| Type: | NASWINSTON |
| Location: | Brooklyn, Michigan, Michigan International Speedway |
| Distance Mi: | 400 |
| Pole Time: | 39.834 |
| Scheduled Km: | 643.737 |
| Distance Km: | 643.737 |
| Scheduled Laps: | 200 |
| Distance Laps: | 200 |
| Course Km: | 3.2 |
| Scheduled Mi: | 400 |
| Course Mi: | 2 |
| Avg: | 144.564mph |
| Year: | 1993 |
| Date: | August 15 |
| Race Name: | Champion Spark Plug 400 |
| Official Name: | 24th Annual Champion Spark Plug 400 |
| Caption: | The 1993 Champion Spark Plug 400 program cover, featuring Harry Gant. Artwork by NASCAR artist Sam Bass. |
| Radio: | Motor Racing Network |
| Race No: | 20 |
| Season No: | 30 |
| Car: | 6 |
| Most Laps: | 86 |
| Pole Team: | Hendrick Motorsports |
| Pole Driver: | Ken Schrader |
| First Driver: | Mark Martin |
| Most Driver: | Ricky Rudd |
| Most Team: | Hendrick Motorsports |
| First Team: | Roush Racing |
| Network: | ESPN |
| Announcers: | Bob Jenkins, Ned Jarrett, Benny Parsons |
| Attendance: | 110,000 |
The 1993 Champion Spark Plug 400 was the 20th stock car race of the 1993 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season and the eighth iteration of the event. The race was held on Sunday, August 15, 1993, before an audience of 110,000 in Brooklyn, Michigan, at Michigan International Speedway, a two-mile (3.2 km) moderate-banked D-shaped speedway. The race took the scheduled 200 laps to complete. Taking advantage of a blown engine on dominant driver Ricky Rudd's car, Roush Racing driver Mark Martin would come to dominate the late stages of the race to take his ninth career NASCAR Winston Cup Series victory and his second victory of the season.[1] [2] To fill out the top three, Wood Brothers Racing driver Morgan Shepherd and Hendrick Motorsports driver Jeff Gordon would finish second and third, respectively.
The race was held at Michigan International Speedway, a two-mile (3.2 km) moderate-banked D-shaped speedway located in Brooklyn, Michigan. The track is used primarily for NASCAR events. It is known as a "sister track" to Texas World Speedway as MIS's oval design was a direct basis of TWS, with moderate modifications to the banking in the corners, and was used as the basis of Auto Club Speedway. The track is owned by International Speedway Corporation. Michigan International Speedway is recognized as one of motorsports' premier facilities because of its wide racing surface and high banking (by open-wheel standards; the 18-degree banking is modest by stock car standards).
Qualifying was split into two rounds. The first round was held on Friday, August 13, at 3:30 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, August 14 at 10:30 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,[3] 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.
Ken Schrader, driving for Hendrick Motorsports, would win the pole, setting a time of 39.834 and an average speed of 180.75mph in the first round.[4]
Ten drivers would fail to qualify.
| Fin | St | Driver | Team | Make | Laps | Led | Status | Pts | Winnings | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 6 | Mark Martin | Roush Racing | Ford | 200 | 81 | running | 180 | $76,645 | |
| 2 | 4 | 21 | Morgan Shepherd | Wood Brothers Racing | Ford | 200 | 0 | running | 170 | $47,320 | |
| 3 | 9 | 24 | Jeff Gordon (R) | Hendrick Motorsports | Chevrolet | 200 | 17 | running | 170 | $34,745 | |
| 4 | 27 | 18 | Dale Jarrett | Joe Gibbs Racing | Chevrolet | 200 | 0 | running | 160 | $29,045 | |
| 5 | 5 | 55 | Ted Musgrave | RaDiUs Motorsports | Ford | 200 | 3 | running | 160 | $27,990 | |
| 6 | 10 | 2 | Rusty Wallace | Penske Racing South | Pontiac | 200 | 4 | running | 155 | $24,115 | |
| 7 | 2 | 28 | Lake Speed | Robert Yates Racing | Ford | 200 | 2 | running | 151 | $25,215 | |
| 8 | 11 | 22 | Bobby Labonte (R) | Bill Davis Racing | Ford | 200 | 0 | running | 142 | $17,565 | |
| 9 | 7 | 3 | Dale Earnhardt | Richard Childress Racing | Chevrolet | 200 | 0 | running | 138 | $19,215 | |
| 10 | 8 | 11 | Bill Elliott | Junior Johnson & Associates | Ford | 200 | 0 | running | 134 | $25,115 | |
| 11 | 18 | 90 | Bobby Hillin Jr. | Donlavey Racing | Ford | 200 | 0 | running | 130 | $12,015 | |
| 12 | 13 | 68 | Greg Sacks | TriStar Motorsports | Ford | 200 | 0 | running | 127 | $11,615 | |
| 13 | 30 | 17 | Darrell Waltrip | Darrell Waltrip Motorsports | Chevrolet | 200 | 0 | running | 124 | $21,015 | |
| 14 | 19 | 26 | Brett Bodine | King Racing | Ford | 200 | 0 | running | 121 | $16,615 | |
| 15 | 15 | 7 | Jimmy Hensley | AK Racing | Ford | 200 | 0 | running | 118 | $20,315 | |
| 16 | 28 | 30 | Michael Waltrip | Bahari Racing | Pontiac | 199 | 0 | running | 115 | $15,960 | |
| 17 | 34 | 8 | Sterling Marlin | Stavola Brothers Racing | Ford | 199 | 0 | running | 112 | $15,240 | |
| 18 | 22 | 42 | Kyle Petty | SABCO Racing | Pontiac | 199 | 0 | running | 109 | $17,540 | |
| 19 | 32 | 41 | Phil Parsons | Larry Hedrick Motorsports | Chevrolet | 199 | 0 | running | 106 | $11,540 | |
| 20 | 25 | 12 | Jimmy Spencer | Bobby Allison Motorsports | Ford | 199 | 0 | running | 103 | $14,690 | |
| 21 | 17 | 98 | Derrike Cope | Cale Yarborough Motorsports | Ford | 199 | 0 | running | 100 | $13,815 | |
| 22 | 38 | 71 | Dave Marcis | Marcis Auto Racing | Chevrolet | 199 | 0 | running | 97 | $8,815 | |
| 23 | 14 | 40 | Kenny Wallace (R) | SABCO Racing | Pontiac | 199 | 0 | running | 94 | $10,565 | |
| 24 | 26 | 15 | Geoff Bodine | Bud Moore Engineering | Ford | 198 | 0 | running | 91 | $16,615 | |
| 25 | 31 | 52 | Jimmy Means | Jimmy Means Racing | Ford | 198 | 0 | running | 88 | $8,465 | |
| 26 | 39 | 9 | P. J. Jones (R) | Melling Racing | Ford | 196 | 0 | running | 85 | $8,265 | |
| 27 | 1 | 25 | Ken Schrader | Hendrick Motorsports | Chevrolet | 193 | 2 | running | 87 | $16,965 | |
| 28 | 29 | 44 | Rick Wilson | Petty Enterprises | Pontiac | 191 | 0 | running | 79 | $9,815 | |
| 29 | 41 | 14 | Terry Labonte | Hagan Racing | Chevrolet | 183 | 0 | running | 76 | $12,665 | |
| 30 | 20 | 33 | Harry Gant | Leo Jackson Motorsports | Chevrolet | 162 | 0 | crash | 73 | $17,015 | |
| 31 | 35 | 16 | Wally Dallenbach Jr. | Roush Racing | Ford | 157 | 0 | running | 70 | $12,440 | |
| 32 | 24 | 4 | Ernie Irvan | Morgan–McClure Motorsports | Chevrolet | 155 | 5 | engine | 72 | $17,415 | |
| 33 | 16 | 1 | Rick Mast | Precision Products Racing | Ford | 150 | 0 | running | 64 | $12,315 | |
| 34 | 37 | 27 | Hut Stricklin | Junior Johnson & Associates | Ford | 139 | 0 | crash | 61 | $12,240 | |
| 35 | 3 | 5 | Ricky Rudd | Hendrick Motorsports | Chevrolet | 125 | 86 | engine | 68 | $14,590 | |
| 36 | 33 | 89 | Jim Sauter | Mueller Brothers Racing | Ford | 108 | 0 | crash | 55 | $7,640 | |
| 37 | 21 | 87 | Joe Nemechek | NEMCO Motorsports | Chevrolet | 95 | 0 | rear end | 52 | $8,115 | |
| 38 | 23 | 32 | Jimmy Horton | Active Motorsports | Chevrolet | 94 | 0 | engine | 49 | $7,590 | |
| 39 | 40 | 39 | Dick Trickle | Roulo Brothers Racing | Chevrolet | 79 | 0 | rear end | 46 | $7,565 | |
| 40 | 6 | 75 | Todd Bodine (R) | Butch Mock Motorsports | Ford | 15 | 0 | crash | 43 | $7,515 | |
| 41 | 36 | 45 | Rich Bickle | Terminal Trucking Motorsports | Ford | 10 | 0 | engine | 40 | $7,515 | |
| Failed to qualify | |||||||||||
| 42 | 37 | Loy Allen Jr. | TriStar Motorsports | Ford | |||||||
| 43 | 95 | Jeremy Mayfield | Sadler Brothers Racing | Ford | |||||||
| 44 | 53 | Ritchie Petty | Petty Brothers Racing | Ford | |||||||
| 45 | 85 | Ken Bouchard | Mansion Motorsports | Ford | |||||||
| 46 | 76 | Ron Hornaday Jr. | Spears Motorsports | Chevrolet | |||||||
| 47 | 62 | Clay Young | Jimmy Means Racing | Ford | |||||||
| 48 | 29 | John Krebs | Diamond Ridge Motorsports | Chevrolet | |||||||
| 49 | 81 | Jeff Davis | Jeff Davis Racing | Ford | |||||||
| 50 | 02 | T. W. Taylor | Taylor Racing | Ford | |||||||
| 51 | 48 | Andy Genzman | Genzman Racing | Pontiac | |||||||
| Official race results | |||||||||||
| Pos | Driver | Points | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dale Earnhardt | 3,049 | |||||||
| 2 | Dale Jarrett | 2,790 (-259) | |||||||
| 3 | Rusty Wallace | 2,725 (-324) | |||||||
| 4 | Mark Martin | 2,707 (–342) | |||||||
| 5 | Morgan Shepherd | 2,672 (–377) | |||||||
| 6 | Kyle Petty | 2,539 (–510) | |||||||
| 7 | Ken Schrader | 2,490 (–559) | |||||||
| 8 | Ernie Irvan | 2,447 (–602) | |||||||
| 9 | Geoff Bodine | 2,425 (–624) | |||||||
| 10 | Jeff Gordon | 2,423 (–626) | |||||||
| Official driver's standings | |||||||||