1994 Goodwrench 500

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1994 Goodwrench 500
Race details
Race 2 of 31 in the 1994 NASCAR Winston Cup Series
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The 1994 Goodwrench 500 program cover, featuring Dale Earnhardt.
DateFebruary 27, 1994
Official name 29th Annual Goodwrench 500
Location Rockingham, North Carolina, North Carolina Speedway
Course Permanent racing facility
Course length 1.017 miles (1.637 km)
Distance 492 laps, 500.364 mi (805.257 km)
Scheduled distance 492 laps, 500.364 mi (805.257 km)
Average speed 125.239 miles per hour (201.553 km/h)
Attendance 45,000
Pole position
Driver Geoff Bodine Racing
Time 24.132
Most laps led
Driver Rusty Wallace Penske Racing South
Laps 347
Winner
No. 2 Rusty Wallace Penske Racing South
Television in the United States
Network TNN
Announcers Mike Joy, Buddy Baker, Glenn Jarrett
Radio in the United States
Radio Motor Racing Network

The 1994 Goodwrench 500 was the second stock car race of the 1994 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season and the 29th iteration of the event. The race was held on Sunday, February 27, 1994, in Rockingham, North Carolina, at North Carolina Speedway, a 1.017 miles (1.637 km) permanent high-banked racetrack. The race took the scheduled 492 laps to complete. At race's end, Penske Racing South driver Rusty Wallace would manage to dominate the majority of the race to take his 32nd career NASCAR Winston Cup Series victory and his first victory of the season. [1] [2] To fill out the top three, Morgan–McClure Motorsports driver Sterling Marlin and Precision Products Racing driver Rick Mast would finish second and third, respectively.

Contents

Background

The layout of North Carolina Speedway, the venue where the race was held. Rockingham Speedway.svg
The layout of North Carolina Speedway, the venue where the race was held.

North Carolina Speedway was opened as a flat, one-mile oval on October 31, 1965. In 1969, the track was extensively reconfigured to a high-banked, D-shaped oval just over one mile in length. In 1997, North Carolina Motor Speedway merged with Penske Motorsports, and was renamed North Carolina Speedway. Shortly thereafter, the infield was reconfigured, and competition on the infield road course, mostly by the SCCA, was discontinued. Currently, the track is home to the Fast Track High Performance Driving School. [3]

Entry list

#DriverTeamMakeSponsor
1 Rick Mast Precision Products Racing Ford Skoal
2 Rusty Wallace Penske Racing South Ford Miller Genuine Draft
02 T. W. Taylor Taylor Racing Ford Children's Miracle Network Hospitals
3 Dale Earnhardt Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet GM Goodwrench Service Plus
4 Sterling Marlin Morgan–McClure Motorsports Chevrolet Kodak
5 Terry Labonte Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet Kellogg's Frosted Flakes
6 Mark Martin Roush Racing Ford Valvoline
7 Geoff Bodine Geoff Bodine Racing Ford Exide
8 Jeff Burton (R) Stavola Brothers Racing Ford Raybestos
9 Rich Bickle (R) Melling Racing Ford Melling Racing
10 Ricky Rudd Rudd Performance Motorsports Ford Tide
11 Bill Elliott Junior Johnson & Associates Ford Budweiser
12 Chuck Bown Bobby Allison Motorsports Ford Bobby Allison Motorsports
14 John Andretti (R) Hagan Racing Chevrolet Hagan Racing
15 Lake Speed Bud Moore Engineering Ford Ford Quality Care
16 Ted Musgrave Roush Racing Ford The Family Channel
17 Darrell Waltrip Darrell Waltrip Motorsports Chevrolet Western Auto
18 Dale Jarrett Joe Gibbs Racing Chevrolet Interstate Batteries
19 Loy Allen Jr. (R) TriStar Motorsports Ford Hooters
21 Morgan Shepherd Wood Brothers Racing Ford Citgo
22 Bobby Labonte Bill Davis Racing Pontiac Maxwell House
23 Hut Stricklin Travis Carter Enterprises Ford Smokin' Joe's
24 Jeff Gordon Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet DuPont
25 Ken Schrader Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet Kodiak
26 Brett Bodine King Racing Ford Quaker State
27 Jimmy Spencer Junior Johnson & Associates Ford McDonald's
28 Ernie Irvan Robert Yates Racing Ford Texaco, Havoline
29 Steve Grissom Diamond Ridge Motorsports Chevrolet Diamond Ridge Motorsports
30 Michael Waltrip Bahari Racing Pontiac Pennzoil
31 Ward Burton A.G. Dillard Motorsports Chevrolet Hardee's
32 Dick Trickle Active Motorsports Chevrolet ATS Wood Recycling
33 Harry Gant Leo Jackson Motorsports Chevrolet Skoal Bandit
40 Bobby Hamilton SABCO Racing Pontiac Kendall
41 Joe Nemechek (R) Larry Hedrick Motorsports Chevrolet Meineke
42 Kyle Petty SABCO Racing Pontiac Mello Yello
43 Wally Dallenbach Jr. Petty Enterprises Pontiac STP
47 Billy Standridge (R) Johnson Standridge Racing Ford Johnson Standridge Racing
48 James Hylton Hylton Motorsports Pontiac Rumple Furniture
52 Mike Skinner Jimmy Means Racing Ford NAPA Auto Parts
55 Jimmy Hensley RaDiUs Motorsports Ford Petron Plus
56 Jerry Hill Hill Motorsports Chevrolet Bell Motor Company
61 Rick Carelli Chesrown Racing Chevrolet Total Petroleum
71 Dave Marcis Marcis Auto Racing Chevrolet Southwest Technical Group, Terramite
75 Todd Bodine Butch Mock Motorsports Ford Factory Stores of America
77 Greg Sacks Jasper Motorsports Ford US Airways
90 Bobby Hillin Jr. Donlavey Racing Ford Heilig-Meyers
95 Jeremy Mayfield (R) Sadler Brothers Racing Ford Shoney's
98 Derrike Cope Cale Yarborough Motorsports Ford Fingerhut
99 Danny Sullivan SABCO Racing Pontiac Kraft

Qualifying

Qualifying was split into two rounds. The first round was held on Friday, February 25, at 2:30 PM EST. Each driver would have one lap to set a time. During the first round, the top 20 drivers in the round would be guaranteed a starting spot in the race. If a driver was not able to guarantee a spot in the first round, they had the option to scrub their time from the first round and try and run a faster lap time in a second round qualifying run, held on Saturday, February 26, at 11:30 AM EST. As with the first round, each driver would have one lap to set a time. For this specific race, positions 21-40 would be decided on time, [4] and depending on who needed it, a select amount of positions were given to cars who had not otherwise qualified but were high enough in owner's points; up to two provisionals were given. If needed, a past champion who did not qualify on either time or provisionals could use a champion's provisional, adding one more spot to the field.

Geoff Bodine, driving for his own Geoff Bodine Racing team, would win the pole, setting a time of 24.132 and an average speed of 151.716 miles per hour (244.163 km/h) in the first round. [5]

Seven drivers would fail to qualify.

Full qualifying results

Pos.#DriverTeamMakeTimeSpeed
17 Geoff Bodine Geoff Bodine Racing Ford 24.132151.716
26 Mark Martin Roush Racing Ford 24.149151.609
324 Jeff Gordon Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 24.186151.377
426 Brett Bodine King Racing Ford 24.236151.065
516 Ted Musgrave Roush Racing Ford 24.255150.946
628 Ernie Irvan Robert Yates Racing Ford 24.298150.679
742 Kyle Petty SABCO Racing Pontiac 24.314150.580
811 Bill Elliott Junior Johnson & Associates Ford 24.337150.438
917 Darrell Waltrip Darrell Waltrip Motorsports Chevrolet 24.384150.148
1040 Bobby Hamilton SABCO Racing Pontiac 24.399150.055
1121 Morgan Shepherd Wood Brothers Racing Ford 24.403150.031
1229 Steve Grissom (R) Diamond Ridge Motorsports Chevrolet 24.406150.012
1325 Ken Schrader Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 24.419149.932
1475 Todd Bodine Butch Mock Motorsports Ford 24.419149.932
152 Rusty Wallace Penske Racing South Ford 24.440149.804
161 Rick Mast Precision Products Racing Ford 24.447149.761
1733 Harry Gant Leo Jackson Motorsports Chevrolet 24.469149.626
1890 Bobby Hillin Jr. Donlavey Racing Ford 24.488149.510
193 Dale Earnhardt Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 24.510149.376
2022 Bobby Labonte Bill Davis Racing Pontiac 24.512149.364
Failed to lock in Round 1
214 Sterling Marlin Morgan–McClure Motorsports Chevrolet 24.528149.266
2243 Wally Dallenbach Jr. Petty Enterprises Pontiac 24.529149.260
2341 Joe Nemechek (R) Larry Hedrick Motorsports Chevrolet 24.567149.029
2423 Hut Stricklin Travis Carter Enterprises Ford 24.567149.029
2512 Chuck Bown Bobby Allison Motorsports Ford 24.569149.017
2627 Jimmy Spencer Junior Johnson & Associates Ford 24.573148.993
275 Terry Labonte Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 24.574148.987
2847 Billy Standridge (R) Johnson Standridge Racing Ford 24.590148.890
2932 Dick Trickle Active Motorsports Chevrolet 24.599148.835
3077 Greg Sacks U.S. Motorsports Inc. Ford 24.614148.745
3130 Michael Waltrip Bahari Racing Pontiac 24.640148.588
3298 Derrike Cope Cale Yarborough Motorsports Ford 24.641148.582
3355 Jimmy Hensley RaDiUs Motorsports Ford 24.650148.527
3410 Ricky Rudd Rudd Performance Motorsports Ford 24.651148.521
3514 John Andretti (R) Hagan Racing Chevrolet 24.658148.479
369 Rich Bickle (R) Melling Racing Ford 24.686148.311
3715 Lake Speed Bud Moore Engineering Ford 24.709148.173
3852 Mike Skinner Jimmy Means Racing Ford 24.763147.850
398 Jeff Burton (R) Stavola Brothers Racing Ford 24.788147.701
4071 Dave Marcis Marcis Auto Racing Chevrolet 24.801147.623
Provisionals
4118 Dale Jarrett Joe Gibbs Racing Chevrolet -*-*
4219 Loy Allen Jr. (R) TriStar Motorsports Ford -*-*
Failed to qualify
4331 Ward Burton (R) A.G. Dillard Motorsports Chevrolet -*-*
4448 James Hylton Hylton Motorsports Pontiac -*-*
4599 Danny Sullivan SABCO Racing Pontiac -*-*
4661 Rick Carelli Chesrown Racing Chevrolet -*-*
4795 Jeremy Mayfield (R) Sadler Brothers Racing Ford -*-*
4856 Jerry Hill Hill Motorsports Chevrolet -*-*
4902 T. W. Taylor Taylor Racing Ford -*-*
Official first round qualifying results
Official starting lineup

Race results

FinSt#DriverTeamMakeLapsLedStatusPtsWinnings
1152 Rusty Wallace Penske Racing South Ford 492347running185$52,885
2214 Sterling Marlin Morgan–McClure Motorsports Chevrolet 49254running175$48,935
3161 Rick Mast Precision Products Racing Ford 4920running165$36,085
426 Mark Martin Roush Racing Ford 49162running165$28,986
5628 Ernie Irvan Robert Yates Racing Ford 4910running155$26,410
6426 Brett Bodine King Racing Ford 4912running155$20,535
7193 Dale Earnhardt Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet 49116running151$25,785
8742 Kyle Petty SABCO Racing Pontiac 4906running147$22,635
91325 Ken Schrader Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 4890running138$18,935
103130 Michael Waltrip Bahari Racing Pontiac 4890running134$19,410
113410 Ricky Rudd Rudd Performance Motorsports Ford 4890running130$12,885
122627 Jimmy Spencer Junior Johnson & Associates Ford 4890running127$13,735
13516 Ted Musgrave Roush Racing Ford 4880running124$17,435
142932 Dick Trickle Active Motorsports Chevrolet 4880running121$10,035
1517 Geoff Bodine Geoff Bodine Racing Ford 4874running123$22,685
161121 Morgan Shepherd Wood Brothers Racing Ford 4861running120$19,635
17275 Terry Labonte Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 4860running112$19,435
184118 Dale Jarrett Joe Gibbs Racing Chevrolet 4850running109$20,635
192022 Bobby Labonte Bill Davis Racing Pontiac 4840running106$15,985
20398 Jeff Burton (R) Stavola Brothers Racing Ford 4840running103$17,285
213715 Lake Speed Bud Moore Engineering Ford 4840running100$18,610
223355 Jimmy Hensley RaDiUs Motorsports Ford 4840running97$11,185
23917 Darrell Waltrip Darrell Waltrip Motorsports Chevrolet 4830running94$14,935
243514 John Andretti (R) Hagan Racing Chevrolet 4800running91$15,285
252512 Chuck Bown Bobby Allison Motorsports Ford 4800running88$14,535
262423 Hut Stricklin Travis Carter Enterprises Ford 4780running85$8,025
272243 Wally Dallenbach Jr. Petty Enterprises Pontiac 4780running82$10,225
283077 Greg Sacks U.S. Motorsports Inc. Ford 4770running79$7,875
293298 Derrike Cope Cale Yarborough Motorsports Ford 4770running76$9,900
301229 Steve Grissom (R) Diamond Ridge Motorsports Chevrolet 4750running73$7,650
313852 Mike Skinner Jimmy Means Racing Ford 4690running70$9,550
32324 Jeff Gordon Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet 4620crash67$13,500
331890 Bobby Hillin Jr. Donlavey Racing Ford 4560running64$9,250
341475 Todd Bodine Butch Mock Motorsports Ford 4270running61$8,700
354071 Dave Marcis Marcis Auto Racing Chevrolet 4180valve58$7,100
362341 Joe Nemechek (R) Larry Hedrick Motorsports Chevrolet 3960crash55$7,025
371733 Harry Gant Leo Jackson Motorsports Chevrolet 3760running52$10,975
381040 Bobby Hamilton SABCO Racing Pontiac 3580crash49$10,960
39811 Bill Elliott Junior Johnson & Associates Ford 3360running46$11,925
404219 Loy Allen Jr. (R) TriStar Motorsports Ford 2280crash43$6,900
41369 Rich Bickle (R) Melling Racing Ford 1220engine40$6,900
422847 Billy Standridge (R) Johnson Standridge Racing Ford 550crash37$7,400
Failed to qualify
4331 Ward Burton (R) A.G. Dillard Motorsports Chevrolet
4448 James Hylton Hylton Motorsports Pontiac
4599 Danny Sullivan SABCO Racing Pontiac
4661 Rick Carelli Chesrown Racing Chevrolet
4795 Jeremy Mayfield (R) Sadler Brothers Racing Ford
4856 Jerry Hill Hill Motorsports Chevrolet
4902 T. W. Taylor Taylor Racing Ford
Official race results

Standings after the race

References

  1. Higgins, Tom (February 28, 1994). "It takes Wallace just two races to prove point". York Daily Record. p. 28. Retrieved December 9, 2022 via Newspapers.com. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  2. Harris, Mike (February 28, 1994). "It's a habit for Wallace, who rolls at Rockingham". The Buffalo News. p. 11. Retrieved December 9, 2022 via Newspapers.com. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  3. "Fast Track High Performance Driving School, Inc". Fasttrackracing.com. Retrieved July 16, 2012.
  4. "NASCAR today". The Charlotte Observer . February 25, 1994. p. 18. Retrieved December 9, 2022 via Newspapers.com. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  5. Higgins, Tom (February 26, 1994). "Bodine in fast company". The Honolulu Advertiser. p. 9. Retrieved December 9, 2022 via Newspapers.com. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
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