🏁On September 1, 1985 NASCAR’s Winston Million program paid out when Bill Elliott took the win in the Southern 500, thus winning 3 of NASCAR’s 4 biggest races (he'd won the Daytona 500 and Winston 500 earlier in the year). Challenges by Dale Earnhardt and Cale Yarborough fell apart; Yarborough finished 2nd despite breaking a power steering line. The million-dollar program made Elliott’s winnings the highest in NASCAR history up to that point. The only major of the 4 he did not win was the Coca-