1990 Peak AntiFreeze 500
| Race details | |||
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| Race 23 of 29 in the 1990 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season | |||
Layout of Dover International Speedway
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| Date | September 16, 1990 | ||
| Official name | Peak AntiFreeze 500 | ||
| Location | Dover Downs International Speedway, Dover, Delaware | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility 1.000 mi (1.609 km) |
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| Distance | 500 laps, 500.0 mi (804.6 km) | ||
| Weather | Mild with temperatures reaching up to 71.1 °F (21.7 °C); wind speeds approaching 6 miles per hour (9.7 km/h) | ||
| Average speed | 125.945 miles per hour (202.689 km/h) | ||
| Attendance | 74,000 | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Melling Racing | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Bill Elliott | Melling Racing | |
| Laps | 364 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 9 | Bill Elliott | Melling Racing | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | ESPN | ||
| Announcers |
Bob Jenkins Benny Parsons Ned Jarrett |
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The 1990 Peak AntiFreeze 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that took place on September 16, 1990, at Dover Downs International Speedway in Dover, Delaware.
Phoenix Racing would make their "maiden voyage" into the NASCAR Cup Series; with veteran wheelman Jeff Purvis dominating the decision-making throughout the event. After suffering from shoulder injury in practice, Lake Speed would be replaced by Tommy Ellis.
Dover Downs International Speedway, now called Dover International Speedway, is one of five short tracks to hold NASCAR races; the others are Bristol Motor Speedway, Richmond International Raceway, Martinsville Speedway, and Phoenix International Raceway. The NASCAR race makes use of the track's standard configuration, a four-turn short track oval that is 1 mile (1.6 km) long. The track's turns are banked at twenty-four degrees, and both the front stretch (the location of the finish line) and the backstretch are banked at nine degrees.
Bill Elliott managed to defeat Mark Martin (who would maintain the championship points lead after this race) by less than 1.4 seconds in front of 74,000 spectators. Elliott would earn the pole position by qualifying at a speed of 144.928 miles per hour (233.239 km/h) while the average race speed was 125.945 miles per hour (202.689 km/h). J.D. McDuffie would make his final last-place finish before being killed at the 1991 Budweiser at The Glen race (which took place at Watkins Glen International). The only driver that failed to qualify was Kerry Teague.
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