The 1986 Valleydale 500 was a Winston Cup Series (now Nextel Cup) event held at Bristol Motor Speedway on April 6, 1986. Rusty Wallace won his first career race, leading 174 of the 500 laps in route to a dominating 10.7-second victory on Ricky Rudd. Points leader Darrell Waltrip finished 3rd and expanded his cushion to 31 markers on Terry Labonte (7th). Stats