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  1.   SweetRich posted:
  02.20.2020 - 8:46 pm
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The Commentators For The Race Were Mike Hogewood And Pat Patterson. The
Pit Road Reporter Was Kandace Krueger.


  2.   rm posted:
  11.20.2020 - 10:47 am
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Free pass recipients:
First - #55
Second - #61
Third - #26
Fourth - ???
Fifth - ???
Sixth - #8

To the rear - 8 - engine change

9 crew chief - Paul Andrews

21 status - crash

Rogelio Lopez wouldn't forget his first trip to Dover - actually, if
he's lucky, he wouldn't remember hit. Lopez cut a right front tire
coming out of turn 2 early in the race and crashed into the outside wall
very hard at a very high rate of speed. It was not the only hard crash
of the day. Clair Zimmerman hit the exhaust pipes that were dropped off
of another car and folded in most of his entire left front before
smacking the wall, and in the closing stages Jerry Marquis blew a right
front at an even more critical angle than Lopez and had his entire car
go up in a blaze while he scrambled to get out and get away from the
flames. Marquis hit literally the exact same spot on the wall at the
exit of turn 2 that Lopez had hit, saving the track crew a little bit of
time in overnight painting I suppose. A red flag was needed to tow away
the burnt racecar. On a day that was already on the overcast side, this
pushed the race to end quite close to sunset at a track that does not
have lights.

45 sponsor - American Red Cross/Goss Dodge

Hoar had the Red Cross on the hood in an effort to drive donations for
those in the Gulf impacted by a couple (then-)recent storms, Hurricane
Katrina and Hurricane Rita.

Duct-tape number alert: Brett Thompson ran an 81 that had been hastily
switched from a 61, his usual West number. In an unusual occurrence for
a car with duct-taped numbers, Thompson ran up front all day and came
home with a top ten.


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