1996 Brickyard 400
No Driver Team Manufacturer Time Speed Grid
24 Jeff Gordon Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 51.015 176.419† 1
6 Mark Martin Roush Racing Ford 51.159 175.922 2
9 Lake Speed Melling Racing Ford 51.183 175.840 3
25 Ken Schrader Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 51.298 175.445 4
77 Bobby Hillin , Jr Jasper Motorsports Ford 51.328 175.343 5
87 Joe Nemechek NEMCO Motorsports Chevrolet 51.331 175.333 6
94 Bill Elliott Bill Elliott Racing Ford 51.390 175.131 7
1 Rick Mast Precision Products Racing Pontiac 51.406 175.077 8
5 Terry Labonte Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 51.413 175.053 9
29 Greg Sacks Diamond Ridge Motorsports Chevrolet 51.439 174.965 10
4 Sterling Marlin Morgan-McClure Motorsports Chevrolet 51.443 174.951 11
3 Dale Earnhardt Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 51.455 174.910 12
42 Kyle Petty Team SABCO Pontiac 51.455 174.910 13
30 Johnny Benson , Jr. # Bahari Racing Pontiac 51.465 174.876 14
28 Ernie Irvan Robert Yates Racing Ford 51.502 174.750 15
8 Hut Stricklin Stavola Brothers Racing Ford 51.513 174.713 16
2 Rusty Wallace Penske Racing South Ford 51.515 174.706 17
15 Wally Dallenbach , Jr Bud Moore Engineering Ford 51.589 174.456 18
98 Jeremy Mayfield Cale Yarborough Racing Ford 51.592 174.446 19
23 Jimmy Spencer Travis Carter Enterprises Ford 51.597 174.429 20
Results -- Qualifying
The 1996 Brickyard 400, the 3rd running of the event, was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race held on August 3, 1996, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana. The race was the nineteenth of the 1996 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season. Jeff Gordon of Hendrick Motorsports won the pole position with a speed of , while Robert Yates Racing's Dale Jarrett won the race. The track had been repaved, and speeds had been reported to have increased by .