1993 SplitFire 200 - NASCAR Race

Name of Race: 1993 SplitFire 200
Name of Track:     Dover International Speedway
Date: September 18th



Dover International Speedway

Dover International Speedway is a NASCAR race track located near Dover, Delaware.

The Monster Mile

Dover International Speedway is unusual in several respects. It is a concrete track; most NASCAR tracks are asphalt. It is co-located with a horse racing track, Dover Downs, and in fact is sometimes also referred to by this name. It is also exactly one mile long; technically this means that it is neither a superspeedway nor a short track.

The speedway is also notoriously hard on cars, and its standard nickname is The Monster Mile. The horse track is part of an extensive entertainment complex including other forms of gambling; at one time both it and the speedway were owned by the publicly-traded Dover Downs Entertainment, but they have since been split into two separate enterprises, partly at the encouragement of NASCAR.

500 Miles Is Too Long

At one time the NASCAR Cup races held here were 500 miles long until a NASCAR rules change limited 500 mile races to being held only at tracks over a mile in length; the current Nextel Cup races here are 400 miles long.

Dover also hosted Indy Racing League races in 1998 and 1999 won by Scott Sharp and Greg Ray.

Dover International Speedway Ownership

In February 2002, Dover Downs Entertainmnet changed its name to Dover Motorsports following the spin-off of its gaming operations to its existing shareholders. As a result, the name of the track was changed from Dover Downs International Speedway to Dover International Speedway.

Dover Motorsports (formerly Dover Downs Entertainment) which owns Dover International Speedway also owns several other racing facilities, including Nashville Superspeedway. It has been suggested that one of the two current Cup races held there could be shifted to Nashville but this seems unlikely as both current Cup races at Dover are easily sold out.

The Dover ownership is one of only three publicly-held ownership groups of NASCAR tracks, the other two being International Speedway Corporation, controlled by NASCAR's founding France family and owners of the Talladega and Daytona tracks, among others, and Speedway Motorsports, Inc., led by Bruton Smith and H. A. "Humpy" Wheeler, which owns Lowe's Motor Speedway and Texas Motor Speedway, among others. Aside from these three ownership groups, NASCAR tracks are privately held by one or a few individuals.

Courtesy of Wikipedia.

1993 SplitFire 200 NASCAR Race Results

Below are the race results for 1993 SplitFire 200, in order of finishing place.

Fin Driver Num Start Money Laps Pts Status Sponsor
1 Todd Bodine 34 22 $18,950 200 0 running Fiddle Faddle
2 Ricky Craven 99 3 $10,225 200 0 running DuPont
3 Tracy Leslie 72 8 $9,100 200 0 running Detroit Gasket
4 Jack Sprague 74 16 $6,050 200 0 running Staff America
5 David Green 44 6 $7,375 200 0 running Slim Jim
6 Jimmy Spencer 10 17 $4,050 200 0 running Shoppers Food Warehouse
7 Steve Grissom 31 12 $6,200 200 0 running Channellock
8 Phil Parsons 29 9 $3,650 200 0 running Matchbox
9 Mike Wallace 9 20 $4,050 200 0 running FDP Brakes
10 Joe Bessey 97 18 $4,280 200 0 running Auto Palace
11 Jeff Burton 8 25 $5,675 200 0 running Baby Ruth
12 Robert Pressley 59 11 $5,650 200 0 running Alliance Training Centers
13 Hermie Sadler 25 31 $3,875 199 0 running Virginia Is For Lovers
14 Bobby Dotter 8 10 $3,850 198 0 running DeWalt Tools
15 Tim Fedewa 55 14 $3,950 198 0 running Race Scan
16 Richard Lasater 5 19 $3,800 197 0 running High Point Bedding
22 Pat Davison 76 33 $2,925 185 0 running Domino's Pizza
23 Chuck Bown 63 24 $3,625 180 0 running Nescafe / Nestea
24 Joe Nemechek 87 2 $5,850 166 0 running Dentyne
25 Rodney Combs 1 23 $3,550 140 0 oil pump Luxaire Heating & Air Conditioning
26 Terry Labonte 14 1 $3,225 138 0 steering MW Windows
27 Tommy Houston 6 7 $5,250 129 0 engine Rose's Stores
28 Rick Wilson 75 21 $2,875 114 0 engine Food Country USA
29 Larry Pearson 92 5 $2,850 75 0 crash Stanley Tools
30 Ward Burton 2 15 $5,175 68 0 handling Hardee's
31 Nathan Buttke 66 26 $2,800 63 0 crash Buttke Dairy Farms
32 Bobby Hamilton 5 27 $2,775 57 0 ignition Moen Faucets
33 Larry Carroll 62 34 $2,750 48 0 crash Wilmington Trust
34 Harry Gant 7 4 $2,725 39 0 engine Easy Off
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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