1987 Holly Farms 400

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1987 Holly Farms 400
Race details
Race 25 of 29 in the 1987 NASCAR Winston Cup Series
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The 1987 Holly Farms 400 program cover, featuring Darrell Waltrip and Junior Johnson.
DateOctober 4, 1987
Official name 38th Annual Holly Farms 400
Location North Wilkesboro Speedway, North Wilkesboro, North Carolina
Course Permanent racing facility
0.625 mi (1.006 km)
Distance 400 laps, 250 mi (402.336 km)
Scheduled Distance 400 laps, 250 mi (402.336 km)
Average speed 96.051 miles per hour (154.579 km/h)
Attendance 32,500
Pole position
Driver Melling Racing
Time 19.532
Most laps led
Driver Terry Labonte Junior Johnson & Associates
Laps 207
Winner
No. 11 Terry Labonte Junior Johnson & Associates
Television in the United States
Network ESPN
Announcers Bob Jenkins, Jerry Punch
Radio in the United States
Radio Motor Racing Network

The 1987 Holly Farms 400 was the 25th stock car race of the 1987 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season and the 38th iteration of the event. The race was held on Sunday, October 4, 1987, before an audience of 32,500 in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina at the North Wilkesboro Speedway, a 0.625 miles (1.006 km) oval short track. The race took the scheduled 400 laps to complete.

Contents

With the help of a final fast pit stop late in the race, Junior Johnson & Associates' Terry Labonte managed to pull away from second-place Dale Earnhardt, completing a dominant run where Labonte led the final 207 laps. The victory was Labonte's eighth career NASCAR Winston Cup Series victory and his only victory of the season. [1] [2]

Heading into the next four races of the season, Dale Earnhardt, who at this point had a 573 point lead in the driver's championship over Bill Elliott, was slated as the lock-in for the championship, only needing a 40th or better place finish in the next four races to clinch the championship. [2]

Background

The layout of North Wilkesboro Speedway, the venue where the race was held NorthWilkesboroSpeedwayMap.svg
The layout of North Wilkesboro Speedway, the venue where the race was held

North Wilkesboro Speedway is a short oval racetrack located on U.S. Route 421, about five miles east of the town of North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, or 80 miles north of Charlotte. It measures 0.625 mi (1.006 km) and features a unique uphill backstretch and downhill frontstretch. It has previously held races in NASCAR's top three series, including 93 Winston Cup Series races. The track, a NASCAR original, operated from 1949, NASCAR's inception, until the track's original closure in 1996. The speedway briefly reopened in 2010 and hosted several stock car series races before closing again in the spring of 2011. It was re-opened in August 2022 for grassroots racing.

Entry list

#DriverTeamMakeSponsor
02 Jed Doggett Doggett Racing Pontiac Doggett Racing
3 Dale Earnhardt Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet Wrangler
04 Clark James James Racing Pontiac James Racing
5 Geoff Bodine Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet Levi Garrett
6 Ernie Irvan U.S. Racing Chevrolet U.S. Racing
7 Alan Kulwicki AK Racing Ford Zerex
8 Bobby Hillin Jr. Stavola Brothers Racing Buick Miller American
9 Bill Elliott Melling Racing Ford Coors
11 Terry Labonte Junior Johnson & Associates Chevrolet Budweiser
12 Larry Pollard Hamby Racing Chevrolet Hamby Racing
15 Ricky Rudd Bud Moore Engineering Ford Motorcraft Quality Parts
17 Darrell Waltrip Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet Tide
18 Dale Jarrett (R) Freedlander Motorsports Chevrolet Coats & Clark
21 Kyle Petty Wood Brothers Racing Ford Citgo
22 Bobby Allison Stavola Brothers Racing Buick Miller American
26 Morgan Shepherd King Racing Buick Quaker State
27 Rusty Wallace Blue Max Racing Pontiac Kodiak
28 Davey Allison (R) Ranier-Lundy Racing Ford Texaco, Havoline
30 Michael Waltrip Bahari Racing Chevrolet All Pro Auto Parts
33 Harry Gant Mach 1 Racing Chevrolet Skoal Bandit
35 Benny Parsons Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet Folgers Decaf
36 Joe Dan Bailey Bailey Racing Pontiac Almeda Auto Parts
38 Ronnie Adams Adams Racing Chevrolet Adams Racing
41 Ronnie Thomas Ronnie Thomas Racing Chevrolet Busch Enterprises
43 Richard Petty Petty Enterprises Pontiac STP
44 Sterling Marlin Hagan Racing Oldsmobile Piedmont Airlines
46 Glenn Moffat Moffat Racing Chevrolet Moffat Racing
52 Jimmy Means Jimmy Means Racing Pontiac Eureka
54 Kevin Evans Gray Racing Chevrolet Gray Racing
55 Phil Parsons Jackson Bros. Motorsports Oldsmobile Skoal Classic
62 Steve Christman (R) Winkle Motorsports Pontiac AC Spark Plug
64 Rodney Combs [lower-alpha 1] Langley Racing Ford Sunny King Ford
67 Buddy Arrington Arrington Racing Ford Pannill Sweatshirts
70 J. D. McDuffie McDuffie Racing Pontiac Rumple Furniture
71 Dave Marcis Marcis Auto Racing Chevrolet Lifebuoy
75 Neil Bonnett RahMoc Enterprises Pontiac Valvoline
76 Hut Stricklin Jaehne Motorsports Oldsmobile Jaehne Motorsports
76 Graham Taylor Betty Taylor Racing Ford Betty Taylor Racing
81 Larry Caudill [lower-alpha 2] Fillip Racing Ford Fillip Racing
85 Bobby Gerhart Bobby Gerhart Racing Chevrolet J. Omar Landis Enterprises
88 Brandon Baker Baker–Schiff Racing Chevrolet Crisco
90 Ken Schrader Donlavey Racing Ford Red Baron Frozen Pizza
97 D. Wayne Strout Strout Racing Oldsmobile Strout Racing
98 Lynn Gibson Gibson Racing Pontiac Gibson Racing

Qualifying

Qualifying was split into two rounds. The first round was held on Friday, October 2, at 4:30 PM EST. Each driver had one lap to set a time. During the first round, the top 10 drivers in the round were guaranteed a starting spot in the race. If a driver was not able to guarantee a spot in the first round, they had the option to scrub their time from the first round and try and run a faster lap time in a second round qualifying run, held on Saturday, October 3, at 12:15 PM EST. As with the first round, each driver had one lap to set a time. For this specific race, positions 11-30 were decided on time, [3] and depending on who needed it, a select amount of positions were given to cars who had not otherwise qualified but were high enough in owner's points; up to two were given.

Bill Elliott, driving for Melling Racing, managed to win the pole, setting a time of 19.532 and an average speed of 115.196 miles per hour (185.390 km/h) in the first round. [4]

12 drivers failed to qualify.

Full qualifying results

Pos.#DriverTeamMakeTimeSpeed
19 Bill Elliott Melling Racing Ford 19.532115.196
217 Darrell Waltrip Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 19.565115.001
335 Benny Parsons Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 19.585114.884
411 Terry Labonte Junior Johnson & Associates Chevrolet 19.597114.813
57 Alan Kulwicki AK Racing Ford 19.598114.808
690 Ken Schrader Donlavey Racing Ford 19.659114.451
730 Michael Waltrip Bahari Racing Chevrolet 19.696114.236
822 Bobby Allison Stavola Brothers Racing Buick 19.727114.057
926 Morgan Shepherd King Racing Buick 19.741113.976
103 Dale Earnhardt Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 19.745113.953
Failed to lock in Round 1
1121 Kyle Petty Wood Brothers Racing Ford 19.719114.103
1215 Ricky Rudd Bud Moore Engineering Ford 19.759113.872
1367 Buddy Arrington Arrington Racing Ford 19.784113.728
1418 Dale Jarrett (R) Freedlander Motorsports Chevrolet 19.791113.688
1575 Neil Bonnett RahMoc Enterprises Pontiac 19.801113.631
1644 Sterling Marlin Hagan Racing Oldsmobile 19.821113.516
1755 Phil Parsons Jackson Bros. Motorsports Oldsmobile 19.837113.424
185 Geoff Bodine Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 19.852113.339
1943 Richard Petty Petty Enterprises Pontiac 19.858113.304
2027 Rusty Wallace Blue Max Racing Pontiac 19.858113.304
2171 Dave Marcis Marcis Auto Racing Chevrolet 19.870113.236
2228 Davey Allison Ranier-Lundy Racing Ford 19.883113.162
2333 Harry Gant Mach 1 Racing Chevrolet 19.894113.099
2476 Hut Stricklin Jaehne Motorsports Oldsmobile 19.975112.641
256 Ernie Irvan U.S. Racing Chevrolet 20.007112.461
2612 Larry Pollard Hamby Racing Chevrolet 20.015112.416
278 Bobby Hillin Jr. Stavola Brothers Racing Buick 20.035112.303
2852 Jimmy Means Jimmy Means Racing Pontiac 20.048112.231
2981 Larry Caudill Fillip Racing Ford 20.073112.091
3041 Ronnie Thomas Ronnie Thomas Racing Chevrolet 20.080112.052
Provisionals
3162 Steve Christman (R) Winkle Motorsports Pontiac 20.080112.052
3264 Trevor Boys Langley Racing Ford 20.097111.957
Failed to qualify
3385 Bobby Gerhart Bobby Gerhart Racing Chevrolet 20.193111.425
3404 Clark James James Racing Pontiac 20.293110.876
3554 Kevin Evans Gray Racing Chevrolet 20.316110.750
3636 Joe Dan Bailey Bailey Racing Pontiac 20.364110.489
3770 J. D. McDuffie McDuffie Racing Pontiac 20.484109.842
3897 D. Wayne Strout Strout Racing Oldsmobile 20.518109.660
3938 Ronnie Adams Adams Racing Chevrolet 20.959107.352
4088 Brandon Baker Baker–Schiff Racing Chevrolet 21.023107.026
4198 Lynn Gibson Gibson Racing Pontiac 21.188106.192
4276 Graham Taylor Betty Taylor Racing Ford 21.202106.122
4346 Glenn Moffat Moffat Racing Chevrolet 21.329105.490
4402 Jed Doggett Doggett Racing Pontiac --
Official first round qualifying results
Official starting lineup

Race results

FinSt#DriverTeamMakeLapsLedStatusPtsWinnings
1411 Terry Labonte Junior Johnson & Associates Chevrolet 400207running185$45,575
2103 Dale Earnhardt Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 400137running175$26,950
319 Bill Elliott Melling Racing Ford 39939running170$25,450
4926 Morgan Shepherd King Racing Buick 3980running160$11,205
5185 Geoff Bodine Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 39811running160$11,975
61121 Kyle Petty Wood Brothers Racing Ford 3980running150$9,425
757 Alan Kulwicki AK Racing Ford 3980running146$9,305
8278 Bobby Hillin Jr. Stavola Brothers Racing Buick 3970running142$7,980
91943 Richard Petty Petty Enterprises Pontiac 3970running138$5,310
102027 Rusty Wallace Blue Max Racing Pontiac 3970running134$9,975
111575 Neil Bonnett RahMoc Enterprises Pontiac 3970running130$4,995
12217 Darrell Waltrip Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 3970running127$3,325
131215 Ricky Rudd Bud Moore Engineering Ford 3970running124$8,720
141755 Phil Parsons Jackson Bros. Motorsports Oldsmobile 3970running121$2,565
15690 Ken Schrader Donlavey Racing Ford 3960running118$4,910
16730 Michael Waltrip Bahari Racing Chevrolet 3950running115$4,355
17822 Bobby Allison Stavola Brothers Racing Buick 3940running112$7,170
181418 Dale Jarrett (R) Freedlander Motorsports Chevrolet 3940running109$4,995
19335 Benny Parsons Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 3940running106$9,320
201644 Sterling Marlin Hagan Racing Oldsmobile 3930running103$4,610
212852 Jimmy Means Jimmy Means Racing Pontiac 3890running100$3,830
22256 Ernie Irvan U.S. Racing Chevrolet 3870running0$3,515
232612 Larry Pollard Hamby Racing Chevrolet 3860running0$3,480
243264 Trevor Boys Langley Racing Ford 3860running0$3,445
253041 Ronnie Thomas Ronnie Thomas Racing Chevrolet 3810running88$1,300
262228 Davey Allison Ranier-Lundy Racing Ford 3670running85$1,175
271367 Buddy Arrington Arrington Racing Ford 2650engine82$3,410
282476 Hut Stricklin Jaehne Motorsports Oldsmobile 2070crash79$1,925
293162 Steve Christman (R) Winkle Motorsports Pontiac 2020engine76$1,100
302171 Dave Marcis Marcis Auto Racing Chevrolet 1986engine78$2,625
312333 Harry Gant Mach 1 Racing Chevrolet 240differential70$2,575
322981 Slick Johnson Fillip Racing Ford 110engine0$1,125
Failed to qualify
3385 Bobby Gerhart Bobby Gerhart Racing Chevrolet
3404 Clark James James Racing Pontiac
3554 Kevin Evans Gray Racing Chevrolet
3636 Joe Dan Bailey Bailey Racing Pontiac
3770 J. D. McDuffie McDuffie Racing Pontiac
3897 D. Wayne Strout Strout Racing Oldsmobile
3938 Ronnie Adams Adams Racing Chevrolet
4088 Brandon Baker Baker–Schiff Racing Chevrolet
4198 Lynn Gibson Gibson Racing Pontiac
4276 Graham Taylor Betty Taylor Racing Ford
4346 Glenn Moffat Moffat Racing Chevrolet
4402 Jed Doggett Doggett Racing Pontiac
Official race results

Standings after the race

Notes

  1. For unknown reasons, driver changed to Trevor Boys.
  2. For unknown reasons, driver changed to Slick Johnson.

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