1991 Budweiser 500

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1991 Budweiser 500
Race details
Race 11 of 29 in the 1991 NASCAR Winston Cup Series
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The 1991 Budweiser 500 program cover, featuring Geoff Bodine.
DateJune 2, 1991
Official name 23rd Annual Budweiser 500
Location Dover, Delaware, Dover Downs International Speedway
Course Permanent racing facility
1 mi (1.6 km)
Distance 500 laps, 500 mi (804.672 km)
Scheduled Distance 500 laps, 500 mi (804.672 km)
Average speed 120.152 miles per hour (193.366 km/h)
Attendance 77,000
Pole position
Driver Bahari Racing
Time 25.106
Most laps led
Driver Dale Earnhardt Richard Childress Racing
Laps 187
Winner
No. 25 Ken Schrader Hendrick Motorsports
Television in the United States
Network TNN
Announcers Mike Joy, Buddy Baker, Phil Parsons
Radio in the United States
Radio Motor Racing Network

The 1991 Budweiser 500 was the 11th stock car race of the 1991 NASCAR Winston Cup Series and the 23rd iteration of the event. The race was held on Sunday, May 31, 1992, before an audience of 77,000 in Dover, Delaware at Dover Downs International Speedway, a 1-mile (1.6 km) permanent oval-shaped racetrack. The race took the scheduled 500 laps to complete. At race's end, Hendrick Motorsports driver Ken Schrader, after making a late-race pass for the lead with 78 laps to go in the race, would manage to hold onto the lead for the rest of the race to take his fourth and to date, final career NASCAR Winston Cup Series victory and his second and final victory of the season. [1] [2] [3] To fill out the top three, Richard Childress Racing driver Dale Earnhardt and Leo Jackson Motorsports driver Harry Gant would finish second and third, respectively.

Contents

Background

The layout of Dover Downs International Speedway, the venue where the race was held. Dover International Speedway.svg
The layout of Dover Downs International Speedway, the venue where the race was held.

Dover Downs International Speedway is an oval race track in Dover, Delaware, United States that has held at least two NASCAR races since it opened in 1969. In addition to NASCAR, the track also hosted USAC and the NTT IndyCar Series. The track features one layout, a 1-mile (1.6 km) concrete oval, with 24° banking in the turns and 9° banking on the straights. The speedway is owned and operated by Dover Motorsports.

The track, nicknamed "The Monster Mile", was built in 1969 by Melvin Joseph of Melvin L. Joseph Construction Company, Inc., with an asphalt surface, but was replaced with concrete in 1995. Six years later in 2001, the track's capacity moved to 135,000 seats, making the track have the largest capacity of sports venue in the mid-Atlantic. In 2002, the name changed to Dover International Speedway from Dover Downs International Speedway after Dover Downs Gaming and Entertainment split, making Dover Motorsports. From 2007 to 2009, the speedway worked on an improvement project called "The Monster Makeover", which expanded facilities at the track and beautified the track. After the 2014 season, the track's capacity was reduced to 95,500 seats.

Entry list

#DriverTeamMakeSponsor
1 Rick Mast Precision Products Racing Oldsmobile Skoal
2 Rusty Wallace Penske Racing South Pontiac Miller Genuine Draft
3 Dale Earnhardt Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet GM Goodwrench Service Plus
4 Ernie Irvan Morgan–McClure Motorsports Chevrolet Kodak
5 Ricky Rudd Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet Tide
6 Mark Martin Roush Racing Ford Folgers
7 Alan Kulwicki AK Racing Ford Hooters
8 Rick Wilson Stavola Brothers Racing Buick Snickers
9 Bill Elliott Melling Racing Ford Coors Light
10 Derrike Cope Whitcomb Racing Chevrolet Purolator Filters
12 Hut Stricklin Bobby Allison Motorsports Buick Raybestos
14 Bobby Labonte Labonte Motorsports Oldsmobile Slim Jim
15 Morgan Shepherd Bud Moore Engineering Ford Motorcraft
17 Darrell Waltrip Darrell Waltrip Motorsports Chevrolet Western Auto
19 Chad Little Little Racing Ford Labatt's
21 Dale Jarrett Wood Brothers Racing Ford Citgo
22 Sterling Marlin Junior Johnson & Associates Ford Maxwell House
24 Mickey Gibbs Team III Racing Pontiac Team III Racing
25 Ken Schrader Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet Kodiak
26 Brett Bodine King Racing Buick Quaker State
28 Davey Allison Robert Yates Racing Ford Texaco, Havoline
30 Michael Waltrip Bahari Racing Pontiac Pennzoil
33 Harry Gant Leo Jackson Motorsports Oldsmobile Skoal Bandit
42 Kenny Wallace SABCO Racing Pontiac Mello Yello
43 Richard Petty Petty Enterprises Pontiac STP
45 Billy Fulcher Fulcher Racing Oldsmobile Fulcher Racing
52 Bobby Hillin Jr. Jimmy Means Racing Pontiac Alka-Seltzer
55 Ted Musgrave (R) U.S. Racing Pontiac U.S. Racing
66 Lake Speed Cale Yarborough Motorsports Pontiac Phillips 66 TropArtic
68 Bobby Hamilton (R) TriStar Motorsports Oldsmobile Country Time
70 J. D. McDuffie McDuffie Racing Pontiac Rumple Furniture
71 Dave Marcis Marcis Auto Racing Chevrolet Big Apple Market
75 Joe Ruttman RahMoc Enterprises Oldsmobile Dinner Bell Foods
94 Terry Labonte Hagan Racing Oldsmobile Sunoco
97 Tommy Ellis Junior Johnson & Associates Ford Budweiser
98 Jimmy Spencer Travis Carter Enterprises Chevrolet Banquet Foods

Qualifying

Qualifying was split into two rounds. The first round was held on Friday, May 31, at 3:00 PM EST. Each driver would have one lap to set a time. During the first round, the top 20 drivers in the round would be 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, June 1, at 11:30 AM EST. As with the first round, each driver would have one lap to set a time. For this specific race, positions 21-40 would be decided on time, [4] 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 provisionals were given. If needed, a past champion who did not qualify on either time or provisionals could use a champion's provisional, adding one more spot to the field.

Michael Waltrip, driving for Bahari Racing, would win the pole, setting a time of 25.106 and an average speed of 143.392 miles per hour (230.767 km/h) in the first round. [5] [6]

Billy Fulcher was the only driver to fail to qualify after his qualifying speed was determined to be too slow to run the race.

Full qualifying results

Pos.#DriverTeamMakeTimeSpeed
130 Michael Waltrip Bahari Racing Pontiac 25.106143.392
22 Rusty Wallace Penske Racing South Pontiac 25.212142.789
31 Rick Mast Precision Products Racing Oldsmobile 25.219142.750
47 Alan Kulwicki AK Racing Ford 25.237142.648
56 Mark Martin Roush Racing Ford 25.241142.625
64 Ernie Irvan Morgan–McClure Motorsports Chevrolet 25.257142.535
733 Harry Gant Leo Jackson Motorsports Oldsmobile 25.268142.473
894 Terry Labonte Hagan Racing Oldsmobile 25.298142.304
98 Rick Wilson Stavola Brothers Racing Buick 25.324142.158
103 Dale Earnhardt Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 25.335142.096
1128 Davey Allison Robert Yates Racing Ford 25.337142.085
1212 Hut Stricklin Bobby Allison Motorsports Buick 25.354141.989
135 Ricky Rudd Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 25.357141.972
1498 Jimmy Spencer Travis Carter Enterprises Chevrolet 25.370141.900
1542 Kenny Wallace SABCO Racing Pontiac 25.403141.716
1626 Brett Bodine King Racing Buick 25.407141.693
179 Bill Elliott Melling Racing Ford 25.510141.121
1817 Darrell Waltrip Darrell Waltrip Motorsports Chevrolet 25.538140.966
1925 Ken Schrader Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 25.554140.878
2021 Dale Jarrett Wood Brothers Racing Ford 25.565140.818
Failed to lock in Round 1
2115 Morgan Shepherd Bud Moore Engineering Ford 25.455141.426
2222 Sterling Marlin Junior Johnson & Associates Ford 25.554140.878
2366 Lake Speed Cale Yarborough Motorsports Pontiac 25.595140.652
2410 Derrike Cope Whitcomb Racing Chevrolet 25.656140.318
2555 Ted Musgrave (R) U.S. Racing Pontiac 25.692140.121
2697 Tommy Ellis Junior Johnson & Associates Ford 25.741139.855
2775 Joe Ruttman RahMoc Enterprises Oldsmobile 25.816139.448
2824 Mickey Gibbs Team III Racing Pontiac 25.855139.238
2971 Dave Marcis Marcis Auto Racing Chevrolet 25.864139.190
3052 Bobby Hillin Jr. Jimmy Means Racing Pontiac 25.892139.039
3143 Richard Petty Petty Enterprises Pontiac 25.899139.002
3268 Bobby Hamilton (R) TriStar Motorsports Oldsmobile 25.908138.953
3314 Bobby Labonte Labonte Motorsports Oldsmobile 25.952138.718
3419 Chad Little Little Racing Ford 26.117137.841
3570 J. D. McDuffie McDuffie Racing Pontiac 26.582135.430
Failed to qualify
3645 Billy Fulcher Fulcher Racing Oldsmobile 31.259115.167
Official first round qualifying results
Official starting lineup

Race results

FinSt#DriverTeamMakeLapsLedStatusPtsWinnings
11925 Ken Schrader Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 50089running180$64,800
2103 Dale Earnhardt Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 500187running180$44,275
3733 Harry Gant Leo Jackson Motorsports Oldsmobile 50045running170$28,800
464 Ernie Irvan Morgan–McClure Motorsports Chevrolet 50040running165$21,750
556 Mark Martin Roush Racing Ford 50079running160$23,325
61212 Hut Stricklin Bobby Allison Motorsports Buick 5000running150$13,950
71817 Darrell Waltrip Darrell Waltrip Motorsports Chevrolet 49910running151$10,900
82115 Morgan Shepherd Bud Moore Engineering Ford 49824running147$15,700
922 Rusty Wallace Penske Racing South Pontiac 49811running143$9,950
10135 Ricky Rudd Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 4970running134$18,000
113268 Bobby Hamilton (R) TriStar Motorsports Oldsmobile 4950running130$9,050
122775 Joe Ruttman RahMoc Enterprises Oldsmobile 4940running127$9,700
13179 Bill Elliott Melling Racing Ford 4940running124$13,600
1447 Alan Kulwicki AK Racing Ford 4940running121$12,300
152222 Sterling Marlin Junior Johnson & Associates Ford 4940running118$7,350
161128 Davey Allison Robert Yates Racing Ford 4940running115$13,450
173143 Richard Petty Petty Enterprises Pontiac 4940running112$6,050
182555 Ted Musgrave (R) U.S. Racing Pontiac 4940running109$5,985
193052 Bobby Hillin Jr. Jimmy Means Racing Pontiac 4910running106$4,550
2031 Rick Mast Precision Products Racing Oldsmobile 4910running103$8,600
212697 Tommy Ellis Junior Johnson & Associates Ford 4910running100$4,450
222366 Lake Speed Cale Yarborough Motorsports Pontiac 4910running97$7,350
232971 Dave Marcis Marcis Auto Racing Chevrolet 4870running94$7,200
24894 Terry Labonte Hagan Racing Oldsmobile 4830running91$7,050
2598 Rick Wilson Stavola Brothers Racing Buick 4800running88$7,050
261542 Kenny Wallace SABCO Racing Pontiac 4780running85$11,200
272410 Derrike Cope Whitcomb Racing Chevrolet 3990crash82$12,550
281498 Jimmy Spencer Travis Carter Enterprises Chevrolet 3690crash79$6,775
293419 Chad Little Little Racing Ford 3370engine76$4,050
302824 Mickey Gibbs Team III Racing Pontiac 3030steering73$4,650
313570 J. D. McDuffie McDuffie Racing Pontiac 2450crash70$3,950
32130 Michael Waltrip Bahari Racing Pontiac 18615engine72$10,025
331626 Brett Bodine King Racing Buick 1330camshaft64$6,450
343314 Bobby Labonte Labonte Motorsports Oldsmobile 880engine61$3,800
352021 Dale Jarrett Wood Brothers Racing Ford 180crash58$5,600
Failed to qualify
3645 Billy Fulcher Fulcher Racing Oldsmobile
Official race results

Standings after the race

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