|| *Comments on the 1986 Freedlander 200:* View the most recent comment <#7> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. Darrell posted: 03.19.2006 - 3:25 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Steve Grissom's first start. 2. RaceFanX posted: 01.09.2008 - 5:30 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) 100th career Busch Series start for Charlie Luck 3. Mark posted: 12.27.2012 - 7:11 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Pretty big wreck on lap 62: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vV0ufNqc6o 4. NewGuyOnTheBlock posted: 07.08.2020 - 2:17 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) SETN broadcast this race. Eli Gold and Geoff Bodine were in the booth with Jerry Punch in the pits. Buschwackers: 1 -Dale Earnhardt 5. NewGuyOnTheBlock posted: 07.08.2020 - 2:17 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) My mistake, there were two Buschwackers: Dale Earnhardt and Tommy Ellis. 6. NewGuyOnTheBlock posted: 07.08.2020 - 3:41 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Cautions: 1- #01, 08, 43 crash frontstretch 2- #64, 08, 43, 00, 90, 02, 63, 01 crash turn 2 3- #98 crash turn 4 4- #05, 08 crash turn 4 5- #3, 1, 45, 43, 57, 12, 7, 00, 14, 32, 71, 05 crash frontstretch (Red flag) 6- #98 spin turn 2 7- #98 spin turn backstretch 8- #14, 64 crash turn 4 7. NewGuyOnTheBlock posted: 07.08.2020 - 4:52 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Dale Earnhardt picked up his fourth Busch Grand National win of the season, leading a race-high 116 of 200 laps in a dominating performance. Dale Jarrett recovered from damage sustained in the pile-up on lap 62 to finish in second. Tommy Houston was one of the few drivers to keep their car clean during the race, finishing a strong third. Larry Pearson was the only championship contender not to run into trouble, despite a run-in with L.D. Ottinger late in the running. He would come home fourth. Ronnie Silver was caught up in "The Big One" and a late crash with Daryl Lacks, but would recover to finish in fifth, the last car on the lead lap. Elton Sawyer had easily his best run of the season, leading 14 laps and finishing a lap down in sixth. Jimmy Hensley had a strong qualifying run but was knocked out of the top-5 after an early crash. He would finish a lap down in seventh. L.D. Ottinger was among the strongest cars of the race, leading 37 laps and running inside the top-5 all day. But any chance of victory ended when Ottinger was spun out with 5 laps to go by Larry Pearson. He would finish a lap down in eighth. Jack Ingram had managed to keep his car clean and was hoping for a big points day, but a flat tire forced him to pit under green shortly after halfway. The Iron Man would fall a lap down and had to settle for ninth. Joe Thurman had a strong run inside the top-10 throughout the afternoon, coming home 2 laps down in tenth. Haskell Willingham recovered from an early accident where he was punted into the inside guardrails by Kenny Burks to finish eleventh, 3 laps down. Jimmy Lawson had managed to avoid damage in the lap 62 pile-up and was hoping for a good finish. But on the restart, he suddenly slowed with mechanical problems. Lawson would still come away with a solid twelfth-place finish, 3 laps down. Charlie Luck suffered significant damage in "The Big One", limping home to a thirteenth-place finish, 6 laps down. Orvil Reedy was involved in three separate crashes and fell 12 laps down, but still managed to equal his best finish of the season in fourteenth. It was a race to forget for Canadian Larry Pollard, who hit the wall early after losing a tire, then spun out twice in the second half of the race. He ultimately finished 12 laps down in fifteenth. Robert Ingram lost his front bumper in the pile-up and spent many laps in the pits trying to get it fixed. He was able to limp home to a sixteenth-place finish, though he was 17 laps behind. Bosco Lowe was one of the few who avoided damage from the many accidents, yet was still one of the slowest cars on track. He finished in seventeenth, 25 laps off the pace. Kenny Burks came home 26 laps down in eighteenth, having sustained major damage in an early crash. Brett Bodine broke the track record in qualifying and led the opening 33 laps. But he was caught up in two separate pile-ups that had his car looking like a modified by the end of the day. Bodine ultimately placed nineteenth, 29 laps down. Dickie Boswell was collected in multiple crashes, crawling home to a twentieth-place finish, 34 laps off the pace. Rick Mast was never able to get up to speed, finishing 35 laps down in twenty-first. As he was the slowest car on track that did not sustain mechanical failures or crash damage, he receives the "NewGuyOnTheBlock Snail Award" for slowest car. Daryl Lacks was involved in several wrecks throughout the day. Unlike his fellow drivers, he was unable to recover from the damage, retiring with crash damage after 147 laps. Ed Berrier spun down pit road early, then was the last car involved in "The Big One" when he slammed into the crash at the end. Despite the damage, Berrier somehow managed to finish in twenty-third place, 55 laps down. Joe Harrison spent half the race in the pits with crash damage sustained in "The Big One". He would amazingly manage to finish in twenty-fourth, a whopping 115 laps off the pace. Davey Allison was collected in the pile-up, putting him out of the race with crash damage after 63 laps. Tommy Ellis dropped down to the Busch Series for his second and final start of the 1986 season. He was caught up in the pile-up and retired with damage after 63 laps. Bobby Dragon didn't suffer major damage in "The Big One", but his crew opted to retire the car anyway in order to prevent any further problems. Mike Porter spiked off "The Big One" when he drifted up into Larry Pearson on a restart. His car smashed into the pit road guardrail and ricocheted back across the track, collecting 11 other cars. John Linville was involved in three crashes, yet somehow kept going on track until his engine expired after 61 laps. Future Busch Series champion Steve Grissom made his series debut, driving an Oldsmobile prepared by father Wayne. The car would last just 32 laps before the engine gave up. Michael Williams made the fourth and final start of his career, dropping out of the race with engine failure after just 17 laps. Bob Shreeves was the first retiree with a blown engine after just 12 laps. Considering the carnage that was to ensue, his early exit may have been worth it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: