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  1.   RaceFanX posted:
  04.07.2015 - 8:59 pm
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Chris Trickle scores a top-5 in what would tragically be his final
NASCAR race. Just seven days after this race Trickle was shot in the
head in a drive by shooting while driving to play tennis with a friend.
The shooting left Trickle in a coma from which he never fully came out
of before dying 13 months later in March 1998. The shooting remains
unsolved.


  2.   RaceFanX posted:
  03.09.2019 - 8:35 pm
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TNN televised this one.

Frank Maronski, Jr. crashed hard early in this one when his red #7 Chevy
clipped the outside wall frontstretch then had a serious problem (either
a flat tire or a hung throttle) that set him up for a head-on blast into
the Turn 1 wall. Maronski was okay afterward but his Monte Carlo late
model certainly wasn't.


  3.   RaceFanX posted:
  03.09.2019 - 8:54 pm
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Sponsor:
#52 Ken Schrader- Skoal / Budweiser (The car had Schrader's red scheme
from former NASCAR Winston Cup sponsor Budweiser scheme mixed with a
green nose for his new Cup series sponsor Skoal)

Rick Carelli wins the NASCAR Southwest Tour race at Phoenix's famous
Copper World Classic for the second year in a row, charging through the
field from a 14th-place starting spot to lead in just 44 laps. The High
Plains Drifter was a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series regular at the time
and made only three Southwest Tour starts this season.

Ken Schrader led late before Carelli passed him for the win. ASA racer
Scott Hansen, who won a Southwest Tour race at Phoenix the prior fall
and drove for Schrader at the time, was Schrader's crew chief for this one.

More than 70 cars attempted to qualify for this race including 16 Copper
World Classic rookies. Only four of the newcomers made the race including


  4.   Rich posted:
  09.15.2020 - 5:16 pm
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Steve Evans and Ralph Sheheen were the commentators. Dave Reiff and
Bobby Gerould were the pit road reporters.


  5.   RaceFanX posted:
  11.07.2020 - 2:59 pm
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ASA racer Matt Kenseth was an also ran in this one, starting midpack and
retiring in the closing laps. This was the first of just two Southwest
Tour races for the future Cup champion.


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