1993 Daytona 500
| Race details | |||
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| Race 1 of 30 in the 1993 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season | |||
Track map of Daytona International Speedway showing mainly the speedway.
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| Date | February 14, 1993 | ||
| Official name | Daytona 500 by STP | ||
| Location | Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach, Florida | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility 2.5 mi (4.02336 km) |
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| Distance | 200 laps, 500 mi (804.672 km) | ||
| Weather | Chilly with temperatures reaching up to 66.9 °F (19.4 °C); wind speeds approaching 13 miles per hour (21 km/h) | ||
| Average speed | 154.972 miles per hour (249.403 km/h) | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | SABCO Racing | ||
| Qualifying race winners | |||
| Duel 1 Winner | Jeff Gordon | Hendrick Motorsports | |
| Duel 2 Winner | Dale Earnhardt | Richard Childress Racing | |
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Dale Earnhardt | Richard Childress Racing | |
| Laps | 107 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 18 | Dale Jarrett | Joe Gibbs Racing | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | CBS | ||
| Announcers | Ken Squier, Neil Bonnett and Ned Jarrett | ||
| Nielsen Ratings | 8.4/23 (12.7 million viewers) |
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The 1993 Daytona 500, the 35th running of the event, was held February 14 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida as the first race of the 1993 NASCAR Winston Cup season. Dale Jarrett won the race.
Kyle Petty's No. 42 won the pole, putting a Petty on the Daytona 500 pole for the first time since 1966, and only the second time ever. Kyle was also the first North Carolina driver to win the 500 pole since Benny Parsons in 1982. His father Richard waved the green flag in the first Winston Cup race held since his retirement.
The first lap was led by rookie Jeff Gordon, who was the youngest winner of a Gatorade 125-mile qualifier on Thursday. Shortly after this, CBS reporter Chris Economaki said that Rookie of the Year is an award he would be almost assured of. Engine failures for Dick Trickle and Jimmy Hensley (the latter would crash in Turn 1 in his substitution for the injured Jimmy Means) brought out the first two caution flags in the first 15 laps.
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