Pontiac Excitement 400
The Pontiac Excitement 400 was held February 21 at Richmond Fairgrounds Raceway. The No. 97 of Morgan Shepherd won the pole.
Top Ten Results
- 75-Neil Bonnett
- 26-Ricky Rudd
- 43-Richard Petty
- 17-Darrell Waltrip
- 44-Sterling Marlin
- 83-Lake Speed
- 27-Rusty Wallace
- 8-Bobby Hillin, Jr.
- 11-Terry Labonte
- 3-Dale Earnhardt
Failed to qualify: 2-Ernie Irvan, 4-Rick Wilson, 25*-Ken Schrader,
- Ken Schrader's team bought the No. 67 entry (normally driven by Buddy Arrington) in order to get Schrader into the race.
- This was the last race on the old half-mile Richmond Fairgrounds Raceway. After the race, workers got going to convert the track into a more modern-looking 3/4-mile oval.
- A scoring error failed to show Bonnett was one lap down after making a green flag pit stop. A post-race protest filed by Ricky Rudd's car owner Kenny Bernstein did not resolve the NASCAR scoring error and Bonnett's win stood even though a review of the race tape shows clearly that Rudd should have been awarded the victory.
Read more about this topic: 1988 NASCAR Winston Cup Series
Famous quotes containing the word excitement:
“I don’t go that fast in practice, because I need the excitement of the race, the adrenalin. The others might train more and be in better shape, but when I’m racing, I put winning before everything else. I don’t stop until the world gets gray and fuzzy around the edges.”
—Candi Clark (b. c. 1950)