1993 Advance Auto Parts 500 - NASCAR Race

Name of Race:	1993 Advance Auto Parts 500
Name of Track:	Martinsville Speedway
Date:	October 17th

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 Advance Auto Parts 500 NASCAR Race Results

Below are the race results for 1993 Advance Auto Parts 500, in order of finishing place.

Fin	Driver	Num	Start	Money	Laps	Status	Sponsor
1	Chuck Bown	63	4	$17,080	300	running	Nescafe / Nestea
2	Steve Grissom	31	30	$7,980	300	running	Channellock
3	Ricky Craven	99	21	$4,630	300	running	DuPont
4	Jimmy Hensley	75	16	$2,410	300	running	Food Country USA
6	David Green	44	7	$4,005	300	running	Slim Jim
7	Mike Wallace	9	22	$2,650	300	running	FDP Brakes
8	Tracy Leslie	72	11	$3,850	300	running	Detroit Gasket
9	Ernie Irvan	74	3	$1,980	300	running	Staff America
10	Dennis Setzer	59	8	$3,505	300	running	Alliance Training Centers
11	Todd Bodine	34	13	$4,100	300	running	Fiddle Faddle
12	Tim Fedewa	55	28	$2,800	299	running	Inside Track
13	Bobby Dotter	8	14	$2,475	299	running	DeWalt Tools
14	Joe Nemechek	87	1	$5,025	298	running	Dentyne
15	Hermie Sadler	25	2	$2,525	298	running	Virginia Is For Lovers
16	Ronald Cooper	56	12	$1,805	298	running	Johnny Cotton
17	Ward Burton	2	23	$3,625	298	running	Hardee's
19	Rodney Combs	1	6	$2,325	296	running	Luxaire Heating & Air Conditioning
20	Joe Bessey	97	24	$2,300	295	running	Auto Palace
21	Clay Brown	15	29	$1,680	294	running	Brown Racing
22	Jeff Burton	8	15	$3,500	288	running	Baby Ruth
23	Robert Pressley	0	9	$2,250	285	running	Skoal Classic
24	Richard Lasater	5	31	$2,225	283	running	DTP Electronics
25	Dave Rezendes	79	27	$1,605	264	running	Lipton Tea
26	Johnny Rumley	0	5	$1,580	219	running	Big Dog Coal
29	Nathan Buttke	66	20	$1,530	144	suspension	Buttke Dairy Farms
30	Terry Labonte	14	18	$1,530	134	engine	MW Windows
31	Tommy Houston	6	10	$3,375	79	crash	Rose's Stores