With this Victory....Dale Earnhardt
Rockingham, NC
He led 95 laps of 393 laps raced. He did not lead the most laps (Terry Labonte did)
This is his 69th career Winston Cup victory in 513 career starts
He is currently tied for 1st in Winston Cup points with Dale Jarrett
This is his 1st Winston Cup victory of 1996
His last victory came at Atlanta on November 12, 1995
This is his 42nd career superspeedway win
This is his 3rd win at North Carolina Motor Speedway
This is the second time someone has won at NCMS starting from the 18th position
This is the 1st Winston Cup victory for Chevrolet this season
Earnhardt is the second winner of the NASCAR Winston Cup leader bonus of $10,000
Ricky Craven's third place finish was his best career finish, and first top-5.
His previous best was a 7th at Michigan last August.
Steve Grissoms fifth place equals his best career Winston Cup finish. He finished
sixth at the Goodwrench 500 last year.
Of the 'team' cars the Childress and Yates cars did relatively well - while
the Hendrick and Roush cars didn't.
Childress - Earnhardt (1), Skinner (12)
Yates - Jarrett (2), Irvan (14)
Hendrick - Schrader (29), Labonte (34), Gordon (40)
Roush - Burton (13), Musgrave (31), Martin (32)
