Subway 400 - Notable Races

Notable Races

  • 1972: Bobby Allison started last and led over 300 laps before breaking, and pole-sitter Bobby Isaac took the win, his final in Grand National racing.
  • 1973: David Pearson led all but one lap en route to an overwhelming win, the beginning of his 1973 assault on superspeedway records.
  • 1975: Cale Yarborough edged Pearson after Richard Petty lost several laps with a cracked cylinder head.
  • 1976: Petty won by two laps as Bobby Allison survived a shocking tumble down the backstretch.
  • 1977: Crashes galore kept the average speed to 97 MPH as Petty took his sixth Carolina 500 win.
  • 1979: Two weeks after their Daytona crash, Cale Yarborough and Donnie Allison crashed while battling for the lead just ten laps in; the wreck swept up several other cars. Bobby Allison took the win.
  • 1981: Darrell Waltrip outlasted Petty and Cale for his first big track win with Junior Johnson.
  • 1983: Petty edged Bill Elliott for his first win in seventeen months.
  • 1985: Elliott suffered a leg injury in a hard crash, as Neil Bonnett edged Harry Gant in a photo finish, the second straight Rockingham race to end in a photo finish, and second straight heartbreaker for Gant.
  • 1989: Rusty Wallace made up a lap as Dale Earnhardt and Ricky Rudd tangled on the backstretch. Wallace pulled away to the win.
  • 1990: Kyle Petty overwhelmed the field for his first win since 1987 and the first for SABCO Racing.
  • 1995: Jeff Gordon edged Bobby Labonte for his first win of the season.
  • 1996: A spirited battle for the lead ended in a wreck as Dale Earnhardt hit Bobby Hamilton into the wall off Four on Lap 343.
  • 2001: One week after Earnhardt's death, Steve Park drove a Teresa Earnhardt-owned Chevrolet to a close win over Bobby Labonte; it was Park's final win.
  • 2002: Matt Kenseth ended a two-year victory drought after escaping a multicar melee on the backstretch when Jeff Gordon spun out Casey Atwood and four-other cars piled in.
  • 2003: Dale Jarrett posted his second to last win.
  • 2004: The final race at Rockingham ended in a close finish won by Matt Kenseth over rookie Kasey Kahne.

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