Samsung 500

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**Samsung 500**

Venue	Texas Motor Speedway
Corporate sponsor	Samsung
First race	1997
Distance	501 miles (806.3 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)

The Samsung 500 is a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race held at the Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas USA. Even though is advertised as a "500 mile" race, because TMS is a 1.5 miles (2.4 km) track, the actual distance is 501 miles (806.3 km). There were 12 different winners in the first dozen races, the longest such streak for any NASCAR track in the Cup Series. Jeff Burton, the winner of the first Cup race, broke that streak by getting his second Texas win in a last lap pass in 2007.

[edit] Grandfather Clause

Samsung sponsors the race, and RadioShack was previously a co-sponsor. 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.