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  *Comments on the 2002 W.J. Plemons Investments 200:*
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  1.   Darrell posted:
  03.04.2015 - 5:45 pm
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Kyle Busch's first career ASA start, driving the #07 car (not the #7.
Microsoft Excel hates numbers like 07)


  2.   Darrell posted:
  03.08.2015 - 12:20 pm
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Also the first ASA start for Reed Sorenson. He and Casey Smith (Who came
later in the season) were a couple of young standouts from the Legends
division who had hoped to make it up to upper-level stock cars at a
young age. Sorenson obviously was the one who got through, albeit with
only moderate success.


  3.   RaceFanX posted:
  04.07.2015 - 8:46 pm
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Kyle Busch was a reluctant ASA regular in 2002. After making a splash in
some NASCAR Truck races the prior season he got locked out of the season
finale at California because he was underage to be exposed to the
Marlboro sponsorship of a companion CART race. NASCAR's new for 2002 age
limit required drivers to be at least 18 to run in its major series
leading to 17-year-old Busch being kept out of NASCAR for the season.
With no way to run in higher series Roush Racing lined up Kyle, then one
of their development drivers, with an ASA ride in Noah Yoder's #07 Ford.


  4.   RaceFanX posted:
  11.26.2016 - 12:04 pm
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Mike Garvey and LaFavre Racing parted ways after the 2001 season leaving
Garvey and brother-in-law Bill Plemons to form a new team called WJP
Motorsports in just two months leading up to this race, converting an
old horse barn into their new race shop. The new effort would prove a
good one, Garvey raced for WJP throughout the remainder of ASA's
existence, but their first race didn't go as hope. Garvey had some
issues early and fell back. While working his way back to the front the
new #17 Chevrolet didn't come up to speed on a restart after a serious
brake failure leading to contact with ASA rookie Richard Fincher, making
his debut in a #53 Chevy owned by former ASA standout Scott Hansen (who
acted as his crew chief in this race after leaving the ASA series
full-time as a driver after 2001), and it ended with Garvey getting the
outside wall on his way to the sidelines.


  5.   MSportRev posted:
  01.30.2020 - 12:18 pm
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Joey Clanton earned $16,000 in this race


  6.   SweetRich posted:
  03.02.2020 - 10:41 pm
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The commentators for the race were Bob Dillner and Buddy Baker with Jim
Tretow and Brian Till on pit road.


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