1999 Daytona 500

1999 Daytona 500
Race details
Race 1 of 34 in the 1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series
	1999 Daytona 500 logo
Date	February 14, 1999
Location	Daytona International Speedway ; Daytona Beach, Florida, US
Course	Permanent racing facility; 2.5 mi (4.02336 km)
Distance	200 laps, 500 mi (804.672 km)
Weather	Temperatures reaching up to 64.9 °F (18.3 °C); wind speeds approaching 15.9 miles per hour (25.6 km/h)
Average speed	161.551 miles per hour (259.991 km/h)
Pole position
Driver	Jeff Gordon ;
Qualifying race winners
Duel 1 Winner	Bobby Labonte
Duel 2 Winner	Dale Earnhardt
Most laps led
Driver	Rusty Wallace
Laps	104
Winner
No. 24	Jeff Gordon
Television in the United States
Network	CBS
Announcers	Mike Joy, Buddy Baker, and Ned Jarrett
Nielsen Ratings	9.6/25 ; (12.9 million viewers)

Last updated October 14, 2024

The 1999 Daytona 500, the 41st running of the event, was held February 14, 1999, at Daytona International Speedway. Jeff Gordon won the pole and won the race, making him the first Daytona 500 pole sitter to win the race since Bill Elliott in 1987. Including the No Bull 5 Bonus, Gordon earned a then-record payout of $2,172,246 for winning, while the last place finisher earned $91,751.

Silly season

The start of the 1999 season was marked by three owners (Andy Petree, Travis Carter, and Joe Gibbs) expanding to 2 full-time teams for the first time in their careers. Their drivers were Kenny Wallace (Petree), Darrell Waltrip (Carter), and rookie Tony Stewart (JGR). Several new teams debuted, including Joe Bessey's new #60 and the #58 Ford owned by Scott Barbour. Speedweeks would also be marked by controversy involving Junie Donlavey's #90 Ford. Rookie driver Mike Harmon was dismissed from his team just before the Gatorade 125 qualifying races after reports surfaced that Harmon's sponsor, Big Daddy's Barbecue Sauce, was not living up to its contract obligations, as well as the team wanting a veteran driver to find more speed on the track; Donlavey's team wound up signing Mike Wallace, who'd driven for the team in the 1994-96 period.^[2]

Qualifying and Gatorade 125s

Jeff Gordon won the pole for the race with a speed of just over 195 mph, and would start alongside former Indy Racing League champion Tony Stewart, who was making his Winston Cup debut. A total of 59 drivers would make an attempt to qualify for the 1999 Daytona 500. Bobby Labonte would win the first Gatorade 125 qualifying race after taking the lead from Gordon on lap 39. A lap 1 incident, the only caution of the First Duel, ended Dan Pardus and Jeff Green's chances at making the Daytona 500. Dale Earnhardt won the 2nd Gatorade duel after taking the lead from Stewart on lap 8. The second duel was marred by two caution periods that ended Dick Trickle, Glen Morgan, and David Green's chances at qualifying for the race. This would be Earnhardt's final win at Daytona.

Drivers qualified for the Daytona 500 either by finishing in the top 16 in their qualifying race, through a 2-lap qualifying run, or a provisional starting spot based on owner points from the 1999 season. They had three chances to make a 2-lap time trial run that would be fast enough to make the Daytona 500.

Race summary

This race was known for Jeff Gordon's daring three-wide pass on Rusty Wallace and Mike Skinner. He passed Wallace after ducking to the apron, nearly plowing into the damaged car of Ricky Rudd. Skinner jumped to the outside and they raced three-wide for three laps until Dale Earnhardt (the defending Daytona 500 winner) gave Gordon the needed push. The race was also known for a determined Earnhardt repeatedly trying to pass Gordon for the lead on the final lap, only for Gordon to beat him to the finish. The race had a 13-car pileup on lap 135, in which eventual series champion Dale Jarrett flipped over twice but he was uninjured. This was also the first Winston No Bull 5 race of the season.

Results

Pos	Grid	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Laps led	Status
1	1	24	Jeff Gordon (W)	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	200	17	Running
2	4	3	Dale Earnhardt (W)	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	200	0	Running
3	41	28	Kenny Irwin Jr.	Robert Yates Racing	Ford	200	0	Running
4	12	31	Mike Skinner	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	200	31	Running
5	13	7	Michael Waltrip	Mattei Motorsports	Chevrolet	200	0	Running
6	7	33	Ken Schrader	Andy Petree Racing	Chevrolet	200	0	Running
7	24	44	Kyle Petty	Petty Enterprises	Pontiac	200	0	Running
8	10	2	Rusty Wallace	Penske Racing	Ford	200	104	Running
9	26	97	Chad Little	Roush Racing	Ford	200	0	Running
10	21	98	Rick Mast	Burdette Motorsports	Ford	200	0	Running
11	25	9	Jerry Nadeau	Melling Racing	Ford	200	0	Running
12	34	25	Wally Dallenbach Jr.	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	200	0	Running
13	14	16	Kevin Lepage	Roush Racing	Ford	200	0	Running
14	31	36	Ernie Irvan (W)	MB2 Motorsports	Pontiac	200	0	Running
15	27	75	Ted Musgrave	Butch Mock Motorsports	Ford	200	0	Running
16	35	71	Dave Marcis	Marcis Auto Racing	Chevrolet	199	0	Flagged
17	39	26	Johnny Benson	Roush Racing	Ford	199	0	Flagged
18	20	30	Derrike Cope (W)	Bahari Racing	Pontiac	199	0	Flagged
19	15	77	Robert Pressley	Jasper Motorsports	Ford	199	0	Flagged
20	6	12	Jeremy Mayfield	Penske Racing	Ford	199	7	Flagged
21	43	66	Darrell Waltrip (W)	Haas-Carter Motorsports	Ford	199	0	Flagged
22	40	11	Brett Bodine	Brett Bodine Racing	Ford	199	0	Flagged
23	42	90	Mike Wallace	Donlavey Racing	Ford	199	0	Flagged
24	18	22	Ward Burton	Bill Davis Racing	Pontiac	199	0	Flagged
25	3	18	Bobby Labonte	Joe Gibbs Racing	Pontiac	198	20	Flagged
26	28	58	Ricky Craven	SBIII Motorsports	Ford	197	0	Flagged
27	37	94	Bill Elliott (W)	Bill Elliott Racing	Ford	194	7	Accident
28	2	20	Tony Stewart (R)	Joe Gibbs Racing	Pontiac	181	0	Flagged
29	16	4	Bobby Hamilton	Morgan-McClure Motorsports	Chevrolet	174	0	Accident
30	29	10	Ricky Rudd	Rudd Performance Motorsports	Ford	168	0	Flagged
31	9	6	Mark Martin	Roush Racing	Ford	147	0	Accident
32	17	40	Sterling Marlin (W)	SABCO Racing	Chevrolet	144	0	Accident
33	22	45	Rich Bickle	Tyler Jet Motorsports	Pontiac	142	0	Accident
34	23	1	Steve Park	Dale Earnhardt, Inc.	Chevrolet	139	0	Accident
35	5	99	Jeff Burton	Roush Racing	Ford	138	0	Accident
36	32	42	Joe Nemechek	SABCO Racing	Chevrolet	137	0	Accident
37	8	88	Dale Jarrett (W)	Robert Yates Racing	Ford	134	14	Accident
38	19	5	Terry Labonte	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	134	0	Accident
39	30	60	Geoffrey Bodine (W)	Joe Bessey Motorsports	Chevrolet	134	0	Accident
40	38	21	Elliott Sadler (R)	Wood Brothers Racing	Ford	132	0	Accident
41	11	23	Jimmy Spencer	Haas-Carter Motorsports	Ford	121	0	Accident
42	33	55	Kenny Wallace	Andy Petree Racing	Chevrolet	92	0	Engine
43	36	43	John Andretti	Petty Enterprises	Pontiac	25	0	Engine
Failed to Qualify
		84	Stanton Barrett (R)	PBH Motorsports	Chevrolet
		80	Andy Hillenburg	Hover Motorsports	Ford
		81	Morgan Shepherd	Pinnacle Motorsports	Ford
		91	Steve Grissom	LJ Racing	Chevrolet
		00	Buckshot Jones (R)	Buckshot Racing	Pontiac
		78	Gary Bradberry (R)	Triad Motorsports	Ford
		47	Billy Standridge	Standridge Auto Racing	Ford
		73	Ken Bouchard	Barkdoll Racing	Chevrolet
		59	Mark Gibson (R)	CSG Motorsports	Ford
		72	Jim Sauter	Marcis Auto Racing	Chevrolet
		79	Norm Benning (R)	T.R.I.X. Racing	Chevrolet
		13	Dick Trickle	Bill Elliott Racing	Ford
		15	Jeff Green (R)	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford
		48	Glen Morgan (R)	Glen Morgan Racing	Chevrolet
		50	Dan Pardus (R)	Midwest Transit Racing	Chevrolet
		41	David Green (R)	Larry Hedrick Motorsports	Chevrolet
		90	Mike Harmon (R)²	Donlavey Racing	Ford
"1999 Daytona 500 – Racing-Reference.info". Archived from the original on 2012-09-09. Retrieved 2013-06-21.
Notes: After David Green failed to qualify for the Daytona 500, his sponsor Kodiak signed an agreement to sponsor Mike Wallace's entry for the Daytona 500. Mike Harmon was originally scheduled to drive the #90 on a full-time basis in 1999. He participated in time trials but was replaced before the qualifying races by Mike Wallace, due to difficulties between the 90 team and Harmon's sponsor.

Media

Television

The Daytona 500 was covered by CBS in the United States for the twenty first straight year. Mike Joy, two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Ned Jarrett and 1980 race winner Buddy Baker called the race from the broadcast booth. Dick Berggren, Ralph Sheheen and Bill Stephens handled pit road for the television side. Ken Squier would serve as co-host alongside Greg Gumbel.

CBS
Host	Booth announcers		Pit reporters
Host	Lap-by-lap	Color-commentators	Pit reporters
Greg Gumbel Ken Squier	Mike Joy	Ned Jarrett Buddy Baker	Dick Berggren Ralph Sheheen Bill Stephens

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