|| *Comments on the 1993 GM Goodwrench 500:* View the most recent comment <#21> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. Evan posted: 04.06.2006 - 3:23 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Rusty Wallace wins his first race of the season which would begin his reign of terror in the win column. Phil Parsons gets a top ten for his effort. And Jeff Gordon suffered an engine failure in his second race. 2. Steve posted: 07.31.2006 - 8:34 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Don't forget Jeff had one start in 1992. Notables: (finishing position in parentheses) Johnny Chapman's lone Cup start (36th) Ed Ferree's best Cup finish (27th) Jerry Hill's best season start and only retirement due to a crash (38th) James Hylton's 600th start (40th) Sterling Marlin's 250th start (28th) Mark Martin's 100th Winston Cup Top 10 (5th) Mike Potter's best season finish (37th) 3. chris posted: 10.19.2006 - 7:40 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Harry gant was going for the win til engine trouble 4. James W. McLaughlin posted: 05.02.2007 - 3:19 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Cale Yarborough's car, driven by Derrike Cope, has a new number - #98, beginning with this race. 5. myself posted: 05.17.2007 - 6:15 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Caly Yarborough Motorsports would remain #98 til' the team folded following the Rick Mast debacle. 6. FHgrad99 posted: 08.19.2007 - 5:38 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Phil Parsons gave Larry Hedrick's team their first ever top 10 finish in this race. 7. Mark O. posted: 04.24.2008 - 9:04 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I seem to recall that the number was changed due to a sponsor request...Bojangles had 98 menu items at the time. 8. Juicebox posted: 03.25.2009 - 3:29 am Rate this comment: (2) (0) I miss the 500 mile marathons at places like Rockingham. Yes, there are long stretches of green that spread the field out, but over the course of long events handling and savvy crew chiefs, along with gritty, determined drivers can often play key roles. Early in the race Wallace ran middle-of-the-pack, while Earnhardt dominated. By halfway things had reversed. Timely cautions and changing weather conditions caused Earnhardt's handling to fade and allowed Wallace to take command. In the end, Rusty breezed to victory while Earnhardt wrestled his car to hold on to second. It wasn't the greatest race in history or even in the top 5 for the year, but it was a microcosm of a season in 500 miles. 9. 18fan posted: 05.23.2009 - 5:19 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Most of the laps Irvan lead were because he pitted 20 laps earlier than everybody. 10. 18fan posted: 10.10.2009 - 7:05 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) During this race Mike Joy said Ted Musgrave would become a household name during the year. Musgrave finished 25th in points and DNQed for a race. 11. Bobby posted: 04.12.2010 - 3:40 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Mark, I think I remember the reason for the number change being that Bojangles' breakfast biscuits were 98 cents at the time. 12. Schroeder51 posted: 11.06.2010 - 10:27 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Bobby Labonte got up off the ground in his accident on the backstretch. 13. 18fan posted: 12.26.2010 - 3:30 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Watching it right now, Bojangles had a value meal that was 98 cents. 14. Ben posted: 03.11.2015 - 3:59 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I really think Harry could have won this race if not for engine trouble with 30 some laps to go. 15. Josh posted: 03.31.2016 - 5:30 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) I think Cope's 98 Bojangles car was black at first before it went to the all yellow. It made sense to change the number, the only reason it was 66 in the first place was to match the Phillips 66 sponsorship. I think both Cale and Bojangles realized that wasn't necessary anymore. 98 was also the number Cale's friend LeeRoy Yarbrough used for most of his career, so going from 66 to 98 seemed to make sense on multiple levels. 16. RaceFanX posted: 03.31.2016 - 6:45 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Pennsylvania's Ed Ferree makes his lone Winston Cup oval start. This was the second of his three starts and the other two were both at Watkins Glen. 17. Joshua posted: 10.05.2018 - 5:32 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Kyle Petty, who at the time treated Rockingham as his personal playground, was running third during the first green flag run before green flag pit stops but had a clutch problem after his first pit stop and the 42 team lost a bunch of time/laps repairing the issue. During the second caution, Mike Potter spun coming out of Turn 2, either due to driver error or some other outside cause, and Schrader tried to scoot by on the outside, but Potter's rear clipped Schrader's left rear, and Schrader went around and into the Turn 2 wall with the left rear. Jerry Hill's car was the typical red base with yellow trim. It was a Chevrolet for this race instead of the Pontiac they usually ran. Hill was also a part of the second caution; whether he got a piece of the Potter/Schrader crash is unknown, but he did have left front damage that killed the steering on the car, and he came to a stop just out of Turn 4 before the first dogleg. I'd disagree that Ernie Irvan led the majority of his laps solely by being off pit sequence. He led from the front row very early in the race, and then after the restart for the second caution, took the lead from Earnhardt. The second accident and third caution was caused when Ted Musgrave and Geoff Bodine got into it coming out of Turn 4. Neither of those drivers spun, but Dale Jarrett checked up and in doing so, got tapped by Rick Wilson and spun around. Way behind that, Kenny Wallace slowed down quicker than Darrell Waltrip did, and Waltrip got into the back of Kenny pretty significantly, spinning Kenny around and shoving the nose of the 17 car in pretty badly. DW had to go behind the wall to make repairs. Johnny Chapman's (yes, the same Johnny Chapman that ran the 01 in the Nationwide Series) spin was due to getting into the leader at the time, Ernie Irvan. Ernie was going by on the outside and the 64 drifted up into him, causing him to go around. Ernie was able to continue fine. James Hylton's car was primarily black with a red down with the Rumple Furniture sponsorship. Mike Potter's #77 car was a black base with yellow trim and looked exactly like Mark Thompson's #62 that ran at Pocono the previous season. Both were Henley Gray owned cars so perhaps an arrangement was made with Potter and Gray to run the car here. Johnny Chapman's #64 car was solid blue with white numerals. Ed Ferree's #05 was almost 50/50 red and white with blue numerals. Jimmy Hensley, driving for Jimmy Means, piloted the #52 that was solid black with silver numerals. The team lost three NAPA cars at Daytona the previous race weekend so they very well may have been more toward the bottom of their inventory than they would have liked in Race 2. 18. Jimnsimforever posted: 02.01.2019 - 8:48 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @10 At the time that would've been what all the racing experts and race fans were thinking about Ted Musgrave in Cup. You have to look at the trajectory of the start of his Nascar career (which like half the guys in those days and before didn't start until his mid 30s). He had a great 2nd year in that 55 car in 1992. 1993 started off looking like it could go even better in the last year of his contract in that car with a solid Daytona and then 7th place run in the second race. They had a disappointing year in 1993 but Ted Musgrave did pretty well after that for the rides he was in for the rest of his career. 19. Chase9Fan posted: 06.05.2020 - 2:10 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The first Rusty Wallace victory I was able to see live. Seen him win a few times live. 20. SweetRich posted: 07.05.2020 - 10:13 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The first race for Cale Yarborough using the #98 after changing numbers from #66 after the 500. The first of five straight top eighteen finishes for Derrike Cope competing in the Bojangles' machine. 21. SweetRich21/43 posted: 07.23.2020 - 6:16 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The commentators were Mike Joy, Buddy Baker and Neil Bonnett. The pit road reporters were Glenn Jarrett and Randy Pemberton. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: