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  1.   rm posted:
  10.09.2020 - 8:02 pm
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Track name at the time of this race was "Tahoe-Carson Speedway"

Pole speed - 65.646 mph by Garrett Evans

There were 2 DNQs; one appears to be 15th-place finisher Craig Paulson,
a local driver who hopped into the Doug Rutz-qualified #31 for the race.
By the look of the results sheet, I think I can figure out why he didn't
qualify originally.

Winnings:
Evans - $3,165
Schultz - $1,820
L. Fox - $1,285

The race ended in exciting fashion with the top three finishers nose to
tail when the checkers flew. The only problem with this, though, was
that third place Leon Fox was the one that led the trio across the
stripe, much to the chagrin of winner Garrett Evans. Fox discovered he
had lost most of his brakes during the final 65-lap run to the finish
and mostly wound up coasting through the high-banked corners, somehow
preserving his spot on the pylon. Evans caught Fox in the closing laps
and kept getting chopped off whenever he made a move to pass Fox,
allowing second-place Rick Schultz to close right up and make a race of
it. In turn, Evans' erratic driving in response to Fox's unusual line
also wound up preventing Schultz from being able to pull off any solid
pass attempt on Evans. It was mostly a matter of pride for Evans, who
had already clinched the 1985 championship after the penultimate race at
the track now known as South Sound. He led every lap at the line, but
had briefly lost the lead as they ran on the track to Schultz when they
lapped past both Bill Schmitt and Bob Fox at times. Schultz said he
developed steering problems when he kept hitting the wall running the
outside line past the lappers.


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