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  1.   Matthew posted:
  12.04.2019 - 6:39 pm
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Bobby Gill becomes the 2nd and final driver to sweep the "Floribama"
doubleheaders, the first being Jody Ridley in 1991. The final
doubleheader was in 1996.


  2.   rm posted:
  08.14.2020 - 3:46 pm
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Driver/make/laps/status/start:
1. Gill/Pontiac/200/running/10th
2. Barfield Jr./Chevy/200/running/12th
3. Bigley Jr./Chevy/200/running/8th
4. Ridley/Ford/200/running/9th
5. Cope/Olds/200/running/1st
6. Query/Chevy/200/running/7th
7. Walters/Olds/200/running/14th
8. Crawford/Ford/199/running/3rd
9. Gale/Chevy/198/running/17th
10. Burroughs/Chevy/197/running/24th
11. Burr/Chevy/197/running/20th
12. Bearden/Chevy/197/running/19th
13. Kirk/Ford/197/running/11th
14. Tommy Porter/Olds/192/running/16th
15. Ingole/Chevy/191/running/31st
16. Bryant/Chevy/191/running/23rd
17. Lovelady/Pontiac/183/running/28th
18. Payne/Ford/176/running/29th
19. Minton/Chevy/174/running/27th
20. Jones/Ford/170/ignition/5th
21. Hal Goodson/Ford/152/rear end/4th
22. Wilson/Chevy/150/engine/15th
23. Wood/Olds/102/rear end/26th
24. Niedecken/Olds/90/wheel/6th
25. Hall/Olds/90/power steering/18th
26. White/Chevy/88/overheating/25th
27. Mayden/Chevy/86/crash/22nd
28. Probst/Ford/54/crash/21st
29. Mercer/Chevy/36/overheating/2nd
30. Gerke/Olds/31/shocks/13th
31. Young/Olds/1/handling/30th

Once again I will apologize in advance for any duplicate starting spots,
scanned copies of printed OCR-transcribed paper articles are not the
ideal source when aiming for accuracy here and that is the column that
seems to be impacted the most.

Margin of victory - "<1 second"

Cautions:
1st - laps 57-64
2nd - laps 90-99
3rd - laps 153-158
4th - laps 170-177
5th - laps 178-183

Race winner Gill took the lead at halfway and never looked back - until
coming out of turn 2 on the final lap, that is. On badly worn tires by
that point of the race, Gill got loose on exit and washed up the track
very suddenly, forcing a charging Ron Barfield Jr. to ease up to avoid a
collision. Barfield rolled out of it to avoid a collision and came
across the line right in Gill's tire tracks after being unable to make a
move on the other end of the track. Barfield said that while Gill's
slide left a hole on the inside line, said hole wasn't quite
racecar-sized and that even though the opportunity was there to win the
race it would have been far more physical than he'd be comfortable with
- if he even completed the pass in the first place. Gill had no problem
singing the praises of Barfield and his hard yet clean driving style in
his post-race interview.

This was Mike Cope's 8th pole of the season, apparently, giving him a
better than .500 record in qualifying on the year at that point. Cope
matched Gill's sweep of the wins in the doubleheader by sweeping the
poles for both events.

Junior Niedecken's day ended in unusual fashion when a miscue during a
pit stop caused him to leave the pits with several loose lugnuts on one
of his wheels. The wheel came off as he merged onto the backstretch,
rolling off towards freedom up and over turn 3 - Mobile has only a
frontstretch wall - with Niedecken's damaged, unsteerable car slowing
following behind. A stewing Niedecken got out when the car eventually
stopped and watched the remainder of the race from a safe distance back
behind turn 3.


  3.   MSportRev posted:
  09.30.2020 - 1:33 pm
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WDs:

Tracy Goodson and Greg Carr in a Chevrolet

Bob Green in a Pontiac

Tom Walls in the No. 1 Chevrolet

Jimmy Britts in an Oldsmobile

All competed in the first half of the doubleheader and encountered some
sort of issue that kept them out of the second half of the doubleheader.


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