|| *Comments on the 1993 Slick 50 500:* View the most recent comment <#32> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. SPENCER posted: 02.02.2006 - 1:13 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Mark Martin had a dominating performance to bad that Jimmy had a bad day,every great driver has a bad day so it don't matter. 2. Steve posted: 06.15.2006 - 11:31 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) SPENCER, if I were like you, I'd be praising Terry Cook all the time, saying how he's just the greatest driver ever. You don't have to suck up to Jimmy Spencer just because you have the same last name. 3. biffle16 posted: 05.26.2007 - 7:09 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Only Cup start for Wayne Jacks. 4. Mike posted: 10.06.2007 - 1:02 am Rate this comment: (1) (2) If they'd had the chase in '93, Rusty still would've clinched the title here despite his bad day (He'd have come out of Phoenix 188 points ahead of Earnhardt (2nd) and 226 ahead of Martin in 3rd. 5. SK posted: 12.13.2007 - 6:38 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Rich Woodland Jr. makes the first of two career Cup starts...in an Olds! (I'm not certain, but this was probably the last time someone ran an Oldsmobile in a Winston Cup race.) 6. dwilk32 posted: 08.05.2008 - 11:19 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) anyone know why loy allen jr was driving the 68 for this race 7. 18fan posted: 02.01.2009 - 12:12 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I think this race locked up the championship for Dale, even though it wasn't official. He finished fourth while Rusty finished 29th and Dale had to finish 34th at Atlanta, which was easy for Dale. 8. 18fan posted: 03.29.2009 - 1:24 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Martin used the lapped car of Kenny Wallace perfectly on the last couple laps If Martin got around Wallace a different way, Irvan may have won for how much Ernie closed in the last couple laps 9. Nick posted: 04.20.2009 - 2:59 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) My folks brought me to this race back in the day, I've got fond memories of that race! Pretty cool to see a clip up, our own tape of the race went missing years ago. Good stuff 10. Anonymous posted: 08.26.2009 - 11:02 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The #61 was running the Total Petrolium scheme in this race, not Chesrown. 11. Evan posted: 12.17.2009 - 11:15 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) dwilk32, he was running races with that team because he would run for rookie honors the next season. The 68 team switched their number to 19 and got sponsorship from Hooters the next year. Loy of course sat on pole. The team name was Tri-Star Motorsports and they later dissolved because of money shortage in the middle of the 1994 season. 12. Anonymous posted: 11.09.2010 - 3:47 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Norm Benning attempted four races in 1994 driving an Oldsmobile, but failed to qualify for every one of them. 13. 00andJoe posted: 03.10.2011 - 12:12 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) @5/12 - In 1994 Norm Benning actually raced in the Winston Open in an Olds, but as that was a non-points event, this was the last points race an Olds competed in. This was a Winston West combination race. Winston West drivers in the field: #61 Rick Carelli #76 Ron Hornaday Jr #86 Rich Woodland Jr #58 Wayne Jacks #20 Dirk Stephens Terry Fisher was also a West Series driver, despite running in the Marcis Auto Racing #71. The #52, #36, #47, #81 and #51 which DNQ'd were all also West Series teams. 14. RaceFanX posted: 11.29.2011 - 11:00 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Neil Bonnett made his final appearence in the TNN announcer's booth in this race. ESPN televised the finale at Atlanta and Bonnett was start-and-parking in that race anyway to help his friend Dale Earnhardt win the title. While Rich Woodland was making what would turn out to be the final NASCAR Cup start for an Oldsmobile at least he sent the brand out in a literal blaze of glory. Woodland's red Cutlass suffered an engine failure in turn 4 then erupted into flames going down the frontstretch before coming to a stop in turn 1. The fire subsided once he stopped, a member of Ernie Irvan's pit crew was still there in seconds with an extinguisher anyway. Rich was uninjured and walked away but it was still a very ironic end for the National Cold Storage Olds. Travis Carter Racing debuted the #23 Smokin' Joes Racing car Hut Stricklin would drive in 1994 during this race weekend and even paraded the car around during the pace laps even though it wasn't entered in the race itself, the announcers joked the new purple-and-yellow T-Bird would take a bit of getting used to because of the unusual paint job. Hut himself had serious issues as his current Junior Johnson #27 McDonald's Ford suffered serious mechanical issues that eventually put him out of the race. 15. Sebastien posted: 12.18.2011 - 7:57 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) #72 Andretti sponsor was "Harrys Teeter" (both on hood & rear quarter panels). Glenn Jarrett mentions at the beginning of the broadcast that Wallace's #2 Pontiac nickname is "Midnight Rider", which ran earlier at Rockingham also. 16. Sebastien posted: 12.18.2011 - 11:22 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ooops, Harris with an "i", not an "y", sorry about that. 17. 18fan posted: 01.10.2012 - 7:10 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Mark Martin passed Jeff Gordon for the lead on the first lap after the restart for the Jimmy Hensley(in the 4 car) crash. I believe a majority of the laps that you have Jeff Gordon leading were actually led by Mark Martin. 18. 18fan posted: 01.10.2012 - 7:13 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) In the first 150 laps contact from Dale Earnhardt sent two Hendrick cars, Ken Schrader extremely early in the race and Jeff Gordon around lap 133 went into the wall after contact from the #3. Both looked like racing incidents to me, and I just thought it was interesting that both cars Earnhardt got into were Hendrick cars. 19. 18fan posted: 01.15.2012 - 2:48 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) To follow up on my earlier post, according to the TNN broadcast Mark Martin led 264 laps in this race, not 212 laps. 20. nascar_vd posted: 01.16.2012 - 4:47 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) No, Jeff Gordon led 212 laps. 21. The Great Dave posted: 01.19.2012 - 8:52 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) 72 Sponsor was "Harris Teeter", not "Harrys Teeter" 22. 1995z71 posted: 03.13.2012 - 1:57 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) As of 2012, the last time the no.86 was used in cup on Rich Woodland, Jr's car. 23. Ryan posted: 10.08.2012 - 7:14 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Rusty's '93 title chances... Bye Bye 24. wrank fakefield posted: 05.14.2014 - 8:56 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Martin totally dominated this race, but in the last 20 laps Ernie irvan caught him and nearly passed him when Martin lost horsepower after breaking at least one valve spring. Martin held him off in the outside lane, getting Irvan loose coming off of turn 2, After that Martin adjusted his driving style, the loss of horsepower allowing him to drive much harder through the turns on what was a very slick track, and held Irvn off for the win. A true example of GREAT driving. 25. 42KylePetty42 posted: 12.21.2017 - 7:37 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Hard to believe if you'd looked at me and told me after this race Kyle would only have six more top 5 finishes.. I would've told you were crazy. Kinda hard to believe his career fell off after '93 season when he was a threat to win fortually every weekend 26. Jimnsimforever posted: 02.13.2019 - 5:53 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Really kind of a bold statement by Richard Petty on national television about why he chose Wally Dallenbach as his driver for 94. He said Wally had 2 seasons as a rookie and should be ready to do his best racing and he needs to do it now before he gets used to driving in a bad car. Basically trashing Jack Roush's #16 car. When you look at the stats for the 14 races Wally ran in the 43 for Petty he did do better as far as average finish, but his problem were the DNQs where Petty didn't have provisionals to use like Wally had several times with Roush. I just can't believe Richard actually said that Wally was in a bad car and didn't realize the 43 STP at that point was on par with a secondary Jack Roush car. @14 Neil Bonnett made one more appearance after this in the TNN booth as a broadcaster. One week after this race he was in the booth for the Busch Series race at Hickory where Steve Grissom locked up the 93 Busch Series title in the next to last race and also Johnny Rumley was likely the biggest unexpected winner in Nascar in years in my opinion at least. 27. Anonymous posted: 02.24.2019 - 12:16 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Kyle Busch said this was the first NASCAR race he attended. 28. RaceFanX posted: 08.01.2019 - 6:51 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The Jeff Gordon-Dale Earnhardt rivalry gets supercharged after the two got together in this one. The pair were racing for ninth when the Intimidator got into the rookie and sent him spinning into the outside wall, ending the rookie Gordon's shot at a good finish. Kyle Busch was just eight years old when he attended this race as a spectator. He was a Jeff Gordon fan and wasn't too happy Earnhardt wrecked him. 29. Nathan884 posted: 01.12.2020 - 5:04 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Dale Earnhardt nearly missed the start of the race. During inspection they had to re-do the brakes. The crewman who fixed it was really slow. The car didn't line-up until after the National Anthem. 30. Joshua posted: 04.20.2020 - 2:43 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Earnhardt drove like a chicken without its head in this one. Lost the nose coming out of 2 and got into Schrader. Geoff Bodine wrecked behind them in the check-up mess. Then in 3 Earnhardt slid up again and popped Gordon, who went around and pancaked the left side of the car. Ernie Irvan got alongside Mark Martin late in the race, but Mark was able to hold him off. 31. BadBooking posted: 04.25.2020 - 11:33 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) @30 if NASCAR was consistent with how they handled Earnhardt in 1993, there would have been at least a one lap penalty assessed to his foolish driving. That could have really changed the outcome of the championship. 32. SweetRich21/43 posted: 07.23.2020 - 1:49 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The commentators were Mike Joy, Buddy Baker and Neil Bonnett. The pit road reporters were Glenn Jarrett and Ralph Sheheen. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: