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  1.   Unser1 posted:
  03.25.2016 - 9:03 pm
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The NASCAR Northwest Tour has come to Racing-Reference! Thank you to our
webmaster, historians, and everyone else who helped bring this to
fruition. This is really cool, this site now has all four regional
touring series...plus who doesn't love a series where Derrike Cope, Chad
Little, and Tobey Butler all rose to fame...

In the series' first race Garrett Evans grabs the lead late and puts his
name in the record book as the series' first winner. It would prove to
be a fitting achievement as Evans would go on to win the series' first
title, race in the tour throughout its existence, and be the series'
all-time leader in wins and championships.

Rob Holden finishes ninth...but beats every Ford driver in the field.


  2.   The Great Dave posted:
  02.06.2017 - 3:15 pm
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This series had a previous incarnation from at least 1975 - 1984 known
as "NASCAR Winston Northwest series". It ran the "Sportsman" style cars
that the Bush Series ran and I think even had a similar championship
format to the pre-82 Sportsman series. It mostly ran at Tri-Cities in
Yakima but occasionally raced elsewhere.


  3.   KW posted:
  02.06.2017 - 3:41 pm
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The Third Turn has bits and pieces of races and points standings for the
1975-1984 series


  4.   Ray posted:
  02.06.2017 - 5:23 pm
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The Northwest Tour was NASCAR's response to regain it's foothold in the
Northwest. NASCAR made inroads into the Northwest in the early 1970's in
sanctioning Yakima Speedway and Tri-Cities Raceway with the late model
sportsman being the top division. They developed a series with the non
weekly tracks which eventually evolved into the Olympia Challenge
Series. This was a popular series into the 1980's when open competition
racing using the smaller cars became popular. With the formation of the
Busch Series and the Weekly Racing Series the Late Model Series
basically died. Moving into the Northwest void was ASA West. To keep
it's presence in 1985 NASCAR signed up more weekly tracks in the
Northwest, most notably Evergreen Speedway, at started the Northwest Tour.


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