35 years ago at Darlington Raceway, Bill Elliott became "Million Dollar Bill." The Winston Million was awarded to anyone that was able to win three of the four Grand Slam NASCAR races in a single year, and Bill became the first to win it in 1985. #NASCARThrowback | NASCAR on NBC

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🏁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-