1994 NASCAR Winston Cup Series (Start Your Engines!)

The 1994 NASCAR Winston Cup Series was the 46th season of NASCAR professional stock car racing in the United States and the 23rd modern-era Cup series.

One of the highlights of the season occurred on August 6, when the NASCAR Winston Cup Series made a highly publicized first visit to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the inaugural Brickyard 400. This season also marked the end of the second of two tire wars, as Hoosier left NASCAR after the season-ending Atlanta race, leaving Goodyear as the series' exclusive tire distributor.

Technical changes
Starting with this season, Pontiac followed Chevrolet, Ford, and Chrysler's leader in offering a model of car specially-made for the restrictor-plate tracks (Daytona, Talladega, Coca-Cola, and San Jose), in this case the Pontiac Sunfire.

Mercury returned to NASCAR for the first time since 1980, having been used by Cale Yarborough Racing for the 1993 DieHard 500.