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  1.   RaceFanX posted:
  08.14.2015 - 2:37 pm
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Gary St. Amant's third and final win of his championship 2000 season.

Larry Foyt scores his only ASA pole and leads the opening 43 laps, the
second and last ASA race he led. Foyt ultimately crashed out of what
would be his penultimate ASA race before moving to the NASCAR Busch series.


  2.   RaceFanX posted:
  08.27.2015 - 7:37 pm
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The Winchester 400 returns to being an ASA event for the first time
since 1991. In the interim NASCAR sanctioned the event as a race for its
All-Pro series from 1992 through 1998 before the CRA Kendall Late Model
Series took over the race in 1999.


  3.   RaceFanX posted:
  10.22.2016 - 1:44 pm
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Why settle for one trophy when you can win two?...
Gary St. Amant came into this race needing only to finish 30th or better
to clinch the 2000 ASA championship and while early retirements assured
he would he went out and took his #7 to a historic win anyway.


  4.   rm posted:
  01.18.2019 - 11:05 pm
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First caution - laps 5-18 - 03, 08, 09, 3, 20, 33, 49, 55 accident
backstretch
Second caution - laps 41-48 - 05, 4 accident turn 2
Third caution - laps 82-84 - 16 spun turn 2
Fourth caution - laps 119-121 - 07, 1, 16 accident backstretch
Fifth caution - laps 144-148 - 28 accident turn 2
Sixth caution - laps 153-159 - 5, 8, 16, 21 accident frontstretch
Seventh caution - laps 191-200 - tire check
Eighth caution - laps 250-257 - tire check
Ninth caution - laps 279-282 - 22, 23, 27, 44, 83 accident turn 2
Tenth caution - laps 329-338 - 6, 11, 75 accident turn 4
Eleventh caution - laps 386-391 - 14 stopped turn 3

3 sponsor - Florida Auto Auction of Orlando

55 DNF reason - crash (had pretty significant nose damage that the crew
was shown working on on pit road)

14 crew chief - Joe Shear Jr.

A big issue was the BF Goodrich tires for Winchester. Pseudo-competition
cautions were arranged to fly if there were roughly 50 green flag laps
in a row or any string of non-cautionworthy issues on track. A couple
drivers did blow tires, ending their days, while others still had issues
with related parts such as axles that resulted in crashes.

Mark Cole pulled off after being lapped several times in less than 20
green flag laps. A quick glance at his ASA stats shows that this may
have been a pretty frequent occurrence.

During this race, Butch Miller and Mike Miller qualified near each other
and ran pretty much right next to each other the entire day. During the
top 10 driver intros aired on TNN, the drivers said hello to their
families watching at home. Butch and Mike decided to wish good luck to
their brothers - implying each other. Rick Benjamin continued to play
into the joke during the length of the broadcast, finally stating that
they were merely brothers in the "crafty veterans club" with under 20 to
go. The joke was aimed at particularly gullible viewers, including yours
truly admittedly, and was probably pretty funny to longtime ASA viewers.


  5.   Rich posted:
  09.09.2020 - 7:54 pm
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Rick Benjamin and Steve Byrnes were the commentators. Bob Dillner was
the sole pit road reporter.


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