Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500

Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500
Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series
Venue	Atlanta Motor Speedway
Location	Hampton, Georgia; United States
Corporate sponsor	Folds of Honor and QuikTrip
First race	1960
Distance	500.5 miles (805.477 km)
Laps	325 (Stage 1: 85; Stage 2: 85; Stage 3: 155)
Previous names	Dixie 300 (1960); Dixie 400 (1961-1966); Dixie 500 (1967-1979); Atlanta Journal 500 (1980-1990); Hardee's 500 (1991); Hooters 500 (1992-1994); NAPA 500 (1995-2002); Bass Pro Shops MBNA 500 (2003-2006); Pep Boys Auto 500 (2007-2009); Emory Healthcare 500 (2010); Advocare 500 (2011-2013); Oral-B USA 500 (2015)
Most wins (driver)	Richard Petty; Dale Earnhardt; Bobby Labonte; Jimmie Johnson (4)
Most wins (team)	Hendrick Motorsports (9)
Most wins (manufacturer)	Chevrolet (23)
Circuit information
Surface	Asphalt
Length	1.54 mi (2.48 km)
Turns	4

The Folds of Honor Quiktrip 500 is a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series stock car race held at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Georgia. The race is sponsored by QuikTrip, along with the nonprofit organization Folds of Honor, and is run as the second race of the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series.

This race was originally Atlanta's second race of the season and was run as a late season event for much of its history. From 1987 until 2001, the race was scheduled in November as the final race of the NASCAR season. From 2002 until 2008, the race was moved to October in favor of awarding the final race weekend to Homestead-Miami Speedway and became part of what is now the NASCAR Chase for the Championship in 2004. In 2009, Atlanta swapped fall race dates with Auto Club Speedway and the race was moved to Labor Day weekend. From 2011 onward, this has been Atlanta's only race date as its spring race was moved to Kentucky Speedway and run later in the year.

In the most recent round of schedule changing, NASCAR elected to move the Labor Day weekend race back to Darlington Raceway, which hosted the Southern 500 on that weekend from 1950 until 2003, and moved Atlanta's lone date back to the early season.

Overview

From 1987 until 2001, the race was scheduled as the final race of the NASCAR season, and thus was typically the event in which the champion was decided. Several times, however, the championship had already been clinched prior to this race, rendering the race anti-climactic. In some cases, the championship would be decided the moment the points leader took the green flag to start the race - effectively clinching enough championship points by finishing last or better.

The 1992 race marked the final race for Richard Petty, and coincidentally, the debut for Jeff Gordon. With six drivers eligible for the Winston Cup Championship, the race is widely regarded as one of the greatest NASCAR races of all time. Alan Kulwicki, who finished second in the race, edged out Bill Elliott, the race winner, by leading one more lap in the race. Kulwicki won the NASCAR Winston Cup title by a then-record margin of only 10 points.

The 1998 race was run mostly at night after a long rain delay; despite the inexperience with the lights, newly installed for an Indy Racing League race, NASCAR and the teams agreed to attempt finishing the race at night. It was shortened to 221 laps because it was after 11:00 p.m. EST and NASCAR wanted to "get the fans out at a decent hour". The 1999 Cracker Barrel 500 also ended at night. This would mark a springboard of sorts at finishing delayed races at night by utilizing a track's permanent lighting system.

In 2001, the race was scheduled as the season finale, however, it ended up being the second-to-last race. The New Hampshire 300 was postponed from September 16 to the Friday after Thanksgiving, due to 9/11. Beginning in 2002 the race was moved to mid-October as NASCAR elected to hold its final race at Homestead-Miami Speedway instead of Atlanta. The 2003 race started a tradition of night qualifying at Atlanta, which has carried over to the spring race as well.

In 2006, the race start time was changed from 12:40 p.m. EDT to 2:55 p.m. EDT in order to finish the race at night. Driver complaints erupted because of the track's troublesome situation where the sun can get into the driver's eyes in Turn 1, including leading to a crash during the time the sun sets in that area of the track between Jeff Gordon and Jamie McMurray, led to the abandonment of the 3 PM start after this race.

In 2009, the race was moved Labor Day weekend as part of a realignment agreement with Auto Club Speedway, which had received the Labor Day weekend race in 2004, and Talladega Superspeedway, where Talladega's fall race moved to the Atlanta race weekend and Fontana received a race in the Chase in Talladega's spot.^[1]

In 2015, Atlanta's lone race date moved to the second week of the season in early March, with the Bojangles' Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway returning to its traditional Labor Day weekend date. Atlanta will be run on a Sunday afternoon. This event used to be called the Oral-B USA 500, and this event used to be aired on ESPN for 6 years preceding the Irwin Tools Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway and the Federated Auto Parts 400 at Richmond International Raceway^[2]

Realignment

Main page: NASCAR Realignment#Realignment 2009

This race, Atlanta's second of the season, had been rumored to be either eliminated or moved several times in recent years. Most recently, track owner Bruton Smith, president of Speedway Motorsports, Inc., was talking with International Speedway Corporation about a possible date switch with one of its tracks. On February 29, 2008, Smith proposed a move that involved the fall Atlanta race and the Pepsi 500, the Labor Day weekend race held at Auto Club Speedway.^[3] Doing so gave the Fontana, California track a race in the Chase for the Championship as well as return the Labor Day weekend race to the southern U.S. for the first time since the second-to-last Southern 500 was run. It also makes the three races that precede the beginning of the Chase closer to each other geographically. Prior to the realignment, the teams raced in the Sharpie 500 at Bristol the week before Labor Day, then traveled cross country for the Pepsi 500, then came back across the country to run the Chevy Rock & Roll 400 at Richmond the following Saturday.

Ultimately, NASCAR adjusted the schedule as announced on August 19, 2008 to allow the fall race at Atlanta and the Chase event to Fontana to be swapped, but also in the process moved the AMP Energy 500 at Talladega Superspeedway to Atlanta's old date — usually the last weekend in October — and the aforementioned Pepsi 500 was placed in the old Talladega date, the first weekend in October beginning in 2009.

Past winners

Year	Date	No.	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Race Distance		Race Time	Average Speed (mph)	Report
Year	Date	No.	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Miles (km)	Race Time	Average Speed (mph)	Report
1960	July 31	22	Fireball Roberts	John Hines	Pontiac	200	300 (482.803)	2:29:47	112.652	Report
1961	September 17	3	David Pearson	John Masoni	Pontiac	267	400.5 (644.542)	3:11:39	125.384	Report
1962	October 28	4	Rex White	Rex White	Chevrolet	267	400.5 (644.542)	3:12:24	124.74	Report
1963	June 30	3	Junior Johnson	Ray Fox	Chevrolet	267	400.5 (644.542)	3:18:42	121.139	Report
1964	June 7	11	Ned Jarrett	Bondy Long	Ford	267	400.5 (644.542)	3:33:32	112.535	Report
1965	June 13	21	Marvin Panch	Wood Brothers Racing	Ford	267	400.5 (644.542)	3:38:13	110.12	Report
1966	August 7	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Plymouth	267	400.5 (644.542)	3:04:30	130.244	Report
1967	August 6	29	Dick Hutcherson	Bondy Long	Ford	334	501 (806.281)	3:47:14	132.286	Report
1968	August 4	98	LeeRoy Yarbrough	Junior Johnson & Associates	Ford	334	501 (806.281)	3:56:34	127.068	Report
1969	August 10	98	LeeRoy Yarbrough	Junior Johnson & Associates	Ford	334	501 (806.281)	3:45:35	133.001	Report
1970	August 2	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Plymouth	328	499.216 (803.41)	3:29:53	142.712	Report
1971	August 1	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Plymouth	328	499.216 (803.41)	3:52:05	129.061	Report
1972	July 23	12	Bobby Allison	Richard Howard	Chevrolet	328	499.216 (803.41)	3:47:08	131.295	Report
1973	July 22	21	David Pearson	Wood Brothers Racing	Mercury	328	499.216 (803.41)	3:50:01	130.211	Report
1974	July 28	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Dodge	328	499.216 (803.41)	3:42:31	131.651	Report
1975	November 9	15	Buddy Baker	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	328	499.216 (803.41)	3:48:40	130.99	Report
1976	November 7	71	Dave Marcis	Nord Krauskopf	Dodge	328	499.216 (803.41)	3:55:07	127.396	Report
1977	November 6	88	Darrell Waltrip	DiGard Motorsports	Chevrolet	268*	407.896 (656.444)	3:42:23	110.052	Report
1978	November 5	1	Donnie Allison	Ellington Racing	Chevrolet	328	499.216 (803.41)	4:00:43	124.312	Report
1979	November 4	21	Neil Bonnett	Wood Brothers Racing	Mercury	328	499.216 (803.41)	3:33:46	140.12	Report
1980	November 2	11	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates	Chevrolet	328	499.216 (803.41)	3:48:19	131.19	Report
1981	November 8	21	Neil Bonnett	Wood Brothers Racing	Ford	328	499.216 (803.41)	3:49:43	130.391	Report
1982	November 7	88	Bobby Allison	DiGard Motorsports	Buick	328	499.216 (803.41)	3:48:51	130.884	Report
1983	November 6	75	Neil Bonnett	RahMoc Enterprises	Chevrolet	328	499.216 (803.41)	3:37:37	137.643	Report
1984	November 11	3	Dale Earnhardt	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	328	499.216 (803.41)	3:42:31	134.61	Report
1985	November 3	9	Bill Elliott	Melling Racing	Ford	328	499.216 (803.41)	3:34:34	139.597	Report
1986	November 2	3	Dale Earnhardt	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	328	499.216 (803.41)	3:15:22	152.523	Report
1987	November 22	9	Bill Elliott	Melling Racing	Ford	328	499.216 (803.41)	3:35:25	139.047	Report
1988	November 20	27	Rusty Wallace	Blue Max Racing	Pontiac	328	499.216 (803.41)	3:52:09	129.024	Report
1989	November 19	3	Dale Earnhardt	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	328	499.216 (803.41)	3:33:36	140.229	Report
1990	November 18	15	Morgan Shepherd	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	328	499.216 (803.41)	3:32:34	140.911	Report
1991	November 17	6	Mark Martin	Roush Racing	Ford	328	499.216 (803.41)	3:37:06	137.968	Report
1992	November 15	11	Bill Elliott	Junior Johnson & Associates	Ford	328	499.216 (803.41)	3:44:20	133.322	Report
1993	November 14	2	Rusty Wallace	Penske Racing	Pontiac	328	499.216 (803.41)	3:59:12	125.221	Report
1994	November 13	6	Mark Martin	Roush Racing	Ford	328	499.216 (803.41)	3:21:03	148.982	Report
1995	November 12	3	Dale Earnhardt	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	328	499.216 (803.41)	3:03:03	163.633	Report
1996	November 10	18	Bobby Labonte	Joe Gibbs Racing	Chevrolet	328	499.216 (803.41)	3:39:13	134.661	Report
1997	November 16	18	Bobby Labonte	Joe Gibbs Racing	Pontiac	325	500.5 (805.476)	3:07:48	159.904	Report
1998	November 8	24	Jeff Gordon	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	221*	340.34 (547.724)	2:57:42	114.915	Report
1999	November 21	18	Bobby Labonte	Joe Gibbs Racing	Pontiac	325	500.5 (805.476)	3:37:43	137.932	Report
2000	November 20*	25	Jerry Nadeau	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	325	500.5 (805.476)	3:32:32	141.296	Report
2001	November 18	18	Bobby Labonte	Joe Gibbs Racing	Pontiac	325	500.5 (805.476)	3:17:53	151.756	Report
2002	October 27	97	Kurt Busch	Roush Racing	Ford	248*	381.92 (614.64)	2:59:42	127.519	Report
2003	October 26/27*	24	Jeff Gordon	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	325	500.5 (805.476)	3:55:02	127.769	Report
2004	October 31	48	Jimmie Johnson	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	325	500.5 (805.476)	3:25:54	145.847	Report
2005	October 30	99	Carl Edwards	Roush Racing	Ford	325	500.5 (805.476)	3:24:31	146.834	Report
2006	October 29	20	Tony Stewart	Joe Gibbs Racing	Chevrolet	325	500.5 (805.476)	3:29:23	143.421	Report
2007	October 28	48	Jimmie Johnson	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	329*	506.66 (815.39)	3:44:45	135.26	Report
2008	October 26	99	Carl Edwards	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford	325	500.5 (805.476)	3:43:39	134.272	Report
2009	September 6	9	Kasey Kahne	Richard Petty Motorsports	Dodge	325	500.5 (805.476)	3:44:03	134.033	Report
2010	September 5	14	Tony Stewart	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet	325	500.5 (805.476)	3:52:43	129.041	Report
2011	September 6*	24	Jeff Gordon	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	325	500.5 (805.476)	4:00:58	124.623	Report
2012	September 2	11	Denny Hamlin	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	327*	503.58 (810.433)	3:32:45	142.02	Report
2013	September 1	18	Kyle Busch	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	325	500.5 (805.476)	3:42:14	135.128	Report
2014	August 31	5	Kasey Kahne	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	335*	515.9 (830.26)	3:55:24	131.512	Report
2015	March 1	48	Jimmie Johnson	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	325	500.5 (805.476)	3:49:06	131.078	Report
2016	February 28	48	Jimmie Johnson	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	330*	508.2 (817.868)	3:15:38	155.863	Report
2017	March 5	2	Brad Keselowski	Team Penske	Ford	325	500.5 (805.476)	3:33:08	140.898	Report
2018	February 25	4	Kevin Harvick	Stewart-Haas Racing	Ford	325	500.5 (805.476)	3:29:54	143.068	Report

References

1977, 1998, & 2002: Race shortened due to rain; 1998 due to approaching curfew.
2000: Race postponed from Sunday to Monday due to rain.
2003: Race started on Sunday but was finished on Monday due to rain.
2007, 2012, 2014, & 2016: Race extended due to a NASCAR Overtime finish. 2014 took two attempts.
2011: Race delayed from Sunday Night to Tuesday Morning due to rain.

Track length notes

1960–1969: 1.5 mile course
1970–1996: 1.522 mile course
1997–present: 1.54 mile course

Multiple winners (drivers)

No. Wins	Driver	Years Won
4	Richard Petty	1966, 1970, 1971, 1974
	Dale Earnhardt	1984, 1986, 1989, 1995
	Bobby Labonte	1996, 1997, 1999, 2001
	Jimmie Johnson	2004, 2007, 2015, 2016
3	Neil Bonnett	1979, 1981, 1983
	Bill Elliott	1985, 1987, 1992
	Jeff Gordon	1998, 2003, 2011
2	LeeRoy Yarbrough	1968, 1969
	David Pearson	1961, 1973
	Bobby Allison	1972, 1982
	Rusty Wallace	1988, 1993
	Mark Martin	1991, 1994
	Carl Edwards	2005, 2008
	Tony Stewart	2006, 2010
	Kasey Kahne	2009, 2014

Multiple winners (teams)

No. Wins	Team	Years Won
9	Hendrick Motorsports	1998, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016
7	Joe Gibbs Racing	1996, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2006, 2012, 2013
5	Roush Fenway Racing	1991, 1994, 2002, 2005, 2008
4	Wood Brothers Racing	1965, 1973, 1979, 1981
	Petty Enterprises	1966, 1970, 1971, 1974
	Junior Johnson & Associates	1968, 1969, 1980, 1992
	Richard Childress Racing	1984, 1986, 1989, 1995
2	Bondy Long	1964, 1967
	DiGard Motorsports	1977, 1982
	Melling Racing	1985, 1987
	Team Penske	1993, 2017
	Stewart-Haas Racing	2010, 2018

Manufacturer wins

No. Wins	Manufacturer	Years Won
23	Chevrolet	1962, 1963, 1972, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1989, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016
18	Ford	1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1975, 1981, 1985, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 2002, 2005, 2008, 2017, 2018
7	Pontiac	1960, 1961, 1988, 1993, 1997, 1999, 2001
3	Plymouth	1966, 1970, 1971
3	Dodge	1974, 1976, 2009
2	Mercury	1973, 1979
2	Toyota	2012, 2013
1	Buick	1982

Notable races

1966: Richard Petty led 90 laps and beat Buddy Baker for his first Atlanta win, but the story of the race centered on pole-sitter Curtis Turner and third-starting Fred Lorenzen. With Ford participation stopped in a dispute over engine rules, the season had been dominated by Chrysler racecars. Turner entered in a Smokey Yunick Chevrolet rumored to be radically altered and not in compliance with the NASCAR rulebook; Lorenzen drove Junior Johnson's Ford, a car nicknamed "The Yellow Banana" because the body had been visibly altered; both cars passed NASCAR inspection where others did not. Turner led 60 laps and finished 24th with distributor failure while Lorenzen led 24 laps and was eliminated in a crash, finishing 23rd.
1971: Richard Petty became the first stock car driver to reach $1 million in career earnings after a race-long duel with Bobby Allison.
1976: Dave Marcis took his final superspeedway win. Driving Harry Hyde's famous No. 71 Dodge, Marcis engaged in a nose-to-nose battle for most of the first 64 laps with Buddy Baker, Cale Yarborough, and David Pearson. Part-time racer Dale Earnhardt survived a huge crash with some 60 to go when Dick Brooks hit the wall in Three and slid into Earnhardt's path; Earnhardt tumbled to the fourth turn.
1977: The race shortened due to rain/darkness. Darrell Waltrip took advantage of the lapped car of James Hylton to storm past Donnie Allison on the last lap; Allison crashed with Cale Yarborough coming to the stripe.
1978: A scoring breakdown led to an embarrassing change of the declared winner. Manual scoring ruled that Richard Petty had edged Dave Marcis at the stripe, but a recheck hours later proved that Donnie Allison, who finished two lengths ahead of Petty and Marcis, had indeed won.
1979: Neil Bonnett edged Dale Earnhardt, Yarborough, and Bobby Allison in a hot four-car battle over the race's final 20 laps. Following the race Darrell Waltrip took a two-point lead over Richard Petty entering the season finale at Ontario.
1980: A multicar wreck in the first 20 laps eliminated the Allison brothers and other contenders, leaving Cale Yarborough to breeze all but uncontested to the win; the win helped him close to within 29 points of leader Dale Earnhardt with one race left in the 1980 title chase.
1981: ESPN televised the race live, the first such telecast for the third-year cable network. The race turned into a spirited affair as Neil Bonnett and Richard Petty fought back and forth for the lead amid bids by Darrell Waltrip, Joe Ruttman, and Harry Gant. The final two laps were a fierce duel won by Bonnett over Waltrip and Cale Yarborough.
1982: The race set a track record for lead changes at 45, among 14 drivers. Blistered tires ruined a victory bid by Richard Petty as Bobby Allison outdueled Darrell Waltrip and Harry Gant for the win. This would be the final start for Country Music singer Marty Robbins, who would die in December of that year.
1984: Driver Terry Schoonover was killed in the race after crashing into the barrier in turn two.
1986: Dale Earnhardt wrapped up his second career title by completely dominating the Dixie 500. The rest of the top five was a list of NASCAR luminaries - Richard Petty, Bill Elliott, Tim Richmond, and Buddy Baker.
1987: For the first time, this race was scheduled as the final race of the NASCAR season.
1989: In this race, independent driver Grant Adcox was killed in a crash.
1990: With cars packed tightly together for late-race pitstops under yellow (the result of NASCAR's rule closing pit road when the yellow comes out instead of letting cars pit before taking the yellow), one of Bill Elliott's crew members was killed when Ricky Rudd was coming into the pits for service and lost control of his car. This led to NASCAR mandating a speed limit on pit road for crew members safety.
1992: Widely considered one of the most dramatic NASCAR races of all time. See 1992 Hooters 500
1993: Race winner Rusty Wallace, and Winston Cup champion Dale Earnhardt circled the track in a Polish Victory Lap, carrying No. 7 and No. 28 flag to honor Alan Kulwicki and Davey Allison who were both killed in aviation accidents during the season. Both Kulwicki and Allison were key fixtures exactly one year earlier at the classic 1992 race.
1995: Jeff Gordon wrapped up his first series title as Dale Earnhardt drove his No. 3 to victory at the race time of 3 hours, 3 minutes, and 3 seconds.
1996: Bobby Labonte took the win, the first for Joe Gibbs Racing building its own engines after four seasons running Rick Hendrick engines. Terry Labonte clinched the 1996 Winston Cup Championship driving for Hendrick Motorsports. The two made a victory lap together and celebrated together in victory lane.
1997: 325 laps / 500.5 miles with new configuration. Bobby Labonte won in JGR's first win with Pontiac; Pontiacs dominated the top ten at the finish
1998: Race shortened due to rain and darkness. Rain delays throughout the day made the race go into midnight, and track officials wanted the fans to get home at a decent hour. First night Cup race.
2000: Race postponed from Sunday to Monday due to rain. Final career start for Darrell Waltrip. It would be the final time the event would be the last race of the NASCAR season.
2001: Was scheduled to be the final race of the 2001 season, but Loudon was moved to the weekend after due to 9/11. That instead made this the second-to-last race of the season.
2002: Race shortened due to rain. Moved from November to October, such that the race will no longer be the final race of the NASCAR season.
2009: Race moved from October to Labor Day weekend, marking the first regularly scheduled NASCAR Cup Series race at Atlanta to start at night. Kasey Kahne took the win, the second of the year for the team now under the aegis of Richard Petty Motorsports.
2011: Race postponed from Sunday Night to Tuesday Afternoon due to rain. Jeff Gordon scored his 85th career win after a fierce duel with teammate Jimmie Johnson over the final ten laps on worn tires, giving him sole possession of third on the all-time wins list and the most wins by a driver in NASCAR's Modern Era (1972–present). This was only the second time in NASCAR's Modern Era that a race was postponed to a Tuesday, the other time coming in August 2007 at Michigan (also for rain). Gordon was honored by NASCAR president Mike Helton with a framed portrait of photos from past victories by Jeff made into the shape of the No. 85 to commemorate the milestone victory.
2015: The start of the race was delayed nearly an hour due to rain. Once the race Race began there were two wrecks, one with 69 laps to go where two cars were involved, and another wreck with 21 laps to go. Six cars were involved in the second incident, which brought a nine-minute, one second red flag to facilitate cleanup on the track. Jimmie Johnson scored his first win of the season.
2016: Johnson repeated as race winner and tied Dale Earnhardt with 76 career Cup wins. Matt Kenseth was blackflagged on a green flag stop when a crewman left a wedge wrench on the rear deck and another crewman picked it up for use on the car; a communication breakdown meant Kenseth stayed on the racetrack for five laps and was not scored for one of those laps.
2017: 2500th Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race. Kevin Harvick led 292 of the 325 laps and looked to be on his way to his second win at Atlanta until a caution came out for Austin Dillon's stalled car. When they came down pit road under caution, Harvick got caught speeding exiting sending him to the rear of the field. Kyle Larson found himself on his way to the win, until with seven laps to go left the door open as if he were oblivious, allowing Brad Keselowski to pass him and ultimately win. It was also the first time the stage racing format was used at Atlanta, where stages 1 and 2 were 85 laps long each, and the stage 3 comprising the final 155 laps of the event. Last race on the original pavement laid down when the track was reconfigured in 1997, but voices from fans and drivers are calling for them not to repave the surface, even though several drivers saw tires fail during the race.

Television broadcasters

Year	Network	Lap-by-lap	Color commentators	Pit reporters
1981	ESPN	Mike Joy	Larry Nuber
1986		Bob Jenkins
1987
1988			Ned Jarrett Gary Nelson	Jerry Punch
1989			Ned Jarrett Benny Parsons	Jerry Punch
1990				Jerry Punch John Kernan
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997				Jerry Punch Bill Weber John Kernan
1998
1999
2000
2001	NBC	Allen Bestwick	Benny Parsons Wally Dallenbach	Dave Burns Marty Snider Bill Weber Matt Yocum
2002
2003
2004
2005	NBC TNT	Bill Weber		Marty Snider Dave Burns Matt Yocum Allen Bestwick
2006	NBC	Bill Weber		Marty Snider Dave Burns Matt Yocum Allen Bestwick
2007	ABC	Jerry Punch	Rusty Wallace Andy Petree	Jamie Little Dave Burns Allen Bestwick Mike Massaro
2008			Dale Jarrett Andy Petree	Jamie Little Dave Burns Shannon Spake Vince Welch
2009				Jamie Little Dave Burns Shannon Spake Vince Welch
2010	ESPN	Marty Reid		Jerry Punch Jamie Little Dave Burns Vince Welch
2011		Allen Bestwick
2012
2013
2014
2015	Fox	Mike Joy	Darrell Waltrip Larry McReynolds	Matt Yocum Jamie Little Chris Neville
2016			Darrell Waltrip Jeff Gordon	Matt Yocum Jamie Little Vince Welch
2017
2018

References

↑ "Three tracks swap dates on '09 schedule". August 21, 2008. Retrieved March 6, 2017.
↑ NASCAR reveals 2015 schedules for national series. NASCAR. August 26, 2014. http://www.nascar.com/en_us/news-media/articles/2014/8/26/2015-nascar-schedule-release-sprint-cup-series-darlington-bristol.html. Retrieved August 26, 2014.
↑ "News & Media". Archived from the original on October 11, 2012. Retrieved March 6, 2017.

Other websites

Folds of Honor website
"NASCAR Commentators Crews and Networks". Archived from the original on February 23, 2009.

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[1] "Three tracks swap dates on '09 schedule". August 21, 2008. Retrieved March 6, 2017.

[2015schedule-2] NASCAR reveals 2015 schedules for national series. NASCAR. August 26, 2014. http://www.nascar.com/en_us/news-media/articles/2014/8/26/2015-nascar-schedule-release-sprint-cup-series-darlington-bristol.html. Retrieved August 26, 2014.

[3] "News & Media". Archived from the original on October 11, 2012. Retrieved March 6, 2017.

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