1989 Spears Manufacturing 200
| Race details | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Race 2 of 11 in the 1989 NASCAR Winston West Series season | |||
| Location | Mesa Marin Speedway in Bakersfield, California | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 0.500 miles (0.805 km) | ||
| Distance | 200 laps, 100.00 mi (160.93 km) | ||
| Average speed | 70.093 miles per hour (112.804 km/h) | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Spears Motorsports | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Roy Smith | Razore Racing | |
| Laps | 80 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 04 | Hershel McGriff | McGriff Racing | |
The 1989 Spears Manufacturing 200 was the second stock car race of the 1989 NASCAR Winston West Series season. The race was held on Saturday, May 13, 1989, at Mesa Marin Raceway, a 0.500 mile (0.805 km) oval shaped racetrack in Bakersfield, California. The race took the scheduled 200 laps to complete. Hershel McGriff won the race, his first and only win of the season. McGriff won by 5.5 seconds over Rick McCray. McGriff traded the lead with Roy Smith several times, but would secure the position when Smith spun out on lap 187. Bill Sedgwick, Smith, and Bill Schmitt rounded out the top five. The race was the 34th and final win of McGriff's career, and in winning the race he became the oldest driver to win a major NASCAR series race, aged 61 days and four months.