The rain caused NASCAR to cancel qualifying at Texas Motor Speedway Saturday morning, so the first 35 in OWNERS points made the InterState Batteries 500 with the remaining 8 (the field will be 43) determined by postmark of their entries. The following teams made the show on that basis and are the 36th-43rd starters: 71,36,97,20,42,77,91 and 78. Missing the show included: 02,19,27,29,46,66(HB Bailey),74(Randy LaJoie),95 and 96. In practice the #29 was 5th fastest and the #95 was 6th fastest, yet they went home(4-5-97)
