1995 Miller Genuine Draft 500 (June)
| Race details | |||
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| Race 12 of 31 in the 1995 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season | |||
Layout of Dover International Speedway
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| Date | June 4, 1995 | ||
| Official name | Miller Genuine Draft 500 | ||
| Location | Dover Downs International Speedway, Dover, Delaware | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility 1.000 mi (1.609 km) |
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| Distance | 500 laps, 500.0 mi (804.6 km) | ||
| Weather | Mild with temperatures reaching up to 77.9 °F (25.5 °C); wind speeds up to 15 miles per hour (24 km/h) | ||
| Average speed | 119.880 miles per hour (192.928 km/h) | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Hendrick Motorsports | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Kyle Petty | SABCO Racing | |
| Laps | 271 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 42 | Kyle Petty | SABCO Racing | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | TNN | ||
| Announcers |
Mike Joy Buddy Baker Dick Berggren |
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The 1995 Miller Genuine Draft 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that took place on June 4, 1995, at Dover Downs International Speedway in the American community of Dover, Delaware.
Souvenir magazines for this race sold for a price of $10.00 ($15.72 when adjusted for inflation) per copy and featured the then-favored driver Rusty Wallace. This race would see the final race victory from a Petty family member: Kyle Petty, son of Richard Petty and grandson of Lee Petty.
Dover Downs International Speedway, now called Dover International Speedway, is one of five short tracks to hold NASCAR races; the others are Bristol Motor Speedway, Richmond International Raceway, Martinsville Speedway, and Phoenix International Raceway. The NASCAR race makes use of the track's standard configuration, a four-turn short track oval that is 1 mile (1.6 km) long. The track's turns are banked at twenty-four degrees, and both the front stretch (the location of the finish line) and the backstretch are banked at nine degrees.
Kyle Petty would defeat Bobby Labonte by nearly a quarter of a second after racing for more than four hours in front of an unspecified live audience; leading Pontiac into its first victory since Penske Racing South switched to Ford vehicles. Ted Musgrave would've won this race had he not run out of gas on the backstretch on the lap he made his final pit stop. He was flying at the end when he ran down Bobby Labonte and Kyle Petty from a long way back, but he just couldn't get by Bobby. He would have an awful season prior to this event and used it to springboard a comeback. After the race, Petty had to be put on oxygen due to the double pneumonia that he had at the time. His victory also came at a time where Pontiac was underfunding their NASCAR teams in advance of their permanent withdrawal from NASCAR after the 2003 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season. 1994 and 1995 were critical years for drivers using the Pontiac manufacturer as first-rate equipment started to become harder to come by.
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