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  1.   RaceFanX posted:
  04.05.2015 - 9:13 pm
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NASCAR makes its debut on the streets of Los Angeles with a rare stock
car street course race. The organizers of the LA street race hoped that
this race would be a forerunner to a Cup race on this track but it would
not come to pass.

Steve Portenga scores his sixth and final Southwest Tour victory.


  2.   RaceFanX posted:
  04.05.2015 - 9:27 pm
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Sponsor:
#6 Mark Martin- Hot Wheels / Valvoline

DNQ car:
Damon Lusk- #40 America Online Chevrolet

This was Martin's only Southwest Tour start. He ran well but dropped out
late in the race.

Scenes for a 1999 episode of "Baywatch" were shot during this race
weekend. The episode, titled "Baywatch Grand Prix," featured Mark Martin
guest starring as himself. The plot had the Baywatch lifeguards race car
driver friend visit to take part in this street race only, promising to
donate his winning's to group's children's program, only for him to fall
sick after an allergic reaction to some food at a party. Needing a
driver the show's main lifeguard Mitch Buchannon played by David
Hasselhoff volunteered to take the driver's place, having earlier said
he did some racing after a training course in college, to try and win
this race competing against Martin. In the fictional version of this
race Hasselhoff does his best but has to settle for second as Martin
wins but Mark then volunteers to donate his winnings to the team so it
all works out in the end. Damon Lusk's #40 played the Baywatch team's
racer but as shown here he didn't qualify for the real race.


  3.   Dorsal Fin posted:
  10.16.2017 - 10:55 am
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Hot Wheels made a diecast of the car Msrtin drove in this race.


  4.   M posted:
  05.07.2018 - 8:10 pm
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I know there's no video link, but was this race broadcast by any chance?
Are there any clips of it somewhere?


  5.   A posted:
  06.13.2018 - 1:08 am
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Pretty much all the guys were or would be famous Cup drivers did poorly.


  6.   @statscrash posted:
  03.03.2020 - 12:21 am
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Seems odd the organizers thought they would get a Cup race when
California Speedway had just opened.


  7.   Art posted:
  01.18.2021 - 6:58 pm
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@2 In reference to the Baywatch episode race footage came from, the
character in the episode was named Damon Lusk - however, he was not
played by himself, but by Peter Barton (best known for playing the
titular character in "The Powers Of Matthew Star").


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