1990 Banquet Frozen Foods 300
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| Race 12 of 29 in the 1990 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season | |||
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Track map for Sonoma Raceway. The NASCAR track is emphasized in this version.
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| Date | June 10, 1990 | ||
| Location | Sonoma Raceway, Sonoma, California | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility 1.99 mi (3.2 km) |
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| Distance | 74 laps, 172.88 mi (308.69 km) | ||
| Weather | Hot with temperatures reaching up to 88 °F (31 °C); wind speeds up to 15 miles per hour (24 km/h) | ||
| Attendance | 66,000 | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Hendrick Motorsports | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Rusty Wallace | Blue Max Racing | |
| Laps | 42 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 27 | Rusty Wallace | Blue Max Racing | |
The 1990 Banquet Frozen Foods 300 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that took place on June 10, 1990, at Sears Point International Raceway in the American community of Sonoma, California.
Mike Chase, Butch Gilliland, and Jack Sellers would make their introductions into the NASCAR Cup Series in this event while Stan Barrett and Ted Kennedy would leave the Cup Series after this event.
A grand total of 44 American-born drivers participated in this 74-lap event. Hershel McGriff was the unfortunate last-place finisher due to a problematic stock car engine on the second lap. While Jack Sellers was the last man to actually finish the event, a faulty engine on lap 70 prevented Morgan Shepherd from finishing anywhere except in the middle of the pack. The average green flag run was determined to be 6 laps; with slightly more than 32% of the entire race being run under a caution flag. Race-related accidents and vehicles stalling out on the relatively length road course track were the majority of the reasons behind the yellow flag laps.
I was going into a turn when a tire blew and spun me around,The next thing I knew I was flying through the air. The car landed so far up in the sticks I don't know how we'll get it back
After two hours and forty-five minutes of racing, Rusty Wallace would defeat Mark Martin under the race's final caution flag. Amongst the drivers who failed to qualify for the race were Jimmy Means and Mike Hickingbottom. Mark Martin would maintain a 62-point lead for the 1990 Winston Cup Series championship against Morgan Shepherd after this event was through. Vehicles in this race ran speeds averaging up to 69.245 miles per hour (111.439 km/h); making it the slowest NASCAR Cup Series event in the history of Sonoma Raceway.
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