1993 Daytona 500

1993 Daytona 500 By STP

Race details
Race 1 of 30 in the 1993 NASCAR Winston Cup Series
The 1993 Daytona 500 program cover, featuring Davey Allison and Bobby Allison.
Date	February 14, 1993
Official name	35th Annual Daytona 500 By STP
Location	Daytona Beach, Florida, Daytona International Speedway
Course	Permanent racing facility 2.5 mi (4.0 km)
Distance	500 laps, 400 mi (804.672 km)
Scheduled Distance	200 laps, 500 mi (804.672 km)
Average speed	154.972 miles per hour (249.403 km/h)
Attendance	150,000
Pole position
Driver	Kyle Petty	SABCO Racing
Time	47.512
Most laps led
Driver	Dale Earnhardt	Richard Childress Racing
Laps	107
Winner
No. 18	Dale Jarrett	Network	CBS
Announcers	Ken Squier, Neil Bonnett, Ned Jarrett
Radio in the United States
Radio	Motor Racing Network

The 1993 Daytona 500 was the first stock car race of the 1993 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season and the 35th iteration of the event. The race was held on Sunday, February 14, 1993, before an audience of 150,000 in Daytona Beach, Florida at Daytona International Speedway, a 2.5 miles (4.0 km) permanent triangular-shaped superspeedway. The race took the scheduled 200 laps to complete.

In the final laps of the race,

Qualifying was set by the 1993 Gatorade Twin 125 Qualifiers. The top two positions were set by qualifying speeds held for the Twin 125 Qualifiers held on Saturday, February 6, with the top two qualifiers in the session earning the top two positions for the Daytona 500. The rest of the starting was set in the Twin 125 Qualifiers, held on Thursday, February 11, during two races. The top 14 finishers in the first race, excluding the pole position winner, set the inside row from rows two to 15, and the top 14 finishers in the second race, excluding the outside pole position winner, set the outside row from rows two to 15. The remaining non-qualifiers set positions 31-40 based on qualifying speeds from the first qualifying session held on Sunday. If needed, up to two extra provisionals were given to teams high enough in the previous season's owner's standings that did not qualify for the race by either qualifying speed or from the Twin 125 Qualifiers.

Over the next 110 laps, Dale Earnhardt, Ken Schrader, and Kyle Petty would lead the majority of the laps, with Jeff Gordon and Bobby Hillin Jr. leading a handful of laps as legitimate leaders. 1990 winner Derrike Cope and Harry Gant also led several of these laps, but they had pitted under the early yellows to stretch their fuel runs.

Meanwhile, two-time winner Bill Elliott dropped out of the race on lap 99, the victim of overheating in his #11 Ford Thunderbird.

Closing stages

and said, "I'm okay."

The finish

By this time,

home

". Jarrett held off Earnhardt by .16 (sixteen hundredths) of a second to claim his first Daytona 500 win.

Race results

Fin	St	#	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts	Winnings
1	2	18	Dale Jarrett	Joe Gibbs Racing	Chevrolet	200	8	running	180	$238,200
2	4	3	Dale Earnhardt	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	200	107	running	180	$181,825
3	6	15	Geoff Bodine	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	200	1	running	170	$141,450
4	18	27	Hut Stricklin	Junior Johnson & Associates	Ford	200	7	running	165	$95,950
5	3	24	Jeff Gordon (R)	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	200	2	running	160	$111,150
6	23	6	Mark Martin	Roush Racing	Ford	200	0	running	150	$74,625
7	32	21	Morgan Shepherd	Wood Brothers Racing	Ford	200	0	running	146	$62,350
8	7	25	Ken Schrader	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	200	14	running	147	$64,025
9	14	8	Sterling Marlin	Stavola Brothers Racing	Ford	200	1	running	143	$54,225
10	22	16	Wally Dallenbach Jr.	Roush Racing	Ford	200	0	running	134	$49,125
11	19	14	Terry Labonte	Hagan Racing	Chevrolet	200	0	running	130	$47,750
12	31	1	Rick Mast	Precision Products Racing	Ford	200	0	running	127	$43,375
13	30	12	Jimmy Spencer	Bobby Allison Motorsports	Ford	200	0	running	124	$42,130
14	13	83	Lake Speed	Speed Racing	Ford	200	0	running	121	$36,930
15	33	55	Ted Musgrave	RaDiUs Motorsports	Ford	200	0	running	118	$38,975
16	28	30	Michael Waltrip	Bahari Racing	Pontiac	200	0	running	115	$37,305
17	20	26	Brett Bodine	King Racing	Ford	200	0	running	112	$36,585
18	26	17	Darrell Waltrip	Darrell Waltrip Motorsports	Chevrolet	200	0	running	109	$40,415
19	39	89	Jim Sauter	Mueller Brothers Racing	Ford	199	0	running	106	$28,645
20	25	22	Bobby Labonte (R)	Bill Davis Racing	Ford	199	0	running	103	$29,685
21	37	33	Harry Gant	Leo Jackson Motorsports	Chevrolet	199	6	running	105	$36,780
22	16	41	Phil Parsons	Larry Hedrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	199	0	running	97	$30,525
23	24	40	Kenny Wallace (R)	SABCO Racing	Pontiac	199	0	running	94	$27,820
24	17	9	Chad Little	Melling Racing	Ford	198	0	running	91	$27,965
25	29	32	Jimmy Horton	Active Motorsports	Chevrolet	198	0	running	88	$26,560
26	10	7	Alan Kulwicki	AK Racing	Ford	197	0	running	85	$42,405
27	27	68	Bobby Hamilton	TriStar Motorsports	Ford	197	0	running	82	$27,775
28	11	28	Davey Allison	Robert Yates Racing	Ford	197	1	running	84	$37,445
29	35	66	Derrike Cope	Cale Yarborough Motorsports	Ford	189	30	running	81	$29,165
30	12	5	Ricky Rudd	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	177	0	running	73	$31,285
31	1	42	Kyle Petty	SABCO Racing	Pontiac	170	19	accident	75	$56,580
32	34	2	Rusty Wallace	Penske Racing South	Pontiac	168	0	accident	67	$38,600
33	41	71	Dave Marcis	Marcis Auto Racing	Chevrolet	164	0	running	64	$25,470
34	15	44	Rick Wilson	Petty Enterprises	Pontiac	163	1	accident	66	$26,315
35	9	90	Bobby Hillin Jr.	Donlavey Racing	Ford	157	3	accident	63	$28,960
36	40	46	Al Unser Jr.	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	157	0	accident	55	$23,005
37	8	4	Ernie Irvan	Morgan–McClure Motorsports	Chevrolet	148	0	accident	52	$40,275
38	36	20	Joe Ruttman	Moroso Racing	Ford	128	0	engine	49	$23,395
39	5	11	Bill Elliott	Junior Johnson & Associates	Ford	99	0	engine	46	$52,660
40	38	52	Jimmy Hensley	Jimmy Means	Ford	11	0	accident	43	$21,925
41	21	75	Dick Trickle	Butch Mock Motorsports	Ford	2	0	engine	40	$23,300
Failed to qualify
42		85	Dorsey Schroeder	Mansion Motorsports	Ford
43		48	James Hylton	Hylton Motorsports	Ford
44		45	Rich Bickle	Terminal Trucking Motorsports	Ford
45		29	Kerry Teague	Linro Motorsports	Chevrolet
46		0	Delma Cowart	H. L. Waters Racing	Ford
47		77	Mike Potter	Gray Racing	Ford
48		73	Stanley Smith	Barkdoll Racing	Chevrolet
49		99	Brad Teague	Ball Motorsports	Chevrolet
50		31	Steve Kinser	Folsom Racing	Chevrolet
51		51	Jeff Purvis	Phoenix Racing	Chevrolet
52		95	Ken Ragan	Sadler Brothers Racing	Ford
53		50	A. J. Foyt	A. J. Foyt Racing	Ford
54		23	Eddie Bierschwale	B&B Racing	Oldsmobile
Official race results

Standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 Dale Jarrett 180 (1st) 2 Dale Earnhardt 180 (2nd) 3 Geoff Bodine 170 (-10) 4 Hut Stricklin 165 (–15) 5 Jeff Gordon 160 (–20) 6 Mark Martin 150 (–30) 7 Ken Schrader 147 (–33) 8 Morgan Shepherd 146 (–34) 9 Sterling Marlin 143 (–37) 10 Wally Dallenbach Jr. 134 (–46) Official driver's standings Note: Only the first 10 positions are included for the driver standings.

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