Hall of Fame inductee Wendell Scott finished 4th, one of the last of his 20 career Top Fives. Henley Gray picked up his second top-five finish with a 5th. The race, which saw Jim Paschal win from the pole, leading 308 of the 400 laps, saw several other owner-drivers also turn in strong runs. Driving a 1964 Ford, McDuffie started 29th in the 37-car field and drove all the way to 7th at the finish. McDuffie’s first North Wilkesboro start on Apwas also his first of eight top-ten finishes at the track. 36 times, that drive was followed by another 400 laps on Sunday in the twice-yearly events on the 0.625-mile oval. Second to Rockingham, the North Wilkesboro Speedway was one of McDuffie’s shortest drives, just over two hours north-west of Sanford. "Old Blue" brings #70 to North Wilkesboro for the final time, Foyt ended up starting the race in yet another driver's car - Eddie Bierschwale's #23 Oldsmobile - sponsored by, of all things, SplitFire Spark Plugs. In 1992, he wrecked two cars - both his primary Copenhagen Oldsmobile and then, in the Twin 125s, a backup car provided by Richard Jackson's Skoal Classic team. Perhaps for this reason, the results cited it simply as “spark plug.”įive years later, Foyt would have even more difficulty during SpeedWeeks. In a garage interview with CBS’ Mike Joy, Foyt blamed his crew, saying someone on the team may have left a spark plug wire on the headers, causing the failure. He took last from Rusty Wallace, who after his own 10 laps burned a piston on his Kodiak Pontiac. After going back onto the track, Foyt soon called it a day. Right after Economaki's segment, Foyt missed pit road twice, then came in with a dropped cylinder, the car trailing smoke. Curiously, the original black-and-orange scheme would make an appearance in the race – the scheme was used on Oldsmobile’s “cut-away car” Chris Economaki featured early in the broadcast. A non-conforming “1” was added to the big red “4” on each door while the roof number was replaced completely by Foyt's white "14". The yellow Kodak Film Oldsmobile had the sponsors removed in place of Foyt’s Copenhagen and Gilmore brands. He did so in a backup Oldsmobile from Morgan-McClure Motorsports. While both Ellis and Jim Sauter, also involved in the accident, missed the 500 field, Foyt squeezed into the 41st spot in the 42-car field. Foyt.įoyt had a disastrous SpeedWeeks in ’87, having destroyed his #14 Copenhagen Oldsmobile in a brutal Lap 18 crash in Twin 125 Race 1 that saw Tommy Ellis barrel-roll on the apron of Turn 3. It’s perhaps surprising, then, that the only time this reason left a NASCAR driver last came on February 15, 1987, during the Daytona 500, and ended the day for none other than A.J. When looking over the LASTCAR Reason Out Rankings and seeing “spark plug” come up, you may thing it was from NASCAR’s early seasons, where teams didn’t have enough equipment at the track to make such a simple fix. Entry lists for Texas, as well as LASTCAR’s full weekend preview and #JD70 features, will be available next week. Cup and XFINITY return in Texas the following week while the Trucks won’t run again until Dover in early May. 2017 Last-Place Finisher: Jordan AndersonĢ017 Last-Place Finisher: Jeffrey Earnhardtįollowing the action in Martinsville, all three NASCAR series will take their yearly off-week for Easter.
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