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[Edilma Howard]

The 1986 Summer 500 was the 16th stock car race of the 1986 NASCAR Winston Cup Series and the 14th iteration of the event. The race was held on Sunday, July 20, 1986, before an audience of 60,000 in Long Pond, Pennsylvania, at Pocono Raceway, a 2.5 miles (4.0 km) triangular permanent course. The race was shortened from its scheduled 200 laps to 150 laps due to a combination of rain, darkness, and fog.[1]

In the final laps of the race, Hendrick Motorsports teammates Tim Richmond and Geoff Bodine engaged in a dogfight for the lead. As the two rubbed fenders throughout driving the last two turns, Bud Moore Engineering's Ricky Rudd was able to charge his way into the fray, and by the time all three drivers got out of the last turn, Rudd and Richmond were side-by-side for the lead. At the time, Richmond bested out Rudd by a foot, in the process managing to come back from a lap down to claim the victory. The victory was Richmond's eighth career NASCAR Winston Cup Series victory and his third victory of the season. To fill out the top three, Bodine finished third.[2][3]

The race was held at Pocono International Raceway, which is a three-turn superspeedway located in Long Pond, Pennsylvania. The track hosts two annual NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races, as well as one Xfinity Series and Camping World Truck Series event. Until 2019, the track also hosted an IndyCar Series race.

Pocono International Raceway is one of a very few NASCAR tracks not owned by either Speedway Motorsports, Inc. or International Speedway Corporation. It is operated by the Igdalsky siblings Brandon, Nicholas, and sister Ashley, and cousins Joseph IV and Chase Mattioli, all of whom are third-generation members of the family-owned Mattco Inc, started by Joseph II and Rose Mattioli.

Qualifying was originally scheduled to be split into two rounds. The first round was scheduled to be held on Friday, March 14, at 10:00 AM EST. Originally, the first 20 positions were going to be determined by first round qualifying, with positions 21-40 meant to be determined later in the day at 3:00 PM EST.[4] However, due to rain, the first round was cancelled. As a result, qualifying was both delayed for almost four hours and condensed into one round for all starting grid spots in the race. Depending on who needed it, a select amount of positions were given to cars who had not otherwise qualified but were high enough in owner's points; up to two were given.[5]

Thirty days. That's how long Harry Hyde gave me to make a good impression on him upon my arrival at Hendrick Motorsports on July 9, 1984. Harry was the crew chief for the No. 5 car of Geoff Bodine at the time and other than Mr. Hendrick, he was the boss at the top of the hill. If he liked me after 30 days, I could keep working as a body man painter on the No. 5 car at Hendrick Motorsports. If not, I was to go back home to Ohio and find a job there.

I remember that 1986 Summer 500 like it was yesterday. Rain poured from the sky as lightning cracked across the clouds. The roar of the thunder rivaled the rumbling of the unrestricted engines. I had moved up in the ranks and was now working as a paint supervisor on the No. 25 car.

When NASCAR officials waved the red flag for inclement weather, I went over to Tim's No. 25 Chevy with an umbrella, my feet sloshing around in several inches of rain water. He took one look at me and the umbrella and said, "What do you have an umbrella for? Look at my feet!"

Since the days of Tim Richmond, Hendrick Motorsports has dominated "The Tricky Triangle," collecting a series-high 16 wins since its opening in 1984. And as we've won the past four races at the track, I have no doubt in my mind that this week will be no exception. Tim put a young Hendrick Motorsports on the map early on, and we're here to stay for a long time.

Each summer brings hot weather to the Carolinas, but occasionally a period of exceptional heat develops and lingers for days or weeks. These heat waves can injure or kill people, animals, and plants exposed to the sun and hot temperatures for long periods of time. Large electrical demand for air conditioning can, in exceptional cases, lead to local or regional power disruptions. Crops and livestock can also be affected by drought, which has accompanied many of our worst heat waves. Destructive wildfires can spread in the dry conditions during these drought/heat wave combinations.

Interestingly, most Carolina heat waves originate as a region of well-above normal temperatures in Ontario, Canada three or four days before reaching the Carolinas. This Canadian heat is typically the result of high pressure over the Great Lakes and unusual upper level ridging over eastern Canada. If this high pressure region is forced to move south, the heat will follow it down through the eastern United States. The heat wave then begins across the Carolinas as the high moves into Georgia, often merging with the Bermuda High offshore. Westerly winds blowing across the Appalachians experience compressional heating as they descend the eastern slopes of the mountains, adding to the already hot temperatures. Sinking atmospheric motion associated with the upper level ridge further heats and dries the air aloft, creating an environment where clouds and afternoon thunderstorms cannot easily develop.

Very few Carolina heat waves extend south to the Gulf Coast or Florida as this typically requires the high pressure region to be located farther west. Since our heat waves often originate to the north, many of the dates associated with the worst Carolina heat waves also show up in heat wave studies for Virginia through the Midwest and Great Lakes.

Heat waves across the Carolinas also correlate very well with below-normal temperatures along the Pacific Coast of the United States and the Canadian Rockies, and sometimes across eastern Quebec and Newfoundland, too. This is the result of cold troughs both west and east of the anomalously hot ridge that covers the eastern United States during these heat events.

Below are shown composite 850 millibar temperature anomalies leading into the eleven worst heat wave events in North and South Carolina history dating back to 1952. Four days before the heat wave begins, large positive temperature anomalies are noted across Ontario, Canada. This positive temperature anomaly moves southward through the Mid-Atlantic states and into the Carolinas where it remains throughout the duration of the heat event.

The summer of 1952 was (at the time) the hottest summer ever recorded across the eastern half of the United States. Well above-normal temperatures during most of June became exceptionally hot for the last week of the month as surface high pressure developed across Florida and upper level high pressure centered itself overhead. All-time high temperatures were recorded in a number of locations including Wilmington, NC where the temperature hit 104 degrees on June 27th, 1952, a record that still stands today. New Bern, NC reached 106 degrees on July 22, 1952, setting not just their all-time record high temperature but also their all-time highest daily average temperature of 93.5 degrees. (The morning low was a sticky 81 degrees)

High temperatures were only in the 80s and lower 90s for the first half of July, but the heat wave came roaring back on July 18th. In Florence and Columbia, SC 100+ degree temperatures occurred on 8 out of 11 days from July 20th through July 30th. New Bern, NC recorded its all-time record high temperature of 106 on July 22th, and Hickory, NC set its all-time record high of 105 on July 29th. At least six deaths were blamed on the heat, and agricultural losses to the tobacco crop in North Carolina alone may have approached $10 million. The impact this heat wave had on the people living here is magnified by the fact that very few homes had air conditioning in 1952.

Just two years after the intense heat of 1952, another historic heat wave developed during the summer of 1954. All-time high temperature records were established including 104 degrees in Charlotte, NC; 106 degrees in Conway, SC; and 108 in Florence, SC. Temperatures over 100 degrees were recorded virtually everywhere across the Carolinas except for the mountains and the Outer Banks. Roxboro, NC got to 104 degrees on July 14th, and Gastonia, NC set its all-time record high of 107 on June 27th. Camden, SC had a sizzling 111 degrees on June 28, 1954, the all-time record high for that town.

Hot weather occurred in multiple periods throughout the summer, separated by periods of near-normal temperatures. Temperatures somewhere in North or South Carolina were above 100 degrees almost every day from June 22nd through July 8th. A second period of sustained hot weather developed July 29th and lasted through August 5th, followed by a third period from August 16th through August 27th. The final 100 degree readings of the year occurred on September 6th with 104 degrees recorded in both Raleigh and Charlotte, NC.

After a period of over 20 years without a significant heat wave, temperatures soared above 100 degrees across most of the Carolinas during July of 1977. Darlington, SC recorded 12 consecutive days with high temperatures at or above 100 degrees from July 5th to July 16th followed by 108 degrees on July 21st, the second hottest recorded in Darlington's history. Burlington and Yadkinville, NC both recorded their all-time record highs of 105 degrees July 8th. Chapel Hill, NC hit 105 on July 9th while in the middle of a string of five consecutive 100+ days. North Carolina's poultry industry suffered heavy losses during this heat wave; many tens of thousands of chickens and turkeys died on farms in Penderlea and Rose Hill, NC. Drought conditions coupled with the high temperatures led to a large fish kill on the Neuse River in eastern North Carolina.

This heat wave wasn't confined to just the Carolinas; exceptionally hot weather was experienced in the Northeast as well. New York City's Central Park recorded 102 degrees on July 19th, then 104 degrees on July 21st. Heat was responsible for at least seven deaths in the St. Louis, MO area.

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