car issues in three races. Of the 20 races he was in the 66, he had a total of 9 engine failures. It's obvious that Cale's equipment at that point wasn't up to par. You need to educate yourself. 14. 18fan posted: 01.12.2009 - 1:53 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ryan, I know you are an Earnhardt fan by reading your posts and that is fine by me. I agree with you about that his comments are unintelligent because of his amazing lovefest for Cale Yarborough. However hating on Dale is not the sole reason to hate another poster. I know I sounded like a clown on the 1989 Holly Farms 400 page by saying that Dale sucked. That was before I really started to respect the history of the sport more and also respect Dale more than I have any driver besides Richard Petty. Definitely he was a legend of the NASCAR Winston Cup Series(before NA$CAR) 15. Ryan posted: 01.12.2009 - 7:27 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) I don't hate anyone. I just find it mind-boggling with all the bogus comments like, "Dale got special treatment, and Dale's race he won at Daytona in '98 was fixed." Stupid! Up to his death Dale sure never got special treatment in the Daytona 500, that's for damn sure. 16. AJ posted: 02.02.2009 - 8:46 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I remember that Kevin Lepage had a shot to win in the final couple laps, running right behind Earnhardt and Jarrett until about 3 to go when he got shuffled out of line. 17. justme posted: 02.06.2009 - 3:44 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) just to add to what you guys are saying about cales team,Jeremy Mayfield didnt do great with cale but he made a name for himself with penske...the point is it was the cars. 18. myself posted: 08.19.2009 - 10:45 am Rate this comment: (1) (3) ::rolleyes:: 19. Madison posted: 01.19.2010 - 5:37 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Cale fielded mediocre cars throughout his ownership career. In the 85 Daytona 500, Lake Speed finishes an unbelievable 2nd for an underfunded RahMoc Enterprises, who had just recruited a sponsor the night before the race. The following race at Daytona, some guy named Greg Sacks miraculously won for the also underfunded DiGard. His career at Cale's team was short-lived by a life threatening crash at Texas in 1998. Not to mention the fact that both drivers had driven in mediocre race cars for most of their careers. Educate yourself, myself. 20. Schroeder51 posted: 04.12.2011 - 2:45 pm Rate this comment: (3) (0) Kevin Lepage was co-sponsored for this race by Pokemon. Pikachu appeared on the hood of his Ford. 21. Evan posted: 11.12.2011 - 12:00 pm Rate this comment: (3) (0) This was the only time a Pokemon paint scheme was ever ran of any fashion, there were talks of Jeff Gordon running one for the Winston in 2000 for Pokemon the Movie 2000 and another in 1999 for Pokemon the First Movie Mewtwo Strikes Back but it was all rumor. I remember back then there were talks of Earnhardt being washed up and the sport had passed him by. But he proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that he could get the job done in 1999 and early and late 2000 where he mounted a title run. Earnhardt was still getting over the crash at Talladega in 1998 and once he finally got over the injury he was back to the old Earnhardt again. 22. bill413 posted: 11.06.2014 - 5:33 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) dale won in the goodwrench sign car. 23. Anonymous posted: 01.01.2016 - 2:06 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Evan, Earnhardt and the 98 Winston 500 didn't do anything to him physically. You might be referring to the Atlanta race early in the 1999 season when he backed it so hard into the wall he broke his neck. Raced for 9 months without having full use of one side of the body. That definitely affected him. 24. Evan posted: 01.01.2016 - 8:41 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Anonymous, I never knew that. I don't really remember 1999 all that much. No wonder. 25. RaceFanX posted: 04.24.2016 - 4:34 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Kenny Irwin, Jr. records his penultimate top-10 finish. This was his last top-10 in Robert Yates' Texaco #28 Ford. 26. Josh posted: 07.21.2016 - 10:52 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I was pulling for Kevin LePage to get that million dollars! He had finished 5th in the Southern 500, so he was one of the 5 drivers going for the "No-Bull 5" Million Dollars. He was second to the 88 with a few laps left, then got hung out in the draft to finish a disappointing (relative to where he was before) 18th. 27. Ryan posted: 10.08.2018 - 9:32 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @21 It probably had more to do with his Talladega crash in '96 not so much the one in '98, although the '98 looked pretty bad where Bill Elliott's fumes off his car burned off his mustache. @4 Ricky Rudd was going to the 28 team in 2000 and Yates was helping him with power is why he was on the outside pole for the last two restrictor plate races of 1999. 28. Yahboi posted: 11.28.2019 - 12:31 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) 25, Ironically Kenny's team was the one another driver we've talked about alot on here went too. Amazing how Rudd could have a season that was absolutely hell like this and get help from Yates in some races and still tune in that success. Of course we all know how Great Yates was on Horsepower at this time so that was part of it, but another thing is I think that shows you how great Rudd was. The sad bit of it all was Kenny's future. He could have had a bright one, but we all know what happened 9 months later. :( We Miss You Kenny! 29. Danny posted: 12.17.2020 - 11:39 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) this race tied a Talladega record for lead lap finishers there in the 90's 21. 30. Rich posted: 04.23.2021 - 4:12 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Dr. Jerry Punch along with Ned Jarrett and Benny Parsons were the commentators. John Kernan along with Bill Weber and Ray Dunlap were the pit road reporters. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. 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