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  1.   MSportRev posted:
  08.24.2020 - 1:33 pm
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Hal Goodson was running


  2.   rm posted:
  08.26.2020 - 9:39 pm
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Mike Cope won the pole and started 1st

Hal Goodson led 17 laps

This race very nearly evoked the memory of the 1985 NASCAR North Tour
controversy that ultimately culminated in that series' split and demise.
Mike Cope was originally flagged the winner, but after the race the
officials declared that a error had been made by Cope's scorer and that
the victory instead went to Jody Ridley after a recount. Cope took it
easy in the late going of the race as the race had largely been full of
long green flag runs. Cope never bothered to push the issue after what
wound up as the last restart of the day, maintaining his lead steadily
without using up his tires. When Ridley made his way to Cope's back
bumper, Cope let Ridley go right on by as he had been advised by both
his team and NASCAR officials, supposedly, that Ridley was one lap down.
A bewildered Cope was upset about the late decision, but said he
couldn't afford to dwell on it and enter an appeal that would drag on
and possibly impact his focus on the championship hunt. The switching of
Ridley and Cope on the results sheet almost had major year-end
implications: Cope received fewer points for finishing 2nd instead of
1st and eked out the championship by only 4 points over Bobby Gill.


  3.   RaceFanX posted:
  08.27.2020 - 9:05 am
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Was the confusion about Cope and Ridley, who finished third, or Cope and
Goodson, who ended up the winner once all was said and done? Sounds like
this was a crazy finish.


  4.   rm posted:
  08.27.2020 - 12:35 pm
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That would indeed be Goodson at the center of the ordeal with Cope, not
Ridley...neither reading comprehension or double-checking work has ever
been a strong suit of mine, and especially not at night, oops.

Ridley was so much the face of the All-Pro series in the early 90s that
he was the center of many a tale of the series' races at the time,
that's what I'll blame this one on. I only have a rundown of the
"revised" results and some online digging only turned up one brief news
blip about the dilemma that was written several days after the race.
From what I can tell, the officials' decision to rectify the scoring
error may - emphasis on "may" - not have happened until Monday or
Tuesday, not directly following the race.


  5.   rm posted:
  03.24.2021 - 7:48 pm
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Cope's pole speed - 119.386 mph

Partial starting grid:
2. Crawford
3. Toby Porter
4. Young
5. Gill
6. Gale (make - Chevy)
7. Gerke (make - Olds)
8. Hall
9. Hal Goodson
10. Bigley Jr.

Cope led 179 laps - well, officially, anyway. He was under the
assumption that he'd led 201 of 250 laps in a dominating win.

Goodson (and Cope) actually completed 249 laps - because of the scoring
snafu they unknowingly didn't run the full distance.


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