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  1.   RaceFanX posted:
  04.17.2015 - 11:05 pm
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Ivan Baldwin scores his only Southwest Tour win.


  2.   Alex posted:
  08.13.2015 - 4:12 pm
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Ron Esau drove #56, and Mike Chase drove #99. Ivan Baldwin's car is
illegible in the darkness.


  3.   RaceFanX posted:
  11.01.2015 - 9:54 am
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Baldwin's win was the first in the Southwest Tour for a driver racing a
Ford.


  4.   Mike posted:
  12.20.2015 - 2:23 pm
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I remember that race because I was in it. The track was slippery as
snot. I think the track had been covered with dirt for the preceding
event. After restarts, the leaders were on top of the tail-enders in no
time. It must have been frustrating for them.


  5.   Tylor Thaber posted:
  12.20.2015 - 4:13 pm
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@4 You were? Uh, might I ask, which Mike are you?


  6.   The Long Shot posted:
  12.20.2015 - 5:18 pm
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All this info is going off of what I can hear the PA announcers saying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjSDRECzxkA (qualifying)

George Esau ran #5x. Dean Huss Jr. ran #98. Ivan Baldwin ran #4.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBzFhqeGVGY (heat races)

Looks like Randy Becker is driving the #7, Tom Caturegli is in the #45,
Roy Pruett is in the #33, Troy Beebe is in the #93. Pruett spins twice,
and Becker takes a hard hit and has to be towed off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpg0LFKQgTs (final laps of the actual race)

Mark Walbridge is in the #27, Don Wilson is in the #75. He only appears
on screen for a millisecond near the end but it looks like Roger Avants
is in the #1.


  7.   The Long Shot posted:
  12.20.2015 - 5:22 pm
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Correction to the numbers I posted (that will be approved by the
moderator shortly): Avants is in the #27, Wahlbridge is in the #75,
Wilson is in the #1.


  8.   The Long Shot posted:
  12.20.2015 - 5:40 pm
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Based off of the numbers they ran for the rest of the year:

John Krebs: #33
Roy Pruett: #3 (correction)
Don Lux: #2
Bill Clarke: #76
Keith Van Houten: #35
Roman Calczynski: #75
Al Sadler: #04
Ron Daniel: #07


  9.   The Long Shot posted:
  12.21.2015 - 10:58 am
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Just one correction for the webmaster's edits: it was George Esau that
ran the #5x, not Ron. Ron ran the #56.


  10.   gary24fan posted:
  02.28.2019 - 5:31 pm
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I think Walbridge is actually in the #37 from what I can see in the
YouTube video. He had the only other T-Bird besides Baldwin and Ivan is
obviously #4.

Based on the heat races video by the same uploader, it seems Roy Testa
may be #17.


  11.   MSportRev posted:
  10.19.2019 - 2:59 pm
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Positions 8-15 were running.


  12.   QFH posted:
  10.30.2020 - 10:57 pm
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Randy Becker started 1st, he led much of the early part of the race but
on a restart about a third of the way through, winner Ivan Baldwin, who
had not raced at this track in 3 years, bumped into the back of the
Becker car which caused him to wreck into the infield and ended his
race. Baldwin said he was trying to make an outside pass on Becker, but
he claims Becker's transmission failed and that caused Baldwin to wreck
him. Becker was the one who convinced Baldwin to come back to the
speedway to run this race, and Becker was noticeably angry about the
crash, saying, "That's the worst thing I've ever talked you into, it's
been a lot of years since he's got to race into the back end of me."

Top 5 qualifiers:
1. Becker
2. Baldwin
3. Chase
4. Esau
5. Beebe
(newspaper says "The finishing order of the top 4 was the same as at the
start" besides Becker who crashed so I assume this is what that means)

Attendance: 5,000

Purse: $18,000

Source: San Bernandino Sun, September 21, 1986.


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