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  1.   23andJoe posted:
  04.26.2014 - 2:36 am
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Margin of victory: One second

Bill Venturini started sixth and won $10,450
David Sosebee started first.

Howard Rose was in the #56
Jimmy Castleberry was in the #88
Emmett Groves was in the #5
John Todd was in the #16
Joey Sonntag was in the #73
Jim Hall was in the #66
Maurice Randall was in the #93

#5 sponsor: Cross Truck Stop

#0 owner: Jim Stovall (same for all races this season)
#1 owner: Jim Coyle (same for all races this season)
#2 owner: Herb Adcox (same for all races this season)
#3 owner: John Collins (same for all races this season)
#10 owner: Ralph O'Brien (same for all races this season)
#25 owner: Bill Venturini (same for all races this season)
#34 owner: Bob Brevak (same for all races this season)
#42 owner: Wayne Blackstock (same for all races this season)
#43 owner: Sharon Pearson (same for all races this season)
#51 owner: Elmer Simko (same for all races this season)
#71 owner: Mike Redfern (same for all races this season)
#81 owner: Gober Sosebee (same for all races this season)
#83 owner: Bill Goudie (same for all races this season)
#90 owner: Bo Gibson (same for all races this season)
#92 owner: Ralph Jones (same for all races this season)
#93 owner: Maurice Randall (same for all races this season)
#98 owner: Art Meinberg (same for all races this season)

#24 owner: Buddie Boys
#56 owner: H.L. Rose
#73 owner: Joey Sonntag


  2.   23andJoe posted:
  04.26.2014 - 5:11 am
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Rick Jeffrey was in the #06.

#06 owner: Wayne Peterson


  3.   DozierTheGreat posted:
  11.23.2014 - 2:07 pm
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This race is called the Dixie 300. Oddly as it may sound, Bill V won
this race using all all female pit crew.


  4.   Unser1 posted:
  04.26.2015 - 12:34 pm
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This was Bill Venturini's only ARCA win of 1986.

(His all-female pit crew was amazing. They were one of the best ARCA pit
crews of the era.)


  5.   rm posted:
  12.30.2017 - 2:59 pm
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Laps led:

Lee Raymond - 62
Bobby Dotter - unknown
Bobby Jacks - unknown
Bob Schact - unknown
David Sosebee - unknown

Nobody else led besides those 5 plus Adcox and Venturini


  6.   rm posted:
  05.23.2018 - 12:51 am
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Lee Raymond qualified 2nd and Mark Gibson was 3rd

Sosebee led 16 laps


  7.   GGDC posted:
  12.06.2019 - 8:26 am
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SPONSOR UPDATE

#81 David Sosebee Muncey Marble Chevrolet


  8.   GGDC posted:
  12.10.2019 - 12:13 pm
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SPONSOR Update

#3 Ronnie Bates Bernie's Auto Parts


  9.   GGDC posted:
  06.19.2020 - 12:59 pm
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OWNER Update

#3 John Litton (Same for first three races)

Litton was killed in an accident at his race shop the day after this race.


  10.   rm posted:
  09.18.2020 - 6:13 pm
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Starting lineup:
4. Jacks
5. Brevak
7. Adcox
8. Bob Dotter
9. Keselowski
10. R. Jones
11. Schacht
12. Simko
13. Hansen
14. Sonntag
15. Usry
16. Stovall
17. O'Brien
18. Rose
19. Booher (#15)
20. Blackstock
21. R. Jeffrey
22. T. Pearson
23. Ingram (#62)
24. B. Boys
25. J. Hall
26. Bobby Baker (#85)
27. Todd
28. Bobby Dotter (#50)
29. Castleberry
30. Potter
31. Groves
32. B. Green (#49, owner - Bill Green)
33. Simko-Schacht
34. M. Randall
35. Schneider
36. Meinberg
37. Haver
38. M. Clark (#39)
39. Bohland
40. Bates

Lap leaders: Sosebee pole, Raymond 1-15, Adcox 16-37, Jones 38, Bob
Dotter 39-49, Raymond 50-66, Adcox 67-86, Jacks 87, Schacht 88-89, Adcox
90-115, Sosebee 116-122, Schacht 123-128, Raymond 129-143, Sosebee
144-145, Jacks 146-150, Raymond 151-165, Venturini 166-179, Sosebee
180-184, Venturini 185-198
Laps led: Sosebee 14, Schacht 8, Jones 1, Bob Dotter 11, Jacks 6, Adcox 68

There were 4 DNQs, only one I can find is Bernie Robidart though.
Robidart then hopped into Ronnie Bates' car after the race began and
promptly crashed.


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