1993 Miller 500 - NASCAR Race

Name of Race: 1993 Miller 500
Name of Track:     Martinsville Speedway
Date: May 8th

Martinsville Speedway is an International Speedway Corporation-owned NASCAR stock car racing track located in Martinsville, Virginia. At 0.526 miles in length, it is the shortest track in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series.

NASCAR Paperclip

The track was also one of the first paved "superspeedways" in NASCAR, being built in 1947 by H. Clay Earles. The track is often referred to as paper clip-shaped and is banked only 12° in the turns. The combination of long straightaways and flat, narrow turns makes hard braking going into turns and smooth acceleration exiting turns a must.

Original Ownership

The track ownership was a joint venture of brothers Jim and Bill France, Jr., and H. Clay Earles, the majority owner, along with daughters Dorothy Campbell and Mary Weatherford, and Dorothy Campbell's children, Sarah Fain and Clay Campbell.

Grandfather Clock Trophy

Winners of Martinsville's Nextel Cup and Whelen Modified Tour events receive a longcase clock as a trophy instead of a regular trophy, a tip of the cap to the fame of the Martinsville furniture industry. One of the neat things one can see while watching a NASCAR race is a Norfolk Southern train running along the tracks outside the speedway, although the tracks were recently moved back 100 feet.

$192 Million Price Tag

Although sold for $192 million in 2004, the track continues to prosper under the new ownership of International Speedway Corporation. The track hosts two Nextel cup races, currently the DirecTV 500 in April and the Subway 500 in October, along with Busch, Craftsman Truck, and Late Model Stock Car races. The track had plans to add an additional 20,000 seats along the backstretch, boosting capacity to over 85,000 seats, but nothing more has been officially mentioned regarding this by track management since the sale of the track to ISC.

Courtesy of Wikipedia.

1993 Miller 500 NASCAR Race Results

Below are the race results for 1993 Miller 500, in order of finishing place.

Fin Driver Num Start Money Laps Pts Status Sponsor
1 Ward Burton 2 2 $25,300 300 0 running Hardee's
2 Bobby Labonte 14 3 $9,175 300 0 running MW Windows
3 Ricky Craven 99 19 $6,775 300 0 running DuPont
4 Hermie Sadler 25 15 $4,800 300 0 running Virginia Is For Lovers
5 Chuck Bown 63 8 $4,040 300 0 running Nescafe / Nestea
6 David Green 44 12 $4,150 300 0 running Slim Jim
7 Jeff Burton 8 5 $4,300 300 0 running Baby Ruth
8 Steve Grissom 31 29 $3,950 299 0 running Channellock
9 Jack Sprague 74 20 $2,650 299 0 running Staff America
10 Rodney Combs 1 4 $2,950 298 0 running Jebco Clocks
11 Joe Nemechek 87 17 $4,300 297 0 running Dentyne
12 Tim Fedewa 55 18 $2,500 296 0 running Race Scan
13 Joe Bessey 97 13 $2,450 295 0 running Auto Palace
15 Mike Wallace 9 7 $2,375 292 0 running FDP Brakes
17 Bobby Dotter 8 16 $2,275 285 0 running DeWalt Tools
18 Todd Bodine 34 14 $3,500 273 0 rear end Fiddle Faddle
20 Butch Miller 75 1 $3,000 236 0 engine Food Country USA
21 David Bonnett 12 24 $1,675 194 0 brakes Restore
22 Robert Pressley 59 6 $3,400 193 0 ejected Alliance Training Centers
23 Ed Berrier 22 32 $1,625 190 0 ejected Greased Lightning
24 Tracy Leslie 72 10 $2,100 164 0 running Detroit Gasket
26 Nathan Buttke 66 31 $2,050 161 0 w bearing Buttke Dairy Farms
27 Jeff Green 16 23 $2,025 158 0 engine 31-W Insulation
28 Tommy Houston 6 11 $3,250 149 0 trans Rose's Stores
29 Richard Lasater 5 26 $2,000 112 0 oil leak High Point Bedding
31 Bobby Hamilton 38 30 $1,500 34 0 engine Country Time
2008 Nextel Points
1 Jimmie Johnson Leader
2 Carl Edwards -69
3 Greg Biffle -217
4 Kevin Harvick -276
5 Clint Bowyer -303
6 Jeff Burton -349
7 Jeff Gordon -368
8 Denny Hamlin -470
9 Tony Stewart -482
10 Kyle Busch -498
2008 Busch Points
1 Clint Bowyer Leader
2 Carl Edwards -21
3 Brad Keselowski -338
4 David Ragan -607
5 Mike Bliss -614
6 Kyle Busch -671
7 David Reutimann -744
8 Mike Wallace -1004
9 Jason Leffler -1046
10 Marcos Ambrose -1141
2008 Craftsman Points
1 Johnny Benson Leader
2 Ron Hornaday -7
3 Todd Bodine -104
4 Erik Darnell -313
5 Matt Crafton -333
6 Mike Skinner -362
7 Rick Crawford -410
8 Dennis Setzer -528
9 Jack Sprague -600
10 Terry Cook -653

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