Can you tell me something about Bill Elliott?

Question

I was just wondering what kind of driver he was. What you thought of him. Kasey Kahne is my favorite driver and I heard that Bill Elliott used to drive the #9. I didnt pay enough attention to NASCAR when he drove to know anything about him. Was he good? Was he nice? or was he an aggressive driver? Tell me what you know.

Answer 1

I was a Bill Elliott fan for a long time. My dad was an Elliott fan and he raised me to like him as well. When Kasey took over the 9 car, I followed and now I'm a huge Kahneiac! Bill was a great driver. He only managed to capture one championship, but he was the most popular driver for many, many years. He wasn't very aggressive, especially after breaking his leg a few years back. When he first broke into NASCAR, he had many memorable fueds with Dale Earnhardt (senior). He won the first Winston Million in 1988, which is why he is nicknamed "Million Dollar" Bill.

Answer 2

Bill Elliott won the championship and was a good driver not out to wreck you or spin you out of the way

I was a Bill Elliott fan that is why I know am a big Kasey Kahne fan go # 9

Answer 3

Along with David Pearson, the greatest Super-speedway driver of all time. From Dawsonville, Georgia. Most of his wins were in the #9 Coors Ford or the UAW Dodge although he drove the #11 for Junior Johnson and won 6 of his 44 wins in the #11. He would have won his last race in the #9 had he not had a blowout in Miami on the last lap when he was leading. He was never aggressive and most other drivers respected him. If NASCAR had not had restrictor plates put in cars, he would have probably won 10-20 more races.

Answer 4

bill elliott was the most popular driver in nascar history winning the award 16 times also elliott dominated the superspeedways before restrictor plates owning the track records at both daytona and talladega ,elliott won the winston million and was nick named million dollar bill from dawsonville,elliott was the 1988 winston cup champion and was named to the nascar 50 greatest drivers list ,awsome bill was also known as one of the cleanest drivers and fan freindliest drivers as well , i am a kahne fan now but will always be a elliott fan it really hurt when he stepped down but kasey who has a driving style much like elliott has eased the loss of elliott as a driver
GO KASEY #9

Answer 5

Bill Elliott, has always been one of the cleanest, nicest, drivers on the circuit. He has drove many dif. car #s that I can remember. His best years were in the #9 Coors Melling Thunderbird and the #11 Budweiser Ford. He also drove the McDonald's #94 for quite a few years. The #9 car was his last full-time ride in the cup series. "Awesome Bill from Dawsonville" holds the record for the fastest driver in stock car history when he drove over 200 miles per hour at Talladega. No one will beat that record in NASCAR, since they now use the restrictor plates at the big tracks (Talladega & Daytona). Bill didnt have to be very aggresive in his good years, he was so fast that no one was around him.

Answer 6

At one time, Bill Elliott was voted most popular driver a few years in a row just like Jr. is now.

He was called 'Million Dollar Bill' because he was the first to win over a million in one season.
Winston put up 1 million dollars to any driver who could win the 3 biggest races of the year. Daytona 500, Coca Cola 600 and I forget the last one. Anyway Winston figured it wasn't possible from past statistics and the story is they didn't even put it in there budget!
But that first year Bill Elliott pulled it off and won all three and got the million bucks!

Answer 7

Elliott was the most popular driver for many years.He run the number 9 for melling and Evernham,he started his own team and had hoped it would be passed on to his nephew Casey Elliott(Casey died of cancer,he was an up and coming driver when the cancer took him)
Bill has been offered several rides(part time) but is not intrested at this time.

Answer 8

Bill Elliot deserved the adoration he got. He was an aggressive, yet clean racer. He and his brother/crew chief, Ernie, dominated the sport for a while. Bill has remained humble, never forgetting that the fans are the reason for the sport. I remember when he won at Daytona after having been two laps down, and that was long before the "lucky dog" pass. He raced himself back into the lead.
He is truly one of the Good Guys.

Answer 9

I actually got to meet Bill face to face. He was a very good driver and a nice guy to boot. He won a championship in 1988, and finished in the top 10 in points 13 times. He was known for being a thinking driver and always made smart decisions. He was good at most tracks, particularly road courses. He's one of my favorite retired drivers.

Answer 10

Elliot did have a good run and for a few short years was dominate, especially on Superspeedways prior to the restrictor plate. I would classify him as aggressive/clean as he usually drove one speed, wide open. Usually any contact he made was a misjudgement, not with malice or intent, unless it involved Bodine or Earnhardt. Earnhardt usually deserved it and Bodine always did.


I remember watching Elliot from the grandstand at Darlington as he ran down Earnhardt from a long way back with a smoking car at the end of a long green flag run for the win in the 1994 Southern 500.

Anybody that can do that was good and although I'm an Earnhardt fan, it was fun to watch. When he finally got to Earnhardt, Dale didn't block him, he didn't wreck him as he went by, no, he just moved over and let him go. Probably only because, like everyone else at the track that day, Dale figured he was going to blow his engine anyway. He didn't and won going away!

He does still hold the track record for Daytona but he is no longer the fastest stock car driver ever.

That honor was taken over by Rusty Wallace when he set a new record for Talladega in June, 2004.

Elliot's old record at Talladega was 212.809 mph (44.998 seconds) set April 30, 1987.

Rusty's official timed lap was 216.309 mph (44.27 seconds). They were timing lap segments as well as laps. On his record run, during 1 lap segment his speed hit 221 mph and at the end of the straight was clocked at 228 mph.


Elliots record was set with a finely tuned unrestricted engine and a set-up for the high speeds.

Wallace ran a car with a guess on the set-up and an engine that wasn't tweaked for maximum performance as no one knew how fast he would be going.

Rusty stated that with a little tweaking on the car and engine, 235 mph would easily be possible for a lone car on the track.

I would reason that in a 20 car draft, 250 mph would be possible.

The test was requested by Nextel and Racing Radios in order to test new communications equipment at higher speeds. NASCAR invited Rusty to run the test and was allowed to run an unrestricted engine for the test.

"It was one of the most exciting experiences I've had in a long time," said Earl Barban, spotter for Wallace's team who was on the other end of the communications link with Wallace during his fast laps around the Talladega track. "One of the things that impressed me most was the sound of the engine screaming down the straightaways and into the turns."