Pontiac Excitement 400
The Pontiac Excitement 400 was held March 26 at Richmond International Raceway. The #5 of Geoff Bodine won the pole.
Top Ten Results
- 27-Rusty Wallace
- 7-Alan Kulwicki
- 3-Dale Earnhardt
- 26-Ricky Rudd
- 28-Davey Allison
- 16-Larry Pearson
- 17-Darrell Waltrip
- 94-Sterling Marlin
- 2-Ernie Irvan
- 9-Bill Elliott
Failed to qualify: 43-Richard Petty
- This race was scheduled for the weekend after the Daytona 500 (February 26), but snow fell in Richmond, and blanketed the Speedway. The race was postponed a month, and in subsequent seasons, the spring Richmond race was moved later and later into the season. It is one of the rare times a NASCAR race has been held on Easter Sunday, a weekend that has not had an originally scheduled NASCAR Cup race in the modern era.
- After qualifying for 513 consecutive races, Richard Petty failed to make the field for this race. He wrecked his primary car during practice, and could not get the backup car up to speed. His consecutive starts record would stand until the 1996 First Union 400 when Terry Labonte broke the record.
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Famous quotes containing the word excitement:
“One of the joys our technological civilisation has lost is the excitement with which seasonal flowers and fruits were welcomed; the first daffodil, strawberry or cherry are now things of the past, along with their precious moment of arrival. Even the tangerine—now a satsuma or clementine—appears de-pipped months before Christmas.”
—Derek Jarman (b. 1942)