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==Notable Races== *'''1972:''' [[Bobby Allison]] started last and led over 300 laps before breaking, and pole-sitter [[Bobby Isaac]] took the win, his final in Grand National racing. *'''1973:''' [[David Pearson (racing driver)|David Pearson]] led all but one lap en route to an overwhelming win, the beginning of his 1973 assault on superspeedway records. *'''1975:''' [[Cale Yarborough]] edged Pearson after [[Richard Petty]] lost several laps with a cracked cylinder head. *'''1976:''' Petty won by two laps as [[Bobby Allison]] survived a shocking tumble down the backstretch. *'''1977:''' Crashes galore kept the average speed to 97 MPH as Petty took his sixth Carolina 500 win. *'''1979:''' Just two weeks after their [[1979 Daytona 500|crash in the Daytona 500]], [[Cale Yarborough]] and [[Donnie Allison]] crashed while battling for the lead just 10 laps into the race, collecting several other cars; [[Darrell Waltrip]] and [[Richard Petty]], both involved in the wreck, were pointedly critical of Yarborough's role. [[Bobby Allison]] took the win. *'''1981:''' [[Darrell Waltrip]] outlasted Petty and Cale for his first big track win with [[Junior Johnson]]. *'''1983:''' Petty edged [[Bill Elliott]] for his first win in seventeen months. *'''1985:''' Elliott suffered a leg injury in a hard crash, as [[Neil Bonnett]] edged [[Harry Gant]] in a photo finish, the second straight Rockingham race to end in a photo finish, and second straight heartbreaker for Gant. *'''1989:''' [[Rusty Wallace]] made up a lap as [[Dale Earnhardt]] and [[Ricky Rudd]] tangled on the backstretch. Wallace pulled away to the win. *'''1990:''' [[Kyle Petty]] overwhelmed the field for his first win since 1987 and the first for [[SABCO Racing]]. *'''1995:''' [[Jeff Gordon]] edged [[Bobby Labonte]] for his first win of the season. *'''1996:''' A spirited battle for the lead ended in a wreck as [[Dale Earnhardt]] hit [[Bobby Hamilton]] into the wall off Four on Lap 343. *'''2001:''' One week after [[Dale Earnhardt]]'s death, [[Steve Park (NASCAR driver)|Steve Park]] drove a [[Dale Earnhardt, Inc.]] [[Chevrolet]] to a close win over [[Bobby Labonte]]. It was his final win in the Cup Series. *'''2002:''' [[Matt Kenseth]] ended a two-year victory drought after escaping a multicar melee on the backstretch when [[Jeff Gordon]] spun out [[Casey Atwood]] and four-other cars piled in. *'''2003:''' [[Dale Jarrett]] scored his second to last win. *'''2004:''' The final race at Rockingham ended in a close finish won by [[Matt Kenseth]] over rookie [[Kasey Kahne]].
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