The night Terry, Dale and Rusty dueled - ESPN
The races during which the greatest of those moments choose to reveal themselves are the lucky ones -- ones that endure long after the mundane details of their box scores have faded. It didn't gift us with just one timeless moment. After a 90-minute rain delay courtesy of Tropical Storm Jerry, the 36 drivers were finally called to their cars to go racing. Mark Martin started on the pole position, joined on the outside of the front row by Terry Labonte. A few rows behind them, the two biggest stars in the sport were already conspiring to chase them -- and everyone else -- down. But why try to tell the story of those men on that night, when we can let them do it for us. Rusty Wallace, driver, Penske Racing No. 2 Miller Genuine Draft Ford: I had qualified fifth and Dale [Earnhardt Sr. ] had qualified right behind me in... Before the race I remember we were standing by our cars, just bs'ing like we used to do. And I remember what we were talking about. I was damn sick of it and Earnhardt was damn sick of it. He'd qualified right in front of us, so Earnhardt says to me: "When this race starts, let's just go on up there and put a bumper to him, get him out of the way, and then we'll just check out... Source: espn.go.com
