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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.
Bill Elliott's 1985 Southern 500 "Winston Million" winning Ford Thunderbird, on display at the National Motorsports Press Association Hall of Fame at Darlington. After a 5th place finish at Bristol , Elliott had a chance to clinch the Winston Million Dollar Bonus in the next race, which was the 4th and "final leg" of the Winston Million Dollar ...
1985 Ford Thunderbird Following its redesign for the 1983 model year, the Thunderbird was available in base, Heritage , or Turbo Coupe , which was the most expensive performance-oriented model. Both the base and the Heritage came standard with a 3.8 L (232 cu in) Essex V6 that was rated at 110 horsepower (82 kW) mated to a three-speed automatic ...
Even though both wins were at Michigan, Bill Elliott would become the 1st driver in NASCAR history to win 4 straight superspeedway races at one track, doing so at Michigan with season sweeps in 1985 and 1986. Elliott and Melling rallied back in 1987 by winning 6 races, and starting off the year by winning the Daytona 500 for the 2nd time ...
Bill Elliott won the pole with a qualifying speed of 151.973 miles per hour (244.577 km/h) while the average speed of the race was 134.008 miles per hour (215.665 km/h). [3] [1] [8] Elliott's 1985 Thunderbird was the same size as Rudd's, Kyle Petty's and Cale's Thunderbirds. They all fit the 1985 Thunderbird NASCAR templates that were standard ...
1985: 1985: February 17: Bill Elliott: 9 Melling Racing: Ford Thunderbird: G: 1 200 500 804.672 2:54:09 172.265 277.234 [64] 1986: 1986: February 16: Geoff Bodine: 5 Hendrick Motorsports: Chevrolet Monte Carlo: G: 2 200 500 804.672 3:22:32 148.124 238.382 [65] 1987: 1987: February 15: Bill Elliott: 9 Melling Racing: Ford Thunderbird: G: 1 200 ...
Bill Elliott dominated the early part of the 1985 season, including winning the Daytona 500, the first race of the Winston Million promotion. The Winston 500 was the second. Later in the season at the Southern 500, Elliott would go on to become the first Winston Million winner. [5]
Bill Elliott, driving for Harry Melling, had won 11 races in 1985 (as well as the Winston Million), but lost the title by 101 points to three-time race winner Waltrip. This was the first season where all races were televised in some form.