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  1.   RaceFanX posted:
  06.25.2020 - 6:17 pm
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After starting its season running in combination with the NASCAR Winston
Cup teams at Riverside the Winston West tour makes its final standalone
visit to the famous Ontario Motor Speedway for its second race of the
year. Roy Smith bested Bill Schmitt and Hershel McGriff to pick up his
only win of the season on his way to the West series championship. Oddly
this was the only race all year won by a driver who was competing for
the West series title; only six drivers would run every race this season
(a side effect of having to qualify for several Cup combination races no
doubt) and they were all locked out of victory lane after this as
visiting racers and Cup drivers won all of the season's remaining events.


  2.   RaceFanX posted:
  06.25.2020 - 6:17 pm
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Full Race Name: "Datsun Twin 200"

This race was run as part of a doubleheader with the season-opener for
the combined Championship Racing League (the short-lived CART/USAC Champ
Car combination tour that counted for both championships). The IndyCar
race saw Johnny Rutherford lap the field as he bested Tom Sneva to win
in the "Yellow Submarine" Pennzoil Chaparral-Cosworth.


  3.   JSPorts43 posted:
  06.25.2020 - 6:42 pm
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Wish we could see more NASCAR/IndyCar combination weekends. That would
be really fun for the fans and would probably be good for both series
(help bring more open-wheel fans to stock car racing, and vice versa.)
It could also make for more drivers trying to cross over, which could be
very interesting.


  4.   possum posted:
  06.25.2020 - 7:33 pm
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@3 - doubt we would on ovals. Whichever series goes second has problems
with the rubber laid down by the other series tires. And with NASCAR's
recent love of traction compound that's another issue for the Indycars,
since they don't respond well to it at all.

Doing a combo weekend on one of the road courses could be interesting.


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