Pepsi 400
The Pepsi 400 was held at the Daytona International Speedway on July 7, 1990. Greg Sacks won the pole, but got involved on The Big One on lap two, which involved 24 cars and took 11 cars immediately out of the race. Dale Earnhardt dominated the race and led 127 laps on his first points race win at Daytona.
Top Ten Results
- 3-Dale Earnhardt
- 7-Alan Kulwicki
- 25-Ken Schrader
- 1-Terry Labonte
- 94-Sterling Marlin
- 8-Bobby Hillin, Jr.
- 33-Harry Gant
- 21-Dale Jarrett
- 20-Rob Moroso
- 42-Kyle Petty -1
Failed to qualify: 70-J. D. McDuffie*, 72-Tracy Leslie, 80-Jimmy Horton*
- Darrell Waltrip suffered serious injuries (multiple leg fractures, a broken arm, 9 broken ribs, a concussion) in a multi-car practice crash that was caused by a broken oil line in A.J. Foyt's #14 Copenhagen Oldsmobile car that Dale Earnhardt happened to be driving at the time (Foyt had Indycar commitments, and Earnhardt had promised to shake the car down in final practice). During the wreck, Waltrip's #17 Tide Chevrolet spun out and stopped in the middle of the track with its left side facing traffic. Before he could get the car restarted, Waltrip was T-Boned by the #71 of Dave Marcis in the driver's door. Waltrip's injuries forced him to miss 6 races. Marcis suffered a broken leg and had to borrow J.D. McDuffie's Pontiac to start the race. McDuffie relieved him after the pace lap.
- Jimmy Horton, who had failed to qualify for the race, was tapped to fill in for Waltrip at Daytona and was Waltrip's relief driver 2 weeks later at Pocono.
- As a result of Waltrip's crash, NASCAR thoroughly inspected Waltrip's car. Waltrip describes in his book, DW: A Lifetime Going Around in Circles, that the engine had a "floating block in the manifold that sat under the restrictor plate." This was not necessarily illegal, but it wasn't approved by NASCAR. NASCAR forced Hendrick Motorsports (including the pole sitting #18 Ultra Slim Fast Chevrolet of Greg Sacks) and other teams to weld the blocks into proper place. This resulted in the pole sitting car of Sacks essentially being a sitting duck, which more or less caused the aforementioned big one at the end of the 1st lap.
- This was Dale Earnhardt's first Winston Cup points race win at Daytona
Read more about this topic: 1990 NASCAR Winston Cup Series
Famous quotes containing the word pepsi:
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—Annie Lennox (b. 1954)