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  1.   TeamDCRfan posted:
  03.18.2020 - 4:27 pm
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Unless there are some other stats that's haven't been found yet, this is
Darrell Bashams last race for 12 years


  2.   rm posted:
  06.08.2020 - 10:30 pm
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Pole speed - 103.305 by Marvin Smith

There were four cautions in what was apparently a wild race. Don't have
laps unfortunately.
The first caution was triggered when a slowing Craig Jackson blew an
engine as the leaders were coming around to start lapping the tail of
the pack on lap 15. And in typical Winchester fashion, things happen
fast - especially wrecks. The top five runners of Bob Dotter, Scott
Stovall, Marvin Smith, Larry Moyer and Lee Raymond all piled in as
Jackson spun in his own oil, collecting lappers Gordon Blankenship and
Darrell Basham as well. Tough way for Basham to go on hiatus, being
collected in a wreck with a third of the field. After a brief red flag
the field got going again.

Well, for a little while anyway. Until the leaders all wrecked again.
Lapper Rick Roland spun in turn 1 on lap 51 and collected leader Bobby
Jacks as well as second place Bill Green. Marvin Smith, originally
caught in the first wreck, skated on by and inherited the lead. Green
had apparently been sick and when he came down pit road to have the crew
fix the damage on his car, he had a relief driver step in - Joe Raymond,
father and car owner of fellow ARCA competitor Lee Raymond. Joe, 58, had
been out of the seat of an ARCA car for nearly 3 years and actually had
won the last race he took the green flag in, at Winchester's sister
track of Dayton.

The lack of seat time for the elder Raymond showed as he spun out not
long after retaking the green flag, opting to park Green's car rather
than inflict more damage. The race ended under caution when Tracy Read
crashed with three laps left, though he still did pick up a top ten. The
late Read had four top tens in ARCA, and he crashed out in two of those.

25 make - Buick

DNQs:
Jim Vaughan Jr.
Stuart Huffman

First ARCA race at Winchester since the 60s, apparently part of the
promotions to draw fans to the gates was to give away 100 tickets to one
of the three other ARCA races happening later on in the month. Not to
the race at Terre Haute (!) on the other side of the state, but to
Talladega. I can't imagine that many people would have made the trek
from Indiana down to Alabama just for the support race, sure hope they
were planning on going to the Cup race the next day too.


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