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  1.   RaceFanX posted:
  04.05.2018 - 12:42 pm
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Visiting ASA racer Scott Hansen again pops by to join the NASCAR
Southwest Tour at its annual fall finale on the Winston Cup series
undercard at Phoenix and goes to victory lane in his only start of the
season. This was the third year in a row, and fourth in the last five
years, that Hansen won this race.

The NASCAR Craftsman Truck series had a race at Phoenix the day after
this Halloween one so its no surprise a few truck racers with late model
tour backgrounds crossover over here. Former Southwest Tour champion
Rick Carelli, the winner at Phoenix earlier in the season, had a strong
run and finished third while the infamous Rick Crawford, a ringer who
often entered these Phoenix races, came home seventh in his final
Southwest Tour start. Future Truck series standouts Kurt Busch and Matt
Crafton, the latter a series regular in 1997, also both finished in the
top-11 on their way up the ladder.


  2.   rm posted:
  07.24.2018 - 9:08 pm
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First caution - 34 accident turns 1/2 (violent, fiery crash. He hit so
hard the hood wound up wrapped all the way around the car, halfway down
the right side)
Second caution - 24 slow on track
Third caution - 76 accident turn 2 (spun right in front of the leader,
Rick Carelli)
Fourth caution - 18, 66 accident turn 1 (spun right in front of the
leader, Scott Hansen)
Fifth caution - 18 accident frontstretch (karma for being the agitator
of the previous yellow?)
Sixth caution - 20 accident turn 3 (the leader...noticing a trend yet?

To the rear - 34 - failed pre-race tech inspection

20 DNF reason - parked (the crew sent him back on the racetrack somehow
in worse shape than he was in when he originally crashed, so NASCAR
stopped him and did not allow him to continue)


  3.   Erik Jones Fan posted:
  07.24.2018 - 9:26 pm
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Kurt Busch is in this race!


  4.   rm posted:
  07.24.2018 - 10:03 pm
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Busch was preparing for his rookie campaign in the Southwest series the
following year. He would go on to win the 1998 ROTY title and the series
championship after that in 1999, before jumping up to run Trucks and Cup
for Roush in 2000. Quite the meteoric rise.


  5.   Rich posted:
  09.15.2020 - 2:47 pm
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Rick Benjamin and Buddy Baker were the commentators. Glenn Jarrett and
Steve Byrnes were the pit road reporters.


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