|| *Comments on the 1993 Save Mart Supermarkets 300K:* View the most recent comment <#34> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. Jake posted: 08.19.2004 - 6:03 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) First ever race NASCAR used electronic scoring. 2. MASH_guy posted: 06.08.2005 - 3:32 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was the last victory ever for Bud Moore. 3. SPENCER posted: 01.12.2006 - 3:00 am Rate this comment: (0) (9) Bud Moore a great owner in his own right to bad his last win had to come with a punk like Geoff Bodine. 4. Matt posted: 01.25.2006 - 5:05 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Final Cup start for the legendary Hershel McGriff. 5. Steve posted: 05.04.2006 - 9:14 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Road racing ace P.J. Jones makes his Winston Cup debut. Future Truck Series star Rick Carelli finishes a Winston Cup race for the first time, in the 21st position, which he would tie in Phoenix for his best career finish. Rick Wilson scores a Top 10 for the last time in his career. 6. Rusty posted: 07.28.2006 - 9:04 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Last win to date for crew chief Donnie Wingo, who currently crew chiefs the #42 of Casey Mears 7. Frogger49 posted: 09.16.2006 - 1:22 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Apparently, Geoff Bodine won this race for Bud Moore driving a short track car. This is most likely the last time this has happened in a Winston/Nextel Cup road race. 8. Steve posted: 11.27.2006 - 8:40 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) the best non rudd vs wallace road course battle ever bodine, irvan and rudd had a hell of a race at the end going 3 wide in turn 11 at one point best sears point race great one earnhardt had one of the cars to beat to before a lap car spun in front of him and took off earnhardts front bumper 9. Brock posted: 01.19.2007 - 9:13 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Rick Wilson's best run by far in Richard Petty's #44 car, finishing 8th. 10. Steve posted: 02.04.2007 - 7:16 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) Using a short track car at a road course is actually a logical choice. On short tracks, you need good forward bite (acceleration off the corner) and good brakes. To be quick on a road course, your car needs to have those same two qualities. Also aerodynamics are not really important, since your top speed will not exceed 140-150 mph (except on the backstretch at Watkins Glen). That could be why Rusty Wallace was such a great road racer; just look at his short track stats. 11. Douche Bagolow posted: 08.10.2007 - 3:00 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) This will be the only time we see Mark Martin DNF at Sonoma. 12. Anonymous posted: 10.24.2007 - 8:30 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Final top 10 for Rick Wilson, and his only top ten for Petty Enterprises. 13. Steve.M. posted: 10.28.2007 - 4:01 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Earnhardt was pretty dominant before he got wrecked = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umaIhz2ZBCs A 4 car wreck = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_AUfA6PdnA Finish = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lsge6sNE3s 14. DieselDan posted: 12.10.2007 - 4:33 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Wingo won with Elliot Sadler at Bristol in 2004 and with Juan Pablo Montoya in 2007 at Sonoma. 15. stricklinfan82 posted: 04.22.2008 - 2:27 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Rookie Bobby Labonte had a surprisingly strong run but was forced to make his pit stops behind the wall in the garage area because there was not enough room on pit road for 43 cars, and that killed his track position all day long and eventually put him in a position to be involved in the last lap crash. After this incident NASCAR would create the 'Gilligans Island' pit road for the final few qualifiers and used that to fix the problem for the next several years before ultimately re-configuring the pit area to have one pit road that could fit 43 cars. 16. Ryan posted: 03.06.2009 - 12:40 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Derrike Cope spun Kenball into Earnhardt. No one had anything for Dale that day. 17. Juicebox posted: 03.25.2009 - 4:18 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Great battle for the win between Bodine, Irvan and Rudd. Probably the best road course race I've ever seen, with lots of close racing. Earnhardt dominated the early portion of the race until he was eliminated from victory contention by an incident triggered by Derrike Cope. Earnhardt would somehow climb his way from 36th to 6th in the final laps. Allison and Jarrett wrecked on the white flag restart that shook up the finishing order, and Rusty Wallace loses the point lead after transmission failure. 18. Evan posted: 07.08.2009 - 10:20 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Bud Moore's final win as an owner, he went with Lake Speed banking on his success as a subsititute for Davey Allison before Ernie Irvan took the job was no fluke, however Speed couldn't duplicate his sucess. 19. James-O-Matic posted: 11.05.2009 - 6:25 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) my first race, i was four, dont remember much, but i do remember my dad being surprised by how well bobby labonte was doing. great race. look at hut up there, i wonder if he remembers me... 20. Former Racer posted: 02.24.2010 - 2:29 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This win by Bodine also came soon after it was announced he was purchasing the former Alan Kulwicki team, which was left in flux after Alan's untimely death. 21. Anonymous posted: 06.23.2010 - 3:24 am Rate this comment: (2) (7) To this day, a punk like Bodine purchasing a class organization like Kulwicki built makes me want to puke. 22. Shaun posted: 11.02.2011 - 11:50 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) One of the coolest intro's ever by Espn to this race. 23. Steve posted: 01.20.2013 - 11:47 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) This wasn't just Mark's only DNF at Sonoma, it's he only DNF he has ever had in a Cup Series road race. EVER. In a 30 year career. 24. EyeofTheCougar posted: 01.10.2014 - 2:47 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Best road course race ever!!! Watch on youtube if you haven't seen this 25. Ian posted: 03.30.2014 - 3:07 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The last Cup race for the ageless Hershel McGriff, and also the final Cup start for successful west coast driver Bill Schmidt. These two were longtime competitors in the Riverside and Sears Point events in the 1980s and early 1990s. 26. RaceFanX posted: 08.09.2015 - 9:48 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Points leader Rusty Wallace leads early but gets sidelined with transmission problems. Dale Earnhardt's top-10 combined with Wallace's issues allowed the Intimidator to take the points lead. He would not relinquish it again on his way to the 1993 championship. 27. Steve posted: 10.22.2016 - 8:01 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Dick Trickle drove a Chevrolet in this race. Battalionfan888 has this and many other 1993 Winston Cup races uploaded to YouTube; Part 6 clearly shows Trickle's car as a Chevy Lumina. 28. RaceFanX posted: 10.22.2016 - 9:10 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I went back and watched PART 6 as you instructed (4:07 specifically when Dick spun) and Trickle's car is a Ford Thunderbird like it always was in 1993. No change is required here, it's already right. 29. RaceFanX posted: 11.01.2016 - 12:19 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was Jeff Gordon's first trip to Sonoma so to gain some more track experience Wonder Boy entered the NASCAR Southwest Tour race on the undercard as a warmup for this event. The late model event didn't go well, Gordon blew a motor and finished well down the running order, but the experience paid off as he finished just outside the top-10...and much Sonoma success would be in his future. Hut Stricklin was never much of a road course racer but turns in a solid tenth-place run, his second and last top-10 run of his lone season in Junior Johnson's #27 McDonald's Ford. This was Stricklin's best run at Sonoma. 30. T Ferguson posted: 05.09.2018 - 9:58 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) Interesting recap about this race on this MRN podcast: https://www.mrn.com/2018/02/20/mrn-releases-third-podcast-series-1993-season-25-years-later/ Bodine commented they had some special track bar installed on the car behind Bud Moore's back, since he did not like innovation. 31. Joshua posted: 01.15.2019 - 10:46 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I believe #27 may have been confused about Trickle's make for this race because he actually saw Dave Marcis' car. Marcis ran a white Lumina for this one with blue numerals; the exact opposite of the base scheme he ran many times in the early 90s. 32. Joshua posted: 03.19.2020 - 2:27 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This is the real killer for Rusty's legitimate 1993 title hopes. Nursing a broken wrist causes him to mis-shift and tear out the transmission. It wasn't the 6th place result at Talladega that did him in, but the bad finish here caused by the broken wrist during the flips at Talladega. 33. Canadianfan posted: 05.07.2020 - 12:50 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) According to Mark Martin in an interview with Alan Cavanna around this race he had a sit down with Jack Roush about the possibility of him leaving the team at the end of the year. He was not happy with how things were internally in the team and despite having a long term contract he wanted out. Jack made internal changes after this race and by the summer everything was good with Mark and the team. 34. Rich posted: 12.30.2020 - 3:53 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Bob Jenkins, Ned Jarrett and Benny Parsons were the commentators. Dr. Jerry Punch and John Kernan were the pit road reporters. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: