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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. 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 track under their own power anymore. ==Summary== An all-American grid of 42 drivers would appear at this race; Joe Booher would receive credit for the last-place finish due to an engine issue on the fourth lap.〔(''1981 Talladega 500'' ) at Racing Reference〕 There was 188 laps in the race; it took more than three hours to resolve the race.〔〔 There were eight caution periods for 36 laps while 39 different changes were made concerning the leader of the race.〔〔 Harry Gant would make the pole position for this race with a qualifying speed of .〔〔 Most of the participants used Buick as their manufacturer of the choice for the race.〔〔 Ron Bouchard managed to defeat Darrell Waltrip by in front of 75,000 live spectators.〔〔〔(''1981 Talladega 500'' ) results at Talladega Superspeedway〕〔(''1981 Talladega 500 Finish'' ) at YouTube〕 Labonte managed to get his revenge on Talladega (for causing his third-place finish) by defeating Joe Nemechek at the 1999 Aaron's 312 race that was sanctioned on the Busch Series level by less than 0.010 seconds.〔 Bouchard and Pete Hamilton are the only NASCAR Sprint Cup Series winners from Massachusetts as of 2015. Terry Herman would make his introduction to NASCAR during this race while Sandy Satullo would retire from the series after this race.〔(''1981 Talladega 500'' ) racing information at Race Database〕 Stan Barrett would make the best finish of his career in this race;〔〔 he would go on to father independent driver Stanton Barrett. Richard Childress would make one of his final driving appearance before becoming a full-time owner of Richard Childress Racing.〔〔 Talladega would reach the peak of competitive racing opportunities during in the 1984 Winston 500.〔(''Talladega Superspeedway'' ) at Encyclopedia of Alabama〕 After that, legendary driver Bill Elliott - along with restrictor plates during the most recent years - would ruin the chances for truly competitive racing. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1981 Talladega 500」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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