How’s this for a #ThrowbackThursday post. In 1985 Log Cabin Raceway, a short dirt track located in Rocky Mount, Virginia, hosted a rare NASCAR drivers race in 1985. This event brought national attention to the small local venue, blending the grassroots excitement of dirt racing with the star power of NASCAR’s finest drivers with the race being won by Ashland, Ohio’s Tim Richmond in the Terry Cardwell owned #21 machine. Tim Richmond who would sadly pass just 4 short years later, was well on his w

🏁On September 1, 1985 NASCAR’s Winston Million program paid out when Bill Elliott took the win in the Southern 500, thus winning 3 of NASCAR’s 4 biggest races (he'd won the Daytona 500 and Winston 500 earlier in the year). Challenges by Dale Earnhardt and Cale Yarborough fell apart; Yarborough finished 2nd despite breaking a power steering line. The million-dollar program made Elliott’s winnings the highest in NASCAR history up to that point. The only major of the 4 he did not win was the Coca-