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  1.   rm posted:
  08.07.2020 - 1:56 pm
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1st caution - 4, 25, 41, 51, 58, 71, 86, 99 accident turn 3
7th caution - 4, 32 accident turn 3
10th caution - 4 accident frontstretch

Pole speed - 98.404 mph

Bobby Gill did not make too many friends on this night. Or the whole
weekend, for that matter. He touched off the lap 2 pileup as well as an
incident with Randy Porter. Porter apparently caught some serious air
when Gill punted him straight off the track - Mobile is one of the most
famous short tracks without outside walls lining most of the track - but
Porter was able to continue the race one lap down after getting a tow
back onto the asphalt.
Gill had driven extremely aggressively when trying to pass cars all
evening and forced a couple other drivers to chase their cars up the
track when Gill moved them to gain positions. I don't think too many of
them were disappointed when Gill crashed out in the waning laps, all on
his own when pushing the car a little too hard on his way out of the
fourth turn. This came right on the heels of the previous night's race
at Five Flags, where a restart stackup caused Rick Crawford to go up in
flames after contact with Gill. Jody Ridley won that race as well, but
he had to make a clutch save in the final set of turns on the last lap
when Gill rammed his back bumper. Ironically, Ridley had been more upset
about his run-in with Gill than Crawford was, even though Crawford's car
was smoldering on pit road at the end while Ridley was celebrating in
victory lane.


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