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29th September 2010, 07:01 #1
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1981 FIA Cup Championship
In 1981, Darrell Waltrip used the "If ya can't beat 'em, join 'em" strategy by moving from the DI-Gard #88 Gatoraide car to the Junior Johnson #11 Mountain Dew car and clinched his first of 3 Winston Cups by beating Bobby Allison by 53 points. Darrell turned in a dominating performance, by putting up a league leading 12 wins, 21 top 5's, and 25 top 10's (which was actually 2nd to Allison's 26 top 10's). Junior Johnson was the Hendrick Motorsports of his day. DW led the most laps (2571) or 26.29% of the laps he completed.
Lets see how the FIA Cup Standings shook out:
Code:001 Darrell Waltrip........470 002 Bobby Allison..........386 003 Harry Gant.............220 004 Richard Petty..........217 005 Ricky Rudd.............210 006 Benny Parsons..........176 007 Dale Earnhardt.........160 008 Terry Labonte..........155 009 Neil Bonnett...........131 010 Jody Ridley............123 ___________________________ 011 Cale Yarborough........118 012 Buddy Baker............088 013 Morgan Shepard.........087 014 Ron Bouchard...........084 015 Kyle Petty.............064
The Bud Pole Award goes to Darrell Waltrip, with 12 poles.
Congrats to Darrell Waltrip, the 1981 Winston Cup, and FIA Cup Champion!#4 2014 Sprint Cup Champion, 2007 Daytona 500,2003 Brickyard 400,2x Coke 600,2014 Southern 500 Champ: 962 starts,90 wins, 345 T5s, 544 T10s, 44 poles, 2x NNS champ
Meeke had a big gap to Rossel after stage 3 (20 sec) at stage 4 had a puncture and now the gap to Rossel is just 2 sec Gryazin strangely slow,anybody now why?...
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