|| *Comments on the 1993 Gatorade Twin 125 Qualifier #2:* View the most recent comment <#14> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. Steve posted: 07.29.2006 - 12:41 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jimmy Means was injured in a crash during Speedweeks, so the reigning Rookie of the Year Jimmy Hensley replaced him until Means returned in Atlanta. 2. Anonymous posted: 09.16.2007 - 7:13 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) DNQ:James Hylton, Kerry Teague, Mike Potter, Brad Teague, Jeff Purvis, A. J. Foyt. 3. RaceFanX posted: 08.11.2008 - 10:02 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) A.J. Foyt is unsuccessful in his last attempt to make the Daytona 500. Mostly retired at this point, he would return to run the Brickyard 400 the next year (and attempt it annually until 1997) 4. BMB5150 posted: 02.07.2011 - 3:09 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Yeah this Twin 125 never aired in Los Angeles County and other places near LA. They first broke away from the first race to show the jury of the OJ Simpson case be driven down in a black bus going 45 mph driven to the scene of the crime and rehashing the same stuff of what has already been said up to that point. My father and many many other people were livid and managed to get in a little box with no audio the first 125, but the director was a moron, and didn't know there was a 2nd race so it never aired at all. 5. jamie88fan@yahoo.com posted: 05.12.2011 - 1:05 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) I hate tell u this but this race happen in 93 and the oj thing was on 95 so i dont know what you are talking about lol ... 6. saltsburgtrojanfan posted: 02.16.2015 - 8:57 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Caution 1: Lap 5-8: #16,51 spun turn 4 Caution 2: Lap 12-14: #46,52 accident turn 2 7. RaceFanX posted: 08.13.2015 - 8:18 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor: #46 Al Unser Jr.- Valvoline Synthetic (only for the 125, his standard Valvoline sponsorship is right for the 500) Al Unser Jr. came to Daytona in a Rick Hendrick entry sponsored by Valvoline, his IndyCar sponsor at the time. Valvoline already promoted its regular motor oil on NASCAR regular Mark Martin's car so Unser arrived at Daytona with his car painted in the colors of Valvoline Synthetic. The general design of the paint job on Unser's Lumina was similar to Martin's Thunderbird but the #46 swapped Mark's white, blue, and red scheme for taupe, orange and black. Unser's sharp looking car never made it to the grid for the 500 as it was destroyed in a crash during this race. The backup car Little Al drove in the 500 was painted in Ken Schrader's Kodiak white and green colors with Valvoline stickers hastily added. 8. Matthew Lewis posted: 08.01.2016 - 6:38 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) James Hylton narrowly missed making the 500 in a Stavola Bros backup #8, renumbered to Hilton's 48 but keeping the Raybestos blue & white base colors. Don't know why he was in their car for this race or possibly all of Speedweeks but he drove a heckuva race! 9. 27YearsBehind posted: 07.25.2019 - 8:27 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) What was the rule back in 1993 about drivers such as Rusty that DNF'd in a qualifying race? Did he get in on a past Champion's provisional, or 1992 points? If that had been a new team with the same result, am I correct in thinking that that would have been the end of his Daytona hopes for 1993, or was the single lap qualifying time factored in somehow? 10. Mile501 posted: 07.25.2019 - 10:10 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) @9 - In comparing the 4 pages listed below, it seems that the format was similar to what we had during the early to mid 2000s. The front row was set through time trials, then positions 3-30 were filled from the top 15 finishers in each Twin 125, and positions 31-40 were filled from time trials. Rusty Wallace's speed was good enough to get in, but I am not sure why he started 34th. Based on time trials, he should have started 38th. Otherwise, everything matches up as it should, with the drivers from 31st through 40th being those drivers who had the quickest speeds among those who did not race their way in. The way things worked out, the top 40 in time trials all ended up in the Daytona 500, either through the qualifiers or on speed (no one who was outside the top 40 in time trials made it in through the Twin 125s in 1993). One remaining mystery is how Dave Marcis made the Daytona 500. The only thing I can think of is that they gave the 41st spot to the driver highest in the previous season's points who wasn't already in the race. He was 18th in his qualifying race and posted the 45th fastest time, neither of which was good enough to make the Daytona 500 on their own. https://www.racing-reference.info/race/1993-01/Q https://www.racing-reference.info/race/1993-02/Q https://www.racing-reference.info/race?s=2&series=W&id=1993-01 https://www.racing-reference.info/getqualify/1993-01/W 11. Corey posted: 07.25.2019 - 12:39 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @10 I think provisional were already in use by then. I remember in 1996 that the last four spots were provisional spots for each race 12. Mile501 posted: 07.25.2019 - 1:01 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @11 - If there was a provisional, there was only one for Dave Marcis. Maybe that's what it was. There certainly wasn't more than one provisional, though, because Al Unser Jr. started 40th in a 4th Hendrick team that had no points. 13. Corey posted: 07.25.2019 - 1:18 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @13 I'm looking at the DNQ's for the 500 and none of them look like teams that ran full-time. Marcis's 71 team did run all 1992 so they would have been the highest in owners points. 14. TooSmartForThis posted: 07.25.2019 - 1:27 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The Daytona 500 usually had special provisional rules from the early days. Other than that it was usually left up to NASCAR and the race promoters whether they wanted to use provisionals or not. In 1994 NASCAR began reserving the bottom two positions on the grid at every race for the two cars highest in owner's points that hadn't qualified. The "modern" provisional system - where teams had limited numbers of provisionals to use and earned them based on races attempted - was started in 1995, when the bottom four positions were reserved for every race. This was eventually increased to six (plus the champion's provisional) in 1997 when the field size was increased to be the same at every track. In 1998 they made the 43rd spot permanent, whether the last provisional was taken by a past champion or not. Then they of course started locking in the top 35 in 2005, but that awful rule is best forgotten. Although the short fields of today do kind of make me miss those days... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: