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Western 500 – The final race where 115-inch wheelbase cars (Gen 2) were eligible to run, the field was a mix of 1977 racecars and 1981 models. Dale Earnhardt drove a 1981 Pontiac while race winner Bobby Allison drove a 1977 Monte Carlo. This race was also the first of what would be 788 consecutive Cup series starts for Ricky Rudd.
It would be the last time a circuit would have three Cup Series races in a single season until Darlington Raceway earned three dates in the 2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It took three hours and sixteen seconds for Bobby Allison to defeat Joe Ruttman by 0.24 seconds in front of 46000 spectators driving Harry Ranier’s No. 28 Hardee ...
The 1981 season included 14 individual races, although Riverside International Raceway hosted four races. [1] Three of the races at Riverside were in combination with the NASCAR Winston Cup Series. [2] [3] [4]
The NASCAR Winston Cup Series era was the period of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing from 1971 to 2003. In 1971, NASCAR leased its naming rights to the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (RJR) who named the series after its premier brand "Winston". The series was referred to as the NASCAR Winston Cup Series from that point forward ...
Dean Combs (born February 23, 1952) is a former NASCAR driver. In his limited career, Combs competed in twenty-four Winston Cup Series events. Combs is best known for dominance on NASCAR's lower level Dash Series in the 1970s and 1980s.
The 1981 Talladega 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that took place on August 2, 1981, at Alabama International Motor Speedway in Talladega, Alabama. Background [ edit ]
The 1981 Mason-Dixon 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that took place on May 17, 1981, at Dover Downs International Speedway (now Dover International Speedway) in Dover, Delaware. During the preceding season , NASCAR had completely stopped tracking the year model of all the vehicles and most teams did not take stock cars to the ...
Pages in category "1981 NASCAR Winston Cup Series" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. ... This page was last edited on 12 December 2024, at ...