🏁On November 3, 1985 Bill Elliott won the Atlanta Journal 500 at Atlanta Raceway to become first driver to win 11 super-speedway races in a single season and also first driver to win $2 million in prize money in a single season. With this win, Elliott became the only driver in NASCAR history to pull off the season sweep at four different tracks in one season. Along with the season sweep at Atlanta, he swept Pocono, Michigan, and Darlington. Elliott would lose the title by 101 points to three-ti

🏁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-