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1999 Pepsi 400
The 1999 Pepsi 400 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race that took place on July 3, 1999, at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. This race would make the halfway point of the 1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season. Race reportIt took nearly two hours and twenty-two minutes for Dale Jarrett to defeat Dale Earnhardt under the race's final caution flag in front of a live audience of 130,000.[2] Joe Nemechek would earn the pole position in this race driving at speeds up to 194.86 miles per hour or 313.60 kilometres per hour.[2] Ricky Craven would become the last-place finisher in this 160-lap race due to a steering issue on lap 34.[2] Mark Martin would be forced into a backup car while five drivers would fail to qualify for this race.[2] Only Michael Waltrip, Buckshot Jones, Steve Park, and Craven would fail to finish the race.[2] The average speed of the race was 169.213 miles per hour or 272.322 kilometres per hour with three cautions handed out by NASCAR authorities for nine brief laps.[2] Rain would briefly occur for four laps before disappearing for the remainder of the race.[2] Loy Allen, Jr. would retire from NASCAR after this race.[3] The total prize purse for this race was estimated at more than two million dollars.[4] Winnings for this race varied from more than $160,000 for the winner and less than $36,000 for the last-place finisher.[5] Drivers who failed to qualify for this race are Derrike Cope, Hut Stricklin, Ken Bouchard, Robert Pressley and Stanton Barrett. Jeff Burton, Terry Labonte, Kyle Petty, Kevin Lepage, Rick Mast, Ted Musgrave and Steve Park had to use a provisional in order to qualify for the race.[6] Despite Rusty Wallace's average career finish of 18th place at Daytona International Speedway, Wallace would never clinch a win during his entire NASCAR Cup Series career.[7] His best finish at Daytona would be second place at the 2002 Pepsi 400. Stanton Barrett ran first round qualifying but withdrew before the second. Top 10 finishers
TimelineSection reference: [2]
MediaTelevisionThe Pepsi 400 was covered by CBS in the United States for the first time. Mike Joy, two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Ned Jarrett and 1983 race winner Buddy Baker called the race from the broadcast booth. Dick Berggren, Ralph Sheheen and Bill Stephens handled pit road for the television side. Ken Squier would serve as co-host alongside Greg Gumbel.
Standings after the race
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