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  1.   James W. McLaughlin posted:
  11.26.2007 - 1:12 pm
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Patty Moise's sole start of 1997.


  2.   RaceFanX posted:
  12.20.2007 - 3:43 am
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Jeff Fuller's last race in the #47 Sunoco Chevy, despite a victory the
previous year and Rookie-of-the-Year the year before. He was replaced by
the recently fired from his Cup ride Robert Pressley


  3.   44andJoe posted:
  12.24.2012 - 3:58 am
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Ed Spencer III DNQ'd in the #20 Spencer Motor Ventures Chevrolet (owner:
Jimmy Spencer)


  4.   RaceFanX posted:
  07.11.2014 - 9:20 am
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Winston Cup driver Bobby Labonte picks up his only Busch victory of 1997.


  5.   RaceFanX posted:
  12.05.2014 - 10:39 pm
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Patty Moise's sponsor for this race was Pure Silk women's shaving cream
which, in a great bit of co-branding, is a sister product to the
guy-focused Barbasol that sponsored her husband Elton Sawyer at the
time. While this was her only start of 1997 (she DNQed at the Glen) her
Pure Silk sponsorship extended beyond this race to include a television
commercial featuring her, the Pure Silk car, and Sawyer with his
Barbasol entry.

Sadly Moise's day ended very quickly when she was collected in a
multi-car crash in the opening laps. The wreck was triggered when Jeff
Krogh spun in traffic after bumping Glenn Allen, Jr. Dennis Setzer was
also involved as he spun to avoid the wreck.


  6.   RaceFanX posted:
  11.06.2015 - 12:05 pm
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Labonte's win here was the first in the Busch series for a driver racing
a Pontiac since late 1993.


  7.   Jimnsimforever posted:
  02.25.2020 - 7:18 am
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Eli Gold mentioned after the race that it raised a lot of eyebrows all
over the garage area when everyone found out the #8 team with Jeff Green
as their driver in the Busch Series was just going to shut down when
they were 3rd in points going into this race. Jeff was promoted to the
#29 Cup team, also owned by Diamond Ridge. They interviewed Bill Ingle,
the 29 Winston Cup team manager, and he said Jeff Green really wanted to
do both and try and win the Busch Championship but they told him no. I
have a feeling it mostly had to do with the #8 car not having a sponsor
still because he mentioned that but it was really weird to hear him say
the idea of having more than one Busch team was never to try and win a
championship anyway was strange. That couldn't have made the guys that
worked hard on the #8 team that lost their job feel good, not to mention
the two other teams they owned (#29, #1) that were still competing in
the Busch Series.


  8.   JSPorts posted:
  02.25.2020 - 8:31 am
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That definitely didn't become a trend. I think of Kevin Harvick
continuing to run the Busch Series after he was promoted to the #29, as
well as Carl Edwards doing the same thing in the Truck Series.


  9.   RaceFanX posted:
  04.04.2020 - 10:34 am
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Hermie Sadler had a fast #1 DeWalt Tools Chevrolet coming into this
weekend but totaled it out in a vicious qualifying crash. Sadler took a
provisional to make the race with his backup car and still managed to
salvage a 14th place run for the weekend.


  10.   RaceFanX posted:
  04.04.2020 - 10:44 am
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Sterling Marlin drove the #4 car in Winston Cup at the time and here got
to run the same number for a different team in Busch. The Morgan-McClure
racer did a one-off in James Finch's entry, which spent much of 1997 as
a revolving door for drivers, but started at the back and was well down
the running order before falling out.


  11.   SweetRich21/43 posted:
  07.29.2020 - 11:44 pm
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The commentators were Eli Gold, Dr. Dick Berggren and Darrell Waltrip.
The pit road reporters were Glenn Jarrett, Chad Little and Matt Yocum.


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