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  1.   RaceFanX posted:
  03.25.2016 - 6:10 pm
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NASCAR Winston Cup racer Mark Martin heads west to race with the
Northwest Tour stars for the only time in his career and puts his #6
Ford in victory lane. Martin had to earn this win with a last lap pass
on Ken Pedersen. The only lap Martin ever lead in the series was the
money lap here.

This was the Northwest Tour's first-ever Portland International Raceway.
This event was an undercard race for a CART race the next day and
televised live by ESPN. Really cool that the fans got to see top NASCAR
and IndyCar talent racing at the same track on the same weekend.

In addition to Martin Ford also sent NASCAR Cup racer Dale Jarrett to
run this one. Jarrett's only Northwest Tour start saw the future Cup
champion sidelined by a transmission failure just before halfway.

Winston West racer Hershel McGriff makes his only Northwest Tour start
of the season. The Oregon native finished just outside the top-10.


  2.   RaceFanX posted:
  03.25.2016 - 6:16 pm
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Sponsor:
#6 Mark Martin- Valvoline / Cummins (Cummins was on the rear quarter
panels but Martin's T-Bird late model was otherwise painted identically
to his Winston Cup ride that year)

One account I found of this race describes the finish as Martin beating
Pederson by a hair in a photo finish. Maybe video from this race will
turn up someday to find out if that was the case. Impressive for Mark to
get the win here when Portland wasn't exactly his normal stopping grounds.


  3.   Unser1 posted:
  03.25.2016 - 7:46 pm
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This was the REB-CO Northwest Tour's first-ever race on a road course.
Portland hosted all but one of the series' road course events.


  4.   RaceFanX posted:
  07.22.2020 - 3:54 pm
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This wasn't a photo finish but it was an exciting one. The closing laps
saw Ken Pedersen, also in his Northwest Tour debut as he mainly raced in
the Southwest, outfront in his #25 Chevrolet Lumina with Mark Martin hot
in pursuit in the #6 Ford Thunderbird and throwing everything he had at
him. With two to go Martin caught the grass a little but his car was
faster than Pedersen's and he quickly caught up. All the pressure Martin
put on Pedersen saw Ken try to block as the last lap began only to take
the wrong line into the first chicane and leave the door open for Mark
to make the winning pass. Martin pulled away for the win afterward but
Pedersen still easily got a well earned second behind only the visiting
Winston Cup star.


  5.   Rich posted:
  09.15.2020 - 5:16 pm
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Bob Jenkins and Bobby Hillin were the commentators. Gary Gerould and Jon
Beekhuis were the pit road reporters.


  6.   rm posted:
  10.07.2020 - 8:52 pm
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First caution - 61 off track turn 1
Second caution - debris turn 1 (caution extended for the 39 going off
track in turn 1 right before they were ready to go green, locking up his
brakes and then busting the transmission in the process after getting
towed out)
Third caution - 58 off track turn 3

Notable crew chiefs:
07 - Mike Steurer
1 - Chuck Carruthers
25 - Roger Bracken

28 make - Pontiac

10 sponsor - Mane 'n' Tail
18 sponsor - The Tire Factory/Shell
25 sponsor - Sierra Gold Trak
28 sponsor - Texaco/Havoline

For the Winston Cup stars, there were certainly reminders that they were
not in the Winston Cup garage anymore. Dale Jarrett was the victim of a
mechanical failure and noted in his post-exit interview that a very high
amount of drivers had broken gears, rear ends and transmissions over the
course of the race weekend. Mark Martin was hampered by a 37-second
green flag pit stop, losing quite a few positions on-track in the process.

Speaking of pit stops, at one point under a caution one of the
announcers commented that the amount of fuel some of the crews were
spilling when filling up the cars was awfully excessive, and possibly
even dangerous. Sure enough, later on in the caution flag, cameras cut
to one gasman on pit road stripped down to his underwear getting hosed
off, presumably after spilling a large amount of gas while refueling.

I can't seem to find any info about the Ted Olson in this race, but he
was mentioned quite often during the broadcast.


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