|| *Comments on the 1996 UAW-GM Teamwork 500:* View the most recent comment <#16> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. The Great David posted: 11.08.2006 - 6:15 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) First ever Race for DEI 2. myself posted: 03.16.2007 - 2:38 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) No shifting malfunctions, this time! :D 3. RaceFanX posted: 02.16.2008 - 10:53 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) TNN, covering this event, debuts the first race-long full field rundown, let every fan know on every lap where their driver is running. 4. Art D posted: 06.26.2009 - 9:03 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) 14th career win for J. Gordon 5. SoxFan24 posted: 11.18.2009 - 3:32 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Not only career win 14 for Jeff Gordon but also the first at Pocono and third time in his career he'd win back to back races in a season 6. James-O-Matic posted: 05.10.2010 - 1:51 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Nice top 10 for Todd Bodine subbing for the injured Bill Elliott 7. Andre posted: 09.17.2010 - 3:00 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I was 12 at the time, and this was the first NASCAR race I ever attended, and I haven't been the same since. lol Looking back, even though I was a Gordon fan, this race wasn't too thrilling. I do remember Randy MacDonald's Diamond Rio scheme pretty well, that Johnny Benson pitted pretty much every 20 laps (can't recall for what), and Bobby Labonte's fiery wrecks were the highlights of the day. 8. 00andJoe posted: 11.01.2010 - 2:35 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Randy MacDonald ties his best career finish. 9. Schroeder51 posted: 03.24.2011 - 5:19 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ernie Irvan spun off of turn 3 early and was rear ended hard by Brett Bodine's car. 10. RedChevy14 posted: 01.08.2012 - 12:36 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) DJ was injured in a vicious qualifying wreck, they had Mike Wallace standing by but obviously it didn't matter. 11. BlackChevy14 posted: 06.01.2015 - 9:20 pm Rate this comment: (0) (2) Was having a discussion on Twitter about how the reliability of cars today have taken an aspect out of the racing, and how it used to be that the question mark around reliability kept most races interesting right up to the end with one exception: the 3 car. Unless he got tangled in a wreck, he was going to finish. Looked it up, and this was the last time Earnhardt failed to finish a race due to an engine failure. He did drop out with rear end problems at Talladega in October '98 but that could have been due to damage from the big crash. That thing was nearly bulletproof mechanically. Add to that Earnhardt's talent and it's no wonder they had so few DNFs and so many wins and titles from 1986 onward. 12. Evan posted: 06.01.2015 - 10:12 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) First ever CUP race for DEI, at least. Dale ran his own DEI cars in Busch as well. 13. 28DaveyAllison28 posted: 01.15.2016 - 7:59 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) It was the first race at Pocono since the track was repaved; the lead changed two to three times a lap on some ten separate laps during the race's first half, primarily between Jeff Gordon along with Hut Stricklin, and Derrike Cope who had outstanding runs going 14. RaceFanX posted: 02.08.2018 - 9:08 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) This race marked Loy Allen, Jr.'s return to NASCAR competition; returning to Tri-Star's #19 Healthsource Ford for the first time since being injured at Rockingham back in February. Allen's return led to some silly season ride shuffling as it opened up Dick Trickle, who had been subbing for Allen in the #19, to take over Junie Donlavey's #90 Heilig-Meyers Ford when the team decided to part ways with Mike Wallace. This was Trickle's first race for Donlavey sincehe did a one-off for the team at the 1976 World 600 and he would remain with the team through the end of the 1998 season. Mike Wallace ended up the odd man out in the deal, losing his Cup ride. He was still at Pocono for this race weekend though, taking part in the ARCA race a day before this one and winning it. 15. Jimnsimforever posted: 03.22.2019 - 3:12 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) The drivers arrived in 1996 to a brand new Pocono track, as it had been freshly smoothed and repaved for the first time in years. It brought speeds up by an average of around 2 mph and all of the bumps that the drivers were used to weren't there anymore concerning all drivers and teams about shock setup that they had used before and how to set the car up for the race. Ironically the driver they did a taped segment with to talk about concerns with how the cars would react on the new surface was Jeff Gordon, who would end up winning the race. Maybe the higher speeds and uncertainty about setup on the cars is what led to an unusually high number of mechanical issues. Something that had become much less common by 1996, at all tracks, than it was in years before. 16. RaceFanX posted: 03.13.2020 - 10:35 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Roush Racing later gave away the Ford Thunderbird Mark Martin finished fourth in this race driving as part of sponsor Valvoline's "Big Race Sweepstakes" the following year. Arkansas race fan Brian Murphy won the car. This T-Bird was also used by Martin in the 1995 Brickyard 400 and the 1995 and 1996 all-star races before its last outing here. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: