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  1.   MSportRev posted:
  03.18.2020 - 3:38 pm
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Cautions:

24-35 [Marvin Smith, Haver & Riley, wreck]

40-46 [Hurlbert, Bob Dotter, Zack, and Bobby Jacks spin]

50-53 [TV timeout]

67-70 [Bill Mearell, wreck in Turn Four]

77-80 [Booher engine]

Source: The Third Turn


  2.   MSportRev posted:
  03.18.2020 - 7:09 pm
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An update to that ^

Final caution was 77-79. Race ended with the Green and White flags
waving on lap 80.


  3.   MSportRev posted:
  03.18.2020 - 7:24 pm
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4th caution was for Bill Meazell's crash.


  4.   Jeff posted:
  03.18.2020 - 8:09 pm
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Controversy surrounded the finish of this race, as the field got the
green flag coming to the checkers. Rezek was able to pass Lake Speed,
who had a flat tire, between pit entrance and the start finish line and
won the race.


  5.   JSPorts posted:
  03.18.2020 - 9:21 pm
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Wait, they gave them the green for just a few hundred feet?


  6.   Jeff posted:
  03.19.2020 - 7:37 am
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Yes. Photos and a radio call of the finish can be found at this link:
http://racersreunion.com/community/forum/stock-car-racing-history/21244/1980-arca-200-at-daytona

I'm not sure of the reason behind it, but Lake Speed and his team were
understandably mad.


  7.   RaceFanX posted:
  03.19.2020 - 8:28 am
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Speed got cheated out of the win in a weird way here but it was still a
great run for the rookie as this was just his third-ever stock car race
after moving up straight from go karts, where he was the world champion,
to the highest levels of the sport. This would be Speed's only ARCA start.


  8.   Jeff posted:
  03.20.2020 - 3:20 pm
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1981 Daytona 500 program lists margin of victory as 2 car lengths. Use
whichever is suitable I guess.


  9.   RaceFanX posted:
  04.07.2020 - 9:13 am
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This was Phil Finney's final ARCA start but he made it memorable as he
put his #04 Oldsmobilew on the pole. His Olds was dominate car in the
race itself and he led more than half of the laps run Fiuntil his engine
failed and it sent him to the sidelines. Finney would be badly injured
in a crash here at Daytona during the Firecracker 400 later in the year
and only made one further ARCA attempt when he failed to qualify for
this race in 1981.


  10.   rm posted:
  06.06.2020 - 10:52 pm
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32 sponsor - LaFlam's Auto Parts

A Finney wouldn't start another ARCA race until 2012, when Phil's nephew
Brian made his first start in the series. Phil does still hold the
family record for the best finish in the series with 2nd, though Brian's
best run of a 3rd isn't that far behind.

Fred Zack ran the last half of the race with a ton of damage to the
right front corner of his car, albeit 8 laps down by the checkered flag.
Zack had a long-stretching career, and his final ARCA start was a 1-lap
deal at Chicagoland in 2003. Fittingly the driver who finished right
behind him in that race was also competing in Speedweeks 1980 - the one
and only James Hylton.


  11.   rm posted:
  07.24.2020 - 7:31 pm
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65 status - bearing
98 status - fuel line


  12.   Danish_Pie posted:
  10.28.2021 - 4:24 pm
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Bobby Jacks owner was Mike Redfern


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