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  1.   Tim Quievryn posted:
  05.18.2009 - 11:05 pm
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Failed to qualify:

Joel White
Steve Swick
Mark Proctor
Tim Steele


  2.   Matthew Sullivan posted:
  05.27.2009 - 9:43 pm
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Several Cup drivers made the trek west for this event in preparation of
the inaugural Cup race.


  3.   00andJoe posted:
  03.03.2011 - 6:11 pm
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Car owners:

#12 - Jim Smith
#77 - Butch Mock
#99 - Harry Melling
#81 - Fil Martocci
#96 - Buz McCall
#45 - John Strauser
#5 - Billy Gerhart
#28 - Robert Yates
#39 - Nelson Bowers


  4.   00andJoe posted:
  03.05.2011 - 5:57 pm
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also:
#11 car owner - Brett Bodine


  5.   RaceFanX posted:
  11.09.2015 - 12:01 am
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Not only were a few Cup teams entered in this race to practice for the
Cup debut at Las Vegas but a few tried out their 1998 driver lineups a
little early.

Kenny Irwin, Jr. ran this race with Robert Yates Racing in preperation
for taking over the famous Texaco/Havoline #28 full-time in 1998, his
first race in the #28 in any series. Irwin was fast and led much of the
early part of this race before crashing out. While his car here was a
Texaco/Havoline #28 the T-Bird very clearly came from Dale Jarrett's #88
team as it was painted in DJ's famous red, white, and blue Ford Quality
Care colors instead of the famous Havoline black look.

With Irwin at RYR the team's 1997 driver Ernie Irvan was free to move
over and do a race with his 1998 team, Nelson Bowers' MB2 effort.
Weirdly in a TV interview Irvan said this was the first time he raced a
Pontiac although he previously drove them in Cup for D.K. Ulrich back in
the 1980s, he probably just meant a modern Pontiac or something.


  6.   RaceFanX posted:
  09.27.2016 - 11:03 am
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Butch Gilliland finishes 12th and wraps up his lone NASCAR Winston West
title. He and Sean Woodside both came into the final race with a shot at
the title with Gilliland maintaining his lead after his rival had issues.


  7.   SK posted:
  09.28.2017 - 3:38 am
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A 40-car field that contained 15 drivers who competed on the Cup level
during the same year. Good Lord has this series ever changed.


  8.   RaceFanX posted:
  03.08.2018 - 9:00 am
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Mike Skinner makes his only Winston West start and crashes out. Given
Skinner, a Cup regular by this time, is originally from Southern
California I'm surprised he didn't race in this series more on his way
up the ladder.


  9.   Timothy Eklund posted:
  08.14.2018 - 8:17 am
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last race for HB Bailey


  10.   George Andrews posted:
  11.08.2018 - 11:49 am
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NASCAR listed Mike Skinner's hometown as Susanville, CA., in the far
Northeast corner of the state. I was born & lived in SoCal for 30+ years
and never heard of Mike until he started running the RCR Racing truck.


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