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  1.   Anonymous posted:
  02.09.2015 - 6:49 am
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Oops!

Steve Carlson won this after leading 24 laps! Same info used for all
races that year!


  2.   Anonymous posted:
  02.09.2015 - 2:53 pm
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Steve Carlson should be shown as completing 40 laps


  3.   rm posted:
  09.09.2020 - 8:30 pm
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This race was scheduled to run on Friday night, but was delayed to
Saturday night due to rain. I found a lone source that states that the
race was cut from 50 laps to 40 due to weather & time constraints, but
considering the "50" branding for this race is in line with the other
40-lappers the series ran at Gateway I feel pretty skeptical about that
one (though, for what it's worth, when the sister All-Pro series ran 40
laps at Gateway the race title had 40 in it).

Carlson said in victory lane that his first win at a track this large
was one of the biggest of his career. Considering how many races he's
won, that's saying something.

Carlson's winnings - $9,800

Qualifying was rained out - no time trials.


  4.   rm posted:
  10.27.2020 - 9:12 pm
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An oddity about this one that somehow was never mentioned in the
newspaper article I have about this race: a caution came out on lap 12
for rain and a red flag came out shortly thereafter.
By the time the track was dry enough for cars to get back out there, the
scheduled green flag time for the day's Busch race was quickly
approaching. So they proceeded with the nationally televised Busch race
as planned and then resumed with the remainder of this race.
The race got back underway on lap 16 with Jon Lemke leading on the
restart. Not completely realizing that this was a restart, and not the
start of the race again, leader Lemke laid back on the restart and
veteran Steve Carlson was able to get a great jump and had the more
favorable line to take the lead and not give it back. Lemke, to his
credit, was a very good sport about the turn of events and said that it
was on him for the mental lapse. He also pointed out that he had plenty
of laps to get back by Carlson and could not pull the pass off, despite
keeping a close tail on Carlson for the last half of the event.


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