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  1.   RaceFanX posted:
  12.02.2009 - 1:13 am
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Tom Colella makes his lone NASCAR start...and wins.

This was the lone Grand National East race at Heidelberg Raceway where
Colella was a local racer. A rare case of a local guy running with Cale,
Bobby and Buddy and whooping them all.

Heidelberg Raceway closed down a few months later


  2.   Jeff Wagoner posted:
  05.07.2010 - 3:41 am
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This race was co-sanctioned with ARCA.


  3.   Alex posted:
  06.23.2015 - 8:30 pm
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Leaders:
Tom Colella 1-100

Laps:
Tiny Lund 98

DNFs:
Bobby Allison- tire

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19730803&id=4esjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nFQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7001,714190&hl=en



  4.   Alex posted:
  10.07.2015 - 7:49 pm
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New nugget: race title was the "Heidelberg-Gulf 100"**


  5.   RaceFanX posted:
  10.01.2019 - 2:04 pm
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Car Numbers:
Larry Scott- #15
Jim Clark- #3

Owners:
#9 Jeff Faber- Faber Racing
#68 Bruce Gould- Stricker Racing
#29 Ron Hutcherson- Leon Hutcherson
#96 Wayne Trinkle- Wayne Trinkle
#15 Larry Scott- Scott Racing
#77 Wayne Watercutter- Wayne Watercutter
#45 Kenny Black- Black Racing
#3 Jim Clark- Clark Racing


  6.   MSportRev posted:
  10.02.2019 - 7:33 pm
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Cale Yarborough completed 98 laps, was running
Buddy Baker completed 16 laps. Status: mechanical


  7.   MSportRev posted:
  10.02.2019 - 7:34 pm
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And looking at second, that means that positions 2-7 completed 98 laps.


  8.   MSportRev posted:
  10.27.2020 - 5:13 pm
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Lead changes: 0


  9.   rm posted:
  10.28.2020 - 3:11 pm
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Bobby Allison started 2nd
Bruce Gould started 3rd

DNQ/WD:
Iggy Katona

The local racer given the best chance of beating the big-time NASCAR
stars was Bob Wearing, but instead it was Tom Colella who emerged
victorious. Like Colella, this is the only NASCAR race tracked on the
site at present for Wearing (though he did have some NASCAR experience
in the form of sporadic appearances on the Modified tour in the 70s).
Tiny Lund, on his way to the 1973 series championship, did accurately
point out ahead of time that after doing some scouting, the Heidelberg
race probably had the best chance all year of a nationally-unknown local
driver coming in and making a splash by showing up the NASCAR contingent.

There were a few Heidelberg regulars that opted to not run the
ARCA/NASCAR race as they were worried about either tearing up their cars
against the touring drivers or were unwilling to make the engine changes
necessary in order to be ARCA/NASCAR-legal. Among that group was Kenny
Hemphill - father of future one-time ARCA standout Ryan Hemphill - and
Norm Benning, who would eventually go on to start nearly 300 ARCA races.


  10.   RaceFanX posted:
  10.28.2020 - 3:25 pm
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Status:
Bobby Watson, Jeff Faber, Bruce Gould, and A. Arnold: Running


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