Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen

Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen
Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen
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Venue Watkins Glen International
Sponsor Crowley Foods
First race 1957
Distance 220.5 miles (354.86 km)
Laps 90
Previous names Unnamed/Unknown (1957, 64-1965)

The Budweiser At The Glen (1986-1989)

Budweiser At The Glen (1990-1993)

The Bud At The Glen (1994-1998)

Frontier @ the Glen (1999)

Global Crossing @ The Glen (2000-2001)

Sirius Satellite Radio at the Glen (2002-2005)

AMD at the Glen (2006)

Centurion Boats at the Glen (2007-2008)

The Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen[1] is a 90-lap, 220.5 miles (354.9 km) long NASCAR Sprint Cup stock car race held at Watkins Glen International in Watkins Glen, New York. It is one of two road course races in the NASCAR Sprint Cup schedule, the other being the Toyota/Save Mart 350. The race was being called the NASCAR Sprint Cup at the Glen for the 2007 edition before Centurion Boats purchased the naming rights for three years. The 2007 race, won by Tony Stewart following a spin out by Jeff Gordon on the second-to-last lap, had one of the most exciting, yet strangest, finishes in the track's history.

When NASCAR returned in 1986, they utilized the 1971 Six Hours course. In the 1991 race, J. D. McDuffie was killed in a crash in the Outer Loop, at the end of the backstrech. Following that crash, and another serious crash by IMSA driver, Tommy Kendall, the Inner Loop bus stop chicane was added just before the Outer Loop. NASCAR has since utilized this 2.45-mile (3.94 km) "short course," and has never utilized the "Boot" as the Indy Racing League has.

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Past winners

Year Date Driver Team Manufacturer Race Distance Race Time Average Speed
(mph)
Laps Miles (km)
1957 August 4 Buck Baker Buck Baker Chevrolet 44 101.2 (162.865) 1:13:06 83.064
1964 July 19 Billy Wade Bud Moore Engineering Mercury 66 151.8 (244.298) 1:32:57 97.988
1965 July 18 Marvin Panch Wood Brothers Racing Ford 66 151.8 (244.298) 1:32:46 98.182
1986 August 10 Tim Richmond Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 90 218.52 (351.673) 2:12:56 90.463
1987 August 10* Rusty Wallace Blue Max Racing Pontiac 90 218.52 (351.673) 2:24:36 90.682
1988 August 14 Ricky Rudd King Racing Buick 90 218.52 (351.673) 2:56:58 74.096
1989 August 13 Rusty Wallace (2) Blue Max Racing Pontiac 90 218.52 (351.673) 2:26:55 87.242
1990 August 12 Ricky Rudd (2) Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 90 218.52 (351.673) 2:21:49 92.452
1991 August 11 Ernie Irvan Morgan-McClure Motorsports Chevrolet 90 218.52 (351.673) 2:12:28 98.977
1992 August 9 Kyle Petty SABCO Racing Pontiac 51* 125.154 (201.415) 1:27:21 88.980
1993 August 8 Mark Martin Roush Racing Ford 90 220.5 (354.86) 2:36:04 84.771
1994 August 14 Mark Martin (2) Roush Racing Ford 90 220.5 (354.86) 2:21:07 93.752
1995 August 13 Mark Martin (3) Roush Racing Ford 90 220.5 (354.86) 2:11:54 103.030
1996 August 11 Geoffrey Bodine Geoffrey Bodine Ford 90 220.5 (354.86) 2:23:17 92.334
1997 August 10 Jeff Gordon Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 90 220.5 (354.86) 2:24:55 91.294
1998 August 9 Jeff Gordon (2) Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 90 220.5 (354.86) 2:20:03 94.466
1999 August 15 Jeff Gordon (3) Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 90 220.5 (354.86) 2:30:49 87.722
2000 August 13 Steve Park Dale Earnhardt, Inc. Chevrolet 90 220.5 (354.86) 2:24:51 91.336
2001 August 12 Jeff Gordon (4) Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 90 220.5 (354.86) 2:28:31 89.081
2002 August 11 Tony Stewart Joe Gibbs Racing Pontiac 90 220.5 (354.86) 2:40:56 82.208
2003 August 10 Robby Gordon Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 90 220.5 (354.86) 2:26:17 90.441
2004 August 15 Tony Stewart (2) Joe Gibbs Racing Chevrolet 90 220.5 (354.86) 2:23:25 92.249
2005 August 14 Tony Stewart (3) Joe Gibbs Racing Chevrolet 92* 225.4 (362.746) 2:35:48 86.804
2006 August 13 Kevin Harvick Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 90 220.5 (354.86) 2:52:27 76.718
2007 August 12 Tony Stewart (4) Joe Gibbs Racing Chevrolet 90 220.5 (354.86) 2:50:38 77.535
2008 August 10 Kyle Busch Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota 90 220.5 (354.86) 2:16:11 97.148
2009 August 10* Tony Stewart (5) Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet 90 220.5 (354.86) 2:26:31 90.297
2010 August 8 Juan Pablo Montoya* Earnhardt Ganassi Racing Chevrolet 90 220.5 (354.86) 2:23:52 91.960
2011 August 15* Marcos Ambrose* Richard Petty Motorsports Ford 92* 225.4 (362.746) 2:16:02 99.417
  • 1987, 2009 & 2011: Race postponed from Sunday to Monday due to rain.
  • 1992: Race shortened due to rain.
  • 2005 and 2011: Race extended due to a Green-white-checker finish.
  • 2010: Montoya's second career win made him the first foreign-born driver to have multiple wins in NASCAR Sprint Cup Series history.
  • 2011: Ambrose's first career win made him the first Australian driver to win a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race.

Race length notes

  • 1957: 44 laps (101.2 miles) of a 2.3-mile (3.7 km) course
  • 1964-1965: 66 laps (151.8 miles) of a 2.3-mile (3.7 km) course
  • 1986-1991: were run on the 2.428-mile 1971 Six Hours course (90 laps/218.52 miles)
  • 1992–Present: the addition of the Inner Loop chicane lengthened the track to 2.45 miles (90 laps/220.5 miles)

Manufacturer wins

Rank Manufacturer Wins
1 Chevrolet 16
2 Ford 6
3 Pontiac 4
4 Buick 1
4 Toyota 1
4 Mercury 1

Television broadcasters

Year Network Lap-by-lap Color commentator(s)
2011 ESPN Allen Bestwick Dale Jarrett and Andy Petree
2010 ESPN Marty Reid Dale Jarrett and Andy Petree
2009 ESPN Jerry Punch Dale Jarrett and Andy Petree
2008 ESPN Jerry Punch Dale Jarrett and Andy Petree
2007 ESPN Jerry Punch Rusty Wallace and Andy Petree
2006 NBC Bill Weber Benny Parsons and Wally Dallenbach
2005 NBC Bill Weber Benny Parsons and Wally Dallenbach
2004 TNT Allen Bestwick Benny Parsons and Wally Dallenbach
2003 NBC Allen Bestwick Benny Parsons and Wally Dallenbach
2002 NBC Allen Bestwick Benny Parsons and Wally Dallenbach
2001 NBC Allen Bestwick Benny Parsons and Wally Dallenbach
2000 ESPN Bob Jenkins Benny Parsons and Ned Jarrett
1999 ESPN Bob Jenkins Benny Parsons and Ned Jarrett
1998 ESPN Bob Jenkins Benny Parsons and Ned Jarrett
1997 ESPN Bob Jenkins Benny Parsons and Ned Jarrett
1996 ESPN Bob Jenkins Benny Parsons and Ned Jarrett
1995 ESPN Bob Jenkins Benny Parsons and Ned Jarrett
1994 ESPN Bob Jenkins Benny Parsons and Ned Jarrett
1993 ESPN Bob Jenkins Benny Parsons and Ned Jarrett
1992 ESPN Bob Jenkins Benny Parsons and Ned Jarrett
1991 ESPN Bob Jenkins Benny Parsons and Ned Jarrett
1990 ESPN Bob Jenkins Benny Parsons and Ned Jarrett
1989 ESPN Bob Jenkins Benny Parsons and Ned Jarrett
1988 ESPN Bob Jenkins Ned Jarrett
1987 ESPN Bob Jenkins Larry Nuber
1986 ESPN Bob Jenkins Rick Mears

References

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