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  1.   RaceFanX posted:
  04.05.2018 - 12:55 pm
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After more than a one-month layoff between races the NASCAR Southwest
Tour returns to action for what should have been a big moment as the
tour ran its first race at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway superspeedway
but instead was one run with heavy hearts. Las Vegas native Chris
Trickle was shot and ended up in a coma he after a drive-by shooting
only a week after the series' prior race at Phoenix. With Trickle
fighting for life in a hospital bed his #70 Star Nursery Chevrolet team
called in Sean Monroe to drive his car and he brought it home with a
strong run to finish fourth. Trickle would ultimately succumb to his
injuries just over a year after this race, the case of who shot him and
why never being solved.

Chris Raudman picks up the first of his three wins in 1997. Of his five
career Southwest Tour wins this would be his only one on a superspeedway.

ASA racer Matt Kenseth makes his second and final Southwest Tour start
and places in the top-5. In about a month he would make his Busch series
debut and launch his career into the stratosphere.


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