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  1.   rm posted:
  07.23.2018 - 9:48 pm
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There were 4 cautions. Caution laps did not count. The race finished
under caution but they raced back to the line per the rules of the time.
A pair of cars were beached in the middle of the front straightaway,
just past the line, with the remaining 30 drivers bearing down on them
fast. Predictably, a massive accident occurred after the checkers fell
as cars piled into the melee nearly 30 seconds after the accident that
originally brought out the caution had already stopped. All the more
reason that rule is a part of history now.

First caution: lap 3 - 81 accident backstretch
Second caution: lap 31 - 42 oil on track
Third caution: lap 49 - 03, 14 accident backstretch
Fourth caution: lap 50 - 01, 34, 78 accident frontstretch

At least 7 more cars piled into future Furniture Row Racing driver Jerry
Robertson's stalled car after the checkered flag. The only ones I could
identify were the 52 of overmatched polesitter Mike Grady and the 02 of
Darren Shaw.

The proper race name was a mouthful. It was the "Copper World Classic
Greased Lightning 50".


  2.   RaceFanX posted:
  07.14.2020 - 11:45 am
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In 2020 Kevin Harvick put up a picture of his #75 Chevy from this race
up on Twitter recounting that it was the first Southwest Tour car he had
built and paid for himself. Harvick knew his stuff as he because he
brought it home with a top-5. Kevin was running full-time in the NASCAR
Truck Series at the time with Porter-Cable Tools sponsoring his effort
there in addition to a few Southwest Tour events.


  3.   Rich posted:
  09.15.2020 - 2:47 pm
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Steve Evans and Dave Reiff were the commentators. Bobby Gerould was the
sole pit road reporter.


  4.   RaceFanX posted:
  01.14.2021 - 9:19 pm
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Ex-NASCAR Truck racer Steve Portenga dominated this race only to have it
end in a vicious crash. Portenga jumped into the lead on the opening lap
and held the top spot for the first 48 laps only to have Ken Alexander
loop it in front of him on the backstretch on what would have been the
penultimate lap. Portenga tried to take evasive action but it was too
late on too fast a section of the track and he hit the back of
Alexander's crash resulting in a blown tire and a spin into the outside
wall; nailing it hard just past the infamous opening in the backstretch
wall. His black #14 took a big hit as the rear bodywork and the roof
buckled before he slide back down the track backwards through traffic
afterward. Portenga walked away afterward, frustrated but uninjured.
Alexander may have spun to set off the melee after hitting some oil.


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