in the 1991 race, sonoma became famous, with seven laps remaining in the race, mark martin tried to pass tommy kendall, who cut his tire, subbing for an injured kyle petty, the two made contact, resulting in martin crashing and running into davey allison, cutting his tire. and the lead went to davey allison, then with 2 laps to go, ricky rudd passed allison for the lead, but spun out from contact in the final turn.