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  1.   RaceFanX posted:
  11.14.2009 - 8:49 am
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Eric Bodine's best Busch North finish in 4th


  2.   RaceFanX posted:
  11.14.2009 - 8:50 am
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Also the lone Busch North win for Kim Baker


  3.   Pacer posted:
  11.14.2009 - 8:51 am
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And Truck series racer Rob Rizzo's lone Busch North start


  4.   Jeff posted:
  06.01.2011 - 5:32 pm
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Quite a controversial finish to this one, too. From memory and not from
video, so correct me if you remember the true story:

In a late-race battle for the lead, Ricky Craven (in his own #82) and
Bryan Wall got together, sending Craven into the guardrail with only a
couple laps to go. Wall recovered, and Craven's car was too damaged to
continue. That left Kelly Moore in the race lead.

Coming into turn 11, Brad Bennett made an inside move on Kelly Moore
with two laps remaining. Moore and Bennett made contact, Moore spun into
the fence, and Brad continued on to take the race lead.

On the white-flag lap, NASCAR announced they were black-flagging Bennett
for rough driving for wrecking Kelly Moore. I thought Moore chopped down
on Brad in the corner; NASCAR saw it differently. At that point, it was
too late to heed the black flag, and I believe Bennett's crew argued
with Bunk Sampson to no success.

On the next lap, Bennett was shown the black flag, and Kim Baker (who
had survived the end-of-race carnage) crossed the line second to receive
the checkered flag. Brad was initially scored at the tail end of the
lead lap, and then docked a lap in the post-race standings for failing
to heed the black flag (essentially, they pulled his scoring card after
the fact).

For Kim Baker (who ran a pretty low-buck operation from all
appearances), it was his first and only NASCAR victory, celebrated by a
crewmember who somersaulted down pit road after Baker was flagged the
winner. From some fans' perspective, as I recall, the opinion was that
NASCAR made the wrong call. (I believe there was also a questionable
penalty called against Tom Carey in the pits; he eventually finished
fifth with the last-lap mess, but before the penalty he was challenging
for the lead.)


  5.   Jeff posted:
  04.02.2017 - 10:59 pm
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Interesting note to add here: This is the only time in Andy Santerre's
driving career that he failed to qualify for a Busch North race. He was
running the Busch Series in 1998, and brought his own #44 Monro
Muffler/Brake & Service entry to the track. They had driveline problems
that kept them from getting out to the track under the five-minute
clock, and so they were never able to make a qualifying lap.

With a bunch of Monro people on hand (Monro is based out of the
Rochester, NY area), they moved the sponsorship to Brad Bennett's
unsponsored #4, which almost won the race.

John Wall's car was the Tony Vecchio red-and-white #1 Chevy. The
sponsorship on the car, "My Grandkids," is completely literal; the car
had the names of his grandkids on the hood and fenders.


  6.   RaceFanX posted:
  03.26.2021 - 4:34 pm
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ESPN televised this race. This was the main undercard race for the
NASCAR Cup race at the Glen the same weekend, hence former champion and
then-Cup regular Ricky Craven making his only start of the season.

Dale Shaw started 1998 in the NASCAR Busch Series down south but quickly
lost his ride and returned north. This was his first outing after he
took over the #7 Skoal Bandit Pontiac he owned from Bobby Dragon for the
rest of the season. Shaw came into this race fresh off a win in his #60
Ford at Loudon but his first outing in the Grand Prix didn't go as well
as mechanical failure put him on the sidelines.


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