 The fan favorite, Rusty Wallace, started in an agonizing 16th place and would make an improvement of seven positions to finish in ninth place on lap 499.Almost 8% of the race was run under caution and the average green flag run was a mere 77 laps.Petty's final race in the NASCAR Cup Series would eventually signal an end to the dominance that the Petty family had in NASCAR (with his father Richard not winning a race after the 1984 Firecracker 400 and retiring after the 1992 Hooters 500) and would cement the dominance of the Earnhardt family over the then-current NASCAR scene.