This is his 12th career Winston Cup victory in 99 career starts. He led the most laps (148 of 342) for 10 Winston Cup bounus points for a total of 185, moving him to 6th overall from 9th - 133 points behind points leader Dale Jarrett. This is his 3rd Winston Cup victory of 1996. His last victory came at Darlington a week ago. He had previously won at Richmond. This is his 3rd career short-track win. His 2nd win at BIR in 7 starts. Gordon defends his win from last spring - which was his first short-track victory. Gordon has posted 4 straight finishes of third or better, including two consecutive wins. This is the 4th time someone has won at BIR starting from the 8th position.
This is the 5th Winston Cup victory for Chevrolet this season out 6 races.
There was no winner of the Unocal Bonus, it will be $129,200 in two weeks at North Wilkesboro. The bonus is awarded to the race winner if he started from the pole.
There was no winner of the RJR Points Leader Bonus, it will be worth $50,000 at Wilkesboro. It is awarded to the winner of the race, if he is also the points leader. Dales Jarrett and Earnhardt had won it the first two weeks respectively.
Ricky Rudd's streak of top-10 finishes came to and end at seven races including 2 races to end 1995. He finished 14th.
Dale Jarrett has lost 39 points to Dale Earnhardt in the last three races.
Hut Stricklin (11th) made the points move of the race, going from 31st to 24th.
Darrell Waltrip's DNF is only the third in 43 starts at BIR.
Bobby Labonte recorded his second top-10 of the season and second in a row.
Terry Labonte had another strong finish - with a second place.
Dick Trickle (8th) and Michael Waltrip (10th) recorded their best finsihes of the year.
Team Cars Performance: The Hendrick team easily came out on top of all the team efforts with a 1-2 finish. Schrader's bad luck continues. Earnhardt and Jarrett, with Gordon playing catch up are the most consistent performers of the season after 6 races.
Earnhardt picked up another
Hendrick - Gordon (1), Labonte (2), Schrader (29) Yates - Jarrett (6), Irvan (16) Roush - Martin (3), Burton (23), Musgrave (25) Childress - Earnhardt (4), Skinner (36)
