|| *Comments on the 1993 Coca-Cola 600:* View the most recent comment <#33> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. Jake posted: 12.14.2004 - 10:24 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) A great comeback done by Dale Earnhardt Sr. in this race. He was speeding down pit road and was penalized a lap, then he wrecked Greg Sacks on a restart and was penalized another lap. He made both laps back and in the end, The Legendary Intimidator beat The Rookie Wonderboy, as he'd call Gordon. 2. SPENCER posted: 01.12.2006 - 3:02 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Spencer came home a strong 7th,also a good run by Phil Parsons.Racin' Racin' Racin' 3. Steve posted: 11.27.2006 - 8:45 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) First Coke 600 they had with the day into night time slot 4. biffle16 posted: 02.07.2007 - 12:58 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Dale wins in his 500th start. 5. biffle16 posted: 02.26.2007 - 10:58 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sorry, it wasn't his 500th. I didn't add correctly. 6. Anonymous posted: 06.22.2007 - 7:36 pm Rate this comment: (1) (3) You've got to be impressed by Brett Bodine's run. 7. Anonymous posted: 10.14.2007 - 9:12 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Mark Martin blew up on a restart running 2nd. 8. RaceFanX posted: 01.31.2008 - 10:51 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Jeff Gordon leads 3 laps in route to a career best to that point finish of 2nd. Jeff matched his 2nd at MIS later in the year but would have to wait another full year from this race for points-paying victory #1 9. Anonymous posted: 04.29.2008 - 10:09 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) A classic 1-2 between Dale and Jeff. Great run for Rookie Bobby Labonte. Also, good run for Parsons in Hedrick-owned car. 10. Darrell posted: 05.24.2008 - 8:54 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Rick Crawford attempted this race but did not qualify. Ten years later, he became one of the drivers to beat in the Truck Series. 11. Mike posted: 06.24.2008 - 5:35 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Bobby Labonte's 1st career top 10 finish. 12. Ryan posted: 08.19.2008 - 11:17 am Rate this comment: (3) (0) You can't keep a good man down people! 13. Juicebox posted: 04.24.2009 - 2:10 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Dale Earnhardt overcomes a pit road speeding penalty and a rough driving penalty to win. After leading much of the middle stages, Earnhardt made a routine green flag stop and was hit with a speeding violation. When the caution cameout a few laps later, Earnhardt found himself a lap behind Dale Jarrett and Bobby Labonte, who hadn't pitted. Earnhardt later recieved a penalty for spinning Greg Sacks off turn four, an incident which brought out the caution Earnhardt needed to catch Jarrett. Again he was a lap down, but roared back to win over Jeff Gordon in a Chevy sweep of the top 5. This was the first 600 run in late afternoon into evening. 14. DaleSrFanForever posted: 07.12.2011 - 9:45 pm Rate this comment: (2) (2) Dale didn't touch Sacks. I don't know what NASCAR was looking at. Oh well, they let Dale slide a few times when they probably shouldn't have. Plus it just added even more to his legend. Overcoming that to win the first day into night race at Charlotte. 15. SkoalBandit posted: 08.27.2011 - 6:55 pm Rate this comment: (0) (3) Dale said about the Sacks incident "I mighta got aginn him, but I didn't hit him". So basically he was saying, in southern slang, that he didn't "hit" Sacks, but he got against his bumper and pushed him around. 16. 18fan posted: 07.04.2013 - 5:39 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ernie Irvan had the only car capable of running with Dale Earnhardt at the end of the race, but he did not make a pit stop when everybody else did during the last caution and faded to 5th on older tires. He either would've won or given Earnhardt a run for his money, because other than a brief challenge by Schrader, Earnhardt cruised to the win once he took the lead from Irvan. 17. Destroyahirismix666 posted: 09.14.2013 - 6:29 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Wait... On the Chicago page that has been uploaded recently, someone said that this race's victory had just been given to Gordon... Was that a troll comment? 18. ericthenau posted: 10.25.2013 - 8:31 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Destroyahirismix666, you're 100% correct. Someone else (the poster of comment #14 in THIS race here) just was trying to make a false claim that Dale Earnhardt should have finished 41st for this race from being penalized two times in this race... and then actually winning it. If that happened, Rusty Wallace would have won the 1993 NASCAR Winston Cup Series championship by 58 points over Earnhardt rather than losing to him by 80! 19. Ed posted: 11.06.2013 - 12:35 am Rate this comment: (0) (1) Honestly, Jeff Gordon should have won this race. It's a testament to Earnhardt's talent that he was able to earn both laps back 20. wrank fakefield posted: 04.21.2014 - 3:28 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) A midrace caustion during green flag stops but all the lead lap cars but Dale Jarrett and Bobby Labonte on the tail end of the lead lap, restarting in front of the leaders. There was a long green flag stretch after that in which Earnhardt moved to 2nd and made up more than half a lap on Jarrett, the leader. This is when he got caught for several laps behind lapped car who refused to let Earnhardt go. Though it is not possible to tell on replay if Earnhardt actually hit Sacks BEFORE Sacks got loose, or just got close enough to take the air off his spoiler, NASCAR likely looked at the circumstantial evidence (Earnhardt being held up by a lapped car a half lap behind the leader, lapped car appears to have been spun by Earnhardt bringing out a caution that erases his deficit to Jarrett), and decided to not allow Earnhardt to be the beneficiary of the caution they assumed he created. Probably an overreaction, but that's what happens once you have a reputation, and it all worked out for him in the end anyway, and now stands as a perfect middle-finger to NASCAR that his fans can crow about. 21. b4il3y posted: 03.22.2015 - 7:04 am Rate this comment: (0) (1) 6. Anonymous posted: 06.22.2007 - 7:36 pm Rate this comment: Like this comment (0) Dislike this comment (2) You've got to be impressed by Brett Bodine's run. Nice troll. try harder. 22. Ron posted: 05.14.2015 - 2:00 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Nice comeback by Dale Sr. 23. Ryan W posted: 09.13.2015 - 2:58 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) This would be the only race in which Dale would win at a "Winston Million" race in 1993, however, he won at all four tracks that year where they had "Winston Million" races. He won the Spring Darlington race, won at Daytona in July (almost won the 500 :( ), and won Talladega in late July in a duel with Ernie Irvan (should have won in May if not for Nascar calling a caution for sprinkles to bunch up the field). 24. HD11 posted: 01.29.2016 - 3:38 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) The first 100 miles were as competitive as any 600 in history, in my opinion. Hopefully they can get these cars nowadays back to that kind of lower speed and more excitement. Lake Speed had a great run going in his self-owned machine but broke the rear end while running third. 25. Jared DiCarlo posted: 08.02.2016 - 7:17 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Bobby's first laps led in the cup series 26. Jared DiCarlo posted: 08.02.2016 - 7:18 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Bobby's first laps led in the cup series 27. hafftime bls posted: 02.18.2018 - 10:39 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) My 1st NASCAR race. 28. Jimmie4life posted: 04.22.2018 - 4:01 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This race is the 1st Night Race at Charlotte(Points race). The first 2/3 of this race were during the day(today, it's usually the first 125 - 175 laps), and then raced at night. The sunset was at around 300 laps completed, only a few laps later would Dale Earnhardt spin Greg Sacks, and slow down to make sure he didn't crash, to get a penalty. His recovery was quick, 30 laps and then was back in the lead. Today, it would be a miracle to get from 10th to 1st in 30 laps, without anyone needing to pit. Another reason Earnhardt is one of the greatest. He can comeback quicker than most people(not to put down Bill Elliott). 29. Joshua posted: 01.31.2019 - 9:34 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Derrike Cope relieved an ailing Ted Musgrave mid race. Musgrave popped the wall a couple of times before bringing it in for relief. Anyone who says Earnhardt didn't turn Sacks to cause the caution can get outta here with that mess. He had been trying to get to Sacks bumper for the three laps before that and finally managed to either hit him or take the air off and get him around. Whether he hit him or not is irrelevant, the intent was obvious for multiple laps before that. Irvan didn't slip to fifth because of old tires. He slipped to fifth because Earnhardt moved him heading into Turn 1. That caused him to lose a ton of momentum. All that said. Hat tip to E. He got four fresh ones after getting his lap back and ate up a cool race track, just like Jeff Gordon in 1998. 30. Jimnsimforever posted: 02.06.2019 - 3:21 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Look at what impact Dale's reputation has had on the guy posting above me. He has actually convinced himself that Dale was following Greg Sacks around the track for laps, planning for the right time to take him out......and not take himself out too mind you. Despite the fact that Rusty Wallace was already going to have a poor finish, Dale was running 2nd at the time and had led laps and it would've already been a great points day for him. Nope, not enough, I'm wrecking Sacks to get a caution to win. Dale Earnhardt had matured to the point where his mind by this time was on getting 7 championships. He wasn't going to jeopardize a guaranteed outstanding points lead from this race just to try to close the gap to have a chance, not guaranteed, but a chance at winning the race. 31. GH05TY posted: 03.31.2019 - 7:49 pm Rate this comment: (1) (1) The video evidence speaks for itself; Dale dumped him. He didn't hook him around like Edwards, Keselowski, and the Busches have done to each other now and again. But Dale had every opportunity to avoid a crash, and instead he chose to pretend the 68 wasn't there. https://youtu.be/io43Bgmi3FQ?t=10285 He made an attempt at a clean move in Turn 4, but failed to get by. He made another attempt the next lap, but another lapped car interfered and he didn't get close enough to make any kind of move. The lap after that, he got a run over the course of about five seconds, and gradually closed on the 68 -- at a constant rate -- from about one carlength back. But instead of lifting or moving high, or even making a bumper-to-bumper nudge and "use his chrome horn", he drove straight into the left rear of the 68, making contact (no aero-loose involved here) and turning Sacks around. We can give Dale the benefit of the doubt, and assume he wasn't trying to bring out a caution. We can also take this accident as an isolated incident on its own merits, separate from any other races or legends or remarks, and assume he did not lose his patience and try to spin the 68 in frustration. But even then, even when judging every uncertain aspect in his favor and relying only on the hard facts of the situation, Earnhardt drove recklessly. That's what the penalty was for: reckless driving, not intentional wrecking. Earnhardt was already a 5-time Cup Series champion with 14 years of full-time experience, and 54 wins -- the 5th-winningest driver in the Winston Cup era at that point! He had plenty enough experience to know what happens when you ram someone in the left rear. He was certainly qualified to drive well enough to find a way to avoid ramming the 68 in the left rear. He had plenty of time to see that he was catching up the 68's left rear. But he didn't make any attempt to back off and avoid contact, or even make a clean bump'n'run instead. Earnhardt was undoubtedly one of the best drivers in NASCAR history, and his extraordinary talent was on display all race long. Out of the car, he was a great man who did great things for many people in the sport and in his community. But don't let the fact that he was one of the sport's finest drivers and a generally kind-hearted man lead you to believe that he never earned his reputation as The Intimidator. In this case, Earnhardt deserved both his penalty for reckless driving, and his trophy for overcoming that penalty to take the lead less than 30 laps later. 32. Ryan posted: 07.21.2019 - 11:56 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) In reality the blue and yellow flag should have been waving for Sacks who was a lap down and holding up faster or lead cars. We'll never know what really happened whether there was a tap or the air was taken off because there isn't enough evidence in the picture/video. I actually believe Earnhardt when he said he got against him, but didn't "hit" him. He was letting him know he was holding him up since Nascar wouldn't. A better driver would have been able to save the car. 33. SweetRich posted: 03.11.2020 - 1:43 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The commentators for the race were Ken Squier and Neil Bonnett. The pit road reporters were Dick Berggren, Johnny Hayes and Randy Pemberton. And in The STP Pit Communication Center was Rick Benjamin. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: