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  1.   RaceFanX posted:
  02.27.2010 - 11:29 pm
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Defending ARCA champion Tim Steele returns from his vicious Winston Cup
testing crash at Atlanta in late 1997 and WINS his first back


  2.   the Great Dave posted:
  08.16.2012 - 12:19 pm
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only time Tim didn't start on the front row that year.


  3.   23andJoe posted:
  04.29.2014 - 9:52 pm
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#51 owner: Billy Gerhart


  4.   23andJoe posted:
  06.16.2014 - 11:49 pm
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Steele's winnings: $19,020

#06 owner: Wayne Peterson
#12 owner: Drew White
#48 owner: DeWilton Genzman
#66 owner: Mike Brandt
#76 owner: James Hylton
#85 owner: Billy Gerhart
#98 owner: Drew White


  5.   23andJoe posted:
  06.16.2014 - 11:52 pm
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#9 owner: Cleve Smith


  6.   23andJoe posted:
  06.17.2014 - 12:19 am
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Correction: #48 owner: James Hylton


  7.   RaceFanX posted:
  08.13.2015 - 5:11 pm
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This was Steele's sixth win in a row. He won five ARCA races in a row
near the end of the 1997 season, missed seven races healing up, and won
his return.


  8.   RaceFanX posted:
  12.27.2017 - 9:50 pm
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Steele raced an old Ford Thunderbird in this one and took it to victory
lane. The Man of Steele had the dominant car of the day but it wasn't
all clear sailing, at one point he got into Mark Voigt and it sent
Voigt's #30 Chevrolet backward into the outside wall as a result.

Mike Ciochetti, also in a T-Bird, claimed his only ARCA pole in this
one. He was a contender early as he muscled his way past both Mark
Gibson and later Frank Kimmel with bump and run moves on his way to the
lead. Later he got into Blaise Alexander, doing a one-off in Mike
Brandt's #66 Ford in place of the injured Mark Thompson (making this
Alexander's only ARCA outing in a FoMoCo product), and set him for a
loop. Alexander bounced back for a top-10 but Ciochetti went out with a
mechanical gremlin not long afterward.


  9.   Gray Gaulding's Distant Cousin posted:
  12.27.2017 - 11:12 pm
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Oddly Tim never ran a 90s style Taurus, he went directly from the
Thunderbird to the 2000 Taurus in the early 00s.


  10.   Seibaru posted:
  06.29.2020 - 12:36 am
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Only ARCA start for New York's Larry Schwartz.


  11.   GGDC posted:
  12.21.2020 - 10:17 pm
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Steve Bramley in the #62 should be listed in 39th as a DNS


  12.   GGDC posted:
  12.22.2020 - 7:31 am
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SPONSOR Update

#16 Tim Steel HSDie&Tool / Softech Ford
#17 Mike Chiochetti Hughes Supply / Rheem Chevrolet
#24 Chuck Webber Cardinal Tool / Young Chevrolet Chevrolet
#30 Mark Voight Renegade Motor Sports Chevrolet
#80 Andy Hillenberg Hoosier / Hover Motorsports Ford


  13.   RaceFanX posted:
  03.26.2021 - 6:15 pm
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@9
Steele actually did have a 1998 Taurus. He won at Pikes Peak with it a
few races later.


  14.   Rich posted:
  04.20.2021 - 10:03 am
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Eli Gold and Buddy Baker were the commentators. Glenn Jarrett and Steve
Byrnes were the pit road reporters.


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