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| Race 8 of 29 in the1990 NASCAR Winston Cup Series | |||
 The 1990 Hanes Activewear 500 program cover. | |||
| Date | April 30, 1990 | ||
| Official name | 41st Annual Hanes Activewear 500 | ||
| Location | Martinsville, Virginia,Martinsville Speedway | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 0.526 miles (0.847 km) | ||
| Distance | 500 laps, 263 mi (423.257 km) | ||
| Scheduled distance | 500 laps, 263 mi (423.257 km) | ||
| Average speed | 77.423 miles per hour (124.600 km/h) | ||
| Attendance | 43,500 | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Junior Johnson & Associates | ||
| Time | 20.644 | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Geoff Bodine | Junior Johnson & Associates | |
| Laps | 270 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 11 | Geoff Bodine | Junior Johnson & Associates | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | ESPN | ||
| Announcers | Bob Jenkins,Ned Jarrett,Benny Parsons | ||
| Radio in the United States | |||
| Radio | Motor Racing Network | ||
The1990 Hanes Activewear 500 was the eighthstock car race of the1990 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season and the 41st iteration of theevent. The race was held on Sunday, April 30, 1990, before an audience of 43,500 inMartinsville, Virginia atMartinsville Speedway, a 0.526 miles (0.847 km) permanent oval-shaped short track. The race took the scheduled 500 laps to complete. At race's end,Junior Johnson & Associates driverGeoff Bodine would manage to dominate the late stages of the race to take his eighth careerNASCAR Winston Cup Series victory and his first victory of the season.[1][2][3][4] To fill out the top three,Blue Max Racing driverRusty Wallace andBud Moore Engineering driverMorgan Shepherd would finish second and third, respectively.
Martinsville Speedway is aNASCAR-owned stock car racing track located inHenry County, inRidgeway, Virginia, just to the south ofMartinsville. At 0.526 miles (0.847 km) in length, it is the shortest track in theNASCAR Cup Series. The track was also one of the first pavedoval tracks in NASCAR, being built in 1947 byH. Clay Earles. It is also the only remaining race track that has been on the NASCAR circuit from its beginning in 1948.
Qualifying was split into two rounds. The first round was held on Friday, April 27, at 3:00 PMEST. 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, April 28, at 12:30 PMEST. As with the first round, each driver would have one lap to set a time. For this specific race, positions 21-30 would be decided on time,[5] 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 were given.
Geoff Bodine, driving forJunior Johnson & Associates, would win the pole, setting a time of 20.644 and an average speed of 91.726 miles per hour (147.619 km/h) in the first round.[6][7]
No drivers would fail to qualify.
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