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  1.   RaceFanX posted:
  03.26.2016 - 4:20 pm
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The NASCAR Southwest Tour's 1996 season begins ironically with NASCAR
Northwest Tour racer Ron Eaton coming south and putting a hurting on the
series regulars at Tucson. This was Eaton's only Southwest Tour win,
only the second time he claimed a top-10 in the southern series, and one
of just three starts for him in 1996.

Former series champion Ron Hornaday, Jr. starts off 1996 with a top-5
run in his only Southwest start of the season. Hornaday was now a
regular in the new Truck series and would go on to claim its
championship in 1996.


  2.   rm posted:
  07.24.2018 - 10:44 pm
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There were 4 cautions. The first one occurred on the opening start and
took out more than half the field. They decided that the first caution
would not count against drivers, so laps didn't start counting until the
second caution came out.

First caution - 07, 10, 14, 20, 27, 33, 34, 46, 48, 61, 65, 72, 73, 81,
93 accident frontstretch (red flag)
Second caution - 7, 9, 10, 12, 20, 34, 48, 65 accident turn 1
Third caution - 2, 28, 55, 87 accident backstretch
Fourth caution - 19, 34, 55 accident turn 4

Rick Crawford was in the 14

There were 30 DNQs!

Ron Eaton won the pole. Harvick started first due to the inversion.

So, after 18 laps, we had yet to see a full lap of green flag racing and
21 of the 26 starters were already involved in a crash. 5 cars had been
involved in the first two crashes. Promptly, on the restart after the
backstretch incident, Mike Alsup spun out on the frontstretch. For the
sanity of all persons involved, no yellow waved. It was all for naught
as just a couple laps after that, Doug McCoun dumped Kevin Harvick in
turn 4. Mark Wilson evaded the spinning Harvick by inches - no,
millimeters! - and Harvick looked to be okay. That was, of course, up
until he hit the 19 of Tony Toste, who happened to be stopped in the
infield off of turn 4 for no apparent reason.

So wouldn't you guess that the last 100+ laps of this race ran green?
Because that's exactly what happened. Brian Germonne and Chris Trickle
were the only drivers that didn't sniff trouble all day.


  3.   GGDC posted:
  09.18.2019 - 7:31 am
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There were more than 3 cautions


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