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  1.   RaceFanX posted:
  03.29.2019 - 2:13 pm
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NASCAR Winston Cup driver Ken Schrader makes his Southwest Tour debut
and promptly gets the win here at Riverside on a Cup series undercard.
Schrader maneuvered past Duke Hoenshell in the closing laps then pulled
away for the win.


  2.   RaceFanX posted:
  06.27.2019 - 8:58 am
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The battle for the Southwest Tour title comes down to the last race of
the season as Mike Chase comes in with the points lead but Roman
Calczynski was still within striking distance. Calczynski gave it
everything he had, even leading a few laps in the second half of the
race, but a transmission failure doomed his hopes. Chase meanwhile ran a
steady race and came home fifth, that would have been good enough to
lock up the title no matter what Calczynski had done.

Jim Lee handed his #6 Chevrolet over to West Coast veteran Jimmy Insolo
on lap two. Insolo proceeded to then go out and finish third with his
borrowed race car.

Chevrolet won 16 of 17 Southwest Tour races in 1987 and claimed the
manufacturers championship. Their lone loss was this one to Winston Cup
racer Ken Schrader in his Ford...and Schrader was making the switch to
Chevrolet in 1988 anyway.


  3.   rm posted:
  04.22.2020 - 10:09 pm
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Having run the ARCA race at DuQuoin last year, Ken Schrader maintains
his status as the last Riverside winner that is still active in a stock
car racing series covered on this site (as of 2019). As if you needed
another reason to consider Schrader a damn legend!

As far as I could tell, the only other active drivers that even raced at
Riverside are Morgan Shepherd and Sterling Marlin, and I'm pretty sure
Shepherd is all but committed to running Landon Cassill in his car
instead of himself in 2020. Marlin has run CRA at the Nashville
Fairgrounds, and while that series isn't covered on this site, there are
a few CARS tour races on the site that have been co-sanctioned with the
CRA.


  4.   RaceFanX posted:
  11.12.2020 - 10:26 am
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Schrader's winning maneuver was a one pit stop approach. He gambled he
could make it on fuel without a second stop and it paid off with a win.
Hoenshell gave the Cup racer everything he had, making up a three second
gap on the final lap to pressure Schrader before skidding sideways a bit
and having to settle for second.

Troy Beebe was a factory for the win in this one until the Taco Bell #93
Camaro broke a shock absorber with two laps to go. He limped it home
ninth afterward.

Mike Hood qualified near the front but destroyed his car in a lap 2 crash.

PARTIAL STARTING LINEUP:
1. #73 Jon Paques
2. #56 Ron Esau
3. #93 Troy Beebe
4. #4 Ken Schrader
5. #63 Dale Perry
6. #10 Richard Lach
7. #43 Ed Ash
8. #72 Mike Hood
9. #01 Greg Scheidecker
10. #6 Jim Lee


  5.   QFH posted:
  11.30.2020 - 7:38 am
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Troy Beebe was leading with 2 to go, he had a blown tire caused by a
mechanical issue and cut the track in order to get to the pits, this
gave him a 30 second penalty which forced him back to 9th


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