|| *Comments on the 1996 Meridian Advantage 200:* View the most recent comment <#23> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. Matt posted: 07.12.2005 - 12:21 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Shane Hall rolled the #85 on lap 94. 2. Steve posted: 07.26.2006 - 6:59 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) Milestones: Ted Christopher's Busch debut Randy LaJoie's first Busch win Joey McCarthy's first major NA$CAR race Toshio Suzuki's only start How strange it was that all those cars went out on the same lap with engine failure? 3. RaceFanX posted: 12.31.2007 - 4:03 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) In one of those strange quirks that comes from having several of the Busch North drivers in the field, Jeff Fuller is forced to run his normally #47 Sunoco Chevy as #17 so Busch North driver Kelly Moore can have #47 for his Tic-Tac Pontiac. I never figured out why the series rugular had to give up his number for a Busch North team doing a one-off. Did Moore's team file their entry blank before Fuller's? We may never know. 4. NazRacePhan posted: 03.22.2008 - 9:40 am Rate this comment: (2) (0) The answer was that whoever qualified higher got to keep their number. 5. Jeff posted: 05.30.2009 - 8:34 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Car owners for the Busch North drivers in the field should be: 51/Stefanik: Mike Greci 11/McCarthy: James Pritchard (may need to check if he was involved at this point) 60/Shaw: Dale Shaw 13/Christopher: Ted Marsh Joey McCarthy's hastily-renumbered #11 (from #41) was a Lumina, and got a lot of camera time that day in wrecks, drawing attention for its sponsor. If memory serves, the team that fielded his #41 in Busch North in later years was largely comprised of NJ police officers; I assume they were all still affiliated in '96 but I'm not 100% sure. 6. Anonymous posted: 12.18.2009 - 1:23 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) There were several jokes by the announcers about the fact McCarthy wrecked the Rent-A-Wreck Chevy. 7. Dodge posted: 05.10.2010 - 9:52 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The answer was that whoever qualified higher got to keep their number. Thats not accurate. Fuller started 11th and Moore started 19th. Yet Fuller had to give up his usual number. I don't know he real answer to why a regular had to change numbers. I remember seeing in I believe 2000, there were 2 numbers in he same race, I believe 61 and 77 both had 2 entries. The North competitors just had to put an N after their number. 8. The Great Dave posted: 08.16.2010 - 11:47 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I think Moore was higher in BGNN Points then Fuller was in BGN Points. 9. RaceFanX posted: 10.19.2010 - 10:50 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Toshio Suzuki was an ex-F1 driver and the defending Formula Nippon champ at the time of this race which was his only one in any level of NASCAR. Given one-off Truck racer Kenji Momota is credited as the first Japanese high-level NASCAR driver I believe with this race Suzuki began the first Japanese driver to run in the Busch/Nationwide series. 10. Anonymous posted: 12.08.2012 - 6:33 am Rate this comment: (0) (3) The announcers were jokes. 11. 83andJoe posted: 09.28.2013 - 1:07 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Tom Peck qualified the #64 for Dick Trickle. 12. saltsburgtrojanfan posted: 05.01.2016 - 10:45 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Caution 1: Lap 18-20: #46 accident backstretch Caution 2: Lap 34-36: #11,43,45 accident turn 5 Caution 3: Lap 44-46: debris turn 2 Caution 4: Lap 51-55: #13,47 accident turn 5 Caution 5: Lap 96-105: #85 accident turn 2 Caution 6: Lap 123-128: #1,9,60 accident turn 1 Caution 7: Lap 130-139: #5 accident turn 3 Caution 8: Lap 142-143: #11 spun backstretch Caution 9: Lap 173-178: #9 accident turn 3 Caution 10: Lap 185-194: #1,33,34,47,48,50,61,76 accident turn 1 13. saltsburgtrojanfan posted: 05.01.2016 - 11:32 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) please remove the 33 he wasn't involved in the 10th caution. I made a typo sorry 14. rm posted: 11.11.2016 - 5:52 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) So how did 5 cars blow up within 2 laps of each other? 15. RaceFanX posted: 05.16.2018 - 7:38 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Tommy Houston turns in a sixth-place run in the #6 Ford to record his best finish of the 1996 season, ultimately his last before retiring from the Busch Series. Houston's sponsor for his final season was Suburban Propane and his good run here was well timed, a local Suburban Propane distributor is one of several businesses that neighbors the Nazareth Speedway property. 16. RaceFanX posted: 09.13.2018 - 10:34 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) DC Driver: Tom Peck- #64 Dura Lube Chevrolet (owned by Dennis Shoemaker) Peck had already made his last official Busch start by this point but the Shoemaker team brought him in to practice and qualify the #64 because regular driver Dick Trickle also ran Winston Cup and had been busy in Charlotte with the all-star race before bolting up to Nazareth afterward. 17. RaceFanX posted: 09.13.2018 - 10:44 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Randy LaJoie's first Busch series win was a long time coming, his first start having been back in 1986. LaJoie, with the nose of his FINA #74 Chevrolet a little crunched in from an incident, outraced points leader David Green at the end to finally get his first career win. As the season progressed LaJoie and Green would establish themselves as the favorites for the season championship. Elliott Sadler makes his first NASCAR superspeedway start and promptly posted his best qualifying run to date as his put his unsponsored family-owned #46 Chevrolet fourth on the grid. Sadler ran in the top-10 early but his chances for a good run ended in the outside wall early in the race, bringing out the first caution of the day. 18. Matt posted: 02.19.2019 - 12:09 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) There was another car involved in Shane Hall's wreck, possibly Jamie Aube, as you can see another car spinning out behind Hall in the replay. 19. JT posted: 02.10.2020 - 9:48 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The race coverage on YouTube via TNN says the title is CoreStates Meridian Advantage 200 20. SweetRich21/43 posted: 07.30.2020 - 2:33 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The commentators were Mike Joy and Barry Dodson with Steve Byrnes as the sole pit road reporter. 21. thecautionlightnews posted: 09.23.2020 - 1:07 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Toshio Suzuki is the first Japanese person to race in NASCAR and is the first Asian. He won the 1995 Formula Nippon (now Super Formula) championship, which means the man has talent. Nazareth was a hotspot for foreigners to race at 22. RaceFanX posted: 09.23.2020 - 2:51 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @21 Suzuki was the second Japanese NASCAR starter, as mentioned in post #9 Kenji Momota was the first when he did a Truck race at Phoenix in late 1995. Unfortunately both Momota and Suzuki's lone starts ended in crashes. 23. Z posted: 09.23.2020 - 3:57 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @cautionlight, actually Kenji Momota ran a Truck race in 1995 @PHX. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: