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  1.   Anonymous posted:
  10.18.2018 - 7:20 pm
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How about that. Never knew the Winston West Series ran on a street course.


  2.   Chives5150 posted:
  10.19.2018 - 1:49 am
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And it was a long race, too!


  3.   Mr.Victory posted:
  10.19.2018 - 8:01 am
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They'd never do a race this long today, maybe about 40 laps if they
raced now.


  4.   RaceFanX posted:
  10.19.2018 - 9:04 am
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The West series was its own thing in this era, it wasn't mainly a
development series like it is now. They ran a few longer races and
several unique locations.


  5.   RaceFanX posted:
  08.18.2020 - 1:59 pm
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This rain soaked outing was the first of two years for the Spokane Grand
Prix as NASCAR was looking to increase its road racing efforts across
all series. The inaugural event saw Canadian Roy Smith win his first
West race in almost five years in dramatic fashion.

Hershel McGriff won the pole for this one and lead the first lap only
for his title rival Chad Little, a proud Spokane native, to take the
lead on the second lap and lead the next 21 laps before the lead
shuffled around a bit and a rainstorm brought the action to a halt for a
two and half hour red flag while the track was dried. Roy Smith's car
had ignition problems and even a brief electrical fire after the rain
storm but once he got going he was a factor. He passed McGriff for the
lead but found himself up against Little in a Thunderbird vs.
Thunderbird street race with victory on the line. Smith held off
hometown hero Little's charge before pulling away to take the win.

Ruben Garcia and Jim Robinson led some laps in this one but ultimately
wrecked together when Robinson got into Garcia and sent him for a loop
with Roman Calczynski then running into Robinson. Smith came up on the
crash scene but just managed to avoid being collected. Everyone got back
going again but Calczynski and later Robinson both eventually fell out
with mechanical woes.

Chad Little's father Chuck Little made his final West start on the
streets of his native Spokane but it ended with his Thunderbird wrecked
on the opening lap in an incident that doesn't appear to have brought
out a yellow. It was kind of a rough day for the Coors cars overall as
Chuck Little and Tobey Butler's beer backed entries go out early while
Chad Little comes oh so close to the win but has to settle for second.


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