Samsung 500

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

**Samsung 500**

Venue	Texas Motor Speedway
Corporate sponsor	Radio Shack
First race	1997
Distance	501 miles (806 km)
Number of laps	334
Previous names	Interstate Batteries 500 (1997) Texas 500 (1998) Primestar 500 (1999) DirecTV 500 (2000) Harrah's 500 (2001) Samsung / RadioShack 500 (2002-2006) Samsung 500 (2007)

The Samsung 500 is a NASCAR NEXTEL Cup race held at the Texas Motor Speedway in Justin, Texas USA. An interesting fact about the Cup races at Texas is that there have been 12 different winners in 12 races.

[edit] Grandfather Clause

RadioShack and Samsung sponsored the race between 2002 and 2006; the joint sponsorship was grandfathered in 2003 by NASCAR's grandfather clause when Nextel became a NASCAR sponsor, as they banned rival wireless sponsorships (Nextel uses Motorola exclusively); the ban was lifted after the 2005 merger of Sprint and Nextel because Sprint is sold at RadioShack, and Sprint offers Samsung products.