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  1.   RaceFanX posted:
  11.14.2015 - 10:09 am
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Scott Hansen wins his only Southwest Tour start of 1999 with a last lap
pass on David Stremme, then just a CRA Super Series racer making his
first start in any NASCAR series. It had to be something of a redemption
for Hansen with this win in Ken Schrader's car after Schrader had
replaced him for the Truck series finale a week earlier. It was Hansen's
fifth and final victory in the series, impressively all of them came at
Phoenix in fall during the series' big undercard race to the Cup series'
visit to Phoenix.

Already crowned 1999 Southwest Tour champion Kurt Busch makes his final
start as a regular in the series. He left the series to move up to the
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series in 2000.

Kevin Quesnell's seventh was his only top-10 on the Southwest Tour. This
was his last start in the series.

IndyCar racer Jeff Ward and NASCAR Midwest racer Justin Diercks make
their only Southwest Tour starts.

Damon Lusk makes his final Southwest Tour start. He moved up to ARCA for
2000.


  2.   Gray Gaulding's Distant Cousin posted:
  07.14.2018 - 1:58 pm
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  3.   Gray Gaulding's Distant Cousin posted:
  07.24.2018 - 10:13 am
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The Sponsor on the #46 had a Typo.

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  4.   RaceFanX posted:
  06.15.2019 - 7:31 pm
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This was Coy Gibbs' lone Southwest Tour start. He was an All-Pro racer
at the time of this one.


  5.   rm posted:
  07.07.2020 - 8:38 pm
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66 sponsor - Lee's Iron & Metal
81 sponsor - Mr. Gas

Known status updates:
Evans - parked (Evans was leading the race when he suddenly fell off the
pace with a mechanical issue and was eventually black flagged by the
officials. No word on if he was parked due to the car smoking/dropping
fluid, or if it was because he was no longer making the minimum time)
Sweatman - running (went 14 laps down fixing engine issues)
Baker - crash
Fensler - crash
Busch - crash
Ward - crash
Dyer - crash
Nash - crash
Lusk - crash
Diercks - crash
Allison - mechanical

First caution - 44 accident turn 1
Second caution - 12, 29 accident frontstretch
Third caution - 4, 6, 81, 88 accident turn 4
Fourth caution - 73 spun
Fifth caution - 18, 21, 46, 66, 70 accident frontstretch (Crafton's car
became a blaze after he hit some debris, but he got it to the pits so
the fire could be extinguished and he managed a lead lap finish after all)
Sixth caution - 7, 25 accident frontstretch

Attendance - 30,000

DNQ order:
43. Middleton Jr.
44. Olsen
45. Hillock
46. Walter Jr.
47. Brady
48. Bright
49. Banghart
50. Matranga
51. Ermish
52. Mayberry
53. Graham
54. Clark
55. Hill
56. Grady
57. Lewis
58. Moland
59. Ellison
60. Bryans

A photo from the event of a young Matt Crafton:
https://i.imgur.com/hEMw5Km.jpg

Well it wouldn't be a big-time late model race without some controversy
in the tech line, would it? Winner Hansen was found to have an illegal
carb plate spacer, leading to weekend-long speculation that runner-up
David Stremme would be declared the big winner after a ruling from the
sanctioning body on Monday. Three days later, the word came in: Hansen &
his team would be fined, but he got to keep the trophy. As already
mentioned, Hansen had won this very race four times previously when it
was at the grueling 300km distance, and he had won most of those in
convincing fashion. It was unusual for to win by leading only the last
fraction of a lap.

In some positive news following the race, Darrell LaMoure's top ten run
was made even sweeter with the news that his first grandchild was born
on the Monday after the race. LaMoure was a longtime supporter of the
Nation's Missing Children Organization and Racing for the Missing, so it
was also nice for there to be something upbeat about mentioning children
and LaMoure in the same sentence.


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