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Bill Elliott's 1985 record setting Ford Thunderbird which set at the time, the fastest qualifying time at 209.398 MPH for the 1985 Winston 500, and famously made up a 2 lap deficit to win the race, on display at the International Motorsports Hall of Fame at Talladega.
Bill Elliott won the pole at a then-record speed of 205.114 mph. After a mediocre run in the Busch Clash, Elliott nearly lapped the field in his 125-mile qualifying race, then thoroughly dominated the Daytona 500, leading 136 of the 200 laps in his #9 Coors/Melling Ford Thunderbird.
Elliott's operation went multi-car full-time in 1998, teaming up with Dan Marino and renaming the team to Elliott-Marino Racing to field the No. 13 FirstPlus Financial Ford. Rookie Jerry Nadeau raced the car for the first half of the year, before he was released and replaced by Wally Dallenbach Jr. , Dennis Setzer , Tom Hubert and Ted Musgrave .
Elliott would return to the track and begin consistently running laps near 205 mph, making up the two laps lost without the aide of a yellow flag or the draft. [7] The Ford Thunderbirds placed 1-2-3 with Kyle Petty beating Cale Yarborough in a photo finish for second place behind Elliott. The Ford trio were the only drivers to finish on the ...
The 1985 Southern 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that took place on September 1, 1985, at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina.It was race number 20 of 28 of the 1985 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season.
The No. 9 began in 1976 with driver Bill Elliott, car owner George Elliott and crew chief Ernie Elliott (Bill's brother). In 1976 Elliott Racing ran six races, with Bill Elliott driving four races (California 500, Atlanta 500, Winston 500 and World 600), David Hobbs ran the Champion Spark Plug 400 and Al Holbert ran the National 500. In 1977 ...
This was Elliott's first Cup win. [2] Bill Elliott won this race driving a 1982 Ford Thunderbird as opposed to the slicker 1983 model; the team used the older car on road courses and short tracks this season. Elliott's first Cup and second-tier series wins were on road courses, as his first second-tier race win was at Watkins Glen International.
Alan Kulwicki won the Winston Cup championship as an owner/driver. Bill Elliott finished second in the championship. Jimmy Hensley, the Winston Cup Rookie of the Year.. The 1992 NASCAR Winston Cup Series was the 44th season of professional stock car racing in the United States and the 21st modern-era Cup season.