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  1.   RaceFanX posted:
  11.14.2015 - 10:21 am
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Ken Schrader opens the Southwest Tour season with a victory at Phoenix
for the second year in a row. It was the fourth of his five wins at
Phoenix and his only victory in the series during 2002.

Kurt Busch, the Southwest Tour's 1999 champion, returns to the series
for the first time since his championship season. He reunited with his
old team for one more race in the famous #70 Star Nursery Chevrolet and
finished just outside the top-10. This was his final Southwest Tour start.

Stanley Smith scores a top-10 in his first Southwest Tour race since 1991.


  2.   rm posted:
  01.30.2019 - 11:25 pm
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4 heavy hitters had to make it in via the LCQ - Hemphill, Gilliland,
Woodside and Whitt.

First caution - 1, 18, 23, 26, 33, 59, 98 accident turn 2 (red flag; 5
more unidentified cars involved; Holtz was kept in the hospital
overnight with shoulder soreness and a concussion)
Third caution - 21, 28, 63, 74 accident frontstretch
Fifth caution - 86 accident pit entrance (took out the water barrels)

Withdrew: David Pook in a Chevrolet, who suffered a clean break of a
vertebra in his neck when the steering locked up going into turn 1 and
caused a head-on collision with the wall at nearly 150 miles per hour.
The HANS device he was wearing was credited with saving his life.

Winnings:
Schrader - $12,275
Lamar - $3,250
Stanley Smith - $4,900 (more than he ever won at a short track on the
Cup side)
Menard - $2,700
Busch - $1,800
Andretti - $1,200
Whitt - $1,125
Gilliland - $1,125
Hemphill - $1,625
Vidovich - $1,100
Baker - $1,100
Schendel - $1,600
Hamlin - $1,600


  3.   MSportRev posted:
  01.02.2020 - 9:06 am
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David Gilliland, Jason Allen, Eric Holmes, and Thomas Martin all earned
$1,125


  4.   MSportRev posted:
  01.02.2020 - 9:07 am
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Owner for Ken Schrader: Ken Schrader


  5.   rm posted:
  07.05.2020 - 6:57 pm
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Found a pre-race advance book, some (ok, a lot of...) new info:

16 sponsor - LTR Racing Engines
23 sponsor - Pipeline Carrier Inc./ktracing.com
33 sponsor - Berryman Products
45 sponsor - NAPA Filters/Ron's Rear Ends

DNQ info:
Cook - #30 Kevis Chevrolet
Shaw - #29
Voigt - #09 Belstein Shocks Chevrolet
Spangler - #37 LADCO Chevrolet
Todd Hansen - #25 (would have had to change number)
Belec - #14
Blake Hansen - #89 Hansen Motorsports Chevrolet
Brandt - #58 Patrick's Carpets Chevrolet

WD:
Ron Breese, #01 EWT Inc. Chevrolet
Craig Raudman, #2 Chevrolet
Kenny Shepherd, #9 Inside Lines Pontiac
Keith Mayberry, #33 (would have had to change number)
Richard Burton, #36 Missing Children Chevrolet
Kenny Hendrick, #62
Darrell LaMoure, #94 NAPA/Missing Children Chevrolet
Dennis Dyer
Ron Eaton

Eaton was supposed to be part of a strong contingent from the Northwest
tour coming on down, but he bailed while fellow Northwest standouts
Garrett Evans & Kevin Hamlin finished well down in the running order.

Raudman's team encountered financial difficulties over the offseason and
with the organization's future uncertain, the defending series champion
was without a ride for the next season. Hmm...

LaMoure joined David Pook as a second driver who had to withdraw from
the event due to sustaining a broken neck during the open test. Unlike
Pook, LaMoure was not wearing a HANS device, which could have very
easily ended in tragedy.

More winnings:
McKean - $7,050
Lynch - $5,050
Hoffman - $4,000
Jefferson - $4,000
Dillon - $2,600
Woodside - $1,725
Pettit - $1,925
Souza - $1,425
Evans - $1,625
Lyon - $1,350
Holtz - $1,400
Kanke - $1,350

This was MK Kanke's first race back after he broke his leg while
qualifying at Sonoma the summer prior. Kanke was running away with the
2001 championship, with four wins and two runner-ups in the first seven
races heading into Sonoma. Kanke left Sonoma as the point leader anyway
and wound up being tied for the most wins in the series at year's end
despite running less than half of the races. He also finished 3rd in
laps led. The team was firmly behind Kanke and instead of fielding a new
driver, they got a head start on their 2002 season. Kanke's triumphant
return was extremely short-lived here, and he ended the year with a
controversial withdrawal from the second Phoenix race when officials
wouldn't let him start his backup car in the race, costing him a
2nd-place finish in the final standings. When NASCAR ended their
sanction of the Southwest tour in 2006, Kanke had the most wins over the
21 seasons but never got a championship, something he seemed well on
pace for in 2001. Kanke did still compete in the SRL tour, the successor
to the Southwest tour, as recently as last year.


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