1995 Pizza Plus 150 - NASCAR Race

Name of Race:	1995 Pizza Plus 150
Name of Track:	Bristol Motor Speedway
Date:	June 23rd

Bristol Motor Speedway could very easily have opened in 1961 under a different name. The first proposed site for the speedway was in Piney Flats but, according to Carl Moore, who built the track along with Larry Carrier and R.G. Pope, the idea met local opposition. So the track that could have been called Piney Flats International Speedway, was built five miles down the road on Highway 11-E in Bristol.

A Smaller Charlotte Motor Speedway

The land, upon which Bristol Motor Speedway is built, used to be a dairy farm. Larry Carrier and Carl Moore traveled to Charlotte Motor Speedway in 1960 to watch a race and it was then that they decided to build a speedway in northeast Tennessee. However, they wanted a smaller model of CMS, something with a more intimate setting and opted to erect a half-mile facility instead of mirroring the 1.5-mile track in Charlotte.

Work began on what was then called Bristol International Speedway in 1960 and it took approximately one year to finish. Carrier, Moore and Pope scratched many ideas for the track on envelopes and brown paper bags.

Purchase of the land on which Bristol Motor Speedway now sits, as well as initial construction of the track, cost approximately $600,000. The entire layout for Bristol Motor Speedway covered 100 acres and provided parking for more than 12,000 cars. The track itself was a perfect half-mile, measuring 60 feet wide on the straightaways, 75 feet wide in the turns and the turns were banked at 22 degrees.

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1995 Pizza Plus 150 NASCAR Race Results

Below are the race results for 1995 Pizza Plus 150, in order of finishing place.

Fin	Driver	Num	Start	Money	Laps	Status	Sponsor
1	Joe Ruttman	84	22	$28,550	150	running	Irvan-Simo Racing
2	Geoffrey Bodine	7	24	$12,000	150	running	Exide Batteries
3	Butch Miller	98	5	$8,000	150	running	Raybestos
6	Jack Sprague	31	6	$4,150	150	running	Performance Race Cars
8	Scott Lagasse	24	12	$3,300	150	running	DuPont Refinishes
9	Ron Hornaday, Jr.	16	23	$0	150	running	Papa John's Pizza
10	Bob Keselowski	29	26	$3,550	149	running	Winnebago
11	Tobey Butler	21	4	$3,150	149	running	Ortho Lawn & Garden Care
12	Walker Evans	20	8	$3,100	147	running	Barbary Coast
14	Mike Bliss	2	7	$3,000	146	running	Ultra Custom Wheels
15	Randy Churchill	55	14	$2,875	145	running	Landair Transport
16	P.J. Jones	1	25	$2,900	145	running	Sears DieHard
18	Bob Brevak	34	16	$2,525	142	running	Scaffidi Mack
19	Jerry Churchill	88	17	$2,750	139	running	Churchill Motorsports
20	Mike Skinner	3	21	$2,650	139	running	GM Goodwrench Service
21	T.J. Clark	23	18	$2,225	135	running	ASE / American Racing Wheels
22	Jerry Glanville	81	9	$2,150	120	running	Glanville Motorsports
23	Rick Carelli	6	3	$1,900	107	running	Total Petroleum
25	Jimmy Hensley	30	2	$1,475	46	rocker arm	Taylor Togs
27	Mike Chase	62	29	$1,425	4	engine	Total Petroleum