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The 1985 Winston 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that took place on May 5, 1985, at Alabama International Motor Speedway in Talladega, Alabama. Prior to this event, two-time Winston Cup champion Darrell Waltrip complained to NASCAR about how Bill Elliott was ruining the parity of the sport and he needed to be slowed down.〔(''Elliott Was Awesome At Talladega In 1985'' ) at GeorgiaRacingHistory.com〕 As a result, NASCAR raised the height of the Ford vehicles by half an inch.〔 The roof of the GM race cars was lowered by the same amount in order to improve their speed performance.〔 ==Summary== There were 39 drivers who qualified for this race; the pole position winner was Bill Elliott who qualified at the break-neck speed of in a Ford Thunderbird.〔〔(''1985 Winston 500'' ) at Racing Reference〕〔 He would go on to beat Kyle Petty by nearly two seconds while racing at speeds up to during the race;〔〔 even though the record would broken again at the 1997 Winston 500 by Mark Martin. A broken oil fitting, however, would knock Elliott two laps out of the lead laps before he managed his comeback. Elliott would return to the track and begin consistently running laps near 205 mph. He would make up the two laps lost due to the broken oil fitting without the aide of a yellow flag or the draft.〔(''1985 NASCAR Winston Cup Recap'' ) at Auto.Howstuffworks.com〕 At the end of the year, Elliott would go on to become the first Winston Million winner.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Bill Elliott )〕 More than 100,000 live spectators would see more than two and a half hours of racing with two cautions periods (lasting for only eight laps).〔 This relatively clean race would see 28 different lead changes.〔〔 Canadian driver Trevor Boys would finish in last place due to a problem with the engine on lap 6 of this 188-lap race.〔〔 Bosco Lowe and Dick Skillen would exit NASCAR after this race while Geoff Bodine would lose the championship points lead to Terry Labonte.〔(''1985 Winston 500'' ) at Race Database〕 The cars being used for NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing back then were closer to the production models and no common templates were used. Bill Elliott, despite leading the NASCAR Winston Cup Series with 11 hard-earned wins on superspeedways, would end up losing the championship that year to Darrell Waltrip.〔(''Elliott wins 1985 Winston 500 at Talladega; races closer to becoming "Million Dollar Bill"'' ) at Ford.com〕 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「1985 Winston 500」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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